Jonas Friddle Residency
The Reel Room with Jonas Friddle
Upstairs at Beat Kitchen
Every Sunday in March
6:30pm – 8:30pm
All ages
Suggested $10 donation at the door.
Welcome to the Reel Room
Music wasn’t meant to be on a phone. Music wasn’t meant to be made by computers.
Join Jonas Friddle as he recreates the magic of the once vibrant folk club scene of Chicago.
Every Sunday in March you’ll find Jonas playing music in the cozy upstairs of the Beat Kitchen from 6:30 – 8:30. Each night will feature different music and new musical guests. No two nights the same and every night recorded directly to a beautiful Studer A810 reel to reel machine. No streaming option and no “like and subscribe.”
What happens in the Reel Room only happens once. So, if you feel like music is less real these days, come spend a night in the Reel Room.
Suggested $10 donation at the door. RSVPs encouraged. Admission is first come, first served so please plan accordingly. A small number of seats are available for reservations. For information please email jonas@jonasfriddle.com
RSVP for March 1
RSVP for March 8
RSVP for March 15
RSVP for March 22
RSVP for March 29
*Please note RSVP does not guarantee entry. Seating is first come, first served.
Additional Jonas Friddle Shows at Beat Kitchen
Come jam with Jonas as he hosts a series of John Prine song book open jams on Feb 22, March 22, and April 26 upstairs at Beat Kitchen. Bring any acoustic instrument and play along – all levels welcome! Handouts will be provided with lyrics and chords.
Upstairs at Beat Kitchen
February 22, 4pm – 6pm
March 22, 4pm – 6pm
April 26, 4pm – 6pm
Free to enter and participate. Click the dates/times to RSVP.
About Jonas Friddle
Jonas Friddle is a singer, songwriter and Old-Time banjo player whose songs have received The John Lennon Songwriting Award, First Place in the Great American Song Contest and a nomination for Album of the Year in the Independent Music Awards. His tunes bear the marks of a musician who has done his time in pub sessions and square dance halls, and his writing is full of imagery, honesty and humor.
Friddle was raised in the mountains of North Carolina and learned to play guitar on a yard sale Harmony six string. He was already writing songs by the time he got to Kentucky at age eighteen. There, the bluegrass pickin’ and old-time dances turned him on to the power and joy of traditional folk music. He added a mandolin, fiddle and banjo to his arsenal and got a job slapping bass with the college bluegrass band. After serving his time in higher education, he spent a year traveling around the world playing music in pubs and living rooms.
In 2007 Jonas landed in Chicago, started the Barehand Jugband, the Sleepy Lou Old-Time duo and began teaching at the Old Town School of Folk Music. Since then he has released multiple studio albums under his own name and with the folk supergroup “The Majority.” During that time his music has won multiple awards and been featured online at American Songwriter, Huffington Post and Paste.
“[Friddle] deftly explores just about every nook and cranny of modern folk, from revivalist antique appropriation to protest songs to modern love songs… put Friddle in the conversation with established leaders like Josh Ritter, Joe Pug and Justin Townes Earle” –Independent Clauses
“Lyrical Miracles” – New City Music
Learn more about Jonas: jonasfriddle.com