Old Time Jam
2025-08-26 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Kentucky/Louisville), 2025-09-09 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Kentucky/Louisville), 2025-09-23 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Kentucky/Louisville), 2025-10-14 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Kentucky/Louisville), 2025-11-11 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Kentucky/Louisville), 2025-12-09 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Kentucky/Louisville), 2026-01-13 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago), 2026-01-27 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) and 6 more dates | Music Folk Parlor, 8015 BIg Bend, Webster Groves, MO, 63119, United States
Join fiddler Ray Gude as he hosts our Old Time Jam every second and forth Tuesday of the month at Music Folk. The jam is open to all acoustic players of all skill level and all ages. Bring your instrument and play along, or just listen!

Old Time Jam
2025-10-28 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Kentucky/Louisville) | Music Folk Parlor, 8015 BIg Bend, Webster Groves, MO, 63119, United States
Join fiddler Ray Gude as he hosts our Folk and Old Time Jam every fourth Tuesday of the month at Music Folk. The jam is open to all acoustic players of all skill level and all ages. Bring your instrument and play and sing along, or just listen!
The difference between this and our 2nd Tuesday’s Old Time Jam, is that this one will be less fiddle tune oriented. Early bluegrass, blues, folk, Irish and old time tunes will be played, giving guitarists, banjo players, singers, etc. more of an opportunity to step up, join in and have fun!

Old Time Jam
2025-12-30 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Kentucky/Louisville) | MO

Richard Smith Workshop
2026-02-26 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | Music Folk Parlor, 8015 BIg Bend, Webster Groves, MO, 63119, United States
Join Richard Smith in a 2 hour fingerstyle guitar workshop, held at Music Folk! A rare chance to learn from a master musician. Seating is limited. Tickets available at Music Folk.

Richard Smith in Concert
2026-02-26 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Music Folk Parlor, 8015 BIg Bend, Webster Groves, MO, 63119, United States
Music Folk is proud to bring back legendary fingerstyle guitarist Richard Smith, for an intimate evening concert in our music parlor. Seating is limited. Tickets available at Music Folk

Elijah Wald in Concert!
2026-05-02 19:30 (America/Chicago) | Music Folk Parlor, 8015 BIg Bend, Webster Groves, MO, 63119, United States
Elijah Wald has been performing for almost fifty years in a wide variety of styles, from blues, folk, ragtime, swing, country, and cowboy songs to classic Swahili pop, the Bahamian guitar style of Joseph Spence, and Mexican corridos. He hit the road in his late teens as a rambling busker, and has toured all over the United States and much of the rest of the world, playing in coffeehouses, bars, nightclubs, colleges, concert halls, and on festival stages from New Orleans to Chicago, Tokyo, Salzburg, and Sydney.
Elijah’s mentors include Dave Van Ronk, with whom he performed, recorded, and wrote Dave’s memoir, The Mayor of MacDougal Street (which inspired the Coen Brothers’ movie Inside Llewyn Davis); Howard Armstrong, the legendary Black string band master, with whom he toured for five years; Eric Von Schmidt, the founding father of the Cambridge folk/blues scene; and Jean-Bosco Mwenda, the father of Congolese acoustic guitar. He won a 2002 Grammy (for liner notes, which in Van Ronk’s words “is kind of like getting the Nobel Prize in fingerpainting,” but still nice), filmed a highly-regarded instructional video on the guitar style of the Bahamian wizard Joseph Spence, and his shows blend music and stories from a wide range of people and places in a compellingly personal style.
Elijah’s music and stories are deeply informed by his second career as a chronicler of American and world music. Along with the Van Ronk memoir, he has written books on Josh White and Robert Johnson, an exploration of Jelly Roll Morton and the censorship of early blues, an alternative history of popular music provocatively titled How the Beatles Destroyed Rock ‘n’ Roll, and Dylan Goes Electric!, the basis of the film A Complete Unknown.
