Sept. 17 - Saturday - John Flynn with Annie Patterson, opening

John Flynn:

Singer-songwriter John Flynn draws from a significant body of work, ranging from his early country offerings to story songs, love songs, songs for kids, funny songs, songs of social justice and meditations on loss, tolerance, faith and hope.

The 54 year-old former Nashville staff songwriter and father of four spurned touring when his children were young, but as the kids grew older superlatives began to welcome their dad's arrival to the national folk stage. In 2005, Arlo Guthrie invited John on the historic "Train to New Orleans" tour following Hurricane Katrina. And Kris Kristofferson recited the lyrics to John’s song “Without You with Me” at Stephen Bruton's funeral. Ramblin' Jack Elliott himself has called Flynn the undiscovered “John Lennon of the plasma generation"!

John resides in the Brandywine area of Northern Delaware with his wife Beth, his kids, and his running partner, Chief, the world's most exuberant Frisbee-catching German shepherd. He has a new CD coming out this fall called "The End of the Beginning". The title cut is a duet with Kris Kristofferson.

A philosopher with a guitar. -acousticmusic.com

To find anyone with word skills comparable to Flynn, you would do better looking in the literary community than in songwriting circles. Simply put, John Flynn is a master of imagery, rhyme and emotion. -Songwriters Monthly

Annie Patterson:

Annie is a music educator and professional singer. She has performed as a singer-songwriter at coffeehouses, clubs and folk festivals. She has been a jazz vocalist and performed for twenty years with the swing bands "Big Nite Out" and Girls from Mars, performing widely at folk festivals, swing dances, swing camps, weddings and clubs through out the Northeast and is on three swing recordings by these bands. She currently substitutes as a vocalist with the Northampton based swing band, The O-Tones.

Together with her husband, Peter Blood, she has create a completely unique song collection entitled Rise Up Singing. Their book contains a wonderful mix of 1200 songs from Beatles to Broadway, from spirituals to carols, and from kids songs to songs of peace and justice. Annie is producer and chief vocalist for the series of teaching recordings that accompany the songbook. She plays the acoustic guitar, old-timey banjo, the djimbe and mandolin. www.quakersong.org/annie_and_peter