Hard Luck Café Concert at Cinema Arts Centre, October 20, 2016

Features LI-Based Artists The Folk Goddesses and Tom Griffith

The Folk Goddesses and Tom Griffith are the featured performers on Thursday, Oct. 20, when the Folk Music Society of Huntington’s monthly Hard Luck Café series resumes at the Cinema Arts Centre (423 Park Avenue, Huntington). The 8:30 p.m. concert in the Cinema’s Sky Room will be preceded by an open mic at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are  $15 ($10 for Cinema Arts Centre and FMSH members) and will be available at the door.  For more information, visit www.fmsh.org or call (631) 425-2925.

The Folk Goddesses is a Long Island-based folk trio comprised of “three snarky middle-aged women on a mission:” singer-songwriters Martha Trachtenberg, Judith Zweiman and Hillary Foxsong.

A founding member of the Buffalo Gals, Trachtenberg  has worked in Nashville, done several TV commercials, and also performs both solo and with her husband Tom Griffith.  Zweiman was part of the New York City folk scene and recorded numerous times for Fast Folk Musical Magazine (now Smithsonian-Fast Folk). She was also featured in several of the Fast Folk Revues at The Bottom Line. In lieu of having a midlife crisis, Foxsong opted to pick up a guitar for the first time since junior high and embark on a career as a folksinger. Now, as one-third of the folk-harmony trio Gathering Time, she is also a respected songwriter and performer in her own right.

Tom Griffith is an award-winning singer-songwriter, producer and recovering jingle writer currently working the twelve-tone program.  Newsday named his CD, 40 Years Later, the best Long Island CD of 2007.

Griffith has written songs for and with International Blues Challenge Award-winner Toby Walker and has produced tracks for him and a number of notable LI-based artists.  A winner of two Clios, a Cannes Silver Lion, and a National Education Fiction Video Award for his tunes that have appeared in commercials and several movies, Griffith recently finished creating music and sound design cues for the award-winning computer game Prominence.

About the Presenters

Established in 1973, Huntington’s Cinema Arts Centre (www.cinemaartscentre.org) seeks to bring the best of cinematic artistry to Long Island and use the power of film to expand the awareness and consciousness of our community. LI’s only not-for-profit, viewer-supported, independent cinema presents a wide array of films that are often accompanied by discussions and guest speakers.

Now in its 48th year, the Folk Music Society of Huntington (www.fmsh.org) presents two monthly concert series, a monthly folk jam and an annual folk festival in conjunction with the Huntington Arts Council.