Award-Winning Songwriter Barbara Kessler To Perform At Second Friday Coffeehouse In Belmont on September 16 at 7:30pm

Barbara Kessler feels most alive when she's on stage performing in front of an audience. "Music has always been the single most powerful way for me to express myself," she says. Her honest, engaging lyrics reflect the human condition, the universal experiences people share but have been socialized not to reveal.

"I want my audience to feel like we're having an intimate conversation in a living room," she says. "An opportunity to connect in a seamless, heartfelt way."

Yet it's her demeanor on stage that really pulls people in -- a combination of playful spontaneity and focused attention to the audience. "A gig for me is a night out for someone; they showed up for the music, and I need to show up for them." Barbara owns the stage with a "dash of insecurity and a big glob of charisma" as someone recently put it.

Barbara has shared the stage with artists including Arlo Guthrie, The Indigo Girls, Shawn Colvin, Richie Havens, David Wilcox, Dar Williams, Livingston Taylor and many others. She has won awards from folk festivals including Kerrville, Telluride, and Rocky Mountain Folks. Her songs have received national airplay, featured on Sirius/XM and Mountain Stage, and many have been placed on TV shows like NCIS, JAG, One Life To Live, Passions, The Young and The Restless, All My Children and MTV.

WHEN
Friday, September 16, 2016
7:30 PM

WHERE
The Second Friday Coffeehouse
First Church in Belmont, Unitarian-Universalist
404 Concord Avenue, Belmont MA 02478

ADMISSION
$12/$8 seniors & students

INFORMATION
617.484.1054
Web: www.uubelmont.org/coffeehouse
Facebook: secondfridaycoffeehouse

SECOND FRIDAY COFFEEHOUSE
The Second Friday Coffeehouse is Greater Boston’s first, all-benefit coffeehouse, currently in its 31st year. Profits benefit a specified group of charities.

THIS MONTH’S FEATURED CHARITY
Unitarian Transylvania Archives Project

CHARITY CONTACT INFORMATION
www.archives.unitarian.ro