Coffeehouse
Schedule: 2006-2007
- September
16, 2006 - always the third
Saturday of the month...
Port
City Jazz
Tap
your toes and get up and
dance to the great jazz standards of the 30’s,
40’s, and 50’s. Enjoy Port City Jazz’s
great mix of sweet and low down, hot and blue, and up-tempo tunes like
"Sweet Georgia Brown", "Struttin’ With Some Barbeque",
"Stardust",
"Moonglow", and other great songs, as popular today and they were then.
Their renditions will get you tappin’ and swingin.’
The goal of Port City Jazz is to focus on the small combo sounds of
Chicago and Kansas City Jazz. Leader, trumpeter and vocalist Carl
Bradford, sax/clarinet man Joe Laflamme and trombonist Eric Anderson
are backed by the rhythm section of bassisty Al Doane, guitarist Dave
Sutton and drummer Don Whitney.
They'll lighten your burdens and gladden your
heart.
Click
to visit their website
- October
21, 2006
- always the third
Saturday of the month...
35th
Parallel
Mac Ritchey and Gabe Halberg's signature MediterrAsian sound blend the
Middle Eastern oud and
Indian tabla with a variety of other non-Western instruments. Their
subtle use of ambient soundscapes and electronic effects
create a dynamic backdrop over which an extensive repertoire
of original and traditional songs are played.
35th Parallel is a juried artist with the Vermont Arts Council and
listed on the New England States Touring Roster with the New England
Foundation for the Arts. Their music has been used in numerous
documentaries and radio broadcasts.
The
name comes from the latitude line intersecting the
regions that inspire their music - the Middle East, North India, North
Africa, the Mediterranean, and the United States.
And there could be bellydancers!
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to visit their website.
- November 18, 2006
- always the third
Saturday of the month...
Leah
Wolfsong
Leah
Wolfsong's experience in a wide range of musical styles and venues
brings a richness to the original music that she offers today through
her performances and recordings. Combining soulful vocals, rich
acoustic guitar and a unique variety of world percussion instruments
she creates a musical offering of passion and power, where contemporary
folk music meets Sacred chant.
Click to visit Leah's website.
- December 16, 2006
- always the third
Saturday of the month...
Bullyclub
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Coffeehouse poster
Portland,
Maine’s Bullyclub are a hard band to pin down.
Neither a group of practicing bullies nor a collection of recovering
meanies, they are instead a four-piece band that revels in making
unapologetically melodic, literate guitar pop music. Music that can be
big or little. It can be dense or simple. It’s like
indie-rock that’s all grown up, or a singer-songwriter having
a real bad day.
Click to visit their website.
- January 20, 2007
- always the third
Saturday of the month...
Bluezberry
Jam
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the January Coffeehouse poster
Bluezberry Jam offers an eclectic mix of of blues, jazz, and world
music. Combining soulful ballads, raucous blues and feel good harmonies; they shine with
unique jammin’ originals with a djembe beat, as well as jazzy
interpretations of the standards.
Comprised of Singer/Songwriter Myra Robinson; Lead Guitarist Dave
Collins; Bass player Rob Landry; Percussionist Rick Cormier; Keyboard
& Harmonica player Rudy Gabrielson.
Click to visit their website.
- February 17, 2007
- always the third
Saturday of the month...
Castlebay
Musically weaving together the timeless traditions of Maine's nautical
legacy and it's British Isles heritage. Castlebay starts with fine,
expressive vocals and adds the support of Julia Lane on Celtic harp,
and Fred Gosbee on 12-guitar, fiddle, flute, and whistles. In their
concerts and recordings they also perform evocative instrumental
selections, treating the audience to a musical journey through time and
across the Atlantic.
Click
to visit their website.
- March 17, 2007
- always the third
Saturday of the month...
Double Feature:
Doug
Kolmar
Former
garage-band guitarist and classically-trained composer, Doug Kolmar
moved to Maine from the New York City Area in 2002. After landing in
Portland, he was soon playing showcases with Just Plain Folks and Maine
Songwriters Association, becoming a regular part of the fertile
Portland acoustic music scene and performing at local venues. He has
released 3 CDs: The Whole Story is Long and Complicated (2001),
Homebody/Somebody (2005), and As If I Was Almost Here in July, 2006.
Click
to visit Doug's website.
Feel Factor
As Feel
Factor, Todd and Penny Glacy combine their diverse musical backgrounds
with a common passion for spiritual growth, connection, and creative
expression. Utilizing a wide array of instruments including woodwinds,
percussion, guitar, voice, keyboards, samples, loops, and effects, Feel
Factor synthesizes elements of improvised, ambient, new age/meditation,
world, and contemporary music into an original blend all their own.
Their sound has been described as “cosmic
ethereal”, “exotic”, and
“simply beautiful”.
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to visit their website.
- Saturday April 21, 2007
- always the third
Saturday of the month...
Ameranouche!!!
Ameranouche!!!
is a Gypsy Jazz ensemble from southern New Hampshire dedicated to the
music of Django Reinhardt and the spirit of Jazz Manouche. We play
original compositions, modern songs of today and traditional songs of
American composers such as Cole Porter, Hoagie Carmichael and George
Gershwin. We celebrate this music in the tradition of Jazz Manouche
(Gypsy Jazz) along with traditional gypsy compositions of Django
Reinhardt, Dorado Schmitt, and Stochelo Rosenberg to name just a few.
Ameranouche!!! Latcho Drom!
Click to visit their website.
- Saturday May 19, 2007
- always the third
Saturday of the month...
Jim Gallant
Jim
has never failed to capture the hearts and feet of his audience. His
uptempo guitar style, mix of catchy originals and masterful
interpretations of contemporary music leaves his audience feeling fully
satisfied. Whether he’s fingerpicking a Celtic jig, a Bach
fugue
or a New Age instrumental, his distinctive style has won him both
applause and accolades. An accomplished songwriter, his original
compositions have brought him awards and high honors throughout the
country.
Click
to visit his website.
- June 16, 2007 - always
the third
Saturday of the month...
Victory Swing Band
Originally
created as a "one shot" organization for a specific veteran's
benefit event in the spring of 2000, The Victory Swing Band has
continued on to play a number of similar events, plus swing dances and
concerts throughout southern Maine.
Utilizing the classic big band instrumentation of trumpets, trombones,
saxes and rhythm section, the band plays a variety of arrangements,
ranging from the favorites of the 30's and 40's to the jazzier
arrangements of the 50's to the present day.
Click to visit their website.
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