The folk music scene is strong in Columbus, and you have the chance to enjoy it all year long with the Columbus Folk Music Society Music Series and Central Ohio Folk Festival.

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Columbus Folk Music Society Concert Series
A donation of $15 at the door is suggested, $10 for CFMS members and students, free for under age 12.
6PM Open Jam
7PM Open Mic (pre-signup)
8PM Featured Performer
Unless noted below, the Americana/Folk Concert Series events are held at:
Columbus Mennonite Church
35 Oakland Park Ave, Columbus, 43214
For more info, contact Bill Cohen at (614) 263-3851 or BillCohen@columbus.rr.com
Wrygrass
Fri, Apr 14, 5PM
(Bluegrass)NOTE: This concert is on a FRIDAY night and held at Reeb Center: 280 Reeb Ave, Cols, OH.
Free-will donation
Rupert Wates
Sat, April 22, 7PM
(Folk/Singer-songwriter)
rupertwatesmusic.com
The Matchsellers
Mon, June 26, 5PM
(Bluegrass)
NOTE: This concert is on a MONDAY night and held at Reeb Center: 280 Reeb Ave, Cols, OH.
Free-will donation
Upcoming Shows
Full details will be released closer to the events, or see the website.
Annual Central Ohio Folk Festival
Folk it up with the Annual Central Ohio Folk Festival at Highbanks Metro Park on May 6-7, 2023.

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Festival features
Enjoy concerts, jam sessions, 30+ music workshops, dance, and kids’ activities including the instrument petting zoo. Bring your acoustic instruments to join jams and song circles.
More than 30 hourly concerts on 3 different stages. You’ll hear a wide range of folk music — bluegrass, blues, singer-songwriter, Southern roots, Americana, Celtic, and more….songs that often reflect the struggles of everyday people.
A giant 1960’s-style folk music community sing-along to open the festival at 11 am Saturday, plus a poignant song circle to close the fest.
More than 30 workshops on songwriting, the history of folk music, joining a jam group, important musical figures, and how to play guitar, fiddle, ukulele, tin whistle, and other instruments. Some workshops will be for beginning players, and others will be for more advanced musicians.
NEW this year, the “YouthFolk Tent” serving kids and youth with performances and workshops. Youth workshop offerings include making a drum out of wooden box frames.Plus, an “instrument petting zoo” to let Kids can handle folk instruments at the “instrument petting zoo”. There are hands-on arts and crafts, plus festival mascot Darby Duck will be on hand for the young and young-at-heart.
Join in the 2 drum circles where everyone, young and old alike, is invited to pound on a drum or other rhythm instrument to a mesmerizing beat.
Additional features include an Affrilachian storyteller, expanded informal jamming, “Songs of the Spirit” session on Sunday at 11 am, plus a beer garden tent, where those 21 and older.
Central Ohio Folk Festival admission
Donations are welcome. For donations of $20 of more, you’ll get a free “flexible frisbee” and other fun stuff and there will be no other ticketing for the many activities, and that includes workshops, hourly concerts, jam sessions, children’s activities, and even the Saturday night headliner concert.
The festival staffers are all volunteers, so 100% of the money that people contribute will help support this festival.
See website for any updates.
For more information or registration, check out the Folk Festival webpage.
Highbanks Metro Park
9466 Columbus Pike (Rt. 23 N)
Lewis Center, OH 43035
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