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Westchester WinterJam, featuring The Kennedys

Common Ground Community Concerts
at South Presbyterian Church
343 Broadway, Dobbs Ferry NY

presents Westchester WinterJam

featuring The Kennedys

Join us for this special midwinter jam session featuring The Kennedys, with special guests Radoslav Lorkovic, Steve Kirkman, Julie Corbalis, and Matt Turk.

The night will be headlined by Pete and Maura Kennedy, who first met at the Continental Club in Austin Texas. Within a few weeks, they went on their first date at Buddy Holly's grave in Lubbock, TX, and within a year, they were touring together, as part of Nanci Griffith's ban...d, and as the opening act on Nanci's two month tour of the British Isles. In a dusty little dressing room on the top floor of Dublin's Olympia theatre, they penned the songs that would become their first CD, "River of Fallen Stars". The CD was awarded the "Indie" award in 1995 for "Best Adult Contemporary CD" by the National Association of Independent Record Distributors. Ten CDs and several side-projects later (The Strangelings, The Stringbusters, and their solo projects), they enjoy loyal followings in both the guitar camp and the singer-songwriter set. Ultimately it's their tight harmonies, their chemistry, and their unashamedly idealistic outlook that has carved them their own niche in the studio and onstage.

Also appearing — and always up for jamming — is the reknowned Radoslav Lorkovic. Drawing from a multitude of influences ranging from elegant classical and jazz styles to the rawest, most basic blues, country and soul, Radoslav has taken on an unusually broad musical spectrum and refined it into his distinctive piano style. His tenure on the R&B and folk circuits has culminated in five critically acclaimed solo recordings and numerous appearances on the recordings of and performances with artists including Odetta, Jimmy LaFave, Ribbon of Highway Woody Guthrie Tribute, Greg Brown, Richard Shindell, Ellis Paul, Dave Moore, Andy White and Bo Ramsey. His twenty year touring career has led him from the taverns of the upper Mississippi River to the castles of Italy, The Canary Islands, The Yup'ik villages of Alaska and Carnegie Hall.

Opening the show will be three artists from Westchester's Tribes Hill music collective -- Julie Corbalis, Steve Kirkman, and Matt Turk. Matt Turk is a veteran performer who has engaged audiences around the world, both as a hard-rocking bandleader and an acoustic folk troubadour. Matt's new recording American Preservation, released in the spring of 2010, reached #20 on the folk/dj chart getting spins in 25 US States, Germany, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. Julie Corbalis has been a working Hudson Valley singer-songwriter for the past decade. She has released 3 independent albums, 2 with the rock band Jules & the Family and her most recent as a solo artist. Jules has toured the NorthEastern US, Canada and Europe, and has even played for audiences in Japan and Brazil. Since he was born on a Carolina farm, some of Steve Kirkman's first sounds were of a Ford tractor and dust radio preachers. Elvis, The Beatles, Hank Williams, and Bob Dylan were cultivated into his early landscapes and set the seed that grew into the musical mix he is today.

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