BILL STAINES/ MARA LEVINE & TERRY KITCHEN

Bill Staines has written over 300 songs, many of which have been recorded by the likes of Peter, Paul, and Mary, Makem and Clancy, Nanci Griffith, Glen Yarborough, and Jerry Jeff Walker. He is also one of only a few songwriters to have eight songs published in the Rise Up Singing songbook. Staines continues to perform more than 175 shows a year and drives close to 70,000 miles getting to them.

His songs – such as “River,” “Roseville Fair,” “My Sweet Wyoming Home,” and “(All God’s Critters Got) A Place in the Choir” – have earned him a dedicated following at folk gatherings around the country.

+ Special Guests: Terry Kitchen & Mara Levin

TERRY KITCHEN's songs are portraits of ordinary people and emotions, captured with extraordinary compassion, honesty and humor. He's released ten CDs since the 1990s, and performed on folk stages across the U.S. and Canada including Club Passim, the Postcrypt Coffeehouse, Cafe Lena, the Bluebird Cafe, and the Falcon Ridge, Telluride, Vermont Solarfest, and South Florida folk festivals. His 2009 CD Summer to Snowflakes reached #27 on the national Folk-DJ airplay chart, and was named Best Solo CD in Limelight Magazine's 2010 Readers' Poll. Kitchen's songs have won the USA Songwriting Competition and the Mid-Atlantic Song Contest and been runner up in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest. His 2013 music novel Next Big Thing, based on his experiences with his '80s band Loose Ties, was called "a great debut novel" by the San Francisco Book Review. More on Terry at www.terrykitchen.com

MARA LEVINE has been creating beautiful interpretations of traditional and contemporary folk songs for many years and singing professionally since 2002. Her sophomore album Jewels and Harmony received stellar reviews and was the #1 album on the Folk-DJ chart for January 2013 as well #3 album overall for that year. The album was also on the official Grammy nomination ballot for Best Folk Album of 2013, and Cover Lay Down named it the #4 cover album of the year. Her debut CD Mara's Gems (a reference to both her music and her jewelry making) was #52 on the Folk-DJ chart, and she also has two Folk-DJ #1 singles to her credit, including her melodic version of Paul Simon's "Leaves That Are Green." She has performed at Swallow Hill in Denver, the WFMT Folkstage in Chicago, the Folk Project Festival, the Good Coffeehouse, the Strawberry Festival, the Great South Bay Music Festival, the Muses in the Vineyard Festival, the Hurdy Gurdy Folk Club, and the Minstrel Coffeehouse. In addition to performing with Kitchen, Mara also performs as a duo with folksinger Caroline Cutroneo, shares bills with folk trio Gathering Time, and sings with bluegrass artist Jeff Scroggins . Mara also has provided vocals for recordings by Spook Handy, Terry Rivel, Bob Wright and Jim Indell. More on Mara at www.maralevine.com

Tickets $20.Adv. $25. at the Door
Doors 6:30pm Showtime 7pm
All-Ages