Last year I held about 5 coffee houses in our store front third door space. The flexibility of using this space for all the different things we do in a week or a month is exciting! We have movie nights, where we project a screen up on the big wall. The wall that also sometimes serves at the 4-H clubs wall of banners, posters, and such. The coffee houses allow musicians to have a nice intimate connection with the audience, and provides a very nice sound, and respectful listening room atmosphere. I have always gotten compliments on the set up. Unfortunately, some of the crowds have been disappointingly low for the excellent quality of the music!!! On Monday, Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart will be performing. They are musicians I have seen twice in the Nelsonville/ Athens Ohio area. They are very engaging in their performance, and have an obvious love of performing in small settings. Their musical links run very deep, they have not only a great sound together, but intriguing personal stories and histories of musical backgrounds. They have some unique guitar playing styles that hook you in. A very refreshingly unique thing they do, is play unamplified! They are tireless touring musicians; if you check out their website or myspace site, you see they are really seeing the country- and meeting music lovers all over the place probably 250 nights a year!! Please spread the word about this fantastic opportunity right here in little old Parkersburg to see some great national touring singer songwriters. You will come away impressed and invigorated for facing this wild ol' crazy world.
And, by the way, I am in discussions with Kathleen Coffee about a third trip up to our coffee house probably sometime in April. She has put on two great shows last year, as well as winning the Colony Theater songwriter contest in Marietta last year. She is from the Princeton area, and is headed to the Peace Corps in August, excited to be seeing the world, and spreading her powerful musical message and giving spirit!!
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