ECLECTIC MUSIC
Ron Williams: Finger-Style Jazz Guitar Cape Cod Showcase
Bass River Arts Campus
Sunday, Feb 23, 3pm. Price: $25, member $20
An afternoon of finger-style Jazz Guitar with Cape Cod’s own Ron Williams! Ron will perform easy-listening favorites, including familiar instrumentals by Dave Brubeck and Oscar Hammerstein, and songs from the “Great American Songbook” covering the 1930s to the present with music from composers such as Johnny Mercer, Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, and Hoagy Carmichael.
Ron has taught music at Cape Cod Community College in Barnstable, MA, as part of Project Forward and individual and group voice lessons at Cotuit Center for the Arts.
He currently teaches voice, keyboard, and guitar at House of Jam Music School in Hyannis, MA.
Ron has performed as a featured soloist for the Middletown Chorale of Middletown, CT, for the Barnstable Comedy Club in Barnstable, MA, and with The American Dance Festival in Durham, NC.
Additional performances include playing for the V. I. P. Reception for Boston Pops by The Sea concert in Hyannis, MA, and with Deborah Geithner at the Old Whaling Church in Martha’s Vineyard. Please join Ron and guest musicians, including Cape Cod’s rising stars, in our efforts to create community through music.
Rocking Country Dance Party! With The Kerosene Heater Band
Bass River Arts Campus
Friday, March 14, 730pm. Price: $25
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Dance the night away in the Great Hall with Cape Cod’s own Kerosene Heater Band, which will bring their high-energy rocking country sound, making it a night to remember.
The Kerosene Heater Band is a Cape Cod based rocking country 5 piece consisting of Katie Henderson, vocals; Mitch Summey, guitar; Mandolin, vocals; Ted Noyes, guitars and vocals; Cameron Hall, bass guitar; and Andrew Ianniello, drums.
The band dipped their feet in the waters of the Cape scene in the summer of 2023 under the name of The Red River Band, then went through a personnel change adding Cam Hall and Ted Noyes in January of 2024. Slaving through winter rehearsals in Mitch’s Brewster barn, huddled around his kerosene heater, the band was reborn.
The Kerosene Heater Band hit the ground running and has quickly become Cape Cod’s preeminent rocking country band! The band will be performing with some special guests.
Seating is limited to make space for the dance floor; order your tickets now.
Blue Grass and Beyond with Mandolin Extraordinaire Ethan Setiawan and Fine Ground
Bass River Arts Campus
Sat, March 15, 730 pm Member: $25 Not-Yet-Member: $30
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Go beyond traditional bluegrass in a performance you will not want to miss! Ethan Setiawan (winner of both the National Mandolin Championship and the Rockygrass Mandolin Championship) and the band Fine Ground imbue time-honored traditions with original tunes, exceptional songwriting, and splashes of other genres, such as jazz and Celtic music.
The band includes Setiawan on mandolin, BB Bownes on banjo, Julian Pinelli on fiddle, Alex Rubin on guitar, and Brittany Karlson on bass.