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Check out these events, presented by PFS and friends.

Westside Concert
Heart and Hammer Band 
Saturday, March 22, 2025



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Eastside Concert
Jon Shain & FJ Ventre
Saturday
, March 15, 2025




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Annual Singing Retreat
Singtime Frolics
March 21-23, 2025





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In Person Singing
West Side Song Circles
Every Third Sunday



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In Person Singing
East Side Song Circles
Every Second Friday



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Zoom Song Circle
Virtual Songwriters Spotlight
Second Sundays
Next: April 11, 2025






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Participatory Concert for Kids
Saturday Mornin's Music!
Third Saturdays
Next: April 19, 2025
Red Yarn

Red Yarn

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Annual Zoom Singing Weekend
FallSong
October 24-26 2025







Please save the date now. More news after Singtime.

Song Circle with Joe HIckerson
Joe's Sing-A-Long
2nd Wednesday of Every Month 



2 pm Courtyard at Mount Tabor Park Building
6323 SE Division St,

PFS Virtual Song Circle No. CCLXII

Every Saturday Night, rain, shine, Frankenstein or borderline; palpitations, inaugurations, public relations or hallucinations... a group of folks meets on Zoom for the Virtual Song Circle, or VSC. The virtual doors open at 6:00 PM Pacific Time for schmoozing and tuning, and singing starts at 6:30. There's a group of regulars, and frequent newbies drop in, and sometimes people who have dropped out drop back in. It doesn't make any difference: all people, all songs, are welcome. You can stay for five minutes or five hours. Very relaxed.

Someone or someones will usually sing the Child Ballad whose number corresponds to the number of the Virtual Song Circle.This might not happen this week - we'll see. But if it does, they'll be singing Lord Livingston, in which "Two squires, Livingston and Seaton, seek the favor of a lady. She chooses Lord Livingston, and the two are wed. Seaton demands a duel, and Livingston is slain. After seven years pass, his wife dies of heartbreak
". In the old days, people used to die of heartbreak - I hope the ability to feel such pain as to die as a result was accompanied also by the abillity to feel correspondingly great joy!

Want to learn more about Child Ballads? click here

If you know all you need to know about the VSCs, just click here to join.  Want to know more? There's tons more information at portlandfolkmusic.org/virtual.
Countdown to VSC!
Countdown
Countdown to VSC!

Events Calendar

Please check out our events calendar below. Editor Barry Gorden manages to capture almost all the upcoming folk events, but if yours is missing please let us know. The list below shows the next week's events, and is updated continuously.

If you need more, go to the Events menu above and pull down to Folk Calendar. When you go there, you can sort by performances, classes, virtual, radio - whatever you like - and you'll have all the events from now until... well, you'll find everything we know about. If it's not listed here, it's probably not happening.
Upcoming Events
Upcoming Events

 
Since 1976, Portland FolkMusic Society has been active preserving, presenting and promoting folk music and arts in the greater Portland Oregon area. PFS sponsors song circles, concerts, workshops and retreats – in person and virtual – and helps its members and the whole community pass the word around about folk music events, from old time ballads to sea shanties, from 60’s protest folk to contemporary singer-songwriters.

PFS is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization. 

Portland FolkMusic Society
P.O. Box 1448
Portland, OR 97207-1448
Ideas or questions for PFS? Here's where to look...

Concerts - Concerts pages (see events menu) or pfs-concerts@portlandfolkmusic.org
Contributions - Donations tab or  development@portlandfolkmusic.org
Events Calendar - Events page or eventscalendar@portlandfolkmusic.org
FallSong - Fallsong page (soon) or fallsong@portlandfolkmusic.org
Membership - membership@portlandfolkmusic.org

Newsletter - locallore@portlandfolkmusic.org
Saturday Virtual Song Circle - VSC page, or click here to join
Singtime - singtime@portlandfolkmusic.org
Social Media - socialmedia@portlandfolkmusic.org
Website - Website editor
All other questions - president@portlandfolkmusic.org
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