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Coffeehouse Schedule: 2007-2008

September 15, 2007 - always the third Saturday of the month...
Katherine Rhoda
Katherine Rhoda has a passion and a gift for engaging and connecting with her listeners. Whether sharing a traditional ballad, a rollicking instrumental, or a piece of humorous social satire, she brings a lucid and refreshing quality of intelligent, respectful, open-hearted presence to her work. In the face of so many forces that separate and isolate us, her goal is to be joyfully subversive, drawing her listeners into an experience of contact, ease, mutuality, gusto and Big Fun.
FMI: http://www.katherinerhoda.com

October 20, 2007 - always the third Saturday of the month...
Bluezberry Jam
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.
FMI: http://www.bluezberryjam.com/

November 17, 2007 - always the third Saturday of the month...
A full evening of Open Mic
Back by popular demand, this special night is sure to be a winner with all the talented people in the community.

December 15, 2007 - always the third Saturday of the month...
Zulu Leprechauns
The Zulu Leprechauns are an eclectic folk-rock group that plays a mix of original and familiar music, incorporating styles from West African, rock & roll, bluegrass and folk. Their own songs are balanced by covers of such artists as Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Grateful Dead, Lou Reed and Robert Johnson, among others. Striking vocal harmonies are supported by unusual instrumentation that includes electric dulcimer, djembe, violin, banjo, 6 string bass, guitar, doumbek, conga, shakers and cymbals. Absolutely no one else sounds like the Zulu Leprechauns!
FMI: http://www.zulu-lep.com/

January 19, 2008 - 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!
FMI: http://www.ameranouche.com/

February 16, 2008 - always the third Saturday of the month...
Zhok Therapy
Zhok Therapy is the unruly alter-ego of the Casco Bay Tummlers. Expanding klezmer boundaries to include Greek, Balkan, and Middle Eastern music, Zhok Therapy will remedy whatever ails with their cross pollinations. Adding influences from jazz and blues, their deep grooves and improvisations are both innovative and well rooted in a rich and varied ethnicity. With Carl Dimow on flutes and guitars, Steve Gruverman playing clarinets and saxophone, Julie Goell, bass and vocals, & Hayes Porterfield, percussion, Zhok Therapy will be joined by special guest Mark Tipton on trumpet.
FMI: http://www.cascobaytummlers.com/

March 15, 2008 - always the third Saturday of the month...
Mom's Home Cookin'
Mom’s Home Cookin’ delights in uncovering the treasure of an old song long forgotten. Their repertoire includes hundreds of songs, from old time bluegrass to folk songs of the 1960's; from classic country gems to Victorian parlor songs; from a country blues tune from the 1920's to contemporary treasures by little-known songwriters.
Performing on guitars, banjos, autoharp & Appalachian dulcimer, as well a unique array of percussive gadgets, their eclectic style and exceptional vocal blend will warm the hearts of any audience. Their informal, humorous and personal style is down home and uplifting. The music of Mom’s Home Cookin’ is comfort food for the ears and the soul.
FMI: http://www.momshomecookin.com

April 19, 2008 - always the third Saturday of the month...
Jud Caswell
Jud Caswell lives where the two Maines meet: where ex-hippies play cribbage with fisherman and a kind of rural poetry is infused with Yankee gumption. Recognized by Sing Out! magazine as "one of the leading singer-songwriters on the current scene," Jud has won the legendary Kerrville New Folk and Boston Folk Festival song contests. His song Blackberry Time is being taught in the songwriting curriculum at the Berklee College of Music in Boston.
FMI: http://www.judcaswell.com/

May 17, 2008 - always the third Saturday of the month...
Delilah Poupore
For the last nine years Delilah has been performing in Southern California as one-half of the acoustic duo "Antara & Delilah." A&D recordied three albums, performed extensively as a duo, and toured as an acoustic trio with Jim Messina (of Buffalo Springfield, Loggins & Messina, & Poco). Several of their songs have been used by Sony Pictures in the DVD releases of the television shows Party of Five and Joan of Arcadia. Delilah moved to southern Maine in January 2007, and now performs her original folk/bluegrass/country songs solo in New England.
FMI: http://www.antdeli.com/

June 21, 2008 - always the third Saturday of the month...
Denny Breau
Denny has a dazzlingly clean, clear and rhythmically perfect guitar style, that reveals influences from many genres: country, folk, jazz, rock and blues. His songwriting is in the contemporary folk style, but without the confessional self-importance of many of today’s songwriters. Breau writes about life in Maine, life in general.
Over the years, Denny has garnered numerous awards from the Maine Country Music Association. He earned Entertainer of the Year, Album of the Year, Male Vocalist of the Year, and Instrumentalist of the Year so many times that he was eventually retired from the running with an All-Time Greats award.
FMI: http://www.dennybreau.com/

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