Not Just Another Coffeehouse has offered a community venue for outstanding music: Celtic, Folk, Bluegrass, Jug Band, Classical Indian, Cabaret, Jazz, French Canadian, Irish, and more since 2012. The historic Unitarian Meetinghouse in Sharon, Massachusetts, comes alive with music. And in addition to the music, we serve delicious home-made desserts and free trade beverages.
Please check the calendar for dates and events.
You can pay at the door (there is always enough room) – $20 or whatever you can afford (no one is ever turned away). Children are free.
Upcoming Performances
Halley Neal
Folk Singer and Singer-Songwriter
Sunday March 23, 2025
Doors open at 6:30 and concert starts at 7:00.
Suggested donation $20
Halley Neal is an award winning folk singer and songwriter whose live shows center on themes of positivity and peace. The formerly-Nashville-currently-Boston-based artist is often joined by her backing band of upright bass and fiddle. Halley’s lyrical folk-Americana songs are met with her soaring vocals and an upbeat bluegrass inspired instrumentation. Halley has gained national recognition from touring across the country to listening rooms and folk music venues and from her performances at festivals, notably the Kerrville Folk Fest, Rocky Mountain Folks Fest and the Telluride Bluegrass Festival. Halley released her most recent solo record “Beautiful and Blue” to critical acclaim on September 30th, 2022. Her live shows are remembered for her effortless vocals and honest lyrics.
Shortly after graduating from Berklee college in 2019, Halley moved to Nashville, TN where in her first few months, she was a chosen finalist for “Nashville Rising Song,” a premiere songwriting competition. In Nashville, Halley also hosted house concerts in her backyard bringing together a community of independent musicians. In 2020, Halley became an official Guild Guitars artist, and performed a set of original music at the 2021 NAMM Show with Guild. She is also one of the first artists to participate in Guild’s “Factory Sessions” YouTube series, where she performed an original set of songs live in the Guild Guitars factory in Oxnard California. Currently, Halley tours nationally to house concert and listening room venues.
Mad Agnes
Saturday April 19, 2025
Doors open at 6:30 and concert starts at 7:00.
Suggested donation $25
The genre-bending trio, Mad Agnes, delivers smart songwriting, passionate performances, and an ease with one another on stage that invites the audience into their world of human connection and spontaneous fun. They transport listeners with well crafted instrumentation, using guitars, mandolin, ukulele, piano, an inventive keyboard, and three-part harmonies as tight as jeans from the dryer.
Lisa Bastoni
Saturday May 17, 2025
Doors open at 6:30 and concert starts at 7:00.
Suggested donation $20
Lisa Bastoni (Northampton, MA) is a 2022 & 2023 New England Music Award nominee (Roots), 2020 & 2019 Boston Music Award Nominee (Folk) and winner of 2019 New Folk at the esteemed Kerrville Folk Festival. In addition to her work in music, Lisa Bastoni is an accomplished visual artist and teacher, and mother to two young children. Lisa Bastoni has opened for/performed with Lori McKenna, Dar Williams, Regina Spektor, The Secret Sisters, Teddy Thompson, Rose Cousins, Mark Erelli, Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams, and many more. She performs regularly around New England, and occasionally beyond.
“Bright, attactive and wonderfully poetic…” (Americana-UK)
“Expressive, well-crafted songs…” (Glide Magazine)
“A beautiful melancholia…real and human.” (Red Line Roots)
Rough and Tumble
https://www.theroughandtumble.com/
August 8, 2025
Doors open at 4:30 and concert starts at 5:00 pm (Note Time Change).
Suggested donation $20, Special Summer Concert: Bring Your Dinner
The Rough & Tumble aren’t casual road dogs, but they aren’t letting on, either. From their upbeat, commanding stage presence and sharp banter, to their earworm-inducing melodies and heartstring lyrics, this thriftstore Folk-Americana duo refuses to bring the haggard road-worn stereotype to their audience– even though they’ve earned it. In fact, The Rough & Tumble have been elbowing out of most stereotypes.
Emily Haviland Baker Duo
Folk Singers and Singer-Songwriters Guitar and Fiddle
Saturday September 20, 2025
Doors open at 6:30 and concert starts at 7:00.
Suggested donation $20
Emily Haviland Baker, half of the Boston-based duo – The Bakers – String Duo, is a multi-instrumentalist focusing on fiddle and guitar as well as being a songwriter and arranger. With classically-trained roots and after nearly six years in the corporate-world, Baker reentered the music scene in 2014 by enrolling at Berklee to study music therapy and Americana fiddle performance. In recent years, her powerhouse voice and vocal harmonies have become something that other local artists seek in collaboration. Baker has performed with musicians and groups such as Twisted Pine, Darol Anger and the Republic of Strings/The Furies, Joe Walsh, Bruce Molsky, Emy Phelps, Brittany Haas, and more. Her songs and arrangements are a haunting of sorts, and often have a focus on the darkness that life can sometimes be, drawing inspiration from artists such as Radiohead and the solo material from its members Thom Yorke and Johnny Greenwood.
