Music
As an alternative to over-eating and binge shopping on Thanksgiving and the day after, Bill Cohen invites us to a more meaningful event. He’s singing a wide variety of songs about the various gifts we can be grateful for: friends, family, freedom, nature, music, our bodies, emotions, and more. Plus, we’ll be inspired by poems and quotations about true gratitude.
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 this year at the annual “Spirit of the ‘60’s Coffeehouse.”
The show begins at 7:30pm in the church basement but get there early for a good seat.
Bill Cohen will lead a candlelit, musical, year-by-year journey through the era, with live folk songs, “news reports” of sixties happenings, displays of anti-war buttons and posters, and far-out sixties fashions.
Join the Folk Ramblers -- Bill Cohen and Carl Yaffey -- in singing the classic folk songs we remember from decades ago. We’ll do songs made famous by Pete Seeger, the Kingston Trio, the Limelighters, Joan Baez, Peter Paul and Mary, the Weavers, Harry Belafonte, Tom Paxton, and others.
Sing and clap along to love songs, children’s songs, work songs, civil rights songs, anti-war songs, lullabies, and more. We’ll feel the power, energy, and community that people feel when they sing together.
Mid-June will mark the 50th anniversary of the 1964 murder of three civil rights workers in Mississippi; Bill Cohen invites you to a unique free program that will recall that event and several others in the movement between 1960 and 1965. It was an era when blacks and whites marched together, were beaten together, were jailed together, and sometimes died together.