Joe Iadanza Performs for Garden Stage in Garden City; Jenee Halstead, a Gifted Emerging Artist from Massachusetts, Shares May 1 Bill
 
 (Long Island, N.Y.) Roslyn-based folk-rock singer-songwriter Joe Iadanza and Somerville, Massachusetts-based contemporary folk-Americana singer-songwriter Jenee Halstead perform for the Garden Stage Coffee House concert series at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Central Nassau, 223 Stewart Avenue (at Nassau Boulevard), Garden City, on Friday, May 1.  The concert is set for 8 p.m.  Tickets are priced at $15 in advance and $17 at the door. For advance tickets, email calendar@uuccn.org.
 
Iadanza is a storyteller and sophisticated folkie with a strikingly unusual tenor voice, a foot-stomping Euro-jazz-schooled band, and a growing repertoire of smart, witty and stick-in-your-face hummable songs.  He is currently promoting his independently released studio debut, Traveling Salesman, which spans the genres of folk, rock, roots and Americana , at times harkening back to a bygone era with what critics have called a “Gatsby-ish” and “distinctly European” jazz feel.  In concert, as on the album, his soaring poetic vocals and percussive fingerstyle guitar grooves are accented by the musical talents of a unique group of classically-trained and jazz-schooled musicians. Joining Iadanza in Garden City are Craig Akin on double bass and Joe Hertenstein on drums and percussion.   For more information on Joe Iadanza, visit www.joeiadanza.com.  To hear a few of his songs, log-on to www.myspace.com/joeiadanza.
 
Halstead, who grew up in Washington State , is a gifted, young singer-songwriter whose alto voice has been described by critics as “angelic” and “as beautiful as her music is gracefully crafted.” Her self-released debut album, The River Grace, whose sound is rooted in the past yet beckons the progression of Americana , has received considerable airplay by folk radio DJs across the country in recent months. Halstead’s sound is “fresh and new, yet familiar and timeless,” says the longtime manager of Cambridge , Massachusetts ’ famed Club Passim. More information on Halstead can be found at www.jeneehalstead.com.  To hear a few of her songs, visit www.myspace.com/jeneehalstead.