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
Erin Ash Sullivan and Daughter Emma Frances
Saturday October 19, 2024
Doors open at 6:30 and concert starts at 7:00.
Rare special concert with mother and daughter. A New England native, Erin Ash Sullivan’s music reflects a deep sense of place, and her lyrics—sometimes heartfelt, sometimes funny—are always authentic and drawn from her lived experience, harnessing the power of story to build connection. Victor Infante of the Worcester Telegram & Gazette describes her music as “delicate and evocative” with songs full of “nuance and emotional resonance.”
Suggested donation $20
Erin’s sophomore album, Signposts and Marks, came out July 2024 and reached #4 on the FAI Folk DJ Chart for that month. In 2023, she was a “Most Wanted” selection from the Grassy Hill Emerging Artist Showcase at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival. An award-winning songwriter, she has been the winner of the Rose Garden Coffeehouse Performing Songwriter Competition, recipient of the Mark Erelli Judge’s Choice Award in the New England Songwriting Competition, and a finalist in the Great American Song Contest and the Mid-Atlantic Song Contest.
San Diego-based indie folk songwriter Emma Frances draws inspiration from the woods of rural Massachusetts and the laid-back groove of Southern California. Her music distinctly blends storytelling elements of folk music with foot-tapping indie pop melodies. Often compared to contemporaries like Madison Cunningham, Laura Marling, and Carole King, Emma Frances brings coastal folk to venues across California and beyond. Her debug EP, Caverns of Youth was released in June 2024.
https://erinashsullivan.com/shows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1gYTj7yI4Q – Erin and Emma!
Rupert Wates
Saturday November 9, 2024
Doors open at 6:30 and concert starts at 7:00.
Suggested donation $20
Rupert Wates was born in London. He signed an exclusive publishing deal with Eaton Music in the late 1990’s and has been a full-time songwriter ever since. He moved to the US in fall 2006. Since 2007 he has won over 50 songwriting awards.
“This is one gifted s.o.b. If you’re not hip to this guy, you’re missing a lot.”
Mark S. Tucker, FAME
https://www.rupertwatesmusic.com
Carolann Solebello
Saturday January 18, 2025
Doors open at 6:30 and concert starts at 7:00.
Suggested donation $20
“Carolann Solebello may be the best kept secret in the world of singer-songwriters… She possesses one of the best voices in the singer-songwriter world with vocal body and spot-on intonation. She’s also matured into a first-rate songwriter. Her topics range from finding her muse to Bastille Day in New York, to the deeply personal question and request Listen.
Live performance video: https://www.carolannsolebello.com/watch
All albums for streaming: https://carolannsolebello.bandcamp.com/
Website: https://www.carolannsolebello.com/home
Torrin and Amy
Irish Traditional Music on Uilleann Pipes and Fiddle
Saturday February 22, 2025
Doors open at 6:30 and concert starts at 7:00.
Suggested donation $20
Get in the mood for St. Patty’s. The “true drop” from these two.
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)