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www.chordbook.com
Virtual Guitar & Chordbook is our main application, this features a flash modelled
guitar, over 1300 guitar chords and inversions. You can save chords to your chordbank. On the guitar you can do all the normal
stuff, like put on a capo go up and down the frets, drag and drop the finger markers to make your own guitar chords. Chord
Sequencer: you can sequence your guitar chords and play them back in the mychords area!
www.thedessertclub.com
The Dessert Club Coffee House brings you
quality local and national talent in a relaxed atmosphere, allowing you an up close and personal view. The Dessert Club is
a Coffee House with spirit!
Narrows Center for the Arts
The Self Defined
Purpose of the Narrows Center is to provide an easier path for those who create, to strive for the betterment of all things
meaningful, to generate the capital to make these quests possible and perpetual, to bring the best to the most. The Mission
of the Narrows Center is to promote and develop an appreciation of the visual arts and the performing arts as well as creating
and developing an artistic and cultural center for the benefit of the public at large and the citizens of Fall River, MA.
www.rickfetters.com
The Host of the Narrows Center Open Mike Series, Singer-Songwriter,
Rick Fetters. Check out his new CD, "When the Morning Comes"!
www.chuckwilliamsmusic.com
This songwriters music is of love gained, love lost, growing up and moving on.
He can take you on a journey that makes you think, smile and at times want to cry. Chuck
won the 2005 Ludlow Folk Festival Songwriter Contest and has just received Honorable Mention from
the PeaceDriven Songwriting Awards Contest.
He has been traveling New England sowing seeds of his songs along the way.
His lyrics and melodies are a musical journey reflecting emotions of everyday life.
www.barbaraphaneuf.com
In Performing Songwriter Magazine (December 2000), Music Editor Russell
Hall had this to say about Barbara Phaneuf: “… A gifted composer, guitarist and singer who shifts easily between
‘50’s style country pop, sprite folk tunes, acoustic swing and torchy blues ballads. Phaneuf often evokes the
spirits of such past masters as Ray Charles, Brenda Lee and Patsy Cline… Phaneuf is a consummate craftsperson whose
acoustic guitar based songs take on richer hues with each listen.”
Barb’s eclectic taste can be explained by taking a look back at
her childhood. Dad was a saxophonist with a passion for swing, while Mom secretly adored country music. Her oldest brother
Joe lived on Elvis, Chet Atkins and Pat Boone records. Grandma lived upstairs and played songs from Broadway musicals every
Saturday afternoon on her hi-fi. Brother Jack brought home a guitar and taught her to play by working out every tune in the
Joan Baez and Beatles songbooks. The clincher was attending her first music festival, Woodstock ’69.
www.misselliemusic.com
Ellie Mae Higgins grew up listening to her dad play piano and sing funny Irish songs, which he
had learned as a boy from his dad. As a child, Ellie played the accordion and then as a teenager she began playing
acoustic guitar. She fell in love with the early blues guitar heroes such as Blind Boy Fuller, Pink Anderson, Memphis
Minnie and Tampa Red and studied blues guitar with Grammy Award winner, Paul Rishell. Also a big fan of Motown,
R&B, soul, and swing, Ellie cites all of these as her musical influences.
After years of searching for her musical soulmate, Ellie met her now husband, Bill Reidy, with whom she
performs early blues, folk and gospel. Bill is a fine singer and multi-instrumentalist and is skillful at slide
guitar, cornet, trombone, harmonica, recorder and flute. Ellie performs with acoustic finger picking guitar, washboard
and harmonica. When they first met, Ellie and Bill formed an electric blues band with Ellie on bass guitar and
Bill on electric guitar and played in the Boston area. They now perform together in their Band, Highway
61. This talented duo is also a part of Wayne's Band Sinners and Saints
Whaling Town
With
the seven original songs on their first CD, Whaling Town mines the rich history of the New Bedford waterfront,
singing songs about characters whose lives ride the boom-and-bust cycles of commercial fishing. In his songwriting, Eric explores
the traditional culture of his hometown. From the reluctant fisherman’s son of “Ocean Blood” to
the down-on-his-luck captain battling drug addiction in “No Salvation,” his songs focus on modern characters
dealing with timeless issues for those who make their livings from the sea.
www.susanlainey.com
Susan Lainey has been surrounded by music all her life. When
she was young, her family always got together on Sunday afternoons to play live music, mostly country and rock & roll.
As a teenager, she began performing at coffeehouses and churches, and jamming with other players to the folk, blues and country
rock of the 60s and 70s. She toured throughout New England, playing ski resorts, colleges, festivals and jamborees. Later,
she toured northern New England with several bands including a performance for the Winter Olympics at Lake Placid,
NY.
She moved back to her hometown in 1979, still writing original
songs but mostly performing covers at local clubs. After marrying, she worked for a number of years in the health care field,
including as a music facilitator for adults in day care and preschoolers, and started to pursue a degree in gerontology /
music therapy. But the siren call of music lured her back. In 1995, she formed her own business, In-Tune Consulting,
which provides music programs for over 50 health facilities in the SouthCoast area. That same year she performed in Nashville
at the Ryman Auditorium.
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