Music
Wednesday Night Songwriters featuring Riley Cotton
Wednesday May 1st
Join us for Wednesday Night Songwriters featuring Riley Cotton!
Enjoy original music at southern New England’s best martini lounge and cafe, providing venue for local live entertainment and classic libations for over 20 years!
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About Riley Cotton:
Riley Cotton is a New England Music Award nominated folk singer/songwriter based in Hartford, CT. Cotton has been described as “…an old-school type of songwriter whose songs and performance are able to cross space and time to touch that part of your brain where love, loss, happiness, and longing all co-exist” (Chip McCabe, The Dad Metal Blog). While growing up in Texas, much of her musical taste was shaped by the voices of the women of country music who so boldly embraced the power of their belt and divine femininity in the face of an industry that did not embrace them. When writing her own music, Riley aspires to share her lived experiences, take a stance on the issues that compel her, and utilize the masterful story telling mechanisms so prevalent in the music she grew up on.
08:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Wednesday Night Songwriters featuring Sandy Allen
Wednesday May 8th
Join us for Wednesday Night Songwriters featuring Sandy Allen! Enjoy original music at southern New England’s best martini lounge and cafe, providing venue for local live entertainment and classic libations for over 20 years!
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About Sandy Allen:
Sandman is a veteran of nearly 60 years in the music biz. We'll begin in '69, after a year of studying dramatic arts at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He'd written (and published) a few songs, and played with numerous bands in high school, and now he decided music would be his path. If one was going to struggle and starve, doing it as an actor seemed a far more serious plight. Within a few months, Sandman reunited with two high school buddies and formed "Papa Nebo". That band stayed together for about 2 years, releasing an album on Atlantic Records. After the break-up, Sandman travelled - bummed around. In '74, he moved to NYC, where he and "Papa Nebo" co-founder Michael Packer formed a new band, which eventually became "Free Beer". The name was the unfortunate result of a looming deadline and three guys who couldn't agree about much, except their intention to play music and enjoy the party. In any case, "Free Beer" made 3 really good albums (Buddha, RCA). It came to an end at a wonderful farewell gig at Kenny's Castaways, Easter '77. Sandman remained on the scene in Greenwich Village until '80, when he moved to Mystic. He continued to write, but stayed away from performing until '85, when he began the playing in a few popular country bands. It kept him busy, but he missed working on original songs. In the early '90s, he met Jim Carpenter and a number of other singer/songwriters. They started getting together, with no grand scheme. That music continues today, in the form of the "Hoolios". Aside from the Hoolios, Sandman is a member of "Sweet Mercy!", and he enjoys "guest appearances" with his many musical friends. Sandman sings of love and loss, desire and despair - you know, the usual stuff.08:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Wednesday Night Songwriters featuring Natalie Paige
Wednesday May 15th
Join us for Wednesday Night Songwriters featuring Natalie Paige! Enjoy original music at southern New England’s best martini lounge and cafe, providing venue for local live entertainment and classic libations for over 20 years!
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About Natalie Paige:
Natalie Paige is a blues-folk singer songwriter with a cozy, vocal-forward sound perfect for easy listening, often likened to familiar favorites such as Norah Jones and Carole King. She pairs laid back acoustic guitar with heartfelt lyrics and expressive vocals for a set of predominantly original music you won’t soon forget!
08:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Wednesday Night Songwriters featuring Dave Moretti
Wednesday May 22nd
Join us for Wednesday Night Songwriters featuring Dave Moretti! Enjoy original music at southern New England’s best martini lounge and cafe, providing venue for local live entertainment and classic libations for over 20 years!
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About Dave Moretti:
Dave Moretti is a singer / songwriter and guitarist currently hailing from Windham, Maine. Dave’s music is very acoustic-centric Americana that follows the traditions of folk and bluegrass. His songs have been inspired by everything from birds, flowers, trains, motorcycles, a penny, Evel Knievel, yearning for home, love lost, and found and unrequited.
Dave has spent most of his life living across New England in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island. In the decade between 2003 and 2013, he played 1,000 shows, primarily in South County RI as a solo artist, or leading one of his many simultaneous ensembles from this era: The Wingers, The Amazing Rhythm Mule, The Tabasco Brothers, or The Dunegrass Boys. He is very excited to be returning to one of his favorite rooms after a decade to share an evening of original music in beautiful downtown Westerly, Rhode Island.
08:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Wednesday Night Songwriters featuring Allison Rose
Wednesday May 29th
Join us for Wednesday Night Songwriters featuring Allison Rose! Enjoy original music at southern New England’s best martini lounge and cafe, providing venue for local live entertainment and classic libations for over 20 years!
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About Allison Rose:
An award-winning, RI-based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Allison Rose is who you’d get if Emmylou Harris, Joni Mitchell, Sara Bareilles, and a Disney Princess all had a baby together. She writes honest, heartfelt songs that will punch you in the gut, and shares them with authenticity and sense of humor to create a connecting musical experience.
08:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Wednesday Night Songwriters featuring John Speziale
Wednesday June 5th
Join us for Wednesday Night Songwriters featuring John Speziale! Enjoy original music at southern New England’s best martini lounge and cafe, providing venue for local live entertainment and classic libations for over 20 years!
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About John Speziale:
John Speziale is a singer/songwriter residing in Southeastern Connecticut. He has performed solo and in bands for many years. His music is inspired by many genres, among them folk, rock and roll, blues and country. His lyrics often cast a darkly humorous light on the human condition.
John has recorded and/or performed with some outstanding musicians, including: Dave Mattacks (Fairport Convention), Kevin Barry (Mary Chapin Carpenter, J. Geils Band), Larry Luddecke (John Hammond, Jonathan Edwards). He has also shared a stage with and has accompanied up and coming singer/songwriters Will Houlihan (Haunt the House), Dan Blakeslee and Brian McKenzie. John currently performs with the Americana influenced Sweet Mercy!