Event

Songwriters in the Round

Lisa Redfern brings four talented Maine songwriters to perform in an intimate, unplugged setting in Frontier's theatre for an evening of compelling songs and stories.

LISA REDFERN
An award-winning singer-songwriter who just released her 9th solo recording, Lisa blends her roots in all forms of Americana music to create something unmistakably her own. For over 25 years, Lisa has brought joy and comfort to listeners of all ages. After opening for Livingston Taylor, he commented to her "Wow, I haven't heard a voice like yours in 30 years, you sound like the original women of folk."

DAVE DERSHAM
Dave Dersham's modest style has garnered admiration from the New England folk community and beyond. His textured chords weave, marine-like, from beneath the lyrical ether--words of which bite toward the socio-political; other songs are softer, winking toward our collective foibles."...Taps hopeful, bluesy melodies and reverses lyrical expectations at every turn... exudes a brand of humane charm that sets him apart from every other songwriter you'll see this year." --Club Passim.

CAROLINE COTTER
With a captivating soprano voice and award-winning songwriting, Caroline Cotter's music takes you all over the world: from a Parisian salon, to an Indian ashram, to a bluegrass festival campfire, to the depths of the human heart. Winner of the 2012 Maine Songwriters Association Songwriting Contest, Caroline is already recognized as a
rising star in the Portland, Maine music scene. Find out more at CarolineCotter.com

PUTNAM SMITH
Putnam Smith, who hails from Portland, Maine, could be an old-world troubadour fresh from the 19th Century. After all, he lives in a log cabin, plays his Grandfather's banjo, and prints up the jackets to his CDs on an antique letterpress. Yet this rootsy multi-instrumentalist songwriter (he also writes and performs on guitar, mandolin, fretless banjo, and piano), steeped as he is in old-time Appalachian traditions, is very much a storyteller for the modern age.