Heather Pierson Acoustic Trio
At Andover Coffeehouse Jan. 19

As it begins its fourth year of free concerts on Friday, January 19, the Andover Community Coffeehouse will feature the Heather Pierson Acoustic Trio with a performance of vocals backed by multiple musical instruments: piano, banjo, melodica, ukulele, cornet, bass and acoustic guitar.  
From Pierson’s website:  “From New Orleans-style jazz and blues to rousing Americana and poignant folk narratives, Heather’s memorable, intimate, and cathartic live performances … feature her virtuosity on piano, her bell-tone vocals, and her commanding yet playful stage presence.”
The performance will begin at 7pm in the Highland Lake Grange Hall, at 7 Chase Hill Road in East Andover.  Admission is free, although donations — which are shared with the featured performers and the Andover Congregational Church, owner of the Grange Hall — are gratefully accepted.  
Also appearing onstage will be up to a dozen open-microphone performers, whose contributions in previous months have ranged from the spoken word to show-business, jazz, folk, bluegrass,and country-and-western tunes.  
Sponsor for the January event is Blue Mountain Guitar in New London, “a full-service musical retail store providing new and used instruments, accessories, rentals, lessons and repairs.”  
Doors to the Grange Hall open at 6 p.m. for food purchases offered by the Andover Congregational Church, and for open-mic sign-ins on a first-come, first-serve basis.  
Looking back, the Coffeehouse offered its first event on Friday, January 16, 2015, with performances by Sunapee’s Rich King and Andover’s Sferes and White before a standing-room-only audience.  Since that time, King, Jennifer White and Jimmy Sferes have been regular Coffeehouse supporters, taking on such activities as booking talent, acting as masters of ceremonies, managing equipment, handling logistics, and the like.  
Other volunteers help with room arrangements, food preparation and sales, publicity, open-mic sign-ins, performance videotaping and photography, and other activities.   Readers interested in joining the effort are invited to contact White at maplehearth@nullgmail.com.
A photographic record of past Coffeehouse performers, both headliners and open-mic participants, is shown on the Coffeehouse website at andovercoffeehouse.org, and on the Facebook page “Andover Community Coffeehouse.”
Video recordings of past programs are shown on a number of community-access channels across the state and are available for viewing anytime on Andover’s town website at www.andover.nh.us/ by clicking on “Town Information” and then “Video Archive.”  The videos are produced by volunteers at Andover Community Cable.  
The coffeehouse is located at the intersection of Route 11 and Chase Hill Road in East Andover.  The Andover Community Coffeehouse operates under the umbrella of the Andover Community Association (ACA).