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The New Shows Keep on Coming!
This week’s announcements are pretty stellar!
Guster at Lowell Memorial Auditorium – Saturday, November 16 (this is a benefit show for the Greater Boston Food Bank being sponsored by WXRV FM radio)
Gary Burton at Berklee Performance Center – Tuesday, November 12
Preservation Hall Jazz Band at The Sinclair – Tuesday, November 19 ($10 show – amazing price for this band)
Hard Working Americans (Todd Snider’s new project) at Brighton Music Hall – Friday, January 24
Beth Orton at The Orpheum – Thursday, February 13
Railroad Earth at House of Blues – Friday, February 21
Big Head Todd & the Monsters at House of Blues – Saturday, February 22
Lord Huron with Night Beds at The Royale – Tuesday, February 4
Kings of Leon with Gary Clark, Jr. at TD Garden – Friday, February 28
Sam Bush at The Wilbur Theatre – Wednesday, March 12 (rescheduled from October 26)
I saw an interesting band name this week – Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin (performed at Great Scott on October 22)
Great Evening of Toe-Tapping Music
Laney Jones
I love bluegrass music! There, I said it… I went to Club Passim tonight to hear Laney Jones, a young bluegrass banjo/ukelele/harmonica player who writes all her own material, who was opening for Nora Jane Struthers.
Nora Jane Struthers
They each perform different styles of bluegrass/Americana, but their styles mesh well for a double-bill show. Read the rest of this entry
All of Our Feelings at Once, Off-Broadway!
What an unusual event for me! I rarely go to comedy shows – no, it’s not because I have no sense of humor! They just don’t seem to be on my radar, which is a shame if most of them are as good as the performance by the Chicago troupe All of Our Feelings at Once. Read the rest of this entry
Wonderful Evening of Desert Blues from Terakaft
Terakaft
I am a fairly recent convert to the joys of African music in general and desert blues in particular. I discovered Terakaft because I received that oh-so-common suggestion of ‘If you like X, you’ll love Y.’ In this case, X was Tinariwen and Y was Terakaft, and it was right!
As it turns out, Terakaft is an offshoot of Tinariwen, a band I saw perform about a year ago and loved. When I heard Terakaft, I was drawn to their brand of desert blues, too. Read the rest of this entry
Shows Announced Over the Past Week
This wasn’t a very big week for announcements of new shows. Maybe I should say that not many new shows caught my attention.
Preservation Hall Jazz Band at The Narrows Center for the Arts – Wednesday, November 20
Roseanne Cash at The Narrows Center for the Arts – Thursday, December 12
Taj Mahal at The Narrows Center for the Arts – Thursday, February 13
Johnny Clegg at Somerville Theatre – Friday, April 4
Joe Bonamassa at Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom – Friday, May 16
Fabulous Ian Anderson Concert!
I had no idea what to expect from Ian Anderson, the front man of Jethro Tull, a band I loved as a teenager but had never seen live. I was quite excited to see this show, in which the band was performing the original Thick as a Brick album for the first set and Thick as a Brick 2, released in 2012, for the second set. I wasn’t disappointed in the least.
Day at the Museum
I had been excited to see the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit at Boston’s Museum of Science since I saw a billboard that featured a wonderful lidded pottery jar. I’ll look at pottery anywhere, anytime, and if the pottery is accompanied by artifacts such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, so much the better.
First Weekly Show Announcement
I thought I would start a weekly post listing concert announcements for the Boston area that I received during the previous week. Of course these are shows that I find interesting or artists I think you, my dear readers, might like. I do not intend the list to be comprehensive – for that, you should get yourself on the email list for Ticketmaster, Live Nation, and Bowery Boston, to name a few. Venues you like generally have email notifications as well. Read the rest of this entry
Keep on Truckin’, Robert Hunter
I wouldn’t describe myself as a Dead-Head, but I always loved the Grateful Dead. This show at the Wilbur Theatre was a rare opportunity to see one of the main lyricists for the Dead.
Robert Hunter wrote many of the Dead’s best known songs – Truckin’, Friend of the Devil, Dark Star, Scarlet Begonias, and Casey Jones, to name a few. Read the rest of this entry
First Rocktober Show!
I had heard that The Ballroom Thieves are a good rock band disguised as a folk band, which proved to be an accurate description of them.
They are a young, Boston-based band with a CD and an EP under their belts and I was excited to see them at The Sinclair, a small-ish venue I enjoy. Read the rest of this entry
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