Spring Benefit Concert for Tedford Housing
Spring Benefit Concert for Tedford Housing
Tedford Housing's Spring Benefit Concert will feature award-winning songwriter Jud Caswell and the Duo of Giff Jamison and Nancy Sferra.
All proceeds from the concert will support Tedford Housing programs and services.
Jud Caswell is an award-winning songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who has been performing in his native state of Maine and beyond for more than 25 years. In 2006 he made a splash on the national scene, winning the legendary Kerrville New Folk competition. He has had his songs taught at Berklee, recorded by Judy Collins, and named “#4 Song of the Decade” by New York’s WFUV. His record “Live at the Seagull Shop” was number 1 album on the Folk Alliance International radio charts in March 2020.
Songwriters Giff Jamison and Nancy Sferra frequently perform as a duo, playing mostly original music throughout the Midcoast. Jamison draws from folk, jazz and rock influences, but his roots are country blues and finger-style guitar. He is a four-time finalist at the New England Songwriters Contest; and released a CD of original tunes, 2013’s Ramone. Sferra is a multi-instrumentalist who got her musical start teaching herself to play guitar on a nylon string Harmony and moved into songwriting. With the new millennium, she began performing her folk-blues compositions locally and recorded two CDs, Smoke and Bones and Hardened Ground. Recently they have been recording a new CD of original material at Frog Hollow studio.
For more information, call 207-729-1161 or visit www.tedfordhousing.org/events