Cliff Eberhardt
Saturday Sep 30 2023
Tix $23 Members, $25 Non-Member
Doors open at 6:30p, Show starts at 7:00p – 9:15p
South Shore Folk Music Club (SSFMC)
First Parish Duxbury
842 Tremont St (Rte 3A)
Duxbury MA
Cliff’s dad introduced him to the guitar when he was 7 and he quickly taught himself to play. He cut his teeth listening to James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Springsteen, Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, Bonnie Raitt, and Mississippi John Hurt at local clubs — but also Cole Porter, the Gershwins, and Rodgers and Hart.
Cliff moved to New York in 1978 – because the clubs were great, the Bitter End, the Speakeasy, Kenny’s Castaway, Folk City and the company amazing, John Gorka, Suzanne Vega, Lucy Kaplansky, Julie Gold, Steve Forbert, Christine Lavin, and Shawn Colvin. Between long hours as a taxi driver, Cliff played guitar on the road with Richie Havens, Melanie and sang jingles for Coke, Miller Beer and Chevrolet, “The Heartbeat of America” campaign.
Cliff has produced an incredible number of acclaimed albums, collaborated with Jazz, Folk, and Country legends, written original songs for a new production of “The Taming of the Shrew” for Folger Theatre and Shakespeare Library in Washington DC, reunited with old songwriting pals, John Gorka, Christine Lavin, Cheryl Wheeler, Lucy Kaplansky and Patty Larkin to tour nationally again as On A Winter’s Night and much, much more!.
Since the pandemic, he’s out on the road again and not to be missed! Right at the Club! Get your tickets, and Come on Down!
I hope everyone had a good summer. We’re back!
Now that it is ‘fall-ish’ another music event is planned for our 45th season at the South Shore Folk Music Club (SSFMC).
The first Coffeehouse is Fri Sep 22 2023
Doors open at 630p
Show starts at 7p, goes till 915p
First Parish Duxbury
842 Tremont St (Rte 3A)
Duxbury MA
Coffeehouse Feature: Fred Meltzer
Fred Meltzer has been performing and recording originals, covers and tribute music for over 40 years. His band Free Range has featured at SSFMC in the past. Fred has played his silly and thoughtful originals for the past several years and his project, Waxy Shellac and The Tasteless Apples, is currently recording their inaugural album “Shelf Life” at Ultrasound Productions in Hanover MA. Looks for it soon on line and in person with a booklet illustrating how all the decades of hits were inspired! Maybe Fred will be inspired to preview a couple at our first coffeehouse of the season!
Opener Fran Araujo and Friends:
Fran Araujo is a musician who has been performing for about 12 years. Her musical roots begin with her paternal grandmother in Ireland. She was influenced in childhood by her parents’ Mitch Miller records, and then was enchanted with the folk music of the 60s’s, especially with the close harmony of popular groups of the time. She appreciates and enjoys performing old time and bluegrass. Fran takes great pleasure in singing and playing with others and believes music is deeply healing.
We also hope you’ll share your Talent at the OPEN MIC!
FSSGB is pleased to present “Bound for Glory”, our Woody Guthrie Tribute show! The show features many FSSGB members and friends, many of whom have performed in past Woody shows going way back to the 60’s.
Admission: $10 for all at the door (children 17 and under are free)
“Bound for Glory” is a performance of songs and stories about the life of Woodrow Wilson (“Woody”) Guthrie, considered by many to be the founder of modern American folk music. Many wonderful songs written by Woody and performed by members of FSSGB are interspersed with short recitations from his autobiography. It is a funny, cynical, earthy and tragic account of his life in an Oklahoma oil-boom town, of the Depression that followed, and of his subsequent travels in, on, and under trains, in stolen cars and on his feet, round an America going rotten from the top downwards.
Chorus sheets are made available and the audience is encouraged to sing along.
Refreshments will be served at intermission.
Parking: there are small lots on either side of the church, and there’s some on-street parking in the neighborhood. We’re allowed to park at the middle school next door (75 Church St), and there’s a municipal lot at the intersection of Church St and Rt 20 (one block south of the church).
Roslindale, MA (Address will be provided when you make your reservation.)
Reservations are required: send email to HouseConcerts@fssgb.org. $20 at the door (cash) – $5 for students.
If you’ve been around the folk scene, you couldn’t miss seeing Mike. Tall, ginger beard, and always around where the music is. He’s been on the scene for many many years, listening to the fine details of what makes this genre of music so special to the soul, so able to make us laugh and cry and think. And lucky for us all, he got serious about having fun at it.
Less a singer-songwriter than a singer-songfinder, Mike takes great delight in discovering the little-known hidden gems, polishing them with his own distinctive style, and bringing them to the light of day where they sparkle. He will shift from beautifully contemplative, to uproariously funny, to instrumentally brilliant, to powerfully emotional in the space of a few minutes. Equally at home in the contemporary and traditional camps of the Folk world, he is a fine musician and storyteller. His prime instrument is the guitar, upon which he shines with intricate fingerstyle arrangements of anything from Tin Pan Alley tunes of the ’20s to fiddle tunes to his own music. He also plays concertina, piano, banjo, or sings acapella. The man will capture your attention, and then your heart.
Not only a performer, Mike is involved in presenting folk music as well. He is one of the prime movers of The Folk Project, New Jersey’s oldest and strongest folk music organization. For over two decades he has been chairman of that organization’s Minstrel Coffeehouse, one of the longest lived and most respected folk venues in the country.
Check the website, www.fssgb.org, or email info@fssgb.org, if you have any questions.
Reservations are required: send email to HouseConcerts@fssgb.org. Address (in Newton) will be provided when you make your reservation. $20 at the door (cash) – $5 for students.
Steve Turner is known as a pioneer of highly sophisticated English concertina song accompaniments, stretching the boundaries of traditional forms, with one of the best voices in the business. He is a multi-instrumentalist, who also accompanies himself on the cittern, and also plays mandolin and tenor banjo.
Steve began his career on the Manchester, UK folk scene at the end of the ‘60s, with the Geordie band “Canny Fettle”, touring with them for eight years and making two albums with them.
In 1979 he won the UK Melody Maker’s national “Stars of the 80s” competition, which persuaded him to turn professional, and for the next 12 years he toured solo, nationally and internationally, releasing four albums with Fellside Records during this period (Out Stack, Jigging One Now, Eclogue and Braiding).
After 13 years away from the folk scene he made a welcome return in 2004 performing in folk clubs and festivals, and in 2008 producing his 5th album, the highly acclaimed “Whirligig of Time” which featured UK luminaries Martin Carthy, Nancy Kerr and Miranda Sykes.
Since then he has released further albums, “Rim of the Wheel” , “Spirit of the Game” and “Late Cut”, and his latest much anticipated 9th album “Curious Times” featuring Martin Carthy will be released in Spring 2023.
Check the website, www.fssgb.org, or email info@fssgb.org, if you have any questions.
