First Thursdays Songwriters Round with Sarah Bradbury, Seanmichael Poff, and Bill Stanton
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We are excited to announce a monthly Nashville style songwriters' round! Three songwriters will share a stage, trading original songs and the stories behind them. Live broadcast from the iconic 3rd Street Coffeehouse! If you would like to be featured in a First Thursdays lineup, submit recordings or links of two original songs to Mona at [email protected]
All genres welcome!
August Songwriter Bios:
Sarah Bradbury is a musician from Radford and the mind behind I Choose Izumi. She writes all her own music and plays everything but drums on her recordings, which is why you won't hear drums on most of them. Sarah is heavily inspired by 90’s rock, post-punk, and lo-fi indie music. She has been playing locally for over 20 years on her own and with various bands. She loves to get loud with I Choose Izumi but will spare listeners the distortion this time around. If you can't find her at one of the local open mics she is probably in her basement recording some new tunes.
https://open.spotify.com/artist/14ejaND8NQBCWi6Tp6S5NY?si=waR5vVeATqqM6DUJB8z-RQ&utm_source=copy-link
Seanmichael Poff is a Roanoke based songwriter who has been involved with the local music scene for the past 25 years. He has been a part of several groups in the area including the Young Sinclairs, Voles, Missionaries and Red Hands among others.
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4Nf16PZ7ta22LvOQLKzLSj?si=f5Tg8_v6T_Ww4m40S3kfJw&utm_source=copy-link
Bill Stanton began writing songs worthy of playing for audiences or recording in 1970. Bill fell in love with Bob Dylan and The Byrds in the mid-sixties. He was actually hanging out at The Café Wha? in The Village as far back as 1962 when he started learning folk songs and how to pick a guitar. Bill formed his first acoustic trio, ‘Stanton, Sullivan and Reilly’ in Southern Illinois and, after a move to Western New York, founded “Jubal” another acoustic trio. Bill’s first band “Travis” made a demo of original songs for Harry Chapin, but Harry died tragically in an automobile accident and Bill’s next band, ‘HaberSham’ broke up in 1979. “China Cat” was Bill’s favorite Grateful Dead cover band mainly because the deadheads would come to hear them and dance on the tables at “Joyce’s Keg Room” and other venues in Western New York. Midway through the eighties the tunes got a lot harder with ‘Power Play Incorporated’ with ZZ Top and The Clash cover tunes. By the nineties it was back to an acoustic sound with “Jaded Hue” and “All Are Called” back to an emphasis on strong melodies and poetic lyrics and a move to the upstate of South Carolina. These days Bill and his wife Debbie have moved to Roanoke VA and Bill is once again going one on one with audiences with his trusty Alvarez 12-string and a repertoire of traditional folk tunes, cover tunes from “Pink Floyd” and “The Eagles” and, of course, original songs.
All genres welcome!
August Songwriter Bios:
Sarah Bradbury is a musician from Radford and the mind behind I Choose Izumi. She writes all her own music and plays everything but drums on her recordings, which is why you won't hear drums on most of them. Sarah is heavily inspired by 90’s rock, post-punk, and lo-fi indie music. She has been playing locally for over 20 years on her own and with various bands. She loves to get loud with I Choose Izumi but will spare listeners the distortion this time around. If you can't find her at one of the local open mics she is probably in her basement recording some new tunes.
https://open.spotify.com/artist/14ejaND8NQBCWi6Tp6S5NY?si=waR5vVeATqqM6DUJB8z-RQ&utm_source=copy-link
Seanmichael Poff is a Roanoke based songwriter who has been involved with the local music scene for the past 25 years. He has been a part of several groups in the area including the Young Sinclairs, Voles, Missionaries and Red Hands among others.
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4Nf16PZ7ta22LvOQLKzLSj?si=f5Tg8_v6T_Ww4m40S3kfJw&utm_source=copy-link
Bill Stanton began writing songs worthy of playing for audiences or recording in 1970. Bill fell in love with Bob Dylan and The Byrds in the mid-sixties. He was actually hanging out at The Café Wha? in The Village as far back as 1962 when he started learning folk songs and how to pick a guitar. Bill formed his first acoustic trio, ‘Stanton, Sullivan and Reilly’ in Southern Illinois and, after a move to Western New York, founded “Jubal” another acoustic trio. Bill’s first band “Travis” made a demo of original songs for Harry Chapin, but Harry died tragically in an automobile accident and Bill’s next band, ‘HaberSham’ broke up in 1979. “China Cat” was Bill’s favorite Grateful Dead cover band mainly because the deadheads would come to hear them and dance on the tables at “Joyce’s Keg Room” and other venues in Western New York. Midway through the eighties the tunes got a lot harder with ‘Power Play Incorporated’ with ZZ Top and The Clash cover tunes. By the nineties it was back to an acoustic sound with “Jaded Hue” and “All Are Called” back to an emphasis on strong melodies and poetic lyrics and a move to the upstate of South Carolina. These days Bill and his wife Debbie have moved to Roanoke VA and Bill is once again going one on one with audiences with his trusty Alvarez 12-string and a repertoire of traditional folk tunes, cover tunes from “Pink Floyd” and “The Eagles” and, of course, original songs.
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Where is it happening?
3rd Street Coffeehouse, 305 Mountain Ave SW,Roanoke,VA,United States
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