Folk Music Society of Huntington

Borderline Picnic and Jam
2015-08-23 12:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York)
On Sunday, August 23rd the Borderline Folk Music Club will again be sponsoring the annual Borderline Picnic which this year will be a tribute to Tom Paxton at our new venue, Germonds Park, 185 Germonds Road, West Nyack 10994. This event, which will run from 12:00 noon to 6:00 PM is FREE and open to the entire community.
Schedule for the Borderline Folk Music Club Picnic
12 noon – Kickoff and introductions
12:10 – 12:25 Kirsten Maxwell
12:27 – 12: 42 Lew Abramson
12:44 – 12:59 Larry Kolker
1:01 – 1:16 pm Kerri Powers
1:18 – 1:33 pm Steve Suffett
1:35-1:50 pm Dennis McDonough
1:52 – 2:07 pm Anne Price and Rita Deutsch(Hudson River Rose)
2:09 – 2:25 Maggie Seligman and Richard Brooker
2:27- 2:42 Josh Joffen
2:44-2:59 Barry and Brooks
3:01 – 3:16 Mara Levine
3:18- 3:33 Terry Kitchen
3:35 – 3:50 James Durst
3:52- 4:07 Robert and Susan Gelb
4:07 – 4:22 Lydia Adams Davis
4:26- 4:41John VandenOever
4:44-4:58 Bob Wright/Bill Doerge
5:00 – 5:15 John Guth
5:15 – 5:25 Tom Paxton
5:30 – 5:45 – Jean Ritchie Tribute
5:45 – Finale sing-a-long – “Peace Will Come,” “Last Thing on My Mind”
Emcees: Bill Hahn (WFDU), Michael Kornfeld (AcousticMusicScene.com) and Joe Pszonek (WMSC)
We will also have a separate jam area for those wanting to jam and sing led by Bob Wright.
Co sponsoring this year’s festival are the Town of Clarkstown, Folk Music Society of NY (aka Pinewoods), AcousticMusicScene.com, the Folk Music Society of Huntington. and Tribes Hill. FREE admission; Bring your own food, drink, and lawn chairs. Those who don’t can purchase it from the park concessionaire. Alcohol and pets are not permitted on premises.
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10th Annual Huntington Folk Festival
2015-07-26 12:00 - 22:30
Tom Paxton will headline the 10th Annual Huntington Folk Festival on Sunday, July 26 at Huntington, NY’s Heckscher Park, located off Main Street (Route 25A). Extending from noon until l0:30 p.m., the free festival – co-presented by the Folk Music Society of Huntington and the Huntington Arts Council – is part of the 50th Annual Huntington Summer Arts Festival. Tom Paxton also is marking his 50th year as a touring artist.

Opening for Paxton on the park’s Chapin Rainbow Stage will be No Fuss and Feathers Roadshow. This group of award winning songwriters features the delicious harmonies of the nationally touring performers The YaYas (Catherine Miles & Jay Mafale), Carolann Solebello and Karyn Oliver. Collectively, they are an incorrigible bunch of musical co-conspirators bent on giving an audience an unforgettable show.

Prior to the evening concert, AcousticMusicScene.com and FMSH will host unplugged showcases and song swaps featuring more than three-dozen artists near canopy tents from noon until 6 p.m. Artists confirmed to perform during the afternoon include Acoustic Apple, Annika, Mark Allen Berube, Michael Braunfeld, Meghan Cary, Andrea Cetlin, Greg Cornell and the Cornell Brothers, Curtis & Carla, Generations: Mike & Aleksi Glick, Phil Henry, Jay Hitt, Karen Hudson, Josh Joffen, Stuart Kabak, Kalinec & Kj, Judy Kass, Cecilia Kirtland, Scott Krokoff, Mara Levine, The Levins, Lisa Jane Lipkin, Eli Maniscalco, Kirsten Maxwell, Lois Morton, Mark Newman & Naomi Margolin, James O’Malley, Elaine Romanelli, Shawn Taylor, Robinson Treacher and Bob Westcott.

Acoustic Music Scene.com Tent
12:45 Mark Newman & Naomi Margolin
1:00 Scott Krokoff, Shawn Taylor, Robinson Treacher
1:30 Generations: Mike & Aleksi Glick
1:45 Greg Cornell & The Cornell Brothers
2:00 Funny Folk: Mark Allen Berube, Lois Morton
2:30 Josh Joffen, James O’Malley, Bob Westcott
3:00 Mara Levine, The Levins, Elaine Romanelli
3:30 Westchester Artists: Curtis & Carla, Judy Kass, Lisa Jane Lipkin
4:00 Keystone Staters: Michael Braunfeld, Meghan Cary, Jay Hitt
4:30 Karen Hudson, Stuart Kaback, Cecilia Kirtland
5:00 Young Folk: Annika, Kirsten Maxwell
5:30 Phil Henry, Kalinec & Kj

Folk Music Society of Huntington Tent
12:00 Open Mic
1:00 Acoustic Apple
1:15 Andrea Cetlin
1:30 Eli Maniscalco
1:45 Scott Krokoff
2:00 James O’Malley
2:15 Mara Levine
2:30 Jay Hitt
2:45 Meghan Cary
3:00 Michael Braunfeld
3:15 Lois Morton
3:30 Bob Westcott
3:45 Larry Moser & Mary Nagin
4:00 Kirsten Maxwell
4:15 Phil Henry
4:30 Josh Joffen
4:45 Kalinec & Kj
The 50th Annual Huntington Summer Arts Festival is produced by the Town of Huntington, presented by the Huntington Arts Council, and sponsored in part by the New York State Council for the Arts, the County of Suffolk and Canon U.S.A.

Falcon Ridge “Most Wanted” Emerging Artists Tour
2015-06-18 19:30 - 22:30
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Brooklyn-based singer-songwriters Jean Rohe and Matt Nakoa will perform during the Folk Music Society of Huntington’s Hard Luck Café series at the Cinema Arts Centre (423 Park Avenue, Huntington, NY) on Thursday, June 18. The 8:30 p.m. concert in the Cinema’s Sky Room will be preceded by an open mic at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 ($10 for Cinema Arts Centre and FMSH members). Both featured artists will be part of the “Most Wanted” Song Swap during this summer’s Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, having been selected by audience members from among 24 artists/acts who performed in its Emerging Artists Showcase last year.
Jean Rohe’s inviting performances of one-of-a-kind narrative songs, blending folk, jazz and Brazilian traditions, have entertained audiences throughout the United States and in Europe. Ranging from fantastical riffs on old folktales to autobiographical sojourns, Jean’s songs also deal artistically with matters of social concern and have earned recognition from both the ASCAP Foundation and the New York Songwriters Circle. Lead Me Home, Jean’s debut album, was followed by her latest release, Jean Rohe & the End of the World Show, a travelogue of original songs sung in several languages, that garnered three Independent Music Awards in 2014.
“What sets Jean Rohe apart are the suppleness of her voice, the integrity of her vision and the grace she shows in her wide-ranging journeys across the musical landscape, “ says John Platt, host of WFUV’s “Sunday Breakfast.” FMSH is pleased to welcome Jean back for her second Hard Luck Café appearance.

Matt Nakoa, a 2014 winner in the prestigious Kerrville New Folk Competition, spent his formative years on an upstate New York goat farm and once performed as a classical pianist. He began composing music as a teenager and won a scholarship to the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he received top honors in songwriting and vocal performance. Matt’s engaging style and musical artistry have led him to an extensive touring schedule that includes both domestic and international engagements; he recently gave a concert at The White House and has performed shows throughout India.
On the heels of his 2012 pop-rock-styled debut album Light in the Dark, Matt’s most recent studio album, A Dozen Other Loves (2014), explores a primarily acoustic palette and has received extensive airplay on folk-oriented radio. His film scoring has been featured on Disney.com, while his piano music received favorable reviews in The New York Times and other publications.

Catie Curtis
2015-06-06 19:30 - 22:30
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Catie Curtis is a Boston-based singer-songwriter who has toured the U.S. and Europe for more than 20 years — including several performances at The White House, at two Presidential Inaugural Balls, at Carnegie Hall, and with Lilith Fair. Dubbed a “folk-rock goddess” by The New Yorker, she’s released 13 albums, recorded a duet with Kris Kristofferson for his CD The Austin Sessions, and was the grand-prize winner in the 2006 International Songwriting Competition. Catie has also won a slew of Boston Music Awards and had songs featured in numerous films and TV shows.
Since 2012, Catie has been the producer of Voices United Concerts, organized to raise awareness and funds for Americans United for Separation of Church and State (AU). AU is a crucially important bi-partisan non-profit that lobbies, litigates and educates to protect against religious extremism – an issue Catie unequivocally supports. Voices United shows have presented a diverse lineup of performers with such greats as Sarah Silverman, Ani DiFranco, Dar Williams, Louis Black, Kate Clinton, John Gorka, Roy Zimmerman and Melissa Ferrick, to name just a few. The first season, in 2012, presented 75 house concerts (one in every state) over one weekend, and plans are now well underway for the 2015 Voices United Concert schedule.
When Maine-native Catie Curtis is not writing, recording, touring or producing concerts, she also officiates and performs at fans’ weddings (having received her ordination online in 2011), teaches at song schools around the country, leads high school songwriting workshops, speaks on diversity, and runs a songwriter retreat in Maine every summer called “Catie at the Cove.”

Lara Herscovitch & Josh Joffen
2015-05-21 19:30 - 22:30
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Lara Herscovitch is an engaging contemporary singer-songwriter with a voice “clear and smooth, like expensive liquor” (Northeast Performer). Her music blends acoustic folk with pop, jazz, blues and Latin influences. Hailed as “a remarkable performer” on WSHU’s Profiles in Folk, Lara has showcased at the International Folk Alliance Conference, served as the official Connecticut State Troubadour (2010-2012), and performed on A Prairie Home Companion and in John Platt’s “On Your Radar” series in NYC. Trained as a policy social worker, Lara has worked on behalf of disadvantaged populations in Asia, Latin America and the U.S. Small wonder, then, that echoes of the global themes of equity and social justice resonate throughout her music. Lara has recorded five studio albums, including her most recent release – Four Wise Monkeys.
Josh Joffen is a Long Island-based singer-songwriter whose songs are, by turns, rousing, funny, poetic and insightful — blending modern and traditional folk and jazz influences with a rich palette of guitar voicings and open tunings. Josh is a two-time winner of the prestigious Kerrville New Folk Competition and a 2011 winner in the Great American Song Contest His songs have appeared in Fast Folk Musical Magazine and Sing Out! and have been recorded by such artists as Gathering Time and Mike Agranoff. With his warm, welcoming stage presence, Josh is equally at home before large and intimate audiences. He has performed at numerous clubs, coffeehouses and festivals. His most recent album, Postcard From Antigua, is a lyrical travelogue with songs set in locales from the Caribbean and the Middle East to his native New York.
Noting that “Lara and Josh were the first artists to perform in the Hard Luck Café series when it moved to the Cinema Arts Centre in April 2011,” FMSH President Michael Kornfeld said: “We are thrilled to welcome them both back for this return engagement.”

Brother Sun
2015-05-02 19:30 - 22:30
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Brother Sun celebrates the amazing power of three-part male harmonies – weaving contemporary and traditional folk with eclectic touches of blues, gospel, jazz and pop. Comprised of nationally touring singer-songwriters Joe Jencks, Greg Greenway and Pat Wictor, the trio has performed sold-out concerts across the U.S. and evoked standing ovations at the Falcon Ridge and Philadelphia Folk Festivals, among others.
Brother Sun’s sophomore release, Some Part of the Truth, was the #1 album on the Folk DJ chart for 2013, while its self-entitled debut recording was #8 for 2011.

Claudia Russell / Bruce Kaplan & Glen Roethel
2015-04-16 19:30 - 22:30
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Claudia Russell and Bruce Kaplan are touring artists and self-described “late-bloomers” based in the San Francisco Bay Area. A smoky-voiced singer-songwriter and deft guitarist, Claudia is adept at adapting her expressive voice to a wide range of material, embracing multiple styles, and weaving them into a distinctive Americana sound – accompanied by her husband Bruce on mandolin and guitar.
Claudia, who earned Best New Artist honors from Boston’s WUMB in 2000, following the release of her first album Song Food, released her fourth CD, All Our Luck is Changing, in 2013. Her songs have been heard on college and public radio stations across the country, while Claudia has been featured in Sing Out!, The Boston Globe and the San Francisco Chronicle, among other publications. One of her and Bruce’s songs also was featured on Christine Lavin Presents Just One Angel v2.0.
Glen Roethel is a New York-based, California-born contemporary folk-pop-rock singer-songwriter with a penchant for positive intentional lyrics. A guitar player’s guitarist, he delivers both his original songs and his large repertoire of covers in lush baritone-tenor vocals accompanied by deft guitar and ukulele stylings. A founding member of the folk-rock harmony group Gathering Time, Glen is also a sought-after accompanist and producer — as well as an instructor at Summersongs.
Glen has released six albums of original music — including his latest, Unfolding (2014), which contains three songs that were nominated for Posi Awards (the “Grammys” of positive music). Since returning to solo work in 2013, Glen has performed at venues across the U.S. He often improvises new songs on the fly. A generous, welcoming performer, Glen has been described as “spontaneous and exciting – like 1000 tiny fun bombs going off all at once.”

Jeff Scroggins & Mara Levine
2015-03-19 19:30 - 22:30
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Jeff Scroggins is an acclaimed banjo player who has toured internationally with his band Jeff Scroggins & Colorado. A winner of the prestigious National Bluegrass Banjo Championship and dozens of state and regional banjo contests, Jeff’s fiery style and lightning-fast licks have earned him many fans worldwide. He also teaches for Swallow Hill Music in Denver, Colorado and is in demand as an instructor at many bluegrass music camps in the U.S. and abroad.
Jeff will be joined by band members Tristan Scroggins on mandolin and Greg Blake on vocals and guitar, with special guest Larry Cohen (Silk City, Skyline) on bass. Long Island’s own Martha Trachtenberg and Tom Griffith will also join him for this performance.
Mara Levine: Called one of the best singers of her generation by Christine Lavin, the folksinger and jewelry designer creates beautiful interpretations of fine traditional and contemporary folk songs. Reviewers have said Mara’s voice is reminiscent of folk icons Judy Collins and Joan Baez.
Mara’s second album, Jewels and Harmony, received stellar reviews, was the #1 album on the Folk DJ chart for January 2013 and placed #3 overall for 2013. Her version of Bob Franke’s “Straw Against the Chill” with Joe Jencks and her arrangement of Paul Simon’s “Leaves That Are Green” with folk-harmony trio Gathering Time both were #1 songs on the monthly Folk DJ charts.
Jeff Scroggins and his band, along with members of Gathering Time, will join Mara for this performance.

Millers Crossing
2015-03-07 19:30 - 22:30
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Miller’s Crossing is a Long Island-based bluegrass band known for its driving and soulful original and traditional music. Formed in 2004, the band is fronted by songwriter and mandolinist Marjorie Kelting, and features Jen Larson (guitar and vocals), Terry McGill (banjo and vocals) and Eric Howell (bass).

Cathy Kreger & Steve Robinson
2015-02-19 19:30 - 22:30
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About the Artists
Cathy Kreger is a Long Island-based singer-songwriter and guitarist who has been performing throughout the Northeast for nearly 30 years. Armed with only an acoustic guitar and a voice as clear as cool water, she delivers more pure music per minute than a bevy of roadhouse rockers. Her musical style is a combination of adult contemporary and old blues, with an alternative folk flair. Kreger turns folk, rock, blues, and pop influences into a lyrical and melodic style that is as passionate as it is polished.
From the time she was a girl, Kreger has had the continuous inspiration of her musical parents, who were touring folksingers. She realized at a young age that there was an opportunity for her to provide the safe place that comes from reaching inside yourself and exposing your own emotions — giving people the ability to experience theirs. This was the power she found in herself, the power that still drives her today. “When I’m at a show,” she says, “I like to be stretched like a rubber band, to laugh, to cry, to be entertained. That’s what I try to do on stage. If you’re interested in feeling your emotions, you’ll want to be at my show.”
Steve Robinson is a native Long Islander whose engaging songs are informed by his varied life experiences — as a carpenter, English teacher, fisherman, truck driver, landscape foreman, air traffic controller, union rep, computer programmer, and more — combined with his life-long love of music and performing. A self-taught guitarist, he has developed his own unique finger style which combines driving rhythms with tasteful licks and smooth slide work. His music is firmly rooted in the blues, and breathes fresh life into tunes influenced by acoustic Americana, old-time jazz, soul, rock, pop, and country. Robinson represented Long Island at the prestigious 2008 International Blues Challenge in Memphis, TN as a winner in the 2007 Long Island Blues Challenge.
”Steve Robinson is one guy with talent to burn,” writes Ann Marie Harrington in Take Country Back magazine. “He possesses a pleasant, laid back and expressively soulful voice, he’s a gifted musician who plays with diversity and passion, and has a talent for well-written lyrics and an ear for a great melody.”

Christine Lavin & Don White
2015-02-07 19:30 - 22:30
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Hailed by The Boston Globe as “two of the funniest entertainers on today’s music scene,” veteran performers Christine Lavin and Don White    have brought their unique brand of clean and hilarious musical comedy to audiences across the U.S. since 2008 — proving night after night that comedy can be smart, friendly, and breathtakingly funny without being vulgar or pejorative.
Since emerging from the NYC singer-songwriter scene in the late 1980s, Christine Lavin has established herself as an entertaining tour de force. Quick on her feet, witty, insightful and engaging, she remains one of the most popular and respected performers in the genre. Christine has also been at the forefront of finding and promoting talented new artists.
Don White is the latest artist whom she has championed. “He’s such an original; I sometimes call him a ‘blue collar intellectual,’ ” says Christine. A product of the rich Boston arts scene of the 1990s, Don developed his songwriter/performer chops at Club Passim and Olde Vienna Kaffehaus while honing his comedic skills at Catch a Rising Star in Harvard Square. These experiences — along with his immersion in the Boston spoken word scene — combine to make Don one of the few performers who brings a comic’s wit and a poet’s heart to his songs and stories.

The New Students + Pesky J Nixon
2015-01-15 19:30 - 22:30
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The New Students are a Brooklyn-based band performing both original and traditional material in tight three-part harmony and an eclectic blend of folk, roots, alternative and Americana traditions. Members of the group hail from Long Island and Brooklyn, and include singer/songwriters and multi-instrumentalists Justin Flagg and Matt Gelfer, vocalist Briana Carlson-Goodman, bassist Sam Gelfer and percussionist Jason Rosoff. With one foot in the 21st century and the other planted firmly in the soil of American folk music, The New Students always deliver an animated and heartfelt performance featuring skillful acoustic instrumentation, compelling lyrics and quirky humor.
The New Students formed in 2009 when Justin Flagg and Matt Gelfer, who’ve been playing music together since their childhood in Brookhaven hamlet, were joined by Broadway veteran Briana Carlson-Goodman. The addition of Sam Gelfer on upright bass and Jason Rosoff on drums rounded out the band, whose influences run the gamut of 20th century folk, bluegrass country and pop from Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger to The Band, Allison Kraus and They Might Be Giants. Their latest recording, When the West Wind Blows, was released in 2014.
Pesky J. Nixon is a Boston-based Americana band whose unique brand of bombastic yet infectious energy, combined with their rich harmonies and musical versatility, draws the audience into their world of songs and stories. Members of PJN include Ethan Scott Baird (guitar and vocals), Jake Bush (accordion, harmonica, piano and vocals), Dan Carp (percussion and vocals) and Kara Kulpa (mandolin, fiddle and vocals). Drawing from influences that range from contemporary urban balladeers and rowdy Southern bluegrass to the wry wit of New England’s localized folk scenes, PJN creates an inviting yet challenging musical atmosphere with compelling vocal harmonies backed by instrumentation that includes zydeco-style accordion, virtuosic mandolin and a variety of tribal percussion instruments.
Performing their combination of original material, familiar songs and trademark stage banter up and down the East Coast for the past several years, PJN was chosen one of the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival’s “Most Wanted to Return” artists in 2012 and had a formal showcase at the Northeast Regional Folk Alliance Conference in 2012. Their latest album, Red Ducks, was released in 2012 and debuted at #8 on folk radio, according to the Folk DJ Listserv.

Annual Members Concert
2015-01-03 19:30 - 22:30
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The Folk Music Society of Huntington will showcase some of its musically inclined members in a special concert set for Saturday, January 3 at the Congregational Church of Huntington, 30 Washington Drive (off Route 25A), Centerport. The following local artists and groups have been selected to perform short musical sets: Acoustic Apple (Gary Schoenberger and Stephen Angliss), Shawn Cullinane, Lois Morton, Rocket and the Launchers (Ken Korb, Lora Kendall and Suzanne Ernst), Alan Short, Roger Silverberg, Nick Vermitsky and Wild Ginger (Candace Baranello, Caren Jacobs and Maureen Keelty). Unlike most of the organization’s concerts, this one, which is slated to begin at 7:30 p.m., will not be preceded by an open mic.
As a volunteer-run nonprofit organization, the Folk Music Society of Huntington is supported in large part through memberships. Although its First Saturday Concerts series usually features national and international touring artists, one evening each season is devoted to a Members Showcase Concert to enable some of its own talented members to display their musicianship, singing and songwriting skills. Tickets are $20 ($15 for FMSH members) and may be purchased online at www.fmsh.org with a credit card or at the door (cash and checks only).

Bob Westcott’s Holiday Revue
2014-12-18 19:30 - 22:30
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Gail Storm – Robert Bruey – Wicked Karma (Dee Harris & Todd Evans)
Gail Storm is a singer/songwriter/pianist who performs locally as well as on the national and international circuits. Her blues stylings embrace the root music she cherishes and provide a refreshing frame to other genres. The “Storm” is known to have a “heavy left hand” as demonstrated by her strong, rhythmic bass lines-particularly evident in the “boogie woogie”.
Storm performs in a wide variety of venues (solo or as bandleader) and has radio, film and television appearances to her credit. She has opened for Maria Muldaur, Henry Butler, and Bakithi Kumalo (of Paul Simon). As bandleader, Gail has had such notable sidemen such as Wycliffe Gordon, Jerry Weldon, and Toby Walker. In addition to her performance schedule, she also teaches piano, conducts music and art workshops, leads multi-media presentations on blues topics, and tributes Carole King. Storm has also been on staff at the award-winning Augusta Heritage Blues & Swing Week.
Singer-songwriter and fingerstyle guitarist Robert Bruey grew up in rural New England and lives on Long Island’s North Fork. His roots and how they have helped to shape him are reflected in the original music on his recently released CD, ‘Carousel’, and are even more evident during a live performance. Robert Bruey’s music is honest and real, raw and meaningful, gritty and naturalistic. His deft, spare and unique finger-picking style — with notes carefully left alone to be heard in the moment — provides a perfect complement for his earthy and soulful voice and the meaningful, introspective lyrics of his songs. As a musical artist, he paints with words — imbuing his songs with imagery that enables listeners to visualize his stories as he sings them.Although he cites such diverse artists as Dave Matthews, Van Morrison, Waylon Jennings, Jackson Browne and Damien Rice as influences, Robert Bruey is his own muse blazing his own musical path – one that should lead him into listening rooms and living rooms far and wide.
Wicked Karma – This is one of the most creative, eclectic, out there (yet in there), acoustic guitar duos to emerge in a long time. Dee Harris and Todd Evans have freed themselves to travel wherever they wish to go and have given birth to their own organic music form with no boundaries or confining genre limitations. Theirs is a musical palette uninhibited and flowing with abstract expressionism. Even their song titles are derived from surrealism and the dada law of chance. Sharing a mutual passion for melody and improvisation, their original instrumentals feature striking chordal voicings, with turns of jazz, blues and Indian influenced resophonic slide guitar. It’s all wicked in the best way. It’s all Karma of the highest level.

Tom Chapin
2014-12-06 19:30 - 22:30
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In a career that spans five decades, 23 albums and three GRAMMY awards, multi-talented singer/songwriter/guitarist Tom Chapin has covered an incredible amount of creative ground. In addition to his work as a recording artist and concert performer, Chapin has acted on Broadway, as well as working extensively in films, television and radio.
As a music-maker, Chapin has maintained two long and productive parallel careers, both as a highly respected contemporary folk artist and as a pioneer in the field of children’s music. In the
former role, Chapin has established a reputation for insightful, heartfelt songcraft and effortlessly charismatic live performances. In the latter, he continues to engage the hearts, minds and imaginations of young listeners with witty, life-affirming original songs delivered in a sophisticated array of musical styles. In either format, Chapin’s infectious songs, sterling musicianship and personal warmth consistently shine through, whether he’s performing on record or in a concert hall,
an outdoor festival, a school, in front of a symphony orchestra or in an intimate coffeehouse.
The New York Times called Chapin “one of the great personalities in contemporary folk music,” while Billboard called him “the best family artist around” and described him as “totally captivating.” Parents magazine stated, “Nobody today is writing and performing better kids’ songs than Tom Chapin.”
The son of noted jazz drummer and teacher Jim Chapin and the grandson of author/critic Kenneth Burke and portrait painter James Chapin, Tom grew up in a family that encouraged artistic pursuits. He began performing professionally as a teenager in the early 1960s, playing in Greenwich Village folk clubs alongside his siblings Harry and Steve as The Chapin Brothers. In 1971, he began
a five-year run as the host of the Emmy- and Peabody award-winning ABC-TV children’s series Make A Wish. Chapin and his songs were also featured in the seminal 1970 documentary film Blue Water,
White Death, for which he spent six months sailing the Indian Ocean searching for great white sharks.
Chapin launched his solo recording career with 1976’s Life Is Like That. It was the first of a string of albums that further established his reputation as both a gifted storyteller and a natural entertainer, winning him an uncommonly loyal fan base in the process. He also continued to venture into other creative areas, playing the lead role in the hit Broadway musical Pump Boys and Dinettes, working off-Broadway as musical director of both Cotton Patch Gospel and Harry Chapin: Lies and Legends, and serving as host of TV’s National Geographic Explorer. He’s also written and performed satirical topical songs for National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, and had a cameo role as the Vice
Presidential candidate in Jonathan Demme’s 2004 remake of The Manchurian Candidate. Chapin was already firmly established as a performer and recording artist when he first branched out into family music with his 1988 album Family Tree. He’s since released twelve more family CDs aimed at post-toddler, pre-teen listeners and their parents, comprised of original songs addressing such issues as family life, positive self-image and respect for the environment.
“When I was hosting Make A Wish, people had suggested to me many times that I ought to make a ‘children’s record,’ which to me meant singing songs for toddlers about little duckies and
didn’t seem particularly interesting,” Chapin explains. “Then I had children, and when they were eight and six, I realized that there was not a lot of music for that age group. They understood language and story and humor, but were too old for toddler music and too young for rebellion and love songs. So I did Family Tree with that in mind, and it won all kinds of awards. Suddenly I had a new career as a family artist.”
Chapin’s latest family release is The Incredible Flexible You, a collection of 12 new songs that help young listeners navigate the tricky waters of social interaction. It’s ʻA Songbag of Social
Clues.ʼ Each tune is designed for preschool and early elementary children with social cognitive challenges, and their parents and teachers, too. It has received a 2013 Parentsʼ Choice Gold Award,
a Family Choice Award, a Momʼs Choice Gold Award and a Creative Child CD of the Year Award. “Writing family music,” he observes, “has been a wonderful course in songwriting. You have a
dual agenda: keep it understandable and fun for kids, but well-written and intelligent and musical enough to keep adults listening as well. Within these parameters, we’ve found an enormous amount of topics and approaches and musical feels that continue to excite us to keep coming back and doing
it again.” Chapin also serves as narrator of a series of children’s books, three of which, Mama Don’t Allow, There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly and The Train They Call The City Of New Orleans, have won GRAMMY awards in the Best Spoken Word Album for Children category.
In addition to his varied musical and media endeavors, Chapin is also a powerful advocate on behalf of a variety of charitable causes. He is an active board member of WhyHunger, the organization which the artist’s older brother, the late singer-songwriter/activist Harry Chapin, founded (as World Hunger Year) in the 1970s. He also remains active in a variety of environmental causes, as well as efforts on behalf of music and the arts in our public schools.
“I’m at that place in my life where I follow what interests me,” Chapin concludes. “I still love the guitar, I still love to sing, and I still love the thrill of creation: a good song, a good recording, a good concert. I feel blessed to be my own boss, creating my own material and performing for so many different audiences, ages and generations.”
In the spirit of the holiday season, please bring canned food to this concert for distribution to needy Long Islanders through Long Island Cares – The Harry Chapin Food Bank.

An Evening with Peter Yarrow
2014-12-03 19:30 - 22:30
Come join Peter Yarrow as he personally guides us with commentary & live performance – from beloved anthems to selections from 13 never-before-recorded songs – through highlights of the brand new documentary, “50 Years with Peter, Paul and Mary” including DVD “extras” that will not be broadcast on any upcoming TV airings.
The celebration culminates in a reception signing of their handsome, moving new coffee table book chronicling the iconic trio’s epic journey of uplifting music and powerful activism that – as US Secretary of State John F. Kerry writes in his foreword – defined a generation, leaving a legacy that lives on today.
When Peter, Paul and Mary performed If I Had a Hammer and Blowin’ in the Wind at the 1963 March on Washington, “It changed the way we saw the world…and our role in it.” Beginning in 1962 with their first chart-busting album, and after 5 Grammies, 13 Top 40 Hits, 5 PBS TV specials, 8 gold and 5 platinum albums – Peter Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers have touched the hearts and conscience of millions the world over.
“They challenged the nation and the world to speak out against the enemies of the age – racism, poverty, insane militarism, the institutions of greed and injustice. And they did it onstage – in their words and their in their songs, in their personal lives, and together. We could sure use a little more of them these days!” – Arlo Guthrie
“Peter, Paul And Mary: Fifty Years in Music and Life.” On every page of this lushly illustrated new coffee-table book, what Peter, Paul and Mary stood for comes alive for the first time and in their own words, through rare and remarkable images and evocative text. Drawn from interviews and personal writings, the narrative merges each artist’s perspectives, reflecting their unified commitment in music as in activism. Peter, Paul and Mary takes readers not only backstage but deep into the group’s most cherished beliefs and passions.
Tickets are $25 for Members of FMSH or CAC / $30 Public – Includes Book-Signing Reception. Purchase Tickets online at the Cinema Arts Centre website or at the event (if available).
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Patricia Shih – Songbirds (Tribute to 5 Women in Folk Music)
2014-11-23 18:00 - 21:30
National award-winning singer-songwriter Patricia Shih brings a multi-media tribute to five extraordinary female musicians for a lively and spirited night of music!
In this show Patricia highlights five women – Ronnie Gilbert of the Weavers, Joan Baez, Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary, Judy Collins and Joni Mitchell– all giants in folk music who have influenced generations of contemporary artists, including herself. Combining projected photos, recorded narration and music Ms. Shih brings the era of the great “folk boom” of the 1950s – 1970s straight into her listeners’ hearts and minds. Some song samples will be original recordings from the artists themselves, but Patricia sings full versions of these artists’ most beloved songs live, along with her husband/accompanist Stephen Fricker. True to her mission of creating community and lifting spirits, she invites her audiences to sing with her. This presentation is lively and spirited, touching on history, biography and music. After the concert there will be a CD release party for Patricia’s newest album, Gold Covered which complements “Songbirds.”
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Libby Koch
2014-11-20 19:30 - 22:30
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Libby Koch (pronounced “coke”) is a Houston-based Americana singer-songwriter who draws from a classic blend of country, folk and rock. She performed this summer at the Kerrville Folk Festival’s Threadgill Theater and in the Emerging Artists Showcase at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival. She also was a finalist in the Wildflower! Performing Songwriter Contest and a semifinalist in the Songwriter Serenade. Libby was named Songwriter of the Year (2013) by the Houston Press and was selected for official showcases at last year’s Southwest Regional Folk Alliance (SWRFA) and this year’s Northeast Regional Folk Alliance (NERFA) conferences. She cites Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, Janis Joplin, Patty Griffith & Dolly Parton as influences.
Earlier this year, the seventh generation Texan released her third full-length recording. Tennessee Colony is a collection of ten songs about family, faith and home inspired by the small East Texas town of the same name (pop. 150), where Libby’s mother’s family settled in the mid-1800s and in whose red clay ground many generations of her family were laid to rest. Several of the songs are based on stories her grandparents shared with her while she was growing up. Rich Warren, host of the nationally syndicated “Midnight Special” on WFMT in Chicago, named the album his CD of the Week (June 21, 2014).
Manitoba Hal, previously scheduled, is stuck in Canada on a visa issue, so Libby has agreed to perform both sets tonight.

The Kennedys
2014-11-01 19:30 - 22:30
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In a career that now spans two decades, New York duo Pete and Maura Kennedy have traversed a broad musical landscape, surveying power pop, acoustic songwriting, organic rock rooted in their early days in Austin, and a Byrds-inspired jangle that drew the attention of Roger McGuinn, Steve Earle, and most notably Nanci Griffith. The duo co-produced Nanci’s latest CD. On their own recent release, “Closer Than You Know,” the songs have a quality, inherent in Maura’s voice, that is both soothing and urgent. As writers and producers, the Kennedys continue to mature, from their early style-conscious pop to today’s burnished sheen. Always tuned to their own muse, Pete and Maura have once again come up with a unique sound that is as uplifting as it is unclassifiable.

Jesse Terry & Kat Quinn
2014-10-16 19:30 - 22:30
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Jesse Terry is an award-winning, world-traveling, guitar-playing singer/songwriter whose home base just happens to be on the road. His intimate and evocative brand of Americana has drawn favorable comparisons to Ryan Adams, Jackson Browne, Paul Simon and James Taylor. “Sunny naiveté meets gritty wisdom” is how Dave Dircks of LIVE @ Deepwells (formerly Acoustic Long Island) describes him.
Jesse has performed across the nation and throughout the world — from Great Britain and Greenland to the South Pacific. Along the way, he attended the Berklee College of Music and landed a Nashville publishing deal just two months after graduating. He has been a Grand Prize winner of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest and the NSAI/CMT Song Contest, and his songs have gained placement on the televisions shows Hart of Dixie and Roadtrip Nation. His most recent album, Stay Here with Me, was released in 2013.
Jesse is “a force to be reckoned with,” says John Platt, host of Sunday Breakfast on WFUV. “His well-crafted songs rank right up there with Ryan Adams … and other masters of alt-country.”
Kat Quinn is a New York City-based singer/songwriter who hails originally from Marblehead, Massachusetts and writes lyrics marked by a charismatic combination of poetry and plainspoken language. She studied piano and percussion as a child, and got her first guitar at age15. Kat began writing songs in college, initially inspired by the heartbreak of a failed romance. From then on, songwriting became a consistent endeavor — fueled further by the time she spent studying abroad in Chile and later travels in Ecuador.
Sadness may have lit the match, but Kat’s upbeat personality fires her live shows, where she accompanies herself on guitar and ukulele. Her original songs feature “lightness and depth at the same time” (Verily Magazine) reminiscent of Ingrid Michaelson with a touch of Taylor Swift. Her songs have been featured in a film soundtrack and a VoxBox ad, and in 2013 she performed on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon’s Battle of the Instant Songwriters. Kat has also performed throughout the metropolitan area, including twice at the Huntington Folk Festival.
October’s Hard Luck Cafe series concert is a 2014 Arts Alive LI Arts Month event. A month-long celebration of the many cultural and entertainment attractions Long Island has to offer, Arts Alive LI is presented by the Long Island Arts Alliance and Bethpage Federal Credit Union. Now in its third year, Arts Alive LI will feature special events at more than 40 cultural venues across Nassau and Suffolk Counties. Long Island families and visitors are encouraged to log-on to www.artsaliveli.org for a complete list of events or visit any Bethpage Federal Credit Union branch location on Long Island to pick up a commemorative Arts Alive LI “Passport to the Arts” book that includes ticket coupons, discounts and prize-entry forms.

The Boxcar Lilies
2014-10-04 19:30 - 22:30
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The Boxcar Lilies have quickly made a name for themselves with their signature mix of folk, country, and bluegrass-tinged Americana music featuring spine-tingling, innovative harmonies and top-notch songwriting. Accompanying themselves on guitar, clawhammer banjo, concert ukulele, bass, and washboard, they have brought their uniquely warm sound and energetic stage presence to venues up and down the Eastern seaboard.
2013 Falcon Ridge Folk Festival attendees voted the trio “Most Wanted to Return” artists following the festival’s annual Emerging Artists Showcase that featured 24 acts. The Boxcar Lilies also secured a coveted official showcase at the 2012 International Folk Alliance Conference in Memphis and a formal showcase at last year’s Northeast Regional Folk Alliance (NERFA) Conference.
The Boxcar Lilies “bring energy, improvisation and a charming presence to the stage each night. Anyone with an ear for folk or luscious harmonies will enjoy these women.” – Zak Jason, Cape Cod Times
The Oct. 4 First Saturday Concert featuring The Boxcar Lilies is a 2014 Arts Alive LI Arts Month event. A month-long celebration of the many cultural and entertainment attractions Long Island has to offer, Arts Alive LI is presented by the Long Island Arts Alliance and Bethpage Federal Credit Union. Now in its third year, Arts Alive LI will feature special events at more than 40 cultural venues across Nassau and Suffolk Counties. Long Island families and visitors are encouraged to log-on to www.artsaliveli.org for a complete list of events or visit any Bethpage Federal Credit Union branch location on Long Island to pick up a commemorative Arts Alive LI “Passport to the Arts” book that includes ticket coupons, discounts and prize-entry forms.

Miles to Dayton + Anna Dagmar (with Preddice Family String Quartet)
2014-09-18 19:30 - 22:30
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Miles to Dayton is a Long Island-based family band whose music brings a high-energy message of love that strikes audiences on a personal level. M2D blends elements of folk, rock, classical music and funk with four-part vocal harmony, clever songwriting, improvisational violin and cello, and an infectious rhythm section, At the heart of their unique marriage of musical styles lies a real-life marriage: vocalist Krista Preddice shares the microphone with her husband Jonathan, the principal songwriter for the group – who also shines on guitar, cello, accordion and trumpet. Bassist Dave March (Krista’s brother) and violinist Leanne Strom (John’s sister) add depth to the vocal harmonies, while their bass and violin provide sonic bookends for the band’s signature sound. Drummer Brian Kroll further propels the group’s music with an exciting and funky edge.

M2D has performed at venues and festivals throughout the New York metropolitan area. The group’s first performance for the Hard Luck Café was a rousing success – prompting a return engagement.
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Anna Dagmar is a New York City-based pianist, arranger and singer-songwriter whose influences range from Joni Mitchell to Billy Joel and Leonard Bernstein. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, where she developed an interest in orchestration, Anna is a versatile performer whose music weaves together elements of folk, pop, jazz, classical and musical theatre. She won a Gold Prize (first place) in the Mid-Atlantic Songwriting Contest for “We Were Children” (2011), was named a finalist in the Kerrville New Folk Competition and the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival Songwriter Showcase (2012), and was selected to join the Advanced BMI Musical Theatre Writing Workshop last year.
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“In a world overpopulated with guitar-playing folksingers, Dagmar is pursuing a different path – writing piano-based songs that evoke the best of Judy Collins or the musical theater.”
– John Platt, host of Sunday Breakfast on WFUV.
The Preddice Family String Quartet (Phil Preddice, Alisa Rabbit, Leanne Strom and Jon Preddice) will accompany Anna as she performs her original songs arranged for piano and strings.

Borderline Folk Music Club – Annual Picnic, Singing Party & Jam
2014-08-24 12:00 - 18:00
The Folk Music Society of Huntington is pleased to be a co-sponsor of this free Annual Event, a Mini-Folk Festival focusing on A Tribute to Pete Seeger. Hundreds of folk & bluegrass music lovers are expected to gather at Germonds Park in Bardonia, NY, across the Tappan Zee Bridge on Sunday afternoon, August 24 for the fifth annual picnic, singing party, and jam originated by the Borderline Folk Music Club of Rockland County.

Harry Chapin Tribute in Eisenhower Park
2014-07-21 19:00 - 19:47
Eisenhower Park Bandshell, East Meadow
For a tenth year in a row, on Monday evening, July 21, some of Long Island’s top musical talent will gather at Eisenhower Park in East Meadow to perform the music of the late singer-songwriter -activist Harry Chapin, playing his songs for the cause to which he dedicated himself. It was on his way to perform at that stage that Chapin died in a car crash on the Long Island Expressway.
Entitled “Just Wild About Harry,” the concert, set to begin at 7:30 p.m., will include 18 Chapin songs — ranging from his hits “Cat’s In the Cradle” and “Taxi” to fan favorites like “Flowers Are Red,” “Mr. Tanner” and “Mail Order Annie.” Artists slated to perform include Gathering Time, Frank Walker, Josh Joffen, MediaCrime, Wonderous Stories, Grand Folk Railroad, Rorie Kelly, Patricia Shih, Christine Solimeno, the Folk Goddesses, Friends on the Journey, Robin Eve, Katie Pearlman, and Sid Cherry. Nationally touring songstress Marci Geller will pay tribute to Pete Seeger with Harry’s song about the folk legend, “Old Folkie,” and new to the show will be bluesy songwriter Jerry DeMeo and expatriate Long Islander Robin Greenstein.
“It’s hard to believe that we’ve been doing this for a decade,” said Long Island-based singer-songwriter and concert organizer Stuart Markus, who as a high-school student was just getting to know Harry’s music beyond the hits in 1981. “Each year I think it’ll be the last, but the enthusiasm of the players and audience persuades me to do it again.” Although the concert is free, guests are encouraged to bring canned goods and other non-perishable food items for distribution to needy Long Islanders through Long Island Cares, the food bank founded by Chapin that works to relieve hunger on Long Island. Over the years, the concerts have raised more than five tons of food and several thousand dollars for the organization.
In some cases the performers have chosen their own Chapin songs; in others Markus suggested them, but the performers have carte blanche with respect to interpretation. “I’ve always encouraged them to make the songs their own” Markus said. “It’s a tribute to his songwriting that so many songs can sound good in different styles.”
Although Chapin died 33 years ago, his music and efforts combating hunger have lived on, and the concert venue has been renamed the Harry Chapin Lakeside Stage in his honor. “It’s always as if the Long Island original music community comes together to give the concert he had meant to,” Markus said. A commemorative plaque was dedicated in his honor at the concert in 2010.
Besides raising food for the hungry and awareness of Long Island Cares’ mission, Markus said, the goals of the concert are to keep Chapin’s music and legacy alive in the public eye, and to give some of Long Island’s top musicians a chance to showcase their talents on a big stage. A CD of the 2012 show and Chapin fan items will be available at the L.I. Cares Tent. Co-promoting the show is the Folk Music Society of Huntington, on whose board Markus serves.
Guests should bring their own lawn chairs or picnic blankets to the park, which is located off Merrick and Stewart Avenues in East Meadow. The event is scheduled rain or shine, barring lightning storms. For information about summer concerts and other events, call (516) 572-0200.
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Photo of Harry Chapin by Robert Berkowitz/RSBImageWorks.com

Huntington Folk Festival
2014-07-19 12:00 - 22:00
The ninth annual Huntington Folk Festival is slated for Saturday, July 19, 2014. The free event will extend from 12 noon into the late evening at Heckscher Park, Main Street (Route 25A) and Prime Avenue, in Huntington, New York.
Headlining this year’s festival and performing on the Chapin Rainbow Stage at 8:30 p.m. will be Bobtown. Drawing on field hollers, gospel music, folk songs, pop melodies and bluegrass harmonies, Bobtown reinvents American choral music for the 21st century to create a unique and compelling blend of voices and instruments that move gracefully between elegy and celebration. An afternoon of unplugged showcases and song swaps, from 12 noon to 6 p.m., featuring artists from the New York metropolitan area and beyond will precede the concert. Hosting them near canopy tents will be Acoustic Live! in New York City and Beyond and AcousticMusicScene.com.
Co-presented by the Folk Music Society of Huntington and the Huntington Arts Council, the Huntington Folk Festival is part of the 49th Annual Huntington Summer Arts Festival presented by the Town of Huntington and produced by the Huntington Arts Council.
Festival goers are advised to bring lawn chairs or blankets and to consider bringing a picnic supper or venturing into nearby Huntington Village for dinner.

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American Roots Music Festival at Caramoor, Katonah, NY
2014-06-28 12:00 - 23:00
Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash will headline the fourth annual American Roots Music Festival at Caramoor, a family friendly celebration of acoustic music on Saturday, June 28, 2014. Set on 90 acres of gardens and Italianate architecture in Katonah, Westchester County, NY – 40 miles northeast of New York City — the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts is well known for its summer music festivals. The Folk Music Society of Huntington is delighted to be a Cultural Partner of the festival and will have a presence there.
Cash will be performing songs from her newly released album, The River & the Thread, a collection of original songs that connect and re-connect her to the American South, where she was born and from which her family hails. The album was #1 on the Roots Music Report Americana/Roots Country radio airplay charts for a couple of weeks earlier this year.
Opening for Cash in the evening program beginning at 7:30 p.m. will be The Lone Bellow, a Brooklyn-based trio. Artists slated to perform during the afternoon (12-6 p.m.) include Cricket Tell the Weather; Joe Crookston and the BlueBird Jubilee with Peter Glanville; Kim and Reggie Harris; Miss Tess & the Talkbacks; Bruce Molsky, Tony Trischka & Michael Daves; Spuyten Duyvil, and Walkabout Clearwater Chorus. Also scheduled is a social music hour — an old-time music workshop featuring some of the artists mentioned above and patterned after one that Spuyten Duyvil’s Mark Miller has led here and at other music festivals. Folks attending it are encouraged to bring their instruments or just gather round to learn about several old-time musicians and sing their songs.
“Caramoor is a nature paradise and the music takes place in several locations on the grounds so that folks can experience some of the environmental beauty as well,” says Maggi Landau, the festival organizer. She notes that during the daytime artists will be performing acoustic, unplugged sets in the Sunken Garden – “a quiet grove with the audience sitting on the ground literally at the feet of the artist” – as well as on the larger Friends Field. The evening concert featuring Rosanne Cash will take place inside the Venetian Theater for which there is reserved seating.
$25 daytime only tickets (excluding the evening performances) and full-festival tickets, priced at $35-$70 (including reserved seating for the evening concert) may be ordered by calling (914) 232-1252 or visiting www.caramoor.org.
Attendees are advised to bring their own chairs for the daytime performances. Although limited food and beverages will be available for purchase, folks also can bring their own and enjoy picnicking on Caramoor’s spacious lawns.

Lords of Liechtenstein + He-Bird, She-Bird
2014-06-19 19:30 - 22:30
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He Bird She Bird is a Long Island-based acoustic trio with a gravel, silk and honey vocal blend that brings a rich and heartfelt sound to their wide-ranging repertoire of both original songs and American acoustic roots music. Since striking up their band late last year, Todd Evans, Terri Hall and Christine Kellar have incorporated sparks of folk-rock, country, bluegrass and gospel to fuel their harmonious vocal collaboration, accompanied by their guitars and sundry other stringed instruments.
In the short time since launching their musical partnership, He Bird, She Bird has had people flocking to see them. They’ve performed at several local venues — including a well-received set during the Folk Music Society of Huntington’s Members Showcase Concert this past January. Christine, Terri and Todd have also been in the studio, recording their first He Bird, She Bird CD. This Hard Luck Café show will mark the band’s first featured performance for FMSH. Multi-instrumentalist Dee Harris will be joining them onstage.
The Lords of Liechtenstein is a quirky NYC-based acoustic folk duo comprised of two brothers – Noah on ukulele and vocals and Dan on guitar, banjo, mandola and vocals. Their sound has been compared to Simon and Garfunkel, while their onstage antics have drawn comparisons to The Smothers Brothers. It’s their instrumentation and introspective lyrics, however, that put them in a category all their own. “They are like the Everly Brothers with an attitude,” says Mark Miller, host of the Urban H2O concert series in Yonkers, NY and leader of the popular alt-roots band Spuyten Duyvil.
The duo first met in a hospital in July of 1994. “Hey, let’s start a band!” said Dan Rauchwerk to his new little brother, Noah. “Waaah!” said Noah as he had just been born and wasn’t quite able to speak yet, much less sing or play the ukulele. The brothers mutually agreed to wait a few years, until Noah was at least potty trained, before pursuing musical careers.
Although the debate rages on as to whether or not Noah is yet potty trained, the duo formally joined forces as The Lords of Liechtenstein in 2007. Noah and Dan have brought their unique blend of folk music to clubs and coffeehouses all over the East Coast. Their most recent album, Girlz (With a ‘Z’) shows off the duo’s versatility in songwriting and performing, moving effortlessly from reggae songs about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to upbeat folk songs about having one’s heart broken and torn apart by wolves.

John Gorka
2014-06-07 19:30 - 22:30
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Rising from the milieu of lovelorn singer-songwriters, JOHN GORKA illuminates instead with his trademark wordplay, twisting, turning and tying words and phrases in the way a balloon artist creates complex creatures from simple balloons. Few contemporary songwriters coax language as deftly as Gorka.
For over two decades, Gorka’s keen ear has picked up the stories of those along his path, folding them into poetry and song. His keen perceptiveness inspires people from all over the world to share their stories. By involving those tales in his music, he escapes the trap of introspection that hobbles less gifted singer-songwriters.
John Gorka flies below the pop culture radar with an almost cult-like following that never fails to fill concerts. Speak with any of his fans and one instantly feels their enthusiasm and genuine affection. His shy, almost self-effacing stage presence rightfully focuses attention on the songs. His versatility on guitar and piano keeps his sets musically interesting, while his rich baritone effortlessly executes his bidding. And he’s never short of the sly comment or clever joke that invariably ignites his audience.
With his uncanny ability to work every nuance of language, capturing a wide array of topics and experiences woven into memorable melodies, John Gorka’s career continues to prosper and to garner ever-increasing attention.
“One can get goosebumps all over. There are many reasons: fresh lyrics, a stunning emotional baritone, and his twisted humor” New York Times.

Scott Cook & Larry Kolker
2014-05-15 19:30 - 22:30
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Larry Kolker is an American roots musician with a postmodern edge and a style that ranges from rhythmic folk and soulful blues to power pop rock. His lyrics run the gamut from the personal and passionate to the ironic and political, and evoke emotions that span the spectrum from desperation to joy. Larry is also a versatile guitar player and blues harpist whose musical influences include artists such as Bob Dylan, John Prine, Jerry Garcia, Bonnie Raitt, David Bromberg and Elvis Costello. Originally from Huntington and a graduate of Huntington High School, he now lives in New York’s lower Hudson Valley.
Larry has performed at the Huntington Folk Festival, the Montauk Music Festival, the Borderline Folk Music Club Picnic, and the Bob Dylan Festival at the Warwick Valley Winery, among other events. His 2012 album, Awful Smart Man, is a musical tour de force co-produced with Fred Gillen, Jr. that features Gillen on bass guitar and backing vocals by The YaYas.
Scott Cook is a prairie balladeer from Alberta, Canada whose straight-talking tunes weave together folk, roots, blues, soul and country music with spacious fingerstyle guitar and clawhammer banjo arrangements. He brings humor, a disarming honesty and a deep love of humanity to his songwriting and storytelling, drawing on a wide range of roots music influences.
Since 2007, Scott has been performing all over the world — touring extensively in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia. Acclaimed Canadian songwriter David Francey has noted that “Scott Cook has distilled his travels down into songs powered by a sharp eye for imagery, a healthy dose of humanity, and that unforgettable voice that at the same time intones the rigors of the road and the most comfortable couch you’ve ever slept on.” Scott’s latest album, One More Time Around, features his song “Pass It Along,” which earned top honors in the Folk and Acoustic category of the 2013 UK Songwriting Contest.

Beaucoup Blue & Jon Brooks
2014-05-03 19:30 - 22:30
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Beaucoup Blue, the Philadelphia -based father-and son-blues and roots duo, returns to grace our stage yet again after delighting audiences at previous First Saturday Concerts and during the 2011 Huntington Folk Festival. with a mix of original songs and classic numbers.
Blending soulful traditional and contemporary styles, Beaucoup Blue creates an innovative and authentic sound that covers a wide swath of what constitutes today’s Americana music. The duo has been named the grand-prize winner in both the Billboard Magazine World Songwriting Contest and the Telluride Blues & Brews Acoustic Competition, while its albums have charted on Americana, roots and folk radio.
Jon Brooks is a Canadian singer-songwriter of note. A winner in the prestigious Kerrville New Folk Competition, a Canadian regional winner in the Mountain Stage Newsong Competition, and a three-time Songwriter of the Year nominee in the Canadian Folk Music Awards, Brooks writes songs “to calm those who’ve looked into, and seen, what is in their hearts [and] to terrify those who have not.”
His music is filled with grey and morally ambiguous characters living on the outskirts of approval, but his mandate is unequivocal. Says Brooks: “I’m not interested in writing ‘happy songs’ – I’ve chosen to write healing songs and for that reason, I’m obliged to reveal a wound or two now and then. That said, I’m less interested in writing ‘unhappy songs’: I want to write hopeful songs, inspiring songs and I expect I owe today’s listener some compelling argument as to why we should believe our present world can be improved, or healed. A song’s highest aim is to invoke empathy – to offer that rare sight of ourselves in others. In this sense, the songwriter is simply trying to ‘politicize love’, hence my contention: today’s songwriter should be a lobbyist for compassion to be our principal representative in government office.”
