Spencer Lewis, Acoustic Guitar Instrumentalist / Violinist/Fiddler/Recording Artist and folksinger-songwriter will be performing at the North Branch Concert Series on July, 16 from 7:00 - 9:00 at the Waterville Town Hall. He will be joined by a few special guests.
$5 BYOB or bring a picnic or both . 100% family show
Lewis possesses a signature sound that combines his inimitable cross-flat picking acoustic guitar style with the sustained elegance of the violin. In live performance, he loops his guitar parts and overdubs the violin and the guitar to recreate the music from his popular 22 CD catalog of instrumental music.
As an original folksinger-songwriter he alternates between the confessional and spiritual while also drawing from a vast repertoire of old-time, folk-rock, and the obscure and unheralded singer-songwriters from the '60's and '70's. To sum it up: Lewis is equally at home flat-picking a Woody Guthrie song as he is playing his ambient solo instrumental guitar song poems.
Lewis is performing to support his 23 all -instrumental release “A New Path” as well as the all-digital singer-songwriter album “Inner Songs for an Outer World”.
Lewis will also include a ‘songscape’ reading from his book Cabin Songs: Searching Woody Guthrie's America and Finding Home in Vermont. It’s a coming of age story complete with tales from the open road, sugaring, draft horses, old Vermonters, homesteading and the drug culture of the 70’s. The story takes place predominately in the Waterville/Belvidere area.
“A fiddler in the old time tradition, Lewis' 1997 release Lighter Than Fancy "reveals Spencer to be an inventive, serendipitous writer of old-time fiddle tunes with melodies that are as timeless as any they emulate." - Pamela Poston, Seven Days.
Dan Bolles of Vermont’s Seven Days wrote last year:
“On his 22nd album, prolific local composer and multi-instrumentalist Spencer Lewis attempts to synthesize the impact and aftermath of the storm (Irene) through a suite of eight impressionistic folk instrumentals titled Vermont Resurrection. “