Enfield High School Graduate to Open for 10,000 Maniacs

NEW YORK, NY — One of the most critically-acclaimed bands of the past three decades will be performing in New York City later this month, and an Enfield High School graduate will be their opening act.

10,000 Maniacs will play Aug. 20 at the Highline Ballroom at 431 West 16th Street in Manhattan. The group, which formed in 1981, helped define college rock and created the first wave of alternative rock bands and what became known as the alternative rock format on FM radio.

Opening the show will be Cassandra Kubinski, a 2001 Enfield graduate who will shortly be releasing her fifth effort, an EP entitled Onward. Late last year, the singer-songwriter worked with 10,000 Maniacs singer Mary Ramsey and Goo Goo Dolls frontman John Rzeznik to re-make Kubinski's 2013 autism anthem, “Not So Different."

"I'm beyond honored to warm up the crowd for these amazing musicians and humans," Kubinski wrote on her Facebook page.

Kubinski has garnered numerous accolades in her career, including the Abe Olman Scholarship from the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2006, third place in the 2006 Billboard World Song Contest with "Wherever You Wait" from her EP Hiding Underneath, and a 2016 Women In Sync Award for Best Original Music in a TV Show with “Deeper” from the Lifetime Channel show Dance Moms.

Tickets for the concert are $55 and $35, and may be reserved by clicking here.

More information about Cassandra Kubinski can be found at www.cassandrakubinski.com.

Photo courtesy of www.cassandrakubinski.com