Kate Chadbourne will perform at the Watertown Library during the Winter Concert Series.
This year marks the Watertown Free Public Library’s fifth year hosting free concerts featuring a variety of musical styles performed by talented area artists, the library announced. Performances will be on the second Sunday of the month from December-March. All concerts are free and open to the public.
The series kicks off with popular singer and harpist Kate Chadbourne, this Sunday, December 11 at 2 p.m. in the Watertown Savings Bank Room at the library.
Kate Chadbourne is a singer, storyteller, and poet whose performances combine traditional tales with music for voice, harp, flutes, and piano. She holds a Ph.D. in Celtic Languages and Literatures from Harvard where she teaches courses in Irish language and folklore – but the heart of her understanding of Irish folk tradition comes from encounters with singers, storytellers, and great talkers in Ireland.
She has been a featured “tradition bearer” in the Revels Salon series and in the Gaelic Roots Concert Series at Boston College, and her music has been featured on NPR’s programs, “Cartalk” and “All Songs Considered.” She has published two collections of poetry: The Harp-Boat, about her father, a Maine lobsterman, winner of the Kulupi Press Sense of Place Chapbook Contest, and Brigit’s Woven World & other poems of Ireland.
For more information visit watertownlib.org or call 617.972.6436.
Thanks for the notice. Sounds like a good concert….Sorry I’ll be out of town at the time.