UniTunes CoffeeHouse…

• Is a series of concerts featuring both emerging and established singer/songwriters performing original music ranging in style from folk to world.
• Offers great music in a smoke-free venue with spectacular acoustics!
• Is located right here in the Gathering Place and Sanctuary of Emerson Church.
• Is a non-profit organization run entirely by volunteers.
• Benefits the performers and local charities and service organizations.
• Uses donations received for refreshments as its sole source of operating funds.
• Has its own website at www.UniTunes.org

For most concerts in the 2007–2008 season, tickets at the door are $15 for adults. It’s mostly a couples night, but feel free to bring the kids and friends along too. Season passes are $90 for all eight concerts. Over the entire season, you save $34 over the cost of buying all of your tickets at the door! Purchasing season passes also helps support the UniTunes Coffeehouse by providing the funds that attract quality performers, plus you receive a discounted rate to any special out-of-season shows. Contact: Beth Hill.

Saturday, May 3, 2008 at 7:30pm, Sara Hickman will grace the Unitunes stage. Those of you who missed Sara’s show last season truly missed an event. This well-known Austin-based singer-songwriter, mother, activist and speaker provides a truly electrifying performance, full of not only skill and musical talent, but incredible positive energy, audience engagement, great tales and messages, and incredible charisma.

Opening for Sara will be the lively group Across the Water. True to their name, Across The Water’s all-acoustic repertoire comes from both sides of the Atlantic – just like the players. Steve Goodchild hails from the north of England, and Bob Lahmeyer and Paul Cooper are natives, respectively, of Missouri and Texas. All three play guitar. Bob can pick a bluegrass banjo on one number, and then turn a deft hand to the bass on the next one. Paul plays mandolin, bouzoukis and octave mandolins. Steve might tote a mandolin, mandola, a cittern or even the mandocello he calls “Bloodaxe”. Add three capable voices into the instrumental mix and you have all the ingredients for a veritable smorgasbord of new and traditional music from their respective countries and regions.

Each has a web site with more information: www.sarahickman.com and www.acrossthewatermusic.com.