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Saturday, November 01, 2008 at 8:00 PM (ET)
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The Watchung Arts Center's "Powerful Woman of Song" Series proudly continues its THIRD SEASON by presenting folk legend, Lui Collins, in Concert!
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About Lui Collins...
Folk singer/songwriter Lui Collins has been performing, writing and recording for over 35 years, earning international acclaim for her music. A native Vermonter, Collins' early music education included classical studies on piano, violin and French horn, followed by a major in music theory at the University of Connecticut. She abandoned formal music studies, however, after three years, to pursue folk music in the bars and restaurants of northeast Connecticut, while earning a degree in sociology. Collins then devoted herself full-time to music, ultimately establishing herself in the folk community in the late seventies and early eighties with the release of her early Philo and Green Linnet recordings, Made in New England, Baptism of Fire, and There’s a Light.
Collins founded her own label, Molly Gamblin Music, in 1993, with the release of her 4th CD, Moondancer, followed by North of Mars, for children, in 1995. Collins now has 8 solo CD’s to her credit, the most recent, Closer, released in 2006 on the Waterbug Records label. Her collection of poetry, Moon of Ripe Berries, published in 2001, has just been released in its third printing.
“One of New England’s first and brightest stars.” ~The Boston Globe
“One of the best guitarist-arrangers I have heard in years.” ~Renowned guitarist Dave van Ronk
"There are relatively few artists who are bringing a traditional sensibility to modern songwriting, and in the process creating new traditional music. Lui Collins is among the barefoot royalty of this group." ~ Michael Devlin of Music Matters Review
An accomplished vocalist, guitarist, and banjo player, Collins has until recently geared most of her recordings toward the “grown-ups” who have frequented her concerts on the folk circuit. But alongside that work, Collins has been performing for and working with children since her own three were young, including collaborations with the Grumbling Gryphons Children’s Theater in 1992 and 1993. In 1997 she relocated to the hilltowns of western Massachusetts. Settling into her new home, she has gradually shifted the focus of her work from performance on the road to teaching in her community. In 2002, Collins trained with early childhood music program Music Together of Princeton, NJ, and founded Hilltown Music Together. Collins was awarded Music Together Certification I status in 2005, for outstanding achievement in teaching, musicianship, program philosophy, and parent education. In 2007 Collins began research and development of Kids’ Jam, an educational program for 5-7 year-olds, which is currently her major creative focus.
Collins’s concerts, still a joy to her, if more rare these days, are an expression of the complex and insightful woman she is: wise elder and whimsical spirit, music theory buff and old time banjo player. Mother, grandmother, woods walker, writer, teacher… somehow all these parts and more emerge in her concerts as she engages the audience in an intimate dialogue of song and poem, voice, guitar and banjo.
Ahrre Maros is the owner of Ahrre's Coffee Roastery in Westfield & the Fair Trade Coffee Company on line. He has been presenting live musical events since 1992, when he first opened the Common Ground Cafe in Summit. The Cafe is gone now, but Ahrre continues bringing Professional Touring Musical Artists to the area for the benefit of the local community and several local Charities.
Currently, Ahrre presents two separate Concert Series; the Coffee With Conscience Concert Series in Westfield and the Powerful Women of Song Concert Series at the Watchung Arts Center in Watchung.
Both Concert Series act as fund-raisers—raising much needed funds for worthy causes—while providing the participants with the opportunity to serve the larger community, providing artists with a venue to display their talents, providing an audience with a cultural experience and generally strengthening the local community by bringing a group of people together for an evening of music in a comfortable setting.
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