Music

Friday, September 30, 7:30pm, King Ave. United Methodist Church, 299 King Ave.

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 1960s will be rekindled as Bill Cohen leads his annual candlelit musical year-by-year journey through the era, with live and familiar 1960s folksongs, “news reports” of sixties happenings, displays of anti-war buttons and posters, and far-out sixties fashions.

Saturday, August 6, 6-8pm, University Baptist Church, 50 W. Lane Ave.

Rocco Di Pietro, a local composer and a Columbus State Community College faculty member, has created a new piece entitled “Smiles and Screams: Love to Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” a concert with Taubes (an artistic rendering of how life and art interplay), that, along with community voices, will raise the vision of a world less violent and without nuclear weapons.

Saturday, August 20, 7-9pm, Maple Grove United Methodist Church, 7 W. Henderson Rd.

Join Bill Cohen as he sings some of the top early rock and roll hits made famous by Ricky Nelson, Sam Cooke, the Everly Brothers, Chubby Checker, the Drifters, Bobby Vee, and others.

Smooth three-part doo-wop vocal backup will be provided by the Harmonettes. And lead guitar wizard Brian Szuch will be there, along with electric bassist Renilda Marshall.

Sunday, July 24, 7-8:30 p.m., First Unitarian Universalist Church, 93 W. Weisheimer Rd.

With piano and guitar, Bill Cohen sings songs about many aspects of death: violence, loss, acceptance, and memories. The songs are linked to a wide variety of performers: Pete Seeger, John Prine, Sarah McLaughlin, Louis Armstrong, Phil Ochs, the New Christy Minstrels, the Kingston Trio, and others.

Friday, May 6 to Sunday, May 8, Battelle-Darby Creek Metro Park, 1775 Darby Creek Dr., Galloway, OH 43119

Festival times: Friday, 6-9:30pm [meet/greet potluck and jam]; Saturday, 8:30am-9:30pm; Sunday, 8:30am-5pm

Workshop times: Saturday, 10am-5pm; Sunday, 11am-4pm

The entire event will be held at the Indian Ridge Picnic Area except for the Friday evening meet/greet potluck and jam, which will be held at the Cedar Ridge Lodge.

Friday, May 6 to Sunday, May 8, Battelle-Darby Creek Metro Park, 1775 Darby Creek Dr., Galloway, OH 43119

Festival times: Friday, 6-9:30pm [meet/greet potluck and jam]; Saturday, 8:30am-9:30pm; Sunday, 8:30am-5pm

Workshop times: Saturday, 10am-5pm; Sunday, 11am-4pm

The entire event will be held at the Indian Ridge Picnic Area except for the Friday evening meet/greet potluck and jam, which will be held at the Cedar Ridge Lodge.

Friday, May 6 to Sunday, May 8, Battelle-Darby Creek Metro Park, 1775 Darby Creek Dr., Galloway, OH 43119

Festival times: Friday, 6-9:30pm [meet/greet potluck and jam]; Saturday, 8:30am-9:30pm; Sunday, 8:30am-5pm

Workshop times: Saturday, 10am-5pm; Sunday, 11am-4pm

The entire event will be held at the Indian Ridge Picnic Area except for the Friday evening meet/greet potluck and jam, which will be held at the Cedar Ridge Lodge.

Saturday, March 5, 8pm, Summit on 16th United Methodist Church, 82 E. 16th Ave.

In conjunction with “Workers’ Voice Columbus March on Wendy’s” [to be held Sunday, March 6, 12:30pm, Goodale Park, 120 W. Goodale St.]

Friday, March 4, 7:30pm, St. John’s Evangelical Protestant Church [UCC], 59 E. Mound St.

In conjunction with St. John’s 51st Annual Triune Concert Series.

Free.

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Friday, February 19, 7:30pm, St. John’s Evangelical Protestant Church [UCC], 59 E. Mound St.

In conjunction with St. John’s 51st Annual Triune Concert Series.

Free.

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