Over the past three decades as a songwriter, singer and performer, Sloan Wainwright has played the great concert halls, the most storied listening rooms and top music festivals. As a teacher, coach and mentor, she has taught at the nation’s leading music retreats, influencing and encouraging hundreds of students on their creative journeys. 

But one of her favorite roles is that of collaborator, which includes her annual holiday show, which fans affectionately know as the big “Whiz-Bang Shindig,” which will celebrate its 27th year on Saturday, December 6 at 8 pm at the Towne Crier Cafe in Beacon. Along with the Sloan Wainwright Band and her merry posse of harmony-singing “Sloan Flakes,” special guests will include Sloan’s own granddaughters. 

While she is also a member of a storied family of artists, (including brother Loudon Wainwright, sister-in-law Kate McGarrigle, nephew Rufus Wainwright and nieces Martha Wainwright and Lucy Wainwright Roche), since childhood Wainwright has always walked the artistic path all on her own, with a keen interest in creatively observing and sharing her view of the world that has never diminished and serves as a joyous, spiritual path. Tickets $35 in advance or $40 on the door. Tickets available in the link below.