The Society Cafe Series Presents Marc Douglas Berardo and Danielle Miraglia

Name: The Society Cafe Series Presents Marc Douglas Berardo and Danielle Miraglia
Start: 2025-04-26T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Society Cafe Concert Series

Schedule

Sat, 26 Apr, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Society Cafe Concert Series | Ridgewood, NJ

Society Cafe is pleased to welcome award-winning singer-songwriters, Marc Douglas Berardo and Danielle Miraglia to play their original music. Doors will open at 7pm and wine, coffee, tea, and dessert will be available for donations only.
Admission is $20 in advance at www.uuridgewood.org/society-cafe or at the door for $25 the night of the show. Kids 12 – 17 are $5 admission at the door. Kids under 12 are free and must be accompanied by an adult.
ABOUT MARC:
Website:marcdouglas.com
YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/user/Mapsong/featured
Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/artist/63HR11YTVLfZHvSvytkKBF...
"Berardo takes you to a place within yourself to make changes you want to see in the world." Mary Sue Twohy, The Village, Sirius/XM Radio
"Marc Douglas Berardo writes songs that are witty without being superficial, intelligent without being ponderous, fun without being silly. He performs them with an infectious verve. On top of that, he doesn¹t seem to have the slightest idea of just how good he is.”
David Olney, Legendary Songwriter and Performer, Nashville, TN
"High-quality story-telling picking and playing." Rob Ellen - The Medicine Show Radio Moose Mobile, U.K
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Rhode Island-based Marc Douglas Berardo is a hardworking, fast-moving, adventure-seeking, keen observer who lives for the story and the song. He is nationally recognized for his music and performances (Rocky Mountain Folks Fest Song contest, Telluride Troubadour Contest, Sisters Folk Festival, South Florida Folk Fest, 2013 Rams Head Onstage Rammie for Show of the Year.)
No Depression Magazine called his latest CD Whalebone: a highly polished personal collection with songs that are on the delicate trapeze of poignancy.
In May of 2014, Berardo won the 2014 Wildflower Art and Music Festival Song Contest in Texas. The following week he performed as a finalist in the legendary Kerrville New Folk Contest at the Kerrville Folk Festival.
In early 2015, Berardo's interview and live performance feature on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio's The Village was voted one of the best of the year by listeners.
Marc Douglas Berardo has shared the stage with heavyweights such as The New Riders of The Purple Sage, The Doobie Brothers, Jimmy LaFave, Martin Sexton, Terri Hendrix, Kevin Welch, and Red Molly, Eric Taylor, The Pousette Dart Band, John Hiatt, and Livingston Taylor.
On May 31, Marc released his first full-length record in 10 years, "The Beauty Of This Now"
“There’s a seriousness to Marc’s compositions that’s not apparent in the slew of artists who seem to have a lot of nothing to say in an album’s worth of music…Marc is cut from the same cloth as James Taylor, early Elton John…” - John Apice, Americana Highways”
ABOUT DANIELE:
Website:daniellem.com
YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/daniellemiraglia
Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/album/1XwIpEkB9XPhwpAhiR1ZmR
Danielle is a dynamic and captivating musician; her rich soulful voice and blues guitar mastery resonate in a performance both rare and unforgettable."
- Paul Patchel, State Street Blues Festival - Media, PA
“The genius of Glory Junkies is that Miraglia successfully pokes fun at a proverbial “selfie nation,” while also fully owning that tendency. Glory Junkies offers up deeply narrative lyricism and carefully crafted compositions...Glory Junkies boasts a song about reality TV, and one (the title track) that pokes fun at immortalizing one’s own image. Others stray into more personal territory, hitting close to home on Miraglia’s family dynamic, but the concept of the album remains a mainstay throughout.” - Liz Rowley, BestNewBands
"Danielle Miraglia is a fabulously gifted singer-songwriter whose uncanny folk/blues is both progressive and highly original." - Steve Morse - Longtime Boston Globe Critic and Contributor to Billboard and Rolling Stone.

Danielle has toured and played major venues across the United States and beyond, shining in both the Folk and Blues circuits including New York State Blues Festival, New Bedford Summerfest, The Narrows Center for the Arts (Fall River, MA), The Birchmere (Alexandria, VA), The Ramshead (Annapolis, MD), Sellersville Theater (Sellersville, PA) and the list goes on….

Danielle Miraglia comes armed with a strong steady thumb on an old Gibson and an infectious stomp-box rhythm with tunes ranging from heart-felt to socially conscious that will move both your heart and hips. Her latest “Bright Shining Stars” debuted at #15 on the Billboard Blues Charts.
Cascade Blues Association calls it “… tough as rawhide, but smooth as blended whiskey.” Released Oct 2020 with Vizztone Label Group, it’s a solo acoustic folk/blues record that highlights the one-woman-band live sound she’s honed over the years, featuring guest appearances by talented friends Laurence Scudder, Peter Parcek and Richard “Rosy” Rosenblatt. It includes originals as well as a collection of songs she covers at live shows, paying homage to influences like Big Bill Broonzy, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin and more, plus the title track “Bright Shining Stars,” written by her husband, Tom Bianchi.