Little Rock Folk Club is dedicated to preserving the link between the musical traditions of the Old and New Worlds.

Little Rock Folk Club was started June 12th 1989 by several diehard fans of U.K. and Irish music in the Little Rock area and is Little Rock's oldest 'bridge' between the Old and New World musical traditions. During the intervening years we have produced numerous concerts by some of the best and most enduring musicians in that genre. This includes strictly traditional artists and songwriters/composers working in that genre. LRFC is a 501(c)(3) organization. We welcome sponsorship, donations and input from others sharing our interests.

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Sat Apr 5th 2025 at 7:30pm




Rod MacDonald

Singer/songwriter Rod MacDonald is an American singer-songwriter, novelist, and educator, and a big part of the 1980s folk revival in Greenwich Village clubs, where he performed at The Speakeasy, The Bottom Line, Folk City, and the "Songwriter's Exchange" at the Cornelia Street Cafe, and along the way he co-founded the Greenwich Village Folk Festival, now a non-profit, and is still the President and co-producer of its events.

He is perhaps best known for his songs "American Jerusalem", about the "contrast between the rich and the poor in Manhattan" (Sing Out!), "A Sailor's Prayer", "Coming of the Snow", "Every Living Thing", and "My Neighbors in Delray", a description of the September 11 hijackers' last days in Delray Beach, Florida, where MacDonald has lived since 1995. His songs have been covered by Dave Van Ronk, Shawn Colvin, Four Bitchin' Babes, Jonathan Edwards, Garnet Rogers, Joe Jencks, and others. His 1985 recording "White Buffalo" is dedicated to Lakota Sioux ceremonial chief and healer Frank Fools Crow, whom he visited in 1981 and 1985, and who appears with MacDonald in the cover photograph

MacDonald's 14th solo album, Rants And Romance, the 17-song collection charted at #5 on the Folk Alliance national folk music chart in summer 2023. Writing in Goldmine, Lee Zimmerman called it "flush with astute observations and commentary on the current stage of politics and populism at a time when courtesy and common sense seem to have gone wholly astray. The material is pointed and prophetic, with melodies that ring, resonate and make emphatic impressions." Accompanying himself on guitar and harmonica, MacDonald, a tenor with a clear voice and wide range, is often cited for both his musicality and the content of his songs about political and social events, delivered with conviction. 

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Please join us for an evening of pure musical joy and magic!

Admission: Adults $20 - Military/Services $15 - Students w. ID $10 accompanied children 12 and under free

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Hibernia Irish Tavern

9700 N. Rodney Parham, Little Rock AR 72227



Smokefree, ADA compliant, acres of free parking, Bose-driven sound system, and home to Little Rock's only UK/Irish trad-based session each and every Sunday from 2:30-5pm

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