The Community Concert Hall introduces a first in our new Songwriters Showcase series on Tuesday, February 13 at 7:30 pm featuring internationally renowned songwriters Anthony D’Amato and Thom Chacon. Anthony and Thom will be swapping stories and sharing songs throughout the evening to a limited, audience seated on Concert Hall stage with the artists.  Seating is limited and tickets are $35.

Anthony D’Amato first emerged to international acclaim with the 2014 release of ‘The Shipwreck From The Shore,’ his New West Records debut. Inspired in part by time spent studying with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Irish poet Paul Muldoon, the album garnered rave reviews on both sides of the pond, with NPR inviting D’Amato for a Tiny Desk Concert and lauding that “he writes in the tradition of Bruce Springsteen or Josh Ritter," and Uncut proclaiming that his songwriting "echoes with early Bob Dylan." D’Amato followed it up in 2016 with the Mike Mogis-produced ‘Cold Snap,’ which earned him his first national TV appearance along with an Artist You Need To Know nod from Rolling Stone, who hailed his writing as “folk music raised on New Jersey grit.” D'Amato’s latest collection, ‘At First There Was Nothing,’ is out now on Blue Rose Music to career-best reviews, with MOJO awarding it four stars and American Songwriter praising it as “a new masterpiece” that’s “moving, memorable, and extraordinarily affecting in every regard.” D’Amato appeared on NPR’s Weekend Edition and Mountain Stage in support of the record and toured extensively with Grammy-winner Keb’ Mo’ following its release.

With an acoustic guitar and a weathered voice, Thom Chacon, the Durango, Colorado balladeer breathes life into the Characters he creates on paper. Chacon’s current nine-song manifesto, "Marigolds and Ghosts" (Pie/Appaloosa Records) is filled with his one of a kind, hardscrabble American storytelling. In 2023, Thom added actor to his artist credentials. Recent projects include a lead role in TV’s, Wild West Chronicles, a supporting role and original song in the feature film, "5 Outlaws" and the lead in the short film, “Ghost Town.” When he's not guiding fly-fishing in the Rockies, you can find Thom Chacon telling a story through music and film.