Welcome to The Good Coffeehouse Music Parlor, Brooklyn's home for acoustic roots music. This is our 33rd season, and we hope you come share it with us.
Artists who have performed at the Good Coffeehouse Music Parlor include Bob Brozman, Crooked Jades, John Cohen, Reverend Gary Davis, Mike Dowling, Ari Eisinger, Mary Flower, Paul Geremia, Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen, Alice Gerrard, David Grier, Corey Harris, John Hasbrouck, Ernie Hawkins, Ginny Hawker & Tracy Schwarz, Walter Hensley, Nick Katzman, Walt Koken, Alan Jabbour, Steve James, David Laibman, Brad Leftwich, Dale Miller, Clare Milliner, Bruce Molsky, The Orpheus Supertones, Tom Paley, Ken Perlman, James Reams & The Barnstormers, Del Rey, Tom Sauber, Bill Staines, Rafe Stefanini, The Sullivan Family, Pat Wictor, among many others.
Music starts at 8:00 PM
Doors open at: 7:30 PM
NOTE: NO VIDEO OR AUDIO RECORDING WITHOUT PERMISSION OF ARTIST AND VENUE
September 21, 2007 CLOSED-Yom Kippur
September 28, 2007 Adults: $10 | Kids: $6 Singer-Songwriters Toby Fagenson and Bruce Markow
Toby Fagenson (cdbaby.com/cd/fagenson) is a singer, songwriter, parodist and instrumentalist. His main influences include Frank Sinatra, Pete Seeger and Allan Sherman. His original songs cover many styles within the folk and pop fields and include topical songs as well as some witty parodies of favorite songs - all of which he performs with relish and charm. Alternative-folk singer-songwriter Bruce Markow (brucemarkow.com) writes and performs with passion, playfulness and finely honed craftsmanship. His uplifting rock, pop, jazz and Afro-Brazilian-infused songs deftly explore the wonders and woes of growing more fully alive.
October 5, 2007 Adults: $15 | Kids: $6 Mike Dowling: Country Blues Guitar | Traveling Troubadour Series
Grammy-winning Mike Dowling (mikedowling.com) is quite simply one of the best guitar pickers in the universe, a virtuoso in country blues, slide and swing styles. For years a sought-after session player in Nashville, Mike has released seven CDs, teaches at guitar camps nationwide and runs his own guitar instruction program in Wyoming, where he makes his home. The late mandolin great Jethro Burns once said of Mike, "I don't play guitar when Mike is in the band. You don't take the game warden hunting."
October 12, 2007 Adults: $10 | Kids: $6 Singer-Songwriters James O'Malley and Rich Deans
James O'Malley (jamesomalley.com) is a performing songwriter who's been described as "a rare find," "a great performer" and most often as "a warm and gifted songwriter" (Music Matters Review). His eloquent songwriting and warm stage presence should take him to the highest ranks of American singer-songwriters. Singer-songwriter Rich Deans (richdeans.com) is a fixture on the thriving East Coast acoustic music scene. Recently Rich's song "Don't Dig My Grave Too Deep" was covered by rising acoustic artist Pat Wictor.
October 19, 2007 Adults: $10 | Kids: $6 Third Friday with the Park Slope Food Coop
October 26, 2007 Adults: $10 | Kids: $6 David Laibman - Ragtime Guitar
David Laibman is noted for his innovative guitar arrangements of classical ragtime. His groundbreaking 1970 Folkways album The New Ragtime Guitar with Eric Schoenberg is generally credited with launching a wave of interest in ragtime guitar picking. The program highlights both old and new ragtime compositions for guitar, including some world premieres. But it also explores a broad (ok: eclectic!) range of songs from many countries, ideas, audience involvement - in short, a good old roots-musical experience.
November 2, 2007 Adults: $10 | Kids: $6 Singer-Songwriter Bernice Lewis
Dubbed by Rosanne Cash as "one of the keepers of the flame of real songwriting," Bernice Lewis (bernicelewis.com) has been a national touring artist for more than two decades. A recording artist with six albums to her credit, she has worked with Dar Williams, Bobby McFerrin, Rosanne Cash, Guy van Duser, Peter. Paul, and Mary, the Dixie Chicks, Christine Lavin, Patty Griffin and Patty Larkin. She currently teaches songwriting at Williams College, as well as at schools and retreat centers.
November 9, 2007 Adults: $10 | Kids: $6 Bluesman Jonathan Kalb
"Jonathan Kalb's (http://jonathankalb.org) guitar playing reveals an unassuming rhythmic fluency that supports the intensity of his solo lines beautifully. Raw and graceful by turns, his solo lines do not so much fill the space as use it with economy and intelligence... the results are transcendent." -Proctor Lippincott, NY Times
November 16, 2007 Adults: $10 | Kids: $6 Third Friday with the Park Slope Food Coop
Angela Lockhart is a published poet and cultural worker whose approachto the spoken word has been noted in Glamour Magazine and The New York Times. Clara Sala is a poet and educator who has performed her work invenues from Lincoln Center to the Bowery Poetry Club and at colleges throughout the country. Lythion is a jolt to the soul where sultry melodies and lush orchestrations combine with a highly theatrical performance style to take the listener on a musical joyride. The duo ofIlyana Kadushin and James Harrell fuse bluesy torch songs and postmodern confessional music with a dollop of funk and a touch of glamrock thrown in for good measure.
November 23, 2007 CLOSED (Thanksgiving)
November 30, 2007 Adults: $15 | Kids: $6 Country Bluesman Paul Geremia | Traveling Troubadour Series
Paul Geremia's (paulgeremia.org) performances are a blend of acoustic guitar, vocals, harmonica and sometimes piano. For nearly 40 years, Paul has been surviving solely by the fruit of his musical labors. He has performed all over the USA and is just as well known in Europe, Canada and England. Paul is possibly the greatest living performer of the East Coast and Texas fingerpicking and slide styles, six and twelve strings. Covers of Blind Willie McTell, Tampa Red, Lemon Jefferson, and Blind Blake (to name just a few) will raise the hair on your neck. John Hammond says he'd drive a thousand miles to see Paul play. Enough said!
December 7, 2007 Adults: $10 | Kids: $6 Vocalist Jaquè DuPrèe
Jaquè DuPrèe, a visual/performance artist perhaps best known as one of the lead vocalists of Casselberry/DuPrèe is featured in this show as a solo artist. DuPrèe's strong contralto voice encompasses a "down-home' spirituality." She describes her music as social commentary that is "gospelized folk on the verge of country."
December 14, 2007 Adults: $10 | Kids: $6 Pat Conte/Ben Godwin: Old Songs, New Songs, Country Songs, City Songs
Ben Godwin (bengodwin.com) offers twisted cabaret tales of city life told through his grisly baritone and unique vaudeville-pop poetic: tales of beauty, struggle and hope in the chaos and filth of the sidewalks, subways and skylines. Pat Conte will feature, in this show, reworked worksongs, some original guitar tunes and possibly a field holler or two. Charles Osgood of CBS News says Pat "likes the kind of music most people have either forgotten about, or never heard in the first place."
December 21, 2007 Adults: $10 | Kids: $6 Third Friday with the Park Slope Food Coop
Adele Rollider is a singer-songwriter, music therapist and activist. "Adele's warm and beautiful voice and empowering songs make me know a better world really is possible" (Ray Korona). David Roach, founder of the Cooperating Cooperators, one of our most highly successful acts, isappearing solo.
December 28, 2007 Closed for Christmas/New Year
January 4, 2008 (closed for winter break)
January 11, 2008 (closed for winter break)
January 18, 2008 Adults: $10 | Kids: $6 Third Friday with the Park Slope Food Coop
Barry Brysen brings his hit swing band, Swing Street, back to the coffeehouse for an evening of great music and dancing, with vocals onceagain provided by Marje Wagner. Dance lessons will be available with Carolynn Murphy.
January 25, 2008 All Tickets: $15 7th Annual Night of Magic
New faces, old favorites and a few surprises will all be a part of theastonishing 7th Annual Good Coffeehouse Night of Magic. Produced by Richard Steven Cohn and hosted again by Brooklyn’s own Magical Melodions, don’t miss the show that Time Out New York magazine last year recommended as the “don’t miss” number-one pick in New YorkCity. Fantasy, Foolery and Fun! Advance tickets for this show may be purchased prior to January 25 at Park Slope Copy on 7th Av.
February 1, 2008 Adults: $15 | Kids: $6 Folk Musicians Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen – Traveling Troubadour Series
Steve Gillette is among folk's most prolific, enduring and oft-covered songwriters, whose songs have been recorded by singers from John Denverto Tammy Wynette. Cindy Mangsen is one of the finest traditional singers working today. Together, they play guitar, concertina, banjo, and fiddle, creating a captivating sound with delicate vocal harmonies.Steve and Cindy (compassrosemusic.com) have four award-winning duet CDsthe most recent is Being There) and a dozen other recordings as soloists and members of various groups.
February 8, 2008 Adults: $10 | Kids: $6 Le Nozze di Carlo - Eclectic European Music
Le Nozze di Carlo happily returns to the Good Coffeehouse Music Parlour with its blend of the traditional and modern: waltzes, polkas, tangoes, drinking songs and interpretations of Paolo Conte, Bob Marley and maybe even Pete Seeger. In Italian, French, Spanish and English without subtitles.
February 15, 2008 Adults: $10 | Kids: $6 Third Friday with the Park Slope Food Coop
Rufus Cappadocia (5-string electric cello) is one of the leading voices on the cello today. He has toured throughout the Americas and Europe with numerous groups and is known for his collaborations with artists from all over the world. In approaching the cello Barry Kornhauser draws on his parallel musical incarnations as a bass player and guitarist, thinking rhythm section first, plucking and strumming, laying down a funky skeletal harmonic foundation.
February 22, 2008 Closed for Washington’s Birthday weekend
February 29, 2008 Adults: $15 | Kids: $6 Songwriter/Performer Chuck Brodsky – Traveling Troubadour Series
Chuck Brodsky (chuckbrodsky.com) is a musical storyteller whose dry, barb-witted social commentary combines with a deep underlying compassion. His introductions to his songs can be as spellbinding as his colorful lyrics, which he brings to life with a well-traveled voice. His groove-oriented strumming and fingerpicking draw on influences from the mountains of western North Carolina where he now lives. His songwriting pokes fun at political corruption, road rage, mischief he made as a kid, even dumping garbage in the river; he sings about unsung heroes and forgotten but incredible people. In addition tobeing fixtures on the Dr. Demento show, his songs have been recorded byKathy Mattea, David Wilcox, Sara Hickman, Chuck Pyle and others. He hasperformed three concerts of his celebrated baseball story songs at the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
March 7, 2008 Adults: $15 | Kids: $6 Fingerpicking guitarist Ari Eisinger – Traveling Troubadour Series
Ari Eisinger (secondmind.com) is a dazzling fingerpicking guitarist. He specializes in the 1920s and 1930s blues and ragtime of virtuoso artists like Blind Blake, Blind Boy Fuller and Blind Lemon Jefferson. Eisinger grew up in New York and has lived in Philadelphia for many years. His first Good Coffeehouse appearance last year was one of the highlights of the season.
March 14, 2008 Adults: $15 | Kids: $6 Blues guitarist Mary Flower – Traveling Troubadour Series
Portland, Oregon-based Mary Flower (maryflower.com) has cemented her reputation on the acoustic blues circuit as an exceedingly gifted fingerpicker and singer. She’s equally adept at picking intricately syncopated Piedmont blues and ragtime and at playing melodic and bluesyslide, lap style. She’s also a sought-after teacher at guitar camps around the country. If you missed her show last year, don’t make the same mistake.
March 21, 2008 Adults: $10 | Kids: $6 Third Friday with the Park Slope Food Coop
Jezra Kaye weaves her sultry, swinging magic on a mix of jazz standards, blues and sophisticated pop. She and her great backup musicians always pack the house. Rhythm tap soloist Margaret Morrison is joined by Robin Burdulis on percussion, Jerome Harris on guitar, Lisa Parrot on sax, and other friends for an evening of tap dance and swinging jazz music. Reviewers have called her a "consummate artist whobreaks the mold."
March 28, 2008 Closed for BSEC Private Event
April 4, 2008 Adults: $10 | Kids: $6 Singer-Songwriter Tim Grimm
In his home state, Indianapolis Monthly magazine listed Tim Grimm (timgrimm.com) in their year-end "Best of Indy" issue as their singer-songwriter of choice. “The way this talented artist can paint pictures dripping of time-honored Americana images with his words cannot help but evoke comparisons to everyone from Woody Guthrie and Steve Goodman to Nebraska-era Bruce Springsteen," said Midwest Beat Magazine. His CD, The Back Fields, was named Americana Album of the Year in 2006. Tim’s show at the Good Coffeehouse two years ago was one of the most talked-about of the season.
April 11, 2008 Adults: $15 | Kids: $6 Fingerstyle guitarist Del Ray-Traveling Troubadour Series
Seattle’s Del Rey (hobemianrecords.com) is one of the best blues fingerstyle guitarists in the world. Her hot picking style on metal resonator guitar combines techniques of blues and jazz guitar and
boogie-woogie piano. Her always-entertaining shows are full of great toe-tapping music and witty banter.
April 18, 2008 Adults: $10 | Kids: $6 Third Friday with the Park Slope Food Coop
Bev Grant & the Dissident Daughters (www.bevgrant.com) is a dynamic new trio with Angela Lockhart and Carolyn Murphy, who contribute harmonies and lead vocals. They offers an eclectic mix of originals with a serious, funny, sometimes irreverent and sassy woman's point of view. Jean Rohe and her band perform an exciting mix of their own original music as well as folk music from various parts of Latin America, done with a global twist spanning from jazz and improvised music to folk music of the Balkans and Brazil.
April 25, 2008 Adults: $15 | Kids: $6 Nick Katzman – Traveling Troubadour Series
Blues and ragtime guitarist Nick Katzman (blueskatz.com) recorded a series of highly regarded albums in the 1980s for Kicking Mule records,an influential guitar record label. Critics praised him for his virtuoso picking skills and his ability to craft songs that sounded as if they’d been written in the 1920s. A native New Yorker, Katzman now lives in Germany. He’s making a rare U.S. appearance. With special guests Paul Handelman on harp and Thomasina Winslow on guitar & vocals.
May 2, 2008 Adults: $10 | Kids: $6 NA Folk Band – Hungarian Folk Music
The …NA Folk Band has a simple, yet grandiose plan: to convert every New Yorker to Hungarian folk music fanatic. The plan is unfolding quite successfully, and it's plain to see why. The group combines great musicianship with a love of the various styles of village music from Transylvania, Hungary and Slovakia. This music is remarkable for its rhythmic power and melodic ornaments. Jake Shulman-Ment, fiddle; Aron Szekely, kontra (a souped-up viola); Laszlo Hajdu-Nemeth, kontra; Kata
Harsáczki, vocals; Raul Rothblatt, bass
May 9, 2008 Adults: $10 | Kids: $6 James Reams & The Barnstormers
An evening of bluegrass music the way it was meant to be played – and meant to be heard. James Reams & The Barnstormers (jamesreams.com) return for a show at their home venue, offering “…tight instrumental excellence and hard-edged vocals …uncompromising, hard-core bluegrass”-(Sing Out magazine).
May 16, 2008 Adults: $10 | Kids: $6 Third Friday with the Park Slope Food Coop
Spanish guitarist Tomas Rodrigues is always searching musically for the organic union of the cultural streams that define the New World. The Cooperating Cooperators bring together numerous Coop members for an outstanding and unusual result.
May 23, 2008 Closed for Memorial Day weekend
May 30, 2008 Adults: $15 | Kids: $6 Blues Guitarists Tokio Uchida and Stefan Grossman – Traveling Troubadour Series
Tokio Uchida (tab-guitar-school.co.jp/E/E-index.html) is Japan's best-known acoustic blues guitarist. He has released five solo blues and fingerstyle CDs, and last summer he and Stefan Grossman released their first duet CD, Bermuda Triangle Exit. Bob Brozman says of Uchida:"His playing is soulful and, most importantly, very original and adventurous." Stefan Grossman (guitarvideos.com) has had perhaps a greater influence than anyone over the past four decades in popularizing country blues guitar playing. A onetime student of legendary bluesmen such as Reverend Gary Davis, Mississippi John Hurt, Skip James and Son House, Grossman has been a performer, producer, teacher and record label founder. He is a master of most blues and ragtime guitar styles and runs Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop, which has educated thousands of budding guitar players over the years through video and DVD lessons.
June 6, 2008 Adults: $10 | Kids: $6 Cady Finlayson and the Irish Coffee Tour
Cady Finlayson's (cadyfinlayson.com) live show blends traditional Irish tunes with worldbeat rhythms and American folk, creating a signature sound that appeals to a variety of audiences. The Good Coffeehouse show will include Irish ballads, spirited fiddling and tunes from her latest CD, Irish Coffee.
June 13, 2008 Adults: $10 | Kids: $6 Brooklyn Women's Chorus
The Brooklyn Women's Chorus – 45 women singing together to create one powerful voice for peace and justice – is directed by Bev Grant and backed by a band of Brooklyn musicians.
June 20, 2008 Adults: $10 | Kids: $6 Third Friday with the Park Slope Food Coop
Female Voices of the African Diaspora: Two amazing bands featuring
vocalists Kaissa (from Cameroon) and Tamar-Kali (Geechee Goddess).
Closed for the summer beginning June 21, 2008
September 12-13, 2008 11th Park Slope Bluegrass & Old-Time Jamboree
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