Dave Dersham, Derek Sensale, Sam Bayer at Somerville Armory's Rooted Cafe Saturday Nov 1
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Somerville Songwriter Sessions
Oct 29, 2025, 9:15:08 PMOct 29
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Hi folks -
The folks at Somerville Songwriter Sessions are back with another fantastic show, this Saturday 11/1 at the Somerville Armory at 191 Highland Ave. This month, your esteemed host will be me, Sam Bayer, and my guests will be my old friend and long-time Massachusetts songwriter Dave Dersham, and Vermont-based Derek Sensale, who won the singer/songwriter category of the New England Songwriting Competition. Music starts at 7 PM, $15 at the door. Our full press release is attached. Hope to see you there!
Cheers,
Sam Bayer
for the SSS team
Somerville Songwriter Sessions at the Rooted Cafe presents singer/songwriters Dave Dersham, Derek Sensale and Sam Bayer on Saturday November 1. The show begins at 7:00 pm and
admission is $15 at the door. The Armory Cafe is at 191
Highland Avenue, Somerville, just a few blocks from the Magoun Square
Green Line T station. For more information call 617-718-2191, visit artsatthearmory.org or www.facebook.com/SomervilleSongwriterSessions or email SomervilleSongwriterSessio...@gmail.com.
Somerville Songwriter Sessions at the Rooted Cafe presents contemporary folk singer/songwriters in concert on the first Saturday of each month. The Armory Cafe features live music in an intimate setting, a menu featuring sandwiches, soups, desserts and coffees, and plenty of free parking. Our 11/1 performers:
A sly humorist, cultural critic, and melancholy optimist, Northampton’s Dave Dersham is embarking on a tour to introduce listeners to his new, long-awaited third album. Dave writes cautionary songs of submerging archipelagos, the unfolding eco-dystopia, Samoan pigskin heroes, and the wonders of farmhouse remediation in the Pioneer Valley where Dave spent his formative years, meandered, and eventually returned, despite mediocre snowpack, relentless rain, and occasional periods of humid, smoke-infused summers – perhaps the newest of the new normals.
"Dersham taps hopeful melodies and reverses lyrical expectations at every turn ...exudes a brand of humane charm that sets him apart from every other songwriter you'll see this year." – James O'Brien (NYC)
"Dersham [exhibits] dry wit to the hilt" – Boston Globe
"If you’re feeling kind of inside out and craving folk songs from a whole different direction, dive into Dave Dersham’s Another Interregnum. It’s as if you're sitting around in his living room on homemade furniture and he’s trying out his fully formed, way-out ideas on you. And guess what? The thoughts and the images flit around and land right in the place where you do your thinking. Dersham doesn’t sound like Andrew Bird or Richard Thompson, but he sure sounds like they hang out together. There is NOBODY like Dave Dersham...the Junior Seau song shot through me like an arrow from a crossbow." – Marilyn Rea Beyer, The Midnight Special and Folkstage, WFMT 98.7FM, Chicago
More at davedershammusic.com.
Derek Sensale is a Vermont-based singer-songwriter blending folk, Americana, and indie rock into warm, introspective songs rooted in place and memory. A smooth, expressive voice and thoughtful lyrics explore personal transformation, the natural world, and the quiet complexity of being human. His performances are intimate and engaging, inviting listeners into a shared space of contemplation and emotional resonance. This year, he took first place in the New England Songwriting Competition’s singer-songwriter category, also earning placements in several other categories as well. More at instagram.com/dereksensale.
Boston musician Sam Bayer is your literate, exuberant guide to an imaginary world where housewives win the Nobel Prize in physics, poker-playing children gamble over their bedtimes, and metaphorical elephants pirouette in the den, four and a half minutes at a time. His latest studio CD Bad Apple brings 11 gems from his universe to yours. More at sambayer.com.
Somerville Songwriter Sessions at the Rooted Cafe presents contemporary folk singer/songwriters in concert on the first Saturday of each month. The Armory Cafe features live music in an intimate setting, a menu featuring sandwiches, soups, desserts and coffees, and plenty of free parking. Our 11/1 performers:
A sly humorist, cultural critic, and melancholy optimist, Northampton’s Dave Dersham is embarking on a tour to introduce listeners to his new, long-awaited third album. Dave writes cautionary songs of submerging archipelagos, the unfolding eco-dystopia, Samoan pigskin heroes, and the wonders of farmhouse remediation in the Pioneer Valley where Dave spent his formative years, meandered, and eventually returned, despite mediocre snowpack, relentless rain, and occasional periods of humid, smoke-infused summers – perhaps the newest of the new normals.
"Dersham taps hopeful melodies and reverses lyrical expectations at every turn ...exudes a brand of humane charm that sets him apart from every other songwriter you'll see this year." – James O'Brien (NYC)
"Dersham [exhibits] dry wit to the hilt" – Boston Globe
"If you’re feeling kind of inside out and craving folk songs from a whole different direction, dive into Dave Dersham’s Another Interregnum. It’s as if you're sitting around in his living room on homemade furniture and he’s trying out his fully formed, way-out ideas on you. And guess what? The thoughts and the images flit around and land right in the place where you do your thinking. Dersham doesn’t sound like Andrew Bird or Richard Thompson, but he sure sounds like they hang out together. There is NOBODY like Dave Dersham...the Junior Seau song shot through me like an arrow from a crossbow." – Marilyn Rea Beyer, The Midnight Special and Folkstage, WFMT 98.7FM, Chicago
More at davedershammusic.com.
Derek Sensale is a Vermont-based singer-songwriter blending folk, Americana, and indie rock into warm, introspective songs rooted in place and memory. A smooth, expressive voice and thoughtful lyrics explore personal transformation, the natural world, and the quiet complexity of being human. His performances are intimate and engaging, inviting listeners into a shared space of contemplation and emotional resonance. This year, he took first place in the New England Songwriting Competition’s singer-songwriter category, also earning placements in several other categories as well. More at instagram.com/dereksensale.
Boston musician Sam Bayer is your literate, exuberant guide to an imaginary world where housewives win the Nobel Prize in physics, poker-playing children gamble over their bedtimes, and metaphorical elephants pirouette in the den, four and a half minutes at a time. His latest studio CD Bad Apple brings 11 gems from his universe to yours. More at sambayer.com.
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