PFS June House Concert with Goodbye Blue

Potluck 2pm, Music 2:30pm

**FREE For Members**
**$10 For Non-members**

CLICK HERE TO WATCH GOODBYE BLUE PERFORM

CLICK HERE TO RSVP ON FACEBOOK!

About Goodbye Blue

Goodbye Blue is an Americana duo featuring Charlotte Kendrick and Dan Rowe. The duo performs melodic and personal Americana-Folk, reminiscent of story-telling artists such as Patty Griffin, John Prine, and the Weepies. Their most recent release, Worth the Wait, came out on March 21st, 2016 on Wondermore Records.

Lead singer and songwriter Charlotte was raised just north of New York City. She played music from an early age, and although enrolled in piano lessons originally, she quickly gravitated to acoustic guitar. Charlotte attended the University of Vermont where she played regularly and performed with a female a cappella group. By graduation, she wanted to pursue music professionally, but lost her nerve and decided instead to enlist in the Peace Corps, where she served for two years in Cote D’Ivore in West Africa. Living alone without electricity in a small village, Charlotte was finally able to find meaningful time to work on her songwriting.

Dan also grew up playing music. His early roots were in classical music, singing in his mother’s church choirs and studying violin, but country and bluegrass soon grabbed hold, and he would often sit in on fiddle when his father and uncles were jamming together. At age 12 rock music entered his life, and he started learning any instrument he could get his hands on. During his freshman year in high school, he and two childhood friends formed a band, The Dent, and ended up playing together for 15 years, performing throughout the Northeast and recording four albums. Dan studied music composition in college, and after graduation paid the bills by working in the music industry on the business side and engineering in recording studios in the New York area. By 2002, Dan was living in New York City and working at TVT Records during the day, while performing and producing independent records from his project studio on nights and weekends.

In 2002, after finishing her Peace Corps service, Charlotte moved to NYC intent on trying her hand as a musician. With no experience and no real connections, she reached out to her high school music teacher, who happened to be a relative of Dan’s. He told her “Call my friend Dan Rowe.” Dan and Charlotte became fast friends. Six months later, when Charlotte expressed interest in recording an album, Dan offered to help and signed on as producer. Together they produced Charlotte’s debut 2003 release, I Get Stupid. Three weeks before the album was finished, Dan joined Charlotte on stage playing bass and signing harmonies, and the two have been performing together ever since.

Charlotte and Dan’s musical relationship proved to be a powerful fit: Charlotte’s gentle but captivating voice complimented by Dan’s subtle harmony; Charlotte providing the center groove with her acoustic guitar, with Dan anchoring the ensemble with his bass and sparse arrangements; Charlotte’s female perspective articulated clearly in her lyrics, with Dan’s production delivering an authentic finished piece. After the debut release, Charlotte and Dan made two more records together, Live at the Roger Smith (2004) and I Get Stupid (2007). In 2004, they celebrated their wedding engagement by self-booking a 100 day national tour, and continued to tour extensively through the next five years, playing shows for fans across the country. But in 2008, life took a different turn when Charlotte gave birth to their first child, with two more following shortly behind. Although they never officially stopped playing music, their activity slowed to a crawl.

Fast forward eight years, Charlotte and Dan’s album “Worth the Wait” marks their re-emergence into Americana music. Now performing as Goodbye Blue and based in Hopewell, NJ, the current songs reflect a time of life that many can relate to. As in past material, Charlotte’s lyrics are autobiographical and unapologetic, describing the joy and struggles of raising small children. While unsure of what their future may hold, they know one thing is for certain: “We will definitely be making music,” says Charlotte. “Our lives just don’t make sense without it.”

CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT GOODBYE BLUE

CLICK HERE TO VISIT GOODBYE BLUE ON SPOTIFY

PFS and the hosts ask that guests act in a respectful manner and be considerate of the performers and other attendees–if you do not, you may be asked to leave by PFS staff or the hosts.

Advance registrations for this performance are REQUIRED.

Admission is free for PFS members and $10 for Advanced Tickets for non-members.

Please bring something to share! Pot luck at 2pm, music at 2:30pm.

Secure your tickets here!

PFS Presents The Mammals CD Release Show

Saturday, June 9, 2018
Doors 7:30pm | Music 8pm

Secure your tickets here!

$15 for Members | $20 Not-Yet-Members | $25 Doors

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE MAMMALS PERFORM LIVE

CLICK HERE TO RSVP ON FACEBOOK

About The Mammals

Every time The Mammals take the stage there is something real at stake. Maybe it’s the risk-hungry spirit that the band’s songwriters Mike Merenda & Ruth Ungar adopted thru their youthful theater training, or maybe it’s that fiercely authentic, music-as-mission mindset learned from their elders. This folk music is not about suspenders and whiskey, although those are both beautiful things. The Mammals come to change the world, to connect timid generations, heal sore hearts, and enchant tired minds, one soulful, joyful show at a time.

Unless you’re one of those people who prefers politics and entertainment served separately, The Mammals’ holistic approach to life and music is refreshing. Their songs and stage banter are 100% down to earth, they tour as a family, and they produce a community music festival near their home in Woodstock, NY twice a year called The Hoot. The day after he sang at the first annual Summer Hoot in 2013, Pete Seeger wrote them a friendly postcard saying, “Dear Mike + Ruthy — Your Hoot was one of the best song gatherings I’ve seen in all my 94 years.” The local Hudson Valley community agrees as well, with “hootsters” of all ages making the Winter and Summer Hoot part of their family tradition.

The Mammals audience tends to be three-fold: there are those who remember the 1960’s folk revival and delight in the band for carrying the torch, the subsequent generation who moshed to the 2004 iteration of The Mammals which included founding Mammal Tao Rodriguez-Seeger, and a new generation of inspired, active, Americana music lovers who swooned to Mike + Ruthy thru the last decade and now eagerly witness a new fire and grit emerging from their favorite songwriters.

In the band’s first incarnation The Mammals enjoyed a remarkable 7-year run, playing the largest folk festivals across North America (Telluride Bluegrass, Vancouver Folk Fest, High Sierra), Australia (Woodford, Port Fairy, National) and Denmark (Tonder), Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium (with stringband peers Nickel Creek), New York’s Carnegie Hall as the special guest of folk legend Arlo Guthrie, and the 2002 Winter Olympics with Pete Seeger. They landed in the pages of numerous publications lauding their unique “traditional-music-in-combat-boots” including a feature in The New York Times handpicking them as a leader in a pack of new-wave stringbands “updating that old-time sound.” The Washington Post described them as “gleefully aware that the sound barriers separating old-timey music, vintage pop and contemporary folk are as permeable as cotton.”

As mentioned, the two continuing band-founders are Ruth Ungar (a second generation fiddler/singer and daughter of GRAMMY winning composer, Jay Ungar) and Mike Merenda (a multi-instrumental wordsmith regarded as “one of the best songwriters of his generation” -LA weekly). During The Mammals’ nine-year hiatus, in addition to producing the Winter and Summer Hoots, these two kept busy touring with their two young children and recording five Mike + Ruthy albums including The NYC EP (2012) featuring a much celebrated posthumous collaboration with Woody Guthrie called “My New York City” and Bright As You Can (2015) which the Boston Globe hailed as one of the standout Americana records of the year. “Besides Ruth Ungar’s amazing voice, the lyrics on this album are incredibly thoughtful — they’re carefully crafted, without a word or phrase out of place. From rollicking good times to more tender reflections, Bright As You Can is a winner,” praised NPR Music.

In the process of writing and recording their new album Sunshiner at their studio outside of Woodstock, NY a renewed “mammalian” energy began to take hold and the rebirth of the band became official.

On drums, bass, pedal steel and organ they’ve welcomed back long-time friends and collaborators Konrad Meissner, Jacob Silver, Charlie Rose and Ken Maiuri (some from the early Mammals days) and the sound is as rollicking and rootsy as ever. The touring lineup sometimes features other members as well.

Why is this new, full-band energy unleashing itself right now? “November 2016 was a turning point that made us all draw a slow breath,” says Ungar. “Overnight our earlier political-edged songs became relevant again. We felt compelled to reclaim the old mission of The Mammals and mix a bit more politics and hoedown into our live shows.”

Whatever political twists and turns may occur this year, 2018 promises to be an adventurous time for The Mammals. They’re striking out on a Western Migration Tour across the USA from their home in Woodstock, NY and down the entire West Coast from Bellingham to San Diego, then embarking on a Sunshiner CD Release Tour thru Northeast and Midwest. In the summer they’ll be playing some of their favorite folk festivals including Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revival, Grand Targhee Bluegrass Festival, FreshGrass, and their own Summer Hoot.

The Mammals treasure the timeless traditions of song, story-telling and dance. Their work is to continue a musical odyssey so the same handmade music passed down to them makes it through to future generations.

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE MAMMALS ON SOUNDCLOUD

CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE MAMMALS

PFS June Monthly Concert with Brooke Annibale

MUSIC at 7:30pm

**FREE FOR MEMBERS**
**$15 For Non-members**

CLICK HERE TO WATCH A PERFORMANCE OF BROOKE ANNIBALE

CLICK HERE TO RSVP ON FACEBOOK

About Brooke Annibale

Singer-songwriter/guitarist Brooke Annibale sheds a bit of her indie-acoustic skin on her forthcoming record Hold to The Light— a pop-progressive album that offers a fusion of textured electronic and traditional (guitar, strings, keys) instrumentation with songs bearing Brooke’s keen, soulful lyricism.

Produced by Sam Kassirer (Josh Ritter, Lake Street Dive), Hold to The Light marks several major departures for Brooke in terms of both songwriting and production. Brooke’s thoughtful, layered songwriting anchors the production to explore a range of narratives working through themes of seeking truths, letting go, and reconciling the past with the present. Both lyrically and musically, Hold opens up spaces for the listener to inhabit and make their own.

Hold to The Light is an exciting evolution in Brooke’s career as a musician. Her creative roots run deep with family connected to music— her grandfather founded a music store, which continues to operate today in her hometown, Pittsburgh. Hold to The Light is due out in 2018.

CLICK HERE TO VISIT BROOKE ANNIBALE ON SPOTIFY

CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT BROOKE ANNIBALE

Secure your tickets here!

PFS July Monthly Concert with Christine Lavin

MUSIC at 7:30pm

**FREE FOR MEMBERS**
**$15 For Non-members**

CLICK HERE TO WATCH A PERFORMANCE OF CHRISTINE LAVIN

CLICK HERE TO RSVP ON FACEBOOK

About Christine Lavin

Christine Lavin is a singer/songwriter/guitarist/recording artist who has been based in New York City since 1984. She has just released her 23rd solo album, SPAGHETTIFICATION, which was #5 for the month of September according to the International FolkDJ chart.

She has produced ten compilation CDs JUST ONE ANGEL v2.0being the latest, showcasing the holiday songs of 19 songwriters whose work she loves. The food-themed compilaiion One Meat Ball, includes a 96-page cookbook that Christine edited. For four years she hosted “Slipped Disks” on XM satellite radio, playing CDs slipped to her backstage by compatriots, and is the occasional guest host for the City Folk Sunday Sunday Supper on WFUV-FM at Fordham University.

Christine performs concerts all over the US, Canada, and points beyond (Australia, Germany, Israel), and hosts knitting circles backstage prior to each show. Songs of hers have been performed by artists as diverse as Broadway stars Betty Buckley, Sutton Foster, and David Burnham, cabaret divas Andrea Marcovicci. Barbara Brussell, and Colleen McHugh, the college a cappella Dartmouth Decibelles, and The Accidentals, winners of the National Harmony Sweepstakes championship.

CLICK HERE TO VISIT CHRISTINE LAVIN ON SPOTIFY

CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT CHRISTINE LAVIN

Secure your tickets here!

Please join us at the Philadelphia Folksong Society for PFS Presents: Co-op Kicking Down Doors Album Release

Long time Philadelphia Music Co-op members Kicking Down Doors are happy to share the night with these talented Co-op musicians:

Almquist
Bethlehem and Sad Patrick
Katherine Rondeau
Driftwood Soldier

Each ticket sale comes with a download or physical copy of their new album, Truth.

Event is BYO, $2 for wristband with valid ID

PFS Presents Jill Sobule

Saturday, July 14
Doors 7pm | Music 8pm

Secure your tickets here!

$20 for Members | $25 Not-Yet-Members | $30 Doors

CLICK HERE TO WATCH A MUSIC VIDEO OF JILL SOBULE

CLICK HERE TO RSVP ON FACEBOOK

About Jill Sobule

Jill Sobule is a Denver-born singer, songwriter, storyteller, guitarist and gypsy. Over seven albums and nearly two decades of recording, Jill has mused on topics such as the death penalty, anorexia, shoplifting, reproduction, the French resistance movement, adolescence and the Christian right.

Her recording career began in 1990 with her debut album Things Here are Different, recorded by Todd Rundgren. Her 1995 self-titled album, Jill Sobule, yielded the hit songs I Kissed A Girl (the original) and Supermodel. Since then, she has continued to record, produce and tour with an ever-growing loyal fan base. Jill is considered a pioneer in crowd sourcing, with her 2009 fan-funded record, California Years. She continues to be at the forefront of exploring and creating new models for artists in an ever-changing changing music industry.

She’s performed with Neil Young, Billy Bragg, Steve Earle, Cyndi Lauper, Tom Morello and Warren Zevon and inducted Neil Diamond into the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame. She can be seen live as a solo performer as well as the co-star of the Jill & Julia Show, an unusual and mesmerizing combination of song and storytelling in collaboration with comedian/actress Julia Sweeney. She also served as songwriter/composer for the hit Nickelodeon network show Unfabulous during that show’s three-season run. She composed the music for the off-Broadway show Prozak and Platypus and her songs have appeared in a multitude of films including Mind the Gap, in which Jill herself co-starred. She has been a political troubadour for NPR stations across America and most recently performed original music at the keynote session for Netroots Nation. Jill is a longtime participant as well as musical contributor at TED.

A veritable gypsy, Jill divides her time between a busy touring schedule and a variety of other projects. The recently released A Day at the Pass finally captures an ongoing collaboration between Jill and John Doe (from the iconic punk band X) and was recorded live at The Pass studio on one fine day in Los Angeles. She is currently recording her next record, Dottie’s Charm’s – a collaboration between her and 11 of her favorite authors, including: Rick Moody, David Hajdu and Jonathon Lathem, Jill is also working with Steve Cossin (The Civillians), Jim Lewis (FELA) and Robin Eaton (a longtime collaborator) on the musical, Times Square.

In the words of New York Times pop music critic Jon Pareles, “Jill Sobule can claim her place among the stellar New York singer-songwriters of the last decade. Topical, funny and more than a little poignant…grown-up music for an adolescent age.”

She’s an American original.

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO JILL SOBULE ON SPOTIFY

CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT JILL SOBULE

6/3 (Sun.), 10:00 AM:
23rd Annual Arts in the Park Festival – “Grown-up” Concert
High School Park
7901 High School Rd, Elkins Park, PA 19027
“Grown-up” Concert as part of community festival. Other performers include HighBrow Hound Dogs, SIX, Sons of Pitch, Up the Octave, Matt Ryan, Tookany Creek, Aide, Flute of the Spirit and Bassment.  Event runs 10-5, with juried arts and crafts, children’s activities, food trucks, beer garden and more.  Sponsored by Friends of High School Park.
Info: http://www.highschoolpark.org/artsinthepark/
Admission: free, donations accepted

PFS June House Concert with Goodbye Blue

Potluck 2pm, Music 2:30pm

**FREE For Members**
**$10 For Non-members**

CLICK HERE TO WATCH GOODBYE BLUE PERFORM

CLICK HERE TO RSVP ON FACEBOOK!

About Goodbye Blue

Goodbye Blue is an Americana duo featuring Charlotte Kendrick and Dan Rowe. The duo performs melodic and personal Americana-Folk, reminiscent of story-telling artists such as Patty Griffin, John Prine, and the Weepies. Their most recent release, Worth the Wait, came out on March 21st, 2016 on Wondermore Records.

Lead singer and songwriter Charlotte was raised just north of New York City. She played music from an early age, and although enrolled in piano lessons originally, she quickly gravitated to acoustic guitar. Charlotte attended the University of Vermont where she played regularly and performed with a female a cappella group. By graduation, she wanted to pursue music professionally, but lost her nerve and decided instead to enlist in the Peace Corps, where she served for two years in Cote D’Ivore in West Africa. Living alone without electricity in a small village, Charlotte was finally able to find meaningful time to work on her songwriting.

Dan also grew up playing music. His early roots were in classical music, singing in his mother’s church choirs and studying violin, but country and bluegrass soon grabbed hold, and he would often sit in on fiddle when his father and uncles were jamming together. At age 12 rock music entered his life, and he started learning any instrument he could get his hands on. During his freshman year in high school, he and two childhood friends formed a band, The Dent, and ended up playing together for 15 years, performing throughout the Northeast and recording four albums. Dan studied music composition in college, and after graduation paid the bills by working in the music industry on the business side and engineering in recording studios in the New York area. By 2002, Dan was living in New York City and working at TVT Records during the day, while performing and producing independent records from his project studio on nights and weekends.

In 2002, after finishing her Peace Corps service, Charlotte moved to NYC intent on trying her hand as a musician. With no experience and no real connections, she reached out to her high school music teacher, who happened to be a relative of Dan’s. He told her “Call my friend Dan Rowe.” Dan and Charlotte became fast friends. Six months later, when Charlotte expressed interest in recording an album, Dan offered to help and signed on as producer. Together they produced Charlotte’s debut 2003 release, I Get Stupid. Three weeks before the album was finished, Dan joined Charlotte on stage playing bass and signing harmonies, and the two have been performing together ever since.

Charlotte and Dan’s musical relationship proved to be a powerful fit: Charlotte’s gentle but captivating voice complimented by Dan’s subtle harmony; Charlotte providing the center groove with her acoustic guitar, with Dan anchoring the ensemble with his bass and sparse arrangements; Charlotte’s female perspective articulated clearly in her lyrics, with Dan’s production delivering an authentic finished piece. After the debut release, Charlotte and Dan made two more records together, Live at the Roger Smith (2004) and I Get Stupid (2007). In 2004, they celebrated their wedding engagement by self-booking a 100 day national tour, and continued to tour extensively through the next five years, playing shows for fans across the country. But in 2008, life took a different turn when Charlotte gave birth to their first child, with two more following shortly behind. Although they never officially stopped playing music, their activity slowed to a crawl.

Fast forward eight years, Charlotte and Dan’s album “Worth the Wait” marks their re-emergence into Americana music. Now performing as Goodbye Blue and based in Hopewell, NJ, the current songs reflect a time of life that many can relate to. As in past material, Charlotte’s lyrics are autobiographical and unapologetic, describing the joy and struggles of raising small children. While unsure of what their future may hold, they know one thing is for certain: “We will definitely be making music,” says Charlotte. “Our lives just don’t make sense without it.”

CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT GOODBYE BLUE

CLICK HERE TO VISIT GOODBYE BLUE ON SPOTIFY

PFS and the hosts ask that guests act in a respectful manner and be considerate of the performers and other attendees–if you do not, you may be asked to leave by PFS staff or the hosts.

Advance registrations for this performance are REQUIRED.

Admission is free for PFS members and $10 for Advanced Tickets for non-members.

Please bring something to share! Pot luck at 2pm, music at 2:30pm.

Secure your tickets here!

PFS Presents The Mammals CD Release Show

Saturday, June 9, 2018
Doors 7:30pm | Music 8pm

Secure your tickets here!

$15 for Members | $20 Not-Yet-Members | $25 Doors

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE MAMMALS PERFORM LIVE

CLICK HERE TO RSVP ON FACEBOOK

About The Mammals

Every time The Mammals take the stage there is something real at stake. Maybe it’s the risk-hungry spirit that the band’s songwriters Mike Merenda & Ruth Ungar adopted thru their youthful theater training, or maybe it’s that fiercely authentic, music-as-mission mindset learned from their elders. This folk music is not about suspenders and whiskey, although those are both beautiful things. The Mammals come to change the world, to connect timid generations, heal sore hearts, and enchant tired minds, one soulful, joyful show at a time.

Unless you’re one of those people who prefers politics and entertainment served separately, The Mammals’ holistic approach to life and music is refreshing. Their songs and stage banter are 100% down to earth, they tour as a family, and they produce a community music festival near their home in Woodstock, NY twice a year called The Hoot. The day after he sang at the first annual Summer Hoot in 2013, Pete Seeger wrote them a friendly postcard saying, “Dear Mike + Ruthy — Your Hoot was one of the best song gatherings I’ve seen in all my 94 years.” The local Hudson Valley community agrees as well, with “hootsters” of all ages making the Winter and Summer Hoot part of their family tradition.

The Mammals audience tends to be three-fold: there are those who remember the 1960’s folk revival and delight in the band for carrying the torch, the subsequent generation who moshed to the 2004 iteration of The Mammals which included founding Mammal Tao Rodriguez-Seeger, and a new generation of inspired, active, Americana music lovers who swooned to Mike + Ruthy thru the last decade and now eagerly witness a new fire and grit emerging from their favorite songwriters.

In the band’s first incarnation The Mammals enjoyed a remarkable 7-year run, playing the largest folk festivals across North America (Telluride Bluegrass, Vancouver Folk Fest, High Sierra), Australia (Woodford, Port Fairy, National) and Denmark (Tonder), Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium (with stringband peers Nickel Creek), New York’s Carnegie Hall as the special guest of folk legend Arlo Guthrie, and the 2002 Winter Olympics with Pete Seeger. They landed in the pages of numerous publications lauding their unique “traditional-music-in-combat-boots” including a feature in The New York Times handpicking them as a leader in a pack of new-wave stringbands “updating that old-time sound.” The Washington Post described them as “gleefully aware that the sound barriers separating old-timey music, vintage pop and contemporary folk are as permeable as cotton.”

As mentioned, the two continuing band-founders are Ruth Ungar (a second generation fiddler/singer and daughter of GRAMMY winning composer, Jay Ungar) and Mike Merenda (a multi-instrumental wordsmith regarded as “one of the best songwriters of his generation” -LA weekly). During The Mammals’ nine-year hiatus, in addition to producing the Winter and Summer Hoots, these two kept busy touring with their two young children and recording five Mike + Ruthy albums including The NYC EP (2012) featuring a much celebrated posthumous collaboration with Woody Guthrie called “My New York City” and Bright As You Can (2015) which the Boston Globe hailed as one of the standout Americana records of the year. “Besides Ruth Ungar’s amazing voice, the lyrics on this album are incredibly thoughtful — they’re carefully crafted, without a word or phrase out of place. From rollicking good times to more tender reflections, Bright As You Can is a winner,” praised NPR Music.

In the process of writing and recording their new album Sunshiner at their studio outside of Woodstock, NY a renewed “mammalian” energy began to take hold and the rebirth of the band became official.

On drums, bass, pedal steel and organ they’ve welcomed back long-time friends and collaborators Konrad Meissner, Jacob Silver, Charlie Rose and Ken Maiuri (some from the early Mammals days) and the sound is as rollicking and rootsy as ever. The touring lineup sometimes features other members as well.

Why is this new, full-band energy unleashing itself right now? “November 2016 was a turning point that made us all draw a slow breath,” says Ungar. “Overnight our earlier political-edged songs became relevant again. We felt compelled to reclaim the old mission of The Mammals and mix a bit more politics and hoedown into our live shows.”

Whatever political twists and turns may occur this year, 2018 promises to be an adventurous time for The Mammals. They’re striking out on a Western Migration Tour across the USA from their home in Woodstock, NY and down the entire West Coast from Bellingham to San Diego, then embarking on a Sunshiner CD Release Tour thru Northeast and Midwest. In the summer they’ll be playing some of their favorite folk festivals including Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revival, Grand Targhee Bluegrass Festival, FreshGrass, and their own Summer Hoot.

The Mammals treasure the timeless traditions of song, story-telling and dance. Their work is to continue a musical odyssey so the same handmade music passed down to them makes it through to future generations.

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE MAMMALS ON SOUNDCLOUD

CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE MAMMALS

PFS June Monthly Concert with Brooke Annibale

MUSIC at 7:30pm

**FREE FOR MEMBERS**
**$15 For Non-members**

CLICK HERE TO WATCH A PERFORMANCE OF BROOKE ANNIBALE

CLICK HERE TO RSVP ON FACEBOOK

About Brooke Annibale

Singer-songwriter/guitarist Brooke Annibale sheds a bit of her indie-acoustic skin on her forthcoming record Hold to The Light— a pop-progressive album that offers a fusion of textured electronic and traditional (guitar, strings, keys) instrumentation with songs bearing Brooke’s keen, soulful lyricism.

Produced by Sam Kassirer (Josh Ritter, Lake Street Dive), Hold to The Light marks several major departures for Brooke in terms of both songwriting and production. Brooke’s thoughtful, layered songwriting anchors the production to explore a range of narratives working through themes of seeking truths, letting go, and reconciling the past with the present. Both lyrically and musically, Hold opens up spaces for the listener to inhabit and make their own.

Hold to The Light is an exciting evolution in Brooke’s career as a musician. Her creative roots run deep with family connected to music— her grandfather founded a music store, which continues to operate today in her hometown, Pittsburgh. Hold to The Light is due out in 2018.

CLICK HERE TO VISIT BROOKE ANNIBALE ON SPOTIFY

CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT BROOKE ANNIBALE

Secure your tickets here!

PFS July Monthly Concert with Christine Lavin

MUSIC at 7:30pm

**FREE FOR MEMBERS**
**$15 For Non-members**

CLICK HERE TO WATCH A PERFORMANCE OF CHRISTINE LAVIN

CLICK HERE TO RSVP ON FACEBOOK

About Christine Lavin

Christine Lavin is a singer/songwriter/guitarist/recording artist who has been based in New York City since 1984. She has just released her 23rd solo album, SPAGHETTIFICATION, which was #5 for the month of September according to the International FolkDJ chart.

She has produced ten compilation CDs JUST ONE ANGEL v2.0being the latest, showcasing the holiday songs of 19 songwriters whose work she loves. The food-themed compilaiion One Meat Ball, includes a 96-page cookbook that Christine edited. For four years she hosted “Slipped Disks” on XM satellite radio, playing CDs slipped to her backstage by compatriots, and is the occasional guest host for the City Folk Sunday Sunday Supper on WFUV-FM at Fordham University.

Christine performs concerts all over the US, Canada, and points beyond (Australia, Germany, Israel), and hosts knitting circles backstage prior to each show. Songs of hers have been performed by artists as diverse as Broadway stars Betty Buckley, Sutton Foster, and David Burnham, cabaret divas Andrea Marcovicci. Barbara Brussell, and Colleen McHugh, the college a cappella Dartmouth Decibelles, and The Accidentals, winners of the National Harmony Sweepstakes championship.

CLICK HERE TO VISIT CHRISTINE LAVIN ON SPOTIFY

CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT CHRISTINE LAVIN

Secure your tickets here!

Please join us at the Philadelphia Folksong Society for PFS Presents: Co-op Kicking Down Doors Album Release

Long time Philadelphia Music Co-op members Kicking Down Doors are happy to share the night with these talented Co-op musicians:

Almquist
Bethlehem and Sad Patrick
Katherine Rondeau
Driftwood Soldier

Each ticket sale comes with a download or physical copy of their new album, Truth.

Event is BYO, $2 for wristband with valid ID

PFS Presents Jill Sobule

Saturday, July 14
Doors 7pm | Music 8pm

Secure your tickets here!

$20 for Members | $25 Not-Yet-Members | $30 Doors

CLICK HERE TO WATCH A MUSIC VIDEO OF JILL SOBULE

CLICK HERE TO RSVP ON FACEBOOK

About Jill Sobule

Jill Sobule is a Denver-born singer, songwriter, storyteller, guitarist and gypsy. Over seven albums and nearly two decades of recording, Jill has mused on topics such as the death penalty, anorexia, shoplifting, reproduction, the French resistance movement, adolescence and the Christian right.

Her recording career began in 1990 with her debut album Things Here are Different, recorded by Todd Rundgren. Her 1995 self-titled album, Jill Sobule, yielded the hit songs I Kissed A Girl (the original) and Supermodel. Since then, she has continued to record, produce and tour with an ever-growing loyal fan base. Jill is considered a pioneer in crowd sourcing, with her 2009 fan-funded record, California Years. She continues to be at the forefront of exploring and creating new models for artists in an ever-changing changing music industry.

She’s performed with Neil Young, Billy Bragg, Steve Earle, Cyndi Lauper, Tom Morello and Warren Zevon and inducted Neil Diamond into the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame. She can be seen live as a solo performer as well as the co-star of the Jill & Julia Show, an unusual and mesmerizing combination of song and storytelling in collaboration with comedian/actress Julia Sweeney. She also served as songwriter/composer for the hit Nickelodeon network show Unfabulous during that show’s three-season run. She composed the music for the off-Broadway show Prozak and Platypus and her songs have appeared in a multitude of films including Mind the Gap, in which Jill herself co-starred. She has been a political troubadour for NPR stations across America and most recently performed original music at the keynote session for Netroots Nation. Jill is a longtime participant as well as musical contributor at TED.

A veritable gypsy, Jill divides her time between a busy touring schedule and a variety of other projects. The recently released A Day at the Pass finally captures an ongoing collaboration between Jill and John Doe (from the iconic punk band X) and was recorded live at The Pass studio on one fine day in Los Angeles. She is currently recording her next record, Dottie’s Charm’s – a collaboration between her and 11 of her favorite authors, including: Rick Moody, David Hajdu and Jonathon Lathem, Jill is also working with Steve Cossin (The Civillians), Jim Lewis (FELA) and Robin Eaton (a longtime collaborator) on the musical, Times Square.

In the words of New York Times pop music critic Jon Pareles, “Jill Sobule can claim her place among the stellar New York singer-songwriters of the last decade. Topical, funny and more than a little poignant…grown-up music for an adolescent age.”

She’s an American original.

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