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SUMMARY:Eileen Ivers
DESCRIPTION:Grammy-winning and Emmy-nominated\, Eileen Ivers continues to push traditional fiddling boundaries from a folk music staple to a fiercely fresh\, powerfully beautiful\, intensely driving world stage experience. Over a career spanning more than 40 years\, Ivers has performed and/or toured with such diverse artists as Sting\, Patti Smith\, Al Di Meola\, Hall and Oates and The Chieftains. \nShe has guest starred with the London Symphony Orchestra\, Boston Pops\, over 60 symphony orchestras to date. She was the groundbreaking musical star of Riverdance\, a featured instrumentalist on “Back to Titanic\,” and contributed to film soundtracks including “Gangs of New York.”\nThe daughter of Irish immigrants\, Eileen was born and raised in the culturally diverse neighborhood of The Bronx\, NYC. She is a 9-time All-Ireland fiddle champion\, and one of the most awarded All-Ireland Fiddle and Banjo champions ever.  Proclaimed “a national treasure” by the NCTA chair\, she celebrates her renowned career as a performer\, composer\, producer\, songwriter\, band leader\, educator\, multi-instrumentalist and revered pioneer in connecting her American\, Irish traditional\, jazz\, blues\, and world roots. \nScatter the Light\nEileen’s new CD release of predominantly original music\, “Scatter the Light”\, is here.  The album reflects upon positive aspects of life and humanity\, even in light of life’s struggles …focusing on moments of joy and gratitude.  The array of tracks is inspired by everything from meditations on family\, faith\, gratitude\, and loss\, to calls-of-action for living in the moment\, taking chances\, and finding the strength to survive life’s obstacles.  This themed album will uplift you – and will dare you not to be moved! \nhttps://www.eileenivers.com/about \n 
URL:https://bostoncoffeehouses.org/event/eileen-ivers-3/
LOCATION:The Park Theatre\, Jaffrey NH\, 19 Main St\, Jaffrey\, NH\, 03452\, United States
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SUMMARY:Chris Smither with Peter Mulvey
DESCRIPTION:Chris Smither has been Peter Mulvey’s mentor since back in 1993\, when a young Mulvey opened for the already seasoned Smither. The blues and folk legend liked what he heard and enjoyed their similarities in creativity and quirks; he took that young man on the road with him. Their musical partnership has survived the digital age\, the pandemic\, parenthood\, and the indictment of a former president. Along the way each has worked to influence their best habits and life lessons on the other. As far as mentor-mentee relationships go\, this one is for the history books.\nhttps://thebluegrasssituation.com/read/basic-folk-chris-smither-peter-mulvey/ \nCHRIS SMITHER \nBorn in Miami\, during World War II\, Chris Smither grew up in New Orleans where he first started playing music as a child. The son of a Tulane University professor\, he was taught the rudiments of instrumentation by his uncle on his mother’s ukulele. “Uncle Howard\,” Smither says\, “showed me that if you knew three chords\, you could play a lot of the songs you heard on the radio. And if you knew four chords\, you could pretty much rule the world.” With that bit of knowledge under his belt\, he was hooked. “I’d loved acoustic music – specifically the blues – ever since I first heard Lightnin’ Hopkins’ Blues In My Bottle album. I couldn’t believe the sound Hopkins got. At first I thought it was two guys playing guitar. My style\, to a degree\, came out of trying to imitate that sound I heard.” \nIn his early twenties\, Smither turned his back on his anthropology studies and headed to Boston at the urging of legendary folk singer Eric von Schmidt. It was the mid-’60s and acoustic music thrived in the streets and coffeehouses there. Smither forged lifelong friendships with many musicians\, including Bonnie Raitt who went on to record his songs\, “Love You Like A Man” and “I Feel the Same. (Their friendship has endured as their career paths intertwined over the years.) What quickly evolved from his New Orleans and Cambridge musical experiences is his enduring\, singular guitar sound – a beat-driven finger-picking\, strongly influenced by the playing of Mississippi John Hurt and Lightnin’ Hopkins\, layered over the ever-present backbeat of his rhythmic\, tapping feet (always mic’d in performance).\nhttps://smither.com/press-kit/biography/ \nPETER MULVEY \nPeter 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\, & a deeply abiding humanism are all on plain display in his art.\nhttps://www.petermulvey.com/#home-section \nPeter Mulvey is a veteran singer and songwriter from Milwaukee\, Wisconsin. He began his career on the streets of Dublin\, Ireland\, as a busker\, and from there moved on to performing in the subways and streets of Boston\, Massachusetts. This led to his first record deal and a leap to full-time national and international touring\, beginning in the early Nineties. \nMulvey is an iconoclast within the singer/songwriter world. Restless and inventive\, he has made seventeen records\, spanning rock and roll\, folk\, Jazz\, spoken word\, and Americana. A long-standing gig at the National Youth Science Camp led to a spoken word piece\, “Vlad the Astrophysicist”\, which became a TEDx talk\, and then an illustrated book. In 2007 he began an annual late summer tour by bicycle instead of by car and airplane- the 10th annual bicycle tour will happen this September. He has taught songwriting and guitar workshops at the Swannanoa Gathering and at various folk festivals across the U.S. \nMulvey continues to tour\, playing over a hundred shows a year as he has for the past twenty five years. This is the core of what he does: music\, in a room\, performed for a live audience. \nView Mulvey at Passim. \n 
URL:https://bostoncoffeehouses.org/event/chris-smither-with-peter-mulvey/
LOCATION:The Park Theatre\, Jaffrey NH\, 19 Main St\, Jaffrey\, NH\, 03452\, United States
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SUMMARY:Le Vent de Nord
DESCRIPTION:Exceptionally skilled\, exceptionally experienced\, and exceptionally entertaining.\n—Sing Out! \nAn embarrassment of musical talent.\n—Irish Magazine \nNot only considered an incomparable francophone ambassador\, Le Vent du Nord is a driving force behind the Quebec progressive folk movement\, as well as a leading group in the revival of traditional Quebec music. Since its founding in 2002\, it has experienced a meteoric rise that never ceases to amaze! \nThe group performs works from the traditional repertoire as well as original compositions. Their skills as performers\, arrangers\, and composers\, as well as their powerful stage presence\, imbued with profound generosity\, are now recognized worldwide. \nLe Vent de Nord has performed over 2\,000 concerts on four continents\, released 12 albums\, and has received numerous prestigious awards\, including a GRAND PRIX DU DISQUE CHARLES CROS (France)\, two JUNO AWARDS (Canada)\, two Canadian Folk Music Awards\, and four FÉLIX awards at ADISQ (Quebec). It was named ARTIST OF THE YEAR at the International Folk Alliance Conference (2006) and was the first recipient of the TRANSATLANTIC BRIDGE AWARD (2015)\, jointly awarded by the international organizations BabelMed (France) and Mundial Montréal (Quebec). \nAfter 22 years on the road\, the band is now made up of singers and multi-instrumentalists Nicolas Boulerice\, André Brunet\, Réjean Brunet\, Olivier Demers and André Gagné. The group has performed at major festivals including Celtic Connections\, WOMAD Chile\, WOMADelaid\, WOMAD New Zealand\, at the Grand Spectacle télévédique de la Fête nationale in Montreal in 2018 and 2024\, in an official showcase at FOLK ALLIANCE in 2019 and 2025 as well as at the Grand Spectacle télévédique de la Fête nationale which attracted 75\,000 people to the Plaines in Quebec City in June 2019. \nhttps://ciedunord.com/artistes/le-vent-du-nord/
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LOCATION:The Park Theatre\, Jaffrey NH\, 19 Main St\, Jaffrey\, NH\, 03452\, United States
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