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Contact: Carl Baron's e-mail
Telephone: (215) 699-7835
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| Doors open at 7:30 pm; Show starts at 8:00. Gwynedd Friends Meeting is located at the corner of US 202 and Sumneytown Pike half way between North Wales and Spring House, Pennsylvania. Map and Directions... |
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Line-up (2007-2008)
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Saturday, October 13, 2007 CHRISTINA HARRISON – Christina is a singer/songwriter from Glasgow, Scotland, with Irish and Scottish parentage. Her repertoire is beautifully versatile featuring original, contemporary and traditional folk songs from Ireland, Scotland and America. Christina tours Europe and Canada. Her last appearance at the Gwynedd Friends Coffeehouse was in 1999-2000 season and we welcome her back. http://www.christinaharrison.com/ |
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| Saturday, November 10, 2007 BRAD LITWIN JAZZ TRIO – Brad Litwin is a ragtime jazz and stride blues guitarist who can sing! He will be accompanied by Jimmy Parker on tuba and Michael Salsburg on violin. With the rompin' stompin' finger-picking styles of Blind Blake and Robert Johnson, adaptations of Fats Waller and Willie "the Lion" Smith, the smooth crooning of the Mills Brothers, and the exhilaration of Bessie Smith, Litwin marries peak guitar performance with a voice that engages from the first phrase - dazzling as he shifts from dark to light, funny to tender, smooth to rollicking. http://www.jujubee.com
Download Brad's version of an old hit from 1903 which he calls St. Louis Got Tickled
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| Saturday, December 8, 2007 QUIDDITAS
Quidditas is an early music group based in Philadelphia, performing music of the Medieval and Renaissance periods in engaging, accessible and unique concerts. Their members are: Susan Moxley: sackbut; Priscilla Smith: recorders, Renaissance winds, voice; Jacqueline Smith: voice, harp, recorders; Kile Smith: voice, percussion & K. Rebecca Oehlers: voice, recorders. http://www.angelfire.com/music5/quidditas/
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| Saturday, March 8, 2008 BROADSIDE ELECTRIC - The Philadelphia-based folk-rock band Broadside Electric write almost none of their own material. Their gift lies in a magpie's ear for neglected traditional material, interpreted extremely loosely, which can be twisted into their signature clash of traditional styles. Their music comes from Ladino (medieval Spanish) Turkish, Celtic, English Morris Tunes and more. http://www.broadside.org/ |
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| Saturday, April 12, 2008 ROOTBOUND - a duo that takes the traditional sounds of Appalachian old-time, bluegrass, and early country music and brings them into the present. Paying loving tribute to the duet sounds of such seminal groups as the Louvin Brothers and the Stanley Brothers and the wide-ranging repertoire of the Carter Family, singer/guitarist Deb Kauffmann and mandolinist/guitarist/singer Henry Koretzky infuse the classic repertoire with new material drawn from contemporary songwriters. http://www.rootboundmusic.com |
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·Saturday, May 10, 2008 SVITANYA (svee-TAH-nya), which means “the light at sunrise” in Croatian and Ukrainian, is a women’s a cappella ensemble that specializes in music from Eastern Europe. The songs we perform exude the spirit of traditional village music. Some songs are modern arrangements, some songs were learned from village source recordings, and all songs are sung in their original languages. Our repertoire is quite diverse--ranging from strong and strident field-working songs to traditional dance tunes to lush and emotive arrangements--and it all celebrates the timbres, rhythms, and harmonies indigenous to the region. Most every song tells a story; some songs celebrate the mundane events of daily life, like cutting wheat in the fields or strolling in the street with musicians, and others depict life’s more poignant moments, such as losing a loved one to war or being married off while too young. http://www.svitanya.org/ |
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$5 suggested donation requested to help support the musicians. We also ask for voluntary donations to charities, which in the past have included local food and housing projects, disaster relief and international programs aimed at education and providing self-sufficiency to impoverished rural areas.
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