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• Saturday, March 29, 2025 – Traditional Ballad Singing Contest

  • When
    29 Mar 2025
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    7:00 PM - 9:15 PM
  • Location
    842 Tremont Street Duxbury, MA

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  GREAT YOUNG TALENT!  TICKETS MAY BE PURCHASED HERE (called registering).  AND TICKETS MAY BE PURCHASED AT THE DOOR!   PLEASE PAY FOR CHILDREN (UNDER 18) AT THE DOOR.  COME ON DOWN!

  Tickets: Contestants No Charge, $8 Member, $9 Non-Member, Child $4 (under 18) 
  

  We love the Traditional Ballad so much, we’ll pay young people to learn and perform one at our Contest with CASH PRIZES AND CASH PARTICIPATION AWARDS!

  The 2025 Traditional Ballad Singing Contest will be held on SATURDAY, March  29 at 7:00 PM at FIRST PARISH DUXBURY, 842 Tremont St (Rte 3A), Duxbury, MA.  Contestants must sign up ahead by Saturday, March 22.

  No charge for contestants, all others: $8 Members, $9 Non-members, $4 Children (under 18). 

  HERE ARE THE LINKS FOR THE FULL CONTEST INFO/SIGN UP FORM and THE POSTER:

  
  

  
  

    

  Main Rules:

  Make sure your ballad tells a story with a plot and an ending. 

  Make sure your ballad is so old that nobody knows who wrote it, or make sure your ballad is at least 100 years old.  

  Make sure you sign up early so Contest Organizers Karen Haffner and Lynn Feingold can review and OK your choice of ballad.  
  

  Here are the categories and CASH PRIZES for 2025:

  Grade 4 Through High School

  Solo performer WITHOUT instrument $50 cash prize

  Solo performer WITH instrument $50 cash prize

  Group (2 or more) WITHOUT instrument $50 each (up to 4) cash prizes
  Group (2 or more) WITH instrument(s) $50 each (up to 4) cash prizes

  After High School Through Age 25

  Solo or group, with/without instrument(s) - $50 each (up to 4) cash prize(s)

  If you have any questions, contact Karen at haffnerk@hotmail.com or 617-875-2047 (leave a voicemail or text) or Lynn Feingold at 781-227-7500.

  CASH Participation Awards!

  All contestants who do not “win” their category will receive a CASH Participation Award in an amount based on the donations we receive in support of the Contest.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• CH-Friday, April 4, 2025 – Margaret Ferri followed by Open Mic

  • When
    4 Apr 2025
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    7:00 PM - 9:15 PM
  • Location
    842 Tremont Street Duxbury, MA

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  Advance Tix may be purchased here (called registering).  Or come on down and pay at the door with CASH or CHECK.  NO credit cards at the door.

  Please pay for Kids at the door.

  Tix $8 Members and Open Mic performers, $9 Non-members, $4 kids (under 18).   Doors open at 6:30.  Open Mic sign up starts at 6:30.  Coffeehouse starts at 7:00 PM 

  
  

  Margaret Ferri 
  

  A musician whose inspiration to play guitar was Buffy St. Marie’s ‘Until It’s Time for You to Go’ Margaret Ferri’s roots are in folk music and lyrics are her passion!  She covers Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell and many others.  She says, “I play songs that speak to me and my life’s experiences. The emotions you hear in the songs are deep and real.”  Margaret has dedicated her ‘life in music’ to ensure that excellent songwriting from the past is not forgotten and her audience reacts with smiles and positive energy when they hear a song they love. Margaret Ferri considers this to be her gift and offers it up to those who want to listen.  

  Open Mic follows Margaret Ferri 
  

  Share your talent: song, tunes, spoken word.  Sign up at the door when we open at 6:30

  Come on down!  See you at The Club!

  
  

  
  

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• Saturday, Apr 12, 2025 – Split Bill - Lisa Sheldon/Rick Drost

  • When
    12 Apr 2025
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    7:00 PM - 9:15 PM
  • Location
    842 Tremont Street Duxbury, MA

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  TICKETS may be purchased here until 6 AM on the day of the show.  Or pay at the door with  CASH OR CHECK (no credit cards at the door):   $13 Members, $15 Non-members; $6 Kids under 18  Please pay for kids at the door.

  Great Music, homemade snacks!

  Doors open at 6:30 PM.  Concert starts at 7:00 PM.

  Lisa Sheldon

  Lisa Sheldon’s debut album Lost and Found, coming out in June, shows her gift for discovering something new in the familiar. She writes about the “wild ride’ of life with keen insight and playful humor, serving up truth with the wry wink of the eye. Her warm sound is always honest and compelling and her guitar skills are a delight.  Lisa Sheldon will be joined by Richard Brech (Natural Born Fools) on percussion.

  Rick Drost

  Songwriter Rick Drost, writes and sings songs with depth and heart, songs worth re-listening to, as they convey a long love of classical music, natural wonders and poetry. His writing took early inspiration from Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen; his recent influences include Vance Gilbert and David Wilcox. Rick's CD "Turning the World", which a reviewer called “a true folk album with a universal style”, charted on the Folk DJ list in its first month and continues to garner airplay from across America to New Zealand. Originally from Western New York, Rick travels from Cambridge, MA to sing at coffeehouses, house concerts, small festivals and Folk Alliance events all around the country. You can learn more about Rick Drost at https://www.rickdrostsongs.com before we showcase him at South Shore Folk Music Club (SSFMC).

  
  

  
  

  
  

    

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• Saturday, May 3, 2025 – Paul Rishell and Annie Raines in Concert

  • When
    3 May 2025
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    7:00 PM - 9:15 PM
  • Location
    842 Tremont Street Duxbury, MA

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  TICKETS may be purchased here, or pay at the door with  CASH OR CHECK (no credit cards at the door):   $22 Members, $25 Non-members; $11 Kids under 18  Please pay for kids at the door.

  Great Music, homemade snacks!

  Doors open at 6:30 PM.  Concert starts at 7:00 PM.

  Advance tickets are available for purchase now.  Advance tickets may be purchased until 6:00 AM on the day of the show.  After that, please pay by cash or check at the door.  There are still tickets available unless we post that the show is sold out, so "Come on down!"

  For 30 years Paul Rishell & Annie Raines have been hailed as one of the world’s best blues duos. They have recorded 6 albums together, including the award-winning Moving to the Country. They have performed and recorded with John Sebastian, Susan Tedeschi, Pinetop Perkins and Rory Block, opened for Ray Charles, Dr. John, and Little Feat, and performed on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and A Prairie Home Companion.

  “W.C. Handy Award-winners Rishell & Raines are rousing interpreters of country blues, the original acoustic style that gave birth to electric blues, R&B, and rock. While their guitar, harmonica, and vocals are roiling, muscular, and masterful, their shows are down home-friendly and fun-loving.”--Scott Alarik, BOSTON GLOBE

  
  

  
  

    

  
  

  
  

  
  

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