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SUMMARY:Cliff Eberhardt
DESCRIPTION:Cabaret Seating. BYOB & Snacks. Doors Open at 7:00 PM \n$20 Members/ $22 non-members in advance ; $25 at the door (if available) \n  \n\n\n\n\nCliff Eberhardt knew by age seven that he was going to be a singer and songwriter. Growing up in Berwyn (PA)\, he and his brothers sang together and their parents played instruments. His dad introduced him to the guitar and he quickly taught himself to play. Fortunate enough to live close to the Main Point (one of the best folk clubs on the East Coast)\, he cut his teeth listening to the likes of James Taylor\, Joni Mitchell\, Bruce Springsteen\, Howlin’ Wolf\, Muddy Waters\, Bonnie Raitt\, and Mississippi John Hurt — receiving an early and impressive tutorial in acoustic music. At the same time\, he was also listening to great pop songwriters like Cole Porter\, the Gershwins\, and Rodgers and Hart\, which explain his penchant for great melodies and clever lyrical twists. After a successful whirlwind of a career in the industry\, in 2021\, Cliff released “Knew Things” – a new album of original songs which reached #4 on the Folk Alliance International’s Folk Radio Chart. Touring constantly\, Cliff is well-known as a songwriting teacher all over the U.S. at songwriting camps and private lessons. He also produces\, arranges and advises on other artist’s recordings. Learn more about Cliff online at cliffeberhardt.net. \nCabaret Seating. BYOB & Snacks. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://bostoncoffeehouses.org/event/cliff-eberhardt/
LOCATION:Parish Center for the Arts\, Westford MA\, 10 Lincoln Street\, Westford\, MA\, 01886\, United States
CATEGORIES:Coffeehouse
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SUMMARY:Richard Shindell
DESCRIPTION:Innovative\, original and occasionally spiritual\, Shindell’s songs weave tales that interchangeably champion the downtrodden\, exalt the disaffected or wax empathetic to those lost to society’s fringes. From lighthearted ballads and adulterous love songs\, to dirges and diatribes that skillfully skewer politics\, prejudice\, war and religion\, to the comic point-of-view of a cow stuck in a barbed wire fence\, he has a unique ability to morph into the soul of the many and varied personalities he casts as narrators in certain songs—veritable novellas framed in haunting acoustic melodies.
URL:https://bostoncoffeehouses.org/event/richard-shindell-4/
LOCATION:Follen Folk Nights\, Lexington MA\, 755 Massachusetts Ave\, Lexington\, MA\, 02420\, United States
CATEGORIES:Coffeehouse,Concert,Folksinger,Music,Singer-songwriter
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SUMMARY:Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Sumner is no stranger to the stage. She spent her early career on the bluegrass circuit\, singing and writing with the genre-bending Boston group Twisted Pine. Since setting out on her own\, Sumner’s songs have been critically acclaimed\, winning the Lennon Award in the folk category of the 2021 John Lennon Songwriting Contest for her song “Radium Girls (Curie Eleison);” earning her a spot in the Kerrville New Folk Competition; and being chosen four consecutive years by WBUR/NPR as one of the top Massachusetts entries in the Tiny Desk Competition. \nSince winning the 2023 Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival band competition\, Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light have been captivating audiences throughout the northeast and beyond. Sumner’s lyric-forward writing and penchant for snaking chord progressions demand something far beyond folk conventions\, highlighting the acrobatic range of her brilliant bandmates Kat Wallace (fiddle) and Mike Siegel (upright bass). \nHer new album\, “Heartless Things\,” marks a significant evolution in Sumner’s studio sound\, stepping out from the acoustic string band framework of her debut album. This new record blends elements of chamber-folk and indie pop with Sumner’s love of Appalachian balladry and bluesy hooks\, resulting in an immersive setting that highlights the top-notch narrative writing we’ve come to expect.
URL:https://bostoncoffeehouses.org/event/rachel-sumner-traveling-light/
LOCATION:New Song\, Bedford MA\, 10 Mudge Way\, Bedford\, MA\, 01730\, United States
CATEGORIES:Americana,Bluegrass,Coffeehouse,Concert
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SUMMARY:Christine Lavin & Performing Songwriter Competition - May 16\, 2026
DESCRIPTION:Christine Lavin & finals of our 2026 Performer Songwriter Competition\n$30 + Eventbrite fees in advance / $35 at door \nOur contest finalists will be named in April 2026. We are not yet accepting entries. For details on the contest\, visit our website. \nCHRISTINE LAVIN: \nChristine Lavin started her professional life as a waitress/bread baker at the Caffe Lena in Saratoga Springs\, NY in 1975 where she met Dave Van Ronk who encouraged her to study guitar with him in NYC. She took his advice and is now a singer/songwriter/guitarist/recording artist/author/videographer based in New York City. Her latest solo album\, her 25th\, ON MY WAY TO HOOTERVILLE\, includes 10 new songs and one re-worked song\, “Ramblin’ Waltz\,” a re-telling of her time in 1975 when she was an entourage driver for the first week of Bob Dylan‘s iconic “Rolling Thunder Revue” tour. \nIn 2023 Christine released “The Seasons Project\,” an 80-song seasonal compilation that features the work of 63 American\, Canadian\, British and Irish singer/songwriters. Christine assembled this compilation to help guide future historians and folklorists to authentic music being written in the last two decades of the 20th Century and the first two of the 21st Century. \nIn 2024 she is completing her 26th solo album\, DRUM SCHOOL DROPOUT\, hoping to have it completed in 2025. \nIn October 2024 there were 11 performances of “InunDATEd\,” a 90 minute theatrical production that showcased nine of Christine’s songs by the York Theatre in NYC. There will be one more workshop production before the show is released world-wide. The most recent production starred two thrilling Broadway veterans\, Kate Rockwell and Taylor Crousore \nHONORS AND AWARDS: In May 2021 Christine received an Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts from her alma mater\, the State University of New York at Brockport. In an odd twist\, she has a younger brother also named Chris (born on Columbus Day) who also in May 2021 was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from his alma mater\, Hobart/William Smith Colleges in Geneva\, NY. \nWhat are the odds there would be two Chris Lavins from the same family to both be awarded honorary doctorates one week apart? \nIn September 2019 Christine spent a month at the artist retreat Yaddo in Saratoga Springs. Three of the songs she wrote there are included on her latest HOOTERVILLE album. In April 2019 she was inducted into the Rochester\, NY Music Hall Of Fame along with Al Jardine of The Beach Boys. She received a 2012 Nightlife Award given annually to the best concert and cabaret performers in New York City. In November 2011 her book COLD PIZZA FOR BREAKFAST: A MEM-WHA?? (Tell Me Press\, New Haven) won the 43rd Annual ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for excellence in writing about music. is available in paperback\, kindle\, and audio book formats\, with the foreword written by actor/playwright/singer/songwriter Jeff Daniels. Christine has also won five ASCAP Composer Awards\, The Kate Wolf Memorial Award\, and her album Good Thing He Can’t Read My Mind won Album Of The Year from the National Association Of Independent Record Distributors. \nShe has produced 12 compilations\, and so far these compilations have showcased songs of over 100 songwriters whose work she admires. The food-themed compilation\, ONE MEAT BALL\, includes a 96-page cookbooklet that Christine edited — songs and recipes by Pete Seeger\, Tom Paxton\, Dave Van Ronk\, and many more\, including a surprise appearance by international — and now late — gigastar Dame Edna. Sigh. \nFor four years she hosted “Slipped Disks” on xm satellite radio\, playing CDs slipped to her backstage by compatriots\, and was occasion guest host for City Folk Sunday Supper on WFUV-FM at Fordham University. She also writes freelance for various publications (The Washington Post\, Huffington Post\, St. Petersburg Times\, Performing Songwriter\, and Delta “Sky” Magazine). Her song AMOEBA HOP is a science/music book by illustrator Betsy Franco Feeney (Puddle Jump Press)\, receiving the stamp of approval from The International Society of Protistologists\, and a “Best Book Award” from The American Association for The Advancement of Science. \nTHE PLUTO FILES: THE RISE AND FALL OF AMERICA’S FAVORITE PLANET (W.W. Norton) by Neil deGrasse Tyson\, head of the Hayden Planetarium in NYC\, includes the complete lyrics to Christine’s song “Planet X\,” which details Pluto’s history and planetary status debate in rhyme. Neil included Christine in a live concert event at The Beacon Theater in NYC\, “Comedians & Astronomers\,” and his voice is on that recording\, her 23rd album\, SPAGHETTIFICATION. \nChristine performs concerts all over the US\, Canada\, and points beyond (Australia\, Germany\, Israel)\, often hosting knitting circles and Downton Abbey-style napkin folding backstage at each show. Songs of hers have been performed by artists as diverse as Broadway stars Betty Buckley\, Sutton Foster\, Karen Ziemba\, and Klea Blackhurst\, cabaret divas Andrea Marcovicci. Barbara Brussell\, and Colleen McHugh\, the a cappella Dartmouth Decibelles\, and The Accidentals\, winners of the National Harmony Sweepstakes Championship. \nOn A Winter’s Night\, her first seasonal compilation project\, (20 artists) became a four-artist national tour that first hit the road back in January 1991 and was a five-artist tour that hit the road November 2019\, including Christine\, Cliff Eberhardt\, Patty Larkin\, Cheryl Wheeler\, and John Gorka — only to be abruptly sidelined by the pandemic on March 12\, 2020. The remainder of those dates went on as rescheduled in February/March 2022. \nLATEST PROJECTS: Christine started creating videos for her songs in 2011\, and now creates them for other artists (including Michael Feinstein\, Noel Paul Stookey\, Janis Ian\, Judy Collins\, Craig Werth\, Julie Gold\, David Ippolito and others). \nChristine was the keynote speaker in November 2016 at the annual North East Regional Folk Alliance Conference (NERFA) in Stamford\, CT\, and that keynote address has become the basis for her next book\, which will take up where COLD PIZZA left off. She was also keynote speaker at the Lifespan National Caregivers Conference in 2017 in Huntsvile\, Alabama. \nUntil November 2018\, Ms. Lavin was very involved with the care of her aging mother in Geneva\, NY. She relocated there twice\, while continuing her full time performing in 2010 – 2012\, and then again in 2016\, to help out. She taught herself to make videos to help her mother remember daily events\, having no short term memory. Soon she started making videos for her own music\, and now videos for others. Her mother died in November 2018 at the age of 99-1/2\, and her family cherishes those videos\, which inadvertently spurred Ms. Lavin’s career on in an unexpected direction.
URL:https://bostoncoffeehouses.org/event/christine-lavin-performing-songwriter-competition-may-16-2026/
LOCATION:Rose Garden Coffeehouse\, Mansfield MA\, 17 West St\, Mansfield\, MA\, 02048\, United States
CATEGORIES:Coffeehouse,Folksinger,Singer-songwriter
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SUMMARY:Christine Lavin and Don White
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a night of music and humor with Christine and Don. “It doesn’t sound like a folk concert\, it sounds like a comedy concert\,” says White of his laughter-inducing co-bills with Lavin. “We rehearse and we rehearse and then inevitably\, she’ll throw something at me that I have no idea about\, with a mischievous grin that lets me know she’s been thinking about it all afternoon. Just to see what will happen. And she’s taught me to do the same.” \n…when Christine Lavin and Don White make us laugh\, there always a warm shimmer of community beneath the silliness. Of all the gifts great entertainers can bring to the stage\, I think this is perhaps the rarest and most valuable. Many can dazzle us; but only the very\, very best can befriend us\, and remind us that\, in the end\, we are all wary acrobats in the great human circus. And really\, when have we ever needed laughs like that more? ” – Scott Alarik
URL:https://bostoncoffeehouses.org/event/christine-lavin-and-don-white/
LOCATION:Follen Folk Nights\, Lexington MA\, 755 Massachusetts Ave\, Lexington\, MA\, 02420\, United States
CATEGORIES:Coffeehouse,Concert,Folksinger,Music,Singer-songwriter
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SUMMARY:Peter Mulvey
DESCRIPTION:Peter Mulvey has been a songwriter\, road-dog\, raconteur and almost-poet since before he can remember. Raised working-class Catholic on the Northwest side of Milwaukee\, he took a semester in Ireland and immediately began cutting classes to busk on Grafton Street in Dublin and hitchhike through the country\, finding whatever gigs he could. Back stateside\, he spent a couple years gigging in the Midwest before lighting out for Boston\, where he returned to busking (this time in the subway) and coffeehouses. Small shows led to larger shows\, which eventually led to regional and then national and international touring. The wheels have not stopped since. \nNineteen records\, an illustrated book\, thousands of live performances\, a TEDx talk\, a decades-long association with the National Youth Science Camp\, opening for luminaries such as Ani DiFranco\, Emmylou Harris and Chuck Prophet\, appearances on NPR\, an annual autumn tour by bicycle\, emceeing festivals\, hosting his own boutique festival (the Lamplighter Sessions\, in Boston and Wisconsin… Mulvey never stops. He has built his life’s work on collaboration and an instinct for the eclectic and the vital. He folds everything he encounters into his work: poetry\, social justice\, scientific literacy and a deeply abiding humanism are all on plain display in his art.
URL:https://bostoncoffeehouses.org/event/peter-mulvey-3/
LOCATION:New Song\, Bedford MA\, 10 Mudge Way\, Bedford\, MA\, 01730\, United States
CATEGORIES:Coffeehouse,Concert,Folksinger,Singer-songwriter
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