Program Board has brewed up an event that aims to please acoustic music fans and coffee lovers alike.

The Bovee University Center Rotunda Room will be transformed into an intimate coffee house setting for acoustic folk-rock musician Dave Tamkin’s performance at 8 p.m. today. Central Michigan University is a stop on his national solo tour.

Tamkin, an artist out of Chicago, is known for his unique style of rhythmic acoustic rock. He has shared the stage with groups like Guster, Willy Porter, Butch Walker, Rusted Root and the Violent Femmes.

“He plays with a band called Dave Tamkin and Co. and plays over 230 shows a year,” said Crysta Heckman, a Program Board member and Pinconning sophomore.

Heckman said this year’s Coffee House is going to be very similar to last year’s event.

“We try to set up an intimate atmosphere for the audience with an up-close and personal setting with the artist,” she said.

Program Board usually has mellow artists for the Coffee House concerts so students can hang out, drink coffee and just listen, said Dave Breed, Program Board concert chair and Muskegon sophomore.

“Dave Tamkin has a really nice acoustic sound; he’s (a) really personal guy and he writes his own music,” Breed said.

He said Program Board receives a lot of press kits and CDs from artists interested in playing at CMU.

“We had a huge bin of CDs from the press kits. We finally sat down and listened to all of them, and we really liked Tamkin’s sound. We looked into getting him to play here,” Breed said.

Breed said Tamkin’s music has been playing on the Program Board Myspace page, myspace.com/cmu_programboard.

“I checked him out online and really liked his style of music,” said Program Board member Kirsten Trombly, a Perry freshman.

Samples of Tamkin’s music are available at DaveTamkin.com.

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