Kathryn Mostow - Greyrock Commons House Concerts

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Greyrock Commons House Concerts!

GCHC is a new Northern Colorado house concert series, located in NW Fort Collins at Greyrock Commons, an intentional co-housing community of 30 families living on 16 acres of land.

Local singer-songwriter Kathryn Mostow started the series with the goal of bringing talented, thoughtful acoustic songwriters to the area who are seeking a home-grown venue and receptive audiences.

What is a house concert? It is, essentially, a concert that takes place in someone’s living room (or barn, or studio or, in this case, a spacious and beautiful community room). It is music: intimate, up-close, and unadulterated. Audiences get to chat with performers between sets, and performers get to share their music with an attentive audience.

Check back regularly for updates!

NEWS: Please check out the Rocky Mountain Chronicle's recent article on area house concerts by Elliott Johnson, prominently featuring Greyrock Commons!

click HERE for Previous Performances of the Greyrock Commons House Concert series

Sara Hickman SUNDAY May 17, 2009 7:00PM
Stacey Earle & Mark Stuart
Driftwood Fire opens

"With modern country stars shilling glitz and patriotism, Earle and husband Mark Stuart create the kind of smart, intimate, lived-in version of Americana that’s an endangered pleasure these days."

Stacey Earle's first show was on an arena stage in Sydney, playing rhythm guitar in her brother's band, Steve Earle & the Dukes. She spent about a year and a half on tour with her brother, and then returned to Nashville to start a career of her own as a country/folk singer/songwriter. Mark Stuart went to the finest of music schools: playing in the honky tonks and beer joints in and around Nashville at the age 15. He went on to form his own band before he turned 18, make a record, and still find the time to play on the road as lead guitar and vocals for acts like Freddy Fender. Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart met for the first time 1991 at a songwriters night in Nashville,TN. They knew that night it was just one of those things that is “meant to be”. They were married in 1992.

Stacey and Mark’s songs are the diaries of their life – both good times and bad. They've gone on to release three duo albums, and have performed at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival and on E-Town. Their stage plot is as basic as it gets. No tricks, no gadgets, just two voices and two guitars. A show not to miss, Stacey and Mark reach back and grab songs of the past, then fast forward to present and into the future.

Showtime: 7:30 pm
Suggested Donation: $10 – $15/person

Please RSVP to:

or call 970-484-1544 and leave a message with the number of people to attend

Randall Williams studied classical music at the Royal Conservatory of Mons, Belgium, but left the world of black tie tuxedos and Verdi operas for a life of folk music. He has since written songs in train stations, sung and played on street corners, cafés, and pubs. For a time he lived aboard a 20' sailboat, teaching himself how to sail by single-handing through the Baltic and North Seas with his guitar sleeping in the berth beside him at night.

In 2005, Randall returned stateside to scrounge up a career as a performing songwriter, hoping it wasn't too late. So far, it hasn't been. As the "Partial Capo Guy," Randall has written two books for Hal Leonard, recorded a DVD for Kyser Musical Products, and given workshops at some of the biggest festivals in United States. As a performer, Randall has been a regional finalist at Kerrville, a showcase artist at Northeast and Midwest Folk Alliance, and at the International Folk Alliance in Memphis, and an Audience Favorite at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival.

Showtime: 7:30 pm
Suggested Donation: $10 – $15/person

Randall is also offering a “Short-cut Capo Workshop” on Saturday afternoon
before his show, from 2 – 4 pm, also at Greyrock.
$20/person or $15/person if you come to the concert that night.

Please RSVP to:

or call 970-484-1544 and leave a message with the number of people to attend

"One of the best voices
in folk music."
— Chuck Pyle, Zen Cowboy

It's no surprise that Seattle-based Larry Murante is gaining a reputation as one of the finest contemporary singer songwriters to emerge from the Northwest in recent years.

Larry's three CD releases, Point of Entry, Kiss Me One More Time and Water's Edge have garnered critical acclaim from all over the country and parts of Europe. In the past decade he's racked up a string of national and regional songwriting awards and honors including first place winner of the Wildflower Songwriting Contest in Richardson, Texas and a showcase finalist at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival.

Larry grew up in the small rural town of Nazareth, Pennsylvania (also the home of Martin Guitars). In high school, Larry began singing in working bands of every kind. Larry's voice today is a testament not only to good pipes but to years of training — which he's done, logging over a decade of study with opera, jazz, and musical theater stylists (Larry continues to lead a double life as a jazz/rock/R&B singer in his ten piece variety band, Second Wind, which has been together for over 15 years).

?His songs are full of the sense of how lucky and fragile our lives are: to have music, companionship, family, a roof overhead, a semblance of mental health, food on the table and the opportunity to grow — these are gifts that in Larry's songs seem tenuous, revocable, and tender.

Larry has shared the stage with such artists as Peter Mulvey, Greg Greenway, Pierce Pettis, David Broza, Cosy Sheridan, and Laura Love.