HONESDALE, PA — Ithaca NY-based artist Joe Crookston (www.joecrookston.com) will perform a RiverFolk Concert at The Cooperage on Saturday, May 9 at 7:30 p.m. Doors open at 7.

Crookston is an artist, writer, guitar picker, painter, claw hammer guitar player, eco-village member and believer in all things possible. He takes his listeners along mystical, historical and humorous twists through personal stories along the way. Crookston’s CD, “Able Baker Charlie & Dog” received the most airplay of any folk acoustic recording and was awarded Album of the Year in 2009 by the International Folk Alliance in Memphis, TN. He made the Top 10 Artists of 2014 list on the Folk DJ charts, along with Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, John McCutcheon, John Gorka and the Stray Birds.

Joe says, “I am learning to trust that my voice as a songwriter is a combination of my conscious and unconscious mind. More and more I find that when I tell my story from both of these realms, it has wider breadth, deeper impact, and resonates more clearly....

“I see my job as an artist to have the confidence to sing, play and perform from this deep/true place inside of myself despite what is hip and cool at the moment.”