Gray Sky Girls Reunion, featuring Naomi and Lisa Bastoni

Fiddle and A Song, Naomi Sommers and Rick Manning

Sommers and Manning, Fiddle and A Song

Naomi Sommers, Rick Manning and Tim Ball perform on a hill overlooking Cayuga Lake, on Triphammer Road in Ithaca, NY.

Sommers and Manning, Fiddle and A Song

Fiddle and A Song, Naomi Sommers and Rick Manning

Gray Sky Girls Reunion (w/ Lisa Bastoni)

Bluegrass Duo with Rick Manning

I’m the performer on this Ithaca folk radio concert and show, which has been running, on Cornell campus since 1967!! Hosted by Phil Shapiro…. Free admission, or listen live:

http://boundforglory.org/listen-live/

Please email for information: naomi.sommers@gmail.com

Naomi Sommers and Dan Tressler

$10 cover

I’ll play for almost an hour, at 108 West Lewis Street! Please come by and wave to me :)

A duo set by Naomi Sommers and Dan Tressler in the middle of this fantastic weekend-long festival.

Co-Bill with Eric Lee

Sommers Rosenthal Family Band Concert (Phil Rosenthal on banjo, mandolin, guitar, vocals; Beth Sommers on upright bass and vocals; Naomi Sommers on guitar, banjo, mandolin, vocals; Dan Tressler on fiddle, mandolin, vocals)

Hosted by Rose Polenzani, A collaborative show featuring: Peter Mulvey, Dietrich Strauss, Lisa Bastoni, Sean Staples, Jeremy Moses Curtis, Alastair Moock, Chris Anzalone, Rose Polenzani, and Naomi Sommers.

Duo show with Lisa Bastoni

Naomi Sommers and Dan Tressler (acoustic duo with vocal harmonies, fiddle, guitar, mandolin; original and old country-folk, blues)

Duo Show featuring original songs from Naomi Sommers and Lisa Bastoni. The two will accompany one another and also play “old-time-slow-grass” from their Gray Sky Girls days.

Very special Gray Sky Girls Reunion (old-time-slow-grass is back!)- Naomi and Lisa will play songs from their Gray Sky Girls repetoire all night! The two songwriters will also each play original songs and accompany one another on harmony vocals, guitar, banjo and mandolin.

I will be playing a solo set on the porch at 106 Second Street, in Ithaca, NY. Walk by and say hi!

Naomi returns to the place where her solo singer-songwriter career had its start, the heart of Boston's folk music scene, Club Passim in Harvard Square. She will sing in the round with Lisa Bastoni (Naomi's partner in the old-time-slow-grass duo Gray Sky Girls), Jackie Giroux, and Hayley Sabella. The day-pass for this festival is only $10, and a weekend pass is $25!! An amazing deal, and the opportunity to hear and discover so many great musicians in one place. 

Naomi will sing one song with the fabulous Canadian band, Sultans of Swing! Come check out this exciting evening of diverse styles and fantastic songs and playing by a band led by Chris McKool, fiddler player from Toronto whom Naomi met many years ago at a jazz program they both participated in.

I will be performing (exact time and location TBA soon) at Earth Day March organized by Sustainable Thompkins. Here is what will be going on that day in Ithaca:

"Join us for our Ithaca Earth Day event centered around the national March for Climate, Jobs and Justice in Washington DC on Saturday April 29. We’re hoping for at least 1,000 marchers in Ithaca to visibly show our concern for the rapid deterioration of the planet, as well as the need for local and statewide leadership on energy democracy, green jobs, and environmental justice.

We’re asking marchers to gather at the Bernie Milton Pavilion on the Ithaca Commons at 11:30 AM for live music and speakers. At 12:15, the march will proceed on a marked route to the Space @ Greenstar, to enjoy more music, food vendors, speakers, and exhibits framed around the themes of Keep it in the Ground, Clean Energy, and Low Carbon Living."

Join Naomi and Lisa for an evening of original and traditional acoustic songs. We'll play the show on stage together, trading songs, accompanying one another on harmony vocals or various instruments. We will also revive some of our Gray Sky Girls repetoire!! (That was our old-time-slow-grass duo from back in the days before moved far away from one another, and before we had kids... we were just "girls", ah.)