Coffee House at Friedens Lutheran Church feature will be Lipkin & Hitt

The next Coffee House at Friedens Lutheran Church will take place at 7 p.m. March 25. The evening's entertainment will be provided by Lipkin & Hitt featuring Lisa Jane Lipkin and Jay Hitt.

Acoustic guitar storytelling troubadour teams up with truth-seeking piano songstress to make this power-house duo of singing and songwriting called Lipkin & Hitt. Pittsburgh’s Jay Hitt and New York’s Lisa Jane Lipkin craft a musical world that is insightful, very tuneful, often playful, and sheer delight.

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Hitt, twice named Best Acoustic Musician by readers of the Pittsburgh City Paper, has seen his songs receive numerous awards including Best Song in the Canadian Narrative Music Contest. In addition to other awards, his album “Gentle Persuader” was in the top ten CD’s of the year by WYEP/Pittsburgh. His stage credits include Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera productions of “Always, Patsy Cline” and “Ring of Fire” (Johnny Cash revue).

Lipkin’s songs have received such prizes as First Place in a New York State Contest for Environmental Awareness and her composition was featured in the Tami Gold Documentary, “Passionate Politics.” On stage, she has opened for Dar Williams, Steve Forbert, Vance Gilbert, Shemekia Copeland and others. Her production credits include the award-winning children’s CD “Home” by Christine Pepe and Jay Hitt’s “Greetings from the Wilderness.”

Since their meeting in 2012, Lipkin & Hitt have graced all manner of stages and continue to enchant and entertain audiences where ever they go.

If you enjoy the music of James Taylor and Paul Simon you will like this duo. Everyone welcome! There will be refreshments and donations will be accepted at the door.

This article originally appeared on The Daily American: Featured group Lipkin & Hitt at Coffee House