Singer-Songwriters at Grounds and Sounds

Grounds and Sounds Café, the monthly live music coffee house in East Setauket, NY., welcomes two outstanding singer-songwriters from Maine in Jud Caswell and Martin Swinger.

Caswell is a songwriter, musician and recording engineer who hit the folk scene in 2004 with a long string of wins at some of the most prestigious songwriting contests in the country. He has played festivals and concerts from New England to Texas and Oregon, and charted with his 2007 release, Blackberry Time a song that has been called “the perfect song.” He has taught songwriting and been a judge at songwriting contests and runs a Songwriter’s Circle that has met monthly for the last four years. Jud performs on guitar, banjo, cittern, whistle,
bodhran, uke, and whatever other instruments he can get his hands on. In addition to concerts of his own original music, Jud regularly plays shows of Irish songs under the nom de guerre “Belfast Brogue”. “Jud Caswell is much more than a great singer and guitar player,Jud’s songs take you into the storyteller’s world with clear images and characters that come to life for the listener.”   David Wilcox

With a three octave vocal range and a talent for writing award-winning songs, Martin Swinger is a veteran of 40 years of performing award-winning original songs, traditional and contemporary Americana music as well as swing and jazz standards. Upon hearing Martin’s Coney Island Lullaby, Pete Seeger, the internationally celebrated social activist/musician, requested a copy of the album for his personal collection. And singer-songwriter Vance Gilbert described Swinger’s performance last Fall at New Jersey’s Folk Project Festival as
“Brilliant!”

Tickets $12.50.  Go to http://groundsandsounds.org/