Rochester Folkus presents folk, traditional, old-time, bluegrass, and other acoustic music on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of every month at the Downstairs Cabaret Theatre, 20 Windsor Street, Rochester, NY (Near Eastman Theatre, convenient free parking, handicapped accessible, phone number for reservations (325-4370), website for information (www.DownstairsCabaret.com). $10 admission, benign and malignant beverages available.

Born in the Bronx, child of Holocaust survivors, Bonnie Abrams played Greenwich Village clubs as a teenager. Through careers as an environmental scientist, winemakers, and now a Holocaust educator, Bonnie kept writing and signing her songs, incorporating her family history and Jewish tradition, chronicling her life and the world's events. Bonnie has recorded extensively - her CD A Sudenyu of Yiddish Song is featured at the National Holocaust Museum in DC - and performed throughout the region, with her guitar and the world's biggest alto voice. Twenty-eight years ago, she partnered with Allen Hopkins, who helps with vocal harmonies, and an arsenal of instruments, from banjo to concertina.