A two-time Grammy award-winning artist, recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the RI Council for the Humanities and an NPR commentator, Bill’s songs and stories paint a vibrant and hilarious picture of growing up, schooling and family life./p>

A special benefit performance by this New York-based indie-pop singer-songwriter, her music has been featured in episodes of several popular television shows, including Scrubs, Bones, and Grey's Anatomy.

This well-knit ensemble plays a wide variety of traditional jazz and vintage pop with outgoing, infectious, and sparkling personality. Featuring local members Chris Harris on banjo and Jack Moser on clarinet and saxes. Other members include Russell Wilson on piano; Henning Hoehne on clarinet, soprano sax, and bass sax; David Jellema on cornet and clarinet; and Giff Blaylock on tuba.

Lucy Tight & Wayne Waxing are "Hymn For Her", a band that hails from anywhere they can park their trailer. H4H live, tour and record in their 16 foot, 1961 Bambi Airstream (comes with dog and baby). Armed with 2 bullet mics, a three-stringed broom handle/cigar box, banjo, dobro, bass drum, hi-hat, and harp, this 'lil duo causes massive earthquakes wherever they play.

Not long after forming in Philadelphia 20 years ago, the DaPonte String Quartet surprised the musical world by moving from a cosmopolitan urban area to rural Maine. The DSQ had been — and continues to be — sought after to perform and teach all over the U.S. and around the world. They have appeared in France, Scotland, Canada, and more than twenty American states. The Quartet's repertoire spans the entire history of music, from seventeenth-century works on original instruments to cutting-edge contemporary quartets. Their performances affirm chamber music as a vital and alive art form.

Veteran country music performer Mac McHale and old-time gospel singer Carolyn Hutton bring a bit of the North and South together. Simple old-fashioned American music is performed on the guitar, mandolin, and banjo accompanied by harmony singing.

Grammy Award-winning pianist and composer Sullivan, who has played with the Paul Winter Consort and many others, taps his network of fascinating new musicians and composers to give us an evening of music and conversation like we’ve never heard before.