Our 14th annual Community Sing features Midwest folk singers and song leaders Will Branch, Julie Thompson, and Craig Siemsen. Julie, Craig, and Will will lead the audience in a group sing featuring well known and loved songs. The Community Sing is part of a movement that started at the Ten Pound Fiddle in East Lansing, Michigan, and has spread throughout the country. We hope that all listeners — in-person and virtual — will join in singing. Our song leaders are each accomplished musicians, songwriters, and humorists. Will Branch is a singer, guitarist, banjoist, and teacher, beloved by both big and little people. Noted folk singer Joe Jencks has said Julie Thompson sings with a style that is silky and soulful. Craig Siemsen has been called “(an) acclaimed performer on the Midwest’s burgeoning acoustic folk scene” by Albuquerque’s The Weekly Alibi. The lyrics and chords will be available and shared as we get closer to the concert date.

Will Branch http://www.willbranch.com/

Julie Thompson http://www.julievoice.com

Craig Siemsen www.craigtunes.com

Earth Poets & Musicians Holly Haebig Wake, Suzanne Rosenblatt, and Harvey Taylor welcome you to their 38th Annual Earthstravaganza celebrating Mother Earth, and doing their best to defend Her, with poems from far-flung members of yester-year also to be shared, from Louisa Loveridge Gallas, Jeff Poniewaz, and Susa Silvermarie.

Tone Home will open, Singing to Connect —- a revolving group led by duo singer-songwriters Ian Powell and Sarah Moore. Powerful lyrics and melodies capture the conundrum of being alive through experimental folk music.

Join us for an evening of inspiration, enlightenment, humor, and joy. The Earth Poets & Musicians are pleased to donate the door $ to the Coffee House, in gratitude for being our long-time “home base.”

Be part of a long-running Coffee House tradition and bring your voice, instrument, a poem or story, or simply come to listen, share, and contribute. Your donations will help Casa Maria, an intentional community, dedicated to following the tradition of the Catholic Worker movement in working for peace and justice.

Casa Maria currently runs four houses. They perform such services as: taking in single mothers and their children who are in need of housing; providing longer-term housing to families and women who need more support; and giving temporary living space for workers, refugees, asylum seekers, and others facing difficulties within the immigration system.

http://casamariacatholicworker.weebly.com/

The Portage Road Songwriters Guild is a group of 9 supportive, creative singer-songwriters that have been nourishing new songs into existence for over 20 years. The Coffee House has hosted its well-anticipated new song concert each year. The Guild includes Eric Baer, Rick Fitzgerald, Jay Bullock, Bob Estes, Chris Head, Mark Plotkin, Chris Straw, and Tom & Barb Webber. Be warned: this concert is always lively!