Jen Chapin Performs in Watchung

The Watchung Arts Center's "Powerful Woman of Song" Series is proud to present Jen Chapin in Concert! http://www.jenchapin.com About Jen Chapin... Jen’s music is informed by a fertile family background and a wide array of education and experiences. She was born to an extended family of artists and academics, and raised along with her four siblings in Long Island, New York. Work toward earning her BA in International Relations from Brown University was complimented by studies abroad in Mexico and Zimbabwe, and then followed by a new focus in jazz harmony, improvisation and arranging at Berklee College of Music. Jen’s performing career started after moving to NYC in 1995, and then only as a sideline to her full-time job developing curricula and teaching music to Brooklyn middle and upper school students. As she moved toward writing, performing and recording full time, Jen kept her hand in education through the development of workshops in “Music and Social Action” and lyric-writing, which she still presents today to college students and other groups. As a live performer, Jen offers “an intensely emotional, sensual experience, almost embarrassing in its naked intimacy and vulnerability, in its invitation to listeners to think and to love along with her. She is a remarkable presence on stage...” (Berkshire Eagle), and presents something “powerful,” where her “supple voice move[s] deliberately and often through a wide range of notes and emotions throughout the concert, a bold and demonstrative instrument.” (South Bend Tribune) As a committed social activist, Jen has worked hard to interweave her musical and political passions. She chairs the Board of Directors of WHY (World Hunger Year) -- an organization co-founded by her father, the late singer-songwriter Harry Chapin -- and helps to support WHY’s role as a leading advocate for innovative, community-based solutions to hunger and poverty. Naturally, She is especially committed to WHY’s “Artists Against Hunger and Poverty” program which works to network performing artists with local anti-poverty groups building self-reliance. Meanwhile, across the stories told and the themes explored on Ready, Jen muses over our values and the choices we make. Most intimately, in “Let it Show,” she sings to her yet-to-be-born son “of authenticity” – something she strives for and achieves so plainly in her work. In the two years since releasing her critically-acclaimed debut with Hybrid Recordings, Linger, Jen Chapin has toured the East coast, West, South and Midwest, given TV performances ranging from the WB Morning News to Late Nite with Conan O’Brien, and given birth to a baby boy. Along the way, she has recorded with her band a fresh new album of 11 songs of desire and frustration (both personal and political), whimsy and hopefulness – Ready.

Date, Time, and Location

Begins
Saturday, December 1, 2007 at 8:00 pm ET

Location
Watchung Arts Center
18 Stirling Road
Watchung, NJ 07069

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Ahrre Maros

Ahrre Maros http://www.ahrre.com and http://www.fairtradecoffee.org has been presenting concerts in Northern New Jersey since 1992, when he first opened Ahrre's Coffee Roastery at the Common Ground Café, in Summit. Unfortunately the Café closed back in 1997 at which point he sought out other venues for his concert presentations. Currently he runs two concert series; the "Coffee With Conscience Concert Series" in Westfield and the "Powerful Women of Song" Series at the Watchung Arts Center in Watchung.>
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The Coffee With Conscience Concert Series http://www.coffeewithconscience.org is now in its eighth season and presents a wide variety of Singer/Songwriters who are professional and touring. The musical styles will vary but at the core you will always find 'acoustic pop.' The CWC Series is unique! It creates community around an evening of great music supporting worthy causes. The events are intended to provide the type of entertainment that is missing from so many of our communities…Entertainment that fosters community and friendship, structured around a good cause, presents a win-win situation for everyone involved.>
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The 'Powerful Women of Song' Series takes place at the Watchung Arts Center http://www.watchungarts.org/PowerfulWomen.htm . Eight incredible evenings of original music are planned for the 2007-2008 Season, focussing on the passion expressed in music written and performed by women. Proceeds from ticket sales will help support the Watchung Arts Center, whose mission is to "Keep the Arts Alive" in the greater Watchung Area.

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