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Twilight Music presents an evening of indie / pop / folk from Northampton and Brattleboro with Winterpills and singer/songwriter Clayton Sabine at Hooker-Dunham Theater & Gallery on Friday, September 10 at 8:00 pm. Critically praised as a mirror of sorrows and a beacon of hope, the music of Winterpills - true to its name - is medicine for weary hearts. With three CDs and a soon-to-be-released EP “Tuxedo of Ashes,” Philip Price (vocals, acoustic guitar, piano, keyboards), Flora Reed (vocals, keyboards), Dennis Crommett (vocals, electric guitar), Brian Akey (bass) and Dave Hower (drums, shaken things) maintain their signature chamber-indie ambience while exploring new grounds sonically and lyrically - dense rockers balanced by quiet hymns, and an overall diversity in instruments and textures. All of this backs the wandering words of songwriter Philip Price. A performer with a background in ‘90s powerpop (The Maggies) as well as solo-acoustic songwriting, Price formed Winterpills with Reed, Crommett and Hower in 2004, crafting a neat balance of heartrending lyrics, lush pop and dreamy guy-girl harmonies. Their self-titled debut CD, released in November of 2005, drew numerous comparisons to Elliott Smith, Ida and ‘60s torchbearers like Simon and Garfunkel and Neil Young. With the addition of Akey, the quintet solidified their distinctive sound - the pleading lyrics, the dreamy pop, the harmonized vocal exchanges and evocative playing. “Gorgeous understated production, lovely melodies sung by people who can really sing...” – The Village Voice “Wildly infectious tunes... Price writes poignantly melancholic songs backed by a talented and innately dynamic band.” – No Depression Songwriter and singer, Clayton Sabine, has been performing in the area for a decade, as a solo act, front man of his original folk-rock quintet and as a member of the vocal harmony trio Relative Strangers. With vocals that have been described as “powerful and intimate”, and lyrics rich with wit and pathos, Sabine has developed a devoted following in the area. Guitarist Aaron Chesley will accompany Sabine for this concert. Hooker-Dunham Theater & Gallery is located at 139 Main Street in downtown Brattleboro, VT. Tickets for this show are $14 General / $12 Students and Seniors. For ticket reservations and information, call 802-254-9276. For more information, visit www.winterpills.com, www.claytonsabine.com and www.twilightmusic.org.

A lot of bands are experimenting with Neil Young's country-folk-rock fusion, trying to capture that elusive mix of unguarded lyricism and fuzzy-amped aggression. None of them have done it better than Frog Holler. Tickets are $18 per person. Doors open at 7:30pm and the show opens at 8:30pm.Web Address: http://www.mauchchunkoperahouse.com

We Are the WillowsMark MendevilleRaianne RichardsScott WestHeirloomsDoors open at 7:00 PM Originally from Eau Claire, WI, Michael Miller of We Are the Willows now resides in Minneapolis, MN where he attended college. At the age of 24, Miller has spent the majority of the last six years immersed in the Minneapolis music scene, actively recording and performing in bands throughout his college years. Since graduating, while working his former full-time job as a preschool teacher, Miller has concentrated fully on music. LISTEN After spending much of the last four years touring the eastern United States as part of folk trio The Accident That Led Me To The World, Mark Mandeville and Raianne Richards will embark on their most arduous and impractical tour yet in promotion for their respective solo releases. The two, accompanied by NY singer/songwriter Christopher Bell and his musical companion Jenny Jade Albert, will walk from Becket to Somerville performing each evening along the way. LISTENScott West's acoustic melodies and insightful lyrics are nothing short of entertaining and insightful. This NJ based songwriter carries the same talents as the other acoustic greats that came from the same region. This performance is not one to be missed. LISTENHeirlooms is a new project out of Hartford, CT. Thoughtful and inviting, sometimes dark and brooding, the music of Heirlooms is subtle and sophisticated indie folk. Their music blends traditional Americana songwriting with an experimental veneer that calls to mind the likes of Bon Iver, M. Ward, and Neil Young. Their new EP will be available at the show. LISTEN

Location: Jim Marshall Auditorium Longtime fans of Beth Nielsen Chapman will notice that the black & white portrait on the cover of her new CD, Back To Love, bears a striking resemblance to the artwork on her self-titled 1990 album. Happily, the similarity doesn't end there. Over the course of 11 stunning new compositions, Back To Love brings the acclaimed, Nashville-based singer/songwriter full circle, back to the soul-deep songwriting style that made her famous and provided big hits for herself and covers by an impressive and eclectic group of artists including Faith Hill, Bonnie Raitt, Willie Nelson, Trisha Yearwood, Neil Diamond, Patty Griffin and Emmylou Harris, to name but a few. And while the soaring melodies, bell-clear vocals and heart-penetrating lyrics are reassuringly in place, there's a new depth to the singer and to the songs, reflecting every turn in the tragic-and-triumphant road Nielsen Chapman has traveled. For legions of tried-and-true fans, this new release represents an exuberant return to the style that distinguished some of her best work and produced some of her biggest hits. For newcomers to the magic and the music of Beth Nielsen Chapman, Back To Love is a bright new chapter in her songbook of life’s revelations. "After the rigorous work that went into my last project, Prism, this record felt like something pure, sweet and natural, a feeling like coming home, back into a place that feels deeply familiar. It's been a joyful record to make," Nielsen Chapman says. (2007’s Prism: The Human Family Songbook was a culturally rich double CD sung in nine languages.)And joy permeates the proceedings from the very first notes of "Hallelujah," the album's leadoff track, a collaboration with singer/songwriter/Americana stalwart Darrell Scott that rocks headlong into love's central dilemmas. The same duo delivers "I Can See Me Loving You," the freewheeling romp that follows. With Nielsen Chapman wielding her recently acquired bouzouki and Scott supplying on-the-fly harmonies and lightning swift licks, the playful musical repartee between these two world-class artists is one of the real highlights of Back To Love. "You can hear me laughing, because just before we launched into the song, as it was being counted off, I said, “Darrell, sing the harmony live!” Since we hadn’t rehearsed it, Darrell wasn't sure where exactly I was going with the melody and he just slid all around completely off the top of his head, careening around the corner on the racetrack of the tune," Beth says. "I was just cracking up."Those kinds of unedited, spontaneous musical outbursts lighten up the weightier moments on Back To Love and serve to highlight the poetic potency of her lyrics. Music City iconoclast Danny Flowers, co-writer of "More Than Love," tosses a woozy slide guitar into that song's mix, setting up the dig-down-into-love’s-hard-work-to-its-silver-lining lyric against a sly, hip-shaking groove. Though she wrote six of the album's songs by herself – including two of the album's most powerful songs, "How We Love" and set-closer "The Path Of Love" – Beth has certainly chosen some of the most respected writers to collaborate with on the remaining five tracks. Born in Harlingen, Texas, smack in the middle of a family of five children, to an Air Force Major and a registered nurse, Beth grew up all over the place – a self-described “geographical mutt.” Her family finally settled in Alabama in 1969 when Beth was just going into the ninth grade, moving there from Munich, Germany. Crossing back over the ocean with her came her first guitar, a German made “Framus” that, though intended as a gift for Father’s Day, ended up in her room. Writing songs was immediate for her from the first chords she picked out by ear. “With the Vietnam war blazing, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s death still fresh in the news, and my heart reeling from the shock of a school trip to Dachau (a concentration camp in Munich), the bubble of my childhood’s view of the world burst and I started to sense the existential depth of human suffering for the first time,” she recalls. “Then my Dad came home with the orders that we were moving to Montgomery, Alabama, the hotbed of the civil rights movement! I held onto that guitar for dear life!”Alabama proved to be a place of much richness for Beth. She lived in Montgomery until she married in 1979 and relocated to Mobile, Alabama. Hearing It First, her debut album, was recorded in Muscle Shoals and produced by Barry Beckett. Alas, it was released by Capitol Records in 1980 – in the midst of the disco craze. So Beth took a few years off and gave birth to a son, Ernest Chapman III. In 1985, with the help of music legends Mac MacAnally and Barry Beckett, her young family made the move to Nashville.By 1990, she was writing #1 hits for Tanya Tucker and Willie Nelson and was signed as a pop artist to Warner/Reprise. Her first two albums for the label were critically lauded, sold respectably and spawned eight AC pop hits, earning her a devoted fan base at home and overseas, particularly in the UK, where she has consistently been embraced by the vastly popular BBC Radio 2. In 1993, Nielsen Chapman's world was turned upside down when her husband was diagnosed with cancer. Three years after his death, the singer released a fourth album, 1997’s Sand And Water. The album's title song, a highly moving meditation on life, loss and surviving, took on a life of its own, bringing hope and comfort to countless people struggling with grief. Then, in 2000, just as she was finishing a new record called Deeper Still, incredibly, Nielsen Chapman faced her own battle with breast cancer. Deeper Still, though not released until 2002, after her treatments and recovery, is filled with songs that seemed to foreshadow her diagnosis. "It’s happened so many times in my writing - the songs have preceded the events," she says. "Seventy percent of Sand and Water was written a year and a half before my husband was diagnosed. I often just follow these lyric wisps and shadows until things start to form and take shape. So I can be working on a song with lines that are just coming together and not really know yet what I’m writing it about. It was amazing to me when it happened again with Deeper Still.” A renowned and in-demand songwriting teacher and creative coach, Nielsen Chapman knows more than a little about writer's block and how to deal with it. But when, after eight months of effort, she found herself unable to complete lyrics for some of Back To Love's key songs, her best friend and most frequent co-writer, Annie Roboff (with whom she co-wrote the Faith Hill chart-topper "This Kiss"), sensed that something was very wrong. "I was sitting and waiting, but lyrically, the writing was not happening," she remembers. "It was Annie who said, 'Something is not right.'"One of Back To Love's solo-written songs, "Shadows," that reads as a kind of mirror image of Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now," seemed once again to portend trouble. “I remember telling Annie after finishing ‘Shadows’ how I was thinking ‘Wow, I almost sound like…I don’t know…like I’m under a rock or weighted down by something.’”Doctors subsequently discovered that a fast growing but benign brain tumor was affecting the language center of her brain. After a successful operation, Beth’s creative muse returned in a rush."I woke up the morning after surgery and got the two lines I’d been struggling to figure out for 'How We Love,' just like that,” she says. “It was like my spirit was saying, 'Okay, we're back in business.'“And one of my favorite songs on this collection, a song Annie and I had been working on for several years, “Even As It All Goes By,” just fell into place following my surgery. After countless hours of rewrites and brick walls between me and finishing that lyric….once the pressure was relieved, the creativity rebounded!” she explains. (“Even As It All Goes By” closed out 2009 as BBC Radio 2’s “Record of the Week” and was the only new single added to the “A List” of BBC Radio 2’s playlist at the top of 2010.)"Happiness," one of the centerpieces of Back To Love, also has a history that spans the years. In 2000, during the most difficult time of her chemo treatments for breast cancer, and in the darkest of moods, she started to write this song. "I was totally exhausted from the treatments, so I thought, 'Well, I'm just going to personify happiness. If it walked through the door, what would it look like?’” she says. Nine years later, she scrawled the final lines of “Happiness” on a paper towel in her kitchen, during that creative burst following her surgery.Despite the ups and downs and twists and turns, Nielsen Chapman's spirit is stronger than ever. These days she's happily almost married, and, not surprisingly, her longtime love affair has provided plenty of grist for the creative mill, including two of Back To Love's standout songs, the sublime torch ballad, "I'll Give My Heart" (co-written with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ keyboardist Benmont Tench), and "I Need You Love," which eloquently details the singer's quirks and flaws while celebrating and honoring the man that loves her anyway. "There's this beautiful thing that happens when two people stay together, each one showing up for the other when it most matters," she says. "That is an amazing thing, and I write about it at the same time I’m learning how to dance in the middle of it."Resilient in the face of tragedy, buoyed by hope and healed by the music she's constantly creating, Beth Nielsen Chapman is happier (and healthier!) than ever, and – as Back To Love vividly attests – doing the best work of her life."Having been off on these different musical journeys, I’ve loved this deep dive back into songs about human love and the human heart," she says. "I've always been drawn to songs that are three-minute peepholes into the depth of our being human, the attraction and the tragedies and the thirst for humor and how we grow and learn and recover from it all; to me it all comes back to love Bristol born Martha Tilston is a captivating performer, an enchanting singer-songwriter blessed with a gloriously clear and seductively beautiful voice. Weaving her magic spell over listeners wherever she plays – from the concert hall to the campfire, from folk clubs to main festival stages – she is a rare gem who has the power to draw an audience into her world, leaving all those present with a smile, a warm feeling inside, and a few issues to ponder, too. (Time Out)Martha Tilston Discography:2010 ‘Lucy and the Wolves’ - Squiggly Records through Proper2008 ‘til I Reach the Sea’ – Squiggly Records EP download only2007 ‘Of Milkmaids and Architects’ - Squiggly Records through Proper2006 ‘Ropswing’ – a free downloadable album gently circulating the planet2004 ‘Bimbling’ –Squiggly Records, distributed through Proper2003 ‘Rolling’ -only available to downloadwww.marthatilston.co.uk www.myspace.com/marthatilston

ABOUT TONIGHT'S SHOW Mike of 'War of Words' will be doing a solo/acoustic performance tonight- Chris Warren of VIVA VIVA! J/Q formed by the two other guys from Clouds (Hydra Head), J / Q is a sonic love affair between Johnny Northrup and Michael Quartulli. J / Q is genre free music for the discerning listener. Lets just say we're taking back pop and we're gonna get real weird with it. Mess it up a bit and take off the sheen. You will succumb to bass fuzz. You will remember choruses. You will puke when the kick hits your gut. Your body will move of its own volition and in your heart you will know that shit is real. But, most importantly, you will for some reason continue to read this nonsense and think to yourself, "what are these maniacs up to?" Segway: www.jslashq.com Plug. Cut. End Scene. Applause. Website: http://www.jslashq.com/MP3s: http://www.jslashq.com/, War of Words Experimental Folk Hardcore from Boston, MA- war of words was conceived in 2002 and put to action in july of 2004. war of words first 7" release "a tale of friendship" is available from welfare records. www.welfarerecords.net. the follow up records: "revenge" and "violence/war" and "the tale continues" are available from slab-o-wax records www.slab-o-wax.com. Website: http://www.myspace.com/warofwordsMP3s: http://www.myspace.com/warofwords, Chris Warren Chris Warren has been captivating hearts and minds for years- If you weren't lucky enough to catch him in Officer May- or Dirty Holiday - you can catch him now-a-days with Viva Viva- or at a bar nearby with his wooden guitar and his harmonica. One of the most prolific songwriters i have ever met- influences are the classics: Stones, Kinks, Dylan, Jimbo, Snoop Dogg, Neil Young, John Lennon, the Animals- timeless songs with lyrics that come from the heart are what you want, what you need and what you'll get. -ja Website: http://www.myspace.com/artsexdeathtime/MP3s: http://www.myspace.com/artsexdeathtime, http://www.myspace.com/dirtyholiday, http://www.bandinbostonpodcast.com/tag/chris-warren/,