Join us on the first Tuesday of the month for a special closed session of local and touring musicians.
This month features:
Rose Clancy + Max Cohen
PLUS the usual suspects: Aubrey Atwater and Elwood Donnelly, Armand Aromin, Benedict Gagliardi
+ Flannery Brown.
FREE. Tips for the players greatly appreciated.
An accomplished guitar player, Max Cohen has been playing and writing for the guitar for more than thirty years. His musicianship has drawn accolades from critics and fans alike. As an accompanist, Max is always looking for something to engage the listener – a clever twist, an unusual chord or a poignant harmony. As a performer, his attention to detail is what truly distinguishes him, as his playing is characterized by technical precision and exquisite tone. Max has played and toured all over the US and Canada. but currently he is living on Cape Cod where he is involved with the local traditional music scene. These days Cohen is accompanying the likes of fiddler Rose Clancy, as well as Franco American fiddler Donna Hebert. Max is also the regular accompanist of renowned folk singer Priscilla Herdman and he plays with the Martha’s Vineyard based group The Misfits of Avalon.
Rose Clancy was born in New York into a musical family hailing from County Armagh, Ireland, an area immersed in Traditional Irish Music. Her musical career began at an early age performing with her family’s musical group, The Clancy Tradition. Rose learned Traditional Music from her Father, Eugene Clancy of the Irish Ramblers, and by sitting in with the band at “ceilidh’s (Irish dances) with great traditional musicians such as Felix Dolan, Brian Conway and Mike Melanophy.
Rose performs throughout the Northeast and has performed at Gaelic Roots, Boston College, at the South Shore Conservatory Roots and Branches with Robbie O’Connell and at The Burren Backroom with Jacqueline Schwab. She has released several CD’s with The Clancy Tradition and has released her first solo CD with pianist Brendan Dolan featuring the music of Ireland, Cape Breton and Scotland.