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Clad in a black turtleneck, Sam Baker peers out from the cover of his debut album Mercy, released in 2004. The background is murky … like a memory of the past. The people in the songs on Mercy live ordinary lives with ordinary pain and loss. In the first track, “Waves,” a man deals with his wife’s death: He walks down to the ocean / Bends to touch the water / Kneels to pray / He writes her name in the sand / Waves wash it away. In “Thursday,” a woman traveling with her babies breaks down at a fast-food drive-through window: The babies start to cry / She starts to cry / When she hears ‘daddy gone’ / The girl in the window / Says, ‘M’am, is something wrong?’ The people pull themselves together and keep going. It’s just what people do, but in these songs, there’s majesty in it.Sam half sings, half speaks in a gently sand-blasted drawl, and it took until 2006 for people to start taking notice. Texas Music Magazine rated Mercy #1 on its best 60 albums of the year. Geoffrey Himes, a reviewer for the magazine, called Sam “a cross between early John Prine and prime Townes Van Zandt.” Himes also spoke of musician/producer Gurf Morlix’s

reaction to Mercy: “He stood on the back stairs at Antone’s between sets and told me that he had just discovered the best songwriter he’d heard in years — a songwriter as good as his former and current clients, Lucinda Williams, Mary Gauthier and Ray Wylie Hubbard…” Morlix had no connection to the record. He just loved it.The brilliance in Sam Baker’s debut recording was a long time in the making. It wasn’t built on, say, a decade of touring and woodshedding (though he has done that). It had instead risen from the ashes of a life nearly stolen.In 1986, a friend asked Sam, then 32, if he wanted to join him on a trip to the mountains of Peru. Sam, an outdoor-loving, whitewater river guide, said “Sure.” After hiking ice-capped peaks for six days, they wanted to see Machu Picchu, so they went to Cuzco and got on the tourist train to get there. Sitting in a small compartment, two abreast, a German couple opposite him and their teenaged son next to him, Sam took no notice of the red rucksack on the shelf above the head of the boy’s mother seated diagonally across from him. He talked with the multilingual teenager briefly. Suddenly, a

bomb planted in the rucksack by Shining Path guerrillas went off with the train still in the station, sending shrapnel outward, killing the German family and four others immediately. Sam was still alive, but the explosion severed the main artery and vein in his left thigh and he almost bled to death. He suffered brain damage, kidney failure and severe hearing loss. An operation in a local hospital saved his life, but he developed gangrene and was dying from the damage to his brain and kidneys. His hands were mangled, the left one nonfunctional.After five days, a U.S. military jet airlifted the American survivors back to the U.S. A pilot rest stop was scheduled on the way, but a young girl’s mortal injuries caused the flight to proceed directly to San Antonio so her family could see her and she could have her last rites. If they had made that rest stop, Sam would have died — he was going that fast. The Shining Path had killed eight people. They had also, unwittingly, given birth to a poet. It would take 17 reconstructive surgeries and a long time for the gestation to finish and fully emerge, but it did, from a life totally redirected.

APRIL2014

Volume 15 Issue 11

EVERYONE IS AT THE MERCY OF ANOTHER ONE’S DREAM by Richard Cuccaro

Photo: C. Lawrence

BeginningsPart of Sam’s ability to focus on the drama within the lives of ordinary people is his small-town upbringing. Prohibition left his hometown of Itasca, Texas, dry. “You couldn’t buy any booze,” he said, “but there were tons of churches, so people centered their lives around them. In the church I went to, there was a lot of music — traditional music. I was hearing melodies from the time I was a child. My mother played both piano and organ part time for the church. She had a piano at home. My mother and father both had lots of records.” His father listened to “a lot of interesting stuff”: Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Doc Watson and early Johnny Cash. His mother listened to Handel, Chopin and church music. “So,” he said, “I was kind of swamped with music, to be honest. I took piano lessons when I was real young, but it got in the way of baseball. Later on I got a guitar from a pawn shop and learned how to play a little.”After graduating from University of North Texas with a B.S. in Business Administration, Sam worked as a bank examiner in Midland, Odessa and El Paso. He quit the desk job and became a whitewater river guide based in Terlingua, Texas. In the off-season, he worked as a carpenter. During that time, Sam played guitar (right-handed, then) in bars for fun and to meet people, particularly pretty girls. Playing covers with friends, he stood on stage, humming along while he strummed chords. He also wrote a few love songs, but, as with many a budding songwriter, these were mundane, “I love you, you love me, you don’t love me” affairs. “I didn’t have anything to say,” he has admitted to many an interviewer. There was time to travel in those days, so when his friend suggested that fateful trip, Sam eagerly agreed.

The AftermathAs stated, there were many surgeries to reconstruct the damage to Sam’s body. In the wake of the explosion, he couldn’t walk, and the back of his left hand had a channel-like hollow blown out of it. The hand bent in the middle instead of at the wrist. Doctors weren’t sure he was going to survive, so the hand went untreated for a month. When his survival was assured, they finally did tendon implants and Sam began rehabilitation.Still in a panic mode, he felt driven, in a nebulous way, needing to recover what he had lost. Could he be his old self again? Could he walk? Could his hands work again? Could he hear what other people were hearing? He suffers from permanent tinnitus. His left hand was still a mess and there was a cut tendon and a knuckle blown off the right. He wanted to learn how to get his fingers to do anything. One of the skills he sought to regain was playing guitar. It would

be left-handed picking this time, since those fingers would never again finger frets. His left thumb still worked, so he could hold a pick when the hand functioned again. By the late ’80s he had gotten a guitar, strung it upside down and learned to fret with his right hand.The mental scarring would take even longer to heal. “I found I could remember things in the past but I just couldn’t recall certain words … I’d see a chair but the name wouldn’t come. I’d end up having to say, ‘I need that thing for sitting on.’”

He suffered phobias, always seeking to keep objects between himself and large store windows, fearing shards of glass that might be hurled by an explosion. He moved numerous times. “I was under a fight-or-flight reflex. I felt every room I walked in, every car I rode in, every plane I flew in, was going to blow up. I thought every moment could, faster than I could blink my eyes, change to me dying.”Looking back, he realizes that he was suffering from a form of post-traumatic stress disorder. “I should have gotten professional help, but I tried to get through it by myself.”

Finding a VoiceHe got his old job back with the bank and, in his spare time, began to write. He felt driven (and still does) to make sense of why his life was spared and why the boy he was talking with died in the blast. At first he turned to fiction, writing short stories as therapy. “I was just looking for a vehicle to say the things I was trying to say. I would write long pieces, word after word after word.” His writing kept improving, but it just

wasn’t good enough. “It was just too flat,” he said. “It didn’t have the power. While I was doing that, melodies would come and they would be like a cardinal, a very bright red bird that flies against the window, saying, ‘Pay attention to me. Pay attention to the melody. Look at my red wings, listen to the melody.’ I don’t think I could ignore it. It was only when the melodies came that I started to communicate what I’d seen and what I’d felt; what I needed to say.”Our discussion of songwriting unveiled his superior intelligence. It’s said that God is in the details. He told one interviewer: “The big things in my life have encouraged me to look at the small things. The big things, I can’t seem to get a handle on, but the little things I can. There is a lot of detail about the characters in my songs. It’s easier for me to see that now. It’s easier to talk about detail. Maybe it’s safer. The details become us. We are the details of our lives. It’s the things within our reach. That’s our life.” Sam feels rewriting is “God.” Deleting passages that don’t work can be hard. Writers call it “killing your children,” I mentioned. Sam added, “Not only that, it’s killing your favorite children.” Knowing what to take out is important. “If you take out too much, you have nothing,” he said. “There are things that have to be accepted. The power of “no” when I leave stuff out makes the power of “yes” much more compelling. The editing part of the short fiction helped the songwriting.”

Playing and RecordingIn 1998, his sister, musician Chris Baker-Davies, made a record, Southern Wind, and included some of Sam’s early songs. Hearing his songs played by others made him want to push further, to really learn the craft of songwriting. “I knew the instinct of writing but I didn’t know the craft.”In 2000, still deaf in one ear and partially deaf in the other. he made the improbable decision to become a performer. No one, besides his sister, was going to perform his songs. In 2002, he started doing open mics. “It was awful. I had terrible stage fright. My hands were still pretty beat up. I could barely play.” The next step was something akin to being a busker. “I started playing in a road house out on Route 87, a couple of hours west of Austin. It was real loud — there were trucks going by, people were eating and they were dropping plates and stuff. It was what I needed. I needed to play for people who couldn’t hear what I was doing. I could be invisible for a year, year-and-a-half. I finally looked up and I wasn’t so terrified. People started to get what I was doing and we were all singing along together. It was really a lovely thing.”In 2003 Baker opened a show for Texas singer/songwriter Walt Wilkins, at a bed and breakfast establishment in Llano, Texas. Wilkins told Sam he knew how he should sound and arranged for Sam to visit Nashville,

Photo: C. Lawrence

his recording base. Wilkins and co-producer Tim Lorsch recorded Sam’s voice, guitar and harmonica on a dozen originals, then layered background instruments and vocals to create Sam’s brilliant 2004 debut, Mercy.Around 2006, Sam opened for Gurf Morlix after Gurf had heard Mercy. Morlix then appointed himself Sam’s unpaid mentor and publicist. At every opportunity, Morlix would drop Sam’s name to fans, fellow musicians and DJs. The biggest push came from Morlix’s leverage with influential British disc jockey Bob Harris, who played it on his national radio show. The reaction was almost immediate. Sam tells how he woke up one morning and found that his CDs had sold out. He made a second album, Pretty World, in 2007. When Sam toured Britain in support of Pretty World, he did a live slot on Harris’ radio show, and told Harris how grateful he was for sending his career to a brand new level. He said: “I don’t know that you know how instrumental you are in my being here, not just in London, but wherever I am as a writer or a player. I don’t think you know how invisible I was. I wasn’t playing much and I could track all my sales. I was selling one record every 90 days. And then, one day, my three tiny web sites were empty. It was because of you and the people in the U.K. They had emptied everything. I was shocked.” Harris acknowledged how eager he was to hear someone Morlix had rhapsodized over, and subsequently, how much he loved Sam’s work.Sam has written songs that piece together the horrific experience in Peru. Among them are “Steel” and “Angels,” both found on Mercy. However, the most affecting of these, from Pretty World, may be “Broken Fingers,” which he performed live on Harris’s show, a song in memory of that German boy: Forget his face? / Of course I don’t / Etched like a crystal vase / These broken fingers / Some things don’t heal / I can’t wake up from a dream / When the dream is real … It’s impossible for me to hear it or even read the lyrics and not be moved.Cotton, his third album was released in 2009. I saw him perform the song “Mennonite” from that album in 2013 at a house concert at Kathryn’s_space in Manhattan’s East Village. It’s about a young man who shakes off his religious roots, finds a young woman and makes a go of it, in spite of her wildness: He bought a pearl snap shirt / Stitched with horses and stars / A handsome pair of boots / Started driving past bars / Where women

wore short skirts / Made out in cars / Drank beer by the quart out of mason jars … Got married had kids / Never was hard / Who’s to say what love is? / Is it hearts and stars? / Boots and beer, the back seat of cars? / On the floor board / There’s a short, short skirt / Wrapped in the arms of a pearl snap shirt. Sam asked the audience if this sort of female had ever appealed to anyone. My hand shot up. He laughed and said, “That hand just went up all by itself, didn’t it?” Sam’s warmth and humor made it a special night.Last year’s release, Say Grace, continued the exploration of hardscrabble lives. In “Ditch,” we’re treated to a peek inside the mind of a man who lays pipe and is grateful for the work. His musings about his delusional wife provide some levity: My wife, God bless her and for what it’s worth / thinks she and Taylor Swift / were twins at birth / separated at birth / Earth to wife / wife to earth. Somewhere in the almost three decades since his near-destruction, in order to move forward, he managed to find some forgiveness for the Shining Path. Seeing the universality in (albeit, sometimes, madness of) the visions within class struggle, his song “Angels” declares: Call a truce / Call a war / Everyone is a bastard / Everyone is a whore / Everyone is a saint / Everyone is redeemed / Everyone is at the mercy of another one’s dream. He stated: “Life is a gift. I went through a lot of bitterness, a lot of anger. But those things are toxic. Gratitude for what remains is more helpful than resentment for what was lost. Ultimately, I came to understand that these days are wicked short and terribly beautiful. All

I’ve got — no matter what I hold in my hands, drive around in, or put in the bank — all I’ve got is this one breath, and if I’m lucky, I get another.”As one reviewer put it so aptly: “There’s a conspiracy between Sam Baker and his studio production team to break your heart. He’s coming for that engine in your chest and he means to yank it out and stomp on it. His cracked, raspy vocal rides the scalpel-sharp quicksilver combination of pedal steel and fiddle. No hesitation. No faking. Uncompromising tales of small-town lives roll out like something out of a Faulkner novel.”If those of us living in the New York metropolitan area are lucky, more venue operators here will put this brilliant songwriter to work and we’ll see a lot more of him.

Upcoming Performances include:Apr 2 7pm Iron Horse, Northampton, Mass. 3 7pm Club Passim, Cambridge, Mass., w/ Amy

Speace and Carrie Elkin4 7pm Otto Pizza, Portland, Maine 5 7pm Common Ground, South Presbyterian

Church, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. w/ Carrie Elkin7 6pm House Concert, Denville, N.J.8 7pm Rockwood Music Hall, New York, N.Y,

John Platt’s On Your Radar w/ Hannah & Maggie, and Krista Detor.

9 6pm House Concert, Media, Pa. 10 8pm Gypsy Sally’s, Washington, D.C. w/

Carrie Elkin and Del Barber

Website: sambakermusic.com

road and sky deck chairs the hudson the end of summer taxi in the rain august 2013

Sam Baker’s awareness and appreciation of the beauty and detail in life’s moments extend to his photography skills. He has a superior eye for special points in time and subject matter. Larger, more viewable versions of these photographs (and many more, plus his paintings) can be found on the blog page of his website.

Photo: C. Lawrence

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ManhattanBB King Blues Club & Grill

237 W 42nd St. (betw 7th/8th Ave.) www.bbkingblues.com8 & 10pm Every Tuesday In Lucille’s:

B.B. King Blues Club All*Stars w/ The Harlem Blues Project and a revolving cast of NYC blues players $15

APR 2 8pm Keb’ Mo’ $55 Adv / $60 Door5 Jon Anderson of Yes $40 Adv / $45 Door12 The Original Good Rats / The Last Reunion / A Tribute To Peppi

Marchello w/ sp. guests Gene Marchello and Stephan Marchello $5021 8pm Jonny Lang $50 Adv / $55 Door23 8pm Delbert Mcclinton $42.50 Adv / $50 Door29 8pm Johnny Winter Opening Act: Alexis P. Suter Band $30 Adv /

$35 Door (All 1/21 & 2/5 tickets honored)30 8pm Strunz & Farah $30 Adv / $35 DoorMAY 13 8pm Jimmie Vaughan and the Tilt-A-Whirl Band

$30 Adv / $35 Door15, 16 7:30pm Al Kooper 70th Birthday Celebration with special

guests $27.50 Adv / $32 Door

Beacon Theatre74th Street & Broadway

www.beacontheatrenyc.comCall: (212) 307-7171 / (914) 454-3388 (201) 507-8900

Prices are StubHub @ time of publicationAPR 29 8pm Nickel Creek w/ spec guest The Secret Sisters $35 - $59JUN 10 Willie Nelson and Family & Alison Krauss and Union Sta-

tion featuring Jerry Douglas w/ special guest Kacey Musgraves $65 - $130

17, 18 8pm Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band $59.50-$129JUL 22, 23 8pm An Evening With Sarah McLachlan $46 - $116AUG 12, 13 8pm Tori Amos $42.50 - $77.50

Best Buy Theater1515 Broadway @Times Square www.bestbuytheater.com

Bitter End147 Bleecker 212-673-7030

$5 Cover/2 drink min. per set www.bitterend.comAPR 1 Alexa McKenna, Dan Strauss, The Old Kid, The David Kolker

Band ($8)2 The Joe Show (7)($10), North & West, Paulo Coelho3 Bad Date Great Story (7pm)($7), --plus-- Midnight Theft, Varya4 Razor Boy Music presents: Linsey Cohen (7pm), Slim Charles, The

Hunting Party, McClain Tini, The Falling Birds, Morningside Lane, Project Kpaz

5 Toons For Tots (2-6:30) --plus-- Michelle Treasy (7pm) --plus-- Razor Boy Music presents The Serotones (8pm), Cadence Kings, The Humble Grapes, The Cleopatra Club, Dangerously Close, Yankee Longstraw

6 Junko Saegusa (7pm)(A DCM Event) --plus-- Singer/Songwriter Sessions (8pm)

7 The New York Songwriters Circle ($10) with: Elizabeth Bruce, Hillary Beleaux, Daniela Bauer, Bob Telson, David Telson, --plus-- Mark Newman, The Richie Cannata Monday Night Jam ($10)

8 Sarah Alt (7pm)($8), Mary Scholz, Anette Norgaard, Luna/Mer9 Suite 602 (7:30), 20 Minute Tango10 Nile Rodgers We Are Family Foundation (Private Event)11 Jones Bones Presents: Hottie Rock (8pm) --plus-- Razor Boy Music

presents: Jeff Bernstein(9:30), Brother Valiant, The Pitt Brothers, Lewd Buddha

12 School Of Rock(3-5) --plus--Razor Boy Music presents: Bender X (7pm), Ben Pagano, Kevin Miller, Miles To Marston, Alex Newman Band, Parlance --plus --The Billy Hector Band

13 Singer/Songwriter Sessions (7pm) --plus -- The Bitter End Allstar Jam featuring Mark Greenberg

14 Fawn Segerson (7:30), Andes Quintero, The Richie Cannata Monday Night Jam ($10)

15 Justin Shuttleworth (7pm), Kasey Velasquez, Clinton, Kei Owada ($7), Olamide ($10)

16 TBA17 AC Baber (7pm), Cathia ($10), The Breakdown, Wayne Reynolds Trio

($12), David Ramos Band ($12)18 LROCK Entertainment Presents Gina Mobilio (7pm), Valenti --plus--

Razor Boy Music presents: Crier Brothers (9pm), Super Major,

Guillotine Riot, Electric Tongues, Banooba19 Giffords Lane (7pm) --plus-- Razor Boy Music presents: Revi Roza &

Pace Goodman (8pm), Daniel Koren, The Lobbyists, Pistol 40 Paces, Sprocket (12am)

20 The Bitter End Allstar Jam featuring Mark Greenberg21 Julia Gargano (6:45), Cellophane Flowers (a Beatles Tribute), Micah

Sheveloff, The Richie Cannata Monday Night Jam ($10)22 Book Release(5:30), --plus--Brer Rabbit, Schuck’s Road, Eric Himan23 Carly Eden (7pm), Tiger Darrow Band, Kami Dimitrova, Dawn Derow

& Sean Harkness ($15)24 Ray Wroten (7pm), Kesang, Rebecca Minor (CD Release)($10), Jon

& The Jones, Paul Coelho25 Razor Boy Music presents: Matt Strief (7pm), Dali Blue, The Rusty

Guns, Fancy Reagan, AJ Smith, 3WB, Chromatropic26 Razor Boy Music presents: Saint D(7pm), TBA, Eleventh Ward, Mo-

torboat, Saturday Drive, Natural Stranger, Shantyman & Speakeasies27 Singer/Songwriter Sessions (7pm) --plus-- The Bitter End Allstar

Jam featuring Mark Greenberg28 The Moth (7pm)($8), The Richie Cannata Monday Night Jam ($10)29 Chris Apostle and Mario Sebastian present Spring A Palooza 2014

($10) w/ Mario Sebastian, Ariana and The Rose, Bobby Syvarth, AFA, JCruz, Andrea Pappas, Mindstate, Indiggo Twins, Liz Faber plus Special Guests

30 Elizabeth Lyons (7:30), Patti Rothberg (CD Release), Saika, Olamide ($10)

See venue web site for updates

Blarney Star Productionswith Glucksman Ireland House present a monthly Irish

traditional music concert series at Washington Square United Methodist Church 135 West 4th Street (6th Ave - MacDougal St)

Info: Ireland House (212) 998-3950 or: www.nyu.edu/pages/irelandhouseAll shows 8pm Concert Adm $15

APR 25 8pm John FaulknerMAY 1 8m Sean McComiskey

The Blue Note131 3rd St 212-475-8592 www.bluenotejazz.com

APR 18,1 9, 20 8 & 10:30pm Playing For Jim Hall w/ Bill Frisell & Julian Lage, guitar; Scott Colley, bass; Joey Baron, drums Bar $20 / Table $35

22-27 8 & 10:30pm Stanley Clarke & Friends Bar $30 / Table $45

The Bowery Ballroom6 Delancy St (at The Bowery) 212-533-2111

www.bowery ballroom.comTix @ Mercury Lounge, 866-468-7619, www.ticketweb.com

Cafe Vivaldi32 Jones St. www.caffevivaldi.com

Open Mic Night Mondays: 6:30-11pm Sign up: 6pmAPR 1 7pm A night of Brazilian music w/ Cesar Garabini and Jason

Ennis, guitars, Irene Walsh, vocals.2 8:30pm Paula Jaakkola, 9:30pm Joe Alterman Trio w/ Hillary

Gardner3 7:30pm Gabriel Moreno, 8:30pm Kathryn Christie, 9:30pm Fred

Gilde4 7pm Mika Hary, 8:15pm Adam Kane, 9:30pm Warren Malone5 7pm The “Leave A Lasting Mark” concert series – The Rock of ’69,

8:15pm Abby Gail5 9:30pm Avidya and the Kleshas w/ Stephanie Carlin6 4pm Schubert Song Recital w/ Mary Ann Stewart – soprano, Emir

Gamsizoglu – pianist, 6pm Noel Brennan, 7pm Essential Theatre Group, 9pm John Lander Jazz Trio

9 7:30pm Thom Crawford, Joanne Pericha & Friends, 8:30pm Chuck Lamb, Ria Curley & Friends, 9:30pm Jess King & Friends

10 9pm Marques/Stinson/O’Farrill Trio11 8pm Carolyn Walker, 9pm Andy Mac and Jodelle12 6pm Benji Daneman, 7pm Elaine Romanelli, 8pm Suzzane Layton13 4pm Schubertiades – Schubert Lied (Song) Recital15 7pm Brazilian music w/ Pablo Fagundes and friends16 8pm Carroll Matthews17 8:30pm Laura Dubin, 7:15pm Sarah Wise, 9:30pm Dylan Doyle Trio23 8:30pm Joe Alterman Trio w/ Hillary Gardner, 9:30pm Inbal Hever24 8pm Nicole Zuraitis, 9pm Marques/Stinson/O’Farrill Trio25 8:15pm Bob Telson and Maria Puga Lareo, 9:30pm Neha Jiwrajka

26 7:15pm The Dupont Brothers, 8:15pm Caitlin Marie Bell27 4pm Schubert Song Recital w/ Mary Ann Stewart – soprano, Emir

Gamsizoglu – pianist, 6pm Noel Brennan’s students in peformance29 9:15pm Steve Murray30 8:30pm Equilibrium

Carnegie Hall57th St & 7th Ave. 212-477-0622 www.carnegiehall.org

Ticket info: CarnegieCharge - 212-247-7800. Stern Auditorium / Perelman StageAPR 17 7pm 25th Anniversary of the Rainforest Fund Benefit

Concert w/ Sting, Paul Simon, James Taylor, Dionne Warwick, Ivy Levan, Chris Botti, Renée Fleming, additional artists TBA $150 - $600

26 3pm Family Concert: Natalie MerchantZankel Hall ----------Carnegie Kids: Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem FREE APR 9 10 & 11:30am @ LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, LaGuardia

Community College, Mainstage Theatre, 31-10 Thomson Avenue, Queens

MAY 18 2pm @ Bronx Library Center, Bronx Library Center, 310 East Kingsbridge Road (at Briggs Avenue), Bronx

JUN 11 10:30am Hudson Guild, 441 West 26th Street (at Tenth Avenue), Manhattan

City Winery143 Varick Street (between Spring and Vandam Streets)

Sundays 11am - 2pm Klezmer Brunch (212) 608-0555 www.citywinery.com

APR 3 8pm Shawn Mullins W/ Max Gomez $25, $28, $30, $324 8pm Pat McGee with Jeff LeBlanc- 4/5 $22, $25, $309, 10 8pm Johnny Clegg w/Jesse Clegg $35, $45, $5013 8pm An Acoustic Evening with Al Stewart $32, $35, $4014 8pm Simon Townshend with Danielia Cotton $22, $25, $2818 8pm Wesley Stace’s Cabinet Of Wonders $25, $28, $3520 8pm The James Hunter Six $35, $40, $4521 8pm Ben Taylor $12, $15, $1827 8pm Raul Midón $20, $25, $28, $3528 8pm House Of Speakeasy presents In Case of Emergency featuring

Ayad Akhtar, Mark Kingwell, Stephen Lang, Amor Towles, Evie Wyld $25, $35, $45

29 8pm Ray Wylie Hubbard with Kelley Mickwee $20,$22, $25MAY 4 8pm Suzanne Vega w/ Ari Hest $40, $45, $55, $605 8pm Rodney Crowell featuring Steuart Smith & Friends $25, $28,

$30, $3212 8pm Robben Ford w/Jason Loughlin $25, $35, $42

The Concert Hallat the New York Society for Ethical Culture

2 West 64th Street at Central Park West www.nysec.org

Hosted By WFUV’sJohn Platt

OnYour Radar

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196 Allen St. (bet Houston & Stanton) Manhattan www.rockwoodmusichall.com

At Rockwood Music Hall 7pm Tuesday, April 8th

Hannah & Maggie Sam Baker Krista Detor

Stage 3

presents

Reservations a must. Contact: [email protected]

Sponsored by I-Link

April 25th

Grande Finale Gala7pm ‘til…?

Six years of memories packed into one last evening of music and

more!$50 contribution

Music on 4 wishes to thank:John PlattJeff Eyrich

Richard Cuccarofor their years of support

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Cornelia St. Cafe29 Cornelia St. (bet. w 4th St. & bleecker, just off of 6th Ave.)

212-989-9319 www.corneliastreetcafe.comAPR 7 8:30pm Amram & Co w/ David Amram, piano, french

horn, flutes, composition & surprises; Kevin Twigg, drums, glockenspiel; Rene Hart, bass; Elliot Peper, bongos; Robbie Winterhawk, congas $10 cover plus $10 minimum

8 8:30pm Benjamin Scheuer, voice, guitar, 10pm Jean Rohe, voice, guitar $10 cover plus $10 minimum

11 6pm Chloe Bean, guitar, vocals $8 includes a drink13 8:30pm Sofía Rei, voice; JC Maillard, guitar, saz bass $10 cover

plus $10 minimum22 8:30pm Roy Zimmerman’s “Blue Dot Tour” $10 cover plus $10

minimum

Country Dance New York www.cdny.org

Weekly dances are held from September to mid-JuneAmerican Contra Dances -- Saturdays 8-11pm

7:30 Beginner’s Workshop -at Chinatown Y’s Houston Street Center, 273 Bowery, unless otherwise stated

English Country Dances -- Tuesdays & occasional Fridays 7-10:15pm -at Philip Coltoff Center, 219 Sullivan Street

The Cutting Room44 E. 32nd Street 212-691-1900

thecuttingroomnyc.comAPR 11 8pm John Oates $30 - $5019 7:30pm James Maddock $25 Adv / $30 Door23 7:30pm Laurence Juber $20 Adv / $25 Door24 8pm 5th Annual Songs of Love Benefit Concert feat. Levon

Helm’s Midnight Ramble Band featuring Larry Campbell, Teresa Williams, Amy Helm and others $125

26 7pm Frank Carillo and the Bandoleros / Mark Lacob and the Van Buren Boys $20 Adv / $25 Door

MAY 2 10pm Erin Sax, Brad Cole $15 Adv / $20 Door

Dempsey’s Pub61 2nd Ave. (bet. 3 & 4 St.) 212-388-0662

Tuesdays: 8:30 Traditional Irish Open Session

Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, Lincoln Center, Broadway at 60th Street

The Ear Inn326 Spring St 212-226-9060 Music Mon, Weds. No Cover

earinn.com

The 55 Bar55 Christopher St (212) 929-9883 www.55bar.com

APR 2 7pm KJ Denhert - The Early Sessions; Special Guest from Brazil, Denise Reis w/ percussionist Marcelo and other guests.

9 10pm Gregoire MaretSee venue web site for updates

Greenwich Village Bistro13 Carmine St. 212-206-9777

Live music Wednesday thru Saturday 9-11www.greenwichvillagebistro.com

Highline Ballroom431 W. 16th Street (between 9-10 Ave.)

www.highlineballroom.comSeated Shows - Gen Adm / First come, first seated

$10 per person minimum at tables at seated showsAPR 10 8pm Chick Corea @ The Town Hall $47-$9727 8pm The Last Waltz Live w/ Rev Tor Band & Friends; An All-Star

re-creation of The Band’s classic concert film $27 - $45

Hill Country NY30 West 26th St #1

(212) 255-4544 www.hillcountryny.comTuesdays @ 8:30pm Rock ‘n Twang Live Band Karaoke FREE

APR 2 9pm Wendy Colonna No Cover3 9pm Greg Garing No Cover

4 10:30pm Amy Ray $15-$209 9pm The Carper Family / Reed Turner No Cover10 10:30pm Chuck Mead & His Grassy Knoll Boys $20-$25 11 10pm Ramsay Midwood No Cover12 10pm Wink Keziah No Cover14 9:30pm Ray Bonneville $20-$2516 9:30pm Lipbone Redding No Cover17 9pm Buggaboo No Cover18 10pm Marc Berger & Ride No Cover19 Jonny Grave & the Tombstones No Cover23 9pm The Frazier Band No Cover24 9pm Danny Brooks No Cover25 10pm I’ll Be John Brown No Cover26 10pm Dallas Moore Band No Cover27 8pm Robyn Ludwick & Bill Chambers No Cover30 9:30pm Bonnie Bishop No CoverMAY 1 9pm Woody Pines No Cover2 10pm Peter Karp & Sue Foley No Cover7 9pm Jumbo Brown No Cover8 10pm Ali Holder No Cover9 10pm Shonna Tucker & Eye Candy No Cover10 9:30pm Eugene Chrysler No Cover12 9pm John Moreland / M. Lockwood Porter No Cover14 9pm David Jacobs-Strain No Cover15 9pm Killer Joe & Lido Soul No Cover16 10pm Badnews Barnes & The Brethren Of Blues No Cover19 9pm Chatham County LIne $15-$2029 9pm Waylon Speed No Cover30 10pm Brian Ashley Jones & High Viscosity No Cover31 10pm The Woodshedders No Cover

Housing Works Used Book Cafe126 Crosby Street (212-334-3324)

www.housingworks.org/usedbookcafe

The Iridium1650 Broadway (212) 582-2121 www.theiridium.com

Shows at 8 & 10pmAPR 11, 12 8:30 & 10:30pm Larry Coryell, Victor Bailey, Lenny White $3015 8:30 & 10:30pm Pierre Bensusan $25-3516 8:30 & 10:30pm Debbie Davies $25-3519 8:30 & 10:30pm Lucky Peterson $2526 8:30 & 10:30pm The Holmes Brothers $30

Irving Plaza17 Irving Place (cor. 15th St.) www.irvingplaza.com

Joe’s PubAt the Public Theater 425 Lafayette St. 212-239-6200

www.joespub.com APR 1 7:30pm The Stray Birds: CD Release8 7pm Peter Mulvey w/ Caitlin Canty $159 9pm Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra $2013 7:30pm Fishtank Ensemble $14, 9:30pm The Universal Thump: The

Seder-Songwriter Project w/ Greta Gertler Gold & Adam D. Gold $15 26 9:30pm Sharon Katz & the Peace Train $18 29 7pm Peter Bradley Adams $15MAY 1 7:30pm Valerie Ghent CD Release $1510 7pm Holly Near w/ special guests Emma’s Revolution, Adrienne

Torf and Jan Martinelli $3012 9:30pm Keren Ann $25 22 7pm Allison Moorer Blues for Dixie: Songs of the South $18 23 7:30pm Bill Kirchen $20, 9:30pm Rickie Lee Jones $60 25 9:30pm Eli Zoller and the O, Pioneer Band $12 28 9:30pm Holly Williams $20 29 7:40pm Sofia Rei & Aca Seca Trio $2031 7pm Nora Jane Struthers & The Party Line $15

Kathryn_Space House ConcertsLower East Side/East Village

Doors at 7pm music at 8pm refreshments servedrsvp essential to: [email protected]

APR 4 8pm Amy Correia $20 suggested donation

Let’s ZydecoConnolly’s on 45th, 121 West 45th (6th-Bwy) 3rd floor

212-685-7597 www.LetsZydeco.comDoors Open 6pm for dinner, drinks or socializing

Fri, Sat shows 8:30 to Midnight Dance lesson 7pmSunday shows 7:30-10:30pm Dance lesson 6:15pm

Pay at Door- No Advance ticketAPR 4 Rosie Ledet & the Zydeco Playboys $2326 Koray Broussard & the Zydeco Unit $TBAMAY 31 Jeffery Broussard & the Creole Cowboys $22

Madison Square Garden7th Ave. & 33rd St www.ticketmaster.com

Mercury Lounge217 E. Houston St. 212-260-4700

www.mercuryloungenyc.comAPR 19 8pm Bobby Bare Jr. $1228 10:30pm David Wax Museum $12

music on 4a series of house concerts

Acoustic music in an intimate setting, Upper West SideReservations a must Contact: [email protected]

Sponsored by I-LinkAPR 25 Grande Finale Gala - Jam Session with a new mystery

Supergroup plus the band that played our very first concert six years ago $50 contribution

The National Underground159 E. Houston St. between Allen and Eldridgewww.myspace.com/thenationalunderground

[email protected] Open seven days a week until 3:30am

New York PinewoodsFolk Music Club Office: 444 W. 54 St, #7

Folk-Fone: 718-651-1115 Shows at various times/locations Shows at various times/locations www.folkmusicny.org

Folk Ope n Sing; First Wednesday of each month; 7-10pm; Ethical Culture Society 53 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn (near 2nd St.). Info: Frank, 212-636-6341, or Laura, 718-788-7563.

Old-Time Music Jam every other Tuesday, 7:30-9:30pm in BrooklynIrish Trad itional Music Session, 8-11pm Mondays. At the Landmark

Tavern, 626 11th Avenue (on 46th St); co-sponsored with and led by Don Meade; for info 212-247-2562 or www.thelandmarktavern.org/events.php

Monthly Shanty Sing on Staten Island, usually on the third Sunday. at the Noble Maritime Collection (to give the official title) on the 3rd Sunday of every month from 2-5pm at the Noble Gallery, Building D, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, 1000 Richmond Terrace

APR 6 7pm Woody Guthrie Brooklyn Hoot at Jalopy Theater, 315 Columbia Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn. w/ Don Friedman, Alan Friend, Beth Kotkin, Joel Landy, Anne Price, and Steve Suffet Info: 718-395-3214 7pm Joseph Decosimo and friends; house concert in Suffern, NY; Pot luck 5:30pm, Traditional Old time music from Tennes-see: RSVP to:banjolady.susan@)verizon.net or 914-282- 0289. $20 (memb $18)

8, 15, 2 2, 29 7:30-9pm May 6, 13: 7:45-9:15pm Balkan Singing Classes with Eva Salina Primack Park Slope, Brooklyn, 6 week series $110 (special for FMSNY members). info/enroll: [email protected]

11 8pm: House concert with Anne Price and Rita Deutsch; Upper West Side location. Seating limited; reservations: [email protected] or 718-543-4971 Gen dam: $15; FMSNY memb $12; children or F/T students $6

12 8pm: Pete Seeger Celebration Sing-Along; Peoples’ Voice Cafe at Community Church, 40 East 35th Street, Midtown Manhattan; FMSNY is co-sponsoring; $5 or $10 contribution; Doors open 7:30pm. Info: 212-787-3903.

26 7:30pm Sugar Pie String Band; house concert in Suffern, NY; Pot luck 6pm; Pot luck 6pm; FMSNY is co-sponsoring; RSVP to: [email protected] or 914-282-0289. $20 (memb $18)

92Y Tribeca Mainstage 200 Hudson Street 92y.org/92yTribeca

Live at Cafe 92YTribeca

92nd St Y 1395 Lexington Ave. 212.415.5500 www.92Y.org

Parkside Lounge 317 E Houston St (bet Aves B & C) 212-673-6270

www.parksidelounge.net

The People’s VoiceThe Community Church of New York Unitarian Universalist

40 E. 35th Street (betw Madison & Park Aves) 212-787-3903 Shows at 8:00 unless* Admission: $15, $10 memb.

www.PeoplesVoiceCafe.orgAPR 5 Ray Korona Band12 Pete Seeger Celebration26 Sharon Abreu & Mike Hurwicz; Colleen Kattau and Some GuysMAY 3 Ben Tousley & Sue Kranz; Carrie & Michael Kline

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Paddy Reilly’s519 2nd Ave. (@ 29th St.) 212-686-1210

www.paddyreillysmusicbar.usSunday: 5-9pm Bluegrass Jam Session

1st & 3rd Mondays: 7:30pm Bluegrass & Beyond Jam 2nd & 4th Mondays: 7pm Bluegrass Slow Jam

Tuesday: 7pm Irish Traditional NiteWednesday: 6pm Open Mic Nite

Thursdays: 11pm-1am Irish Culture Nite w/ Niall O’Leary and Friends

Friday: 11pm - 1am The ProdigalsSaturday: 6-9pm Songwriters Open Mic and Showcase

11pm Irish Nite

Postcrypt Coffeehouse2980 Broadway Basement of St. Paul’s chapel,

Columbia University (212) 854-1953http://www.columbia.edu/cu/postcrypt/coffeehouse

Shows: 8:30 / 9:30 / 10:30 in order listed Free/DonationFor current week’s listings see website

The Red Lion 151 Bleecker St. (Thompson St.)

(212) 260-9797 www.RedLion-NYC.comMon 7-10pm Dan’s Jam (hosted by Dan Donnelly)

Rockwood Music Hall196 Allen St. (bet Houston & Stanton) 212-477-4155

www.rockwoodmusichall.comStage 1APR 1 Communion Club Night, Johnny Stimson, Sturgill Simpson,

Michael Daves, Matt Sucich, Maddy Hay, Kate Davis, Highly Suspect, City of the Sun, Michaela Anne, Carina Round (Early Winters/Puscifer/Tears for Fears), Plus DJ Sets by: The Big P.A. (of Bang the Drum), Mike Spinella (Rolling Stone) ($11-$15) All stages

2 6-Naomi Wachira, 7-Debbie Miller, 8-Matt Kanelos CD Release Residency, 9-Howard, 10-JP Saxe, 11-Bennett Sullivan Residency, 12-Robert Rossi

3 6-Sarah Factor, 7-Jacob Colin Cohen, 8-Ross Andrews / Civil Brother, 9-Sam Rivers, 10-David Craig, 11-10 String Symphony, 12-Tattletale Saints

4 6-Dewey & the Decimals, 7-Paddy Saul, 8-Phil Pickens, 9-Rob Morrison & the Booklights, 10-The Bailey Hounds, 11-Joe Marson, 12-Villains in Love, 1-Christina LaRocca & Her Whiskey Dreams

5 3-Mark Vaughan Kay, 4-John Virag, 5-Earth to Aaron, 6-2/3 Goat, 7-Gavin Glass, 8-Anthony Mulcahy EP Release Show, 9-Young Unknowns, 10-William Gruff, 11-The Third Wheel Band, 12-Benyoro, 1-Peter Wise

6 3-Greg Humphreys Trio, 4-Stephanie Keller, 5-Canary, 6-Leslie DiNicola, 7-The Reverend John Delore, 8-Jim Keller, 9-SisterMonk, 10-Sheriff Ariff, 11-Melissa McMillan, 12-Cariad Harmon

7 6-Elizabeth Eckert, 7-Pete Sinjin, 8-Luke Wygodny & Jenna Rubaii, 9-The Tony Scherr Trio feat. Rob Jost & Anton Fier, 10-Jim Campilongo Trio w/ Chris Morrissey, Josh Dion, 11-Robert Leslie, 12-Rich Hinman

8 6-Idyl, 7-B.E. Godfrey, 8-Miko & the Musket, 9-John Presnell, 10-Michael Daves, 11-Shayfer James, 12-Gabriel Garzón-Montano

9 6-The Cornell Brothers, 7-Susan Cattaneo, 8-Emily Grove, 9-Beaucoup Blue, 10-Violette, 11-All Night Chemists, 12-Mystical Space Typhoon

10 6-Caroline Cotter, 7-Carmen Noelia, 8-Gina Chavez, 9-Rony’s Insomnia, 10-Freya Wilcox, 11-Brian Collazo, 12-The Melodynes

11 6-Jack Adams, 7-Caitlin Mahoney, 8-Melissa Giges, 9-Brandi & the Alexanders, 10-Echo Kings, 11-Rachel Ann Weiss, 12-The Aquatic Safety, 1-Philip D’Agostino

12 3-The Delta Routine, 4-Johnny Lewis, 5-Pa Curran, 6-Eve Lesov Single Release Show, 7-The Dove & the Wolf, 8-NOY Record Release, 9-Emergency Tiara Record Release, 10-The Bailen Brothers, 12-Jen Jayden & the Greenstone, 1-Adam Minkoff/Vaalbara

13 3-Wendy Woo, 4-Misha, 5-Paca Naveira, 6-Teddy Kumpel, 7-Salina Sias, 8-Jonah Tolchin, 9-The Bones of J.R. Jones, 10-Pine Barons, 11-Michael Schoen, 12-Cariad Harmon

14 6-Mike Hubbard, 7-Laura Brenneman, 8-Jeff Taylor, 9-The Tony

Scherr Trio feat. Rob Jost & Anton Fier, 10-Jim Campilongo Trio w/ Chris Morrissey, Josh Dion, 11-Alan Hampton, 12-ThatsMyCole

15 6-Rachel Ann Weiss, 7-Chris Riffle, 8-Miko & the Musket, 9-Julia Monk, 10-Michael Daves, 11-Shayfer James, 12-Grey McMurray

16 6-David O’Neal, 7-Olivia Mancini, 8-Matt Kanelos CD Release Residency, 9-Mike Squillante, 10-Ayo Awosika, 11-Bennett Sullivan Residency, 12-Nick D & The Believers

17 6-Nola Wren, 7-Erel Pilo, 8-Josh Taylor, Amy Vachal, Adam Day, 9-Jeremy Nash, 10-My Pet Dragon, 11-Aaron Pfeiffer, 12-Fractal Caravan

18 6-Blue Ridge Entertainers, 7-Jerome Bell, 8-Ruth Gerson, 9-Crystal Monee Hall, 10-Mieka Pauley, 11-Nick Semrad’s Birthday Keyborchestra, 12-Love Science Music, 1-Kalen & the Sky Thieves

19 3-Louisa, 4-Nisha Asnani, 6-Dheepa Chari, 7-Ervin Stellar, 8-Juno Day, 9-Jordana de Lovely, 10-The Wet Darlings, 11-Buggaboo Record Release, 12-Color Collage, 1-Jeremiah Birnbaum

20 3-The Weeping Willards, 4-Pine, 5-Dan Emino, 6-Sarah McLennan, 7-The Winchester Local, 8-Eliza Jones, 9-Erica Glyn, 10-Aimee Bayles, 11-You And I, 12-Cariad Harmon

21 6-The Ferdy Mayne, 7-Chris Brown and Kate Fenner, 8-Dave Wanamaker, 9-The Tony Scherr Trio feat. Rob Jost & Anton Fier, 10-Jim Campilongo Trio w/ Chris Morrissey, Josh Dion, 11-Alan Hampton, 12-Teddy Kumpel

22 6-Margot, 7-Samantha Harlow, 8-Miko & the Musket, 9-Richey Lam, 10-Michael Daves, 11-Shayfer James, 12-Rich Hinman

23 6-Sarah Amina, 7-Jessie Kilguss, 8-Jessica Childress, 9-Alex Berger, 10-Thomas Bryan Eaton, 11-Sergio Ortega, 12-Rita Dottor Album Release

24 6-Harry Zittel, 7-So Brown Record Release, 8-Joe Whyte, 9-Mariana Bell, 10-Shayna Steele, 11-Stockade Kids, 12-Lux Deluxe

25 6-Ben Clark & the Long Shadows, 7-Melanie Charles/Rat Habitat EP Release, 8-Ghosts of St Marks, 9-Basinger, 10-Deftrio, 11-Rachel Ann Weiss, 12-Myles Mancuso Band

26 3-Alice Limoges, 4-Maddy Hay, 5-Ponies Will Bite You!, 6-Hannah Gill, 7-Andrea Wright, 8-Mutlu, 9-King Radio, 10-Cult Classic, 11-The Yells, 12-The Thang, 1-Brother Valiant

Stage 2APR 1 Communion Club Night ($11-$15)2 7-Andrew Duhon ($10), 8-Thus:Owls, 9-Dida Pelled, 10-The Karma

Exchange, 11-Legs3 7-Private Event, 9-Mike Posner (Sold Out), 11-Deleasa,

12-Breastfist4 7-Xenia Sky EP Release Show, 8-Benjamin Cartel “Money & Love”

Record Release ($10), 9:15-Niall Connolly, 12-Underground System ($10)

5 5:30-Amy Vachal, 7-Anna Harrington EP Release Show, 8-Jon Christopher Allen, 9-Raquel Rodriguez, 10-Hurrah! A Bolt of Light, 11-Derek James & the Lovely Fools, 12-Randall Shreve & the Sideshow

6 2-Gowanus Music Club and Teen Concerts present “12 Week Jam” an all-ages show feat. Dig it, Ace of Spades, Scientists of Sound, The Legendaries, Bathroom Grafitti, A.M.P., Blue Lighting (Admission: $10 adults, $5 kids under 18), 7-Lauren Diamond, 8-Kelly McFarling, 9-Sarah Goldfeather, 10-Rachel Zylstra, 11-Lucy Horton

7 7-The Lost Keys, 8-Lakecia Benjamin ($10), 9-Handsome Ghost, 10-Morebarn, 11-Winklereed

8 7-Michaela Anne Record Release, 8-JuiceBox, 9-Antony Ellis w/ The Breedings, 11:30-The Wholes

9 6-Rhonda Vincent & the Rage ($20), 7:30-Willy Porter ($20), 9-Akie Bermiss Record Release, 10:15-Early Winters ($12-$15)

10 7:15-Run River North w/ Kelly & the Hermanos (Sold Out), 9-Aaron Lee Tasjan 10-Roosevelt Dime w/ Darlingside ($10), 12-Breastfist

11 7-Dwight & Nicole CD Release w/ Special Guest ($15), 9-All Forces Record Release, 10-Rocket & the Ghost, 11-Locksley, 12-Palmslap

12 7-Private Event, 8:15-Sam King, Adam Day ($10), 10:15-Robbie Gil ($10), 12:30-Carte Blanche

13 7-Life in a Blender Record Release, 8-Sun Nectar, 9-Selena Garcia, 10-Western Star, 11-Big Dog Run

14 7-Amy LaVere, 8-Sophia Bastian, 9-Pete Ayres Band, 10-John Splithoff, 11-Skyes

15 7:30 & 9:30-Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge ($15)16 7-Leo Moran and Anthony Thistlethwaite (of The Saw Doctors)

($25), 9-Aaron Lee Tasjan, 10-The Ryan Scott Four Record Release, 11:30-Frank LoCrasto

17 7-Amber Skye, 8-Colin Smith, 9-Sam Kogon, 11-Dennis Cahlo & the Change, 12-Breastfist

18 7-The Lawsuits, 8-Nathan Angelo ($10-$12), 9-Nat Osborn Band

($10), 11-Aabaraki, 12-David Luther, 1-You Do You19 7-Zerbin, 10-Kwame Binea, 11:15-The Gold Magnolias, 12:15-Ula

Ruth20 7-Bhrigu Sahni, 8-Jus Post Bellum, 9-Snehasish & Sound of

Mandolin, 10-Greg Banks21 7-Bryant Park Quartet CD Release, 10-Plastic Cannons22 7:15-Johnnyswim ($15-$20), 9:15-The Melodic w/ Belle Mare

($12-$15)23 9:30-Nelo, Melodime, The Novel Ideas ($10)24 7-Carson Rochelle feat. Chris Turner, 9-Aaron Lee Tasjan, 10-Sol

Cat, 11-Christina Courtin, 12-Breastfist25 6:15-The Reign of Kindo w/ Matthew Santos ($10), 8-Tall Heights

($10), 9-Buy The Sky, 10-Kat Wright & the Indomitable Soul Band, 12:15-Butcher Knives

Stage 3APR 1 Communion Club Night ($11-$15)2 8-James Maddock (solo) ($15), 9:30-Wyatt ($10)3 10-Rene Lopez ($10)4 8-Andrea Nardello ($8), 10-Sean Rowe ($15)5 8-Thibault Cauvin ($25), 9:30-Brenoshea ($10)6 8-James Richards ($10), 10-Tam Lin ($10)7 8-Amy Speace feat. James Mastro ($15), 9:30-First Monday

Bluegrass Jam hosted by Michael Daves (No Cover)8 7-On Your Radar w/ Hannah & Maggie, Sam Baker, Krista Detor -

Hosted by John Platt from WFUV ($12) 10-Del Barber ($10)9 8-Kim Richey ($20)10 8-Levi Robin ($15), 9:30-Marie Miller ($10)11 8:30-Noam Weinstein ($10), 10-Kelley McRae ($10)12 8-Jamie Leonhart ($12-$15), 9:30-Blow Up Hollywood ($15)13 8-Pauline Kim Harris - String Noise: Triple Helix for Two Violins

+ Electronics by John King (World Premiere) ($15), 9:30-Sonya Kitchell, Alecia Chakour, Findlay Brown ($12)

14 8-Hildegunn Gjedrem, Alison Wedding ($10), 9:30-The Chapin Sisters ($10)

15 8-Arian Saleh ($5)16 8-“Trouble in the Fields”: The Songs of Nanci Griffith” a tribute

by The Kennedys ($15), 10-Dixie Jean ($10)17 8-Avi Wisnia, Denise Reis ($12-$15), 10-Rene Lopez ($10)18 8-Carol Lipnik (w/ Matt Kanelos on Piano) ($10), 9:30-Bridget

Barkan ($10)19 8-Luke Elliot ($15), 9:30-Arthur Lewis ($10), 11:15-Zia Hassan -

“Sports, Weather Time and Space” Release Party ($5)20 7-This is Not the Radio feat. Lynette Williams, Akie Bermiss, MaG,

Inland Traveler, Alec Spiegelman, Arthur Lewis ($8), 9:30-Sonya Kitchell, Alecia Chakour, Findlay Brown ($12)

21 8-Claudia Acuña ($12), 9:30-Leland Sundries, Twain ($8)22 8-Todd Kramer ($10), 9:30-Rory Andrew ($10)23 8-Tanner Walle ($10), 9:30-Frank Fairfield ($12)24 8-Dan Mills ($12-$15), 9:30-Patrick Park ($10)25 8-Burning Bridget Cleary ($10)See venue web site for updates

Rocky Sullivan’s129 Lexington Avenue 212-725-3871

Mondays from 9 ‘til midnight-Informal seisiun of Irish traditional music with Marie Reilly

The Rodeo Bar375 3rd Avenue, New York, New York 10016

Corner of 27th Street and Third Avenue (212) 683-6500 www.rodeobar.com

Showtimes: Mon-Tues 9pm - Midn, Wed 10pm - MidnThurs 10pm - 1am Fri-Sat 10:30pm - 1:30am

Mariachi Mondays 8pmAPR 1 Western Caravan2 Brain Cloud3 Gent Treadly4 Chris Bergson Band5 The Hoo Doo Loungers6 Jon Sholle and Bob Jones7 Kuntry Karaoke8 Patti Rothberg9 Susquehanna Industrial Tool and Die Co.10 Travis Whitelaw11 Jay Collins Band12 The Bloodshots13 NY City Slickers14 Kuntry Karaoke15 Lindy Loo and Special Guests16 Clay Ross17 Jack Grace Band18 Jimbo Mathus19 Jimbo Mathus20 Reverend Freakchild / The Melody Allegra Band21 Kuntry Karaoke22 Miss Lucy and Walker Blue23 Hugh Pool24 Girls, Guns and Glory25 Memphis Train and The Boxcar Horns26 The Reach Around Rodeo Clowns28 Kuntry Karaoke

Parts • Accessories • Repairs • Acoustic & Electric Guitars

Custom Electric Guitars

RICK KELLY, LUTHIER42 Carmine Street, NYC

212.691.8400www.kellyguitars.com

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The Rubin Museum of Art150 W 17th Street

212.620.5000 ext 344 www.rmanyc.org Music Without Borders presents the “Naked Soul” Series

All shows at 7pmMAY 9 Dan Bern $40 Adv / $45 Door / $36 Memb30 Shelby Lynne $45 Adv / $50 Door / $40.50 MembJUN 13 Jill Sobule $30 Adv / $35 Door / $27 Memb27 Ben Sollee $27.50 Adv / $30 Door / $24.75 MembSEP 5 John Gorka $30 Adv / $35 Door / $27 Memb19 Janis Ian $45. Adv / $50 Door / $40.50 MembOCT 10 Martha Wainwright $30 Adv / $35 Door / $27 Memb17 Erin McKeown $25 Adv / $27.50 Door / $22.50 MembNOV 7 Melissa Ferrick $25 Adv / $30 Door / $22.50 MembDEC 12 Dana Fuchs $30 Adv / $35 Door / $27 Memb

SubCulture45 Bleecker Street, Downstairs (212) 533-5470

www.subculturenewyork.comAPR 2 8pm Hot Club of Cowtown $20-$255 7:30pm Caravan of Thieves $15-$2010 7:30 & 10pm Glen Phillips / Natalia Zuckerman $25-$3019 7:30pm Toby Lightman / Leigh Nash $20 Adv / $25 Door

Sugar Bar254 W. 72nd St. 212.579.0222

Symphony Space 2537 Broadway (95th St) 212.864.1414

www.symphonyspace.org

Terminal 5610 W 56th St (212) 665-3832 www.terminal5nyc.com

Terra Blues149 Bleecker St 212-777-7776 www.terrablues.com

7pm Acoustic / 10pm Electric

The Town Hall123 W.43rd St. www.the-townhall-nyc.org 212-398-6447

APR 5 5:15pm A Prairie Home Companion w/ Garrison Keillor; special guests: Pharis and Jason Romero $58, $64

8 7:30pm Neil Finn $35, $55, & $7510 8pm Chick Corea Solo Piano $47, $9712 5:15pm A Prairie Home Companion w/ Garrison Keillor; special

guests: Maria Jette and Dan Chouinard, Robin and Linda Williams $58, $64

15 8pm The Best of Rufus Wainwright w/ Lucy Wainwright Roche $35-$85

18 8pm Jesse Cook $35, $4519 8pm Lila Downs $45, $50, $5525 8pm David Bromberg & David Johansen $45, $50, $55JUN 5 8pm Patty Griffin $52.50, $69.5013 8pm Mumbo Jumbo: Bobby McFerrin and Questlove in Musical

Dialogue $45-$85

UMO Music EventsUMO Weekly Sunday Afternoon Free Winter Music Event

Shades of Green Pub 125 East 15 Street (Betw Irving Place & 3rd Ave)

2pm to 6pm FREE - 1 Drink Minimum / 212-674-1394Performers welcome: Folk / Rock / R&B 2010 back to 1960’s More info “Underground Music Online” www.umo.com

(Note - Spring, Summer & Fall Music is in Washington Square Park)

Webster Hall125 E. 11th St. www.websterhall.com

BronxAn Beal Bocht Cafe

445 W 238th St, Riverdale 718-884-7127 anbealbochtcafe.comShows at 9:30

Sun: 4-7pm Trad Irish Session Tues: Open Mic Night

Starving Artist Cafe & GalleryCity Island 249 City Island Avenue

718.885.3779 www.starvingartistonline.com

BrooklynBarbes

376 9th St at 6th Ave Park Slope 347-422-0248www.barbesbrooklyn.com

All events $10 suggested donation, unless otherwise notedSundays @ 9pm Stephane Wrembel

Mondays @ 7pm Brain CloudMondays @ 9:30pm Chicha Libre

Tuesdays @ 9pm Slavic Soul Party $10/setWednesdays @ 10pm The Mandingo Ambassadors

Saturdays in April@ 6pm Marika HughesAPR 2 8pm Jim Campilongo and Honeyfingers3 8pm Paradox Trio, 10pm The Craterobber Series4 8pm Opera On Tap, 10pm Cumbiagra 5 4pm Songs For Unusual Creatures, 6pm Marika Hughes, 8pm Derek

Gripper, 10pm Banda Sinaloense De Los Muertos $106 7pm Rufus Cappadocia8 7pm Ben Holmes Quartet 9 7pm Raelian Cabaret10 8pm The Joel Forrester Quartet, 10pm The Pre-War Ponies 11 8pm Pedro Giraudo Sextet, 10pm Mariachi Flor de Toloache 12 4pm The Erik Satie Quartet, 6pm Marika Hughes. Every Saturday in

April, 8pm Benyoro, 10pm Bill Carney’s Jug Addicts13 7pm Barbes Classical15 7pm Leni Stern16 8pm Bombay Rickey17 8pm Mazgani, 10pm Alejandro Zuleta Vallenato Collective18 8pm Karen Mantler, 10pm Spanglish Fly19 6pm Marika Hughes, 8pm Sanda Weigl20 4pm Cine Barbes / Let The Fire Burn. 2013 // USA // 95 min, 7pm

Max Johnson’s Silver Trio22 7pm Ilusha Tsinadze23 8pm Que Vlo-Ve? 24 7:30pm Weird Wednesdays (on Thursdays)25 8pm Regional De NY26 6pm Marika Hughes27 10pm The Blue Vipers(Note: See above for recurring residency performers)

The Bell House149 7th Street www.thebellhouseny.com

APR 18, 19, 20 Brooklyn Folk Fest (See Jalopy listings)

Brooklyn Bowl61 Wythe Avenue (718) 963-3369 www.brooklynbowl.com

Brooklyn Music Shop presentsProspect Range 1226 Prospect Ave. @ Vanderbilt

Reservations via email: [email protected] @ 8pm

APR 19 Kate Klim and Joe Duraes

First Acoustics CoffeehouseFirst Unitarian Congregational Society

Brooklyn Heights 50 Monroe Place at Pierrepont St.718-288-5994 www.firstacoustics.org

All seats $25 Adv / $30 Door except***All concerts 8pm except*

APR 12 Aztec Two-Step (@ Union Temple of Brooklyn) **$30 Adv / $35 Door**

MAY 3 We’re About 9 and ilyAIMY17 Seth Glier and The Yayas

JUN 7 Livingston Taylor w/ Spec Guest Kate Taylor $35 Adv / $40 Door**

Jalopy315 Columbia St 718.395.3214 www.jalopy.biz

Wednesdays @ 9pm Roots and Ruckus FREEDate Night: Dinner for two and a show any Thursday $45

Tuesdays @ 9pm Open MicAPR 1 9-Open Mic Night (Jalopy Theater) / Brotherhood of Jug Bang

Blues (Jalopy Tavern)3 9- PaperSwan4 5:30- At The American Folk Art Museum: Wyndham Baird, 9- Val

Mindel, Emiy Miller and Jesse Milnes $20, 10- Greg Trooper & Bill Kirchen $20

5 1-Old Time Open Jam with Harry Bolick 6 10:30- Little Laffs with Rolie Polie Guacamole $25, 12- John

Schwab Back-Up Guitar Workshop-Part Ii $50, 7- 2nd Annual Woody Guthrie Brooklyn Hoot $10

8 9-Open Mic Night (Jalopy Theater) / Honnewells (Jalopy Tavern) 10 Cape Breton Scots Night $15

8-The Open Session, 8:30-IONA Scottish Session Players, 9:15-Ben Miller & Anita MacDonald, 10- Katie McNally & Neil Pearlman, 11-Troy MacGillivray, 11:45- IONA Scottish Session Players

11 9-M Shanghai String Band and Friends $1012 9-Dietrich Strause, 10-Jefferson Hamer, 11-Robert Sarazin Blake $1013 12- Vocal Harmony Basics $20, 2-Vocal Harmony Duos and Trios $25,

Both Workshops $4015 9-Open Mic Night (Jalopy Theater) / Feral Foster (Jalopy Tavern)17 9-Shoutin Red, 10-Banjo & Fiddle Night w/ Marty Cutler & (Fiddler

TBA), Steve Arkin & Stephanie Coleman, Ellery Marshall & Nick Reeb, Billy Failing & Sam Barnes, Tom Bailey & Joel Wennerstrom, Ryan Cavanaugh & Jacob Joliff, Ellery Marshall & Jeff Picker, Melody Berger & (Banjo TBA) $10

18 Brooklyn Folk Fest at The Bell House - 3 Day Pass $75 Friday Evening: $20 8-Brotherhood of the Jug Band Blues, 8:45-Feral Foster, 9:30pm TBA, 10:15-Eva Salina , 11-Dom Flemons (Carolina Chocolate Drops), 11:45-Jan Bell and the Maybelles

19 Brooklyn Folk Fest at The Bell House Afternoon: $15 1:30-Peter K. Siegel and Eli Smith, 2:15-Piedmont Bluz, 3-Pat Conte, 3:45-Wyndham Baird, 4:30-Blueridge Entertain-ers, 5:15-Willy Gantrim, 6- The Tillers, 6:45 East River Stringband with R. Crumb, 7:30-Tahuantinsuyo Workshops and Film Screenings: 1-Old Time Jam Session with Hilary Hawke, 3-Old Time Mandolin workshop, 4-Blues Guitar Workshop, 5- Banjo Workshop with John Cohen Evening: $20 8:45-Gamelan Kusuma Laras, 9:45-The Down Hill Strugglers with John Cohen, 10:30-Frank Fairfield, 11:15-Drunken Catfish Ramblers

20 Brooklyn Folk Fest at The Bell House Afternoon: $15 1:15pm Kerri Lowe, 2:45-Hubby Jenkins (Carolina Chocolate Drops), 3:30-Nathan M. Godfrey, 4:15-Stone Mountain Wobblers, 5-Elizabeth LaPrelle and Anna Roberts-Gevalt, 5:45-The Whiskey Spitters, 6:30-Pete Seeger Tribute and Sing-a-long Evening: $10 7:30-Square Dance 8:15-Spuyten Duyvil, 9pm Dubl Handi, 9:45-TBA

22 9-Open Mic Night (Jalopy Theater) / Jackson Lynch (Jalopy Tavern)26 6-Jeff Tocci Art Opening: Mother Natures Bastards29 9-Open Mic Night (Jalopy Theater) / Jesse Lenat (Jalopy Tavern)

Music Hall of Williamsburg66 North Sixth Street www.musichallofwilliamsburg.com

APR 11 9pm James Vincent McMorrow / Aidan Knight $22 SOLD OUT15 9pm Daniel Rossen (of Grizzly Bear and Department of Eagles) /

William Tyler $20 SOLD OUTMAY 1 9pm The Both (Aimee Mann and Ted Leo) $259 8pm Mavis Staples $35 Adv / $40 Door22 9pm Cass McCombs $16 Adv / $18 Door

Littlefield622 Degraw Street (bet 3 - 4th Ave) littlefieldNYC.com

Pete’s Candy Store709 Lorimer Street Williamsburg (718) 302 - 3770

www.petescandystore.com

Rocky Sullivan’s34 Van Dyke St. (@ Dwight St.), Red Hook718-246-8050 www.rockysullivans.com

Two Moon Art House & Café315 4th Avenue www.twomoonbklyn.com

2nd Fridays 8pm Co-hosts Carolann Solebello & Bev Grant$10 Donation - One drink minimum

APR 18 8pm Bev & Carolann Present… Elisa Peimer

Union Hall702 Union St. (718) 638-4400 www.unionhallny.com

APR 2 8pm Run Boy Run, Wahoo Skiffle Crazies $105 9pm Great Lakes, The Inner Banks, Talsness $8

WarsawPolish National Home 261 Driggs Avenue

www.warsawconcerts.com

PIERREPONT ST. AT MONROE PL.BROOKLYN HEIGHTS

FOLK CONCERTSAT FIRST UNITARIAN

All shows are at First Unitarian, except April 12th, Aztec Two-Step (@Union Temple)

May 17th

Saturday, 8pm

$25 In Advance / $30 At Door$25 In Advance / $30 At Door$30 In Advance / $35 At Door

Aztec Two-Step

@ Union Temple of Bklyn17 Eastern Pkwy

April 12th

Saturday, 8pmMay 3rd

Saturday, 8pm

We’re About 9 and ilyAIMY Seth Glier and The Yayas

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QueensThe Irish Cottage

108-07 72nd Avenue, Forest Hills (between Austin Street and Queens Boulevard, two blocks south of the 71st/Continental stop

of the E, F, R, and V trains) 718-520-8530

Woodside Library54-22 Skillman Avenue (718) 429-4700

Staten IslandEvery Thing Goes Book Cafe

& Neighborhood Stage 208 Bay Street 718-447-8256 www.well.com/user/ganas/etgstores

Historic Richmond TownTavern Concerts 441 Clarke Avenue (718) 351-1611

www.historicrichmondtown.orgReservations: (718) 351-1611, Ext. 281

2 shows ea. Sat. Jan-Apr 6 & 8pm, $15, $12/SIHS Memb.

Long IslandAcoustic Long Island

Deepwell Mansion 497 Route 25aSaint James (Long Island) www.acousticlongisland.com

Live shows and audio and video podcasts First Wednesday ea. month: 8-10pm - FREE

APR 2 Kira Valella, Kelli Rae PowellMAY 7 Todd Kramer, Barnaby BrightJUN 4 Heather Maloney, DarlingsideJUL 12 4-8pm 9th Annual Summer Concert, performers TBA

Babylon Village Arts Council2nd Thursday Concert Series

American Legion Hall 22 Grove Pl. Babylon VillageFree Admission Info: 631-669-1810 babylonvillagearts.org

BACCA Performing Arts Center Babylon Citizens Council on the Arts 4th Friday Concert Series

149 N Wellwood Ave, Lindenhurst 631-587-3696 Open Mic @ 7:30 Shows @ 8pm Adm: $15

Every 3rd Sunday 1-5pm Song Swap www.babylonarts.com

4th Friday Concert Series - Artists TBA

Boulton Center for the Performing Arts37 W. Main Street Bay Shore (631)969-1101

www.boultoncenter.org All shows 8pm Reserved Seating - Adm: Member / Non-Memb

APR 4 Celebrating the Songs of John Lennon - Beatles & solo Years featuring The Nutopians $35 / $40

14 Roger McGuinn $40 / $45MAY 1 Junior Brown $35 / $402 Strunz & Farah $35 / $409 Steve Forbert $30 / $3510 David Bromberg $65 / $70

Court House Concertswww.courthouseconcerts.com

Pre-show gathering 2pm, Showtime 3pmSuggested Donation: $20

Reservations required e-mail: [email protected]

Eclectic CaféUnitarian Universalist Society of South Suffolk28 Brentwood Rd Bay Shore 631 661-1278

www.eclecticcafe.org2nd Sat/month 7:30 1-hr open mic, then feature act(s)

$10 Advanced, $13 DoorAPR 12 John FlynnMAY 10 The Boxcar Lilies

Finch Mountain House Concerts Babylon 631) 661-1278 or [email protected]

7pm Pot Luck supper before each show$20 suggested donation Reservations required

Folk-Groovin’ CaféThe Vault, 90-21 Springfield Blvd. , Dix Hills

Hosted by Jim Frazzitta www.facebook.com/pages/The-Folk-Groovin-Café

Prospective performers contact [email protected] 631-368-1920

Performances: 8pm Adm $10 Refreshments included

Folk Music Society of HuntingtonCongregational Church of Huntington, L.I.

30 Washington Drive, Centerport, (631) 425-2925 www.fmsh.org

First Saturday Series Concerts begin at 8:30 Open Mic 7:30Admission $25 / members $20 - advance tix on website

APR 5 An Evening of Fingerstyle Guitar w/ Bob Ardern, Howard Emerson & Hiroya Tsukamoto

MAY 3 Beaucoup Blue & Jon BrooksJUN 7 John Gorka

Hard Luck Café at the Cinema Arts Centre 423 Park Ave, Huntington

Third Thursday Concerts begin at 8:30pm w/ Open Mic at 7:30pm Admission $15 / $10 FMSH & CAC members - No advance tickets

APR 17 Mountain MaidensMAY 15 Scott Cook & Larry Kolker

Folk Jams at the South Huntington Public Library One Sunday each month, Sep-June, 1-4pm FREE

Apr 13, May 18, Jun 8

Garden StageUnitarian Universalist Congregation of Central Nassau

223 Stewart Avenue Garden City www.gardenstage.com/calendar.html

Concerts scheduled one Friday of the month Sep thru MayAPR 4 Zoe Lewis / Matt Nakoa Opening $20 Adv / $22 DoorMAY 2 Gathering Time $20 Adv / $22 DoorJUN 6 Rod MacDonald w/ Mark Dann on Bass $18 Adv / $20 Door

Grounds and Sounds CafeUnitarian Universalist Fellowship

380 Nicholls Road, Stony Brook www.groundsandsounds.orgOpen Mic at 8pm Feature Act at 8:45pm Adm: $12.50

APR 11 Kerry KearneyMAY 9 TBAJUN 13 Miles to Dayton

Landmark on Main Street232 Main Street Port Washington 516-767-6444

www.landmarkonmainstreet.orgShows: 8pm Adm: Prem Seats / Memb -- Standard / Memb

Fabulous Folk SeriesAPR 5 A Very Special John Platt’s On Your Radar w/ Brother Sun, Amy

Speace and Martyn Joseph $37, $42, $4726 8pm Paula Cole $42, $47, $52MAY 17 Iris DeMent $37, $42, $47

Last Licks CafeUnitarian Universalist Fellowship

109 Brown’s Rd., Huntington 631-427-9547 lastlickscafe.com Open mic: 7:30pm, sign up @ 7pm, headliner: 8:30pm

Adm: $15 / $10 seniors/studentsAPR 26 The Septemberists and The April Fools

Our Times CoffeehouseLong Island Ethical Humanist Society 38 Old Country Road,

Garden City 516-541-1006 www.ourtimescoffeehouse.orgShows: 8pm (generally on the 3rd Friday of each month)

Donations: Adults $15, Seniors & Students (w/Schl I.D) $12Children (under 12) $6 (very young children are free)

APR 18 Toby WalkerMAY 16 Stephanie Bettman & Luke Halpin

JUN 20 Canvas Moon Band

The Song Box House ConcertsHeld in recording studio at private residence

Every 4th Sat. in Seaford (south shore Nassau County) Reservations 516-579-5365 or [email protected]

(confirmation and directions via return email)APR 26 8pm Cecilia Kirtland & Friends (Full Band, CD Release)MAY 24 8pm TBAJUN 28 8pm Gina Forsyth / Honor Finnegan

Soulful Sundown Coffeehouse SeriesThe Unitarian Universalist Church at Shelter Rock

48 Shelter Rock Road. Manhasset www.uucsr.org7:30 Uplifting message, then music - Chris Marshak & band

8:30 Feature act FREEAPR 11 Amy SpeaceMAY 9 Kat QuinnJUN 13 Sloan Wainwright

The Stephen Talkhouse 161 Main Street, Amagansett, NY www.stephentalkhouse.com

APR 19 8pm Nancy Atlas Project- Annual Nancy/Johnny Bday Bash $15

The University CafeSunday Street Acoustic Concert series at The University Cafe

Student Union Building Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY631-632-1093 www.universitycafe.org -”Special Events”

e-mail: [email protected] shows 2pm on Sundays except*

APR 5 8pm Keep Me In Your Heart: A Long Island Musicians’ Tribute to Warren Zevon; featuring Kerry Kearney, Claudia Jacobs, Russ Seeger, Pete Mancini, Mick Hargreaves, Bill Herman, Cindy Lopez and others; A benefit for WUSB-FM $15 Adv / $20 Door (*Saturday show)

13 Rod Picott $20 Adv / $25 Door (*Sunday, at 7pm)MAY 4 7pm Casey Neill and the Norway Rats/Butchers Blind opens

$20 Adv / $25 Door 17 8pm Bob Dylan’s 73rd Birthday Celebration with The Kennedys,

Rod MacDonald, Russ Seeger, Steve Kaplan, Brian Kachejian and Bill Herman $30 Adv / $35 Door (*Saturday show)

WestchesterBeczak Environmental Education Center

UrbanH2035 Alexander Street Yonkers www.beczak.org

3rd Sat ea. month @7:30pm Adm: $10APR 19 Darlingside and Caitlin Canty

The Capitol Theatre149 Westchester Avenue (914) 934-9362

Caramoor149 Girdle Ridge Road, Katonah www.caramoor.org

Roots Music in the Music Room Info: 914.232.5035 Tickets: 914.232.1252

Roots Music in the Music RoomAPR 12 8pm Aoife O’Donovan / The Stray Birds $15, $35, $45, $55June 28 American Roots Music FestivalEvening Performances:Rosanne Cash, The River & The ThreadThe Lone BellowDaytime Performances:Bruce Molsky, Tony Trischka & Michael Daves, Kim & Reggie Harris, Miss Tess & the Talkbacks, Joe Crookston & the BlueBird Jubilee with Peter Glanville, Cricket Tell the Weather, Spuyten Duyvil, Walkabout Clearwater Chorus

Common Ground Community Concertsinfo: 914-478-2710 or www.commongroundfusw.com

Venues: Common Ground Coffeehouse @ The First Unitarian Society25 Old Jackson Ave, Hastings on Hudson Shows @ 7:30pm

APR 2 7:30pm Roosevelt DimeCommon Ground @ South Church

South Presbyterian Church, 343 Bwy, Dobbs FerryAPR 5 7:30pm Sam Baker and Carrie Elkin

Emelin TheaterLibrary Lane, Mamaroneck 914-698-0098

All shows @ 8pm www.emelin.orgBluegrassAPR 11 8pm Dan Paisley and the Southern Grass $38

Hammond House111 Grasslands Rd. Valhalla 914-347-8209

www.TribesHill.com

Irvington Town Hall Theater85 Main Street Irvington www.irvingtontheater.com

Life on Firethe new album from

Scott Wolfson and Other Heroesavailable now at

www.scottwolfson.com

““Life on Fire rocks effortlessly and joyously and ruminates softly when it has to. We’re expecting a lot of airplay for this album.”

— Richard Cuccaro, Acoustic Live in NYC

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The Peekskill Coffee House 101 South Division St. Peekskill

www.peekskillcoffee.com 914-739-1287

River Spirit Music River Spirit Music House Concert Series

Hastings-on-Hudson (address provided with reservation)Reservations - www.riverspiritmusic.com

Sundays. Doors/potluck dinner - 4PM; Music - 5PMDonation: $20 in advance, $22 at door (subject to availability)

APR 6 Nora Jane Struthers & The Party LineMAY 4 Fred Gillen, Jr. & Friends Farewell Show

Tarrytown Music Hall13 Main St Tarrytown (914) 631-3390

www.tarrytownmusichall.orgpresented by Music Without Borders

APR 3 8pm Leo Kottke & Loudon Wainwright III $38, $48, $584 8pm An Evening with Mike Gordon $30-$4010 8pm Feist Solo - The Mettle Tour $38-$6818 8pm Delbert McClinton - Cancelled20 8pm Indigo Girls $48-$7522 8pm Ani DiFranco $39-$75MAY 9 8pm Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes $50-$6010 8pm Judy Collins & Don McLean $58-$12518 7pm Spin Doctors $40JUN 7 8pm Patty Griffin (with her combo) $48-$9520 8pm Happy Together Tour featuring The Turtles w/ Flo & Eddie ,

Chuck Negron (Three Dog Night) Mark Farner (Grand Funk Railroad), Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels and Gary Lewis & the Playboys $55-$125

Tarrytown TunesChrist Episcopal Church, West Elizabeth St. / Rte 9, Tarrytown,

Tarrytown Tunes @ FacebookDoors - 45 min. before showtime $20 sugg. donation @ door

“mingle and munch” after show - pot luck dish requestedmore info: [email protected]

Towne Crier Cafe379 Main Street Beacon, NY

(845) 855 1300 www.townecrier.com Show Adm: Adv / Door (Adv: + $3/ticket handling)

APR 3 7:30pm Bill Kirchen $20 Adv / $25 Door4 8:30pm Terrance Simien & The Zydeco Experience

$25 Adv / $30 Door5 8:30pm Lennon Re-Imagined, featuring The Nutopians

$30 Adv / $35 Door6 7:30pm Joan Osborne $45 Adv / $50 Door11 8:30pm Leo Moran & Anthony Thistlethwaite (of The Saw Doctors)

$25 Adv / $30 Door12 8:30pm Chris Smither $25 Adv / $30 Door13 7:30pm Teetotallers $25 Adv / $30 Door19 8:30pm Rory Block $25 Adv / $30 Door25 8:30pm Back To The Garden 1969 $25 Adv / $30 Door26 8:30pm Chris Trapper; with special guest The Trapps

$17.50 Adv / $22.50 Door27 7:30pm John Mccutcheon $25 Adv / $30 DoorMAY 2 8:30pm Ellis Paul $20 Adv / $25 Door3 8:30pm David Wax Museum $20 Adv / $25 Door8 7:30pm Motherlode Trio with special guests — Benefit Concert for

the Haldane School Foundation $35 Adv / $40 Door9 8:30pm John Pizzarelli with Martin Pizzarelli $45 Adv / $50 Door10 8:30pm Robben Ford; with special guest Scott Beall w/James

Cammack $40 Adv / $45 Door11 7:30pm Holly Near with John Bucchino and Emma’s Revolution

$25 Adv / $30 Door16 8:30pm Buskin & Batteau; also Brother Sun $25 Adv / $30 Door

Walkabout Clearwater Coffeehouse New Location! Memorial United Methodist Church

250 Bryant Ave, White Plains (914) 242-0374 www.WalkaboutClearwater.orgShows start at 7:30pm except*

APR 12 Seamus Kennedy $18 Adv / $23 DoorMAY 10 John Gorka $20 Adv / $25 Door

Rockland CountyBorderline Folk Music Club

At the home of Steve Shapiro 7 Trailside Court, New Cityor New City Ambulance Corps, 200 Congers Road, New City

www.borderlinefolkmusicclub.orgAttendees are asked to bring a cold pot luck dessert dish

Reservations strongly [email protected] or (845)-354-4586

MAR 23 2pm Brother Sun @ New City Volunteer Ambulance Corps $20 / Memb $15 (+ dessert dish)

Turning Point468 Piermont Ave, Piermont 845-359-1089

www.turningpointcafe.comOpen Mic Night Weds & Thurs, 7pm, signup 5-7pm $4

APR 3 8pm Benefit; medical costs for 2-year-old Katie Barkley (auto accident/multiple surgeries) w/ Bobby DiBlasio with The Cosmic American Derelicts and Elyse Buckley $15

4 9pm Christine Santelli Band $155 9pm Jeremy Baum Trio $156 4pm Woody Mann and Dave Keyes Duo $20, 7:30pm Willie

Porter $2010 8pm Old Number 7 Band $1511 8pm David Johansen $4012 9pm The CKS Band w/ Randy Ciarlante (The Band, The Levon

Helm Band) on Drums & Vocals, Bruce Katz (The Gregg Allman Band,John Hammond, Delbert McClinton) on B-3 Organ and Scott Sharrard (The Gregg Allman Band) on Guitar & Vocals. $25

13 4 & 7pm Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks $3515 8pm The James Hunter Six $5517 8pm Billypalooza Fundraiser to benefit the Sparkill Creek Alliance $2518 8pm The Kennedys $2519 6pm Rev Billy C. Wirtz $20, 9pm Riley Etheridge Band $2022 The Life and Work of Pete Seeger; An Evening of Song and Cel-

ebration; Hosted by: Guy Davis, Rick Ilowite, Capt. Rick Nestler, and Rik Palieri $20 (100% of door will be donated to Pete’s Clearwater)

24 8pm Laurence Juber $2025 9pm Joe Delia’s Thieves $17.5026 9pm Cheryl Arena Band $20MAY 2 9pm Garland Jeffreys Trio $303 5pm John Batdorf Batdorf & Rodney) $20

8:30pm Professor Louie & The Crowmatix $204 Lword Pride Party presents at 4pm Kiyomi Valentine & Lori Michaels8 8pm Steve Forbert $30 18 4pm Marjorie Thompson $15

Upstate New YorkCaffe Lena

47 Phila Street,, Saratoga Springs (518) 583-0022 List of Shows: www.caffelena.com/calendar.htm

Colony Café22 Rock City Road Woodstock

845 679-5342 Weekdays 6-11 Sat & Sun12-11 closed Wed

Harmony52 Mill Hill Road Woodstock, NY

http://www.facebook.com/harmonymusicwoodstocknyMondays: Open Mic: Poetry;

Tuesdays: Singles, DuosWeds. Open Mic: Music (Sign up 7pm, music 8-11pm)

Thursdays: Bluegrass Clubhouse with Bill Keith & guestsFridays & Saturdays: Bands; Sundays: Singles, Duos

Rosendale Cafe434 Main St., Rosendale (914) 658-9048

www.rosendalecafe.comAPR 8 8pm Singer-Songwriter Tuesdays w/ Ken McNally, Eric Sommer,

John Pray, Ratboy, Sarah & Jay Perrotta, and Gregg Stolarik Free 18 8pm Old Buck $1519 8pm Mikhail Horowitz and Gilles Malkine present “Virtuoso

Ineptitude” $1025 8pm Geoff Muldaur $20

Singer-Songwriter HeavenHouse Concerts in Beekman, N.Y.

Potluck @ 2pm; Show @ 3pm All are welcome!Limited seating; reservations requested

Tel: John Hamilton, 917-734-8851 or email [email protected]

MAY 4 Chuck Brodsky Don Lowe opensJUN 1 Jory Nash

Warwick Valley Winery114 Little York Road, Warwick, NY, 845-258-4858

www.wvwinery.comSpecial Events:

Doors open at 7pm for wine tasting and Bistro style dinnerUncorked & Unplugged Afternoon Series 2 - 5pm No Cover

APR 5 Petey Hop6 Tim O’Donohue12 Gene Foccarelli 13 Carnaby Street19 Steve Wells 27 Redden Brothers 28 Mike Herz and Emily BarnesMAY 3 Straight Shot4 Longchamp & Manzo10 Evan & Lesley11 Rave On - Music of Buddy Holly17 ShoeHorn Duo18 Tim O’Donohue

New Jersey The Acoustic Cafe

In Our Lady of Mercy School, 25 Fremont Ave. Park Ridge Info: 201-573-0718 www.cafeacoustic.orgShowtime: 8pm Doors open at 7:30 Adm $18 - $25

APR 26 The Grand Slambovians w/guest Jann KloseMAY 31 Toby Walker

Acoustic Night in MetuchenBrewed Awakening, 417 Main St. Shows run from 7:30 - 9pm

The Barrington Coffeehouse Musicafe131 Clements Bridge Rd., Barrington

Reservations: 856.573.7800 www.barringtoncoffeehouse.com7:30 - 11pm & beyond Wide Open Mic Every Thursday FREE

“Friday Main Stage” & “Saturday Night Special”8-10 pm. ($10 cover unless noted*)

Cabin Concerts at Tim & Lori Blixt’s60 Hawthorne Road Wayne (973) 616-0853

[email protected] www.cabinconcerts.comYour hosts: Tim and Lori Blixt

Acoustic Vacations in the Mountains Inclusive retreats at the West Mountain Inn, Arlington Vt. An all new show each night!!

info: www.cabinconcerts.com / www.westmountaininn.comMAY 4 3pm Buzz Cason $25AUG 12-14 Ellis Paul @ West Mt. Inn (see above) E-Mail for info.

Coffee With Consciencewww.coffeewithconscience.org

Concert Series of WestfieldWestfield First United Methodist Church

1 East Broad Street (corner of North Ave) WestfieldShows at 8pm Price online/@door

APR 26 Carsie Blanton $19 Adv / $24 Door

Concerts at the CrossingUnitarian Universalist Church at Washington Crossing268 Washington Crossing-Pennington Road TitusvilleShows at 7:30pm www.concertsatthecrossing.com

APR 26 7:30pm An Evening with Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas, Fraser Haas $25; Children 14 and under $5.

Cozy Cabin ConcertsGreen Brook, New Jersey 732.752.5294www.facebook.com/CozyCabinConcerts

[email protected]

Darress Theatre615 Main Street, Boonton, NJ

Open Mic every third wed ea/month Sign-up: 7:30pmMore info: darresstheatre.com rocktime1.com

Ethical BrewThe Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County

687 Larch Avenue, Teaneckwww.ethicalfocus.org info: [email protected]

Heights House Concert SeriesJersey City Address given w/ reservation

www.heightshouseconcerts.com 201-310-1322All shows Sundays 2:30pm

reservations: [email protected]

The Hillside Café45 Hillside Crescent, Nutley (@ Church and Prospect St.)

Community room of Franklin Reformed ChurchDoors open: 7:30pm Shows: 8pm Admission: $12

973-667-7055 www.hillsidecafe.com

Hurdy Gurdy Folk Music Coffeehouse Fair Lawn Community Center, 10-10 20th Street, Fair Lawn Shows

at 8:00 201 384-1325 www.hurdygurdyfolk.orgPrices: member/non-member

APR 19 Joe Crookston plus Connor GarveyMAY 10 Vance Gilbert plus Honor FinneganJUN 7 Catie Curtis plus Jenna Lindbo

Mexicali Live1409 Queen Anne Road Teaneck www.mexicalilive.com

APR 5 9pm Hot Club of Cowtown $25

The Minstrel Morristown Unitarian Fellowship, 21 Normandy Hts. Rd,

Shows at 8pm 973-335-9489 $8 Cover www.folkproject.orgAPR 4 Jack Williams with The Levins11 The Bucky Pizzarelli - Ed Laub Duo18 Open Stage

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Music at the MissionWest Milford Presbyterian Church

1452 Union Valley Road West Milford 973-728-4201www.musicatthemission.org

Doors open at 7:30pm - Music starts at 8pm Adm: Non-memb Adv / Door

APR 26 Lucy Kaplansky $25 Adv / $28 Door

New Legacy Concert SeriesRingwood Public Library

30 Cannici Drive, Ringwood 973-962-6256www.ringwoodlibrary.org/newlegacy.shtml

Seating: first come, first servedAPR 6 2pm Shemekia Copeland $30

njpac1 Center Street Newark (973) 642-8989 www.njpac.org

APR 6 7pm Heart $44.65-$135.0523 8pm Ani DiFranco $66.65MAY 8 8pm Rodriquez $44.65-$101.15

Notes From Home (house concert series)

Montclair 201-214-1138 Doors open 1 hour before Concert potluck dinner www.notesfromhomenj.com

Reservations: [email protected] RSVP for locationAPR 26 FreeboMAY 20 Maia Sharp, Garrison Starr, and AG (Adrianne Gonzalez)

Outpost in the “Burbs” CoffeehouseUnitarian Church of Montclair, 67 Church Street, Montclair

(Larger shows* held at First Congregational Church of Montclair 40 South Fullerton Ave)

973-744-6560 Shows at 8:00 www.outpostintheburbs.orgAPR 3 Paul Barrere & Fred Tackett Guitarists of Little Feat

w/ guest Patrick Dyer Wolf $3225 No Fuss and Feathers Roadshow: Carolann Solebello, Karyn

Oliver, and The YaYasJUN 6 Forever Ray special guests Jazz House Kids $28.13 Indigenous $25

Princeton Folk Music SocietyConcerts at Christ Congregation Church

50 Walnut Lane in Princeton 3rd Friday of the month - 8:15 [email protected] (609) 799-0944

www.princetonfolk.orgAPR 18 The Honey DewdropsMAY 16 Tom Chapin

Sanctuary Concertswww.sanctuaryconcerts.org

Presbyterian Church, 240 Southern Boulevard, Chatham973.376.4946 [email protected]

Concerts 8pm Admission includes coffee and baked dessertsMAY 10 Marshall Crenshaw + Jim Boggia Audience Appreciation

Concert $20 (free for Pick Six)17 Modern Man and Buskin & Batteau End-of-Season Concert and

Celebration $15 (free for Pick Six)--------------------------------------------------SEP 20 An Evening With Janis Ian $30 OCT 18 Gary Wright “Dream Weaver: A Memoir” Tour $25 NOV 11 7pm Arlo Guthrie Solo Acoustic Evening SOLD OUTDEC 12 7pm Dar Williams “The Honesty Room” 20th Anniversary

Performance $30 APR 25, 2015 Archie Fisher, Jez Lowe and James Keelaghan $20

South Orange Performing Arts Center1 Sopac Way, South Orange, NY www.SOPACNow.org

APR 4 8pm Joan Osborne Acoustic Duo $35-$4011 8pm Paul Reiser (comedian) Vance Gilbert opens $35-$4012 8pm Martin Sexton $38-$58MAY 7 7:30pm Suzanne Vega $34-$509 8pm Tom Paxton & Holly Near $25-$4815 7:30pm The Mavericks $60-$85JUN 7 8pm The Smithereens $33-$60

The Society Cafe Concert SeriesAnderson Hall Unitarian Universalist Society of Ridgewood

113 Cottage Place, Ridgewood www.societycafeconcertseries.com Doors 7pm Show 8pm

Splatter ConcertsUkrainian American Cultural Center60 North Jefferson Rd., Whippany

Shows @ 7pm 973-585-7175 www.splatterconcerts.comAdm $ as listed Ages 13-17: $5 12 & under free

To order tickets, e-mail name & no. of tickets desired to: [email protected]

APR 26 Studebaker John & The Hawks $23 Adv / $25 Door

ConnecticutAcoustic Celebration

Temple Shearith Israel 46 Peaceable St Ridgefield or St. Stephen’s Church, North Hall 351 Main St

www.acousticcelebration.org(203) 431-6501 [email protected]

APR 6 The Carper Family / Amy Speace27 Ernest TroostMore TBA…

Branford Folk Coffeehouse First Congregational Church of Branford

1009 Main Street, Branford www.folknotes.org/branfordfolk Shows: 8pm nonmemb $15, memb $12, children 12 - under, $5

APR 12 Sparky and Rhonda RuckerMAY 10 Steve Gillette and Cindy Mangsen

CT FolkFirst Presbyterian Church 704 Whitney Ave, New Haven

“First Friday” Concert Series www.ctfolk.com/home.htmlGen Adm / $10 Students Door: $20 Gen Adm / $15 Students

APR 4 7pm Audition Finals for the 2014 CT Folk Festival and Green Expo w/ Bobtown, Gianna Boticelli, Jake Klar, Loose Canyons, The Meadows Brothers, Pamela Means, Paddy Mills, The Nameless Trio, Voci Angelica Trio, The Whispering Tree, Scott Wolfson and Other Heroes, You and IMAY 2 A Tribute to Simon and Garfunkel

with Hannah and Maggie and The Sea The Sea

Fairfield Theater Companywww.fairfieldtheatre.org

FTC @ The Klein Klein Memorial Auditorium910 Fairfield Avenue, Bridgeport

APR 18 8pm BB King $45-$115JUN 5 8pm Buddy Guy and Los Lobos $45, $65, $75, $85, $95

FTC on StageOne70 Sanford St., Fairfield Shows: 7:45pm

APR 3 Joe Krown Trio w/ Funky Meters Members Russell Batiste And Brian Stoltz $32

4 Poor Man’s Whiskey “Dark Side Of The Moonshine” $20 / 2-Night Pass $35

5 Poor Man’s Whiskey “A Special Tribute To The Allman Brothers Band” $20 / 2-Night Pass $35

6 Dumpstaphunk $2811, 12 Alejandro Escovedo & The Sensitive Boys $3818 Jonathan Edwards and Jon Pousette-Dart $5519 Black 47 $3223, 24 The Revivalists $2525 The Remains $35, $5526 Toubab Krewe $1727 Joan Osborne $65MAY 2 New Riders Of The Purple Sage $377 Caravan Of Thieves (7:30pm) $459 Charles Neville w/ Gent Treadly $2515 Ryan Montbleau - solo $25 JUN 4 Marcia Ball $48JUL 13 James Hunter Six $4822, 23 The Subdudes $58SEP 17 John Mayall Band $75

Norwalk Concert Hall125 East Ave, Norwalk Shows 8pm

APR 9 Southern Soul Assembly w/ JJ Grey, Anders Osborne, Marc Broussard and Luther Dickinson $35, $45, $55

JUL 18 Gordon Lightfoot $35, $55, $75

Good Folk CoffeehouseRowayton Methodist Church Fellowship Hall

Rowayton Avenue & Pennoyer Street, Rowayton (203) 866-4450 www.goodfolkcoffeehouse.com

Doors open at 7:30pm - Music starts at 8pmAdult Donation: $25 - Children 7 to 12 half price - Under 7 free

MAR 22 Ronny CoxAPR 26 Small Potatoes

Molten Java Coffee213 Greenwood Ave., Bethel

203-739-0313 www.moltenjavaevents.comAPR 12, MAY 10, JUN 14, AUG 23, SEP 20, OCT 18, NOV 22

8pm My Dad’s TruckAPR 13, MAY 11, JUN 15, AUG 24, SEP 21, OCT 19, NOV 23

2pm Bill WisnowskiDEC 14 2pm My Dad’s Truck’s annual Children of Christmas

show with Bonnie Wisnowski and Santa

The Ridgefield Playhouse80 East Ridge Ridgefield 203-438-5795

www.ridgefieldplayhouse.com

The Sounding BoardThe Universalist Church of West Hartford,

433 Fern Street, West Hartfordhttp://www.folknotes.org 860-635-7685

Doors 7pm Music 8pm Adv tix: www.brownpapertickets.com reservations or more info: [email protected]

Adm: gen. / mem. Children 12 and under $8APR 5 The Kennedys $TBA12 Nora Jane Struthers & The Party Line $TBA19 Walt Michael & Co. $TBA26 Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem $TBAMAY 10 Red Molly (At The Unitarian Society Of Hartford) $TBA17 The Portable Folk Music Festival $TBA31 The Dulcimer Association - Benefit for the Sounding Board (at The

Unitarian Society) $TBA

The Vanilla Bean CafeCorner of Rts 44, 169 & 97 Pomfret (860)928-1562

www.thevanillabeancafe.comAPR 4 Carolann Solebello 5 Heather Maloney 11 Lisa Martin and Marc Douglas Berardo12 Aine Minogue19 Chelsea Berry26 Andrew McKnight 27 Ellis Paul MAY 2 Curtis Brand 3 Brooks Williams 9 Lisa Martin 10 Kevin Briody 17 Joel Cage 24 Lui Collins 31 Atwater-Donnelly JUN 6 Ian Fitzgerald 7 Marc Berger 13 Lisa Martin 14 Carolyn Walker21 Ninesixteen 28 Steve Tilston JUL 12 Marina Evans

Voices CaféThe Unitarian Church 10 Lyons Plains Road Westport

203-227-7205 x14 www.voicescafe.orgAll Shows 8pm; Reserved seating for groups of 4+

Adm: Adv / DoorAPR 12 The No Fuss and Feathers RoadshowMAY 10 Cheryl WheelerJUN 14 TBA

Please call ahead or check venue websites before attending shows.Not responsible for typographical

errors or late performance changes

Richard Cuccaro, PublisherViki Peterman, Treasurer

Lyn Hottes, Contributing Editor

Unitarian Church of Montclair 67 Church Street, Montclair Shows at 8:00 973-744-6560 www.outpostintheburbs.org (Larger shows* held at

First Congregational Church of Montclair 40 South Fullerton Ave)

APR 3 Paul Barrere & Fred Tackett Guitarists of Little Feat w/ guest Patrick Dyer Wolf $32

25 No Fuss and Feathers Roadshow: Carolann Solebel-lo, Karyn Oliver, and The YaYas

JUN 6 Forever Ray special guests Jazz House Kids $28.13 Indigenous $25

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