Off the Common Coffeehouse March 2018
concert
The Off the Common Coffeehouse in
Bridgewater concert on Saturday March 3, 2018 at 7:30 will feature the
David Roth and his guest performer and good friend Ann Hills
This coffeehouse features a mix of
Americana and Folk music right in the downtown area of Bridgewater MA at the U.
U. Church at 50 School St. The doors open at 7:00pm with the performers going on
stage starting at 7:30pm.
David Roth
David Roth strikes many chords, hearts,
and minds with his unique songs, offbeat observations, moving stories, sense of
the hilarious, and powerful singing and subject matter. As singer, songwriter,
recording artist, keynote speaker, workshop leader, and instructor, David has
earned top honors at premier songwriter competitions – Kerrville (TX) and Falcon
Ridge (NY) – and taken his music, experience, and expertise to a wide variety of
venues in this and other countries full-time for three
decades.
David also taught singing, songwriting,
and performance at the Augusta Heritage workshops, SummerSongs (NY – where he
currently serves as Executive Director), Common Ground on the Hill (MD), the
Woods Dance & Music Camp (Canada), WUMB’s Summer Acoustic Music Week (NH),
Moab Folk Camp (UT), Rowe Center (MA), Pendle Hill (PA), Lamb’s Retreat (MI),
the Swannanoa Gathering (NC), the National Wellness Institute (WI), and for many
other songwriting groups and associations around the country. David is also
founder/director of the Cape Cod Songwriters Retreat and creator/host of Cape
Cod’s “Full Moon Open Mic” which, for the past 12 years has provided a forum for
musicians to connect and be heard while at the same time collecting donations
($14,000 to date) for local non-profits to help neighbors in need.
Surprise Guest performer Ann Hills
invited by David Roth
As a singer, actress, writer, and
musician Anne Hills
has continuously built a reputation of merit. During her career, she has
received numerous honors and awards including, most recently, the 2012 Posi Music Award in Social
Justice (for the song That Kind Of Grace – co-writer David Roth), the
2009 Pennsylvania Partner’s in
the Arts Project Stream grant award (she received the same grant for
her 2005 premiere of The
Heartsongs of Opal Whiteley and in 2007 for An Evening of James Whitcomb Riley)
and the 2009
– Bound for Glory live radio
show favorite – Ithaca, NY. She was the recipient of the WFMA 2002 Kate Wolf Memorial
Award, and The
Kerrville Music Foundation’s Outstanding Female Vocalist of the Year Award
(1997). Her duet children’s recording, Never Grow Up, released in
1998 with Cindy Mangsen on Flying Fish Records, was chosen for
the coveted Parents’ Choice
Award. Her poetic work won her Second Place in the Atlanta Review’s 1999 International Poetry
Contest and her work as lyricist with jazz-artist Peter Erskine was featured in a performance by
choirs from around the world at a Hilliard Ensemble workshop in Germany. In 2001
she reunited with long-time friend Tom Paxton to release a long-awaited duet
recording Under American Skies for
Appleseed Recordings, which won a WAMMIE (Washington Area Music
Award) for “best
traditional folk recording” that year. This was soon followed by
another collaborative debut, Fourtold (with Michael Smith, Steve Gillette and Cindy
Mangsen) in the spring of 2003. She has been
an outstanding performed over so many years.
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