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Ben Cosgrove
May 11, 2025 @ 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
| $10Join us on Mother’s Night! Ben Cosgrove, pianist extraordinaire, will take you on a spectacular, emotional journey through his music. If you have an affinity for piano, this is a must experience show. We ask for a minimum $10 cash per adult listener with all $$ going to the artist. The show will take place on the porch or outside (weather permitting).
Food and drink are available for sale from the bar. There will be no server on the porch during the performance. Kitchen closes at 7pm on Sunday.
Food and drink are available for sale from the bar. There will be no server on the porch during the performance. Kitchen closes at 7pm on Sunday.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
MUSICIAN, WRITER, & LANDSCAPE ENTHUSIAST
Ben Cosgrove is a traveling composer-performer whose music explores themes of landscape, place, and environment. Ben has performed across the US, collaborated with artists ranging from Palaver Strings to Ghost of Paul Revere, and held artist residencies and fellowships with institutions including the National Park Service, the National Forest Service, Harvard University, Middlebury College, the Schmidt Ocean Institute, NASA, and the Sitka Center for Art & Ecology.
Ben’s fourth studio album, The Trouble With Wilderness, an evocation of different expressions of nature and wildness within the built environment, was released earlier this year. The album has been the subject of an episode of the NHPR show Outside/In, was deemed one of the best new releases of spring 2021 by WBUR, and has been called “beautiful and fascinating” (The Maine Edge), “deeply impressive” (Independent Clauses) and “immediately evocative and fully arresting… brim[ming] with technical mastery and emotional capital” (Seven Days).
Ben travels constantly all over the country, performing a unique variety of original instrumental music that explores themes of landscape, geography, and environment while straddling a line between folk and classical music. His “electric and exhilarating” live performances are at once dazzling and intimate: music that has been described as “stunning” and “compelling and powerful,” — Red Line Roots has called him “stupidly talented” — all presented with “warmth, humor, honesty, and the easy familiarity of a troubadour.”
Throughout his career, the strongest forces guiding Ben’s composition and performances have been his deep and abiding interests in landscape, geography, place, and environment. For years, he has been fascinated and inspired by the different ways people understand and interact with the landscapes around them, and through songs with names like “Prairie Fire,” “Champlain,” “Little Rain,” “Nashua,” “Sigurd F. Olson,” “Kennebec,” and others, he seeks to explore those relationships and reflect them in sound. “I don’t think of my pieces as rendering places in music,” he once remarked in an interview in Harvard Magazine, “but more just as a way of responding to places musically. Writing music just turns out to be a great way for me to process the world.”
Do not miss this insanely talented performer in this magical space. We hope you can join us.
MUSICIAN, WRITER, & LANDSCAPE ENTHUSIAST
Ben Cosgrove is a traveling composer-performer whose music explores themes of landscape, place, and environment. Ben has performed across the US, collaborated with artists ranging from Palaver Strings to Ghost of Paul Revere, and held artist residencies and fellowships with institutions including the National Park Service, the National Forest Service, Harvard University, Middlebury College, the Schmidt Ocean Institute, NASA, and the Sitka Center for Art & Ecology.
Ben’s fourth studio album, The Trouble With Wilderness, an evocation of different expressions of nature and wildness within the built environment, was released earlier this year. The album has been the subject of an episode of the NHPR show Outside/In, was deemed one of the best new releases of spring 2021 by WBUR, and has been called “beautiful and fascinating” (The Maine Edge), “deeply impressive” (Independent Clauses) and “immediately evocative and fully arresting… brim[ming] with technical mastery and emotional capital” (Seven Days).
Ben travels constantly all over the country, performing a unique variety of original instrumental music that explores themes of landscape, geography, and environment while straddling a line between folk and classical music. His “electric and exhilarating” live performances are at once dazzling and intimate: music that has been described as “stunning” and “compelling and powerful,” — Red Line Roots has called him “stupidly talented” — all presented with “warmth, humor, honesty, and the easy familiarity of a troubadour.”
Throughout his career, the strongest forces guiding Ben’s composition and performances have been his deep and abiding interests in landscape, geography, place, and environment. For years, he has been fascinated and inspired by the different ways people understand and interact with the landscapes around them, and through songs with names like “Prairie Fire,” “Champlain,” “Little Rain,” “Nashua,” “Sigurd F. Olson,” “Kennebec,” and others, he seeks to explore those relationships and reflect them in sound. “I don’t think of my pieces as rendering places in music,” he once remarked in an interview in Harvard Magazine, “but more just as a way of responding to places musically. Writing music just turns out to be a great way for me to process the world.”
Do not miss this insanely talented performer in this magical space. We hope you can join us.