Detroit Folk School

02/27/2026

Check out our latest post on Substack! Coming up we have a fiddle workshop with Brittany Haas, flatfooting workshop with Nic Gareiss, Concert with Brittany + Nic, Fun-A-Day Show, and Q***r Square Dance!

Read all about it: Brittany Haas and Nic Gareiss workshops & concert, Fun-A-Day show, March Square Dance, Pysanky workshop

08/22/2025

This Weekend! “Tales from Detroit” Puppet Show by Flying Cardboard Theater

Friday, August 22 • 6 p.m. & 8 p.m.
Saturday, August 23 • 3 p.m. & 6 p.m.
Matrix Theatre Company 2730 Bagley St. Detroit

Don’t miss "Tales from Detroit," a puppet journey into the back alleys and dark corners of our fabulous city. The non-human underworld! Hidden stories revealed! Myths created and dispelled... Flying Cardboard Theater brings you a mix of classic and brand new puppets, magic and mayhem that is sure to leave you saying: "I'm stunned!" "I am delighted!" and "I can never see enough puppet shows if I live 100 years!"

05/13/2025

We are so excited to host Cameron DeWhitt & Morgan Harris for a concert on May 21. Did you know that Cameron is host of a great podcast called Get Up in the Cool?

If you are into old time music, you will recognize many of the (now over 800!) guests as pals, teachers, heroes from the old time community. If you are not an old time music nerd, you may not recognize many names, but, you are in luck, because Cameron has interviewed two names you will know: and (both part of the Detroit Folk School team)! You can also get a teaser of the magic and will create listening to their interviews. Hope to see you on the 21st!

Visit detroitfolkschool.org for quick links by visiting the story post at the top of the homepage.

Photo of Harris by Mara Sedlins.

03/03/2025

The Fun-A-Day show last Friday at St. Peter’s was an awesome! We enjoyed music, video, puppet, research projects, drawings, zines, sing-a-longs, a mediation, and more. Fun-A-Day encourages people to find a small project to work on a little bit every day in February and then share it with friends at the show.


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03/03/2025

Our February Q***r Square Dance + Potluck was so fun! Thanks so much to everyone who came out for the magical evening. The energy was amazing. We love our community! 🔥 🌈 ❤️

Save the date for our next square dance: April 19.

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