Alex Navarro, a self-billed Boston-based busker and folk artist “who’s vulnerable, human, lyrical narratives oscillate between beauty-inspired awe, and thinly concealed despair” will headline the Friday concert at the Andover Community Coffeehouse on March 17, beginning at 7 PM

Creator of two albums featuring his own work, the latest of which (“Pride is Cruel”) is soon to be released, the 20-something Navarro has won awards and accolades for his work, samples of which can be heard at soundcloud.com/alexnavarrotunes/sets/pride-is-cruel-album-sampler/s-wrCeb.

Now featured regularly in Boston-area clubs and on local airwaves and beyond, Navarro began his musical career as a busker, or street performer, while in college. There his work – expressing his “unease in the modern world, and at times tortured personal restlessness, revealed with little pretense” – brought him wider acclaim.

Coming up: On Friday, April 21, Celtic fiddler Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki and guitarist Matt Jensen, both New Hampshire natives, will offer a show “blending traditional Celtic music with their own original material, drawing on multiple genres to produce a unique sound.” Go to www.jordantwmusic.com/music/ for additional information.

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.

The concert will be offered in the Highland Lake Grange Hall on State Route 11 in East Andover, midway between Andover Village and Franklin. The event is open to the public at no charge; donations are accepted.

Doors to the Grange Hall will open at 6 PM for food purchases offered by the Andover Congregational Church and for open-mic sign-ins on a first-come, first-serve basis. Concert sponsor is Ragged View Farm on Bradley Lake Road in Andover.

Information about future dates and scheduled performers, and a photographic record of the performers, both headliners and open-mic participants, are shown on the Coffeehouse Web site at andovercoffeehouse.org, or on the Facebook page “Andover Community Coffeehouse.”

Directions: From Franklin, take State Route 11 West (Franklin Highway) toward Andover for about five miles. Turn left onto Chase Hill Road, immediately after the Andover Congregational Church, also on the left. The Grange Hall is across the parking lot from the church. From Andover village, take State Route 11 East (Franklin Highway) toward Franklin for about five miles. Turn right onto Chase Hill Road just before the church.