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Every month all year 'round, we offer a live performance to bring the community together for fun and entertainment at Hammond Hall. Great desserts, coffee and soft drinks! Those who due to distance or scheduling cannot arrive for good seats, may call 963-7670 to have seats saved. Don't forget: Town Supper is at the Winter Harbor Masonic Lodge from 5 to 6:30pm. Proceeds help keep the Masonic Lodge open to the public for many community events, free of charge.  Dale Robin Goodman
June 25th, 7:30pm show, 6:30 door Dale Robin is familiar to Coffeehouse audiences as a member of Mom’s Home Cooking. Returning as a solo performer, she will showcase her repertoire of love songs, songs of work and hard times, old time blues, songs of optimism and thoughtful intent, and an occasional sing-a-long. Her optimism and warmth shine through her music and are present in her anecdotes about her life growing up in Brooklyn, living with comically ageing parents and raising hilariously offbeat children. Suggested donation $10.00 – www.dalerobin.com  The Mainely Country Band with The Higgins Family
July 30th, 7:30pm show, 6:30 door This quartet plays hard-driving contemporary country with bass, drums, guitar, and pedal steel….the variety in the music is augmented by all the band members (Jeff, Lee, Sonny, & Patrick) taking turns on vocals. As if that weren’t enough, Sullivan’s Higgins Family will join with Mainely Country to add roots country tunes & soulful ballads from Lisa, Pard, and Katie! www.themainelycountryband.com $12.00 suggested donation  Andy Cohen and Katherine Rhoda
August 27th, 7:30pm show, 6:30 door Andy’s blues & ragtime picking has been a favorite with Coffeehouse audiences. He also keeps alive the anachronistic miniature-piano, the dulceola, an instrument perhaps spawned by the mating of a harpsichord with a zither. His blues scholarship, acumen as a folklorist, and the gusto of his performing are singular. He brings with him fellow musician Katherine Rhoda – she plays the Lithuanian kankles, and she will open for him. www.andycohenmusic.net $12.00 suggested donation  TBA
September 24th, 7:30pm show, 6:30 door Due to a medical emergency, our September coffeehouse performer has had to cancel. We will keep you posted on who will be performing. The show will go on! October 29th – Dave Rowe Trio -S12.00 suggested donation November 26th - Darthia Farm Porch Band Suggested donation $10.00 December 31st - Cindy Kallet & Grey Larsen $12.00 SD All events are at 7:30 at Hammond Hall, 427 Main Street, Winter Harbor
Doors open 6:30 - No advance tickets Great Desserts Available - Kids Under 12 Free!
For more info, call 963-7670 or 963-2569
Previous Coffeehouse Performers:  Jimmy Barnes
May 28th, 7:30pm show, 6:30 door A self-styled Country & Eastern singer/songwriter and Coffeehouse favorite. Jimmy’s droll tunes, smooth ‘n easy singing, and engaging stage presence have made him a Hancock County legend. His songs reflect laughable, ludicrous, and lovable aspects of the Downeast experience. S10.00 suggested donation  The Misty Mountaineers
April 30th, 7:30pm show, 6:30 door Born into a country music family -Yodeling Slim Clark & “Blue-Eyed Celia”- Wilf Clark (lead vocals and mandolin) heads up this powerhouse of a traditional bluegrass band featuring Bernie Staples on guitar & vocals, Suzie Gibson on banjo & vocals, Dotty Farrell on acoustic bass & vocals, Bobby Coombs on dobro & guitar, and Jay Smith on fiddle. $12.00 suggested donation  Jennifer Armstrong
March 26th, 7:30pm show, 6:30 door She is a musical storyteller with songs, stories, and poems for all ages with audiences across the country. Her programs are interactive and weave together songs, tunes and tales from the folk tradition and her own life experience. A wide variety of instruments enliven her shows including bagpipe, fiddle and banjo. This dynamic, engaging performer draws listeners into a heart satisfying, participatory community event. Her programs, her recordings, and her books encourage and inspire the creative artist inside each of us. See http://www.jenniferarmstrong.com $10.00 suggested donation  Eric Horschak
February 26th, 7:30pm show, 6:30 door Gouldsboro’s own composer and multi-instrumentalist, Eric is a song writer and accomplished finger-style guitar player of folk Americana as well as a multi-instrumentalist. In addition to singing and playing the beautiful West African kora, Eric plays steel and nylon-string guitar, slide guitar, 12-string guitar, and banjo like it has never been heard! He is an engaging, dazzling, and downright funny performer. $10.00 suggested donation  Debra Cowan
January 29th, 7:30pm show, 6:30 door Since leaving a public school teaching career in 1997, Debra Cowan is enjoying success as one of America's foremost interpreters of traditional and contemporary folksongs. Her two solo CDs, "Dad's Dinner Pail" and "The Long Grey Line" have enjoyed airplay on folk music radio world-wide and her traditional song "Walloping Window Blind" was published in Sing Out! Magazine. Her captivating warm alto carries each folk song she chooses with such emotion that you’ll forget that they were written by others. She performs a cappella and with guitar in the great tradition of folk singers like Joan Baez and Judy Collins, with a clear vocal that calls forth the ghosts of long past but can also offer a more modern urban landscape. See www.debracowan.com 
Dave Mallett - December (Second to Last Friday!)
December 18th, 7:30pm show, 6:30 door This will be a special Christmas concert from one of Maine’s most treasured musicians and his impeccable crew: Susan Ramsey on viola & violin, Mike Burd on Bass, and Tom Gordon on the sound console.
"Maine folk singer David Mallett makes good music sound easy....he simply sings about angels and backaches, falling stars and fear, dancing and death and other things that comfort and confound us." ASSOCIATED PRESS
"Always compelling, always musical…there is something about Mallett’s phrasing that lends an urgency and boldness to his songs. His deep clear voice has a storyteller’s naturalness to it, a poet’s intelligence.” BOSTON GLOBE
See www.davidmallett.com
$15.00 suggested donation  Katahdin Valley Boys - November
November 27th, 7:30pm show, 6:30 door Masters of acoustic bluegrass music! This well-known and well-traveled five-piece Maine group will showcase their hard-driving traditional sound in their fifth visit to the Coffeehouse. The group has been performing together since 1998, and all members share lead and harmony vocals. The band consists of Wayne Burtt on mandolin, Jeff Folger on banjo, Kip Yattaw on fiddle, and new additions Steve Bixby on bass and Ken Brooks on guitar - Ken has been a Coffeehouse favorite from the get-go with his smooth & polished vocals; he teams with a bunch of guys who invariably have a good time to share with their audiences. See www.katahdinvalleyboys.com & follow links.
$12.00 suggested donation, kids under 12 free  Morgan Davis - October
October 30th, 7:30pm show, 6:30 door
This Nova Scotia bluesman returns to the Coffeehouse with new tunes and more awards. He won Canada’s Maple Blues Award in 2004 & 2005 for Songwriter of the Year and three awards in 2004 for Blues Album, Male Vocalist of the Year, and Recording of the Year. He plays a subdued electric guitar and enjoys writing humorous blues songs. See www.morgandavis.com.
$10.00 suggested donation, kids under 12 free  June Coffeehouse: Harvey Reid
June 26th 2009, 6:30 door, 7:30 show Harvey is a perennial coffeehouse favorite: master multi-instrumentalist, composer, and songwriter - countless CDs, awards, and performances - arrangements of Celtic, baroque and classical, fiddle tunes, vintage pop, blues, bluegrass - emotional depth and originality, phenominaly talented - a stunning performer. If we're lucky, he'll bring his wife Joyce to perform with him. "Taste, technique, power, delicacy, warmth, diversity - Reid has 'em all." FRETS MAGAZINE "Once you hear him you'll have a better idea about what's actually possible in the realm of the stringed instrument." Face Magazine $12 suggested donation, kids under 12 are always free  May Coffeehouse: Dave Mello
May 29th 2009, 6:30 door, 7:30 show This Skowhegan bluesman makes his long-overdue returns to the coffeehouse with his clean, strong, and solid playing. Dave plays slide resonator, 6-string, and 12-string guitar as well as 5-string banjo, featuring Robert Johnson and Leadbelly standards, blues from the Carolinas to Chicago, plus some Motown and funk... the total package! $10 suggested donation, kids under 12 are always free
 April Coffeehouse: Darthia Farm Porch Band
April 24th 2009, 6:30 door, 7:30 show This modern jazz group needs no introduction to Hammond Hall audiences! They missed their usual Christmas / New Year's appearance so this concert will make up for that. We can count on Jon Mastrovito on tenor sax, Frank Fredenburch on piano, Don Knowles on bass, Bill Thayer on percussion, and sidemen to be announced. This will be a benefit for Schoodic Arts for all. $10 suggested donation, kids under 12 are always free  March Coffeehouse: Denny Breau
March 27th 2009, 6:30 door, 7:30 show Denny was inducted into the Maine Country Music Hall of Fame in 2004, the youngest inductee in the history of the organization. His rhythmically flawless and dazzlingly clear style allows him to do stunning things with a six-string guitar. He is a triple threat: a consummate picker, evocative songwriter, and a singer with “a voice that is warm and inviting but completely unpretentious – much like the singer himself,” according to Lucky Clark, Kennebec Journal
$12 suggested donation, kids under 12 are always free
 February Coffeehouse: SHUSH
February 27th 2009, 6:30 door, 7:30 show SHUSH is Sheila Unvala, fiddle, and Sepp Huber, guitar. They sing songs that they love, from a repertoire that comes from all over the place; good old hollers from the USA, tender love songs and lullabies, Cuban boleros, and Cajun and Creole party songs. You'll hear lively fiddle tunes as well as waltzes and dirges, and you'll probably be expected to sing, too. A constantly evolving repertoire means that a SHUSH show is always full of adventure and surprises. $10 suggested donation, kids under 12 are always free  January Coffeehouse: Bill Staines
January 30th 2009, 6:30 door, 7:30 show Bill is now in his fourth decade with an international reputation, and there is scarcely a folksinger in America whose repertoire doesn’t include Bill’s songs - folks like Peter, Paul & Mary, Makem and Clancy, Nanci Griffith, Mason Williams, The Highwaymen, Glen Yarborough and Jerry Jeff Walker. He radiates such ease and comfort that you would be satisfied if he sang the phone book! $12 suggested donation, kids under 12 are always free
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