Claudia Schmidt is back with a new CD, new tour dates and renewed enthusiasm for her craft.

Schmidt, a highly-regarded singer-songwriter returns at 8 p.m. Nov. 8 for a duo concert with Sally Rogers at Godfrey Daniels, 7 E. Fourth St., Bethlehem. Opening the concert is Bonnie Wren.

"It's been spittin' snow a bit," Schmidt says in a phone interview from her residence in the upper Midwest.

At Godfrey's, Schmidt will play old favorites. She will sing lead. Rogers will sing lead, perhaps with Schmidt accompanying on dulcimer. They'll put together the set list that day.

Schmidt recorded "Evidence of Happiness" (2012) with Connecticut-based singer-songwriter Rogers.

She describes Rogers as "a long-time musical colleague.

"When we do gigs at these folk places, we tend to bring the old folkies out," Schmidt says, laughing.

Schmidt last performed two years ago at Godfrey's with Bill Frank.

There are more musicians and singer-songwriters and fewer venues, according to Schmidt. "And it's so amazing that Godfrey Daniels is still going."

Schmidt will play tunes from her latest solo album, "New Whirled Order," released in March.

Of the clever title, she says, "It was a total accident. I was going to call it 'Already' [one of new songs on the CD].

"I was sending a mix to the record label and to my guitar player [Dean Magraw]." Schmidt scrawled "New World Order" on the copies. "And they said, 'That's the new album title.'"

The title is not a veiled commentary on the term used by Presidents Mikhail Gorbachev and George H.W. Bush to describe the post-Cold War era. "It was nothing intentional," says Schmidt.

Schmidt is back on Red House Records, for whom she last recorded in 2001. Her first label was Flying Fish Records.

"There aren't that many," Schmidt says of record companies. "Red House is among the most successful.

"A lot of people are glad to be on a record label," Schmidt says, noting labels' relationships with deejays and media. "There's so much competition out there.

"All the streaming stuff is killing musicians. And they're [online companies] not doing it for musicians. They're doing it for profit."

Not that Schmidt's complaining. She's booked well into 2015, she says.

Schmidt wrote a song, "Timless Love," for and is to be in a scene in the upcoming movie, "Neighbor Phil," starring Stephanie Zimbalist, Sally Kellerman and Bethlehem native Daniel Roebuck.

"New Whirled Oder" is Schmidt's first solo release since "Bend in the River," a 2012 retrospective CD. She's released 19 albums.

"I'm thrilled. I feel it's the best thing I've ever done," she says of "New Whirled Order."

Her Godfrey's gig is part of a three-day swing through Pennsylvania and New Jersey. After that, she tours up and down the East Coast.

Schmidt has an unabashed upbeat disposition.

"You have to have pretty thick skin to be in this business and be pretty tenacious. And I happen to have both of those. And I love my work. There's nothing I'd rather be doing."

Schmidt is eager to get back in the recording studio.

"I've written enough for a whole new CD.

"It just seems like some portal opened," Schmidt says.