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JOHN STATZ/ HAYWARD WILLIAMS

One of the more prolific and hard-working young songwriters working in the Americana genre, JOHN STATZ has released seven studio albums, and performed all over North America (including Canada and Mexico) and Europe, all in just a shade over a decade. Throughout that time he’s been writing the kind of songs that float through your […]

$10

SONG CIRCLE w/ TRICIA ALEXANDER

Round robin song circle led by TRICIA ALEXANDER– (performer, poet, healer, “with a voice, music and lyrics that resonate the heart”) done informally, not from the stage, no microphones. This is a lovely gathering of singers, songwriters, musicians and music appreciators, poets, and storytellers held regularly on the last Thursday of each month (except sometimes). Traditional Round […]

$5

CLAUDIA SCHMIDT

More than 4 decades as a touring professional have found Michigan native CLAUDIA SCHMIDT traversing North America as well as Europe in venues ranging from intimate clubs to 4,000 seat theatres, and festival stages in front of 25,000 rapt listeners. She has recorded nineteen albums of mostly original songs, exploring folk, blues, and jazz idioms featuring […]

$20

POETRY READING to celebrate NATIONAL POETRY MONTH

The Friends of Lorine Niedecker and the Dwight Foster Public Library are pleased to host 3 local, award-winning poets. Marilyn Annucci is the author of The Arrows That Choose Us, winner of the 2018 Press 53 Award for Poetry, and two chapbooks - Waiting Room, winner of the 2012 Sunken Garden Poetry Prize (Hill-Stead Museum), […]