Stage C Arvada featuring The Choralary, Girl Jam, Bill Roberts, and David Steele

Featured Musicians: The Choralary, a folk chorale sharing the living tradition of the folk music process – the old and the new. Time-tested ballads, the rhythms of sea chanteys, songs of childhood, select contemporary gems, and original compositions and arrangements... Sometimes acapella, sometimes with string accompaniment and a touch of bodhran or djembe, always centered in rich and varied vocal harmonies.

"KidBit" Musicians: New on the Northern Colorado music scene is the all-female trio Girl Jam. The band’s members range in age from 10 to 13, but don’t let their youthfulness fool you! These girls bring together a combo of soulfulness, musicianship and tight vocal harmony that would be envied at any age. All three of Girl Jam’s spirited young ladies are vocalists and multi-instrumentalists, with sisters Cadence and Harmony Fisher usually kicking it on guitar or mandolin. Rounding out the trio is Celeste Johnson, a two-time National Old-Time Fiddle champion who shoulders an antique violin that simultaneously invokes, evokes and provokes. Girl Jam’s music is a salute to the American Roots tradition with a firm eye on the future. While much of their repertoire is over 100 years old, they bring forward an approach so fresh that you’ll swear you’re hearing these tunes for the first time. Don’t miss an opportunity to feel the foot-stomping joy these talented young Coloradans bring to the bandstand!

Poet: Bill Roberts has written 11,000 poems, over a thousand published in small-press magazines. He started writing after retiring as a nuclear weapons consultant from Rocky Flats, prays for the day when all WMD are collected and obliterated. Bill hosts two weekly poetry writing groups, one having published a recent anthology. He hosts annual poetry readings, "Strong Voices, Strong Women," to honor women poets and to benefit Safehouse for battered women.

Community Connection: David Steele, Rocky Mountain Center for Compassionate Communication - David Steele, poet, writer, and life coach, has studied and taught a wide variety of interpersonal communication skills over the last thirty years. He was introduced to NVC in 2000 and has been conducting trainings since 2009. Prior to his introduction to NVC, he studied with Anthony Robbins, Jean Houston, Deepak Chopra, and Gay Luce.

Hosts: Trinity Demask and Kay Ford Johnsen

Admission: $5 per person, children free
Living Water Spiritual Community

The Choralary

Girl Jam

David Steeke

David Steeke

Co-host Kay Ford Johnsen

Co-host Trinity Demask