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JOIN ARTISTS WITHOUT WALLS, SATURDAY at SWIFT in NYC

What’s an Artists Without Walls gathering like? Is a picture worth a thousand words? This photo was taken at the Ed Romanoff’s performance at Rockwood Music Hall this past Tuesday night. A great evening of music, fun and laughter. Who can’t use a few hours of that?

 

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Well, Saturday, beginning at 4:30, AWoW will be convening at NYC’s Swift Hibernian Lounge located at 34 East 4th St., between Bowery and Lafayette.  All are welcome. If you’d like to bring an instrument–guitar, fiddle, accordion, bodhran, kamancheh, whistle whatever–or if you’d like to sing a song, recite a poem, or try something new go ahead, we encourage it. Maybe a collaboration between a musician and singer, or a storyteller or a poet might be fun. It’s all meant to be very informal. And, if you have a friend, musician or otherwise, who’d like to join us, bring them along.

 

We hope to see you then. 

 

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AMAZING PERFORMANCE: "AINT I A WOMAN" HONOR FINNEGAN at an AWoW SHOWCASE

 

 

Artists Without Walls’ member Honor Finnegan, a recent winner of the New Folk Song Songwriting Contest at the Kerrville Folk Festival, has been making a splash in the Northeastern regional folk scene with her original songs and ukulele playing. Combining elements of musical theatre, comedy, traditional folk, and poetry, Honor is “cooler than the other side of the pillow.”

 

Honor Finnegan was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago and learned to appreciate a variety of people and music living in a mostly African American neighborhood and sitting in the back seat of her single mother’s car listening to the radio for long periods of time. When Honor was eleven her dream of being an actress came true when she was cast in the first National Tour of “Annie”. 

 

Honor is a regular attendee at the late, great Jack Hardy’s songwriter’s exchange, which has nurtured the talents of Suzanne Vega, and Shawn Colvin to name but a few.  Honor recently performed this incredible version of  Hardy’s “Aint I A Woman” at an AWoW Showcase at NYC’s Cell Theater. 

 

For more information about Artist Without Walls contact info@artistswithout walls.com

 

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