Songwriter RoundUp Special Thanksgiving Eve Show

Katie Dobbins Music & Hermit Woods Winery Present Songwriter RoundUp

Show Details

Wednesday, Nov 26th

Feat. Katie Dobbins, Mike Morris, & Dane Anderson

Complimentary Wine Tasting at 5:30 PM

Doors & Dinner orders 6:00 - 7:00 PM / Show starts at 7:00 PM (dinner service closes at 7:00)

Bring a non-perishable food item for a raffle ticket to win tickets to a future Songwriter RoundUp performance!

Songwriter RoundUp Hosted by Katie Dobbins - Acoustic show featuring three local songwriter acts sharing the stories behind their songs and performing in-the-round

Short Series Description

Give back this Thanksgiving Eve by attending a concert at Hermit Woods Winery! You’re invited to a special Songwriter RoundUp holiday give-back show, where 50% of ticket sales will be donated to the Meredith Food Pantry. Songwriter RoundUp is a monthly music series where audience members can enjoy talented singer-songwriters from the New England Area in the Lakes Region’s premier listening room. Enjoy songs and stories from host Katie Dobbins and guest artists Mike Morris and Dane Anderson as they perform acoustically in-the-round. New songwriters are featured on the last Wednesday of every month in this intimate series!

Artist Bios

Katie Dobbins

Award winning singer-songwriter and light warrior Katie Dobbins seeks to share honest music that captivates listeners and brings light to the darkness. With a mastery of storytelling and the heart of a poet, this soulful songstress captures elements of life and relationships in ways that lift the spirit and challenge the soul. Her album There Is Light, produced by multi-award-winning producer Sean McLaughlin of 37' Productions, was awarded Album of the Year at the 2021 Limelight Music Awards. Her single There’s a Light, mastered by Grammy-nominated engineer Jeff Lipton, was featured on Spotify’s Editorial playlist. Her music has been featured on prominent radio stations like The River and “Boston’s Hottest Country,” with host Carolyn Kruse raving “Sweet but bold, Katie’s voice is reminiscent of one of her heroes, Jewel, but only deeper… A fearless spirit with a gentle touch.” Dobbins’ latest single Grateful is an ethereal ballad reflecting awe and wonder that permeate the mind. The track was mixed and mastered by Emmy-nominated producer Brian Coombes of Rocking Horse Studio (NH). katiedobbinsmusic.com

*For photo, please credit: Kris Dobbins

Mike Morris

I call my music “FreeStyle Folk.” I began this little musical journey as a five year old. My older brother barricaded me in a closet and blasted Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid” over and over again. To this day I am still afraid of Michael “Ozzy” Osbourne. It took me about twenty years to realize that I didn’t much like loud music, but did like making a ruckus. I figured an acoustic guitar was a good, portable way to make a ruckus. I’m mostly a song and dance man. I make up songs and man, do I like to dance. Badly. It took me about two years to learn to play an F chord on the guitar, but I’ll take suggestions from the audience and make up a song in about five minutes. It might be great, or terrible, but we will all have a good time doing it.

Humans are naturally great creators: We can make up songs that never existed before. We can create other humans. We can tell stories that are one hundred percent true, and then tell a completely different story the next day.

The white noise of life can be deafening sometimes. I believe that live music, whether it’s on the back porch or the center stage, can bring us together, even if it’s for one song, one evening or one lifetime. I have a pretty simple motto in my life and in my music: “No matter who you are, what you do or what you believe, you are welcome here.” Let’s get together and see what happens!

Dane Anderson

As an original musical artist Dane strives to deliver honest, heartfelt renditions of the songs that reveal themselves to him in various mysterious ways. Much of the lyrical content in Dane's songs comes from his many adventures at sea, gathering stories offshore and in ports from Maine to the Caribbean. Part of Dane's approach to life has always been a search for wisdom through many varied experiences and observations in hopes of being better suited to deliver some small musical reflection of universal truth. Dane grew up in New Hampshire and always came back eventually.

A Listening Room Experience

Hermit Woods is excited to bring talented artists from New England and beyond to perform for you. Each performance will provide you with an intimate, up-close, and personal experience with the performing artists. We ask our audience please refrain from talking during the featured show. Your silence will allow the artists and the audience to immerse themselves in the experience, which is not otherwise possible in larger, noisier environments.

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