Saturday,  July 19,   2008,   8:00 p.m.

Known for their tag-team vocals and fiery lyrical approach, ADAM n KRIS' style of acoustic rock is characterized by tight, smart arrangements that compliment the message in the lyrics and soaring harmonies to drive the song home.

Life sings through Adam n Kris. This energetic and highly entertaining duo is a guaranteed crowd-pleaser, belting out powerful tunes and passionately harmonizing well thought-out messages of peace and love with their lyrical slices of life. There is something deep, earnest and utterly human about them that comes together in a vibrant, clear, vocal franchise. Influenced by such legendary singer/songwriters as Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell and Neil Young, their contemporary, acoustic, folk-rock style (Mamas and the Papas and Indigo Girls come to mind) is reminiscent of the socially conscious music of the 1960s. Their music is propulsive; a refreshing, down to earth style, redefining music with a conscience and a voice. "Music is often the thing we hold onto when there is nothing else. It is a touchstone. It keeps you alive," says Kris, whose vocals are achingly expressive and pitch perfect.

Saturday,  August 23,   2008,   8:00 p.m.

Born out of the timeless tradition of Celtic music sessions, Molly’s Revenge is a band with a genuine affection for the music they play; their enthusiasm for the music carries over in all their live and recorded performances. The classic combination of solo instruments such as the Highland bagpipes, uilleann pipes, whistles, fiddle, and mandolin against a backdrop of guitar and bouzouki accompaniment, with an occasional rousing chorus song mixed in, guarantees an enjoyable and memorable listening experience.

Equally at home in front of audiences several thousand strong or in small intimate venues, Molly’s Revenge has performed at many of the top folk festivals and performing arts events in the USA, and countless private concerts. Internationally, they have performed at prestigious events in Australia and China.

 "I can honestly say, it would be nigh on impossible for musicians to put much more oomph into playing than evidenced here." Chaos Realm

Saturday, October 4th, 8:00 p.m.

Tracy Grammer

"Tracy Grammer has that elusive quality of being able to speak directly to another person's heart - instantly bypassing all of the usual infrastructure - the moment she starts singing. She's great."

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For the uninitiated, Tracy Grammer rose to acclaim as one half of the duo, Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer. Called "one of the fastest-rising acts in folk music" by the Boston Globe, the duo released three internationally acclaimed albums featuring Carter's award-winning postmodern, mythic Americana song craft; toured with Joan Baez as her backing band and spotlight artists; and earned a diverse and devoted following with their indelible live performances at festivals and venues all across North America.

Just as the duo seemed poised to receive much-deserved mainstream recognition, Carter died suddenly of a heart attack while touring with Grammer in July, 2002. He was 49.

Three years later, Grammer has emerged from the darkness of tragedy -- armed with the richness of her experience with Carter, and the help of a few new friends -- with her first full-length solo album, the beautifully textured Flower of Avalon.

Flower of Avalon, named after a song Carter penned as a gift for Grammer in 1999, features nine previously unrecorded Dave Carter gems, delivered with a loving clarity that only Tracy Grammer can provide. Multi-tasking masterfully here as co-producer, singer, and instrumentalist, Grammer digs deep into the spirit of Carter's poetic verses and haunting melodies to color each song with textures and flourishes that blur the boundaries of categorization. The result is a bold, rewarding, and transcendent love letter to the world, one of those rare musical experiences that compels the listener to drop everything and hear each song in sequence, start to finish.

As Grammer herself puts it, "Dave was a fearless songwriter. He searched well beyond the reaches of everyday influence and experience and wrote from the deeper realms of myth, sound, and dream. He dug deep, and wrote from a place where we're all the same. That's why his words resonate the way they do."

And they will continue to resonate among larger and larger audiences as long as the extraordinarily talented Tracy Grammer continues to celebrate and share them.