After serving in the military, Siebel began playing folk clubs, eventually moving to Greenwich Village, where he found support in the coffeehouse circuit.

Darling left the Weavers in June 1962 to work as a soloist on the emerging coffeehouse circuit.

Side conversations and restless table hopping among the audience are a constant irritation to musicians making their way up through the coffeehouse circuits.

Eventually, Moffatt and Flower became a duo and toured on the national coffeehouse circuit.

She continued to weave in appearances as a solo performer on the coffeehouse circuit with her folk-style guitar.

As a young "new Bob Dylan," he was frantic, bedraggled, the closest thing on the coffeehouse circuit to punk rock.

She and Mr. Griffith are regulars on the coffeehouse circuit.

The trio all had a background in folk music, with each member having worked as a folk singer on the acoustic coffeehouse circuit during the early 1960s.

Townes Van Zandt makes his living playing the coffeehouse circuit.

So do dozens, perhaps hundreds of other songwriters on the coffeehouse circuit.