A Benefit Concert for the Kerrville Community with Janet Feld & friends
- Singer/Songwriter
This evening of songwriters was organized as a way to support the rescue and recovery efforts happening in Kerr County Texas after the July 4th floods. Come support this community while enjoying the songs of Janet Feld and her friends Esther Friedman, Chris Lavancher, Erin Ash Sullivan, Mark Stepakoff and The Lied To’s. Proceeds from the concert will be donated to the Kerrville Folk Festival as they are doing an amazing job of distributing funds to local organizations on the front lines of the recovery and relief efforts. They’re collecting and distributing supplies, plus feeding flood survivors and first responders daily. They’ve also opened the ranch where the festival happens for people to use their many RV hookups.
As this is a benefit show, the usual discounted tickets will not be available to Passim members.
Janet Feld
- Folk
- Guitar
- Singer/Songwriter
Janet Feld is an award-winning performing songwriter, appearing at folk festivals and coffeehouses from coast to coast throughout a nearly four-decade career. She’s been teaching general music classes and private lessons to people of all ages since the 1980s. Since 2000, she’s been teaching guitar and songwriting at The Passim School of Music and is the founder and Chief Music Officer at Janet’s Planet: Music Lessons for Humanoids, Inc. She has recorded 5 CDs and published her first book in 2023 for music teachers Practicing Safe Music: Create an Emotionally Safe and Magical Space for Your Students
Chris LaVancher
- Folk
- Singer/Songwriter
Chris LaVancher releases his third full-length album in November 2021 – “After The Flood” a collection of songs full of heart from a seasoned and skilled craftsman mining life’s subject matter – family, work, love and love lost, childhood memories, and finding one’s place in the universe.
Chris’s performance evokes a mini-movie festival in your head, complete with a full soundtrack. He writes cinematic, character-driven songs. His song Nostalgia from his second album, Big Fat Love, received an honorable mention in the 2018 Woody Guthrie Folk Festival Songwriting Contest. In 2014 Chris was selected as a Falcon Ridge Folk Festival Emerging Artist and performed on the main stage. He was also selected for the Suzi Wollenberg Folk DJ showcase at the North East Regional Folk Alliance.
Chris grew up in a small town in the hills of North Central Pennsylvania where he learned to observe the many wonderful characters that inhabited that little town. Today he lives just north of Boston Massachusetts, a Mecca for folk singers and songwriters, but much of his inspiration still goes back to that little town in Pennsylvania.
Mark Stepakoff
- Folk
- Singer/Songwriter
“Mark Stepakoff provides homespun comfort with this 10-track collection of reflective Americana” – Boston Globe
A longtime fixture on the Boston folk music scene, singer-songwriter Mark Stepakoff is widely admired for his mix of wryly humorous and wistfully poignant material, in the vein of artists such as John Prine and Loudon Wainwright III. Mark has received numerous songwriting awards and has performed at venues and folk festivals all over the Northeast. Most recently he was selected for the Emerging Artist showcase at the 2024 Falcon Ridge Folk Festival. His music has also been featured on the HBO series “Made For Love”, the Netflix series “Bodkin”, and the motion picture “Americana” starring Sydney Sweeney. “The Sound Of That” is Mark’s seventh album. His previous releases have reached as high as number 2, and his songs as high as number 3, on the Folk Alliance International Folk Radio airplay chart. Among the many artists he has opened for are Bill Morrissey, Steve Forbert, Christine Lavin, Cheryl Wheeler, Buskin & Batteau and Don White.
Erin Ash Sullivan
- Singer/Songwriter
A New England native, Erin Ash Sullivan’s music reflects a deep sense of place, and her lyrics—sometimes heartfelt, sometimes funny—are always authentic and drawn from her lived experience. WFUV’s John Platt describes Erin as “a special talent that reminds me of early Dar Williams.” Erin’s 2021 debut solo album, We Can Hear Each Other, reached #10 on the FAI DJ Chart, and she was a 2023 “Most Wanted” selection from the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival. She won the Rose Garden Coffeehouse Performing Songwriter Competition and the Mark Erelli Judge’s Choice Award in the New England Songwriting Competition, and she has been a finalist in the Great American Song Contest and the Mid-Atlantic Song Contest. Her second album, Signposts and Marks, is due out June 2024.
“Melodic, fresh, and easygoing, with storytelling prowess on full display…recalling the likes of Joni Mitchell and Joan Baez.” – Unxigned
The Lied To’s
- Americana
- Folk
The Lied To’s are Susan Levine and Doug Kwartler, two award-winning singer-songwriters that formed the group in 2013. Three albums and nine years later, the pair continues to share their music, and playing at festivals and venues including many shows at the legendary Bluebird Cafe in Nashville, TN, (One upcoming on 10/9/22), Club Passim in Cambridge, MA, Rockwood Music Hall in NYC, and more. Between them, they have been finalists at the Kerrville Folk Festival, Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, the Rocky Mountain Folks Fest, and the International Songwriting Competition, among others, and have had songs on national television programs. Kwartler is also a respected music producer who owns and runs Hollow Body Recording Studios in Chelmsford, MA.
