C.A.P.E. 2008

Saturday, February 23, 2008 - 7:00pm - 10:30pm

Mentor: Hugh Moffatt (http://hughmoffatt.com/home.html) - Through more than twenty-five years as a singer and songwriter, there isn't much that the former Boston-area musician Hugh Moffatt hasn't done. The list of artists who have recorded his songs ranges from Patti Page to Jerry Lee Lewis to The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band to Merle Haggard, Dolly Parton and Alabama. His song “Rose of My Heart” is part of Johnny Cash’s last recording, American V: A Hundred Highways. Hugh has released nine albums and toured extensively around the world. We are delighted that Hugh will be kicking off his New England tour with all of us at CAPE!
Opener: Karen Trent and George Condouris
Open Mic Stage 

Saturday, March 22, 2008 - 7:00pm - 10:30pm

Mentor: Kate Chabourne (http://www.realmsofsilver.com) - Kate Chadbourne has built her life’s house at the crossroads of song, scholarship, poetry, story, and music. She holds a Ph.D. in Celtic from Harvard where she teaches courses in Irish language, folklore, literature, and storytelling. The stories she tells are mainly Irish folktales and medieval legends, often embellished with harp accompaniment. In her musical life, she travels between the world of Irish traditional music and the worlds she imagines and creates in her original songs for voice, piano, Irish flute, whistle, and harp. She is also a published poet and essayist. Whether she is singing, telling stories, teaching, or sharing a poem, she aims to leave her audiences moved, enlivened, and eager for their own adventures.
Opener: The Cronins - Music has always  been an essential thread in the fabric or George and Lisa Cronin's life. Father and daughters interests cross paths in the music room often. George's interests range from singing with a classical chorus, to the music of Stephen foster. Performing at Boston area coffee houses, he mixes his own songs with those of artists like James Taylor and Joni Mitchell. Lisa's angelic voice has helped shape an award winning collage a-capella group. Her own vocal performances have covered artists such as Bonnie Raitte and Alison Krauss, impressing audiences in the Boston area. 
Open Mic Stage 

Saturday, April 26, 2008 - 7:00pm - 10:30pm

Mentor: Dick Webb (http://www.dickwebb.com) - Come on down and enjoy the music as performed by our very own "web guy."  Dick combines elements of traditional folk, blues and acoustic rock with his own original songs and arrangements. Over the past ten years Dick has performed in many New England folk venues, with harmonica master, Brand Cedrone, ("Doc Webb's Blues 101"); as banjo player and vocalist with (Vic) "Wotherspoon's Jug  Stompers" and for five years as lead vocalist and guitarist with The Resonators. Dick's ringing vocals and humorous stories continue to attract fans on the Eastern Massachusetts folk scene. For those of you who love the acoustic folk tradition, Dick's your man and you never know which friends may show up.
Opener:  Robbie Walsh
Open Mic Stage 

 See the April Standard Times article...

SPECIAL EVENT!

Saturday, May 10, 2008 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm

Rick Fetters CD Release Party – You are invited to share in a special evening in celebration of our co-host Rick Fetters new CD, Bring the Love. A warm thoughtful CD produced right here in New England, Bring the Love contains original songs that will bring a smile to your heart. Rick will perform songs from the new CD as well as his first release When the Morning Comes. www.rickfetters.com. Refreshments will be served.

Opener: Andrew Lewis

Tickets: $12.00 adults, $6 students

"Rick Fetters' melodic acoustic sound is well served by his sensitive vocal delivery. A perfect family night out"
Dave Jackson

"Let Rick Fetters soothe your soul with his silky voice and full-bodied guitar fingerings. A singer-songwriter for more than 30 years, Rick often weaves an uplifting message within his song lyrics."
Rick & Robin Santos

Saturday, May 24, 2008 - 7:00pm - 10:30pm

Mentors:  Craig Sonnenfeld/Mike Delaney/Jon Waterman in the Round - You’ve heard of the Indie Grrls, well here are our very own Indie Guys! Craig, Mike and Jon are three of the most active, inspired and entertaining singer-songwriters in the Boston area and are also good friends. We have invited them to create an hour of music in the round combining originals and cover songs on guitar and mandolin. This will be an unforgettable, one-of-a kind show.
 

Saturday, June 28, 2008 - 7:00pm - 10:30pm

Mentor: Cheryl Perreault - is a performance poet whose spoken-word pieces transport the listener into the realms of memory, desire, and vulnerability. Cheryl has collaborated with numerous local poets as well as musicians such as Steve Rapson, Ellen Schmidt, and Camille Breeze. She is the host of Wake up and Smell the Poetry, a weekly open-stage at HCAM television studios in Hopkinton. The Perreault family has no lack of artistic talent—Cheryl’s daughters are fine singers and players and will be this evening’s musical openers.
Opener: Jaclyn & Abbey Perreault
 

Open Mic Stage 

Saturday, July 26, 2008 - 7:00pm - 10:30pm

Mentor: Grace Morrison (http://myspace.com/gracemorrison)r- Morrison is a singer/songwriter/pianist/guitarist who has been compared to many, but best described as one who turns words into pictures. With a style spanning roots rock to folk and back to rock and blues, Grace's music transcends her youth to arrive at a plane typically reserved for 'old souls'. Her lyrics are poignant, her melodies infinitely memorable, and her performance and presence are commanding. Hailing from right here in Wareham, it is a pleasure to welcome Grace back to the CAPE stage!t
Opener: TBA
Open Mic Stage 

SPECIAL EVENT

Sunday, July 27, 2008

CAPE will sponsor Artistry of the Guitar, a special concert and workshop event featuring Peter Janson, Ken Bonfield and Teja Gerken. This will be a feast not only for guitar lovers, but for anyone with a passion for acoustic music. For more information visit www.artistryoftheguitar.com.

2:30pm - 4:30pm - Guitar Workshop
8:00pm - Concert

Details, including registration and costs, are forthcoming.

Saturday, August 23, 2008 - 7:00pm - 10:30pm

Mentor: Sam Bayer (http://sambayer.com/) - Where housewives win the Nobel Prize in physics, poker-playing children gamble over their bedtimes, and metaphorical elephants pirouette in the den. Where disappointed minor leaguers, frustrated therapists, and small-time crooks tell you their side of the story, four and a half minutes at a time. That's the world of Sam Bayer: literate, resonant, exuberant - a man who will literally dance his characters across the stage. A composer, songwriter and performer for more than 25 years, Sam is also known to many from his email newsletter Low Notes and the list of Boston area open mikes present and past that he maintains on his web site.
Opener: Marc Duvall
Open Mic Stage 

SPECIAL EVENT

Saturday, September 13, 2008 - 7:00pm - 10:00pm

 Opener TBA.

Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 7:00pm - 10:30pm

Mentor: Mimi Mahoney - Jim Armstrong told Mimi on her 1^st day of lessons with him three years ago- "never forget that a great song, well performed, is a story put to music". Well Mimi has taken Jim's advice to heart by performing her "musical stories" with a unique talent and youthful enthusiasm to appreciative audiences across New England. With an ardent guitar style and sincere, soulful voice that is striking for an artist that is all of 16 years of age, she has already been a featured performer at the Vermont State Fair, Cohasset and Marshfield Farmer's Markets, and Marshfield Audubon Society  Annual Field Day. Two of Mimi's original songs will be featured on compilation album of up and coming young South Shore artists to be available January, 2008 entitled "Full Circle ". Catch her while you can!
Opener: The Armstrong Brothers Band - The Armstrong Brothers Band has been performing at South Shore Events for the better part of two decades.   With friend Bill Holbrook on percussion, they have recently been featured musical performers for the Marshfield Audubon Society Annual Field Day, Hingham 's Weir River Farm Fall Festival, and Cohasset's own South Shore Arts Center sponsored Strawberry Festival. They have the most fun these days, however, as the well honed backup band for feature artist Mimi Mahoney, as well as other up and coming South Shore Artists.
Open Mic Stage 

Saturday, October 25, 2008 - 7:00pm - 10:30pm

Mentor: The Resonators ( http://www.resonators.info ) - The C.A.P.E. house band returns with an ever-expanding cast of guest musicians. Join us for a fun, frolicking performance that could include guitar, upright bass, ukulele, mandolin, harmonica, accordion, washboard, Irish drum, paper bag or even the famous rubber chicken.

Opener: TBD

Open Mic Stage 

Saturday, November 22, 2008 - 7:00pm - 10:30pm

Mentor: Jackson Gillman (http://www.jacksongillman.com) - Energy, wit, music, and wisdom are the stock in trade of Jackson Gillman, a.k.a. The Stand-Up Chameleon. With performances for groups large or small, of all age ranges, Jackson incorporates comedy, drama, music, dance, mime, and sign language into his own intimate style of theatre. Since 1978 the business of speaking and performing have given Jackson an enormous amount of material on which to draw. Jackson's performances are always delightful, magical, inspiring, spellbinding, and thoroughly enjoyable.
Opener: TBD
Open Mic Stage