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Saturday, December 27, 2008 at 7:00 PM (ET)
KIMYA DAWSON is your friend. She is one of those rare birds that make you feel like she needs you as much as you need her. Her songs make you feel needed and important. And her fans/friends have been doing the same for her. Since the release of early Moldy Peaches recordings she has been hearing people say "thanks for making me realize that I am not the only one out there who feels like this" and to this she replies "thanks for making me realize that I am not the only one out there who feels like this".
In her little bit of off time Kimya has sang on tracks by Ben Kweller, Third Eye Blind, The Mountain Goats, They Might Be Giants, and her brother Akida Junglefoot Dawson. In December 2007, a number of Dawson's songs were included on the soundtrack to the Academy Award winning film Juno, a record that reached #1 on the Billboard 200.
If Ricky Vasques, Jordan Catalano and Brian Krakau had a baby.... his name would be DAVE END. Dave writes honesty pop about hypothetical situations and focuses on the details that rhyme. Dave End loves cupcakes, The Golden Girls and Having Fun Random Adventures. If he were a dessert he would be a root beer float because it has a visible chemical reaction. His first album, "How to Hold Your Own Hand" was recorded and released in 2005. In November '06 , Dave moved to Brooklyn to record his second album, "Fruits Commonly Mistaken For Vegetables."
ANTHONY DA COSTA is a 17-year old performing songwriter from Pleasantville, NY. In the first two months of 2008 he released his sixth record, "Typical American Tragedy", opened for Livingston Taylor and Susan Werner, and was nominated as Folk Alliance Emerging Artist of the Year. In 2007, he became the youngest winner of the Kerrville Folk Festival's New Folk and the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival's Emerging Artist showcases. A prolific songwriter and self-taught instrumentalist, he is a strict adherent to Zimmerman's Theory of the Never-Ending Tour, playing perpetually at festivals, theaters, clubs, and coffeehouses throughout the Northeast and beyond.
EMILYN BRODSKY
is 22 year old singer-songwriter who couldn't bring herself to learn
how to play the guitar, so instead she plays the ukulele. She writes
simple songs about complex feelings and is a big fan of tight harmonies
and aggressive charm. Emilyn grew up in Westchester, New York home to
Bill and Hillary Clinton, Jay-Z and Beyonce, and Xavier's Institute for
Higher Learning. She has had the good fortune to play with some
seriously amazing people like The Dresden Dolls, The Gossip, The
Magnetic Fields, The Decemberists, The Hold Steady, The World/Inferno
Friendship Society, Langhorne Slim, Kimya Dawson, Ani Difranco, and
Pete Seeger. She recently released her first full-length studio album, Emilyn Brodsky's Greatest Tits.
She lives in New York City on the great island of Manhattan in a lovely
and strange house. Sometimes she considers moving out of New York but
she couldn't live without good bagels.
GRIFFIN & THE TRUE BELIEVERS are Griffin Epstein (vocals, acoustic guitar, piano), Andrew Epstein: vocals, drums, tambourine, general percussion, toys; and Aaron Burns: (vocals, glockenspiel, keyboards). They come from Burnt Oak Records, a collective and community resource based in Guelph (Squamp), Ontario. They talk and talk and talk and talk and make music together and make art with their hands. They live in New York City, Binghamton and Toronto/Guelph.
HOP ALONG, QUEEN ANSLEIS, is, for the most part, Frances Quinlan. Quinlan hails from Pennsylvania and is currently in school in Maryland, is a complete original. Her voice has a wide octave range that rises and falls with complete abandon. In 2005, she released her CD Freshman Year, and is currently working on a follow-up. Frances is joined by all-around right-hand man Dominic Angelella on electric and slide guitars.
BB SUNSHINE is an 18-year-old mermaid attending the tender
liberal arts school, Hampshire College, in Amherst, Massachusetts. In
high school back in Jersey, she was the three-time winner of the poetry
slam, which some believe she rigged since she was also the MC. BB
Sunshine's performance art is cutting edge due to its optimism, and her
first slam inspirations were Saul Williams and Ani DiFranco. BB
Sunshine loves photography, face paint and sleeping on other people's
floors. Get ready - she is dangerously enthusiastic - full of jail and
juice. Contact her if you'd like to join her circus one day!
Tickets: All seats, $10.
IMPORTANT: Tickets for this concert will NOT be available on the day of the show. All tickets MUST be purchased in advance, either through this website, or by mailing $10 cash or a check made out to "FUSW" to:
Common Ground Coffeehouse
c/o First Unitarian Society of Westchester
25 Old Jackson Avenue
Hastings-on-Hudson NY 10706
PLEASE ALSO NOTE: This concert will not take place at the First Unitarian Society of Westchester, Common Ground's regular home. Instead, it will take place at South Presbyterian Church in Dobbs Ferry. Please note directions at right.
Common Ground Coffeehouse was founded as an effort to build community and to support regional and national musicians and other artists. Since 2005, Common Ground has used its profits to operate the Common Ground Microcredit Fund. The fund has raised over $20,000 for local, regional and global community groups and organizations that provide either much needed social services or work toward progressive, nonviolent social change. For more information on Common Ground Coffeehouse, click here.
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