Faerie Folk & Prog Frog - An Evening of Nature Loving Folk and Jazz

Name: Faerie Folk & Prog Frog - An Evening of Nature Loving Folk and Jazz
Start: 2026-09-25T20:00:00-0700
End: 2026-09-25T22:00:00-0700
Location: The Back Room

Fri, Sep 25, 8pm - 10pm PDT

The Back Room

Berkeley CA, United States

The Back Room

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Faerie Folk is on tour from Portland, OR and will be joined by the Bay Area's own progressive folk band, Prog Frog, for a special evening of fine, nature-inspired live music.

Faerie Folk is a folk music group created by pianist/composer Troll Hart, whose repertoire is based primarily in traditional Irish reels and jigs. The trio also explores soundtrack excerpts from popular medieval fantasy media, along with original neo-classical and folk music compositions. With the incredible Jotunn Aldas on the violin/fiddle and the lovely Joy Joye on vocals, Faerie Folk transports listeners beyond the realm of man with their music of majesty, refinement, and devotion to Mother Earth. Sporting influence and expertise from decades of classical, jazz, and Celtic music backgrounds, Troll, Jotunn, and Joy are an inspirational group brought together by love of organic music, and are excited to share that love with you!

Faerie Folk's recorded music and artwork can be found at www.treetemplemusic.com

Prog Frog (Eli Carlton-Pearson, Tommy O’Mahony, Ali Rucker) has a unique but coherent sound, drawing from wide-ranging influences, including 70’s prog rock (Yes, King Crimson, Pink Floyd), alternative folk (Nick Drake, Elliot Smith), Irish traditional music (Tommy Peoples, Paul Brady), modern jazz (Brad Mehldau, The Bad Plus), and spiritual jazz (Alice Coltrane, Pharaoh Sanders). Prog Frog released their debut EP, “Frog Prog,” on Bandcamp, cassette, and streaming platforms in 2024.

Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door general admission; $15 for students/low-income individuals. Children under 12 are free. Advance tickets are available here, or if the show is not sold out, you may purchase your tickets at the door before the show.

Doors open 30 minutes before show time. We accept cash or Venmo only at the door.

The Back Room is an all-ages, BYOB (for those 21+) space, dedicated to (mostly) acoustic music of all kinds. You are welcome to bring your own food and beverages. The venue is ADA accessible. If you need more information or have any questions, please call us: #510-381-1997.

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Please refrain from using your phone during performances, and if you use your camera or video, please disable the flash.

Although masks are no longer required, we strongly encourage their use to keep everyone safe in our intimate space.

Thank you for your support!

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When, as a young man in 1981, Sam Rudin moved from his native Philadelphia to the East Bay, he quickly fell in love with the Freight & Salvage, Berkeley’s quirky little 87-seat concert hall.

Filled with comfortable thrift store furniture and an informal ambience of appreciative attentiveness, the Freight was a perfect fit for performers of modest renown and acoustically-based music.

As a solo (albeit high-energy) pianist, Sam’s music fit the bill, and the Freight became Sam’s home base. In the absence of other Freight-like rooms, Sam turned his solo performer attention to the outdoor fair and festival circuit, and later started the jazz/blues band Hurricane Sam & the Hotshots.

Now, maybe it’s all the energy he put into becoming a master piano teacher, or maybe the fair and festival circuit just doesn’t have the right ingredients to nurture a high-profile career. Whatever the reason, despite critical acclaim, four CD’s, and a whole bunch of happy audiences, years later Sam was still a performer of modest renown, and he missed that great little room.

As the Freight grew and expanded, ultimately arriving at the gorgeous 420 seat theater that it occupies today, Sam started to feel that maybe it was up to him to recreate that wonderful small space. No longer a young man, it would be his late-life adventure.

Eventually, he found the perfect spot: a beautiful space with brick walls and vaulted wood ceilings right by the Arts District in downtown Berkeley. As of April 2016, it is open for business, complete with the requisite thrift store furniture.

The space is actually the back room of a larger building, so of course it is called The Back Room, and the tag line on its logo says it all – “an intimate place for music.”

The site, at 1984 Bonita Ave., also functions as Sam’s teaching studio, so if you’re looking for “The Piano Lessons You’ve Always Wanted,” now you know where to find them.