The North Reading Community Coffeehouse is proud to present its November, 2025 Showcase. The performers are Dolores Bourque with Ric Page and Tom Sullivan, Jim Gould, John Loretz and Anne Sandstrom, and Angela Masciale. We have a group of very talented musicians this month with a nice variety of music which will make for a […]
Over the course of her twenty five year career, Susan Werner has earned a reputation as “one of the most innovative songwriters working today” (Chicago Tribune). With formidable chops on guitar (she began playing at age 5) and piano (she was a guest on Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz), along with a graduate degree in voice […]
Cold Chocolate is a genre-bending Americana band that fuses folk, funk and bluegrass to create a unique sound all their own
Rooted in rural New England since the age of ten, McCarthy grew up in towns where the economies teetered on marginal subsistence from logging and paper and woolen mills. It wasn’t until his sister made a visit home from college, bringing an armful of recordings by Dylan, Baez, and Eric Anderson, that things clicked musically for McCarthy: he traded his clarinet for a Western Auto guitar, purchasing the Black Diamond strings across the street at the barber shop.
Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light are a Boston-based string band making music that blends folk tradition with feminist storytelling, poetic detail, and just enough grit. At the center is Sumner’s songwriting—rooted in history, myth, and personal reckoning—carried by close harmonies, upright bass, acoustic guitar, and fiddle. The trio features Kat Wallace on fiddle and vocals […]
The North Reading Community Coffeehouse is proud to present its January, 2026 Showcase. Unlike our usual Showcase events, we have only two performers - Ric Page and The Fretbenders (Dee and Bob Kordas) These are three exceptionally talented musicians and performers and they will each be doing extended sets of an hour, each. They will […]
“If Joni Mitchell and Richie Havens had a love child, with Rodney Dangerfield as the midwife, the results might be something close to the great Vance Gilbert”, says Richmond Magazine. One of the originators of the finally recognized R&B/Folk/Jazz crossover-sub-genre, Vance was born and raised in the Philadelphia area. Starting out hoping to be an […]
The North Reading Community Coffeehouse is proud to present its February, 2026 Showcase. The performers are Uri and Lance Bourque, Cynthia Keefe and Kevin Kelley and The Lion Sisters - Josi and Lily Lion. We have a group of very talented musicians this month with a nice variety of music which will make for a […]
For The Kelly Girls, Celtic music is about storytelling, complete with varying degrees of instrumentation and lyrics. “We respect the historical compositions that we play and recognize we are also part of a new generation of storytellers. We love to perform music that weaves together threads of hope from the past with dreams of the future.” The Kelly Girls have played many prestigious venues and festivals, delighting audiences with their infectious laughter and accomplished musicianship.
Joe Jencks is an 25-year veteran of the international folk circuit, an award-winning songwriter, and celebrated vocalist based in Chicago. Merging conservatory training with his Irish roots and working-class upbringing, Joe delivers engaged musical narratives filled with heart, soul, groove and grit. Having penned several #1 Folksongs including the ever-relevant Lady of The Harbor, Jencks […]
The North Reading Community Coffeehouse is proud to present a very special March, 2026 Showcase on Saturday, March 21 at 6:30. We are paying tribute to Bill Staines. Bill was a major figure in American Folk Music as a singer-songwriter for over 50 years. He travelled and toured constantly, doing 150- 200 shows a year. […]
Cosy Sheridan has been called one of the era’s finest and most thoughtful songwriters, and also ‘a buddhist monk trapped in the body of a singer-songwriter’.
