Free folk-rock concert at Somerville Library
When:
Sunday, May 18, 2025 2:00p -
3:30p
Sunday, May 18, 2025 2:00p -
3:30p
Where:
Somerville Public Library
79 Highland Ave.
Somerville, MA 02143
Admission:
FREE
Hosted by:
Categories:
Music
Event website:
https://somervillepubliclibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/knock-on-wood-music-performance/
Howie Newman and Joe Kessler, also known as Knock on Wood (www.howienewman.com/knockonwood), are anything but a typical folk combo, performing funny original songs (suitable for all ages) as well as well-known rock covers. Their varied repertoire includes everything from Tom Petty to Buffalo Springfield to the Stray Cats.
Newman (guitar, harmonica, vocals) is the songwriter and his engaging manner, which includes G-rated comedy and lots of audience participation, has charmed audiences all over New England. Song topics include baseball, his wife’s inability to parallel park and not-so-graceful-aging. There are also heart-warming songs about his first grandchild and surviving the pandemic.
Kessler plays fiddle and mandolin with an energetic improvisational style that includes folk, rock, jazz and bluegrass. He has also toured extensively throughout the United States and Canada as well as eight other countries, performing with Morphine, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, the Boogaloo Swamis and many others.
This program is funded in part by a grant from the Somerville Arts Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.
More info: www.howienewman.com/knockonwood
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