Common Ground Coffeehouse is a monthly music and performing arts series (usually) held at the First Unitarian Society of Westchester in Hastings-on-Hudson NY. It was founded as an effort to build community and to support regional and national musicians and other artists. Since 2005, Common Ground has used its profits to operate the Common Ground Microcredit Fund. The fund raised has raised over $20,000 for local, regional and global community groups and organizations that provide either much needed social services or work toward progressive, nonviolent social change. For more information on Common Ground’s social justice mission, and to learn more about the Common Ground Microcredit Fund, please click here.

Now in our eigth year, Common Ground has hosted such beloved national and regional artists as Chris Smither, The Holmes Brothers, Kimya Dawson, Jen Chapin, Guy Davis, Sloan Wainwright, The Kennedys, Red Molly, Emma’s Revolution, Great Lake Swimmers, Nerissa and Katryna Nields, Rachelle Garniez, and many more. For many years, Common Ground was a regular stop on the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival’s Annual Most Wanted Preview Tour. In addition to traditional and modern folk artists and singer-songwriters, we frequently feature other musical genres, such as jazz, blues, cajun-zydeco, popular song, R&B, and even the occasional evening of avant garde gamelan music!

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POSTPONED!

Hi all,

Due to the oncoming storm (of apparently “historic” proportions) the Common Ground holiday show is postponed. We’ll be announcing a new date shortly. Have a happy and safe holiday.

Carter

December 19th, 2009, 7:30 pm

Common Ground Holiday Celebration

with Richard Slade, also The First U Rock and Soul Revue



Tickets: $15 for adults and $12 for seniors (60+) and students (12+); kids under 12, free

January 30th, 2010, 7:30 pm

Susan Werner

“Susan Werner, a clever songwriter and an engaging performer, brings literacy and wit back to popular song.” -The New Yorker

“(Werner is) a songwriter and musician who is in such complete command of her gifts that it’s almost scary.” -All Music Guide

With 6 albums under her belt, an active touring career throughout the U.S. and a string of accolades from the likes of The Washington Post, The Village Voice and The New Yorker, Susan Werner has become one of the defining artists of the folk music genre. Her songs effortlessly slide between folk, jazz and pop, and are delivered with a sassy wit and classic midwestern charm.

Over the course of her colorful career, singer songwriter Susan Werner has cultivated a reputation as a daring and innovative songwriter with a killer live show. She boldly endeavors to weave old with new to create altogether new genres of music when existing ones do not suit her muse, and she regularly keeps audiences guessing and laughing simultaneously. Most of her work infuses traditional music styles and methods with her unmistakable contemporary worldview, constantly challenging listeners to experience music from a fresh and unexpected perspective. Susan Werner’s new release Classics asks no less of her distinguished audience or herself.

With Classics, Werner delivers entirely new string arrangements of mainstream popular songs by top songwriters from a “classical” pop era – the sixties and seventies. Drawing on her unique training as a classical vocalist (she has a master’s degree in music history and voice performance), and the diverse talents of esteemed Boston Symphony and Pops players, Classics sets a mood that highlights elegance and sophistication previously overlooked in the first lives of songs like Paul Simon’s A Hazy Shade of Winter, Marvin Gaye’s Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology), Paul McCartney’s Maybe I’m Amazed and America’s Lonely People.

Tickets: $20 for adults and $18 for seniors (60+) and students (12+); kids under 12, free

Saturday, February 27th, 2010, 7:30 pm

The Western Wind

Concert will be held at South Presbyterian Church, Dobbs Ferry NY

The Western Wind, currently celebrating its 40th anniversary, embraces a repertory that includes a huge range of music from Renaissance motets to rock ‘n’ roll, from medieval carols to early American music to the avant garde.

“A kaleidoscopic tapestry of vocal hues… Long may The Western Wind blow; long may its sounds renew and challenge us “
—The New York Times

“…versatility…virtuousity…a stunning concert.” — The Los Angeles Times

Since 1969, the internationally acclaimed vocal sextet, The Western Wind, has devoted itself to the special beauty and variety of a cappella music. The Ensemble’s repertoire reveals its diverse background – from Renaissance motets to Fifties rock ‘n’ roll, from medieval carols to Duke Ellington, from complex works by avant-garde composers to the simplest folk melodies.

In addition to maintaining a demanding performance schedule, which has included such venues as Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, ArtPark, The Ordway Theater, The Metropolitan Museum, The Frick Museum, The Jewish Museum, Folger Shakespeare Library, Library of Congress, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Western Wind regularly conducts Workshops in Ensemble Singing. The workshops, attended by vocalists ranging from novice to professional, address the particular challenges of singing in small, largely un-conducted ensembles.

As part of its non-profit mission to spread the joy of music to people of all ages, The Western Wind coordinates a highly-acclaimed arts-in-education program in the New York City public school system called The Western Wind Goes To School for children ages 8-18. The curriculum ranges from the fundamentals of music notation and rhythm to highly-refined interpretation of challenging vocal repertoire.

Since 1989, The Western Wind has produced a series of radio programs distributed throughout the United States by National Public Radio and Public Radio International. The programs address topics ranging from settings of love songs throughout the centuries to a musical narrative of the Jewish High Holy Days.

The Western Wind has also produced nineteen recordings, eleven of which have been released on Western Wind Records, the group’s own record label, distributed in the US and Canada by Albany Music Distributors.

Tickets: $20 for adults and $18 for seniors (60+) and students (12+); kids under 12, free

Friday, March 5th, 8 pm

Common Ground Downtown at Friday Night Live Presents

Catherine Russell

with Mark Shane, piano

[Cat Russell] hits a rove (or as she calls it “the pocket”) from note one on whatever she sings. From blues to ballads – and in swingers that make me want to dance (if only I knew how) – she tells an unusual variety of stories, as if she was living them. And she has.” — Nat Hentoff, in The Wall Street Journal

Catherine Russell is a native New Yorker, born with an enviable musical pedigree. Her father, the late Luis Russell, was born in Panama and moved to New Orleans and then New York City, becoming a pioneering pianist/bandleader, and Louis Armstrong’s long-time musical director. Her mother, Carline Ray, is an outstanding bassist and vocalist and holder of advanced degrees from Juilliard and Manhattan School of Music, who has performed with Mary Lou Williams and Wynton Marsalis. Not surprisingly considering her roots, Catherine Russell is a one of a kind vocalist. She has toured the world, performing and recording with a wide array of trend setting artists, including Paul Simon, David Bowie, Steely Dan, Cyndi Lauper, Jackson Browne, Michael Feinstein, Carrie Smith, and Rosanne Cash.

Since the 2006 release of her debut album, Cat, on Harmonia Mundi’s World Village label, Catherine Russell has been making fans and friends and grabbing listeners by the ear. “She is a fresh and original voice. The most exciting debut album I’ve heard in a long time.” writes New York Sun critic and Sinatra biographer, Will Friedwald, who picked Cat among his top 10 cds of the year. “It’s a delight to hear the real thing in Catherine Russell.”, writes Nat Hentoff in The Wall Street Journal.

Ms. Russell has been a hit on major events like Rochester Int’l Jazz Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival, Bern International Jazz Festival, JVC-New York Jazz Festival, Detroit International Jazz Festival, Tanglewood Jazz Festival, Lotus Festival, and at premier venues like The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Sculler’s in Boston, The Dakota in Minneapolis, and The Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, and Yoshi’s in San Francisco. She has appeared on the nationally syndicated shows Mountain Stage, JazzSet on NPR, Studio 360, and The Tavis Smiley Show on PBS-TV. Reviews and profiles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Phoenix, Living Blues, Blues Review, Downbeat, Goldmine, No Depression, Boston Herald, Newark Star Ledger, JazzTimes, Chicago Sun Times, and many more.

Cat spent weeks on JazzWeek magazine’s chart for national airplay, while Back O Town Blues was a top 10 download on I-Tunes Jazz Chart. National Public Radio’s top 5 jazz cd’s of 2006 included Cat, as chosen by WBGO dj’s.

Catherine Russell’s 2nd album on World Village, Sentimental Streak, hit the streets on February 12, 2008, to universal acclaim, becoming a world-wide favorite of critics and fans alike. Catherine appeared on Late Night with Conan O’Brien on NBC-TV, Fresh Air with Terry Gross on NPR, Beale Street Caravan, and in concert on CBC-Radio in Canada. Her 2nd cd reached the #3 position on I-Tunes Jazz Chart, while also charting on Billboard’s Jazz Chart, JazzWeek, and Living Blues Radio Chart. She recently won a prestigeous German Record Critics’ Award in the Jazz category and Living Blues magazine’s 2008 critics’ poll as “Artist Deserving More Attention.” L’Acadamie du Jazz in France chose Sentimental Streak as finaliste for Prix du Jazz Vocal 2008, while Grammy Award winning writer and jazz critic Francis Davis picked Sentimental Streak as Vocal Album of the Year in the 2008 Village Voice Jazz Critics Poll!

Catherine Russell is that rarest of entities – a genuine jazz and blues singer – who can sing virtually anything. Her voice is full blown feminity incarnate; a dusky, stalwart and soulful instrument that radiates interpretive power yet remains touchingly vulnerable. She launches fearlessly into each tune, getting inside the melody and capturing every emotion. Whether she’s shimmying through a barrell house stomper, channeling fifties R&B, dragging her weary heart through a torchy juke joint number, or kicking up her heels honky tonk style, Ms. Russell can stand comparison to her greatest forebears.

Ms. Russell will be accompanied on piano by Mark Shane, whose  jazz piano is firmly rooted in the swinging tradition of jazz piano masters James P. Johnson, Fats Waller, Teddy Wilson, Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Count Basie, Earl Hines and Art Tatum. Shane was house pianist in New York’s Eddie Condon’s jazz club and has played with Benny Goodman and many all star alumni from the great bands of Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller. Shane has been featured on radio and television jazz special broadcasts and has appeared as a featured soloist at major jazz festivals worldwide. He has toured for Columbia Artists and with the Smithsonian Jazz Repertory Ensemble. Featured in the 50th anniversary Benny Goodman memorial concert in Carnegie Hall, Shane has also played jazz piano for the Twyla Tharp Dance Company as well as for the Grammy
Award winning soundtrack, The Cotton Club, and other films.

Tickets: $18 for adults and $15 for seniors (60+) and students (12+); kids under 12, free

March 27th, 2010

Special Double Bill!

Winterpills and KaiserCartel

While KaiserCartel look like a couple of emo kids who have lost their way don’t be deceived, they certainly bring their own brand sunshine with them and that reflected light is as warm and inviting as anything you’ll find.. A fantastic collection of songs from two people that know how to play with each other and for each other. My album of the year so far. – 411mania.com

KaiserCartel are the dynamic duo of Courtney Kaiser & Benjamin Cartel. Each previously leaders of their own indie bands, they met on March 4th four years ago and formed KaiserCartel when they joined forces to tour the country that summer.  They self-released an EP (Double Standard) and toured throughout the US and UK on their own before signing to bluhammock music late last year. March Forth, their debut album – was produced by Matt Hales (aka aqualung) and mixed by Matt and Ken Thomas (Sigur Ros) – and is full of low-fi, harmony-heavy, bittersweet songs full of charm. KaiserCartel is currently on tour and intend to stay there until they’ve played for all of you.

“This Massachusetts band [makes] lush, off-kilter pop-rock in which nothing makes sense but everything sounds wondrous.”   – USA TODAY on Winterpills

“Pain, sadness and fractious circumstances are an inescapable fact of life; Winterpills’ music doesn’t seek to amplify the hurt as place it in life affirming settings of richly articulated melodies and carefully rendered arrangements.” – Paste Magazine

Critically praised as a mirror of sorrows and a beacon of hope, the music of Winterpills – true to its name – is medicine for weary hearts.

At the core of Central Chambers, their newest album and third overall, the Northampton, Mass. quintet maintains its signature chamber-indie ambience while exploring new grounds sonically and lyrically. In it, you’ll hear production running the gamut from boombox lo-fi to crisp studio sonorousness; dense rockers balanced by quiet hymns; and an overall diversity in instruments and textures. All of this backs the wandering words of songwriter Philip Price, and here we can see him condensing his meditative lyrical approach into mantras contemplating the frailty of humanity.

A performer with a background in 90s powerpop (The Maggies) as well as solo-acoustic songwriting, Price sought something of a middle ground. Woodshedding sessions in the winter of 2004 led him and friends Flora Reed (piano, vocals), Dennis Crommett (guitar) and Dave Hower (drums) to become Winterpills, crafting a neat balance of heartrending lyrics, lush pop and dreamy guy-girl harmonies. Their self-titled debut, released in November of 2005, drew numerous comparisons to Elliott Smith, Ida and 60s torchbearers like Simon and Garfunkel and Neil Young. It was hailed as “a disc of faultless, sparkling indie pop” by NPR’s David Dye, while No Depression called it “alternately sad, cynical and deeply moving.” Soon the band recruited bassist Brian Akey and returned to writing and recording. Their stunning follow-up, The Light Divides, was released in February of 2007 to much acclaim, described by The Boston Globe as “dusky, quietly ripping folk-pop that sounded at once intimate and universal.” It was dubbed “painfully pretty” and “sublime” by the Philadelphia Daily News, and The Washington Post said “Price’s lyrics are densely packed but hugely evocative, tiny bombs of feeling and meaning.”

Tickets: $18 for adults and $15 for seniors (60+) and students (12+); kids under 12, free

April 10th, 2010, 7:30 pm

The Grateful Strings

A Tribute to the Grateful Dead

The Grateful Strings come together in celebration the Grateful Dead. The band consists of Craig Graham on lead guitar, Robert Politzer on rhythm guitar, Von Cello on the acoustic cello, Joe Deninson on violin, Kyle Esposito on bass guitar, Chris Lyons on drums, Jeremy Beck on keyboards, and Karina Anillo on vocals.

Lead guitarist Craig Graham grew up on his mother’s jazz, R&B and soul records and his older brother’s rock and roll. A graduate of Berklee College of Music in Boston, he has studied with such great artists as Pat Metheny, Michael Brecker and Dave Creamer.

Joe Deninzon has established himself as a versatile, on-demand electric and acoustic violinist, mandolinist, guitarist, singer and composer. A musician who transcends many genres, he has recorded and performed with a variety of artists including Sheryl Crow, Everclear, Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple, Smokey Robinson, Johnny Matthis, Les Paul, Phoebe Snow, Jane Monheit, and Robert Bonfiglio. He has appeared in Lincoln Center’s Meet the Artist program, as a soloist with the New York Chamber Ensemble, has performed on MTV and at the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame, and has played for former President Clinton.

Aaron Minksy (aka Von Cello) is a noted rock cellist. He began his career as a guitarist, influenced by Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa and Jerry Garcia, before transfering his knowledge of rock guitar to the cello. Minsky has performed with the Caracas Philharmonic of Venezuela and the Virginia Opera, and in venues as diverse as CBGBs and Carnegie Hall.

A Berklee College of Music grad, Kyle Esposito has studied and performed music for over 25 years, working steadily as a bandleader on both bass and guitar. Performing and recording with George Baker (former guitarist and music director for Marvin Gaye) solidified his approach to the blues and R&B, while his own band, Fourth House blended rock with jazz-influenced harmony. He is currently guitarist fo the Meg Johnson Band and can be found playing fretless bass in Less Deluxe, an improvisational trio.

In addition to offering private drum instruction, drummer Chris Lyons plays with both The Langley Project as well as with the Marc Sincavage Band. Like Kyle Espisito, he was also a member of George Baker’s group.

Keyboard player Jeremy Beck leads the JBECKBAND and is owner of Beck Productions, LLC. He has just finished producing Jack Zerby’s “Clarity” and is currently playing keyboards for acclaimed guitarist and producer George Petit.

Vocalist Karina Anillo attended the American Musical Dramatic Academy in New York City, has performed in Off-Broadway musicals, done voice-over work, and is founder of her own jazz combo, Sultry Vibes, which performs throughout the New York area.

Robert Politzer, on rhythm guitar, is the man who conceived of this special evening, and together with Craig Graham, has put together this accomplished group. Robert is a singer/songwriter and long time Grateful Dead fan and has been playing gigs with Craig Graham and Aaron Minsky under the name of the Grateful Trio.

All the money in the world will not buy Deadheads one more Grateful Dead show, but this concert aims to recreate some of the experience. Long live the Grateful Dead!

Tickets: Adults, $20, Seniors (60+) and Students (12+), $15, Kids under 12, free

April 24th, 2010, 7:30 pm

Uncle Monk

featuring Tommy Ramone and Claudia Tienan,
also appearing Spuyten Duyvil

“There is life after the Ramones, but who knew that its sound would be bluegrass? Tommy Ramone plays a mean mandolin in this new acoustic duo, singing tautly written songs with tenderness about the comforts and subtle politics of home life.” —The New York Times

“[Spuyten Duyvil  covers] the whole spectrum of Americana— Civil War, early Americana (like in Colonial). Great arrangements and beautiful harmonies. They hit on something very special here and I love it. I’m having them back. Trust me.” —Elliott Glick, Starving Artist Café, City Island

Tommy Ramone began his musical career as Tom Erdelyi an engineer at the Record Plant recording studios. In the musical doldrums of the 70’s he, along with the great JOHNNY, JOEY AND DEE DEE RAMONE, formed the rock group RAMONES and participated in the birth of New Wave, Punk Rock, and Alternative music. As manager, producer and drummer for the band, Tommy Ramone helped create the sound, style and ideology for what was to become modern rock. As an independent record producer Ramone has worked on recordings that include the single, Love Goes to A Building On Fire by TALKING HEADS, and the albums, Neurotica by REDD KROSS, Too Tough To Die by the RAMONES, and Tim by THE REPLACEMENTS, the later voted one of the best albums of the year by the writers of Rolling Stone, Record, The Village Voice, and The LA Times.

Claudia Tienan, formerly with the group THE SIMPLISTICS, is a partner with Tommy Ramone in Uncle Monk. Her penetrating lyrics and haunting vocals add facets and dimension to the songs. The music of the two artists complement each other. There is a Yin and Yang sensibility at work, a touch of light and dark, of bitter and sweet.

Opening the evening will be Spuyten Duyvil, a group whose original Alternative Roots sound wanders the last 100 years of American music conjuring embittered civil war veterans, recalcitrant small town bawds, suicidal bureaucrats, star crossed lovers and brave hearted fools navigating the mysteries of daily life more at www.spuytenduyvilmusic.com

Tickets: $18 for adults and $15 for seniors (60+) and students (12+); kids under 12, free

May 22nd, 2010, 7:30 pm

Tracy Grammer

“Tracy Grammer is a brilliant artist and unique individual. Her voice is distinctive, as is her mastery over the instruments she plays.” —Joan Baez

“One of the finest pure musicians anywhere in folkdom.” —The Boston Globe

Born in Homestead, Florida and raised in southern California, Grammer comes from a musical family. Cousin Leo Fortin played double trumpets in Lawrence Welk’s band, while her grandmothers and mother played keyboards and accordion. But it was her guitar-playing father who was her first true inspiration.

“When Dad used to get out his lap steel and electric guitars, we’d invite the neighborhood kids over and sing country songs. I’d sit across from my dad and read the music upside-down so I could turn the pages for him. I developed an ear for harmony early on and hardly ever sang the melody,” she muses, “and it drove my little brother crazy.”

At the age of nine, Grammer began choral and classical violin studies and led regional and school orchestras until she left home for the University of California, Berkeley. Once there, she gave up music while earning an English literature degree and serving as an administrator and graphic designer for the University.

During a semester off, Grammer’s father introduced her to Curtis Coleman, formerly of the New Christy Minstrels. Coleman invited her to perform with him at local pub and coffeehouse shows. Grammer had recorded a few songs in tourist booths at San Francisco’s Pier 39, but getting up on stage with Coleman was pivotal. “Performing revived a part of me that felt like it had been dormant for eternities,” says Grammer. “I had abandoned music for several years and couldn’t for the life of me figure out why.” That fall, she took up the guitar, dusted off her violin, and began in earnest to hone her craft.

Grammer returned to school and co-founded the pop band Juicy in the mid-1990’s with friend David Noble. Grammer discovered talents for mixing and arranging, and a love for recording, when the band went into the studio to put together its first and only demo. “I was so new to recording that I expected to take a passive, watch-and-learn role, but before I knew it, I was twiddling knobs and directing edits that significantly improved the songs. It was an insanely creative time, and I was fascinated and fearless, and the guys supported me one hundred per cent. That made all the difference.”

Grammer saw Dave Carter perform at a songwriter showcase in February 1996, just weeks after she moved to Portland, Oregon. “Here were stories that could stand alone as poetry, sung with compassion, intelligence, and a hint of Texas twang. Dave’s entire presentation felt like home to me. I knew instantly that I was in the presence of greatness; I knew I had received my calling in life.” They met on the way out the door, and within weeks were working up material with a band. They began touring in late 1997 and during the summer of 1998, recorded their first album, WHEN I GO, in the kitchen of Grammer’s apartment. [See The Dave & Tracy Story for more.]

Folk music authority Andrew Calhoun of Waterbug Records comments: “No one sings Dave Carter’s songs better than Tracy. He chose her to be the voice of his songs. His vision, their vision, was that they shared something they both saw. She is half the reason why they were great.”

Grammer is currently touring in support of FLOWER OF AVALON (Signature Sounds 2005), her much anticipated solo debut. In January 2006, that album showed up on “Best of” lists and listener polls around the country, and was the #1 most-played album on folk radio across the United States for 2005. We call this a triumph — a testament to the enduring appeal of Carter’s songwriting, and a sign of good things to come for Grammer as she continues on her solo career.

Flower of Avalon includes nine previously-unreleased songs by the late Dave Carter and one traditional tune, re-worked by Oregon professor Wm. Jolliff. Multi-tasking masterfully as co-producer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist, Grammer digs deep into the spirit of Carter’s poetic verses and haunting melodies to color each song with textures and flourishes that blur the boundaries of categorization. Paired with Grammer’s voice — emotive, warm and versatile — the songs on Flower of Avalon are nothing less than visionary. Mary Chapin Carpenter sings harmony on three cuts and wrote the liner notes for the record. Carpenter writes, “Tracy’s continuing quest to make sure that the world remembers Dave Carter marks a new beginning of artistry for her. We are lucky that she is so brave, generous and gifted.” Flower of Avalon is produced by Grammer and John Jennings (Mary Chapin Carpenter, Indigo Girls).

Tracy Grammer tours internationally with songwriter/multi-instrumentalist
Jim Henry (Deb Talan, Mark Erelli, The Burns Sisters). With acoustic and electric guitars, beautifully matched voices, dobro, mandolin and violin, this duo shares original songs, instrumentals, and pays homage to Carter and other stellar writers while charting a brand new course for themselves in the musical landscape. Grammer says, “I’ll keep on singing, and I’ll keep on telling my story, however that evolves. Working with Dave Carter was the first step on what I hope is going to be a long and fruitful road for me: the endless quest for authenticity through music.”

Tickets: $18 for adults and $15 for seniors (60+) and students (12+); kids under 12, free

June 5th, 2010

Terence Martin

Born in London and raised in Los Angeles, singer/songwriter/poet Terence Martin moved East in 1997 to become part of the flourishing NY acoustic music scene. His musical background includes performing as a double bassist in the Burbank Symphony and in several touring rock bands. Also a published poet, his poetry  is included in the anthology, “Four Valley Poets.”

Terence recently released his 5th independent CD, Even Trade, on the Good Dog Music label. The new collection of 12 original songs features the artist’s most personal and ambitious work to date, sophisticated and spiritual in tone, with roots in folk, Americana and pop. Seven of the songs were written with long time collaborator, Gregory Hicks. From themes of freedom vs responsibility and revisiting the past, to loves lost and found, the new release joins a finely crafted  body of work, rich with poetic imagery and stellar musicianship. Sing Out magazine says: “If you’re a connoisseur of exceptional songwriters, this CD is essential for your collection.”

Even Trade was produced by Terence and Dennis Hrbek and features performances by Jim Allyn on mandolin, guitar & accordion, Clifford Carter on piano, Rick Gedney on guitar and Dan Bonis on slide guitar, Brian Nesgoda on drums, Amy Berkson on harmony vocals and Gordon Roehrer & Joe Dochtermann on bass.

Terence’s previous CDs, Lost Hills, Sleeper, Waterproof & his debut, Division Street have all received national radio airplay & excellent reviews. “Familiar Mysteries”, a song from Waterproof, was selected for the title track on the second CD from the Garland Appeal, the charity for breast cancer research started in memory of Linda McCartney and sanctioned by her husband Paul McCartney.

Terence has shared the stage with an impressive line-up of national acts, including Rosanne Cash, Roger McGuinn, Christine Lavin, Dar Williams, and Richie Havens. He’s performed on the Most Wanted Stage at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, been a New Folk winner at the NJ Folk Festival, a finalist in the 2006 Mountain Stage New Song Contest, received honorable mention in the Mid Atlantic Song Contest for “East of the River” and performed at the 2006 Boston Folk Festival.