Where Music Meets Community

The next Front Porch Music Open Mic will be on Sat., May 17th at 6 - 8 pm in Marion Hall (or Oak Grove Gazebo weather permitting) behind Lafayette Christian Church in Lafayette. The open mics are mostly acoustic instruments, and styles generally include folk, bluegrass, blues, Americana, country, and original. Sound system provided. Sign up below.

Signup for our next Songwriter Session, a cozy collaboration between Front Porch Music and West Coast Songwriters. It will be outdoors at Hurst Farm in Lafayette Sun., June 1st from 6 - 8 pm. This is a relaxed, safe space to share a song, hear others’ songs, and peel back the layers of songwriting. 

On his way through the Bay Area on his national tour, Front Porch is incredibly lucky to host a world class guitar picker from England, Richard Smith, as he performs in the Big Room at Lamorinda Music in Lafayette on June 3rd for 50 lucky people! Janel Wagner will open, and will host a workshop with Richard on June 2nd at her home in Orinda. Join our mailing list to receive an email  when tickets go on sale.

Front Porch Music received an exciting grant this year from the California Arts Council to support our work. Thank you for your support.

The Community Foundation of Lafayette will forever be remembered as the first, fast grantor of Front Porch Music. Thank you for your support.

Community Arts is a program of the Zellerbach Family Foundation and Front Porch recently received a grant.   Zellerbach serves as a catalyst for constructive social change and they believe arts and culture play a role in creating a thriving Bay Area by ensuring the voices, experiences, traditions and dreams of all individuals and communities can be appreciated and celebrated. 

From 2019 to the present, John and Colleen McCormick at Lamorinda Music have supported our efforts by offering the Big Room for the open mic series and through guitar donations to our gift guitar program. Thank you John and Colleen!

Town Hall Theatre supports our quarterly performance series through the use of its beautiful theatre, box office, lobby and bar. Your visionary leadership and kind staff is amazing. Thank you!

Front Porch Music has no religious leanings, but we do appreciate Lafayette Christian Church's hospitality in allowing us to use Marion Hall and Oak Grove for some of our music gatherings when the community is invited. Thank you!

Steve Riccobono at Sound Travels Productions has given so much of his time and expertise to make our open mics and shows sound their best. Thank you, Steve!

Craig Isaacs of BlueGoo Photography has been a big supporter by providing professional photography at some of our larger events. We appreciate this immensely. Thank you, Craig!

John Allred, Videography, volunteers to provide beautiful three- and four-camera videography and editing for our quarterly performance series at Town Hall Theatre. Thank you, John!

Phil Jones, Guitarist, brings his considerable talent to pre-flight guitars before the instruments are placed into the Gift Guitar program.

Meet our Advisors. Our volunteers advisors are participants of Front Porch Music with invaluable insight and talent to help us grow and refine our programs.