The Camden Public Library’s Coffeehouse Concert series returns on Tuesday, May 27 in the Picker Room*, at 6:00 (Six O’Clock!) p.m. with singer-songwriter Kray Van Kirk.
All are invited to this free evening of folk Americana on 6 & 12-string guitar concerning heroes and hope…so that absolutely everyone, of every identity and history, can know that they are not alone but have a verse in the shouted poetry of dawn.
A fine finger-style guitarist with a precise baritone, Kray Van Kirk has a Ph.D. from the University of Alaska, but he set science aside to write songs, tell stories and summon heroes.
“We are driven by myth and the seasons of the heart,” he says, “and the stories are all true. There is a dark cave inside each of us, and monsters of all kinds lurk there, all the more lethal for being hidden. The quest is to journey inside, render the monsters powerless, find whatever it is that burns at the core of your soul and bring it back into the light. In a world divided it is critical to write songs and tell stories that show absolutely everyone they get to be the hero. Nobody is left behind.”
When he reached Scotland and the Fringe Festival, the Daily Fringe Review wrote, “The evening’s act was Kray Van Kirk, whose 12-string guitar and soaring vocals were spellbinding; the Alaskan singer-songwriter, in his Edinburgh debut, was not the reason I arrived early, but was certainly why I stayed late.”
Of this charming, Quixotic and eclectic performer, the Borderline Folk Club in New York wrote that Van Kirk was “what every singer-songwriter should aspire to.”
*If the weather is absolutely gorgeous, there’s a chance we’ll have the concert in the Amphitheatre.
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