An Evening with Ed Sweeney, Andy & Judy Opens

Name: An Evening with Ed Sweeney, Andy & Judy Opens
Start: 2025-09-13T19:00:00-04:00
Location: The Music Mansion at 88 Meeting Street, Providence, RI, United States, Rhode Island 02806

Schedule

Sat, 13 Sep, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

The Music Mansion at 88 Meeting Street, Providence, RI, United States, Rhode Island 02806 | Providence, RI

In 1981, Stone Soup Coffeehouse was formed to create a performance space for many of the local musicians here in Rhode Island. Those performances began in people’s living rooms, and eventually moved into a larger venue in the undercroft of a local church on the East Side of Providence. These are the real roots of Stone Soup, and we have kept with many of these traditions by continuing to serve our community and the musicians who are a part of that community by hosting them at our venue. It seems fitting to host Ed Sweeney, part Rhode Island icon and all musician-extraordinaire for our first show of the season on Saturday, September 13, 2025 at 7 pm. Tickets will be $22 and can be reserved online (see our website). As always, it will be a special night of music at the Soup!
Parking at The Music Mansion at 88 Meeting St, Providence, RI 02906 is limited and carpooling, ride-sharing, and mass transit are highly encouraged. There is also available parking on Benefit Street, a short set of stairs will lead you right up to the Music Mansion.
ABOUT ED SWEENEY
Ed Sweeney’s concerts and recordings have drawn accolades throughout the US, Canada, Europe and Asia. His recordings have been reviewed or featured by major media including Boston Globe, Boston Herald, New York Daily News, Washington Post, Chicago Sun, USA Today, and NPR, and his work is heard worldwide on hundreds of radio stations and on-line networks. Ed’s music reaches a diverse audience. Through NPR or on the hundreds of radio stations and on-line networks around the world. His music is in Ken Burns’ documentary Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony as well as Christian de Renzendes’s documentary Slatersville (Season 2). His music has been part of the soundtracks for television shows such as Northern Exposure and Briarpatch. Ed’s music was included in the six CD set Disney’s 50th Anniversary – A Musical History of Disneyland.
Ed's explorations also have taken him into the business side of music. In the late 1970s-early 1980s, he was assisting with the Rehoboth Music Festival and running a concert series presented through the North Attleboro Arts Council. He spent several years working for an Atlanta-based record company, Intersound Entertainment, where he created a specialty music division.
Throughout his professional career Ed has been an explorer and learner. With his knack for eclecticism and excavating overlooked songs, what you hear from Ed Sweeney today will not be the same as what you’ll hear from him tomorrow.