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Two Connecticut State Troubadours Playing In Bethany on Saturday December 3rd

Connecticut State Troubadours Chuck E. Costa and Hugh Blumenfeld perform together at the next Lakeview Lodge Concert Series show on Saturday 12/3. Tickets onsale at www.lakeviewlodgemusic.org

The Lakeview Lodge Concert Series continues on Saturday December 3rd featuring a concert with current State Troubadour Chuck E. Costa along with former Troubadour turned medical doctor Hugh Blumenfeld.

Chuck E. Costa's candid and visceral delivery of literate and well-crafted contemporary folk tunes has steadily raised his profile on the national club, coffeehouse and festival circuits.

Chuck never started playing guitar. Instead, he started rummaging through the basement in search of his grandfather's baseball cards. Meddling through stacks of old china and piles of winter coats, he never found them. Something found him instead. Strumming it's scraggly strings; a progression of broken chords, he played with an honesty and innocence that would be preserved in the songs he would later write.

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Since earning a degree in philosophy in Boulder, Chuck, a native New Yorker, returned to the Northeast and released 4 independent albums and 2 EPs since 2002. He is a modern day troubadour who has been touring the country consistently for several years cutting his teeth as a performer and songwriter. With his dulcet voice and emotive lyrics Chuck has grown into a singer/songwriter with a unique and honest voice.

Hugh Blumenfeld is an American folk musician and singer-songwriter from Connecticut. He was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, graduated with degrees in Biology and Humanities from M.I.T. in 1980, and got a Masters in English Literature from the University of Chicago in 1981. He was active in the Greenwich Village music scene in the 1980s, attending the Cornelia Street Songwriters Exchange and performing at Folk City and Speak Easy while working on a PhD in Poetics from New York University. He also helped to edit the Fast Folk Musical Magazine (now part of the Smithsonian-Folkways collection) and recorded songs for a dozen issues. After earning his PhD in 1991, he worked as an English professor until 1994, when he began writing and performing full time. Over the next 10 years he toured mainly in the Northeast and Midwest, with several short tours in Europe and one in Israel. In 1999 he was appointed Connecticut State Troubadour.

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In the fall of 2003, after many forays into the realm of music and healing, he enrolled in medical school at the University of Connecticut and became an MD in the field of family medicine.

Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door. Children 16 and under are FREE. A portion of the proceeds going to the Connecticut Food Bank. You can buy your tickets online at: www.lakeviewlodgemusic.org and be sure to 'like' Lakeview Lodge on Facebook at facebook.com/lakeviewlodge

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