Live at the Gallery

October 23 Live at the Gallery: Cait Coller + Larry Lawson

Cait Coller is a Shamokin native who grew up singing and playing music with her family, surrounded by very talented siblings, parents, and grandparents. She has frequented the local music scene over the course of 15 years, playing in bars, coffee shops, and listening rooms throughout the Susquehanna River Valley. Her musical inspirations come from classic folk, indie, and americana artists but she believes a good song transcends genre.

Larry Lawson has been singing since he could talk, playing guitar since college, and writing songs for fifty years. (He’s the first to admit that the early songs were not very good.) In his twenties and thirties, he scratched out a living playing college concerts, small clubs, and bars from New England to Virginia and west as far as Wisconsin.

He retired from that life in 1983 and became a teacher of literature and writing, first at Middleburg High School, and later at Selinsgrove. In the late 1990’s he teamed up with Joe DeCristopher and Carl Kirby to form Lawson and Disorder, and in that partnership his songwriting began to blossom.

He has two albums to his credit: an actual vinyl disc from 1979 and, in 2013, Too Old to Start at the Bottom, with Joe and Carl. In addition, several of his songs have been featured on the Songs of the Susquehanna CD series.

These days he writes songs about the profound joys that abound in this world, and almost all of them come back to love, in one form or another.

More About Live at the Gallery

Produced by long time Lewisburg resident and acclaimed NYC artist, Phil Haynes, in collaboration with and for the Lewisburg Arts Council, Fourth Thursday will showcase Lewisburg as a cultural center of the Susquehanna Valley.  

On the fourth Thursday evening of each month in 2025, Live at the Gallery will present culturally and ethnically diverse intimate performance presentations, from our Lewisburg community and beyond, including ‘pop to jazz to folk to classical’: singer-songwriters, instrumentalists, theater performers, poets, pianists, and much more. We plan to draw upon performers from our public schools, talented area amateurs, assorted regional professionals, as well as Bucknell University students, faculty, and staff to create a most colorful and entertaining series.  

All performances will be free, family friendly programming and open and welcoming to the public.