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The Sunapee Community CoffeeHouse is Located Downstairs at the Sunapee Methodist Church

9 Lower Main Street in Sunapee, NH
  Phone: 603-398-8214 (Vic Reno)

The Sunapee Community CoffeeHouse

About Our CoffeeHouse:

  • We are a venue for live and Acoustic Music
  • We are a friendly listening room environment
  • We encourage new & emerging talent
  • Admission is free. We pass the hat for the performer
  • Shows on the 2nd and the 4th Friday each month. Open mic on the 2nd Friday
  • Our shows run from 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Announcement

Volunteers Wanted

The Sunapee Community CoffeeHouse is seeking several live-music-loving volunteers to keep our venue alive. We need consistent support in the following areas:

  • Sound
  • MCs
  • Refreshments
  • Set-up/Clean up

We need your help to continue the series.

If you are interested, please contact Martha Naylor or Judy


Our Coffeehouse is run by volunteers who love and support the music. It has been going for almost 20 years. We are a friendly and welcoming group. Let's keep the music going together.

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Fall 2023 Schedule:


SEP
  8
 

Crowe’s Pasture

"A BANJO-GUITAR ROMANCE" ROOTS - INFUSED CONTEMPORARY FOLK

Monique Byrne and Andy Rogovin perform moving and inspirational songs that are sometimes joyful, sometimes wistful, and oftentimes, poignant, and that reflect a mutual passion for life, family and humanity. Their intimately blended vocal harmonies are mixed with an expressive and unique instrumental style that is best described as "a banjo-guitar romance." Crowes Pasture’s style of intimate and soulful folk transports and connects listeners through universal experiences in their “skillfully crafted, emotional songwriting” (Chris Eastburn, award-winning composer).

Crowes Pasture has made waves with two EPs and three full-length albums in just six-years time. Their CD, "Slow It Down", was released in June 2019 at the legendary Club Passim. Since its release, the title track earned Crowes Pasture a #1 song, and the album debuted at #5 on the Folk Alliance International Charts. Since the release of their first album, "Edge of America," the duo has had eight Top 10 Songs on the Folk Charts, including "Take Back the Red White and Blue" (January 2022), their cover of Mary Gauthier's "Mercy Now" (June 2019), and the timely and topical song, "Quarantine" (January 2021).


Open Mic Pic

2ND HOUR

The Tradition continues, Stop by to listen or join in. Sign up on site with the host for your 15 min or three songs.

Tonight‘s Emcee:

Martha Naylor

Would you like to sponsor a night for $25? Your name, logo and link could be right here. Plus it defrays our costs for the evening!
email: Martha Naylor for info


SEP
  22
 

Joel Cage

Joel Cage is an award winning veteran singer/songwriter from Boston. Once a member of the internationally acclaimed rock & roll group Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes, Joel has been performing regionally and nationally as a soloist for the past 2 decades. He has performed at some of the most prestigious folk & acoustic venues & festivals in the country, including the Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas where he was awarded top prize in the Kerrville New Folk Competition.

A virtuoso guitarist and an impassioned vocalist, Joel Cage's music is both evocative and raucous. He spans the gamut from sounding like a full rock band to 'hear your own heartbeat' intimacy.

Joel Cage is also a master interpreter of other people's music, spanning a wide field of musical genres, garnering him the oft used moniker "Acoustic Rock Song Stylist."

Here's a sneak preview of Joel Cage

Tonight‘s Emcee:

Judy Thackaberry

Tonight‘s Sponsor:

Anonymous


OCT
  13
 

 

Performer pic

E J Tretter

E J Tretter

E J Tretter, a volunteer with the Sunapee Coffeehouse team for six or seven years, is also a gifted singer, songwriter and guitarist.

He has been playing the guitar for fifty years, has played numerous styles in different bands, and has performed as a solo artist.

He has crafted many original songs, displaying a somewhat unique perspective on the individual's journey through life's challenges and rewards.

As a finger picking guitarist he's also written instrumental pieces in the style of John Fahey and Leo Kottke.

As someone who learned to play guitar in the 1960's and 1970's, there's lots of nostalgia in his playlist of cover songs.


Open Mic Pic

2ND HOUR

The Tradition continues, Stop by to listen or join in. Sign up on site with the host for your 15 min or three songs.

Tonight‘s Emcee:

Martha Naylor

Tonight‘s Sponsor:

Liz Tentarelli


OCT
  27
 

Scott Ainslie

Considered a master of American roots music, Scott Ainslie brings a wealth of personal and musical history to the stage. With engaging stories he provides historical context for a repertoire of Delta Blues and ragtime guitar, gospel, and music of the banjo and fiddle traditions of the Southern Appalachians. Coming of age during the Civil Rights era, Ainslie studied with elder musicians on both sides of the color line. With a deep affinity for cross-cultural exchange, he plays this music with affection, authority and power.

Armed with vintage guitars, a fretless gourd banjo, a homemade one-string diddley bow, and carefully chosen historical and personal anecdotes of his encounters with senior musicians across the South, Ainslie brings the history, roots music, and sounds of America alive.

Scott Ainslie literally wrote the book on the Mississippi Delta Blues legend,“Robert Johnson/At the Crossroads”. Exploring the African and European roots of American music and culture in every concert,“he lives in the groove ...” says the Durham NC Spectator.

 

Tonight‘s Emcee:

Martha Naylor

Tonight‘s Sponsor:

Vic Reno


NOV
  10
 

Bernice Lewis

With almost four decades of performing festivals, concert halls, coffeehouses, colleges, and house concerts, along with a half dozen acclaimed CDs, Bernice Lewis has built a solid national fan base. She is also a published poet, a producer, and an educator extraordinaire. Lewis — who studied vocal improvisation with Bobby McFerrin, guitar technique with Alex DeGrassi and Guy van Duser, and songwriting with Rosanne Cash and Cris Williamson — has been a featured performer on NPR’s Mountain Stage program, as well as at the Kennedy Center.She has a forty-year old daily yoga practice, loves good coffee, and her religion is the Grand Canyon.

“Bernice is a voice full of light and hope. She is one of the keepers of the flame of Real Songwriting.”
- Rosanne Cash
“Bernice’s life is filled with beautiful, deep things, and she writes beautifully and deeply about them. ‘Good Kind of Love to Be In’ is wonderful; spoke right to my heart! Great, jazzy cover of ‘A Case of You.’ Musically and vocally, she has new wings with the genres she’s been exploring.”
-Dar Williams

Open Mic Pic

2ND HOUR

The Tradition continues, Stop by to listen or join in. Sign up on site with the host for your 15 min or three songs.

Tonight‘s Emcee:

Bill Wolston

Tonight‘s Sponsor:

Clayton Platt

Penny Royal Hill Land Surveying and Forestry, LLC


NOV
  24
 

 

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NO COFFEEHOUSE

Thanksgiving Aftermath
&
Recovery


DEC
  8
 

Click Horning

The Lake Sunapee, NH region has always had more than its share of musicians. Maybe it's the mountain air or maybe it's the scenery, but something keeps them coming back. Just ask Click Horning, New London's singer songwriter who left when he was seventeen for the Big Apple. Twelve years, a record contract and an album later it was time to come back. Early influences were Bob Dylan, Gordon Lightfoot, Peter Paul & Mary, as well as rock and roll and R&B that he listened to growing up.

Click's music has taken him across the country several times, to the Rockies and to the deep south . Click has produced two more solo albums and two albums with his band Night Kitchen , a "get up and dance" band composed of Click on lead vocals and rhythm guitar, Gerry Putnam on lead guitar, Dinty Child on electric rhythm guitar and keyboards, Dana Flewelling on drums and Dave Doran on bass.

Click began playing guitar at boarding school, influenced by other guitar playing students, one in particular being Gram Parsons. Click persuaded his grandmother to finance a bottom-of-the-line Gibson guitar (a combination birthday and Christmas gift). "I had been spending all my spare time practicing on a friends guitar, but soon found I had to have my own."

He began playing folk songs, but after hearing Gram and writers like Bob Dylan, he decided to try his hand at writing songs. "It was the perfect blending of poems and music that intrigued me. I've always loved lyrics that tell a story."


Open Mic Pic

2ND HOUR

The Tradition continues, Stop by to listen or join in. Sign up on site with the host for your 15 min or three songs.

Tonight‘s Emcees:

Martha Naylor

Tonight‘s Sponsor:

Richard “Gil” Patton

Gil's interactive community chat and music live stream can be found Monday nights on: vaughn.live/gil_on_vl


DEC
  22
 

Bough of Holly Holiday Open Mic Bough of Holly


Performer pic

Come sing with us

Come sing and play with us for a musical magical night

All songs welcome

Holiday and secular alike

Play what moves you

We really love original songs but covers are fine, and if you'd care to lead us in a singalong that's terrific too.


Tonight‘s Emcees:

TBD

Tonight‘s Sponsor:

A CoffeeHouse Fan


This completes our Fall Schedule

That's all for now but stay tuned, more is coming in 2024.

A Song Sampler

Below are some videos of performers who have graced our stage during past seasons. We hope you enjoy these samples of their music.

The Twangtown Paramours

David Surette

The Revenants

Bill Staines

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