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The Woodshed is an intimate discussion and live performance with local New England area singer/songwriters who have played at The Hearing Room in Lowell, Massachusetts. Hosted by Aaron Tornberg, of...
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The Woodshed is an intimate discussion and live performance with local New England area singer/songwriters who have played at The Hearing Room in Lowell, Massachusetts. Hosted by Aaron Tornberg, of Mushroom Musicians, the conversation focuses on a wide range of life histories to bring new meaning to local music. Listen in on the third Monday of each month at 7:00PM for the LIVE podcast! The recorded version will be available immediately after the podcast.
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The Woodshed Podcast Live from The Hearing Room
The Woodshed Podcast Live from The Hearing Room
Aaron Tornberg
28 JUN 2021 · Ronnee has been performing in clubs and coffeehouses throughout the southern New England area, playing "ClassicRock" covers and originals, including those from her self-produced CD,“Spirit of the Heart”. Ronnee's upbeat “acoustic-rock” style and choice of material never fail to draw her audiences' praise and applause.
29 MAR 2021 · Dear Friend,
I'd like to share a story with you...
...about a girl. The youngest of six children, “the baby”, she spent summers barefoot and picking raspberries. During the winter she listened to the crackling fireplace while warming cold fingers after hours in the snow. She learned delight and appreciation.
This girl was spritely and filled with joy. She was loving and always wanted to please those around her. She trusted quickly and forgave easily.
Childhood was abundant. It also came with hardships. Life brought sickness, hurt, struggle, and great loss. She was fifteen when her dad lost his battle to cancer. She didn't know then, but these experiences taught her the gift of resilience, the value of hope, the beauty of love, and the friendship of music.
Through the years this "Energizer Bunny" mastered the art of wearing masks to cover up her sorrow and fear.
"Put a smile on your face, don't be a burden, and push through."
Externally she was thriving. Internally she was numb, so she wrote. Songs, poems, and journaling were her haven for raw, unfiltered honesty.
At the University of New Hampshire she began writing songs on her dad’s old guitar. It was a balm. Sophomore year brought a reckoning with her faith, a belief in a force of love and restoration. She had a sense of belonging just as she was.
This also lead to self-reflection, opening wounds that had never really healed. Afraid, an eating disorder became her escape. There was sickness, hurt, struggle, and loss...
...and then there was resilience, hope, love, and music.
Post undergrad, this now adult knew she wanted to help people, see them thrive. She also knew music filled her veins with an energy unmatched, meeting her wherever she was with exactly what she needed. Music was her confidant, dance partner, comforter, her mood lifter. Through the years, personal growth, therapy, amazing friends, and creating, all brought more clarity:
She would cultivate Connection, Solidarity, and Hope through Love and Creative Expression.
That little girl is now in her thirties. She is still spritely, loving, and filled with joy. She is also authentic and vulnerable. This woman has traveled. She has loved and lost. She cares for the environment and is passionate about ending injustice. She is an aunt to five incredible young humans and a mom to her feline Mowgli. She lives her vision. This woman is learning daily to trust her knowing and believe her worth.
She is bold. She is courageous. She is flourishing.
With the dawn she rises.
I seek daily to cultivate connection, solidarity, and hope through love and creative expression. My hope is that as I share my music and heart with integrity and authenticity, you too feel empowered to live authentically.
May you come to know and love yourself more and more, as you journey Around The Sun.
BeBold,
Kimayo
15 MAR 2021 · Tonight! Catherine Swan is on the podcast at 7pm. Listen in!
I am originally from Dublin Ireland, currently living in Lowell Ma with my childhood sweetheart "Swanney" who I reconnected with after 30 years and married just 4 years ago. It wasn't until I moved to the US that I started playing out at open mics initially and eventually playing in pubs and gigging all over Lowell and surrounding towns with my band "Oskersfault" that I formed through meeting other musicians at Pinata's in Tewksbury MA when I ran the open mic there, we went our own ways after about 5 very successful years together, we had a great dynamic and it was a fab experience! My mother always loved playing music in the house and was a huge influence growing up, my musical influences to name a few are Elvis, Jewel, Amy Winehouse, The Cranberries, Fleetwood Mac,, I particularly like soul and R&B to listen to. Now that I'm getting older I am enjoying doing more songs from my home country Ireland and with the technology we have now I am able to share with my family and friends back there.
16 FEB 2021 · Chris Steele is a Massachusetts-based songwriter, singer, and rock musician. Depending on the day, Chris might be solo with an acoustic guitar in Edmonton, Alberta, jamming out with friends at a pizza joint in Newton, livestreaming online, or putting down new rock tracks in the studio.
My music comes from a love of classic rock, influenced by 90’s grunge and post-grunge, and then filtered through the mind of a poet who travels too much.
https://chrissteeleband.com
24 NOV 2020 · Doug Farrell is a Songwriter from Southern New Hampshire who's been described as John Prine meets John Gorka. he’s been featured on NHPR’s Folk Show ,winner of several New England Songwiting contests. He has a CD out called Spirit Man, and also 2 CDs with Decatur Creek .
http://www.dougfarrellmusic.com
17 NOV 2020 · A brief Biography of Jay Singing Spirit Cunningham written by Jay:
I started playing guitar at 15 years of age and I am self taught not until later on in life did I start performing at various coffee houses and pubs both at open mics and gigging out and also busking for tips I have been with my classic rock band the CRS Project for 20 years or so and actually started playing with some of these musicians 48years ago as a garage band that never did much I was lead singer at the time and only played folk music on my own of which I was just learning . I was born in Taunton Ma and moved to the back woods of Norton ma at 8 years. Of age I am 1/4 Abenaki Indian and 3/4 Scotch Irish and English I am 64 years old and have been married 45 years to the same woman and have 3 grown adult children and 8 grandchildren also I am retired and devoting all my time to music and native culture I lead a 26” buffalo hide drum and we drum at 13 powwows a year.
9 NOV 2020 · Pam Steinfeld
singer/songwriter/guitarist/
piano-player.
A Massachusetts-based musician, Pam has over 20 songwriting awards to her credit (6 awarded by the Billboard Magazine Song Contest). She writes upbeat, rhythmic tunes as well as soulful ballads.
Pam’s debut CD, "Open Hands," features eleven originals and a cover version of John Gorka's song "Love Is Our Cross To Bear." Co-produced by Pam and WAMA "Producer of the Year" Marco Delmar, "Open Hands" also features the talents of Jon Carroll,
Robbie Magruder, J.T. Brown (current/former members of Mary Chapin Carpenter's band), Al Petteway, and many other talented musicians.
"Open Hands" was nominated as "Best Debut Recording" and "Best Contemporary Folk Recording" by the Washington Area Music Association (WAMA). Radio/TV: Ten songs from "Open Hands" have been played on radio stations across the country and abroad, including WXPN in Philadelphia, WMVY on Martha's Vineyard, WETA in Washington, DC, and WRUR in Rochester. Pam has been interviewed on stations in New Jersey and Maryland. She has also appeared on television in Massachusetts, Maryland, and Virginia.
Performance Highlights:
The release of "Open Hands" launched Pam's performance schedule, highlights of which include shows at the Washington Folk Festival, National Race for the Cure, Wintertide Coffeehouse, Rehoboth Folk Festival, Watchung Arts Center, Jammin' Java, First Night Alexandria, Frederick Festival of the Arts, Herndon Festival, NERFA Official "Informal" Showcase, Vic's Music Corner/O'Brien's, and numerous house
concerts.
Press
Pam has been featured in numerous publications, including:
Washington Post Magazine, The Journal Newspapers, The Gazette Newspapers, Music Monthly, Washington Jewish Week, The Watchung Journal, The Cape Gazette, The Old Town Crier, Indie-music.com, and collectedsounds.com. (See "Reviews" page for quotes.)
Listen to Pam’s tunes on YouTube!
https://tinyurl.com/PamOnYouTube
For Bookings and Email List: PamelaJayne1@gmail.com
18 MAY 2020 · Jason Campbell was born in Billerica, MA and has spent his life in New England. He has a degree in Illustration and is self-employed as a Typographic Designer. He also paints, draws pencil portraits and publishes web cartoons. He has been a blues enthusiast for decades, some of his favorite artists are Paul Rishell and Annie Raines, Charlie Musselwhite and Guy Davis. When not listening to other blues artists he plays harmonica and sings at area Open Mics and Open Blues Jams. In whatever free time he can squeeze in he writes adventures for Dungeons and Dragons campaigns.
11 MAY 2020 · Lori Fassman moved to the Boston area from Connecticut in the late 1980s, armed with a math degree, and immediately became enchanted with the local folk music scene. She joined and later became a core volunteer for the Folk Song Society of Greater Boston (fssgb.org), helping to organize their concert series, singing parties and annual Fall Getaway Weekend. Lori has sung with numerous local performing groups including The Simones (named after her late cat), Acton Music Project, and Sisters in Song/SisterWolf, singing at weddings, private parties and local coffeehouses. Her repertoire includes traditional folk songs and covers of contemporary singer-songwriter material, as well as popular songs from the 1970s, and she has a particular fondness for the songs of blues rockers such as Bonnie Raitt and Susan Tedeschi.
7 MAY 2020 · “Tamara Hey’s soaring voice has charmed and captivated audiences throughout her native New York for over a decade. She writes meticulously detailed, magically crystallized three-minute pop songs which, just like her vocals, are disarmingly deep. She’s also one of the great wits in music: an edgy sense of humor spices Hey’s narratives and character studies, even in the gloomiest moments. And her punchlines have O. Henry irony and Amy Rigby bittersweetness. The title of Hey’s album Miserably Happy pretty much says it all.” – New York Music Daily
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She also happens to be the rare music-schooled musician who doesn’t waste notes or let her chops get in the way of saying something as directly as possible, musically or lyrically. That sense of purpose and craftsmanship translates to her career as a music educator: she’s a popular guitar teacher and for the past ten years, Hey’s Alphabet City Music Workshops for music theory, transcription and arranging have built a following, especially among singer-songwriters.
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Hey got her start in the Lower East Side’s edgy singer-songwriter scene in the early part of this century, in the days before the gritty, artistic neighborhood was taken over by real estate speculators. Inspired by the fearlessness and sardonic humor of classic punk, the catchiness and wit of 60s Brill Building pop and the quirky fun of new wave, Hey quickly gained a following in bars and listening rooms in New York including the Fast Folk Cafe, CB’s Gallery, the Bottom Line, Rockwood Music Hall and the Slipper Room. She’s shared the stage with artists including David Massengill, Jack Hardy, Ellis Paul, to name a few.
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Her third album, Miserably Happy, has been called a high water mark of that scene. Tamara’s catalog of original songwriting includes three previous albums: Right This Minute, A Little Space Left, and a children’s album, Sharing the Same Stars. In addition, Tamara’s work appears on three Fast Folk Magazine compilations: Local Charm, New Voices NYC, and Rebirth, issued on Smithsonian Folkways Records.
The Editors
New York Music Daily/Lucid Culture
Review of Tamara Hey at Rockwood Music Hall
http://lucidculture.wordpress.com
The Woodshed is an intimate discussion and live performance with local New England area singer/songwriters who have played at The Hearing Room in Lowell, Massachusetts. Hosted by Aaron Tornberg, of...
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The Woodshed is an intimate discussion and live performance with local New England area singer/songwriters who have played at The Hearing Room in Lowell, Massachusetts. Hosted by Aaron Tornberg, of Mushroom Musicians, the conversation focuses on a wide range of life histories to bring new meaning to local music. Listen in on the third Monday of each month at 7:00PM for the LIVE podcast! The recorded version will be available immediately after the podcast.
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