 Starting March 1 all ticket sales will be handled by our new box office service, Brown Paper Tickets.
Tickets will be available online, or through a 24/7 call-in box office. Complete instructions will be posted at the end of February. |
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 With Lou squeezing the accordion and Peter on guitar, this Wisconsin-based duo brings down the house with their brilliant, comical songs in the tradition of Tom Lehrer and Flanders & Swann.
With twelve albums and a long line of classic knee-slappers to their credit, they draw inspiration from the unlikeliest sources, such as sports headlines, mother love and state pride.
This is a show for anyone with a quick mind who appreciates clever wordplay, clear thinking and some amazingly revealing insights into the way we are. |
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 This husband-and-wife duo will take you on a "Studs Terkel-esque" musical sweep through America. From traditional ballads to music by Irving Berlin, John Fogerty, Phil Ochs, and Bix Beiderbecke, the Mayorgas wend their way from America's mountaintops, to the ballads and be-bop of the city, and into the storm of American politics. Sheri handles the vocals with a voice one reviewer described as "worth traveling many oceans to hear."
Lincoln is a renowned piano player who has worked with a profound diversity of artists, including Phil Ochs, Itzhak Perlman and Frank Zappa. |
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  This show will feature the songs of two very special writers who lend
harmonies and musical accompaniment to each other's material. Jonathan is from North Carolina, the son of a country preacher.
He writes in an old-fashioned country style of lovers, sailors, slaves and slavers, expressing longing, love, tragedy and hope in ways that are monumentally honest and believable.
Karen Mal is based in Austin and has seen her career take off in the last three years. She is one of those naturally gifted musicians who uses voice, mandolin and guitar to breathe life into a huge range of material, both her own and that of the folk tradition. Her own songs are deceptively simple, with deeply poetic lyrics.
In recent years she has been a finalist or winner at numerous festivals, including Kerrville, South Florida, and Mountain Valley Arts. This will be her first time on the Caffè Lena stage. |
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| Wednesday, February 6 • 7 PM |
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Poetry Open Mic |
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With Featured Reader Jordan Smith |
Jordan Smith is the author of five full-length collections of poetry, most recently For Appearances and The Names of Things Are Leaving, both from the University of Tampa Press. He has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches at Union College in Schenectady. |
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 The music that comes from Gordon Stone's imagination is simply uplifting. This Vermont-based, world-travelling trio combines bluegrass and jazz with Latin, world beat, and funk in tunes ranging from laid back grooves to high energy musical excursions.
With Gordon on pedal steel and banjo, backed by drums and bass, you'll hear everything from mesmerizing banjo exotica to kick-up-your-boots barn dance numbers, to genre bending audio alchemy, with each new piece more sweet than the last. |
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 "Someone hold me . . . this is so good it makes me dizzy . . . If you like your music of the Louisiana-ragtime-blues-dixieland-country-screamin'-folky-twang Tin Pan Alley type then this is for you."
-Steve Gardner, WXDU Radio
Wallace has emerged as one of the most exciting additions to our roster in recent years. Discovering his 'old school' whiskey-and-cigarette voice, vintage guitar, and unforgettable lyrics is pure heaven for anyone serious about American roots music.
He was schooled in his craft by the late Dave Van Ronk, who said of Jeremy, "He's one of the most arresting new talents I've ever heard. When I hear him I get the feeling I got the first time I heard Bob Dylan and Arlo Guthrie." |
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 Duanesburg, NY native Jesse Stewart received the dual blessings of natural musical talent and being born into the right family to nurture her gifts. When she was just a little girl she began singing country music with her dad out at rodeos and every night in the family room. When she decided to pursue music as a profession, she headed straight for the top.
Her debut album was produced by David Malachowski (Shania Twain, Savoy Brown, Commander Cody). Grammy winner Dae Bennett engineered it. Her sweet country songs, winning smile and love of singing make Jesse Stewart shows a good-time for all. |
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 This husband and wife duo features one of the folk world's most highly-regarded writers.
Steve Gillette's songs, including "Darcy Farrow," "Happy Hour" and "Back on the Street Again," have been recorded by the likes of Tammy Wynette, Ian & Sylvia, Gordon Lightfoot and Garth Brooks.
Cindy plays dulcimer, guitar, banjo and concertina and sings with a smooth, silky voice utterly lacking in affectation. In concert, these long-time Caffè Lena favorites cover a variety of country and folk styles, blending world-class professionalism with down-home, informal charm. |
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 Adirondack troubadour Christopher Shaw tells of North Country people through songs and stories that speak to the power of the land and the wit and humor of its people. His family settled in the Adirondacks after the French and Indian War and his forebears became steamboat pilots, lumbermen and guides.
 Shaw himself piloted a boat before embarking on a musical career that would lead him all over the world. Today he entertains and educates in schools and on concert stages across the county.
Special guest Annie Dinerman is up from NYC to perform at the Dance Flurry. Her award-winning songs reveal a frank, often funny, and very female point of view. |
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 This Baton Rouge-based quintet romps and stomps through a crazy-quilt of originals and classic covers with the high-octane energy that could only come from a band accustomed to keeping dance-floors jumping for hours at a time.
Powered by twin fiddles, electric guitar, upright bass and drums, all topped with good humor, you'll get the kick-up-your-heels raucousness of Cajun barn-burners to the smooth, slinky swing of Count Basie, on to lightening fast classics by Django Reinhardt. Throughout, the band conjures up a mood that's both heady and heartfelt. |
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 Muscle Shoals, Alabama native Amy Gallatin is a colorful soul who has spent her life as a horsewoman, back country cook and campfire singer, and for the past 15 years has brought her sweet, rich voice and fine band to festivals and clubs across the U.S. and Europe.
They play an upbeat and diverse blend, ranging from cowboy tunes, to bluegrass and folk, to classics by great country artists such as Emmylou Harris, Merle Haggard, and the Everly Brothers. Amy is joined by resophonic guitarist Roger Williams (Southern Rail, Hazel Dickens, Salamander Crossing), along with her usual sidemen on mandolin, bass, guitar, dobro, and three-part harmony vocals. |
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 Folk/Celtic artist Frank Jaklitsch always turns his concerts at Caffè Lena into something more than entertainment. This time the evening's proceeds will be donated to the Shaker Veterinary Hospital's Save-A-Pet fund, which treats hundreds of sick and injured strays each year at the hospital's expense.
 Come support the cause and enjoy a night of upbeat music played and sung by Frank on guitar, Steve Butler on bodhran, Steve Gray on lead guitar, Tom Lindsay on bass and harmony vocals, Greg Haymes on harmonica, and Michael Eck on mandolin.
Special guest The Gospel Train will open. |
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 With high vocal harmonies, fleet picking, off-the-cuff stage banter and a knack for vintage style, The Hunger Mountain Boys have a show that's bound to please. In the tradition and spirit of the classic country duets of the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, they capture the authentic early country sound and fiery energy of such legendary duets as the Monroe Brothers and Louvin Brothers.
In addition to their old classics, stringband-style barn-burners, and weepy emotional death ballads, the 'Boys write much of their own heartfelt material. The trio features Kip Beacco on mandolin, fiddle and guitar; Teddy Tetlow Weber on guitar and steel guitar, and Matt Downing on bass. |
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 Singer-songwriter Catie Curtis has an instantly recognizable voice and insightful, often humorous, lyrics. She rose through the ranks of the competitive Boston music scene and achieved national prominence by the late 90s.
 Her songs have appeared in Grey's Anatomy, Dawson's Creek, Felicity, and Alias, and films such as 500 Miles to Graceland and A Slipping Down Life. Her latest album, Long Night Moon, is a graceful and confident work reflecting a maturing woman. It's filled with the unflinching dedication to social issues that has long characterized her strongest work. The track "People Look Around" was honored with the Grand Prize in this year's International Songwriting Competition (out of 15,000 entries from 82 countries).
Special guest Nervous But Excited from Ann Arbor, MI is a pleasantly aggressive folk duo featuring two songwriters, a plethora of stringed instruments, loads of harmony and some vaguely choreographed dancing. |
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