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A lot of good live acoustic music is on tap for Long Island listeners during May. Siobahn Quinn and Michael Bowers, a talented Virginia-based duo, play the Garden Stage in Garden City on May 2. The Folk Music Society of Huntington brings four truly gifted emerging artists (Joe Crookston, Anthony da Costa, Lindsay Mac and Randall Williams) to the Congregational Church in Centerport on May 3 as part of the Falcon Ridge Preview Tour (See the article about the tour that graces AcousticMusicScene.com’s home page). Canadian singer-songwriter Garnet Rogers makes a return visit to the University Café in Stony Brook on May 4. Top-notch Philadelphia-based father and son acoustic blues and roots duo Beaucoup Blue perform in the Babylon Village Arts Council’s free concert series at Astoria Savings Bank in Babylon, May 8. Dar Williams, one of the most engaging and gifted performers on today’s acoustic music scene, makes a return visit to the Landmark on Main Street in Port Washington on May 9. Arlo Guthrie brings his Solo Acoustic Tour to Bay Shore’s Boulton Center on May 10, while Michael Johnathon, singer-songwriter and host of the syndicated “WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour” performs nearby for The Eclectic Café.

We’re About 9, a stellar trio from Maryland, brings its original contemporary acoustic songs and nice harmonies to the Our Times Coffeehouse in Garden City on May 16. Former Long Islander Arlon Bennett brings his “Summer’s Voice” to the Folk Music Society’s Hard Luck Café series in Centerport on May 17, while folk-rock singer-songwriter Steve Forbert plays Bay Shore’s Boulton Center that evening.

Later in the month, talented Toronto-based singer-songwriter David Celia performs for Acoustic Long Island in St. James on May 21 and The Song Box house concert series in Seaford on May 24. The Kennedys, Pat Wictor and LI’s own Johnny Cuomo pay tribute to Bob Dylan on his 67th birthday at Stony Brook’s University Café on May 24. Noted acoustic blues guitarists Stefan Grossman and Tokio Uchida ply their craft at the Good Coffeehouse Music Parlor in Brooklyn on May 30. Singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega is at the Inter-Media Art Center (IMAC) in Huntington on May 31.

[For more information on these and many other live music choices on Long Island in May, as well as the first week in June, click on the headline.]

Spring has sprung. Crocuses are blooming. But it’s not just the birds that are singing. Throughout Long Island – from Brooklyn to the Hamptons and many places in between –a growing number of singer-songwriters, song stylists and other acoustic musicians are strutting their stuff in concerts, jams and open mics. In addition to a lot of homegrown talent, notable touring artists like Greg Brown, Tom Chapin, Jerry Douglas, Arlo Guthrie, Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen, Colin Hay, Garnet Rogers, The Roches, SONiA & Disappear Fear, Cheryl Wheeler, Dar Williams, and Jack Williams visit during April and May. So too do such emerging talents as Joe Crookston, Anthony da Costa, Lindsay Mac and Randall Williams (together as part of the Falcon Ridge Preview Tour in Centerport on May 3), as well as Marc Douglas Berardo, Lara Herscovitch and Karyn Oliver.

[For information on more than 100 acoustic music events taking place on LI through mid-May, click on the headline.]