Please note our starting time: 7:30pm for the open mike and 8:30pm for the featured performer.
 
Our next concert is on Saturday May 10, 2008 featuring:

Michael Johnathon

Michael Johnathon is a folksinger, songwriter, concert performer and author... and as the host of WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour has a worldwide radio audience approaching a million listeners each week. Michael grew up in upstate New York along the shores of the Hudson River. At age 19 he moved to the Mexican border town of Laredo TX and found a job as a late night DJ on KLAR-FM. One night he played Turn, Turn, Turn by the 60's folkrock group The Byrds. As the song played, he recalled seeing Pete Seeger and Harry Chapin performing in his hometown in New York. By the time the song ended he had decided to pursue a career as a folksinger. Two months later he bought a guitar and a banjo and settled into the isolated mountain hamlet of Mousie, Kentucky. For the next three years he traveled up and down the hollers of the Appalachian mountains knocking on doors and learning the music of the mountain people. Michael experienced hundreds of front porch hootenannies throughout Appalachia, where folks would pull out their banjos and fiddles, sit on their front porches with him and play the old songs that their grandparents taught them. Soon enough he began performing concerts at hundreds of colleges, schools and fairs. He performed two thousand Earth Concerts, plus benefits for the homeless, farm families and shelters helping battered women and children. In all he sang to over two million people in one four-year stretch. Billboard Magazine headlined him as an "UnSung Hero" and he has been featured on CNN, TNN, CMT, AP, Headline News, NPR, Bravo and the BBC. Last year he opened for Judy Collins at major outdoor concert venues. He was also one-third of the Acoustic Rainbow Tour with country star Billy Dean and pop superstar David Gates (of Bread fame). More at michaeljohnathon.com A designated local charity will receive a portion of the proceeds from this concert

The Eclectic Café is held on the second Saturday of the month, September through May at:

The Unitarian Universalist Society of South Suffolk 28 Brentwood Road Bay Shore, NY 11706 For show info: 631-661-1278

Parking is available along Brentwood Road. We ask that you please AVOID parking in the medical offices' parking lots south of the church or in the Sinai Reform Temple parking lot.

The open mic starts at 7:30pm. Performers wishing to participate should sign up by 7:30. The featured artists begin at about 8:30pm.

Admission is $10 for non-members ($5 for High School students with ID), and $8 for members. Membership is $12 a year. You can become a member at any time and your membership will be for a full calendar year, starting that month. Family memberships are also available. Ask at the ticket table for details.

Refreshments are available.

We would also appreciate a donation of canned or dry food for local charity.

The Eclectic Café is an all-volunteer, non-profit committee of the UUSSS. Questions or comments about this web page? Email me