CLINTON — The popular Vermont-based band, Woods Tea Company, performs at the Kirkland Art Center (KAC) Coffeehouse on Friday. Opening for the group at 8 p.m. is Appalachian singer and storyteller Sheila Kay Adams.
General admission is $18 or $15 for KAC members. Seating in the KAC gallery is limited and shows frequently sell out. To purchase tickets in advance, contact the art center at 853-8871 or visit www.kirklandartcenter.org.
The Woods Tea Co. performs bluegrass, Celtic tunes, sea chanties and folk songs with ease, skill, humor and dry New England wit, at venues ranging from pubs to Lincoln Center, theaters to college auditoriums, small coffeehouse to churches.
"Our goal every night is to please the audience," says band leader Howard Wooden. "I love it when someone comes up and says, ‘They dragged me here tonight, but I had a great time!’"
"This band experienced a great loss when their founder, Rusty Jacobs, died unexpectedly a few years ago but has come back with great gusto and a few new members to form a solid and most entertaining group of fine musicians," said Ginger Parker, coordinator of the KAC coffeehouse series.
Woods Tea Company includes: Howard Wooden, vocals, bass, guitar, bodhran; Mike Lussen, vocals, five string banjo, bodhran, bouzouki, guitar; Tom MacKenzie, vocals, hammered dulcimer, banjo, guitar, ukulele, keyboard; and Patti Casey: vocals, guitar, flute, penny-whistle, and clogboard.
Adams, in Clinton to do a workshop at Hamilton College, will do a short opening set. She is a storyteller, balladeer and banjo player from a North Carolina mountain family, teacher of traditional Appalachian music and oral traditions and award winning author.
Editor’s note: The Woods Tea Company performs in the Capitol Theatre, 220 W. Dominick St., Rome, March 20. Tickets ($10 advance) are available at Rome Historical Society, 200 Church St., Rome, phone 336-5870 and the Capitol.
On the net: www.kirklandartcenter.org
http://www.woodstea.net/
