Name: Rob Roy Duo - Music at Friends
Start: 2025-11-16T15:00:00-05:00
Location: Music at Friends

Sunday, November 16 at 3:00 pm
The Rob Roy Duo plays quiet, peaceful, contemplative music in the genres of popular music of the Renaissance era, Spanish-influenced South American Folk, Southern Italian Folk, and Celtic (Scottish and Irish) as well as a few contemporary pieces. Instruments include mandolin, mandola, piccolo mandolin, classical and steel-strung guitar and some hand-held percussion, as the pieces dictate.
Rob Clark is the Duo’s mandolinist and additionally plays mandola and piccolo mandolin. He is a member of the Philadelphia Mandolin and Guitar Ensemble and has performed with the East Coast Mandolin Orchestra. Better known as ‘Bob,’ he adopted the moniker ‘Rob’ for this duo, as Bob Roy doesn’t make any sense. Rob lives and farms with his wife Lise, right here in beautiful Pilesgrove Township as they have done for more than three decades.
Roy Thorstensen has been playing guitar since his early teen years. With limited formal training, he is essentially self-taught. His appreciation of music spans time periods and cultures, but he’s never happier than when playing bluegrass with his sons. His interest in Renaissance music came from Rob, and he is enjoying staying musically active with the Rob Roy duo.
Music at Friends musicatfriends.org is a diverse concert series hosted and sponsored by the Woodstown Friends Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Our mission is to bring quality musical performances to our area while utilizing the beautiful setting and fine acoustics of our historic meetinghouse.
The Music at Friends concert series is made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, through the Salem County Board of Chosen Commissioners, and Salem County Cultural and Heritage Commission. Sponsors also include Schonstedt Instrument Company, the Woodstown Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and individual donors.
The concert will be held at the Woodstown Friends Meetinghouse, 104 North Main Street in Woodstown, NJ. Admission is free, although donations are accepted. Ample free parking is available at the meetinghouse.