Hard Luck Café
KALA FARNHAM &
LARA HERSCOVITCH
Wednesday, March 15th
at 7:00 PM
Members $15 | Public
$20
Singer-Songwriters Kala Farnham and Lara
Herscovitch will share the bill during the monthly Hard Luck Café
series co-presented by the Folk Music Society of Huntington and the Cinema
Arts Centre (423 Park Avenue, Huntington) in the Cinema’s Sky Room
on Wednesday, March 15th, from 7-10 p.m.
Farnham is the current official Connecticut State Troubadour, while Herscovitch
is a previous CT State Troubadour. An open mic precedes the concert.
Tickets are $20 ($15 for Cinema Arts Centre/FMSH members)
and can be purchased online or at the Cinema Arts Centre box office now
through the evening of the event.
Armed with a voice and an entourage of instruments,
songstress Kala Farnham (https://www.kalafarnham.com/)
set out into the world with one vision: To inspire through the transformative
power of musical storytelling. Farnham has garnered numerous awards and
recognition, including serving as the current Connecticut State Troubadour,
2020 Falcon Ridge Festival Emerging Artist, 2020 Great American Song Contest
Finalist, and 2019 Rose Garden Performing Songwriter Contest winner. Farnham’s
2020 album, Your Spirit Is a Work of Art, is composed of thirteen
musical vignettes exploring the imperfect beauty of the human condition; it has
been described by Nick Noble of The Folk Revival as “a work of
poetic insight… worth listening to again and again.” Drawing from a classical
education and professional career in musical theater, Kala presents a hallmark
reinvention of the folk tradition: her lush musical arrangements, compelling
vulnerability, and vivid storytelling draws her audience into imaginative
vantagescapes of the familiar world.
Lara Herscovitch (https://laraherscovitch.com/) is a
singer-songwriter-poet-performer-author gem. As described in The Boston
Globe, she brings “a luminous voice and a buoyant stage
presence…big-hearted lyrics embrace the sum of life…Herscovitch’s music blows
on the embers of a lagging spirit or a dormant creative life.” Lara leads with
authenticity, integrity, humor and heart. Sound Waves Magazine described
her music as “expertly written prose…songwriting at its best…good for your ears
AND your soul.” Acoustic Live in New York City added, “She
possesses not only a huge reservoir of musical talent and a voice with a
bell-like clarity, but a keen sense of global concern and a fierce intellect…It
might seem too good to be true, but true it is.”