 Mt. Kisco, NY - On Saturday, October 25th, The Golden Apple Coffeehouse in Mt. Kisco, NY will open it’s third season with two great acoustic acts: Hope Machine and Gathering time. The all-volunteer coffeehouse presents monthly acoustic concerts, and provides an evening of great music, delicious desserts from the Golden Apple Café, and a warm, sociable place for people to come with friends and family, or to make new friends.
The music is always top notch. The Coffeehouse is located in St. Mark’s beautiful acoustic parish hall right in the center of Mt. Kisco, 85 E. Main St. Ample free parking, or a 3-minute walk from the train station.
Admission is by donation, suggested $15 / $10 seniors/students, no reservations needed. Doors open at 7:30, music from 8 to 10 p.m. Café serves non-alcoholic beverages, desserts and some light food.
For directions and more information on the coffeehouse see: www.goldenapplecoffeehouse.com
PERFORMERS
Hope Machine is more a traveling hootenanny than a band. Steve Kirkman and Fred Gillen - two fine songwriters in their own right -- first worked together when Woody Guthrie's granddaughter asked them to perform Woody's songs at a hootenanny celebrating Woody's birthday. These days they sing plenty of Woody, Pete Seeger, traditional, and original songs with messages of hope, love, and celebration of the human spirit. You never know who's going to show up to play, or what's going to happen -- they encourage people to sing along, dance, yell, yodel, jump up and down, or to do whatever else their spirit moves them to do -- rabble-rousing, folk-rock, native-americana, industrial-rockabilly, foot-stompin'-songs for peace and justice.
See: http://www.myspace.com/hopingmachines
Gathering Time ~ Often described as "Peter, Paul & Mary meets CSN," Gathering Time has been turning heads and gathering fans since meeting up on an Oyster Bay, Long Island street two summers ago. The trio's seamless vocal blend and light-hearted, almost psychic onstage chemistry bring life to original, traditional, and classic folk and folk-rock music. The songs on their first full-length CD together, Songs of Hope and Freedom, are striking testimony to the beauty and resilience of the human spirit.
I am accused of comparing too much but I have to say that Gathering Time is right up there with the ones we all know - they are the next generation of great trios with meaningful music performed in awesome harmony. Bill Hahn, (WFDU, Teaneck, NJ)
See: http://www.gatheringtimetrio.com
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