Annual Rhode Island Songwriters Association Showcase

Name: Annual Rhode Island Songwriters Association Showcase
Start: 2025-02-08T19:00:00-05:00
Location: The Music Mansion at 88 Meeting Street, Providence, RI, United States, Rhode Island 02806

Schedule

Sat, 08 Feb, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

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

This month we welcome performers from RISA (Rhode Island Songwriters Association) on February 8, 2025 at 7 pm at the Music Mansion, 88 Meeting St, Providence, RI 02906. Tickets are $22, and are available at the door or with reservation through our website. Please appear at least 15 minutes before the performance begins, or you will relinquish your tickets to those waiting to attend (unless it is prepaid).
RISA encourages, fosters and conducts the art and craft of original lyrical and musical composition; provides educational programs, critique sessions and performance opportunities for all artistic styles; and supports open collaboration within the RISA community. The organization was founded in 1993 by a small group of individuals dedicated to the art of songwriting. As interest in the group grew, so did the RISA membership. With growth came visibility and a broader mission – to establish a songwriting community that would not only nurture Rhode Island and Southeastern New England songwriters, but showcase their many talents as writers, musicians and performers. This evening will be hosted by Lilly Cataldi, with performances by Jan Luby, Roots Run Wild, Michelle Saylors, Josh Schurman, Rob Siegel.
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 THE ARTISTS
Lily Cataldi (our host): Lilly Cataldi is an accomplished teacher, performer, and writer, who is known not only for her musical skills, but also for her talents as an inspiring vocal coach and acting instructor. She brings 45 years’ of wisdom and varied experience into her sessions with clients. As a vocalist and songwriter, Lilly has performed all styles of music from classical to contemporary to original works in numerous settings and venues.
Jan Luby: Known for her engaging stage presence as well as a voice full of passion, range and power, Jan’s songs are evocative, lyrical, personal stories ranging from socially relevant to irreverent. She connects with people whether performing to a large audience at a festival or in an intimate coffeehouse setting. She released her fifth album, Night Window, in February of 2020, and has recently been named as a finalist in the Fall 2024 World Songwriting Awards.
Roots Run Wild: Known for their vocal teamwork, singer-songwriters KT Lee and Kelly Ann Fernandes use music to explore the challenges of finding your own way, healing from trauma, personal growth, relationships and developing a richer inner life and sense of self, always expressing a love of music itself and its incredible restorative power. Their band, Roots Run Wild, released their first full length album in 2024.
Michelle Saylors: New England based singer-songwriter Michelle Saylors actually hails from the Bible Belt in Tennessee, where she was raised on a 30 acre farm. Her early musical inspirations include gospel, folk and Memphis blues, and she also plays bluegrass music since the early 90s, performing at the Lester Flat Bluegrass Festival, and even appearing at the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville. She brings her Tennessee roots to the Stone Soup stage.
Josh Schurman: For over 50 years, Josh has performed in coffeehouses, clubs, and concerts throughout New England, the Midwest, and on the West Coast, pleasing audiences with his gritty and soulful vocals and deft fingerstyle guitar playing. He draws on American country blues and folk traditions, which he has been mining since the early sixties, and is influenced by roots artists such as Robert Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, Hank Williams, and popular icons of the sixties folk revival.
Rob Siegel is well-known in Boston folk music circles as an innovative songwriter who draws from his idyllic yet stressed-out middle-class suburban existence and produces memorable well-crafted songs. Rob has opened for Bill Staines, Vance Gilbert, Catie Curtis, Jack Hardy, Geoff Muldaur, and others. His 2000 debut CD Shaker Chair received airplay on the WUMB radio network, and his 2004 CD Voices from the Right Brain reached #52 on the FolkDJ ranking. His first new CD in 14 years, A Landscape of Ghosts, was released in 2018 at a sold-out show at Club Passim and charted on FolkDJ.