New to the Camden Library Coffeehouse, the Ale House String Band has just the right mix of instruments, voices, and selections of traditional songs brought to Ale House life to satisfy the Coffeehouse crowd. The Ale House String Band features April Reed-Cox on cello, vocals, and foot stomping; Oren Robinson on guitar, vocals, and occasional percussion; and Brian Dunn on mandolin, vocals, foot stomping, and bad jokes. The Coffeehouse is at 7:00 pm on Thursday, October 3. Admission is only $7.
The Ale House String Band has recently finished their debut release, “Affairs of Common Living,” a collection of songs from the ancient past, which they will bring to the Coffeehouse. They offer songs of love, loss, and lasciviousness; songs of sinners and saints, virtues and vices, piety and poverty.
Oren Robinson is a classically trained vocalist who has a folkie soul. His main instrument is guitar, but occasionally he’ll pull an odd one out of his collection for the fun of it. Oren has opened for artists such as The Mad Tea Party and Tree by Leaf. For the past eight years he has been the musical director of the Early Evening Show in Buckfield, Maine. Oren is the music teacher at Palermo and Windsor Elementary schools. He is currently scoring a film for Boodog Films, and is working on restoring a Hungarian dulcimer.
April Reed-Cox has been playing cello for a quarter century. Her primary genre has been classical, and she holds a Masters degree in Music Performance. Since moving to Maine three years ago she has been playing folk, rock, Irish/Celtic, fiddling, and everything else in between. She has competed throughout the country, and travels the east coast performing in various symphonies along the way. She teaches private lessons at Bay Chamber Community Music School and Woodsound Studio, and is assisting with Oren’s film scoring project. One of her many hobbies is spinning and dyeing wool to fulfill her knitting needs.
Brian Dunn is the group’s mandolin player. Though he plays guitar, mandolin, banjo, and possibly many more instruments, he insists on playing the one that is never in tune! He describes himself as a reformed shanty singer, though the process is obviously incomplete. Brian is a mandolin maker in his spare time, and regularly performs on instruments that he has created. Brian is the epitome of the unhindered spirit, and it shows in his playing, in his jokes, and the amount of time and money he dumps into his sailboat
The Ale House String Band was a happy accident caused by the artistic whirlpool that is Waldoboro. Oren is a classically trained vocalist, Brian is a wandering soul who picked up music along the way, and April has a Masters degree in Music Performance. The three have an uncanny ability to improvise music on the spot and occasionally offend random Baptists.
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