Anything Goes to Play in West Brookfield

Past event
Aug 26, 2018, 4 to 6 PM

On Sunday, August 26 at 4 P.M., the musical duo Anything Goes will perform at the West Brookfield Meetinghouse, taking concert-goers on a trip through musical Americana, from New York's Tin Pan Alley to Beale Street in Memphis. This duo is composed of well-known Montpelier-based musicians Mark Greenberg and Ben Koening, who have been involved with American music since the folk revival of the early 1960s.

Mark Greenberg plays guitar, banjo, and mandolin. He was a founder of the Philadelphia Folk Workshop and has performed at major bluegrass and folk festivals and at Lincoln Center. He was a member of Bob Yellin & the Joint Chiefs of Bluegrass and Dave Van Ronk's Paleolithica Pro-Musica Jug Band, among other bands. Greenberg has also produced recordings for Pete Seeger, Doc Watson, and other well-known artists.

Ben Koenig brings four decades of musical experience in New York and Vermont to Anything Goes. Adept at arranging jazz and popular songs for fingerpicked guitar, he also performs a wide range of American folk songs and original compositions. Koenig has appeared in the New York Folk Festival at Carnegie Hall and has had songs published by Screen Gems/Columbia Pictures.

Suggested donation for the concert is $12; children 12 and under are free. The concert is a fundraiser to benefit restoration projects at the Meetinghouse. Refreshments will be served.

The West Brookfield Meetinghouse is located on the West Brookfield Road/Steele Hill Road off Route 12, 8 miles north of Randolph/10 miles south of Northfield. The event is hosted by the West Brookfield Village Trust. For further information, please call (802) 728-5320.

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