What happens when you take “titanic” Belfast accents, add a little Houston heat, sprinkle in some Port of Spain calypso beat and top it off with Wilkes Barre plain talkin’? You Feel Good of course! For several months we’ve been trading ideas and tunes with our community music partners at the Moon Base Project in … Read more
The Coffeehouse Project, with the sponsorship of the Manville Recreation Department, is running a nine-week after school music program for the students of the Alexander Batcho Intermediate School. The program is free to the students, will be held on alternating Friday afternoons from 3:30-4:30pm. We had a meet and greet on 1/18 which had 19 … Read more
On a rainy day in late October, The Coffeehouse Project’s Promise Band (minus Dave who was unable to join us that day) had the privilege of going out with members of Stanley Congregational Church and the Chatham High School Key Club on a food run organized by Bridges Outreach of Summit. The Promise Band made … Read more
In addition to opening the day by singing The Star Spangled Banner, the Dorvil Brothers, Chris and Cory, debuted their original song called Unworkable at the Somerset County DisABILITY Services Fair on Saturday, October 6, 2018. In this rap song, the brothers rhyme about the reality of what they are capable of; so much more … Read more
The Second Story Band is rehearsing for the Somerset County DisABILITY Services Fair on Saturday, October 6th. We’ll be doing two rockin’ sets; one at 10:30am and another at noon. We do The Ramones, The Monkees, Lindsay Lohan and even a couple of TV theme songs. Come see us perform! Each set will be followed … Read more
Don’t miss two Coffeehouse Project groups performing on Saturday, October 6th! The Second Story Band and The Dorvil Brothers will each do two sets; from 10:30-11:30 and then, again, from noon-1:00. Come cheer us on and learn about the services Somerset County has to offer people with disabilities.
We had a blast at Bound Brook’s RiverFest! The Second Story Band had the honor of kicking off the arts festivities on the RiverFest Art Stage at 11:00 am. The festival continued throughout the day with performances, vendors, art, food and more. Visit www.downtownboundbrook.com to keep up to date on more events presented by the Bound … Read more
We had a great performance celebrating the music of The Beatles! One of our Music for Wellness programs had seniors on Boomwhackers, ukuleles, kazoos and shakers – and, of course, everyone was singing! Learn why making music is so good for seniors!
And Bound Brook had the Second Story Band and the Somerville Ukulele Experience on hand! It was a great night of sharing talents from magic to singing in a wonderful old theatre. Becca had this to say about the experience, “The stage is enormous and I was so pleased to have had a proper sound … Read more
Here is our friend Golden recording one of her favorite songs, I’ll Fly Away. Golden is one of our favorite people in the world and we love singing this song with her. John has this to say about Golden, “Golden is one of our most treasured CHP participants; what she has taught me about the power … Read more