The public arrives early at Palmer's Sugar House for this gig...we will be singing songs from Of Spirit and Friends and a plethora of guitar and violin loops from my instrumental albums.
Tim Jennings has started yet another concert series of old time and folk music. His first foray into this was the mid-70’s when he started a legendary series in a cafe in Cambridge, VT. This is my first gig at this popular cafe with great food. Solo, with guitar and loopers and vocals.
Solo Guitar & Violin - with loops, overdubs and songs from Spencer’s own pen as well as the unheralded and obscure singer-songwriters of the 60’s and 70’s.
Guitar & Violin loops, folk and folkthatrocks.
Solo Guitar & Violin - with loops, overdubs and songs from Spencer’s own music as well as the unheralded and obscure singer-songwriters of the 60’s and 70’s. Special dinner menu for the holiday
Second time playing in Middlebury in quite awhile. Intimate room, great vibes, comfort food.
Guitar & Violin loops, folk and folkthatrocks.
Eric Graham on bass, Pappy Biondo on guitar and banjo, Spencer Lewis on guitar, vocals, fiddle/violin + a drummer and additional electric guitar! Gonna be some intense folk-rock, Americana, funk, bluegrass, and inventive , inspired music with no genre or name.
Lewis’ introspective, old-time, grass-tinged songs are driven by his inimitable cross-flat-picking guitar style and Biondo’s epic banjo riffs, which weave and climb in a swirl of melodic tonal modality. Biondo’s guitar and vocals are accompanied by Lewis’ fiddle and violin as they re-interpret traditional roots music in their own freewheelin’ style while EG Bishop plays the fretless electric bass adding another dimension with fearless creativity. A melting pot of Americana and folkthatrocks.
They will be performing music to celebrate the release of Lewis’ latest album, “Of Spirit & Friends,” a collection of ballads commemorating those close to him who have passed and backwoods anthems of life close to the land.
Lewis founded his Quartz Recordings label in 1983. He has performed his music nationally and across the state of Vermont where he has lived and worked for 51 years. As a writer, producer, and recording artist with over 120,000 units sold and 100K+ streams per year, he combines his best-selling instrumental series with the singer-songwriter work that started his career.
Pappy Biondo was a founding member of the Northeast PA (NEPA) based jam-grass band Cabinet, headlining festivals like Delfest and Grayfox. He now lives in Hinesburg with his family and graces many Vermont stages with a plethora of different artists including his own band Hobo.
Solo Guitar & Violin - with loops, overdubs and songs from Spencer’s own pen as well as the unheralded and obscure singer-songwriters of the 60’s and 70’s.
Playing 2 sets a day at 12:00 PM and 3PM - 2:45 on Sunday. I will have my newest CD Cairns and one my listening stations as in days of old - as this is a musical performance but surrounded by all the great artisans I was always around when I sold my music at craft fairs for so many years.
Pappy Biondo & Spencer Lewis - Banjo, guitar, fiddle - playin’ Everything
Every Friday outside under the big tents at Madbush Falls from 5-8!
Birria Tacos - Live Music - Birria Tacos - S'Mores by the fire - $25 Saunas
It doesn’t get more intimate. A small space, limited tables and seating, great food, specials, and a regular menu. Most importantly: an early gig! 5PM.
Spencer Lewis is a purveyor of reflective instrumental folk grooves and a folksinger-songwriter who writes original ballads and anthems that are transcended from old time and folk rock sensibilities, filled with spiritual optimism, confessional intimacy and introspection. Joining him is bassist Eric Graham who uses both fretless and fretted electric bass and adds another dimension to Lewis’ instrumentals and impromptu passages with his fearless creativity.
Playing a 15 minute set with Pappy Biondo, EG BIshop and a host of other musicians.
A benefit concert to help raise funds to rebuild Rudi and Lisa's home after a devastating fire on 11/28/2024.
Some of Rudi's closest friends and musical comrades join together for an evening of songs, community and sharing in the joy that playing music together can bring.
Suggested donation $15-20 at the door, but anything helps. All proceeds will go directly to Rudi and Lisa.
Spencer’s guitar & violin, folk, americana, and folkthatocks. A vast repertoire of his original music and songs from the singer-songwriters who defined the genre in the 60’s and 70’s.
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It doesn’t get more intimate. A small space, limited tables and seating, great food, specials, and a regular menu. Most importantly: an early gig! 5PM.
Spencer Lewis is a purveyor of reflective instrumental folk grooves and a folksinger-songwriter who writes original ballads and anthems that are transcended from old time and folk rock sensibilities, filled with spiritual optimism, confessional intimacy and introspection. Joining him is bassist Eric Graham who uses both fretless and fretted electric bass and adds another dimension to Lewis’ instrumentals and impromptu passages with his fearless creativity.
Spencer performs his "music that paint's the rural landscape and his own folk that rocks with bassist Eric Graham.Spencer Lewis is a purveyor of reflective instrumental folk grooves and a folksinger-songwriter who writes original ballads and anthems that are transcended from old time and folk rock sensibilities, filled with spiritual optimism, confessional intimacy and introspection. Joining him is bassist Eric Graham who uses both fretless and fretted electric bass and adds another dimension to Lewis’ instrumentals and impromptu passages with his fearless creativity.
It doesn’t get more intimate. A small space, limited tables and seating, great food, specials, and a regular menu. Most importantly: an early gig! 5PM.
Full guitar / violin looping set up, with ballads of depth and positivity.
An hour set of violin/guitar and singer-songwriter material amidst the chaos of the Underhill Harvest Market that I first did in 1990 - selling my cassettes.
Spencer’s guitar & violin, folk, americana, and folkthatocks. A vast repertoire of original music and songs from the singer-songwriters who defined the genre in the 60’s and 70’s. With Eric Graham (haywire) on bass and Pappy (Cabinet) on guitar and banjo.
A concert to honor and benefit good friend and singer-songwriter Mark LeGrand. I am the opening act at 4:00 PM.
An open house meditational concert offering with solo guitar and violin in the sacred space of Grafton’s Brick Meeting House (1834).
Spencer will be reprising songs from his Calling in the Winter album which includes traditional Christmas songs and originals w/ holiday themes like Weaving World Peace and the title track Calling in the Winter. A number of longtime fans have said it’s their favorite SL album that they play all year round.
Here’s a link to Christmas in Grafton.
He’ll play 3 sets from 1-4.
Lewis’ signature sound combines the precision of the acoustic guitar with the sustained elegance of the violin. He performs on stage by the live-looping of guitar and violin overdubs, allowing him to move in unpredictable directions, often spontaneously, to reprise or eclipse the music from his internationally known 21 album catalog that amasses over 100,000 digital streams a year. As a folk-singer-songwriter, he writes original ballads and anthems that are transcended from old time and folk rock sensibilities, filled with spiritual optimism and confessional intimacy and introspection.
The concert is also designed as a meditational experience, to absorb the quietude of his music, along with songs of those he has honored in song.
Reprising the successful series of 4 solo guitarists on one bill, Spencer will perform his 1/2 hour set with 4 of his own guitars to illustrate the many styles and directions his music takes him. He’ll perform pieces designed to highlight his inimitable cross-flatpicking style, his finger-picking with and without steel finger-picks, open-tunings and the improvisational pieces that are the foundation of his 22 official instrumental album releases on his Quartz Recordings and Woodstone Mountain labels.
Spencer Lewis & Chas Eller performing 2 sets at 1:00 & 3:00.
The duo of Spencer Lewis and Chas Eller merges the steel-stringed acoustic guitar and violin with piano and Hammond B-3 organ. It reprises some of Lewis's most well-known work from his prolific series of instrumental music, including “The Silence Between the Words,” picked by Seven Days as “One of the top 20 CDs of 1998.” Their collaboration continues with Lewis’ vast singer-songwriter catalog of original and vintage folk-rock from the artists who defined the genre. Chas Eller is a session musician and keyboardist from the legendary bands Kilimanjaro and the beloved Unknown Blues Band. Their blend delivers passionate singer-songwriter material with soulful musical mediations resulting in an uplifting, serene, and poignant soundscape.
The New Old Vermonters perform original Americana, folkthatrocks, and fiddle tunes.
Harmonies abound with Spencer on guitar, violin, fiddle; Justin Park on mandolin, guitar upright bass; Mark Burds on guitar, mandolin, upright bass.Spencer’’ ballads and anthems are sung alongside traditional and home-made fiddle tunes with Mark and Justin adding a few of their own.
Feast & Field is a weekly celebration of music, food and community held in the Fable Farm Orchard in Barnard, Vermont - every Thursday - from late May thru September. The Feast & Field Music Series is run by BarnArts and the Feast & Field farmers provide locally sourced food and drink, much of which is harvested and produced right in Barnard.
The duo of Spencer Lewis and Chas Eller merges the steel-stringed acoustic guitar and violin with piano and Hammond B-3 organ. It reprises some of Lewis's most well-known work from his prolific series of instrumental music, including “The Silence Between the Words,” picked by Seven Days as “One of the top 20 CDs of 1998.” Their collaboration continues with Lewis’ vast singer-songwriter catalog of original and vintage folk-rock from the artists who defined the genre. Chas Eller is a session musician and keyboardist from the legendary bands Kilimanjaro and the beloved Unknown Blues Band. Their blend delivers passionate singer-songwriter material with soulful musical mediations resulting in an uplifting, serene, and poignant soundscape.
The New Old Vermonters are Spencer Lewis, guitars, violin/ fiddle, vocals with Justin Park on mandolin, guitar and vocals. The duo expands on Spencer’s trademark Americana / folk chamber music with detailed prescision, inspired improvisations and a few raucous fiddle tunes. They add potent harmonies to Lewis’ compelling old time / folk rock originals and a vast repetoire from the singer-songwriters of the 60’s and 70’s who defined the genre.
The New Old Vermonters perform original Americana, folkthatrocks, and fiddle tunes.
Spencer Lewis’ old timey ballads and anthems are sung alongside raucous, home-made fiddle tunes. Add the fabled cannon of lost songs from Jared Barkan, Spencer’s songwriting buddy from the 70’s. Harmonies abound with Spencer on guitar, violin, fiddle; Justin Park on mandolin, guitar; Mark Burds on guitar, banjo and slide guitar. There are always a few surprises with instrumental jams and some nuggets from a repertoire featuring the unheralded and obscure.
Spencer performs his signature Americana folk grooves by live-looping the guitar and violin, to mirror or eclipse the music from his internationally known 26 album catalog. Also a singer-songwriter and fiddler, his original ballads and anthems that are transcended from old time and folk rock sensibilities, filled with spiritual optimism and confessional introspection.
Make Music Day around Vermont finds me playing an eclectic set at the Bethel Band Shell.
Solo Concert at Chandler Music Hall inside the big hall, streaming live or in-person.
