Gail Rundlett to perform at Open Book Coffeehouse March 17

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The Open Book Coffeehouse continues its seventh season on Saturday, March 17, with folksinger Gail Rundlett.

Rundlett is one of the real treasures of Boston’s thriving folk community. Blessed with a voice that exhibits crystalline purity, honesty and heart-touching soul, she is an endearing and entertaining performer. She plays guitar and four-string Appalachian dulcimer and draws her repertoire from both traditional and contemporary sources.

Rundlett has performed as a solo artist since the early 1980s in New England’s coffeehouses, clubs, festivals, museums and schools, as well as singing for children and teaching dulcimer workshops. Whether she’s enlivening traditional music with her expressive dulcimer and honeyed vocals, or freshly rendering contemporary songs and playing guitar, Rundlett’s warm presence fills the stage and erases boundaries between singer and audience.

She has released three solo recordings — “Just in Time,” “Farther Along,” and “Full Circle,” featuring Tim and Mollie O’Brien and Brooks Williams on backup — and appeared on two CDs as a member of the vocal group Taproot. Christine Lavin introduced Rundlett to a national audience by including her version of the Anne Dodson song “Lie Easy” on the compilation recording When October Goes.

Rundlett has shared the stage with Tom Rush, Nanci Griffith, Garnet Rogers, Richard Shindell, David Massengill and Odetta, among others. Dick Pleasants says of Rundlett, “Her choice of material is in line with many great interpreters of folk music who choose great songs and then sing the hell out of them,” and the Boston Globe raves, “…one of the best ballad singers I’ve ever heard!”

Enjoy the relaxing, warm atmosphere of friendly people, good music, hot coffee and homebaked goodies. Admission to the coffeehouse is $8 for adults and $4 for students. The doors open at 6:45 p.m. and the music starts at 7:30.

The Open Book Coffeehouse is located in the Community Room of the Canton Public Library at 786 Washington Street and is made possible by the Friends of the Library. Parking is to the left when facing the library from Washington Street. Enter by the “Special Events” door to the left of the columns, midway into the parking area.

For more information, go to www.town.canton.ma.us/library/coffeehouse, send an email to openbookcoffeehouse@verizon.net, follow the Friends of the Canton Public Library on Facebook, or call 781-828-6606.

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