Chicago North Shore Live Music Lovers

***** NOTE - Follow the instructions on the link below to order tickets for the show. Some do sell out, so advance tickets are recommended *****

http://acousticren.com/index.htm

"Anne Hills is such an exquisite singer that it's understandable that people might be swept up in the pure beauty of her voice and thereby overlook her writing. That would be a mistake. For me, Anne's writing, in songs like 'Follow That Road' and many others, is as direct, melodic and deep as any work being done today. She is quite simply one of my absolute favorite songwriters." - Tom Paxton

As a singer, actress, writer, and musician Anne Hills has continuously built a reputation of merit. During her career, she has received numerous honors and awards including, most recently, the 2019 Woodstock Folk Festival Lifetime Achievement Award.

***** NOTE - This is a concert in a private home. Please call or email Anita to get the location and reserve space. *****

Sun March 23 Northbrook Il House Concert 3pm Home of Anita Silvert You must reserve ahead at anita 613@ gmail.com or 847-302-1155 Sugg $25 pay at door

If it were the intention of the creator or creators of this universe to perfectly blend together the night sky with moon and stars, it might have been their intention as well to deliver Claudia Schmidt as their messenger of reminder.

To say that Schmidt is simply a performer with a talent to entertain would be a miscarriage of understatement. Schmidt takes her audiences into her world as easily as the child who discovers the endless universes that exist in a cardboard box.

From lying on sandy beaches under an endless barrage of northern lights, to the expected anguish and frustration of spinning tires on cars stuck deep in snow, from the age-old struggle of change between adolescence and adulthood to the observation of sheer idiocy, she leaves it to the imagination of her audience to conjure their own images of her storytelling and song. No interpretation of a Claudia Schmidt song or story is wrong-she invites audiences to tie their associations to her style.

Schmidt weaves her way through her concert in much the same manner as a jester. Interwoven anecdotes, revealing her past and present, bring people to expect a relationship between themselves and memories driven deep with the passage of time. The concert is an endless display of self-realization through humor and longing, leaving audience members yearning to become an integral part of her world.
Having performed on stages across the country, Schmidt has developed the ability to remain fresh. She enjoys her talent to entertain as much as the audience enjoys being entertained.

(Door County Advocate, Wisconsin)

## Join us for the Woodstock Folk Festival Spring Benefit Concert on Sunday, April 27, at 2 pm. We will meet at Stage Left Cafe, 125 W. Van Buren Street, next to the Opera House, on the historic Square in Woodstock, Illinois.

Performers include Tricia Alexander, John Benischek, Mark Dvorak, Val Leventhal, Terry Loncaric, Lia Nicine McCoo & Keryn Moriyah, Les Urban, and Russ & Diane Ward. This year’s theme is “Becoming the United States of America: Songs of Liberty, Justice, and Unity.”