Saturday April 7th at 7:30
$8 suggested donation
Light refreshments
CD’s available for purchase
Putnam Smith
Portland, Maine
“As quirky and genuine as the state from which he hails” -Dirty Linen Magazine
Putnam Smith, who hails from Portland, Maine, could be an old-world troubadour fresh from the 19th Century. After all, he lives in a log cabin, plays his Grandfather’s banjo, and has printed up the jackets of his new CD on a 1901 Pearl Letterpress. Yet this rootsy multi-instrumentalist songwriter (he also writes and performs on guitar, mandolin, fretless banjo, and piano), steeped as he is in old-time Appalachian traditions, is very much a storyteller for the modern age. Putnam first came to national attention with his 2009 release, “Goldrush,” which went to #5 on the national Folk & Bluegrass DJ Charts (and made it on 6 “Favorite Albums of 2009” lists). His latest release, “We Could Be Beekeepers” shot right up to #2 the month it was released, charting 3 songs in the top ten (www.folkradio.org). Selected as an “Emerging Artist” at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival (2011), and noted as “One To Watch” (Rob Reinhart, Acoustic Cafe), Putnam has begun to establish himself as an acoustic tour-de-force not only in his hometown of Portland, but as a nationally touring musician as well. Putnam puts on a show that makes people want to do a little foot stompin’ one moment, then curl up all intimate-like with a glass of red wine, the next. As Maine’s indie newspaper the Maine Edge says: “He’s that rare breed of musician that manages to sound like a throwback without ever coming off as dated.”
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Gabriel Zacchai
Gabriel Zacchai has been writing, recording and performing original music for over 20 years. He has recorded over 102 completed songs since 1988, 95 of which have been recorded on 7 Albums and collected works. His influences combine Neil Young, Mason Jennings and the old Bluegrass masters with the likes of Stevie Ray Vaughn, Leadbelly and the North Mississippi All-Stars. Zacchai’s repertoire ranges from upbeat and catchy folk to hard-driving soulful blues and rock. His work has been featured on WMPG, WERU and MPBN radio, as well as KXCI in Tucson, ‘In Tune by Ten’ with Sarah Willis, and in Maine Home and Design Magazine. He currently lives in Mid-coast Maine with his Wife, Son and neurotic Border Collie.