Tom Quigley & Friends – brings local talent to finish the Cranberry season for 2006-2007. Tom is a multi-talented musician who brings his skills to the many musical styles he performs. You may hear, Bluegrass, Old-Timey, Contemporary, Country, and who knows what else! We can’t think of a better way to finish out the year!

The Cranberry Coffeehouse presents Keep On Kipling. Heather Wood, David Kleiman, and Ken Schatz present an evening largely from the "songs" of English poet and writer Rudyard Kipling, in addition to music from the folk traditions of the UK and US.

 

Although best know for his Just So Stories, Jungle Book, and Captains Courageous, If , and Gunga Din, Kipling wrote a great many "song lyrics." These lyrics were eventually set to melodies by the late English folk singer and revivalist Peter Bellamy. Bellamy decided to use traditional, and in some cases his original melodies, to set poems Kipling had written throughout his life, and continued setting the poems until his own death in 1991. The subjects are varied, and range from the sublime to the somewhat silly.

 

The performers offer their expertise and experience with traditional music of the UK and US, as well as Kipling's works to bring an evening that is sure to be informative, enlightening, as well as extremely entertaining.

 

HEATHER WOOD was a singing partner of Peter Bellamy who, along with Royston Wood, made up The Young Tradition that served as a cornerstone of the "second generation" of the British Folk Revival. She has toured extensively in a variety of settings with a many groups over the years, and currently sings with Tom Gibney and David Jones as Poor Old Horse, as well as solo. Along the way, she has organized clubs and concerts, acted as agent and manager for other artists, and co-edited The Grass Roots International Folk Resource Directory. She was the project editor on the newly released "English and Scottish Popular Ballads digital edition)". She has also written the occasional song. She retains the YT's attitude to traditional music: that it should be enjoyed and not enshrined.

 

KEN SCHATZ is a singer and arranger of traditional and roots music - sea songs and chanteys, gospel, blues, ballads, and work songs - Ken has performed with many world-renowned musicians at folk music clubs, festivals, and concert venues. He sings with Alison Kelley as THE NEXTRADITION, and is recording his first solo album: ROWDY SOUL. Ken is also an actor, director, acting teacher and coach.

 

DAVID KLEIMAN, a multi-instrumentalist and educator, has been hanging around the folk-music scene most of his life. He has been a working chantey-man, served as crew on the sloop Clearwater and as a performer and impresario in the music field he has performed throughout the US, Canada, Europe, and Israel both solo and with ensembles such as Water Sign, Children of Lyr, and Mor B'samim. He is director of the choral group Songs-For-All-Seasons and now earns his keep as a multi-media publisher in folk music and folklore.

Cranberry Coffeehouse Irish Open Mic Night - In honor of St. Patrick’s Day the Cranberry Coffeehouse will offer an Irish Sing-a-round. We’ll use the local talents to celebrate the wearin’ o’ the green. Bring your favorite food, song, recitation, or dance, and enjoy the traditional Irish food, and music. No snakes, please.

The Great Bear Trio is quickly becoming one of the most exciting and talked about contra dance bands in the nation. Great Bear again brings their unique brand of high-energy folk music to the Cranberry. Brothers Andrew and Noah Van Norstrand, still in their teens, display a mature and seasoned musicality beyond their years. The GBT are multi-instrumentalists, and the new songs will make for a wonderful concert.

The GBT is an exciting and energetic family band from Fulton, NY. Since the spring of 2000 these three talented musicians have been performing their unique blend of Celtic, French-Canadian, Scandinavian and Appalachian music at concerts, festivals, schools and dance halls across the Northeast - including an appearance on A Prairie Home Companion. For The Great Bear Trio's website [click].

Sunday, December 10th - (Special Presentation) Nowell Sing We Clear in the Sanctuary of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation. Time: 2 o'clock. Nowell Sing We Clear celebrates Christmas as it was known for centuries in Britain and North America and as it continues in many places to the present. The songs come from an age when the midwinter season was a time for joyous celebration and vigorous expression of older, perhaps pagan, religious ideas. While much of the singing is done in unaccompanied style, the pageant is also stamped with the energetic dance band sound of fiddle, button accordion, electric piano, drums, and concertina. Nowell are John Roberts, Tony Barrand, Fred Breunig and Andy Davis. This is not to be missed.

Note: there will be no regular Saturday Cranberry Coffeehouse on December 16th.

Saturday, November 18th - Phil Shapiro and Carrie Shore choose fascinating, energetic songs from the last couple of hundred years of American traditional folk song, and add newer songs written squarely in the folk tradition. Carrie has a super repertoire of fiddle tunes, good to dance to, perhaps to waltz to, that she skillfully interweaves between and within the songs. Phil is a fine finger-style guitarist, creative and lively, good at getting his guitar to "talk," to be part of the song and the story. Carrie Shore is not only a fine musician, but also a skilled singer and enchanting harmonizer.

Together they offer an unusual and delightful program of American folk music, old and new. No, they're not singer-songwriters. They're not soft rock contemporary acoustic performers. No, they're not grinding a political ax. Phil Shapiro and Carrie Shore are American folk musicians, and proud of it.

The Cranberry welcomes Phil and Carrie to our November coffeehouse.

Tom Akstens and Neil Rossi have explored the nooks and crannies of old-time country music, country blues and honky-tonk for four decades. They are two friends who came out of the Cambridge and Newport folk revival of the 1960s. For a time they played together, then went their separate ways, only to reunite time and again. They are an irresistible mix of old-time string band music, roadhouse tear-jerkers, country blues and ragtime, original songs and back-porch humor

The Cranberry Coffeehouse is pleased to present this seasoned duo for the second session of the 2006-2007 musical season.

Pamela Goddard and Dave Ruch are both long-time upstate NY artists, but they have musical interests and talents which span a broader spectrum.

A writer and dance caller, traditionally influenced a Capella singer Pamela Goddard lives in Ithaca, NY. For the past 30 years she's learned traditional songs from both sides of the Atlantic and is now focusing on the songs of New York State and New England.

Equal parts historian, entertainer, educator, comedian and folklorist, Dave Ruch finds his song material in dusty archives, obscure song books, diaries, old recordings, scholarly journals and sometimes from his own children, and brings these gems to life in a most entertaining style.

The Cranberry Coffeehouse presents Pamela and Dave as two remarkable opening acts for the 2006-2007 musical season.