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Buskin and Batteau -- Happy Folk
May 24, 2026 at The Cotuit Center for the Arts
The weather was a bit wet Sunday afternoon May 24, but on the stage of the cozy Cotuit Center for the Arts, the humor was dry. (OK, maybe it did tend toward the broad side, but it was unerringly funny.)
HCCC members enjoyed an intimate and very much upbeat folk concert (not always a contradiction in terms) performed by five masters of the genre: the duo of David Buskin and Robin Batteau, joined by Christine Lavin, John Forster, and Carla Ulbrich.
Leavened by melodic Buskin and Batteau classics such as Heart of the Audience and The Boy With The Violin, the two collaborative sets included Lavin’s ever-fresh ode to Sensitive New Age Guys, Forster’s tribute to Massachusetts town signs (with some interesting political history), and Ulbrich’s popular CPAP Song.
The performers seemed to have a good time, as HCCC members most certainly did. And at least forty percent of those on stage were Harvardians: Forster graduated from the college in 1969, while Batteau’s academic odyssey resulted in an integrative biology degree (and lots of lyric poetry) in 2022 -- more than half a century after he’d embarked (see The 74-year-old Harvard graduate — Harvard Gazette).