Folk music can be hard to find in the Auburn area, but the Nancy Kenyon Duo will change that Saturday night.
The Utica group will perform at Yesteryears Coffee House and Cafe sets which will include original music, Fleetwood Mac, Jewel and others.
“She'll throw in some Sheryl Crow,” said Art Wenzel, the cafe's entertainment coordinator. “She mixes it up a bit with her original music.”
Kenyon began performing at age 17 for school and town functions in and around Mohawk, influenced no doubt by her father, who kept records for the Billboard Top 100 charts.
Kenyon has opened for such acts as The Romantics, Kansas, Blue Oyster Cult, Orleans, Mulberry Lane, Jana and Blessid Union of Souls, though she admits she is a huge fan of Cheap Trick.
She calls her style of original acoustic “folk-pop,” and writes heartfelt songs of insecure love, fond memories of a small town childhood and wonder of the world to come in the next millennium.
Nancy Kenyon's debut CD titled “I Want You To Know” came out in 1999, and the single “Remember When” was included on the WOUR's Millennium album, which featured many central New York artists.
Her most recent album came out in 2003, titled “The Thought Of You.”
Wenzel said the performance is part of the cafe's goal of “always trying to bring new people into the area. Hopefully, people will come out and appreciate new music and get hooked.”
While folk music had its zenith in the 1960s with performers like Bob Dylan, both folk and bluegrass music are seeing a resurgence. Yesteryears has brought in several folk performers, including Robert Hazard, Jonathan Edwards and Rik Palieri.
From the Auburn area, Jon Peterson and Donna Dennihy have performed. All in all, Yesteryears has offered folk a couple of times a month, Wenzel said.
The folk performances also complements the cafe's authors series. Great folk music acts as good poetry.
“Every song is a poem in its own right,” Wenzel said. “Lyrically, they write to rhyme to accentuate certain notes.”
If you go
What: Nancy Kenyon Duo
When: 8 to 10 p.m. Saturday
Where: Yesteryears Cafe
For details: 253-0050
“She'll throw in some Sheryl Crow,” said Art Wenzel, the cafe's entertainment coordinator. “She mixes it up a bit with her original music.”
Kenyon began performing at age 17 for school and town functions in and around Mohawk, influenced no doubt by her father, who kept records for the Billboard Top 100 charts.
Kenyon has opened for such acts as The Romantics, Kansas, Blue Oyster Cult, Orleans, Mulberry Lane, Jana and Blessid Union of Souls, though she admits she is a huge fan of Cheap Trick.
She calls her style of original acoustic “folk-pop,” and writes heartfelt songs of insecure love, fond memories of a small town childhood and wonder of the world to come in the next millennium.
Nancy Kenyon's debut CD titled “I Want You To Know” came out in 1999, and the single “Remember When” was included on the WOUR's Millennium album, which featured many central New York artists.
Her most recent album came out in 2003, titled “The Thought Of You.”
Wenzel said the performance is part of the cafe's goal of “always trying to bring new people into the area. Hopefully, people will come out and appreciate new music and get hooked.”
While folk music had its zenith in the 1960s with performers like Bob Dylan, both folk and bluegrass music are seeing a resurgence. Yesteryears has brought in several folk performers, including Robert Hazard, Jonathan Edwards and Rik Palieri.
From the Auburn area, Jon Peterson and Donna Dennihy have performed. All in all, Yesteryears has offered folk a couple of times a month, Wenzel said.
The folk performances also complements the cafe's authors series. Great folk music acts as good poetry.
“Every song is a poem in its own right,” Wenzel said. “Lyrically, they write to rhyme to accentuate certain notes.”
If you go
What: Nancy Kenyon Duo
When: 8 to 10 p.m. Saturday
Where: Yesteryears Cafe
For details: 253-0050
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