Upcoming Concerts
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Suzie Vinnick
Saturday, May 10, 2025 – 7:30 pm
Please note change of date – This show was originally scheduled for Saturday, May 17
Suzie Vinnick is the proud owner of a gorgeous voice, impressive guitar and bass chops, and an engagingly candid performance style. Here career has been triumph after triumph. Among her most recent successes: 2024 Canadian Folk Music Award for Contemporary Singer of the Year, a 2024 Eastern Canada Music Association award for Blues Album of the Year, 2023 Maple Blues Award Acoustic Act of the Year, and the 2022 Maple Blues Award Female Vocalist of the Year. Suzie has won a total of 12 Maple Blues Awards, 2 Canadian Folk Musica Awards and is a 3X Juno Award Nominee. In addition, she’s performed for Canadian Peacekeepers in Bosnia and the Persian Gulf and was the “voice of Tim Horton’s” coffee for 5 years. This will be her 4th appearance at the Historic Cooper’s having previously been here is 2011, 2015, and 2017. We’re excited to have her back!
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Jefferson Ross & Todd Hoke
Friday, June 13, 2025 – 8 pm
Two Southerly gentlemen known for their vivid regional songwriting, quick wit, and bantering among themselves and with audience members. Jefferson Ross and Todd Hoke will definitely leave you with a smile on your face at the end of the evening. Jefferson Ross is a Georgia-based folk artist who weaves stories for the ears and the eyes. His shows have been likened to a road trip through the South, chock full of sense of place and people, food and history. He previously played with country star Terri Clark and shared stages with George Strait, Toby Keith, Reba McEntire and Vince Gill. He also worked as a Music Row staff writer and is an accomplished painter and photographer. Todd Hoke has never been in a bar fight, but he has provided music for one. Originally from Conroe, Texas, but now based in Hendersonville, North Carolina, he has an impressive collection of songs about west Texas, late-night conversations with border town prophets, and idyllic summer evenings in the South. Their music is influenced by the south, but like kudzu and Walmart, it creeps way beyond the land of sweet tea and collards.
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Liz Longley
Saturday, July 19, 2025 – 8 pm
Best known for her stop-you-in-your-tracks voice, Liz Longley is an accomplished singer-songwriter based out of Nashville, TN. With her deeply emotional music, Longley has earned accolades from some of the most prestigious songwriting competitions in the country, including the BMI John Lennon Songwriting Scholarship Competition. Her self-titled debut album received critical acclaim, being described as “stunning” (HuffPost). Her follow up album Weightless, released in 2016, was praised as “a thing of beauty” (Pop Dose). The Berklee College of Music grad worked alongside 5-time Grammy-nominated producer, Paul Moak, on her much awaited sixth album, Funeral For my Past. The journey of her self-release made music industry headlines when her devoted fanbase raised over $150,000 to help her purchase the rights to and independently release the album. Longley became the #4 most funded solo female musician in Kickstarter history – a story covered by Billboard Magazine. Embraced by the press and music fans alike, Funeral For My Past was included in “100 Albums Released in 2020 to Put on Your Radar” (Newsweek).
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Richard Smith
Friday, August 29, 2025 – 8 pm
Richard Smith is a British fingerstyle guitarist, renowned for his variety of styles and techniques, entertaining performances and engaging charisma. Born in Beckenham, Kent, England, Smith’s musical journey began at age 5. Inspired by iconic guitarists like Chet Atkins, Merle Travis, Jerry Reed, Django Reinhardt and Joe Pass, Smith’s unique style blends country, jazz, classical and ragtime influences. In his very early years, he received mentorship from guitar greats, laying the foundation for his future success including an appearance at age 11 with Chet Atkins at Her Majesty’s Theatre in London. A Richard Smith concert includes old standards from the Great American Songbook, Scott Joplin rags arranged for solo guitar, classical guitar pieces (Bach, Tarrega, Barrios), original compositions, Jazz and swing classics, traditional fiddle tunes, as well as many Pop and Beatles tunes. He’s also a member of the Transatlantic Guitar Trio (with Joscho Stephan & Rory Hoffman) and has performed or recorded with legends Tommy Emmanuel, Chet Atkins and Les Paul.
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Robbie Fulks
Saturday, September 13, 2025 – 7:30 pm
Robbie Fulks is a singer, recording artist, instrumentalist, composer, and songwriter. His most recent release, Upland Stories, earned year’s-best recognition from NPR and Rolling Stone among many others, as well as two Grammy® nominations, for folk album and American roots song (“Alabama At Night”). He has made multiple appearances on WSM’s “Grand Ole Opry”; PRI’s “Whadd’ya Know”; NPR’s “Fresh Air,” “Mountain Stage,” and “World Cafe”; and the syndicated “Acoustic Cafe”. His TV appearances include Austin City Limits; NBC’s Today, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Later with Carson Daly, and 30 Rock. Besides country and bluegrass music, Robbie is fiercely fond of Charles Mingus, P.G. Wodehouse, quantum mechanics, his wife Donna, comedy in almost all forms, cooking, swimming laps, the past, Arthur Schopenhauer, Universal horror movies, his grandson and even his sons, coastal towns in the off-season, and rye whiskey, though in nothing like that order.
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Johnsmith
Saturday, September 27, 2025 – 7:30 pm
Johnsmith is one of those artists so often under-recognized – he possesses a genius that cannot be denied, ignored, or overlooked. For the past forty-plus years, Johnsmith has been sharing his music all across America and abroad. He has become a favorite at festivals, clubs, and house concerts alike. In addition to being a Kerrville New Folk Winner, Johnsmith has released nine solo CDs to rave reviews, leads musical tours to Ireland, leads Idaho rafting trips, teaches songwriting, and has served as a staff songwriter in Nashville. With his faded jeans, his twinkly blue eyes, and his infectious smile, John immediately connects with audiences. You get the sense of a man who loves his life, his family and friends, and who loves nothing more than sharing that love in song and stories all across this land.
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Rebecca Folsom
Saturday, October 18, 2025 – 7:30 pm
Colorado singer-songwriter, Rebecca Folsom believes every lyric, every note, every musical collaboration carries the potency to change the world. Moving with ease through her four-octave range she plucks the instrument of the heart with tender fearlessness and fiery passion all meant to awaken unfettered aliveness. Rebecca has played on BBC television/radio for an audience of 1.5 million, Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado, The Bluebird and Opryland in Nashville, TN, and numerous festivals nationwide. The song Sanctuary was a semi-finalist in the “2021 International Songwriting Competition.” Her album Extraordinary Days debuted with the song Better Times hitting Number 1 on the National Folk Radio DJ Chart and spending five months on the Top 50 National Americana Country Radio Chart.
Her songs hit “like little earthquakes.” – Westword Magazine
Her songs are “at once literate and emotional, and … strike just the right note of connection.” – Dirty Linen
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Will Kimbrough
Friday, November 14, 2025 – 8 pm
Will Kimbrough is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer based in Nashville, Tennessee. Born in Mobile, Alabama, Kimbrough began his career with the college band Will & the Bushmen in the 1980s and later formed the Bis-Quits, releasing an album on John Prine’s Oh Boy Records. As a producer, he has worked with artists like Adrienne Young, Rodney Crowell, and Todd Snider. Kimbrough’s songs have been recorded by Jimmy Buffett and Little Feat, among others. Most recently, their co-written song “Bubbles Up” became Buffett’s first posthumous single and a viral hit. They’ve written more than twenty songs over the years. Kimbrough has also collaborated with Rosanne Cash, Emmylou Harris, and Mark Knopfler. In 2004, he was named Instrumentalist of the Year by the Americana Music Association. His solo albums showcase his eclectic influences, from folk and blues to rock and jazz. His album Wings explores themes of family and career, while Americanitis features anti-war and anti-greed songs. His latest work includes a 2023 Blues Music Award-nominated song, “Too Far to Be Gone.”
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Miles & Mafale
Saturday, November 22, 2025 – 7:30 pm
Catherine Miles and Jay Mafale — husband and wife, co-conspirators, storytellers. They are modern folk with a sprinkling of pop-catchiness and theatrical flair. Catherine’s voice is an expressive powerhouse. Jay’s guitar is distinctive and unconventional. Candid and playful onstage, they are known for the plainspoken poetry, clever humor, and unique perspectives of their songs which seek to shift points of view through themes of perseverance and hope. And yes, sometimes they throw in a villain just for fun. Miles & Mafale’s songwriting has earned them acclaim in venerable listening rooms and festivals nationwide, and recognition as Most Wanted Emerging Artists at Falcon Ridge Folk Festival and three-time Kerrville New Folk finalists. The duo’s latest release, Be Brave, is “Beautifully made. An articulate page-turner of an album that feels like a short story collection in 10 songs.” Marilyn Rea Beyer, WFMT Chicago – The Midnight Special.
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Lynne Hanson
Saturday, February 14, 2026 – 7:30 pm
Too tough for folk and too blues-influenced for country, Lynne Hanson’s brand of porch music with a little red dirt can turn on a dime from a sunshine, blue sky ballad to a full on thunderstorm of gritty Americana swamp from one song to the next. Her hard living music has garnered her the nickname “Canada’s Queen of Americana.” And while her deep, bluesy croon has drawn comparisons to Lucinda Williams and Gillian Welch, it’s the poetry of her lyrics that really sets her apart. Winner of two Canadian Folk Music Awards, Hanson is known for her high energy, roots guitar driven live performances, whether playing solo or with her band the Good Intentions. She has an uncanny way of connecting with her audience with an authenticity that is as entertaining as it is disarming.
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For Reservations/Invitation to any of the above listed shows – Please send an email with the number of seats requested to: Steve & Myra Gnadt at