Cranberry Coffeehouse presents Shannon Heaton & Keith Murphy
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Binghamton 183 Riverside Drive, Binghamton, NY, United StatesBoston-based Irish flute player and singer Shannon Heaton has been heralded as one of North America’s finest traditional musicians. A warm and entertaining performer, Heaton excels at making Irish music fresh and accessible to a wide variety of audiences. With her appealing mix of instrumentals and heartfelt ballads, she offers world class music with Irish roots...
Chenango Sessions presents Tommy Sands
Chenango Craftsman Binghamton, New York, United StatesTommy Sands, County Down's singer, songwriter and social activist has achieved something akin to legendary status in his own lifetime. From the pioneering days with the highly influential Sands Family, bringing Irish Music from New York's Carnegie Hall to Moscow's Olympic Stadium, he has developed into one of the most powerful songwriters and enchanting solo...
Debra Cowan & John Roberts (Chenango Sessions)
Chenango Sessions Binghamton, NY, United StatesWith their eloquent voices and expert musicianship, John Roberts and Debra Cowan bring to life songs seldom heard on TV or radio these days. Drawn from both the folk tradition and the work of contemporary songwriters, many of these songs tell of the timeless joys and sorrows of human experience. They offer windows into where we’ve come from and...
Duo Meridian (Cranberry Coffeehouse)
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Binghamton 183 Riverside Drive, Binghamton, NY, United StatesDuo Meridian is an acoustic pair featuring Robert Siegers on banjo and Cricket Tombs on violin. The duo performs original instrumental compositions as well as early 20th century American, traditional Celtic and Scandinavian tunes. Duo Meridian blends folk and classical in their approach as they perform atmospheric originals that transport the listener on a journey...
“Ragtime” Jack Radcliffe (Chenango Sessions)
Chenango Sessions Binghamton, NY, United StatesHe’s been a newspaper editor, ethnomusicologist, author, tall ship captain, outdoor leader and award-winning music producer. He’s been called “The Mark Twain of traditional American music,” and has travelled more than a million miles on the back roads of our nation, gathering, learning, singing and promoting the music of our diverse cultural experience. He’s “Ragtime” Jack...
John Kirk & Trish Miller (Cranberry Coffeehouse)
NOMA Community Center 85 Walnut Street, Binghamton, NY, United StatesA yearly tradition! The Cranberry Coffeehouse welcomes John Kirk & Trish Miller for their Umpteenth Annual January Concert. John and Trish present fiery fiddle tunes, folksongs and fancy footwork to audiences of all ages. John’s lyric voice, good sense of humor, and versatile instrumental skills have earned him widespread recognition in folk and traditional music circles. ...
Hubby Jenkins (Chenango Sessions)
Chenango Sessions Binghamton, NY, United StatesHubby Jenkins (Carolina Chocolate Drops, Rhiannon Giddens) is a talented multi-instrumentalist who endeavours to share his love and knowledge of old-time American music. Born and raised in Brooklyn, he delved into his Southern roots, following the thread of African American history that wove itself through country blues, ragtime, fiddle and banjo, and traditional jazz. Hubby...
Robin Bullock (Cranberry Coffeehouse)
NOMA Community Center 85 Walnut Street, Binghamton, NY, United StatesHailed as a “Celtic guitar god” by Baltimore City Paper and “one of the best folk instrumentalists in the business” by Sing Out! Magazine, Robin Bullock is one of the preeminent acoustic music masters of our time. His virtuosity on guitar, cittern and mandolin blends the ancient melodies of the Celtic lands, their vigorous American descendants,...
Jaerv (Chenango Sessions)
Bundy Museum of History & Art 129 Main Street, Binghamton, NY, United StatesThe award-winning Swedish quintet Jaerv presents an extroverted, vigorous and heartfelt folk music with influences from both jazz and pop music. Together, the five members have created a homogeneous, vivid sound which has established Jaerv on the folk music scene as well as in many other forums. Rooted in multiple musical traditions, Jaerv offers a...
Westbound Situation (Chenango Sessions)
Chenango Sessions Binghamton, NY, United StatesWestbound Situation blends the precision of classical chamber music, the rhythmic drive of bluegrass, and the colorful expression of jazz into a new style of chamber music—chambergrass. The quartet—comprised of Grant Flick on violin, Matt Davis on banjo, Zach Brown on cello, and Jacob Warren on bass—mixes composition and improvisation seamlessly into their entirely memorized...