Common Fence Music is celebrating its 20th year of offering quality folk and roots concerts and educational workshops to the people of Newport County and the greater Southern New England area. Please consider embracing our mission of preserving culturally relevant, but underexposed music, by donating an amount of your choice. All donations are tax deductible.

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Susan Werner

Singer-Songwriter / Comedienne / Active Mind
& Community Supported Agriculture Advocate
May 18, 8 pm, doors 7:00 pm
933 Anthony Road
$25 advance / $28 door
Susan Werner
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Concerts and Occasional Workshops
of Folk, Roots and World Music
at the Common Fence Point Community Hall in Portsmouth and
Common Fence Music at Channing Church
in Newport, Rhode Island

Common Fence Music is a small non-profit focused on presenting music and music education in a people-oriented and sustainable community setting. It draws its inspiration from the early days of the Newport Folk & Jazz Festivals where the public encountered musicians both in concerts and in workshops; and the potential of human expression, and not financial profit, was the bottom line.

Connecting the Beats: Bringing African and Afro-Caribbean Percussion Music to the Youth of Newport County, which owes its continued success to The Newport County Fund of the Rhode Island Foundation, will commence its third year this Fall.

A Sampling of Connecting the Beats

Jesus Andujar, Dominican master drummer, teaching a workshop at Roger's High School

Obuamah Addy of Ghana, West Africa, and students performing at The Boys and Girls Club of Newport County, Park Holm location.

Park Holm after-school aspiring drummers

Lydia Perez, Puerto Rican singer, dancer and percussionist with two young dancers in the Portsmouth Action for Youth after-school program at Hathaway School

Tony Fonseca of All Hands Drumming at the Boys and Girls Club of Newport County, Church Street location

All Hands Drumming at the Boys and Girls Club of Newport County, Church Street location

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The board and volunteers deeply appreciate the support of its faithful public; individual and family trust donors; Rhode Island State Council on the Arts RISCA provider of general operating support; contributors to The Newport County Fund of The Rhode Island Foundation RIF/NCF funder of Connecting the Beats: Bringing African & African-Caribbean Drumming to the Youth of Newport County; and New England Foundation for the Arts NEFA, occasional underwriter of concerts and workshops.

Things you can do on the Common Fence Music website:

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Join our e-mail list, e-notes.

What is Common Fence Music?

Common Fence Music is a 501(c)(3), non-profit organization dedicated to presenting concerts and occasional workshops of folk, roots and world music and other underexposed, but culturally relevant styles and performers.

Common Fence Music began as an activity of the Common Fence Point Improvement Association in 1993 but became a separate organization soon after. Today we work side by side with our friends in the Association to keep the hall vibrant for all who rent the room for various functions. CFPIA Community Hall is a special place as this neighborhood community gathering spot was built as a country music dance hall and it has great live sound. The atmosphere is congenial with tables fanning out around the stage. And, there is plenty of free parking.

And don't forget Common Fence Music's "folk tailgate" tradition at The Picnic Series when the doors open at 7 pm. Bring along your own meal and beverages (no corking fee!). In a relaxed and convivial atmosphere, folks share conversation as they pass around appetizers and entrées before settling in to enjoy the evening's program . . . a memorable night's entertainment that won't break the budget.