NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, March 13.
COYLE — His music has been recorded by Joan Baez, Nanci Griffith, Guy Clark, Janis Ian and Garth Brooks, but songwriter Buddy Mondlock is still a traveler, a singer who comes to cozy venues like the Laurel B. Johnson Community Center on the Toandos Peninsula.
Music lovers will have a chance to spend the evening with Mondlock — plus bassist-harmony vocalist Mike Lindauer — as the duo offers another show in the Concerts in the Woods series at 7:30 tonight.
As is traditional in this series, admission is by donation, listeners of all ages are welcome and host Norm Johnson will lay out free coffee and cookies at intermission.
Folk music
“He heard about our ‘listening room’ for folk music, and so we are privileged to present him here in Coyle,” said Johnson, who brings bands and solo acts to the community center at least once a month.
With his songs, Mondlock seeks to draw listeners into his world.
It’s a place where “a single snowflake follows the trajectory of a relationship, where you get your pocket picked by a Roman cat, where you might swim over the edge of the world if you’re not careful, and where dreams that don’t come true still count,” the artist writes on www.BuddyMondlock.com.
On his new album, “The Edge of the World,” Mondlock does most of the playing and singing himself, with a little help from Lindauer, his longtime friend who is also the bassist for Al Stewart of “Year of the Cat” fame.
For more about today’s show and others forthcoming in the Concerts in the Woods series at the community center, 923 Hazel Point Road, see www.CoyleConcerts.com.
Directions and other details also can be had by contacting Johnson at 360-765-3449 or johnson5485@msn.com.
