Mom & Pop's Folk Fest is our annual benefit concert for United Christian Church. The Folk Fest features many fine performers who donate their time and talents for this worthwhile cause. This year's benefit will be on May 18, 2007. Please come out and support our gracious hosts !
This year's concert will feature the extraordinarily gifted musician and composer Stephen DiJoseph on guitar and keyboard as well as Mom & Pop's favorite Bill Dooley along with harmonica player Bob Harris and more !!
Stephen DiJoseph is a classical-jazz pianist, composer, guitar experimenter, singer-songwriter, hand drummer, and electronic keyboardist with a flair for insightful lyrics, melody and unusual guitar tunings. An award winning artist, DiJoseph received a nomination for Best Composer in the 2000 Philadelphia City Paper Music Awards. His music has been featured on the PRI show "Echoes," syndicated on over 170 radio stations. He has been interviewed on WHYY Philadelphia Public Radio’s Radiotimes with Marty Moss-Coane, as well as Maine Public Radio, Maine Things Considered with Charlotte Renner discussing the effects of Tourette syndrome on his music and creativity.
Bill Dooley has been a perennial favorite in the Philadelphia folk music scene since the 1970s. In addition to his skills on guitar, banjo, and harmonica, he is a warm, engaging singer with “A talent for reaching into his vast repertoire of traditional and vintage songs to pull out an unknown gem.” (City Paper).
Bill is highly regarded for his arrangements of jazz and popular standards for solo guitar as well as Hawaiian “slack-key” guitar. He is an adept songwriter, skilled old-timey musician, and is known for his unique repertoire of songs and tunes “from the hills and Bob Wills to doo-wah-ditty and back to the city.”