Chatfield Center for the Arts
In
the tradition of the Chosen Bean Coffeehouse once located in Chatfield,
MN, a new concert series is born. Become a part of this exciting new
venture as a founding member (a "Chosen Bean") or choose to attend one
or more concerts!
Thank you for making our first concert series a success. We are looking forward to bringing you more quality folk music in a intimate and historic atmosphere in the American Legion Room at the Chatfield Center for the Arts.
Thank you for making our first concert series a success. We are looking forward to bringing you more quality folk music in a intimate and historic atmosphere in the American Legion Room at the Chatfield Center for the Arts.
FALL 2012 CONCERT SERIES
KARL BURKE
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Karl Burke
Saturday, September 15, 2012
7:30-9:30 PM
Tickets: $10
All tickets available at the door.
Coffeehouse concessions available for purchase.
Karl has performed in Chatfield a number of times in the past and is always a favorite of the local audience. “Karl Burke is a singer in the tradition of the great troubadours - Stan Rogers, Gordon Lightfoot, Ian Tyson, Tom Paxton, and many others……With a room-filling baritone and guitar work that is by turns, driving and lyrical, Karl interprets the best from the acoustic/folk palette, and does so in a way that lights up an evening with warmth and friendship.”
Listen to Karl (and his band BLT) http://www.bltfolk.com/recordings.htm
Saturday, September 15, 2012
7:30-9:30 PM
Tickets: $10
All tickets available at the door.
Coffeehouse concessions available for purchase.
Karl has performed in Chatfield a number of times in the past and is always a favorite of the local audience. “Karl Burke is a singer in the tradition of the great troubadours - Stan Rogers, Gordon Lightfoot, Ian Tyson, Tom Paxton, and many others……With a room-filling baritone and guitar work that is by turns, driving and lyrical, Karl interprets the best from the acoustic/folk palette, and does so in a way that lights up an evening with warmth and friendship.”
Listen to Karl (and his band BLT) http://www.bltfolk.com/recordings.htm
BILL and KATE ISLES
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Their relationship began in the ensuing months as they enjoyed afternoon sessions with guitars, harmonies and coffee. They've been together ever since, marrying in May of 2004. They have toured nationally as a duo, full-time, since early 2007, performing about 150 shows per year. Their late-2011 duo album, “Still Beneath the Stars and Moon”, includes ten new original songs, and showcases their respective songwriting with several of Kate’s songs as well as a few they’ve co-written. The response has been very positive with many comments such as “We’re wearing out your CD, we listen to it all the time!”; and "It’s the perfect blend of two voices". Highlights … 2001 - Winner of the 2001 Minnesota Folk Festival New Folk Songwriting Contest 2001 - Released first album "Weightless" - Met Kate at CD release concert 2002 - Nominee for the 2002 Minnesota Music Awards Song of the Year for “I Can’t Take You Home” a duet with Becky Schlegel (From “Weightless” 2001) 2005 - Performance Alley Showcase Artist, Int’l Folk Alliance Conference, Montreal, QU 2007 - Bill & Kate begin touring full-time as a duo 2008 - Main Stage Performers, Big Top Chautauqua, Mt. Ashwabay, WI 2008, 2011 – Formal Showcase Artists, Midwest Regional Folk Alliance Conference, Chicago, IL 2009, 2010 - Formal Showcase Artists, Southeast Regional Folk Alliance Conference, Mt. View, AR 2008, 2010 – Formal Showcase Artists, Far-Western Regional Folk Alliance Conference, Phoenix, AZ & Irvine, CA 2009 - WFMT-FM Rich Warren's FolkStage Concert, broadcast live in Chicago, replayed on XM Radio 2011 - Bill & Kate release seventh album, "Still Beneath the Stars and Moon" - Reader's Choice awards for Best Album of 2011 - Duluth's Reader Weekly. Website: www.billandkateisles.com |
PETER MAYER
Saturday, November 10, 2012
PETER MAYER
Saturday, November 10, 2012
7:30-9:30
Tickets $20
EXPECTED TO SELL OUT -
ADVANCE TICKET SALES RECOMMENDED - will be available for purchase in October
Coffeehouse concessions available for purchase
Peter Mayer writes songs for a small planet—songs about interconnectedness and the human journey; about the beauty and the mystery of the world. Whimsical, humorous, and profound, his music breaks the boundaries of "folk", and transcends to a realm beyond the everyday love song, to a place of wonder at the very fact of life itself.
Peter began playing the guitar and writing songs when he was in high school. He studied Theology and music in college, and then spent two years in seminary. After deciding that the priesthood wasn't for him, he took a part-time job as a church music director for 8 years, while performing at clubs and colleges, and writing and recording his music. In 1995, he quit his job and started touring full-time. Since then, Peter has gradually gained a dedicated, word-of-mouth following, playing shows from Minnesota to Texas, New England to California. He has nine CDs to his credit, and has sold over 70 thousand of them independently.
"Peter Mayer is a magician...(his) universe is full of metaphor and meaning, story and symbol — everything contains more than meets the eye."
-- Bill Reed, music editor, Colorado Springs Gazette
"His guitar work is breath-taking, his lyrics mind-spinning, his singing soul-soothing and his feet-on-the-ground optimism nothing short of healing."
--Marilyn Rea-Beyer, music director, WUMB Radio, Boston
"Peter Mayer makes it look easy – beautifully crafted songs that pose eternal questions -- his arrangements make it sound like there is certainly more than one man and his guitar in the XM Satellite Radio studios."
--Mary Sue Twohy, XM Radio
"He is unafraid of complicated topics and always strives to look beyond the easy sentiment...Peter does nothing less than address the very nature of our existence...Trust me, most songwriters can’t pull this off. Peter Mayer does."
--Dale Connelly, Morning Show Host, MinnesotaPublic Radio
"Mayer’s songs are crafted like shaker furniture, with no place for superfluous embellishments or throwaway lines... (his) world is bright and hopeful and the transcendent nature of his lyrics…explore the mysteries of life…Mayer’s fluid, clean, and tremendously intriguing guitar playing is topped with warm, rich vocals. This is music for the soul."
--Acoustic Guitar Magazine
There are at least a dozen Peter Mayer songs that I would love to learn myself, but I could never play them as well as he does."
--David Wilcox, Singer/Songwriter
"I’m a huge Peter Mayer fan, but only when I don’t feel like killing him for being so good. I love Peter’s work, though it irritates me that he plays so much better than I do. If I rocked half as hard as Peter does, I’d own the world by now."
--Janis Ian, Singer/Songwriter
"Peter delivers contemporary folk music in it's highest form: Intelligent without being bombastic--empathetic, always fresh and with wit and fantastic melodies. And his guitar playing is top tier."
--Uncle Calvin's Coffeehouse, Dallas, TX
"Mayer’s appealing guitar style (is) alternately percussive, rhythmic, melodic, or all of the above. In Mayer’s capable hands the instrument sounds like a calliope one moment, an orchestra the next and then a cleanly picked guitar ala Dave Van Ronk... Mayer is a performer at the top of his game who knows that the secret to living in a world of perplexing questions is enjoying the search for answers."
--David Kleiner, Minor Seventh Reviews
"Mayer offers up everything you could ever want from a singer/songwriter."
--Dirty Linen Magazine
"This native of Minnesota is a master storyteller."
--Folk Roots Magazine
website: petermayer.net
Saturday, November 10, 2012
7:30-9:30
Tickets $20
EXPECTED TO SELL OUT -
ADVANCE TICKET SALES RECOMMENDED - will be available for purchase in October
Coffeehouse concessions available for purchase
Peter Mayer writes songs for a small planet—songs about interconnectedness and the human journey; about the beauty and the mystery of the world. Whimsical, humorous, and profound, his music breaks the boundaries of "folk", and transcends to a realm beyond the everyday love song, to a place of wonder at the very fact of life itself.
Peter began playing the guitar and writing songs when he was in high school. He studied Theology and music in college, and then spent two years in seminary. After deciding that the priesthood wasn't for him, he took a part-time job as a church music director for 8 years, while performing at clubs and colleges, and writing and recording his music. In 1995, he quit his job and started touring full-time. Since then, Peter has gradually gained a dedicated, word-of-mouth following, playing shows from Minnesota to Texas, New England to California. He has nine CDs to his credit, and has sold over 70 thousand of them independently.
"Peter Mayer is a magician...(his) universe is full of metaphor and meaning, story and symbol — everything contains more than meets the eye."
-- Bill Reed, music editor, Colorado Springs Gazette
"His guitar work is breath-taking, his lyrics mind-spinning, his singing soul-soothing and his feet-on-the-ground optimism nothing short of healing."
--Marilyn Rea-Beyer, music director, WUMB Radio, Boston
"Peter Mayer makes it look easy – beautifully crafted songs that pose eternal questions -- his arrangements make it sound like there is certainly more than one man and his guitar in the XM Satellite Radio studios."
--Mary Sue Twohy, XM Radio
"He is unafraid of complicated topics and always strives to look beyond the easy sentiment...Peter does nothing less than address the very nature of our existence...Trust me, most songwriters can’t pull this off. Peter Mayer does."
--Dale Connelly, Morning Show Host, MinnesotaPublic Radio
"Mayer’s songs are crafted like shaker furniture, with no place for superfluous embellishments or throwaway lines... (his) world is bright and hopeful and the transcendent nature of his lyrics…explore the mysteries of life…Mayer’s fluid, clean, and tremendously intriguing guitar playing is topped with warm, rich vocals. This is music for the soul."
--Acoustic Guitar Magazine
There are at least a dozen Peter Mayer songs that I would love to learn myself, but I could never play them as well as he does."
--David Wilcox, Singer/Songwriter
"I’m a huge Peter Mayer fan, but only when I don’t feel like killing him for being so good. I love Peter’s work, though it irritates me that he plays so much better than I do. If I rocked half as hard as Peter does, I’d own the world by now."
--Janis Ian, Singer/Songwriter
"Peter delivers contemporary folk music in it's highest form: Intelligent without being bombastic--empathetic, always fresh and with wit and fantastic melodies. And his guitar playing is top tier."
--Uncle Calvin's Coffeehouse, Dallas, TX
"Mayer’s appealing guitar style (is) alternately percussive, rhythmic, melodic, or all of the above. In Mayer’s capable hands the instrument sounds like a calliope one moment, an orchestra the next and then a cleanly picked guitar ala Dave Van Ronk... Mayer is a performer at the top of his game who knows that the secret to living in a world of perplexing questions is enjoying the search for answers."
--David Kleiner, Minor Seventh Reviews
"Mayer offers up everything you could ever want from a singer/songwriter."
--Dirty Linen Magazine
"This native of Minnesota is a master storyteller."
--Folk Roots Magazine
website: petermayer.net
