Colin McCaffrey and Brett Hughes with Special Guest Jim Rooney
Friday , January 17, 7 pm
Colin McCaffrey is a well loved regular at Seven Stars and on this evening he will be joined by "country crooner" Brett Hughes.
Brett Hughes has been a long-time collaborator in the dynamic Burlington, Vermont music scene, as member of seminal local and regional bands, and has been a singer/songwriter/bandleader in myriad VT-based outfits.
In 2005, he won a regional Emmy Award for soundtrack composition (for Jay Craven's Windy Acres on Vermont Public Television), and was voted Vermont’s 2023 and 2024 Best Country Artist in the Vermont weekly Seven Days “Daysies” poll.
Colin McCaffrey is a native Vermonter, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and award-winning record producer who has worked on hundreds of regional recordings and live productions. Lending his smooth voice and string wizardry to the best music coming out of these hills, Colin McCaffrey is what the Burlington Free Press calls "A Green Mountain treasure worth unearthing."
JIM ROONEY knows how to bring folks together, he has a deep love of gathering us all around some very fine musicians. And he regales audiences with his entertaining stories of the road, and his own wonderful interpretations of the excellent old-time traditional and country repertoire of music. He is a Grammy winning producer and best known for his work with Nanci Griffith, John Prine, Iris DeMent, and Hal Ketchum, to name a few. For over 50 years Jim partnered with the legendary banjo player Bill Keith, recording several landmark recordings together.
Friday , January 17, 7 pm
Colin McCaffrey is a well loved regular at Seven Stars and on this evening he will be joined by "country crooner" Brett Hughes.
Brett Hughes has been a long-time collaborator in the dynamic Burlington, Vermont music scene, as member of seminal local and regional bands, and has been a singer/songwriter/bandleader in myriad VT-based outfits.
In 2005, he won a regional Emmy Award for soundtrack composition (for Jay Craven's Windy Acres on Vermont Public Television), and was voted Vermont’s 2023 and 2024 Best Country Artist in the Vermont weekly Seven Days “Daysies” poll.
Colin McCaffrey is a native Vermonter, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and award-winning record producer who has worked on hundreds of regional recordings and live productions. Lending his smooth voice and string wizardry to the best music coming out of these hills, Colin McCaffrey is what the Burlington Free Press calls "A Green Mountain treasure worth unearthing."
JIM ROONEY knows how to bring folks together, he has a deep love of gathering us all around some very fine musicians. And he regales audiences with his entertaining stories of the road, and his own wonderful interpretations of the excellent old-time traditional and country repertoire of music. He is a Grammy winning producer and best known for his work with Nanci Griffith, John Prine, Iris DeMent, and Hal Ketchum, to name a few. For over 50 years Jim partnered with the legendary banjo player Bill Keith, recording several landmark recordings together.
