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Not Just Another Coffee House, Unitarian Church of Sharon

The Legendary Bill Staines

NOT JUST ANOTHER COFFEEHOUSE
Unitarian Church of Sharon
4 North Main Street
Sharon, MA
Wheelchair accessible

When: January 18, 2014 at 7:00 PM
Doors open at 6:30 PM.
Price: $15.00*
*This is not a profit-making venture. Hardship, pay what you can.


For more than forty years, Bill Staines has traveled back and forth
across North America, singing his songs and delighting audiences at
festivals, folksong societies, colleges, concerts, clubs, and
coffeehouses. A New England native, Bill became involved with the
Boston-Cambridge folk scene in the early 1960's.

Bill became a popular performer in the Boston area. From the time in
1971 when a reviewer from the Boston Phoenix stated that he was
"simply Boston's best performer", Bill has continually appeared on
folk music radio listener polls as one of the top all time favorite
folk artists.

Now, well into his fifth decade as a folk performer, he has gained an
international reputation as a gifted songwriter and performer. Singing
mostly his own songs, he has become one of the most popular and
durable singers on the folk music scene today. Bill weaves a blend of
gentle wit and humor into his performances and one reviewer wrote, "He
has a sense of timing to match the best standup comic."

Over the decades, you have heard Bill singing on Garrison Keillor's A
Prairie Home Companion, HBO's award winning series Deadwood, and
Public Radio's Mountain Stage. Additionally, his music has been used
in a number of films including Off and Running, with Cyndi Lauper, and
The Return of the Secaucus Seven, John Sayles' debut as a writer-
director.

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