Friday, May 2 2008

featuring: Country Music Country Raffle, 50/50 raffle, Silent Auction.

Proudly sponsored by: D & K Entertainment and the Friends of the W. Townsend Reading Room

For Information please call Tubby Boucher @ 978-597-8876 or Country Dave @ 978-846-8763

FEATURING: Tim Mayer, Janous Kowarsky, Daryl Lowery, Bob Bowlby, Nir Naaman - saxes, Marcos Lopez & Marcos Torres - Percussion, Uziel Colon - Piano, Alex Albear - Bass, Angel Subero, Chris Gagney, & Robyn Amy - Trombones, John Repogly, Greg Hopkins- Trumpets &  Manolo Mairena - Singer.

While Castrillo has made a good living playing congas, his first love remains the timbales. It had been his dream since 1989 to be a timbalero leading a large ensemble playing mambos, cha-chas, and rumbas in a salute to the 1950s Palladium era in New York. "When Tito Puente passed away in 2000, I went to the funeral, stood by his casket, and made a promise that I would try to carry on the tradition he started. I want to bring the mambo back with some new touches."

While Castrillo feels that Puente left big shoes to fill, he wants to do what he can to keep the music alive. "I want to continue passing on knowledge and stories to my audience for them to do the same thing".

Angela Masciale has a hauntingly beautiful voice, folk-classical in sound, with a three octave range. Her soulful original songs are composed of exquisite melodies, woven with mellifluous, poetic and stirring lyrics. Her joy of singing and playing the guitar fills the room as she passionately showers her listeners with an uplifting spirit, delivering her message with a voice that soars over all. Angela plays both classical and acoustic guitar, delivering harmonious, often complex finger-picking guitar accompaniment to her singing.

Howie Newman has opened for Tom Paxton, Vance Gilbert, Bill Staines, Lui Collins, Don White, Modern Man and many others. His songs have received national airplay on the Dr. Demento Show, National Public Radio and Midnight Special as well as dozens of other outlets across North America. Two of his songs ("AstroTurf" and "Doug Mientkiewicz") have been included in baseball compilations produced by Hungry for Music, a Washington, D.C.-based organization that raises money and provides instruments for underprivileged youth.

For information, contact us: info@oasiscoffeehouse.org (781) 795-1041 Doors open at 7:00 PM

Having studied voice with one of America's great sopranos, Eleanor Steber, song stylist Monica Hatch is one of the very few who managed to have a successful career as both a classical and jazz singer. With her classical background, Hatch not only brings a technically advanced set of vocal chords to her jazz work, but an appreciation of the lyrics of the material she sings. She conveys a sense of warmth in her interpretations never letting her naturally strong voice overwhelm the material.

Of Pamela Hines -  April 28, 2007 edition of Midwest Record Recap: " Straight ahead jazz isn't a dirty word, in the right hands it's a wonderful thing that sounds good and feels nice... Whether delivering chestnuts or originals, Hines is right there, on point playing the clean, bold lines that make you take notice that let you concentrate on the fire with being distracted by false pyrotechnics.

2007 marked 20 years in the recording and touring career of The Barra MacNeils. To celebrate this, the group released a special 20th Anniversary CD which covers the span of their entire career. As a group, the six MacNeil siblings are widely regarded as one of the greatest live acts in the Celtic world. Hailing from Sydney Mines, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, the family group is deeply rooted in Celtic music, culture and history. Their numerous critically acclaimed recordings have included their own original songs as well as tried and true standards, both instrumental and vocal.

A Barra MacNeils live concert experience brings so much more to the stage than most live acts ever can. Multiple lead vocalists, beautiful sibling harmonies, top drawer instrumental prowess on a wide variety of acoustic, stringed, percussion and wind instruments, dancing, storytelling, Gaelic songs and a journey through an ancient culture. Family entertainment at its highest level.

 

This lively and poignant comedy about love and survival illuminates the relationships, humor, and feelings of three close friends who meet at the cemetery each month to pay their respects to their late husbands. Each of the widows is at a different stage of healing and moving on with her life. The flamboyant Lucille – whose husband was unfaithful – flirts outrageously, as if to avenge herself. The quieter Doris is content to remember her husband. Ida is beginning to think she’s ready for a second chance at love. But Lucille and Doris aren’t ready for her to take that chance. How the friends resolve this conflict is funny, touching, and thought-provoking.

Technical perfection, pure tone, crystal clear diction – 4-time Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald is one of the most electrifying performers on Broadway today. Frequently compared to legendary performers such as Barbara Streisand and Judy Garland, McDonald was just nominated for yet another Tony for her luminous portrayal of “Lizzie’ in 110 in the Shade. She also plays Dr. Naomi Bennett in "Private Practice" on TV. Equally talented as a singer and a dramatic actress, she is “one of those rare cabaret concert performers who sends writers running for their thesaurus in search of new ways to say ‘astonishing’” (EDGE Boston).

CABARET: Dinner, Dessert & Cash Bar $3–11. Doors open at 7 pm.

Using nothing more than five voices, The House Jacks deliver everything from blistering funk to screaming rock to heart-melting ballads. Based in San Francisco, this award-winning acappella quintet completed their 25th European tour in 2007 and is heard on literally hundreds of jingles and movie soundtrack recordings.

"Some voices hit you hard from first blush and this is one of them. Beautifully clear and instantly distinctive, this 25-year-old songbird from Halifax, NS cuts to the chase with the first lovely strains of 'Good Enough,' accompanied by mandolin, pedal steel and guitar, which complement her powerfully feminine voice." - Eric Thom, Exclaim.ca

The Keene Jazz Orchestra celebrates Spring with an evening of Big Band Music.

This year the Orchestra is pleased to have Boston based blues guitarist Mike Duke as our featured soloist. Joining Mike will be guest vocalist Samirah Evans. Hear the charts of Count Basie, Pat Metheny, Duke Ellington, Doc Severinson, Les Hooper, among others.

This annual concert has become an important event for lovers of big band music.

2nd Show 10:00pm

Saxophonist Najee, the two-time Grammy nominee (for 1986’s Najee’s Theme and 1988’s Day By Day, both of which went platinum) and a pioneer of the “rhythm and jazz” movement of the late ‘80s and ‘90s, continues to shed new light on the contemporary jazz scene with his latest CD 'Rising Sun.'

2nd Show - 10:00pm

For more than 35 years Holly has been singing the music of social change, love and human rights. Her beautiful, powerful singing and delightful storytelling inspires her audiences, helping us to find the courage to stand up for peace and justice in these troubled times.

The musical uprising of truth and hope, know as emma's revolution (Pat Humphries and Sandy O) joins Holly on this tour.

Doors open at 8:00pm

The Compaq Big Band is a 21-piece jazz ensemble made up of current employees of Hewlett-Packard, former employees of Compaq Computer Corporation (Compaq) and Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), and other talented big band musicians from the New England region. This non-profit big band plays music from the 1930s to today!

James McMurtry is the quintessential American folk music singer-songwriter. His father, novelist Larry McMurtry, gave him his first guitar at age seven. His mother, an English professor, taught him how to play it: "My mother taught me three chords and the rest I just stole as I went along. I learned everything by ear or by watching people.

Ray Mason is often called the Godfather of the New England music scene. He, and his road-worn 1965 Silvertone guitar, have been tirelessly touring since 1982. Averaging over 140 shows a year, he's like a teenager with thirty-plus years of experience! Throughout the years Ray has opened shows for NRBQ, The Band, Marshall Crenshaw, Bill Morrissey, Graham Parker, They Might Be Giants, Nils Lofgren, Warren Zevon, Joan Osborne, Freed Johnston, Joan Jett, Blue Mountain and more. Ray's tunes follow no trend while keeping an upward slide on the songwriting scale. It's rock with the roll! Kick back and enjoy!!

An amazing drummer, Pablo's band will fill you with profound rhythms and soaring jazzzz! Pablo has been performing to large and appreciative audiences around North, Central and South America, Europe, Virgin Islands and Australia. He has mastered a variety of styles such as Latin-Jazz, Jazz, Latino, Afro-Venezuelan Rythms, Brasilian, World Music, Funk and Rock.

Mediterranean dance music