Folk Music Society of Huntington

The Folk Music Society of Huntington is a volunteer-led, nonprofit organization. It co-presents the monthly Hard Luck Cafe concert series and the thrice-monthly NorthShore Original Open Mic (NOOM) with the Cinema Arts Centre in its Sky Room; hosts a monthly Folk Jam & Sing-Along at the South Huntington Public Library; and has presented an annual folk festival at Huntington’s Heckscher Park with the Huntington Arts Council for many years.

Acknowledged as the musical conscience of society, folk music has preserved — in its variety of forms — the joys, struggles and sorrows of people worldwide. In the late 1960s, a small group of Long Island residents dedicated to the preservation of folk music founded the Folk Music Society of Huntington. Incorporated as a nonprofit organization in 1970, its membership now numbers in the hundreds, while more than 1,500 people are on its email distribution list.

FMSH cultivates new talent in both modern singer-songwriters and performers of traditional songs, while providing opportunities for all lovers of acoustic music to find their favorites. It’s a cheap date, too – concerts can be less than the cost of two drinks at a bar (a bit more for the better-known touring performers, of course), with refreshments available at very reasonable prices.