Friday, May 13th, 2011 @ 8pm $10 Suggested Donation: Cece and Ruth with the Birch Creek Band – “World Music Mash Up”
Saturday May 14th, 2011 @ 12 noon to 6pm: 2nd Annual Buttonwood Tree Music Festival @ Halfinger Farm in Higganum CT
Saturday, May 14th, 2011 @ 8pm $10/ $8 students: The New Unity Quartet (Jazz)
Sunday, May 1th, 2011 @ 4:30pm to 6pm (The Third Sunday of Each Month) $5 suggested donation: Poetry Potluck Series
Details on all events below
The 2nd Annual Buttonwood Tree Music Festival @ Halfinger Farm
On Saturday May 14th, Jen and John Halfinger are partnering with the The Buttonwood Tree to hold the 2nd Annual Music Festival at Halfinger Farms in Higganum. This year we will make a special Presentation to the Middletown Commission on the Arts for 20 years of supporting the arts through North End Arts Rising at The Buttonwood Tree Performing Arts & Cultural Center.
This fun event will take place from noon to 6 pm at the Farm and will feature:
Special Presentation to the Middletown Commission on the Arts at 3 pm
For the Children: Kids concert by Dave Fry, http://www.davefrymusic.com/ , face painting, animals and play areas
B Flat Tin Hat playing live blues and jazz – http://www.myspace.com/bflattinhat
Gail & Steve Wade playing contemporary folk – http://www.gailwade.net/
The Electric Trains band fills the hillside with fun songs of trains and transportation – www.theelectrictrains.com
Washboard Slim and the Bluelights - www.washboardslim.com
Raffles for gifts from DVDs to weekend passes for Falcon Ridge Folk Festival
Delicious food from area restaurants: Iguanas Ranas, Typhoon, Nardelli’s Grinder Shoppe, Kettle Corn and Cold Stone Creamery Ice Cream
Three state-of-the-art greenhouses filled with luscious flowering plants
A look inside the operations of a flower farm including tours and equipment demonstrations
Artists displays of glassware, jewelry, handmade violins, moss-covered mirrors and more
Free CDs, books and other door prizes!
Cece and Ruth with the Birch Creek Band – “World Music Mash Up”
Friday, May 13th, 2011 8pm $10 Suggested Donation
“Harmony, history & humor: Celtic & American ballads”.
A song circle of Cece Borjeson & Ruth George, and The Birch Creek Band… Celtic, Appalacian, New Age & a belated salute to Cinco de Mayo!
Cece & Ruth bring you songs of love, of war & peace, hearth & home, and of the people from the American West to the Celtic Isles. Milk maids and their young swains, cowboys, kings & paupers, sailors, witches, sea-sprites and monks inhabit these ballads.
The band “Birch Creek” was formed in the summer of 2009 and is based out of the hills of Connecticut. They met at an outdoor Farm Aid concert held at a local farm, and their musical styles have meshed nicely ever since and have produced an eclectic repertoire of instrumental pieces. Their music contains a delicate blend of the sweet sounds of the mountain dulcimer, bouzouki, mandolin, guitar, and of course the signature sound of Aleks, their incredible flutist who takes center stage as she packs the most punch in their music. They perform everything from age old Celtic instrumentals from the Isles to a handful of smoky backwoods tunes and love what they do.
http://www.birchcreekband.com/
Saturday, May 14th, 2011
8pm
$10/ $8 students
Original jazz compositions and improvisation performed with spirit and fire! The New Unity Quartet is; Matt Dwonszyk- bass, Jen Allen-piano, John Barber- drums, Andrew Renfro- guitar
From burning up-tempo’s to beautiful ballads, the New Unity Quartet will bring a energy that is on fire. As the musicians express themselves with their original compositions and spontaneous improvisation, positive vibrations will fill the room and the audience will be completely mesmerized on the interaction between the performers!
http://www.myspace.com/mattdwonszyk
http://www.facebook.com/dwonszyk
The Third Sunday of Each Month 4:30 – 6 pm $5. suggested donation
Poetry Potluck is an opportunity for people who enjoy poetry to get together to share and discuss their favorite works. It isn’t an open mike. Almost like a salon, it’s a gathering for discussion and literary conversation using poetry as the focal point. It will occur on the third Sunday of each month.
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