The Meadows Brothers and Michael Suddes
Saturday, January 25
7:30 p.m.
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The Meadows Brothers
“HOMEGROWN FOLKED UP COUNTRIFIED ROCKNROLLED ROOTS MUSIC” The musical roots of Ian and Dustin Meadows lie somewhere between the high lonesome sound of Bill Monroe, the simple sophistication of Woody Guthrie, the haunting melodies of the Appalachian Mountains, the backwoods blues of Robert Johnson, and the hard driving country of Johnny Cash; intertwining and then combining with a unique modern twist. American music in its truest sense, drawing heavily on a myriad of influences to create something new and authentic. Website Listen on YouTube |
Michael Suddes
Michael Suddes is a folk-rock performing artist devoted to his craft. A Connecticut native, Michael found his love for the guitar at the age of 13 and from that point on, set out to find his distinct musical voice. While attending music school for jazz guitar in the Pacific Northwest, he realized that he was a New Englander at heart and wanted to tell his stories through songs. After moving back East, he found his truest calling in combining his lyric writing with his love for guitar. He feels most at home as a singer/songwriter and remains a lover and student of the craft; always pushing, always stretching his limits to sharpen his skills. Michael’s songs are written from a heartfelt place of honesty, often centered around relationships and their complexities as well as his own evolution through life. He is at his best performing live and his dedication to connecting with his crowd, regardless of the venue, is evident in his keen intuition and generous warmth. Website Listen on YouTube |
Kenny White
Saturday, February 22
7:30 p.m.
Kenny White
Between the Stacks at the Beekley Library welcomes back Kenny White!
KENNY WHITE comes to the world of the touring singer-songwriter following a long and successful musical journey. An accomplished pianist, who also performs on guitar, Kenny has now become more known for his clever lyrics. LONG LIST OF PRIORS, his aptly named current album, is the latest collection of original songs: snapshots of the human condition. Audiences often comment that a Kenny White concert moves them to laughter and tears — sometimes within the same song! “If Mark Twain could sing and play piano like a virtuoso, his name would be Kenny White.” –Stu Kuby, The Strand, Hudson Falls, NY. Kenny recently completed an 18-month tour performing his original songs while traveling as the opener for Stephen Stills and Judy Collins, and has toured for many years with Cheryl Wheeler. He is looking forward to returning to the road to perform his own full-length shows.
Website
https://kennywhite.net/
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/kennywhitemusic
Listen
https://youtu.be/c1U1xs1bOBQ?si=7Ufh9VI3alUgnbNL
Between the Stacks at the Beekley Library welcomes back Kenny White!
KENNY WHITE comes to the world of the touring singer-songwriter following a long and successful musical journey. An accomplished pianist, who also performs on guitar, Kenny has now become more known for his clever lyrics. LONG LIST OF PRIORS, his aptly named current album, is the latest collection of original songs: snapshots of the human condition. Audiences often comment that a Kenny White concert moves them to laughter and tears — sometimes within the same song! “If Mark Twain could sing and play piano like a virtuoso, his name would be Kenny White.” –Stu Kuby, The Strand, Hudson Falls, NY. Kenny recently completed an 18-month tour performing his original songs while traveling as the opener for Stephen Stills and Judy Collins, and has toured for many years with Cheryl Wheeler. He is looking forward to returning to the road to perform his own full-length shows.
Website
https://kennywhite.net/
https://www.facebook.com/kennywhitemusic
Listen
https://youtu.be/c1U1xs1bOBQ?si=7Ufh9VI3alUgnbNL
Kerri Powers
Saturday, March 22
7:30 p.m.
Kerri Powers
Singer-songwriter Kerri Powers channels blues and soul with an eye-to-eye, earthy sensibility that makes for honest listening and reflection. She’s your sage girlfriend speaking from the heart and does so with a new collection of songs written from a place of grief and longing – something that speaks to us all. With ‘Love is Why,’ Powers’ first self-penned full-length album since 2018 to be released on October 27th, the New England-based artist explores the universal emotion of love and its huge influence on our decisions. In particular, she examines love in the context of holding on or letting go through human loss and grieving. The album’s original songs were written during the pandemic and after Powers lost her father, whom she calls “my best friend”.
“I wrote the songs from a place of loss and grieving and went from there,” she says. “Writing the songs was hard but a necessary part of healing. At the end of the day, all the songs were written from a place of love for humanity and the need to spread the message that love is essential.”
Love is Why was recorded in February 2021 at Dagotown Recorders in Boston. Produced by drummer Marco Giovino (Robert Plant, Tom Jones, Norah Jones) and engineered by Sam Margolis. The album includes musical luminaries Bo Ramsey, slide guitar; Luther Dickinson, slide guitar; Kelvin Holly, electric guitar; Doug Lancio, electric guitar; John Putnam, electric guitar; Regina and Anne McCrary, background vocals; Brother Paul Brown, Hammond/keyboard, Marty Ballou, bass; Charles Giordano, accordion; Asa Brosius, pedal steel; and singer-songwriter Paul Thorn on duet vocals during a transcendent cover of Gregg Allman’s “Please Call Home.”
Website
https://www.kerripowers.com/
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/kpowerstrainer
Listen
https://youtu.be/nIFX-nXAjJg?si=xXUJFnFGXIROG5jF
Singer-songwriter Kerri Powers channels blues and soul with an eye-to-eye, earthy sensibility that makes for honest listening and reflection. She’s your sage girlfriend speaking from the heart and does so with a new collection of songs written from a place of grief and longing – something that speaks to us all. With ‘Love is Why,’ Powers’ first self-penned full-length album since 2018 to be released on October 27th, the New England-based artist explores the universal emotion of love and its huge influence on our decisions. In particular, she examines love in the context of holding on or letting go through human loss and grieving. The album’s original songs were written during the pandemic and after Powers lost her father, whom she calls “my best friend”.
“I wrote the songs from a place of loss and grieving and went from there,” she says. “Writing the songs was hard but a necessary part of healing. At the end of the day, all the songs were written from a place of love for humanity and the need to spread the message that love is essential.”
Love is Why was recorded in February 2021 at Dagotown Recorders in Boston. Produced by drummer Marco Giovino (Robert Plant, Tom Jones, Norah Jones) and engineered by Sam Margolis. The album includes musical luminaries Bo Ramsey, slide guitar; Luther Dickinson, slide guitar; Kelvin Holly, electric guitar; Doug Lancio, electric guitar; John Putnam, electric guitar; Regina and Anne McCrary, background vocals; Brother Paul Brown, Hammond/keyboard, Marty Ballou, bass; Charles Giordano, accordion; Asa Brosius, pedal steel; and singer-songwriter Paul Thorn on duet vocals during a transcendent cover of Gregg Allman’s “Please Call Home.”
Website
https://www.kerripowers.com/
https://www.facebook.com/kpowerstrainer
Listen
https://youtu.be/nIFX-nXAjJg?si=xXUJFnFGXIROG5jF
Chris Staples
Saturday, April 26
7:30 p.m.
Chris Staples
“Chris Staples is a gifted storyteller who reveals life's greatest mysteries in humanity's smallest moments.” - NPR’s All Songs Considered.
Cloud Souvenirs is the sixth full length album by American songwriter Chris Staples, ten songs spun from accumulated memory and flashes of insight into the hidden corners of life. Recorded in the midst of travel back and forth to Florida to deal with his mother’s declining health, Staples built an unselfconscious masterpiece, a cathartic and complete expression of his craft. Cloud Souvenirs is a parade of sculpted moments, some light and airy, some gray and heavy with rain– variations on beauty, tenderness, grief and unexpected joy.
What is gone is all still here. Florida is a place steeped in memories and significance for Staples, landscape, humidity, shapes in the sky, intangible tokens of youth. He worked on the album intermittently during these visits, but had to cancel recording sessions to take his mother to the hospital. Her ever present piano playing around the house was a key to finding music. Her loss is a reality impossible to express.
Cloud Souvenirs is laced with insistent phrases and melody lines that linger long after listening. Songs that hint at narrative without being weighed down by unnecessary detail. Evocative and economical, melancholic and magical. Songs that nourish life and encourage self-reflection. Pulsing electronica, acoustic strummers, synth stabs, dry snare drums setting the pace, clear melodies fill the sky, no rain for days.
Staples is more pop artist than an indie singer, a poet and craftsman working in an independent tradition and at a human scale. A twelve-string guitar or warbling effect pedal, a buoyant brass arrangement, a passage of vocal harmony–this pleasing sonic tapestry is anchored by his warm voice and naturalistic lyricism. Staples enlisted a hometown friend, producer Jeremy SH Griffith, to bring a fresh perspective to ten years of self-recording, their easy collaboration shines on each crisp and devastating track.
Website
https://www.chrisstaplesmusic.com/
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=chris%20staples
Listen
https://youtu.be/jBjLJ0moWBI?si=Pb1kIOBCs6PgBdNZ
“Chris Staples is a gifted storyteller who reveals life's greatest mysteries in humanity's smallest moments.” - NPR’s All Songs Considered.
Cloud Souvenirs is the sixth full length album by American songwriter Chris Staples, ten songs spun from accumulated memory and flashes of insight into the hidden corners of life. Recorded in the midst of travel back and forth to Florida to deal with his mother’s declining health, Staples built an unselfconscious masterpiece, a cathartic and complete expression of his craft. Cloud Souvenirs is a parade of sculpted moments, some light and airy, some gray and heavy with rain– variations on beauty, tenderness, grief and unexpected joy.
What is gone is all still here. Florida is a place steeped in memories and significance for Staples, landscape, humidity, shapes in the sky, intangible tokens of youth. He worked on the album intermittently during these visits, but had to cancel recording sessions to take his mother to the hospital. Her ever present piano playing around the house was a key to finding music. Her loss is a reality impossible to express.
Cloud Souvenirs is laced with insistent phrases and melody lines that linger long after listening. Songs that hint at narrative without being weighed down by unnecessary detail. Evocative and economical, melancholic and magical. Songs that nourish life and encourage self-reflection. Pulsing electronica, acoustic strummers, synth stabs, dry snare drums setting the pace, clear melodies fill the sky, no rain for days.
Staples is more pop artist than an indie singer, a poet and craftsman working in an independent tradition and at a human scale. A twelve-string guitar or warbling effect pedal, a buoyant brass arrangement, a passage of vocal harmony–this pleasing sonic tapestry is anchored by his warm voice and naturalistic lyricism. Staples enlisted a hometown friend, producer Jeremy SH Griffith, to bring a fresh perspective to ten years of self-recording, their easy collaboration shines on each crisp and devastating track.
Website
https://www.chrisstaplesmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=chris%20staples
Listen
https://youtu.be/jBjLJ0moWBI?si=Pb1kIOBCs6PgBdNZ