Back to All Events

Friday Night Songwriter Showcase with Cliff Hillis, John Faye, and Roberta Faceplant

  • Troubles End Brewing 50 West Third Avenue Collegeville, PA, 19426 United States (map)

During his three-decade career, John Faye has been a mainstay of the Philadelphia

area music scene. As the voice and primary songwriter of the Caulfields, IKE, John &

Brittany, and his award-winning solo work, Faye’s catalog has garnered national and

international airplay, song placements in TV and film, and has landed him on stages

with over 60 national acts, including Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees REM, Bon

Jovi, Bo Diddley, Joan Jett, and the Ramones.

John has won numerous Hometown Heroes Homey Awards (DE Public Media / NPR),

recently winning “Best Pop Song” and “Best Collaboration” in 2024 for his single “Ghost

Writer” with Annalise Curtin. This comes on the heels of winning 2023 “Artist of the

Year” and “Song of the Year” for “Lightning In A Bottle,” his collaboration with Sug

Daniels.

John’s memoir, The Yin and the Yang of it All: Rock ’n’ Roll Memories from the Cusp,

as told by a Mixed-Up, Mixed-Race Kid, published in 2023 by Advantage/Forbes, is an

Amazon #1 Best Seller.

Faye plans to release his first full-length album since 2015 in the latter part of 2024, and

his recent solo singles “Sell Your Soul As An NFT!” and “Asking For A Friend” have

received airplay on WXPN, including designation as the station’s Philly Local Pick of the

Day.

Cliff Hillis

is an award winning singer/songwriter based in the Philadelphia area whose music evokes the sunny pop of the 70’s and has garnered national radio airplay. Hillis has co-written with critically acclaimed songwriters such as Rhett Miller of Old 97’s, grammy-nominated Aaron Lee Tasjan, Kelley Ryan and troubador Dan Bern.

Roberta Faceplant

Katie Feeney, the lead vocalist and songwriter for the Philly-based Outlaw Americana band Roberta Faceplant, is a honky tonk hurricane with a voice that blends the raw, rock n’ roll grit of Janis Joplin with the whimsical, western smoothness of Patsy Cline.

Later Event: September 28
Lobster Tot Martini