Flagpole Radio Café will return to the stage of Edmond Town Hall on Saturday, April 6, with a 7 pm show that will feature guest artist Lucy Kaplansky.

The Flagpole Radio Café is an evening of engaging music and compelling comedy performed by an ensemble of local artists. The ensemble comprises musicians Jim Allyn, Rick Brodsky, Howie Bujese, Cadence Carroll, Chris Durham, Dick Neil, and Francine Wheeler and actors Martin Blanco, Barbara Gaines, Kate Katcher, and David Wheeler.

Tickets are $35 each and on sale through flagpoleproductions.org.

Co-Producer Martin Blanco points out that this will not be the first time for Ms Kaplansky on a Newtown stage.

“She performed a concert with The Flagpole Radio Orchestra at the Newtown Meeting House two years ago as well as a house concert in Newtown in support of Francine and David Wheeler’s foundation, Ben’s Lighthouse,” he said. “Not only is she a gifted musician with a beautiful voice, but she is an artist who has expressed great affection for Newtown.

“We’re looking forward to her appearance with much anticipation,” he added.

Lucy Kaplansky began singing in Chicago folk music clubs as a teenager. Then, barely out of high school, she left for New York City. There, she found a fertile community of songwriters and performers. With a beautiful flair for harmony, Ms Kaplansky was a favorite singing partner of many of her colleagues, but most often she found herself singing as a duo with Shawn Colvin.

People envisioned big things for them; in fact, The New York Times said it was “easy to predict stardom for her.”

Kaplansky left the musical fast track around that time, however, and pursued a doctorate in clinical psychology. Upon completing her degree, Dr Kaplansky took a job at a New York hospital working with chronically mentally ill adults, and she also started a private practice. Yet she continued to sing.

She harmonized on Shawn Colvin’s Grammy-winning “Steady On,” and on Nanci Griffith’s “Lone Star State of Mind” and “Little Love Affairs.” She also landed soundtrack credits, singing with Suzanne Vega on Pretty in Pink and with Nanci Griffith on The Firm, and several commercial credits as well including “The Heartbeat of America” for Chevrolet.

She has collaborated with friends, continues to steadily record and release her own albums, and tours and receives airplay nationally and internationally.

Kaplansky’s September 2018 release, Everyday Street, is a collection of songs weaving stories of joy, friendship, family, loss, and discovery. Her CD Ten Year Night is the No. 1 selling album of all time on the Red House Records label.

The April 6 production at Edmond Town Hall will be the final Flagpole Radio Cafe of the 2018-19 season.

Online ticket sales will close at noon the day of the show.

For additional information, contact Martin Blanco at 203-364-0898 or info@flagpoleproductions.org.