Arts & Entertainment
WAUMC coffee house to welcome finger-style guitar sensation Macyn Taylor
Milwaukee’s own finger-style, acoustic guitarist, banjo player and singer 17-year-old Macyn Taylor will take the Wauwatosa Avenue United Methodist Church community coffee house stage, 1529 Wauwatosa Ave., beginning at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 2.
Admission is $6 and parking is available behind the church off of Underwood Avenue.
Taylor’s repertoire is far-ranging with selections from country, bluegrass, Celtic, traditional hymns and more. She has been playing guitar since the age of 7 when her Brownie Girl Scout troop staged a talent show at a local nursing home.
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In December, she earned a bachelor’s degree in finger-style guitar from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she is currently pursuing a master’s.
“A remarkable guitarist with versatility, chops and character well beyond her age,” is how writer Piet Levy described Taylor in an April 25, 2012 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article.
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Following Taylor’s opening set, the blues-playing Cedar River Travelers and local mandolinist and fiddler Eric Langford will take the stage. Taylor will wrap up the evening’s entertainment with a second set of tunes.
Prior to the start of the June 2 coffee house, WAUMC youth will host a brat fry at 5:45 p.m. in the church’s southwest parking lot.
Proceeds will support their Appalachia Service Project mission trip to Kentucky in June. A team of young people and adult counselors will spend a week working to make homes in that economically-depressed area warmer, safer and drier for families in need.
Wauwatosa Avenue United Methodist Church dates back to 1848 and began with 42-members. Today, the congregation is more than 400 strong and firmly committed to inclusiveness, celebrating a diversity of people, ideas and cultures.
WAUMC offers two Sunday services, Christian education classes for individuals ages 3 through adult, a variety of adult and youth music programs and Girl Scout and Boy Scout troops. The congregation is involved with more than a dozen local, national and international mission outreach efforts.
For more information, call 414-453-0700 or visit www.waumc.org.
