Every month all year 'round, we offer a live performance to bring the community together for fun and entertainment at Hammond Hall. Great desserts, coffee and soft drinks! Those who due to distance or scheduling cannot arrive for good seats, may call 963-7670 to have seats saved.
Don't forget: Town Supper is at the Winter Harbor Masonic Lodge from 5 to 6:30pm. Proceeds help keep the Masonic Lodge open to the public for many community events, free of charge.
She is a musical storyteller with songs, stories, and poems for all ages with audiences across the country. Her programs are interactive and weave together songs, tunes and tales from the folk tradition and her own life experience. A wide variety of instruments enliven her shows including bagpipe, fiddle and banjo. This dynamic, engaging performer draws listeners into a heart satisfying, participatory community event. Her programs, her recordings, and her books encourage and inspire the creative artist inside each of us. See http://www.jenniferarmstrong.com $10.00 suggested donation
Born into a country music family -Yodeling Slim Clark & “Blue-Eyed Celia”- Wilf Clark (lead vocals and mandolin) heads up this powerhouse of a traditional bluegrass band featuring Bernie Staples on guitar & vocals, Suzie Gibson on banjo & vocals, Dotty Farrell on acoustic bass & vocals, Bobby Coombs on dobro & guitar, and Jay Smith on fiddle. www.ibluegrass.com/bg_bands2.cfm?b__i=1395 $12.00 suggested donation
A self-styled Country & Eastern singer/songwriter and Coffeehouse favorite. Jimmy’s droll tunes, smooth ‘n easy singing, and engaging stage presence have made him a Hancock County legend. His songs reflect laughable, ludicrous, and lovable aspects of the Downeast experience. S10.00 suggested donation
This will be a special Christmas concert from one of Maine’s most treasured musicians and his impeccable crew: Susan Ramsey on viola & violin, Mike Burd on Bass, and Tom Gordon on the sound console. "Maine folk singer David Mallett makes good music sound easy....he simply sings about angels and backaches, falling stars and fear, dancing and death and other things that comfort and confound us." ASSOCIATED PRESS "Always compelling, always musical…there is something about Mallett’s phrasing that lends an urgency and boldness to his songs. His deep clear voice has a storyteller’s naturalness to it, a poet’s intelligence.” BOSTON GLOBE See www.davidmallett.com $15.00 suggested donation
Masters of acoustic bluegrass music! This well-known and well-traveled five-piece Maine group will showcase their hard-driving traditional sound in their fifth visit to the Coffeehouse. The group has been performing together since 1998, and all members share lead and harmony vocals. The band consists of Wayne Burtt on mandolin, Jeff Folger on banjo, Kip Yattaw on fiddle, and new additions Steve Bixby on bass and Ken Brooks on guitar - Ken has been a Coffeehouse favorite from the get-go with his smooth & polished vocals; he teams with a bunch of guys who invariably have a good time to share with their audiences. See www.katahdinvalleyboys.com & follow links. $12.00 suggested donation, kids under 12 free
This Nova Scotia bluesman returns to the Coffeehouse with new tunes and more awards. He won Canada’s Maple Blues Award in 2004 & 2005 for Songwriter of the Year and three awards in 2004 for Blues Album, Male Vocalist of the Year, and Recording of the Year. He plays a subdued electric guitar and enjoys writing humorous blues songs. See www.morgandavis.com. $10.00 suggested donation, kids under 12 free
Harvey is a perennial coffeehouse favorite: master multi-instrumentalist, composer, and songwriter - countless CDs, awards, and performances - arrangements of Celtic, baroque and classical, fiddle tunes, vintage pop, blues, bluegrass - emotional depth and originality, phenominaly talented - a stunning performer. If we're lucky, he'll bring his wife Joyce to perform with him.
Since leaving a public school teaching career in 1997, Debra Cowan is enjoying success as one of America's foremost interpreters of traditional and contemporary folksongs. Her two solo CDs, "Dad's Dinner Pail" and "The Long Grey Line" have enjoyed airplay on folk music radio world-wide and her traditional song "Walloping Window Blind" was published in Sing Out! Magazine. Her captivating warm alto carries each folk song she chooses with such emotion that you’ll forget that they were written by others. She performs a cappella and with guitar in the great tradition of folk singers like Joan Baez and Judy Collins, with a clear vocal that calls forth the ghosts of long past but can also offer a more modern urban landscape. See www.debracowan.com
Gouldsboro’s own composer and multi-instrumentalist, Eric is a song writer and accomplished finger-style guitar player of folk Americana as well as a multi-instrumentalist. In addition to singing and playing the beautiful West African kora, Eric plays steel and nylon-string guitar, slide guitar, 12-string guitar, and banjo like it has never been heard! He is an engaging, dazzling, and downright funny performer. $10.00 suggested donation
This Skowhegan bluesman makes his long-overdue returns to the coffeehouse with his clean, strong, and solid playing. Dave plays slide resonator, 6-string, and 12-string guitar as well as 5-string banjo, featuring Robert Johnson and Leadbelly standards, blues from the Carolinas to Chicago, plus some Motown and funk... the total package!
$10 suggested donation, kids under 12 are always free
This modern jazz group needs no introduction to Hammond Hall audiences! They missed their usual Christmas / New Year's appearance so this concert will make up for that. We can count on Jon Mastrovito on tenor sax, Frank Fredenburch on piano, Don Knowles on bass, Bill Thayer on percussion, and sidemen to be announced. This will be a benefit for Schoodic Arts for all.
$10 suggested donation, kids under 12 are always free
Denny was inducted into the Maine Country Music Hall of Fame in 2004, the youngest inductee in the history of the organization. His rhythmically flawless and dazzlingly clear style allows him to do stunning things with a six-string guitar. He is a triple threat: a consummate picker, evocative songwriter, and a singer with “a voice that is warm and inviting but completely unpretentious – much like the singer himself,” according to Lucky Clark, Kennebec Journal
$12 suggested donation, kids under 12 are always free
SHUSH is Sheila Unvala, fiddle, and Sepp Huber, guitar. They sing songs that they love, from a repertoire that comes from all over the place; good old hollers from the USA, tender love songs and lullabies, Cuban boleros, and Cajun and Creole party songs. You'll hear lively fiddle tunes as well as waltzes and dirges, and you'll probably be expected to sing, too. A constantly evolving repertoire means that a SHUSH show is always full of adventure and surprises.
$10 suggested donation, kids under 12 are always free
Bill is now in his fourth decade with an international reputation, and there is scarcely a folksinger in America whose repertoire doesn’t include Bill’s songs - folks like Peter, Paul & Mary, Makem and Clancy, Nanci Griffith, Mason Williams, The Highwaymen, Glen Yarborough and Jerry Jeff Walker. He radiates such ease and comfort that you would be satisfied if he sang the phone book!
$12 suggested donation, kids under 12 are always free
Jennifer Armstrong
The Misty Mountaineers
Jimmy Barnes
Katahdin Valley Boys - November
Morgan Davis - October
June Coffeehouse: Harvey Reid 
Debra Cowan
Eric Horschak
May Coffeehouse: Dave Mello
April Coffeehouse: Darthia Farm Porch Band
March Coffeehouse: Denny Breau 
February Coffeehouse: SHUSH
January Coffeehouse: Bill Staines 
