NEW GLOUCESTER – The New Gloucester Village Coffee House will host Pound of Tea, a trio of local musicians who combine elements of bluegrass, old-time blues and contemporary folk into a mix they call eclectic acoustic. Some of their favorite songs include the traditional fiddle tune “Blackberry Blossom,” “Bluegrass Stomp” and “Lady B. Goode,” as well as such Beatle favorites as “One After 909.”
The trio brings its music to life with vocals accompanied by guitar, mandolin, percussion and the rbw (a rotten block of wood, an astonishingly versatile, one-of-kind percussion “instrument”).
Friends Eric Bryant, David Hartley and Elizabeth Guffey met at the first of Eric’s successful Freeport Open Stage Coffee House series. They started picking together for fun on Sunday afternoons and after a few turns on the Open Stage decided to take their living room sessions public. They are now local favorites at the Freeport Coffee House and have been spotted at other watering holes and public places in Hallowell, Harpswell, Auburn and Portland.
For more information about the group and to hear a selection of their tunes, visit http://poundoftea.com/.
The concert will start at 7:30 p.m. Tickets, $10, will be available at the door. The coffeehouse is at the New Gloucester Congregational Church at Church and Gloucester Hill roads.
Proceeds will benefit the New Gloucester Congregational Church. For more information, contact Michael or Julie Fralich at 926-3161; or the church office, 926-3260.
The New Gloucester Coffee House will close for the summer but will start up again Sept. 2, with the Tuff Skirts, a five-member, all-female jazz blues combo.
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