The Kelly Girls

Cabaret Seating. BYOB & Snacks. Doors open at 7:00 pm

$20 Members/ $22 non-members in advance ; $25 at the door (if available)

 

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.

Cormac McCarthy

Cabaret Seating. BYOB & Snacks. Doors open at 7:00 PM

$20 Members/ $22 non-members in advance ; $25 at the door (if available)

 

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. Through his music Cormac has succeeded in bringing lyrical magic to some of these rougher edges of life.

Cormac has performed nationally on many stages including three times at the Newport Folk Festival, twice on NPR’s Mountain Stage Live Radio Show, Boston’s WUMB Folk Radio 10th anniversary celebration, headlined at the Night of Humor and Songwriters and American Troubadours with Eric Andersen and Townes Van Zandt at Boston’s Somerville Theater, Ben & Jerry’s One World, One Heart Festival, Falcon Ridge Folk Festival and more.

Cabaret Seating. BYOB & Snacks.

 

Cold Chocolate

$20 (members) in Advance; $22 (non-members) in Advance ;$25 at the door (if available )

Cabaret seating. BYOB & Snacks. Doors open at 7:00 PM

Cold Chocolate is a genre-bending Americana band that fuses folk, funk and bluegrass to create a unique sound all their own. Led by Ethan Robbins (vocals/guitar/mandolin) and Ariel Bernstein (vocals/percussion/banjo), the Boston-based duo released their fifth full-length album in the fall of 2023. Punctuated by tight harmonies and skillful musicianship, Cold Chocolate has quickly gained recognition for their original music and high-energy shows. The band has shared bills with Leftover Salmon, David Grisman, and Angelique Kidjo, and regularly performs at venues and music festivals across the country.

Cabaret seating. BYOB & Snacks.

Louise Coombe

Cabaret seating. BYOB & snacks Door open at 7:00 pm

$20 Members/ $22 non-members in advance ; $25 at the door (if available)

 

Louise Coombe grew up on a farm in middle TN with English parents; is a late bloomer; writes lots of Americana-folk songs and tells the stories behind them. Compared to Nanci Griffith, Emmy Lou Harris and Alison Krauss, she’s opened shows for America, Joe Ely, Jonatha Brooke, Allison Moorer, Greg Trooper, Malcomb Holcombe, Mindy Smith and Cliff Eberhardt. Her shows are warm, intimate, funny and thought-provoking, as she weaves together narratives between songs peppered with humorous personal stories and historical anecdotes with her unique Southern point of view.

Cabaret seating. BYOB & snacks!

 

Paul Rishell and Annie Rains

$20 Members/ $22 non-members in advance ; $25 at the door (if available)

Cabaret-style seating (tables). BYOB & snacks. Doors open at 7:00 PM

Paul Rishell and Annie Raines are an acoustic, country blues-inspired musical duo that met in 1993 during the recording of Paul’s album “Swear to Tell the Truth.” They have released four albums as a duo. Raines is primarily known for her harmonica playing, but also plays mandolin, zither, and keyboard instruments. Rishell’s primary instrument is guitar. Both sing on their recordings. They have also recorded and performed as members of John Sebastian’s J-Band, and appeared on the soundtrack to “A Prairie Home Companion.”

Individually, Annie Raines played on Susan Tedeschi’s first three albums, was a member of the Tarbox Ramblers, and worked with Pinetop Perkins, Louis Myers, and James Cotton among others, and has taught at the Club Passim school of music.

Paul Rishell’s debut album was 1990’s “Blues on a Holiday.” In 2008, he released a guitar instructional video disc, “Dirt Road Blues,” and he has taught at Berklee College of Music. In 2013, Rishell was nominated for two Blues Music Awards – one in the Acoustic Album category for his album “Talking Guitar,” and another for Acoustic Artist.