Thursday, June 20, 8PM

Forming in 2009, Old Time Machine came together for an art exhibition. In a fort made of cardboard boxes, scrap lumber, thrift store sheets and chicken wire, they were tasked with creating works representing the long, dark Yukon winter nights. The duo work together to blend Ryan McNally’s studies of finger style traditional blues, with Kyle Cashen’s experience crafting ethereal soundscapes to make familiar, but distinctly original music.

Clips and more: oldtimemachine.com

Friday, June 28, 8PM

Owen Davis is originally from Norway, Maine. He has a B.A. in music composition and history, from Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire, where he graduated summa cum laude. He also worked at the college where he operated The Braille Music Project, providing alternatives to written music for visually impaired music students. He has written for a variety of solo instruments and voices as well as for various chamber ensembles, while maintaining a career as a pop songwriter. Owen composed the score for Finders Productions’ 2008 film “Unstable”, as well as the 2010 independently released film “All That’s Left”. He has been a studio musician and arrangement consultant on several other film productions. Owen has served as the cellist and primary arranger for the Tick Tock String Trio since its founding in 2010, and plays a variety of instruments in a number of local folk and rock groups.

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Friday, July 5, 8PM

Cole Sullivan, Michael Howard, and Son House the Second are singer-songwriters and the co-founders of Mare’s Nest Records in Wake, Virginia. They are on a four month North American tour to share their songs and stories and to spread the word about Mare’s Nest and all of the different takes on folk music that it is putting out into the world. Come by to hear some original songwriting, acoustic jams and medleys, and a whole lot of music that you won’t soon forget.

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Saturday, June 29, 8PM

Ben Carroll is a guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, Universal Recording Artist, instrumental artist, teacher and a perpetual student of music. With a successful music career that spans more than a decade, selling more than a half-million albums, starting with Ra as a lead guitarist, two albums of instrumental guitar music, and now his newest project, The Hollow Glow, where he is singing lead vocals for the first time, Ben has had experience on all levels of the music industry. Ben is very busy recording and touring, Ra & The Hollow Glow are both still active, and he also still finds the time to teach on a regular basis & study voice with Jaime Vendera.

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Saturday, July 6, 8PM

Peter’s repertoire ranges from classical tragedy to dirty limerick, and everything in between!  His great love, however, is telling the tales of his native Scotland, with a couple of Irish and Welsh stories thrown in.

In Scotland we have the saying when we gather together, ‘Tell us a story, sing us a sang, show us your bum, or oot ye gang!’  Peter usually falls into the first two modes of entertainment, however the 8 years old and under crowd might not get as much from the evening as the older ones.

Bio:

During his colourful career, Peter has been a barman, a psychiatric nurse, and a goat-herder in Corsica. For the past twenty years he has been teaching English and Drama at the Edinburgh Rudolf Steiner school.

Peter has told stories in barns, round campfires, in schools, assisted living homes, buses, and all sorts of venues across Britain, France, and the States. He has also appeared as guest storyteller at Edinburgh’s Guid Crack Club.

Friday, August 2, 8PM

Tuba, Sax, Trumpet and Drumset quartet Noel Brennan makes a stop at Dobra Tea! Playing at the Deer Isle Jazz Festival, Noel Brennan has played in New York and has performed with jazz legends such as John Scofield, Brian Lynch, Andy Milne, and Dave Pietro. These performance were at such venues as, The Blue Note, The Tea Lounge, The Jazz Gallery, Tomi Jazz, and many others.

You can listen to clips and read more at: www.noelbrennanmusic.com