$10 Cover @ the Door / Start 7:30pm / Doors 7pm / Seated Show
The Boston-Cambridge contemporary folk scene is one of the most promising musical communities in the US. Colin McGovern, Rick Drost, John O’Leary & Abigail Arndt are good examples of what’s emerging from this creative commons. Come celebrate the new year with us!
Colin McGovern
Colin McGovern, who has worked as an architect for the past 15 years, is new to the Boston folk scene. In his own words he “got drunk one night and signed up for one of the Passim open mics” and has been getting astonished reactions and rave reviews ever since. Inspired by Jethro Tull, The War on Drugs, and Kathleen Edwards, Colin sings like a bird, writes like a poet, and plays guitar like someone steeped in the traditions of old English folk.
Rick Drost
Rick Drost writes and sings songs with depth and heart, songs that repay repeated listening and convey a long love of classical music, natural wonders, poetry. His songs treat life from a varied angles—jilted lovers, swans in the Public Garden, leftover lobsters, and meditations on meditation. Longtime inspiration came from Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen; recent influences include Vance Gilbert and David Wilcox. Drost's latest CD "Turning the World", charted on the Folk DJ list in its first month, and continues to get airplay from Europe across America to New Zealand. Originally from Western New York, Rick travels from Cambridge, MA to sing at coffeehouses, house concerts, small festivals and Folk Alliance Events from New England, the Southeast, and the West.
Abigail Arndt & John O’Leary
Abigail Arndt and John O’Leary are an indie-folk singer-songwriter duo based in Boston, MA. They started out playing house concerts six years ago and have been “playing the street”—primarily the Boston Public Garden—and local coffee houses ever since.
Abigail is a recent graduate of Newton South HS, where she has been honored with numerous music/theater awards and has been a featured soloist in Newton South’s widely acclaimed a cappella group, the Newtones. She has qualified for the “National Association for Music Education” All Eastern Music Festival as well as multiple MA Senior and All State festivals.
John has been a life-long folk/blues/rock musician. His bands have opened for two dozen R&R Hall of Fame acts—including Eric Clapton, Joni Mitchell, Muddy Waters, and The Grateful Dead. He plays acoustically now, on bottle-neck slide guitar (with or without the bottle), mostly with his goddaughter Abigail.
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