Schedule of Events

NOVEMBER 9, 2025

PERFORMANCES  6:40 - 9:00 PM

CHANTERELLE MANDOLIN ENSEMBLE

This ensemble is Hillary and Rick Wagner, Mike Tappan, and John Lavarnway who were part of Hillary's large group, Centerville Mandolin Ensemble. When we were choosing a name we were determined to keep the excellent logo made for us by artist Tammy Rigsby!  We play a wide variety of music. We particularly like the way Renaissance music fits our sound!

DAVE SANDERS

Folk singer who plays guitar with a unique finger and capo style. Dave’s songs range from 1930 to the 1970’s with a couple pieces from the 1600’s, each performed with his own unique treatment.

DALE FARMER & SUSAN PEPPER

Dale Farmer, songwriter, filmmaker, and the creative force behind the acclaimed film The Mountain Minor, whose work preserves and celebrates Appalachian culture through both music and story. Susan Pepper is a performer, songwriter and teaching artist who offers classes in traditional song, folklore and music. She delights in helping others with their own musicality and voice through songs that have been handed through generations.

BEFORE THE LEO

5:00 PM Songwriters Collaborative

Come and share your songs with other songwriters for encouragement and friendly critiques.

5:00 PM Song Circle Jam
Anyone can bring songs to lead in the circle while others provide backup and harmony.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2025

6:00 PM ALL EVENING OPEN MIC

Sign up at 5:30 PM to perform 1 -2 songs. 8 minute limit.
Sound system will be set up.

BEFORE THE LEO

5:15 PM  GUITAR ROUNDTABLE Workshop Mike Helm leads this forum for players of any skill level to exchange ideas so we can all make better music together. Bring a question, share a tip. Learn a new lick or chord. Gain a new perspective, share your own with us. Enrich your guitar experience.

5:00 PM  Song Circle Jam

Anyone can bring songs to lead in the circle while others provide backup and harmony.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2025

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PERFORMANCES  6:40 - 9:00 PM

EVENING OF CLASSICAL/FOLK/ALT ROCK GUITAR JOINED BY

CELLIST MICHAEL RONSTADT

Michael has appeared on more than 200 albums in the last 20 years and traversed a wide range of musical styles from singer-songwriter, folk, jazz, classical, Americana to new age.

DONALD BROERMAN            https://donaldbroerman.com/bio

His compositions have been heard in concert at The Cincinnati Guitar Society, Dayton Guitar Fest, CCM’s Something Different, Classical Revolution and house concerts around the country. His original classical and classical crossover compositions have reached listeners in 73 countries and 5 continents.

RICHARD GOERING              Facebook: Richard Goering

In his 40+ year career as classical guitar and fingerstyle soloist with orchestras and chamber music groups, and with classical and popular vocalists in the US, Spain, and Italy, he performs a broad repertoire embracing many genres: Latin, Classical, jazz, popular, and standards.  Kentucky Arts Council Performing Arts Directory Artist.

LIZ HOGG                                https://lizhogg.com/

A guitarist and composer/songwriter from Brooklyn, Hogg has toured four continents and thirteen states playing SXSW, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Brookfield Place, as well as Portugal’s Casa da Música and Mexico’s Tlaqná Concert Hall. She has received grants and awards from Chamber Music America, Citizens Committee for New York City, Queens College, the Maurice Kagan Memorial Scholarship Award for Excellence in an Orchestral Instrument, and Mannes College. Hogg has recorded around a dozen albums.

BEFORE THE LEO

5:00 PM Songwriting workshop led by Liz Hogg. Liz will present a songwriting workshop focusing on strategies to write pop or rock songs effectively in only two focused songwriting sections from start to finish. 

5:15 PM Open Jam
Anyone can bring songs to lead in the circle while others provide backup and harmony.