COYLE — Folk-Americana songwriters Kelly Brightwell and Michael Henchman of Portland, Ore., will bring their music to the Laurel B. Johnson Community Center for another Concerts in the Woods series show this Saturday night, and listeners of all ages are invited.
Admission is by donation to the 7:30 p.m. show and, as is traditional, host Norm Johnson will bring out coffee and cookies at intermission.
Brightwell’s latest album is “Hearts and Home,” recorded with Rob Stroup at Portland’s 8 Ball Studio.
With their rootsy, country-Western backdrop, her songs are “literary, meditative, and explore parallels between our lives and nature,” Stroup said.
“She sings with the smoothness of Sarah McLachlan,” he added, “but with a bit more Americana grit and charm.”
Henchman, for his part, draws inspiration from the less-traveled roads that have beckoned to him since he was a boy.
He lived in central Alaska for many years, and is still fascinated with far horizons, tales of rebirth and slipping past the boundaries.
To find out more about these two artists, visit www.kellybrightwell.com and www.michaelhenchman.com.
To get directions to the Laurel B. Johnson Community Center, 923 Hazel Point Road, see www.coyleconcerts.com or phone Norm Johnson at 360-765-3449.
