Community Calendar

Folk Roots Singer-Songwriter Shawna Caspi has spent nearly 2 decades and 5 albums captivating audiences with her poetic lyricism and her commitment to always trying to “find some light in any dark subject…that vein of hope that runs through everything”. Shawna’s most recent album Hurricane Coming finds her at her most honest and vulnerable, and was nominated for Canadian Folk Music Award’s Contemporary Album of the Year (2023).
On Saturday, September 30th, Shawna will be the featured act of the first 2023-2024 coffeehouse concert sponsored by the Columbus Folk Music Society here in Columbus.

Prior to Shawna Caspi taking the stage at 8pm on Saturday, September 30th at the Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park Avenue, there is a full two-hours of additional folk music programming to enjoy!

Starting at 6 pm, there will be an informal folk music jam, followed by an open mic segment for 3 different folk acts at 7pm. Finally, at 7:45 pm, the audience will be invited to join in a brief folk music sing-along as a reminder of what is at the heart of folk music - music for the people made by the people.

The Buttermilk Biscuit Boys hard driving, traditional bluegrass band from Springfield, OH make their debut appearance at Walking Distance Brewery! Hope to see a good crowd and be sure to stay late cause then it’s only stumbling distance home!

Civil rights sit-ins. Bell-bottoms. Anti-war marches. Student Power. Afros. Mini-skirts. Hippies. Riots. Space flights. The generation gap.
Those hallmarks of the turbulent 1960’s will be rekindled Friday October 13 at this year’s annual “Spirit of the ‘60’s Coffeehouse”:

Friday Oct. 13 at 7:30 p.m.
King Avenue Methodist Church
299 W. King at Neil in Columbus 43201

Bill Cohen will lead a candlelit, musical, year-by-year journey through the era, with live and familiar 1960’s folksongs, “news reports” of sixties happenings, displays of anti-war buttons and posters, and far-out sixties fashions. Plus, Bill will also challenge the audience with sixties trivia questions.

Proceeds from the suggested $15 donations (at the door) will go to the Mid-Ohio Food Collective. Free parking is also available in the lots just South and West of the church.

The show begins at 7:30 p.m. in the church basement, but get there early for a good seat.
The program is suitable for ADULTS and MATURE TEENS.

It’s the 36th year of sixties coffeehouses for Bill. He’s performed the show more than a hundred times now at colleges, churches, synagogues, conferences, high schools, and middle schools across Ohio and beyond.

For more information, call Bill at (614) 263-3851 or e-mail BillCohen@columbus.rr.com

With a career spanning decades, Dan Navarro is perhaps best known as songwriter for artists as diverse as Jackson Browne, Keb’ Mo’ and Pat Benatar (Grammy-nominated classic “We Belong”). A multi-talented performer, Dan is a singer, a songwriter and a voice actor in major motion pictures, TV, & commercials...including last year's hit Disney Film ENCANTO.
Dan’s songs are rich with insight and life experience, delivered straight-up, with honesty, grace and heart, in his moving and expressive baritone voice. Having released a dozen albums (solo & as Lowen&Navarro,) Dan released his first solo album “Shed My Skin” in 2019. Horizon Line, his current release, was produced by multiple Grammy®-winner Jim Scott (Tom Petty, Wilco, Dixie Chicks, as well as the first five Lowen&Navarro albums.)