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The Coffeehouse

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SPOTLIGHT
Many legendary coffeehouses kept their lighting deliberately dim, a single warm spotlight on the performer made the rest of the room feel like a secret shared between strangers.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
LATTE
The word latte is simply the Italian for milk; it entered everyday American café menus in earnest during the 1980s coffeehouse revival that helped launch the singer-songwriter boom.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
BALLAD
The ballad, a song that tells a story, is one of the oldest forms in folk music, carried across the Atlantic by immigrants and reshaped on American porches and street corners for generations.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
NOTEBOOK
Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and countless others were known for filling notebooks obsessively, scraps of image and rhyme that eventually became the songs a coffeehouse crowd knew by heart.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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About The Coffeehouse

Long before the concert hall, music lived in small rooms, a stool pulled close to the mic, a candle on every table, and a notebook open on a singer's knee. The coffeehouse gave folk music its most intimate stage: brick walls, steam rising from a latte, and an audience that leaned in rather than shouted out. A single acoustic guitar and a careful lyric could hold a corner of that room as completely as any arena ever held a crowd.

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