President’s Letter
04/18/24
Hello Everyone,
Here’s the latest QCB/Leo Coffeehouse news
• Leo Coffeehouse, April 21, 2024
• Looking Ahead: Leo Coffeehouse, April 28, 2024
• Spaghetti Dinner at Zion UCC, April 27, 2024
• Reference Information (Below my sign off)
Leo Coffeehouse, April 21, 2024
3:30 PM: 3rd Sunday Singalong
Tell your friends and bring the kids! Everyone will pick songs from the Rise Up Singing books. Pianist Al Wauligman will accompany.
5:15 PM: Guitar Round Table Workshop
A forum for players of any skill level to exchange ideas so we can all make better music together. Bring a question, share a tip. Learn a new lick or chord. Enrich your guitar experience.
5:15 PM: Open Jam
Musicians bring songs to lead in the circle while others provide backup and harmony. This jam continues upstairs during the concert.
6:00 PM: All Evening Open Mic
Sign up at 5:45 PM to perform 2 or 3 songs, depending on the number of musicians who sign up. Our sound system will be set up.
Looking Ahead:
Leo Coffeehouse, April 28, 2024
5:15 PM: Songwriting Workshop
Led by David Singley.
5:15 PM: Open Jam
Musicians bring songs to lead in the circle while others provide backup and harmony. This jam continues upstairs during the concert.
5:15 PM: 4th Sunday Old Time Country Jam
Join us playing early roots country and related music from the early 1900s through the Folk Revival.
Performances: 6:40 - 9:00 PM
1st Set: David Singley
David Singley is a singer-songwriter-guitarist from Saint Paul, MN, whose music is born of the street, the country, and the academy. A veteran of backing world-class artists and performers, he has recently joined the Great Resignation and set his sights on his own artistic pursuits. His last album, The Long, Slow Fuse of Night, charted on Americana radio for several months His influences include all the great singer-songwriters of the 1970s. www.davidsingley.com
2nd Set: Jill & Bobby
Jill Denton and Bobby Fisher are an exceptional Cincinnati based duo that plays a variety of genres from standards to country, originals, pop, and rock. There is a chemistry that creates a unique energy in their music and a confidence that only comes from playing together for many years. Jill’s powerful and beautiful voice joined with Bobby’s dynamic guitar skills and vocals combine for an exciting and polished sound.
3rd Set: Turnsole
An alternative rock group from Cincinnati. Eric Bates, the creative force, writes music inspired by many different genres; everything from classical composers to 80s alternative bands. Influences range from Depeche Mode and The Cure, to Leonard Cohen and Franz Schubert. The Big Takeover Magazine, Brooklyn New York, compares Eric's voice to Ian McCulloch of Echo and the Bunnymen. In 2020, Turnsole was featured with Concert Nova/Cincinnati's premier avant-garde ensemble, and the single Kaleidoscope Eyes was commissioned for the Kansas City Ballet.
Spaghetti Dinner at Zion UCC
Zion UCC, our home base for Leo Coffeehouse, is holding a spaghetti dinner at 5:00 PM on Saturday, April 27, 2024, to raise funds to support Madison Smith, a junior at UC’s College Conservatory of Music, as she tours this summer as first chair trombonist with the Prague Symphony Orchestra. To learn more about this event, and Madison, see the poster on the bulletin board in the hall leading to Founder’s hall where Leo Coffeehouse performances are held.
QCB/Leo Coffeehouse Membership
We are keeping our standard annual QCB membership dues at $20.00 for a family, or for a single person plus a guest. Last year, knowing that the pandemic cut into our contingency funds, as we continued to pay overhead expenses with no income, some members donated larger amounts to QCB. We very much appreciate the support of all QCB members at all levels.
We are exploring setting up our website to allow the payment of different levels of dues support. For now, if you’d like to pay the standard dues, you can pay them online here or by a check at Leo. (We’ve discontinued our P.O. Box, I will have a mailing address in the next newsletter for those who wish to mail their membership dues.)
If you would like to donate more than the $20.00 standard dues, you can do so by check, or through our website. When you get to the page with the box to relay instructions, just note that you are paying a larger amount for your dues.
For visitors who prefer not to become a member, a donation of $5.00 (cash) per person helps us pay the rent for our non-profit organization. Donations can be slipped in the box at the welcome table outside our performance room, Founders Hall. If you can’t afford that, pay what you can afford or nothing at all. We will welcome you to join us either way.
That’s all for this Folknotes, I hope to see you soon at Leo Coffeehouse.
Neil Harrell
President, Queen City Balladeers/Leo Coffeehouse
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