Touring singer-songwriters Rachael Kilgour and Jesse Terry will share the bill during the monthly Hard Luck Café series at the Cinema Arts Centre on Thursday, Nov. 15.
The 8:30 p.m. concert in the cinema’s Sky Room will be preceded by an open mic at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 ($10 for Cinema Arts Centre and Folk Music Society of Huntington members) and will be available at the door.
Kilgour is a passionate and engaging Minnesota-born and Boston-based performing artist whose songs merge the personal and political. Her sincere, lyric-driven work has been called both brave and humane.
A 2015 grand-prize winner of the international NewSong Music Performance & Songwriting Competition and a winner of the prestigious Kerrville New Folk Competition in 2017, Kilgour has performed at New York City’s Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, and the ASCAP Music Café during the Sundance Film Festival.
“When Rachael performs, a force of nature erupts,” said Richard Cuccaro in Acoustic Live! in New York City and Beyond. “She unleashes a palpable torrent of passion, whether singing about social justice or a searing personal revelation… The missives from her heart will win yours.”
“Jesse Terry is a gentle soul with a formidable songwriting talent and a clear artistic vision,” said John Platt, host of “Sunday Supper” on New York’s WFUV-FM Radio.
A true musical journeyman, he has made it his mission to share his love of music fully and completely, without regard for shading his emotions or tempering his convictions.
By his own definition, the Connecticut-based performing artist has never been a cautious individual, but rather one who finds inspiration and optimism in the solace and joy that making music brings him and which he can impart to others both through his recordings (five albums and an EP to date) and his live performances throughout the U.S., Europe, Greenland, and New Zealand.
For more information about the artists, go to each of their websites: www.rachaelkilgour.com and www.jesseterrymusic.com.
To purchase tickets to the performance, go to www.cinemaartscentre.org.
TheCinema Arts Centre is located at 423 Park Ave. in Huntington.
