Rick Drost

The Loop ONLINE Songwriter showcase for February will take place Thursday Feb16 2023, 7-9, streaming on "The Loop at the Armory" FB group And "The Loop at the armory " Youtube channel. The singers featured this month are:

Jan Luby, RI, FB Jan Luby, website janluby.com
Craig Sonnenfeld, Boston, FB Craig Sonnenfeld, website craigsonnenfeld.net
Deborah Aufiero, Mansfield, FB Deborah Cassidy Aufiero, website IG @debaufieromusic.
Rick Drost, Cambridge, FB Rick Drost, website rickdrostsongs.com

Rick Drost will host; Mark Abare will again monitor both streams and chats, , provide tech support, and help with sound.

The Loop is a showcase of singer-songwriters from the Boston area and beyond. It is held each month on the Third Thursday of the month. Four Performers play 30 minute sets . Formerly held at Arts at the armory in Somerville, the show is now Online until further notice . We encourage performers to present their original music to our listening audience. The monthly shows are run in turn by Linda Marks and Rick Drost, and other volunteers
 usually on the Third Thursday of the month

show will livestream on the Loop at the Armory group page:
 https://www.facebook.com/groups/605186336292335 and be carried on the Loop at the Armory YouTube channel
  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5pvJk8

Tune in, join the chats. Give streamyard permission to identify in the FB chat by going to streamyard.com/facebook before the show, if you want

Some Notes on the Performers

Craig Sonnenfeld
Craig Sonnenfeld is a song-writer and finger-picking style guitar player originally from southern New Jersey. He has appeared in many venues in the greater Boston area as well as other locations such as New York City, Philadelphia, Cleveland, and  Providence, Rhode Island.

Craig’s recordings have been played on several radio stations.   His original songs are influenced by blues, country-Western, and traditional folk tunes.  He also performs covers of some classic blues, country, and popular songs.
www.craigsonnenfeld.net

Jan Luby
Jan Luby is a storyteller known for her engaging stage presence and a voice full of passion, range and power. She is every bit as comfortable in an intimate setting as she is on stage in front of thousands. Her original songs range from socially relevant to irreverent, heartbreaking to humorous.

Jan Luby's strength in live performance comes from her roots, growing up in a performing family and doing street theater in New York City. Upon leaving NYC, she headed west and performed solo in clubs, coffeehouses and festivals in Santa Cruz County, CA. She was part of the New Vaudeville circuit on the west coast where she played Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival, The Oregon Country Fair, The Vancouver, Winnepeg and Edmonton Folk Festivals, Milwaukee Harvest Festival and the San Francisco Vaudeville Festival, as well as many others with her partner Rebo Flordgan with their comedy-musical duo Girls Who Wear Glasses. <BR> Coming to New England she established the open mic at The Nameless Coffeehouse and has played venues all over New England. Voted Best Female Vocalist Motif Magazine, Nominated best Singer/Songwriter Motif Magazine, Finalist in RI Songwriters Association song contest, Finalist in Boston's Acoustic Underground Contes and Jan's song A Roof and Four Walls is on the compilation album Everybody Needs a Home which was voted Best Americana Album in Motif Magazine. <BR> Jan is a member and board member of the Rhode Island Songwriters Association, and is one of the 4 rotating hosts at their monthly Songwriters in the Round shows, as well as the founder of their yearly Women of RISA show.<BR>

www.janluby.com

Deb Aufiero
Deb Aufiero is a longtime singer-songwriter living south of Boston, MA. Deb is an alumni of the Summer Acoustic Music Weeks, sponsored by folk music station WUMB, Boston. She was recently the opening act for the Nashville artist Amelia White at The Fallout Shelter in Norwood,MA. Deb is frequently invited to local songwriter rounds and performs at various open mics across MA and Rhode Island.

Proof; an original, six song EP, was released 1/23/2023. Available on all streaming platforms. This project was a lifetime in the making. Not easily placed within a specific genre, the music has indie folk vibes with gospel/blues tones and SO much more.
IG @debaufieromusic.

Rick Drost
Rick Drost writes and sings songs with depth and heart, songs that repay repeated listening and convey a long love of classical music, natural wonders, poetry. His songs treat life from a varied angles - Jilted lovers, swans in the Public Garden, leftover lobsters, and meditations on meditation. Longtime inspiration came from Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen; recent influences include Vance Gilbert and David Wilcox, who occasionally covers Drost's song "Turning the World"  in live performances. Drost's latest  CD "Turning the World", produced by Jon Shain (Durham, NC), charted on the Folk DJ list in its first month, and continues to get airplay from Europe across America to New Zealand.  Originally from Western New York, Rick travels from Cambridge, MA to sing at coffeehouses, house concerts,  small festivals and Folk Alliance Events from New England, to Colorado to the Southeast.
www.rickdrostsongs.com