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07/18 Friday
7:00 PM Rocky Mountains in Cambridge
Featuring a quartet of singer-songwriters who attend the Rocky Mountain Song School every August, including three from metro Boston, and a special guest from Denver:
Charlene DiCalogero
If you've never heard, or heard of, "dark and witty acoustica," here's your chance to see the queen of DWA. Some of Charlene's stuff will remind you of Ani DiFranco—but then again, she knows how to put across some sweet fingerstyle too. Her band “The September Babies” have also played the Pad. Her "Odyssey Songs Vol. 1" CD had a record four tracks played on WUMB as a brand-new artist. She'll bring tunes from that and the highly anticipated Vol. 2. www.amphibiouswrecks.com
Rob Mattson
…is an expert on "The Swedish/Jewish Divide" and other current controversies. He has a Martin and a trained baritone voice, and he's willing to use them. On "New Address," Mattson lets you in on a more intimate, romantic side. "Listen" to both of them on the CD of the same name at www.robertmattson.com
Tim Riordan
Tim always has a notebook and a pen with him. That means he is the kind of songwriter who just keeps getting better and better. Who else would think to write "Philip Seymour Hoffman"? Tim's songs tell stories, and his characters find themselves trying hard and struggling harder. At Song School he earned co-write credit on the song “Reveal” with the amazing Willy Porter. "Pick Me Up" is his first CD. www.robertmattson.com
And special guest, Rob Roper:
There's nobody these Boston songwriters would rather bum a beer off of than Rob Roper. He's a producer, a sideman, and singer-songwriter-wiseguy. Originally from Mississippi, the same state that other hip-swiveling guy is from, he can do country, he can do rock, and he'll remind you of Randy Newman, Neil Young and your funniest best friend. www.robroper.com