| Pawtucket – The Kennedys are coming to Stone Soup Coffeehouse at Slater Mill on Saturday, March 18th at 7pm with special guest opener??Robinson Treacher. Come hear Pete and Maura play their latest??solo work as well as new and well-loved favorites from their long career in music.?? Pete and Maura Kennedy celebrated their 20th Anniversary with their new CD “West,” a collection of all-new material. ???West is a collection of thirteen enchanting tracks whose heartfelt and passionate execution makes for a wonderful listening experience.????? says??Dave Simpson, Pure M Magazine. Additionally, Maura is set to release her second solo CD entitled, “Villanelle: The Songs Of Maura Kennedy And B.D. Love.” All 15 songs on the album are collaborations of published poet B.D. Love’s lyrics and Maura’s melodies.??Meanwhile, Pete has completed his solo album called “Heart Of Gotham,” set to be released in late Spring. This album is a rock song cycle, every song about New York City. “The Kennedys have been a significant part of Stone Soup’s history as a coffeehouse, performing numerous times in the many venues we’ve had over the years,” says Barbara Wahlberg, booking coordinator for Stone Soup. ??
LISTINGS INFORMATION FOR UPCOMING SHOWS
The Kennedys with opener Robinson Treacher Saturday,??March 18th??at 7:00 pm Tickets $18 (children under 12 half price) http://stonesoupcoffeehouse.org/event/the-kennedys-with-opener-robinson-treacher/ ?? The Nields with opener Lisa Bastoni Saturday,??April 1st??at 7:00 pm Tickets $18 (children under 12 half price) http://stonesoupcoffeehouse.org/event/the-nields-opener-lisa-bastoni/ ?? An Evening with Christine Lavin Saturday,??April 22nd??at 7:00 pm Tickets $25 (children under 12 half price) http://stonesoupcoffeehouse.org/event/an-evening-with-christine-lavin/ ??
ABOUT THE KENNEDYS Pete and Maura Kennedy, both East Coast natives, met in Austin, Texas, joined forces with Nanci Griffith???s Blue Moon Orchestra for a couple of years, and set out on a road that, for two decades, has led them not only west but all over the US and the UK many times. This year, they celebrate their twentieth anniversary both as a band and a married couple. Rather than indulge in a nostalgic look backward, they???ve taken Dylan???s dictum ???don???t look back??? to heart; writing and recording forty new songs.
2015 sees a Maura solo CD, a Pete solo CD, and the release of ???West,??? an instant classic Kennedys duo set that seamlessly weaves their influences over the last two decades; Buddy Holly style roots, the tuneful cadences of the Everly Brothers, and the ringing 12-string jangle of the early Byrds, interspersed with darker moments that recall British folk rock a la Fairport Convention.??
Ultimately, Pete and Maura knit these disparate threads into a coat of many colors that sounds like a ???best of The Kennedys,??? but is in reality an all-new collection of songs. The road west is central to the American mythos; it???s the search for musical roots and the fulfillment of a personal American dream that takes shape in songs. Two decades on, The Kennedys are hitting a songwriting high point, and from that point they follow the well-worn American path West.
ABOUT STONE SOUP COFFEEHOUSE Stone Soup Coffeehouse is one of the oldest coffeehouse venues in New England, presenting live music on Saturday nights from September through May. Stone Soup presents talented artists such as Greg Brown, Patty Larkin, Ellis Paul, and Catie Curtis as well as many gifted acoustic musicians and songwriters from Rhode Island and the New England Area. Stone Soup Coffeehouse has a history of recognizing talent and is proud to have featured many artists, such as, Dar Williams, Ingrid Michaelson, The Low Anthem, and Erin McKeown, many of whom have since become well known internationally. ??
Stone Soup is a member of the Boston Area Coffeehouse Association and supports the work of the Rhode Island Songwriters Association (RISA) and The Red Bandana Fund.
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