John Gorka & Lucy Kaplansky in Sellersville

John Gorka is an American singer-songwriter from New Jersey whose music centers on contemporary folk, acoustic guitar and a baritone voice. He is known for songs such as “Love Is Our Cross to Bear” and for albums including I Know, Land of the Bottom Line, Jack’s Crows and The Company You Keep. Godfrey Daniels in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was central to his early live career: he worked at the coffeehouse and began performing there before winning the New Folk competition at the Kerrville Folk Festival in 1984. He later toured in the songwriter ensemble On A Winter’s Night, then performed with Eliza Gilkyson and Lucy Kaplansky following their trio album Red Horse.

Lucy Kaplansky is an American folk singer-songwriter, born in Chicago in 1960 and closely associated with the Greenwich Village songwriting community. After stepping away from music to become a clinical psychologist, she returned to recording with the album The Tide; Flesh and Bone and Ten Year Night further established her catalog of intimate, narrative-driven songs. In 1998, she toured as a member of Cry Cry Cry, the folk trio formed with Dar Williams and Richard Shindell, and the group later reunited for concerts in 2017. She subsequently joined John Gorka and Eliza Gilkyson in the collaborative group Red Horse, which released a self-titled album and performed together in support of it.