Michele Choiniere Plays Buell Hall, East Gallery, Columbia University

The Folk Music Society of NY, Inc. and Columbia University's Maison Française will present Michele Choiniere, an award-winning Smithsonian Folkways recording artist, with a radiant, compelling voice. Her music and artistry capture a delicate sensibility, overlaying a raw authenticity. Her concerts transport audiences to another time of wistful cafe-cabaret culture, with riveting rhythmic melodies or a wistful lament, which stay with you long after the concert has ended.

Ms Choiniere will be accompanied by three highly regarded musicians: David Gusakov has a lifetime career as a violinist that ranges from classical to hard driving Bluegrass. Will Patton, mandolinist and all around string wizard, is also well known for his fine bass playing. Dono Schabner has played guitar professionally since his youth in styles ranging from R & B to Italian, to swing.

Ms Choiniere was born into a musical Franco-American family in northern Vermont, and performed traditional Franco-American music with her father. She began writing and composing her own songs and has performed throughout New England, Quebec and France. Writing and singing in both English and French, Michele powerfully expresses her cultural identity as a bilingual Franco-American from the New England borderlands. Her repertory and vocal style are as eclectic as they are evocative: jaunty French cabaret songs rub elbows with contemplative ballads and pop-tinged lyrical folk melodies. Ms Choiniere has performed on television and has recorded an archival collection of Franco-American music with her father in addition to two solo albums

Join the Folk Music Society of NY, Inc. and Maison Française 7:30pm, Friday, November 11th at Columbia University's Buell Hall in the East Gallery. Enter the campus at 116th Street and Broadway, New York, NY. General admission is $15; members of the Folk Music Society are $12; children and non-Columbia students under 23 are $6. Columbia University students & faculty and members of the Societe des Amis de la Maison Francais are admitted free. Tickets are available at the door or online at www.choiniere.eventbrite.com. Information: www.folkmusicny.org; or 212-957-8386.

The Folk Music Society of New York, Inc. / New York Pinewoods Folk Music Club, an all volunteer organization, encourages participation in traditional music by running events that are so much fun that no one can resist joining in. For more information on the web, go to www.folkmusicny.org

The Folk Music Society of New York, Inc. / New York Pinewoods Folk Music Club is a non-profit 501(c)(3) educational corporation, an affiliate of the Country Dance and Song Society of America, and a member of the Folk Alliance. It is run by a volunteer Board of Directors, elected by the membership. It runs concerts, weekends, classes, singing parties, and get-togethers, all with an emphasis on traditional folk music of all flavors. Office: 444 West 54th St, #7, New York NY 10019; (718) 672-6399