NorthShore Original Open Mic (NOOM) in the Sky Room at Huntington’s Cinema Arts Centre
2024-04-24 19:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York)
Ben Diamond and Terry Seidl will be the featured performers at the NorthShore Original Open Mic (NOOM) on Wednesday, April 24. Co-presented by the Cinema Arts Centre and the Folk Music Society of Huntington in the Cinema’s Sky Room (423 Park Avenue, Huntington), the open mic runs from 7-10 p.m., with a featured artist performing a 30-minute set beginning around 8:30 p.m. Sign-up starts at 6:30 p.m. Although NOOM is free to attend, donations will be gratefully accepted.

NorthShore Original Open Mic (NOOM) in the Sky Room at Huntington’s Cinema Arts Centre
2024-05-01 19:00 - 22:00
James O’Malley will be the featured performer at the NorthShore Original Open Mic (NOOM) on Wednesday, May 1. Co-presented by the Cinema Arts Centre and the Folk Music Society of Huntington in the Cinema’s Sky Room (423 Park Avenue, Huntington), the open mic runs from 7-10 p.m., with a featured artist performing a 30-minute set beginning around 8:30 p.m. Sign-up starts at 6:30 p.m. Although NOOM is free to attend, donations will be gratefully accepted.

NorthShore Original Open Mic (NOOM) in the Sky Room at Huntington’s Cinema Arts Centre
2024-05-08 19:00 - 22:00
Joe Perricone will be the featured performer at the NorthShore Original Open Mic (NOOM) on Wednesday, May 8. Co-presented by the Cinema Arts Centre and the Folk Music Society of Huntington in the Cinema’s Sky Room (423 Park Avenue, Huntington), the open mic runs from 7-10 p.m., with a featured artist performing a 30-minute set beginning around 8:30 p.m. Sign-up starts at 6:30 p.m. Although NOOM is free to attend, donations will be gratefully accepted.

FMSH Folk Jam & Sing-Along
2024-05-12 13:00 - 16:00
May 12 FMSH Folk Jam & Sing-Along
The Folk Music Society of Huntington’s monthly Folk Jam & Sing-Along will take place on May 12 at the South Huntington Public Library (145 Pidgeon Hill Road, Huntington Station) from 1-4 p.m. This free Sunday afternoon event affords musicians and singers of all experience levels an opportunity to play, sing, and hone their performance skills in a supportive and welcoming environment.
The monthly Folk Jams are completely acoustic, unplugged events attended primarily by amateur musicians and those who love to sing, although visitors who just want to listen are also welcome. Song selections can range across the broad folk milieu.

Hard Luck Café: Rod Abernethy -and- Abigail Dowd
2024-05-15 19:00 - 22:00
Rod Abernethy (rodabernethyguitar.com) -and- Abigail Dowd (abigaildowd.com) will take the stage during the monthly Hard Luck Café concert series co-presented by the Folk Music Society of Huntington and the Cinema Arts Centre (423 Park Avenue, Huntington) in the Cinema’s Sky Room on Wednesday, May 15, from 7pm-10pm.
An open mic, for which sign-up is at 6:30pm, precedes the concert. Tickets are $20 ($15 for Cinema Arts Centre/FMSH members) and can be purchased online at cinemaartscentre.org or at the box office now through the evening of the event.

Rod Abernethy (Photo: Jonathan Byrd)
Rod Abernethy is an authentic southern folk troubadour, master acoustic guitarist, and award-winning songwriter and composer for film, TV and video games. He was the Overall Grand Prize Winner of the 2021 International Acoustic Music Awards and the 2019 Grand Prize winner of American Songwriter’s Bob Dylan Song Contest. His album Normal Isn’t Normal Anymore received rave reviews from Americana Highways, No Depression and The Wall Street Journal. At #11, it was among the most-played albums of 2021 on folk radio according to charts compiled by Folk Alliance International.

Abigail Dowd
Abigail Dowd grew up under the longleaf pines in the Sandhills region of North Carolina. A singer-songwriter and guitarist known for her storytelling and command of an audience, she has been called “a writer of the highest caliber” (The All Scene Eye). Pulling from her heritage of storytelling and determination, Dowd weaves hints of Celtic melodies with the soulful gospel of the south to create a sound that dances between folk, rock and blues.

NorthShore Original Open Mic (NOOM) in the Sky Room at Huntington’s Cinema Arts Centre
2024-05-22 19:00 - 22:00
Em I-Sing & Friends will be the featured performer at the NorthShore Original Open Mic (NOOM) on Wednesday, May 22. Emily Eisen will be joined by Janice Buckner, Ritchie Carolina Cecilia, Suzanne Ernst, Jen Grace, Zach Mandernach, Annie Mark, and Terry Seidl. Co-presented by the Cinema Arts Centre and the Folk Music Society of Huntington in the Cinema’s Sky Room (423 Park Avenue, Huntington), the open mic runs from 7-10 p.m., with a featured artist performing a 30-minute set beginning around 8:30 p.m. Sign-up starts at 6:30 p.m. Although NOOM is free to attend, donations will be gratefully accepted.

NorthShore Original Open Mic (NOOM) in the Sky Room at Huntington’s Cinema Arts Centre
2024-05-29 19:00 - 22:00
Edie Wernersbach will be the featured performer at the NorthShore Original Open Mic (NOOM) on Wednesday, May 29. Co-presented by the Cinema Arts Centre and the Folk Music Society of Huntington in the Cinema’s Sky Room (423 Park Avenue, Huntington), the open mic runs from 7-10 p.m., with a featured artist performing a 30-minute set beginning around 8:30 p.m. Sign-up starts at 6:30 p.m. Although NOOM is free to attend, donations will be gratefully accepted.

NorthShore Original Open Mic (NOOM) in the Sky Room at Huntington’s Cinema Arts Centre
2024-06-05 19:00 - 22:00
Dustin Lowman will be the featured performer at the NorthShore Original Open Mic (NOOM) on Wednesday, June 5. Co-presented by the Cinema Arts Centre and the Folk Music Society of Huntington in the Cinema’s Sky Room (423 Park Avenue, Huntington), the open mic runs from 7-10 p.m., with a featured artist performing a 30-minute set beginning around 8:30 p.m. Sign-up starts at 6:30 p.m. Although NOOM is free to attend, donations will be gratefully accepted.

NorthShore Original Open Mic (NOOM) in the Sky Room at Huntington’s Cinema Arts Centre
2024-06-12 19:00 - 22:00
Dave Diamond will be the featured performer at the NorthShore Original Open Mic (NOOM) on Wednesday, June 12. Co-presented by the Cinema Arts Centre and the Folk Music Society of Huntington in the Cinema’s Sky Room (423 Park Avenue, Huntington), the open mic runs from 7-10 p.m., with a featured artist performing a 30-minute set beginning around 8:30 p.m. Sign-up starts at 6:30 p.m. Although NOOM is free to attend, donations will be gratefully accepted.

FMSH Folk Jam & Sing-Along
2024-06-16 13:00 - 16:00
June 16 FMSH Folk Jam & Sing-Along
The Folk Music Society of Huntington’s monthly Folk Jam & Sing-Along will take place on June 16 at the South Huntington Public Library (145 Pidgeon Hill Road, Huntington Station) from 1-4 p.m. This free Sunday afternoon event affords musicians and singers of all experience levels an opportunity to play, sing, and hone their performance skills in a supportive and welcoming environment.
The monthly Folk Jams are completely acoustic, unplugged events attended primarily by amateur musicians and those who love to sing, although visitors who just want to listen are also welcome. Song selections can range across the broad folk milieu.

Hard Luck Café: The Black Feathers
2024-06-19 19:00 - 22:00
The Black Feathers (theblackfeathers.com) will take the stage during the monthly Hard Luck Café concert series co-presented by the Folk Music Society of Huntington and the Cinema Arts Centre (423 Park Avenue, Huntington) in the Cinema’s Sky Room on Wednesday, June 19, from 7pm-10pm.
An open mic, for which sign-up is at 6:30pm, precedes the concert. Tickets are $25 ($20 for Cinema Arts Centre/FMSH members) and can be purchased online at cinemaartscentre.org or at the box office now through the evening of the event.

Ray Hughes and Sian Chandler of The Black Feathers
The Black Feathers (Ray Hughes and Sian Chandler) is a Gloucestershire, UK-based husband and wife folk and roots music duo who have drawn comparisons to Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings and The Civil Wars. Their original songs weave in traditional influences so thoroughly that they become the warp and weft of fresh creations, while their on-stage chemistry is riveting. Americana, folk, and acoustic indie rock sensibilities coexist comfortably in their musical world, with Hughes’ guitar work buoying the kind of harmonies often only heard in family bands.

Together as both as a musical duo and life partners since 2012, The Black Feathers have amassed a loyal fan base on the other side of the pond and a growing one here. The duo has performed at the Philadelphia Folk Festival and AmericanaFest and secured coveted official showcases at the 2023 Folk Alliance International Conference in Kansas City and those of two of its regional affiliates. The Black Feathers previously performed an online Hard Luck Café concert in June 2021.

NorthShore Original Open Mic (NOOM) in the Sky Room at Huntington’s Cinema Arts Centre
2024-06-26 19:00 - 22:00
Karen Kellers will be the featured performer at the NorthShore Original Open Mic (NOOM) on Wednesday, June 26. Co-presented by the Cinema Arts Centre and the Folk Music Society of Huntington in the Cinema’s Sky Room (423 Park Avenue, Huntington), the open mic runs from 7-10 p.m., with a featured artist performing a 30-minute set beginning around 8:30 p.m. Sign-up starts at 6:30 p.m. Although NOOM is free to attend, donations will be gratefully accepted.

NorthShore Original Open Mic (NOOM) in the Sky Room at Huntington’s Cinema Arts Centre
2024-07-03 19:00 - 22:00
Chio will be the featured performer at the NorthShore Original Open Mic (NOOM) on Wednesday, July 3. Co-presented by the Cinema Arts Centre and the Folk Music Society of Huntington in the Cinema’s Sky Room (423 Park Avenue, Huntington), the open mic runs from 7-10 p.m., with a featured artist performing a 30-minute set beginning around 8:30 p.m. Sign-up starts at 6:30 p.m. Although NOOM is free to attend, donations will be gratefully accepted. The event will also be livestreamed via the Northshore Original Open Mic Facebook group.

NorthShore Original Open Mic (NOOM) in the Sky Room at Huntington’s Cinema Arts Centre
2024-07-10 19:00 - 22:00
Mike Meehan will be the featured performer at the NorthShore Original Open Mic (NOOM) on Wednesday, July 10. Mike will be accompanied by Shawn Barron on acoustic guitar and vocals and Josie Bello accordion. Co-presented by the Cinema Arts Centre and the Folk Music Society of Huntington in the Cinema’s Sky Room (423 Park Avenue, Huntington), the open mic runs from 7-10 p.m., with a featured artist performing a 30-minute set beginning around 8:30 p.m. Sign-up starts at 6:30 p.m. Although NOOM is free to attend, donations will be gratefully accepted. The event will also be livestreamed via the Northshore Original Open Mic Facebook group.

"Just Wild About Harry" Chapin Tribute Concert
2024-07-21
Annual Harry Chapin Tribute Concert Moves to Huntington’s Heckscher Park, July 21
The annual “Just Wild About Harry” Chapin tribute concert performed by Long Island songwriters and original bands will have a new venue this year: The Chapin Rainbow Stage in Huntington’s Heckscher Park, located off Main Street (Route 25A) and Prime Avenue. The free concert is slated for Sunday, July 21, at 7 p.m. Presented by the Huntington Arts Council, with promotional assistance from the Folk Music Society of Huntington, it is part of the 59th Huntington Summer Arts Festival produced by the Town of Huntington.
“I’ve long thought it would be wonderful and extremely appropriate to do the show in Huntington, where Harry and Sandy lived and raised their family,” said Stuart Markus, the concert’s organizer. “Harry is still held in such beloved regard by residents of the town and public officials at all levels.”
Eighteen acts — comprised of nearly three dozen of Long Island’s top musicians and songwriters — will take to the stage that bears his name to honor the late Grammy-Award-winning songwriter, humanitarian and anti-hunger activist. They’ll perform his breakthrough hit, “Taxi,” his best-known song, “Cat’s in the Cradle,” fan favorites like “Flowers Are Red” and “Mr. Tanner,” and some of Chapin’s more obscure songs, as well. Concertgoers are asked to bring donations of nonperishable food to support Long Island Cares, Inc., the regional food bank founded by Chapin in 1980.
“All the performers are pro-caliber full-time and part-time musicians who perform regularly at local venues and/or tour on the folk circuit,” Markus said. “Throughout the two decades that we’ve been presenting the show, I’ve always encouraged them to treat the songs as their own — however they imagine them. The results have been some very creative interpretations,” he added.
“We’re very excited that the annual Just Wild About Harry concert is being held at Heckscher Park in Huntington this year,” said Paule Pachter, President & CEO of Long Island Cares, Inc. “This event has been held for the past two decades to support Long Island Cares and it’s raised more than a half-million pounds of food and thousands of dollars in donations to support The Harry Chapin Regional Food Bank. It’s very meaningful that the concert will take place on The Chapin Rainbow Stage, and our volunteers and staff are looking forward to being there with the talented musicians that have kept Harry Chapin’s legacy alive for all these years.”
Besides Markus and his folk-rock harmony trio Gathering Time, this year’s roster of performers includes Karen Bella; John Cardone; Mike Christian; Robin Eve; Roger Street Friedman; Grand Folk Railroad; Robin Greenstein; Mara Levine; Vicky Liotta; Debra Lynne & Lora Kendall; Media Crime; Judy Merrick; Miles & Mafale; Matthew Ponsot; Patricia Shih & Stephen Fricker; Roger Silverberg; Talya Smilowitz; Christine Solimeno; Hank Stone; Martha Trachtenberg; Frank Walker; Lisa Ann Wharton & Akiva the Believer; and Judith Zweiman & Duane Michael Tucker. Jen Chapin, Harry’s daughter and a touring artist in her own right, also will perform.
Long Island Cares’ staff and volunteers will be collecting donations of non-perishable food at a tent at the entrance to the Chapin Rainbow Stage and also selling t-shirts and Harry Chapin CDs, as well as distributing literature about the nonprofit organization’s programs and services.
Concertgoers are advised to bring lawn chairs and blankets.
The Huntington Summer Arts Festival is produced by the Town of Huntington and presented by the Huntington Arts Council. Presenting Sponsor Canon U.S.A. provides additional support, along with partial funding from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Suffolk County Department of Economic Development and Planning, and the Huntington Village Business Improvement District (BID).

If you are unable to attend the concert in-person, it will also be livestreamed via a number of social media channels that follow. Although the concert is set for 7 p.m. ET, log on earlier since there may be a few pre-show interviews with performing artists and members of the Chapin family.

Harry Chapin Foundation YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/live/dFZjPTrpqLo

Harry Chapin Foundation Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/488328867019092/

Harry Chapin Music Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/812448574320945/

Harry Chapin Memories Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/events/835691325191299/

Just Wild About Harry Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/events/1495851031039195/

Long Live Harry Chapin Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/events/849747593717608/

L.I. Fans & Friends of Folk Music Group: https://www.facebook.com/events/1029824552128240/

Harry Chapin Fans Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/events/954037953400184/

I Grew Up in Huntington Township NY USA 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/events/1731745810691338/

Long Island Cares Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1604518290389306/

NorthShore Original Open Mic (NOOM) in the Sky Room at Huntington’s Cinema Arts Centre
2024-07-24 19:00 - 22:00
Mike Nugent will be the featured performer at the NorthShore Original Open Mic (NOOM) on Wednesday, July 24. Mike will be joined by Diane Lotny. Co-presented by the Cinema Arts Centre and the Folk Music Society of Huntington in the Cinema’s Sky Room (423 Park Avenue, Huntington), the open mic runs from 7-10 p.m., with a featured artist performing a 30-minute set beginning around 8:30 p.m. Sign-up starts at 6:30 p.m. Although NOOM is free to attend, donations will be gratefully accepted. The event will also be livestreamed via the Northshore Original Open Mic Facebook group.

NorthShore Original Open Mic (NOOM) in the Sky Room at Huntington’s Cinema Arts Centre
2024-07-31 19:00 - 22:00
Karin Wagner will be the featured performer at the NorthShore Original Open Mic (NOOM) on Wednesday, July 31. Co-presented by the Cinema Arts Centre and the Folk Music Society of Huntington in the Cinema’s Sky Room (423 Park Avenue, Huntington), the open mic runs from 7-10 p.m., with a featured artist performing a 30-minute set beginning around 8:30 p.m. Sign-up starts at 6:30 p.m. Although NOOM is free to attend, donations will be gratefully accepted. The event will also be livestreamed via the Northshore Original Open Mic Facebook group.

NorthShore Original Open Mic (NOOM) in the Sky Room at Huntington’s Cinema Arts Centre
2024-08-07 19:00 - 22:00
Fred Raimondo will be the featured performer at the NorthShore Original Open Mic (NOOM) on Wednesday, August 7. Co-presented by the Cinema Arts Centre and the Folk Music Society of Huntington in the Cinema’s Sky Room (423 Park Avenue, Huntington), the open mic runs from 7-10 p.m., with a featured artist performing a 30-minute set beginning around 8:30 p.m. Sign-up starts at 6:30 p.m. Although NOOM is free to attend, donations will be gratefully accepted. The event will also be livestreamed via the Northshore Original Open Mic Facebook group.

NorthShore Original Open Mic (NOOM) in the Sky Room at Huntington’s Cinema Arts Centre
2024-08-14 19:00 - 22:00
Bryan Gallo will be the featured performer at the NorthShore Original Open Mic (NOOM) on Wednesday, August 14. Co-presented by the Cinema Arts Centre and the Folk Music Society of Huntington in the Cinema’s Sky Room (423 Park Avenue, Huntington), the open mic runs from 7-10 p.m., with a featured artist performing a 30-minute set beginning around 8:30 p.m. Sign-up starts at 6:30 p.m. Although NOOM is free to attend, donations will be gratefully accepted. The event will also be livestreamed via the Northshore Original Open Mic Facebook group.

NorthShore Original Open Mic (NOOM) in the Sky Room at Huntington’s Cinema Arts Centre
2024-08-28 19:00 - 22:00
Ray Lambiase & Lanny Sichel will be the featured performer at the NorthShore Original Open Mic (NOOM) on Wednesday, August 28. Co-presented by the Cinema Arts Centre and the Folk Music Society of Huntington in the Cinema’s Sky Room (423 Park Avenue, Huntington), the open mic runs from 7-10 p.m., with a featured artist performing a 30-minute set beginning around 8:30 p.m. Sign-up starts at 6:30 p.m. Although NOOM is free to attend, donations will be gratefully accepted. The event will also be livestreamed via the Northshore Original Open Mic Facebook group.

An Evening with the Bob Dylan Center
2024-09-03 19:30 - 22:00
An Evening with the Bob Dylan Center
Tuesday, September 3, at 7:30pm
Cinema Arts Centre (423 Park Avenue, Huntington)
This special event will feature screening of a dozen short film and video clips featuring Dylan on stage and in the studio, followed by a conversation with Bob Dylan Center Director Steven Jenkins.
Spanning decades and musical styles, this far-ranging program of short films and videos culled from the Bob Dylan Archive features rare and previously unreleased clips of Dylan on stage and in the studio. Selections include Dylan’s first film soundtrack for 1961’s “Autopsy on Operation Abolition;” a devastating solo rendition of “Ballad of Hollis Brown” from the 1963 TV special “Folk Songs and More Folk Songs;” a rollicking 1976 take on “I Pity the Poor Immigrant” with Joan Baez; a gospel-infused “Blowin’ in the Wind;” an apocalyptically rocking “When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky” with Dylan backed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers; loving tributes to Johnny Cash and Tony Bennett; a glimpse into the Archive’s film restoration project with never-before-seen footage of “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” from 1966; and many more treasures from the Archive.
Tickets are $26 Public | $20 CAC / FMSH Members

NorthShore Original Open Mic (NOOM) in the Sky Room at Huntington’s Cinema Arts Centre
2024-09-04 19:00 - 22:00
Rorie Kelly will be the featured performer at the NorthShore Original Open Mic (NOOM) on Wednesday, September 4. Co-presented by the Cinema Arts Centre and the Folk Music Society of Huntington in the Cinema’s Sky Room (423 Park Avenue, Huntington), the open mic runs from 7-10 p.m., with a featured artist performing a 30-minute set beginning around 8:30 p.m. Sign-up starts at 6:30 p.m. Although NOOM is free to attend, donations will be gratefully accepted. The event will also be livestreamed via the Northshore Original Open Mic Facebook group.

NorthShore Original Open Mic (NOOM) in the Sky Room at Huntington’s Cinema Arts Centre
2024-09-11 19:00 - 22:00
Phill LoFaso will be the featured performer at the NorthShore Original Open Mic (NOOM) on Wednesday, September 11. Co-presented by the Cinema Arts Centre and the Folk Music Society of Huntington in the Cinema’s Sky Room (423 Park Avenue, Huntington), the open mic runs from 7-10 p.m., with a featured artist performing a 30-minute set beginning around 8:30 p.m. Sign-up starts at 6:30 p.m. Although NOOM is free to attend, donations will be gratefully accepted. The event will also be livestreamed via the Northshore Original Open Mic Facebook group.

Hard Luck Café: Kirsten Maxwell
2024-09-18 19:00 - 22:00
Kirsten Maxwell (kirstenmaxwell.com), a multifaceted singer-songwriter who has been earning accolades and winning over audiences across the country, returns to her hometown to kick off the 2024-2025 season of Hard Luck Café concerts co-presented by the Folk Music Society of Huntington and the Cinema Arts Centre (423 Park Avenue, Huntington, NY) in the Cinema’s Sky Room on Wednesday, September 18, from 7pm-10pm.
An open mic, for which sign-up is at 6:30pm, precedes the concert. Tickets are $25 ($20 for Cinema Arts Centre/FMSH members) and can be purchased online at cinemaartscentre.org or at the box office now through the evening of the event.
“Kirsten Maxwell is an amazing writer and powerful, evocative singer whose performances are a sheer joy. She shines in her own lyrical compositions and in her singular choices of other artists, especially those of Joni Mitchell.” That’s how Judy Collins describes Kirsten, whom she has invited to open for her in concert a number of times.
Kirsten has drawn comparisons to such timeless singers as Collins, Mitchell and Joan Baez, while her vocal range and ability allow her to move seamlessly across genres – broadening the scope of her performances.
She’s been a finalist in the prestigious Kerrville New Folk Competition and an audience-voted “Most Wanted” artist following a Grassy Hill Emerging Artist Showcase at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival. Kirsten took first place in a contest sponsored by the Rhode Island Songwriters Association (RUISA) in 2015 and was a winner in the 2016 South Florida Folk Festival Singer-Songwriter Competition. She has had coveted official juried showcases at several conferences hosted by regional affiliates of Folk Alliance International, and has showcased her talents during Singer-Songwriter Cape May and as part of NERFA Presents Young Folk at the Mariposa and Philadelphia Folk Festivals. In 2020, she was one of five artists selected to receive a grant from the Joe’s Pub Working Group – an artist development program of The Public Theater in NYC. Kirsten also has spent some time in Nashville, where she has performed at the iconic Bluebird Café, whose founder, Amy Kurland, says: “She is a very special artist. Her voice, her songwriting, and her delivery make her stand out to me.” Paul Shaffer has expressed similar sentiments: “I once saw Kirsten Maxwell take the stage in a raucous bar. The patrons were there to drink, not listen. She began a delicate ballad, and by the third line, she had them in the palm of her hand. Kirsten is a strikingly special performer.”
Kirsten’s evocative renderings, coupled with her naturally passionate voice, often bring audiences to tears. Chris McKhool of Sultans of String, an acclaimed Canadian instrumental ensemble, says: “If I could sing like her, I’d give up the violin.”

FMSH Folk Jam & Sing-Along
2024-09-22 13:00 - 16:00
September 22 FMSH Folk Jam & Sing-Along
The Folk Music Society of Huntington’s monthly Folk Jam & Sing-Along will take place on September 22 at the South Huntington Public Library (145 Pidgeon Hill Road, Huntington Station) from 1-4 p.m. This free Sunday afternoon event affords musicians and singers of all experience levels an opportunity to play, sing, and hone their performance skills in a supportive and welcoming environment.
The monthly Folk Jams are completely acoustic, unplugged events attended primarily by amateur musicians and those who love to sing, although visitors who just want to listen are also welcome. Song selections can range across the broad folk milieu.

NorthShore Original Open Mic (NOOM) in the Sky Room at Huntington’s Cinema Arts Centre
2024-09-25 19:00 - 22:00
Cecilia Kirtland will be the featured performer at the NorthShore Original Open Mic (NOOM) on Wednesday, September 25. Co-presented by the Cinema Arts Centre and the Folk Music Society of Huntington in the Cinema’s Sky Room (423 Park Avenue, Huntington), the open mic runs from 7-10 p.m., with a featured artist performing a 30-minute set beginning around 8:30 p.m. Sign-up starts at 6:30 p.m. Although NOOM is free to attend, donations will be gratefully accepted. The event will also be livestreamed via the Northshore Original Open Mic Facebook group.

NorthShore Original Open Mic (NOOM) in the Sky Room at Huntington’s Cinema Arts Centre
2024-10-09 19:00 - 22:00
Jon Goldstein will be the featured performer at the NorthShore Original Open Mic (NOOM) on Wednesday, October 9. Co-presented by the Cinema Arts Centre and the Folk Music Society of Huntington in the Cinema’s Sky Room (423 Park Avenue, Huntington), the open mic runs from 7-10 p.m., with a featured artist performing a 30-minute set beginning around 8:30 p.m. Sign-up starts at 6:30 p.m. Although NOOM is free to attend, donations will be gratefully accepted. The event will also be livestreamed via the Northshore Original Open Mic Facebook group.

FMSH Folk Jam & Sing-Along
2024-10-13 13:00 - 16:00
October 13 FMSH Folk Jam & Sing-Along
The Folk Music Society of Huntington’s monthly Folk Jam & Sing-Along will take place on October 13 at the South Huntington Public Library (145 Pidgeon Hill Road, Huntington Station) from 1-4 p.m. This free Sunday afternoon event affords musicians and singers of all experience levels an opportunity to play, sing, and hone their performance skills in a supportive and welcoming environment.
The monthly Folk Jams are completely acoustic, unplugged events attended primarily by amateur musicians and those who love to sing, although visitors who just want to listen are also welcome. Song selections can range across the broad folk milieu.

Hard Luck Café: Scott Cook & Pamela Mae
2024-10-16 19:00 - 22:00
Scott Cook and Pamela Mae – Photo by Tina Dominic
Scott Cook (scottcook.net), an award-winning Canadian prairie roots balladeer based in Edmonton, Alberta, will be the featured artist during the monthly Hard Luck Café concert series co-presented by the Folk Music Society of Huntington and Cinema Arts Centre in the Cinema’s Sky Room (423 Park Avenue, Huntington, NY) on Wednesday, October 16, from 7-10 p.m. The internationally touring troubadour will be joined by Pamela Mae on upright bass and backing vocals.
An open mic, for which sign-up starts at 6:30 p.m., precedes the 8 p.m. concert. Tickets are $25 ($20 for Cinema Arts Centre/FMSH members) and may be purchased online at cinemaartscentre.org or at the box office through the evening of the show.

Scott Cook – Photo by Steven Teeuwsen
Cook — who delves into folk, roots, blues, soul, and country, and accompanies himself on fingerstyle guitar and claw hammer banjo — quit his job as a kindergarten teacher in Taiwan in 2007 and moved into a minivan. He’s made his living as a troubadour ever since – touring almost incessantly across North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and elsewhere. He averages 150 concerts and a dozen summer festivals a year. Along the way, he’s released seven albums of plainspoken, keenly observant verse – with an eighth one coming soon. His most recent release, Tangle of Souls, comes packaged in a cloth-bound, 240-page hardcover book of road stories and ruminations, equal parts introspection and insurrection. One of its tracks, “Say Can You See,” was the second-most-played song of 2020 on Folk Alliance International’s folk radio charts and took top honors in the folk category in both the 2020 Great American Song Contest and the 2020 UK Songwriting Competition. That year, Cook also performed during a virtual Falcon Ridge Folk Festival after being voted a “Most Wanted to Return” artist following the Grassy Hill Emerging Artist Showcase at the prior year’s festival.

Scott Cook and Pamela Mae – Photo by Justin McMurdo
Cook and his sweetheart, Pamela Mae, have been back on the road full-time since January 2022, living in a camper van named Roadetta. Since then, they’ve visited 43 states and eight Canadian provinces, and also broadcast solar-powered livestreams from the back of the van during the pandemic.
“As good a modern folkie as we have these days. A voice perfect for the genre.”
— No Depression
“He sings his heart and soul, and in doing so let’s light flow into your own…truly one of Woody Guthrie’s children.”
—RnR Magazine (UK)

Video links:
“Enough”
“Dogs and Kids”
“Further Down the Line”

NorthShore Original Open Mic (NOOM) in the Sky Room at Huntington’s Cinema Arts Centre
2024-10-23 19:00 - 22:00
Princess Peapod will be the featured performer at the NorthShore Original Open Mic (NOOM) on Wednesday, October 23. Co-presented by the Cinema Arts Centre and the Folk Music Society of Huntington in the Cinema’s Sky Room (423 Park Avenue, Huntington), the open mic runs from 7-10 p.m., with a featured artist performing a 30-minute set beginning around 8:30 p.m. Sign-up starts at 6:30 p.m. Although NOOM is free to attend, donations will be gratefully accepted. The event will also be livestreamed via the Northshore Original Open Mic Facebook group.
