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Community Showcase Concert: The Rivergods and Dogbite at Friday Night Folk at All Souls

Special Community Showcase Concert on Friday, September 23, features two of the area’s best loved bands, The Rivergods and Dogbite. Produced by Friday Night Folk, the concert starts at 8 PM, Unity Hall, All Souls Unitarian Universalist Congregation in New London.

 

The Rivergods.  The Rivergods are an original roots-rock, Americana-tinged outfit born in 1997.  Their most recent CD, Signs, was released in April nationally, and has started to catch fire — the band was named ‘Artist of the Month’ for May 2011 by the popular roots/folk website FolkAlley.com.   Their last full-length studio CD Time Has Come was hailed as “simply excellent” by Soundcheck Magazine and produced an award-winning single, “Buddha on the Road,” which won the Independent Artist Community’s Best Americana song award in 2007.  No musical genre really defines the Rivergods.  From folk harmony to dirge country to swamp blues to jangly pop, the Rivergods draw influence far and wide from a vast musical landscape. The band consists of Ben Parent on guitars and vocals, Nancy Parent on pedal steel and vocals,Mike Palazzolo on bass, Trevor “T$” Chandonnait on drums, and Dan Spano on Hammond organ and piano.

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DogbiteThis high energy roots band from New London, Connecticut includes Hugh Birdsall and Mickey Williston on guitar and vocals, Kevin Salley on keyboard, percussion and vocals, and Jim Fitzgerald II on bass. (Birdsall is a founding member of “New London’s band,” the punk rocking Reducers.)  Their influences include Doc Watson, Django Reinhardt, Townes Van Zandt, The Waterboys, Dwight Yoakum, Elvis Presley, Marvin Gaye, Ray Charles, Eddie Cochran, and so many more.  Dogbite performs regularly in rock venues and coffeehouses throughout coastal Connecticut.

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About Friday Night Folk at All Souls:  Bringing quality folk music and performers to Southeastern Connecticut, Friday Night Folk concerts began at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Congregation in New London in 1989.  After a 10 year hiatus, Friday Night Folk came back, and recently presented Bill Morrissey, Bill Staines, Geoff Kaufman, Richard Shindell, John Gorka, Work o' the Weavers, Ida Red, emma’s revolution, and Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion.  Visit www.fridaynightfolk.org for the complete 2011-12 concert line-up.

 

Concert Details:  The concert is at 8 p.m. on Friday, September 23, in Unity Hall at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 19 Jay Street, New London. Tickets are$10 if reserved in advance and for students with a current ID; $15 at the door. Visit www.fridaynightfolk.org for further information, and to buy or reserve tickets.

 

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