Boston-born singer-songwriter Julie Snow will be the featured performer at the Andover Community Coffeehouse “Third Friday” concert on Friday, November 20. The event is free and open to the public; donations are always welcome.
Currently based in New Hampshire, Snow began her songwriting career in the late ’70s and early ’80s. Her song Baptism of Fire was the title cut of an album by Connecticut songwriter Lui Collins and has also been recorded and performed multiple times around the country.
After a decade-long hiatus devoted to family and her other career as a clinical social worker, Snow started writing again, and she continues today. Her own CD, If Words Were Stones, will be available for sale at the Andover coffeehouse, and she is currently working on another CD with her newest material.
Her musical work has been described as “contemporary folk music with a political edge, alternately funky and sweet, outraged and introspective, threaded through with rich and unexpected chord changes and rhythms.” For additional information, visit JulieSnowSongs.com.
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.
A new coffeehouse attraction, designed to enhance customer satisfaction, will be the availability of about 30 pillows, courtesy of the First Baptist Church in New London, to be used to offset the wintry cold of the folding metal chairs.
Doors to the Highland Lake 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. Sponsor for the evening is an anonymous donor who has asked that the concert be “in honor of the Northern Rail Trail,” a converted railroad bed that stretches over 50 miles between Boscawen and Lebanon and passes within about 50 feet of the Coffeehouse.
Looking ahead: The December 18 Coffeehouse program will feature New London’s own Kathy Lowe and her sisters, known collectively as the Lowe Profiles, singing original and traditional songs of winter celebration, but with a vaudeville twist.
Bring your singing voice for raising the cheer; songbooks will be available to help you join in on Kathy’s own festive compositions, which will also be available for purchase on her Wishing You Peace CD.