FIRST SATURDAY CONCERTS SERIES
November 1, 2008 | |
a sassy wit ... outspoken songs  Two years ago Susan Werner graced our stage with a thrilling concert, and we described it then as: "The air was electric tonight in anticipation of Susan Werner's concert ... and she supercharged our audience with a mix of dynamic keyboard ballads and gospel variations, and guitar based solos on love and life. She brought our Ken "The Rocket" Korb on stage with his harmonicas to harmoniously accompany her on two moving songs ... and her clever repartee on Chicago etal kept us in stitches. This was an evening that will not be forgotten." A s part of out 40th Anniversary Year celebration, Susan is one of the hit performers returning to our stage this year, and we expect this show to be as exciting as her last. Susan's recent album The Gospel Truth features her modern day Gospel compositions, some irreverent and controversial. Susan Werner maintains an active touring career throughout the U.S. and has received a string of accolades from the likes of The Washington Post, The Village Voice and The New Yorker. She has become one of the defining artists of the folk music genre. Her songs effortlessly slide between folk, jazz and pop, and are delivered with a sassy wit and classic midwestern charm on piano or acoustic guitar.
A lways ready to reinvent herself, in 2004 Susan Werner released her album of her American Songbook gems I Can't Be New. For years she had incorporated cabaret-style numbers in her live performances, exchanging her guitar for the piano, and she'd been asked by her audience to put all those songs in one recording. Fans and critics alike sang her praises: the All Music Guide calling it "a brilliantly constructed, soulful, and cleverly tender effort by a songwriter and musician who is in such complete command of her gifts that it's almost scary." In 2005 Susan Werner made a splash on satellite radio and in the blogosphere with her "alternative national anthem" entitled My Strange Nation. For this song, Werner adopted the musical style of a battle hymn, and added lyrics that encompass both the poetry and hypocrisy innate to the United States.
Her sassy wit combined with her classic midwestern charm and her outspoken song lyrics make Susan's shows as exciting as folk was in the classic folk era of the 60's and 70's. ... Don't miss this rousing evening!
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This concert begins at 8:30 pm and will be preceded at 7:30 pm with a one-hour "Open Mike" (all are welcome to perform! — time permitting) (preference will be given to less recent previous mikers) Open mikers must sign up before 7:20 p.m. |
| First Saturday Concerts are held at The Congregational Church of Huntington (Wheelchair Accessible) 30 Washington Drive, Centerport (at the Eastern border of Huntington off Route 25A) Get Google map |
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Information: 631-425-2925  | |
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Most First Saturday Concerts begin at 8:30 pm and are preceded at 7:30 pm by an "Open Mike" (all are welcome to perform! — time permitting) The First Saturdays Concert Series is made possible, in part, by the continuing support of our loyal members — G E T M E M B E R S H I P A P P L I C A T I O N | |
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Our first CD — tonight at the HARD LUCK CAFE |
Farm girl Susan Werner was raised in rural Iowa but began her professional music career in Philadelphia, after studying classical voice at Temple University. Inspired by a Nanci Griffith concert, Werner left behind her opera training and began performing as a singer-songwriter at coffeehouses throughout the northeast. She self-released her first album Midwestern Saturday Night in 1992 and then went on to put out Live at Tin Angel the following year. In 1995 came her breakout album Last of the Good Straight Girls. Werner next recorded two albums even better than her previous work, adding some country and soul sounds to her signature vocal stylings, Time Between Trains, and in 2001 New Non-Fiction.
A t this concert, Susan will have available her newest CD, Live at Passim, a collection of live recordings of Susan Werner performing with band from two nights at Club Passim in 2007.
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