Thu, May 23
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
David Berkeley, 140 Goats and a Guitar: The Stories Behind Some Kind of Cure
An evening of "musical poetry" - A Concert and Reading. David Berkeley’s gift as a songwriter and storyteller is that he sees the tragedy and comedy in life, writing songs capable of both breaking and healing the heart.
Date, Time & Location
May 23, 2024, 6:00 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
This will be an in-store event and will be livestreamed to Zoom. Register to watch on Zoom here.
Purchase 140 Goats and a Guitar from CW - call the store to order (505) 988-4226.
Singer-songwriter David Berkeley is a romantic realist, known for his ability to look at the human condition in all its complexity and give us luminous songs full of sunshine and anguish, melancholy and delight. He is a natural storyteller, as anyone who has seen him perform or heard his piece on This American Life knows.
In 140 Goats and a Guitar, his authorial debut, Berkeley proves that he is an equally gifted writer, with a voice as a distinct as the rich baritone he sings with. 140 Goats offers 13 stories, one for each song on his album Some Kind of Cure, written primarily while he lived for a year in a tiny mountain village on…