COYLE — Folk and Americana songwriters Anna Tivel and Jeffrey Martin will pull into town for a show in the intimate space known as the Laurel B. Johnson Community Center, 923 Hazel Point Road, at 3 p.m. Sunday.
Admission is by donation, and listeners of all ages are welcome at the performance, another in the Concerts in the Woods series.
As always, free coffee and cookies are laid out during intermission.
Tivel, a singer, fiddler, guitarist and mandolin player, writes what she calls “wide-eyed celestial folk songs,” while Martin, an English teacher from Eugene, Ore., offers his own brand of music about life on Earth.
“I don’t sit down to write a song so much as I’m sat down by a song,” writes Martin, who has three albums: this year’s “Dogs in the Daylight,” 2012’s “Build a Home” and 2009’s “Gold in the Water.”
“People love to ask how I balance music and teaching, which one I’m more passionate about,” he said, adding that frankly, trying to balance both vocations keeps him honest.
“Songwriting,” Martin said, “pulls me deep into my head, and teaching drags me back out into the real world.”
There are days, he added, when he hates both and days when he can’t believe he gets paid to do something he loves this much.
To hear a few of his songs, visit www.JeffreyMartinMusic.com.
From Washington state
Tivel, for her part, grew up among the ferns and the farmland of northern Washington state.
She moved to Portland, Ore., where she slowly discovered the music scene as a fiddle player, then picked up the guitar and began to write.
Her latest album, “Before Machines,” was released in June on Fluff and Gravy Records.
To learn more, visit www.AnnaTivel.com, and to find details and directions to Sunday afternoon’s get-together, visit www.CoyleConcerts.com or contact host Norm Johnson at 360-765-3449 or johnson5485@msn.com.
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Features Editor Diane Urbani de la Paz can be reached at 360-452-2345, ext. 5062, or at diane.urbani@peninsuladailynews.com.