Clint Alphin and Kirsten Maxwell
Hard Luck Cafe
Thursday, September 20 at 7:30pm
The SKY ROOM CAFE will be closing at 5 PM the day of this event.
Clint Alphin, a Nashville-based singer-songwriter,
shares a concert bill with Huntington’s own Kirsten Maxwell when the
monthly Hard Luck Café series resumes at the Cinema Arts Centre (423
Park Avenue, Huntington) on Thursday, Sept. 20. The 8:30 p.m. concert in
the Cinema’s Sky Room will be preceded by an open mic at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets are $15 ($10 for Cinema Arts Centre and Folk Music Society of
Huntington members) at the door.
Clint Alphin won the 2017 Telluride Troubadour Competition, a
nationally recognized performing songwriter competition, and had the
opportunity to perform a short set on the main stage during the annual
Telluride Bluegrass Festival, a roots-oriented music festival set amid
Colorado’s rugged San Juan Mountains. Alphin, who moved to Nashville in
2003, hails from North Carolina and cites James Taylor, a fellow Tar
Heel State native, as a major influence. Previously a Telluride
Troubadour finalist in 2013 and 2015, Alphin also was a finalist in the
2015 Chris Austin Songwriting Contest and in the 2015 Grassy Hill
Kerrville New Folk Competition. His vocal and musical chops were on
display during last year’s Huntington Folk Festival and in the Emerging
Artist Showcase at the 2017 Falcon Ridge Folk Festival. More information
on him may be found online at www.clintalphin.com.
No stranger to Long Island audiences, Kirsten Maxwell
is a multi-faceted young artist who has drawn comparisons to such
timeless singers as Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell and Judy Collins. Her vocal
range and ability allow her to move seamlessly between genres,
broadening the scope of her performances. A prolific songwriter, she has
been steadily winning awards, drawing accolades, and building her fan
base. An audience-voted Most Wanted to Return artists following the
Grassy Hill Emerging Artist Showcase at the 2016 Falcon Ridge Folk
Festival, Maxwell also was a winner of the South Florida Folk Festival
Singer-Songwriter Competition that year and took first place in a
contest sponsored by the Rhode Island Songwriters Association (RISA) in
2015. She also has earned juried official showcases at Northeast,
Southeast and Southwest Regional Folk Alliance conferences and was part
of NERFA Presents Young Folk showcases at the famed Mariposa and
Philadelphia Folk Festivals. (www.kirstenmaxwell.com)
