Blue Café performance by pianist Ben Cosgrove
Wed, Apr 29
|Camden Opera House
Blue Café performance by pianist Ben Cosgrove, in the third floor listening room. Ben will be playing our recently acquired Steinway baby grand. Seating is limited; doors at 29 Elm St. open at 7 p.m. Free admission, all welcome. Donations to the Community Arts Fund welcomed.
Time & Location
Apr 29, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Camden Opera House , 29 Elm St, Camden, ME 04843, USA
About the Event
Blue Café presents a performance by pianist Ben Cosgrove
Ben Cosgrove is a traveling composer, pianist, and multi-instrumentalist based in northern New England. He performs regularly all over the country, presenting a unique variety of original instrumental music that explores themes of landscape, geography, and environment while straddling a line between the folk and classical genres. “Geography is Cosgrove’s muse,” writes the Boston Globe. “Like a sonic plein-air painter, [he] uses his piano as a paintbrush — and he’s made a name for himself doing it.” Ben’s “electric and exhilarating” solo piano performances are at once dazzling and intimate: music that has been described as “stunning” and “compelling and powerful,” — Red Line Roots has called him “stupidly talented” — all presented with “warmth, humor, honesty, and the easy familiarity of a troubadour.” Sound of Boston described him as "an expert at painting sonic portraits of curious, unexpected places."
Throughout his…