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More Great Announcements From The 2017 Newport Folk Festival
The Newport Folk Festival continues its lineup announcements!
Newport Folk Festival Trademarked Logo
The Writer And Subject Of “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” Performing Together At The Lowell Summer Music Series
The Lowell Summer Music Series announced its third show of the 2017 season and it is a doozy! Stephen Stills and Judy Collins are performing on a co-bill on Sunday, August 20th! Wow!!!
ZUMIX Closes Its 25th Anniversary Year With A Fundraiser By Boston DJs
[Boston, MA – February 21, 2017] “It’s been a busy and rich quarter century for the creative youth development East Boston nonprofit ZUMIX. Founded in 1991, its leaders set out to empower youth through music to make strong positive change in their lives, their communities, and the world. At the 25 year mark, ZUMIX celebrates many milestones including serving over 10,000 youth and becoming the “second home” for many; winning the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award in 2011, presented by First Lady Michelle Obama; expanding into its 3-floor Firehouse location which houses its many types of music instruction, a state of the art recording studio and an all ages live concert venue; and in September 2016, after 10 years of streaming its youth radio station online, launched 94.9 ZUMIX Radio, a community radio station. Further, last year Boston Landmark’s Orchestra commissioned Grammy-nominated composer Gonzalo Grau to work with ZUMIX students over 8 months, culminating with a live concert performance on Boston’s Hatch Shell.
ZUMIX (Official Photo)
Come To This Rare Solo Acoustic Show By Jon Langford
Come to Atwood’s Tavern tomorrow, February 28th, for a rare solo acoustic, career-spanning show by Jon Langford! There will be his artwork as well! Tickets are still available, and there will be some at the door in the event online tickets sell out.
Jon Langford (official photo)
The Announcements For The 2017 Newport Folk Festival Lineup Continue
The Newport Folk Festival continues its lineup announcements!
Newport Folk Festival Trademarked Logo
The 2017 Lowell Summer Music Series Adds To The Lineup
The Lowell Summer Music Series announced its second show of the 2017 season and it marks the return of Michael Franti & Spearhead on Friday, June 16th! I loved their performance several years ago and look forward to seeing them here again.
John Scofield Plays Country Music? Yes, He Does!
I know John Scofield‘s jazz as well as his work with Medeski Martin and Wood, and was intrigued enough when I read the description of this project to attend a show at Regattabar (one of four that weekend). I am so glad I did!
John Scofield
Go See Girls Guns And Glory Now!
I was quite excited for the Girls Guns and Glory show at The Sinclair recently. Not only is this one of my favorite bands, but Julie Rhodes – another favorite – opened the show! How great is it to be able to see friends knock it out of the park at a wonderful venue with an alleviating audience that was large despite competing with a Patriots playoff game!
Girls Guns and Glory
Julie Rhodes
Bluegrass At Its Finest
Del and Dawg – Del McCoury and David Grisman – are a couple of the finest bluegrass musicians making music today so the prospect of seeing them share the stage at The Cabot excited me.
Dawg and Del
An Evening Of Extraordinary Music
The On Stage! Series at The Chevalier Theatre was an ideal venue to host the incredible Shun Ng and the Shunettes on a lovely winter evening. This series seats around one hundred people at cloth-covered tables on the stage along with the musicians.
Shun Ng and the Shunettes
I am extremely familiar with Shun and his superb guitar playing, but have only seen him with the Shunettes (Deon Mose and Angel Chisholm) a couple of times (including a very cold New Year’s Day outdoor show). I am almost at a loss for words to describe the power of these artists.
suze reviews the blues 