Music Around Town ♪♫♪ January 13-19, 2014

January 13, 2014 at 8:20 pm (Music)

Open mic returns to the Dog Bar

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LAST WEEKEND OF THE LOBSTAHCRACKAH BALLET, EXTENDED BY POPULAR DEMAND!!! 
See what the fans and critics are raving about!!
Friday eve 7:30pm, Saturday 2:30pm and Sunday 5:30pm!!
SHOWS HAVE BEEN SELLING OUT- get your tickets in advance atwww.NorthShoreFolk.org

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http://www.johnnya.com/index.html

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Just afew precious days! Saturday night!
It’s 4 da khedz! They’re all hunks!

Hot Lemon.
http://soundcloud.com/astro-pedestrian

White Pages.
http://whitepages.bandcamp.com/

Lady Bones.
http://ladybones.bandcamp.com/

Pe+ Ceme+ery
http://soundcloud.com/ppeettcceemmeetteerryy

Superteen
http://superteen.bandcamp.com/

all ages
Doors at 6
5 bucks
Bring Art supplies get in for free.

The Hive Community Center
11 Pleasant Street, Gloucester, Massachusetts 01930

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Three musicians in one evening of  shared performance.  All three are multi-talented,  singer-songwriters and seasoned performers.  Each will play their songs while also accompanying one another.  This is a rare treat to see talents such as these let their friendship and unique blending of styles take center stage.

All shows take place on a Saturday and start at 8 p.m.
General seating is $15.
Call ahead to reserve a seat:
(978) 768-3690
and someone will call you back to confirm.
RESERVE NOW.

http://www.oneworldcoffeehouse.org/upcomingshows.html

It is unfortunate at times to misinform and I hope that if one finds an error in this posting please bring it to my attention so it can be fixed.

Sincerely,

Joanne

Please be sure to check out the links to all these fine musicians and venues on the side bar of this blog. >

The Rhumb Line~http://www.therhumbline.com/index.htm

Monday night open jam with Ryan Alto opening it up @ 9:30

 Tuesday 9:30 ~ HDRnB

 

Wednesday with Fly- 8:00 ~ 

Thursday 8:00 – 11:00 ~ Dave Sag’s Blues Party with Chris Stoval Brown

Thank god Chris “Stovall” Brown is coming in this Thursday nite: it’s been a while since I had to deflect a whole boatload of  invective, innuendo and out the other. Chris, besides being a fabulous guitarist ,uvula-waggler, and eidetic librarian  of all things recordable, is simply a joy to work with. Plus, he makes me laugh. You may wet your pants watching this guy sing  whilst playing his axe with his dentures. I’m always amazed. Eardrum duties by  our fallow-headed buddy, Mr. Steevee Chaggaris. I’m on base.We’re keeping this a trio so that we can flood the stage next week with the likes of the Good Old Salty Jazz Band. Sex after menopause? I can’t remember….

Friday – 9:30 ~ Brandon Terracome Krewe De Groove

Saturday-Early show – 6:00-8:00 ~  Dan King Acoustic Roots with guests 

Saturday  – 9:30 ~  Mari Martin and The Lucky Boys

 Sunday – 8-11 ~ Allen Estes and his guest Mike O’Connell

 

Captain Carlos~http://www.captcarlo.com/index.cfm

Closed for the season

The Dog Bar~http://dogbarcapeann.com/welcome1.html

 courtesy photo

 Monday 5:30 to 9:00

 Tuesday Open Mic with Steve Caraway 

Wednesday 9:00 ~  ~ Crazy Jay Karaoke

 

 

 Thursday 9-12 ~ DJ Vitto

Friday-9:00pm ~ Joe Mack Band

 

Saturday-9:00pm ~  Jack Rabbit Slim

 

 

Minglewood Tavern ~ http://minglewoodtavern.com/

The Music

 

Wednesday – 9:00 pm The Monagle Sessions with guest Megan McKenzie

 

Thursday ~ DJ Slipwax

 

Friday 9:00 pm ~ Mike O’Connell Band

Saturday – 9:00 pm~Way Up South

Alchemy Bistro http://www.alchemybistro.com/index.php

Wednesday’s Ladies Night -7-9 ~ John Rockwell

Mile Marker1 ~ http://www.capeannmarina.com/milemarkerone.htm

The Franklin Cafe ~ http://www.franklincafe.com/

 

7:00 pm LINDA AMERO ~ Menage a Trio with  special guest 

The Franklin Cafe 118 Main Street, Gloucester, MA 01930 Phone: 978-283-7888

Cape Ann Brewing ~ http://www.capeannbrewing.com/

Tuesday-5:00 pm JAZZ SESSIONS with Kate Barry, Zach Gorrell & Steve Lacey

Thursday- 9:00 ~ Open Mic with Brian Fines

 Saturday 9:00 ~ 

Sunday – 5:00 pm ~ Jazzport

 Cape Ann Brewery

11 Rogers St., Gloucester, MA 01930

  Phone: (978) 282-7399

 

Giuseppe’s~ http://www.giuseppesma.com/Giuseppes/Welcome.html

Click photo for info and tour.

 Wednesday 6-9 ~  Pat Nelson and friends

Thursday  7- 10 ~SingerSongwritershuffle

Very excited for the next SingerSongwriterShuffle coming up…we will release the poster very soon, but some newbies include, Steve Caraway & John Abbott, Olivia Gale, Scotty Anderson, Eric Colville, Ryan Sweezy, Howie Newman, “James and Jake”, and Dan King!

Friday  8-11~ Piqno Bar with Joe Thomas

Sunday 6-9  ~ Tom and Ann O’Donnell

Giuseppe’s Ristorante and Piano Bar 2 Main Street, Gloucester, MA 01930 Phone: 978-879-4622

Jalapeno’s ~ http://www.jalapenosgloucester.com/

Tuesday – 7-9 ~ KBMG 

 

Castle Manor Inn ~ http://www.castlemanorinn.com/

Seaport Grille- Cruiseport Gloucester ~ http://www.cruiseportgloucester.com/seaportgrille/

Coffee House at Saint John’s ~ http://www.stjohnsgloucester.org/

 

Cape Ann Community Cinema – http://www.massbayfilmproject.org/

The Shalin Liu Performance Center ~ Performance Center” – http://www.rockportmusic.org/newperformance.html

Thursday, January 16, 2014
7:00 pm NATIONAL THEATRE 50TH ANNIVERSARY THEATRICAL SPECIAL
Celebrate National Theatre’s anniversary with a once-in-a-lifetime performance broadcast

Friday, January 17, 2014
8:00 pm MARC COHN
A natural storyteller whose soulful voice balances the exuberant with the poignant.

Saturday, January 18, 2014
8:00 pm JOHNNY A
Blues Summit

Shalin Liu Performance Center,

Main Street in Rockport, MA.

 

 

Old Sloop Coffee House ~ http://www.rockportucc.org/oldsloopcoffeehouse.htm

Click banner for event happenings

12 School Street, Rockport, MA 01966

Phone: 978-309-9667

One World Coffeehouse ~ http://oneworldcoffeehouse.org/

The Farm – http://farmbargrille.com/events.html  Essex Ma.

The Farm Bar & Grille 233 Western Avenue, Essex, MA 01929 Phone: 978-768-0000

 The Landing – http://www.thelandingat7central.com/index.php/calendar

Wednesday – 8:00 -12:00 ~ 

Saturday – 

Sunday-6:00 ~ 

 

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Up coming events

 

http://www.johnnywinter.net/

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Two of contemporary folk’s brightest stars, Antje Duvekot and Meg Hutchinson, share the stage at Manchester by the Sea’s historic Crowell Chapel for one unforgettable night of song and poetry.

Tickets are available at BrownPaperTickets.com starting at 2pm on Monday, December 16th.

About Antje Duvekot:

Antje Duvekot has solidified her reputation as one of Boston’s top singer songwriters with “Big Dream Boulevard” her debut studio release and “the Near Demise of the Highwire Dancer” her follow-up CD. The debut CD was produced by Seamus Egan, founder of the Irish super group, SOLAS. The project was released on acclaimed songwriter Ellis Paul’s label, Black Wolf Records and quickly attracted international attention for Antje. It was voted “#1 Folk Release of 2006” by the Boston Globe and was named to the “Top10 Releases of the Year” by National Public Radio’s, Folk Alley. Her follow up album “the Near Demise of the Highwire Dancer” was produced by Richard Shindell and along side with Richard features other “folk royalty” such as John Gorka, Lucy Kaplancky and Mark Erelli. It was voted #1 album of the year 2009 by WUMB 91.9 fm in Boston.

“What a blessing to have worked with someone as talented as Antje. With a voice like hers, and songs as good as these, a producer (especially a first-time producer!) just tries to get out of the way, to do no harm, and to let the artist speak for herself.” – Richard Shindell

former Rolling Stone music editor Dave Marsh says (about Antje’d debut ‘Big Dream Boulevard’): “This is a brilliant, brilliant album. I have had this reaction once in the last 10 years and that was the first time I heard Patty Griffin.”

“Duvekot has gotten hotter, faster than any local songwriter in recent memory. Her songs feel at once fresh faced and firmly rooted, driven by the whispery sensuality of her voice. She believes in the redemptive power of the shared secret; and is utterly unafraid to mine the darkest corners of her life for songs that turn fear into resilience and isolation into community”. The Boston Globe

Antje has won some of the top songwriting awards including the Grand Prize in the John Lennon Songwriting Competition, the prestigious, Kerrville (TX) “Best New Folk Award” and in one of the nation’s top music markets, she won the Boston Music Award for “Outstanding Folk Act”, three of the top prizes in the singer songwriter world.

Antje has extensive touring experience, criss-crossing the US and Europe several times. She is a compelling live performer and has been invited to play some of the top festivals including The Newport Folk Festival as well as the Mountain Stage, Philadelphia and Kerrville Festivals. Internationally, she’s headlined the The Celtic Connections Festival in Scotland and the Tonder Festival in Denmark.

In December of 2007, The Bank of America featured Antje’s song “Merry Go Round” in a national TV advertising campaign seen by millions, including a Super Bowl audience. Antje’s fast growing fan base, the viral spreading of her music and a track record of sold-out shows are a testament to her growing popularity. Neil Dorfsman, the producer of Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Sting says, “When I first heard Antje I knew I was witnessing something very special. She creates an entire, detailed world in verse, and takes you there with beautiful and understated melody. Her songs are stunning paintings of color and shade and always generate the heat and light that real art should. In an unpoetic and ‘in your face’ world, she is lyrical and subtle”

About Meg Hutchinson:

Meg Hutchinson is an award-winning songwriter who artfully documents the human condition. With a poet’s ease, she makes the personal universal, allowing people’s stories to come alive through her unique vocals and haunting melodies. Since the release of her Red House Records debut COME UP FULL in 2008, she has won high praise for her songwriting and has been featured nationally on NPR Music, XM/Sirius Radio and several times on the syndicated show Mountain Stage. Publications like The Winnipeg Free Press have compared her songwriting with that of veterans Mary Chapin Carpenter and Joni Mitchell.

Growing up in the Berkshire Mountains of Western Massachusetts, the woods and rivers were her childhood muses, as were songwriters like Greg Brown and Joni Mitchell, and poets like Mary Oliver, William Stafford, and Robert Frost. When Hutchinson inherited her grandmother’s 1957 Martin guitar at age eleven, her love of words found an inspiring instrument, and there was no turning back. “Songwriting is not something I chose, I’ve just somehow always known that this is what I love to do. This is what I can’t help but do,” she says.

After graduating from college with a degree in creative writing, Hutchinson quit her longtime job on an organic farm and settled in Boston. In between gigs at pubs, coffeehouses and train stations, she won a Kerrville New Folk Award (2000) and was nominated for a Boston Music Award for her first studio album AGAINST THE GREY.

She went on to win awards at the Rocky Mountain Folks Fest, the Telluride Troubadour Songwriter’s Showcase in Colorado and The Chris Austin Songwriting Contest at Merlefest in North Carolina, all in the course of a year, causing national publications like Performing Songwriter to take notice. They called Hutchinson “A master of introspective ballads filled with understated yearning and an exquisite sense of metaphor.”

She quickly became an integral part of the vibrant Boston songwriting community. Like every great performer who has come out of the Boston scene, Hutchinson took to the subway, performing in Park Street, Downtown Crossing and Harvard Square honing her chops in the same method of predecessors like Martin Sexton, John Mayer, and Tracy Chapman.

After recording her live CD ANY GIVEN DAY in 2001, and continuing to build a fan base throughout the Northeast, she went into the studio with esteemed producer Crit Harmon (Lori McKenna, Martin Sexton, Mary Gauthier) to record THE CROSSING. Released in 2004, this album caught the attention of renowned folk/roots label Red House Records. Label president Eric Peltoniemi knew there was something special in the young singer-songwriter, “Meg won me over with the profound yet easy depth of her lyrics rich words married to melodies I just can’t get out of my head.” Knowing her songs could stand alongside those by Red House heavyweights Greg Brown, Eliza Gilkyson and John Gorka, Peltoniemi signed Hutchinson to the label in 2007.

Teaming up again with Crit Harmon, Hutchinson recorded her Red House debut COME UP FULL over the course of more than a year in Boston. An instant folk hit, the album was one of the most played on folk and college radio and landed her on many “best of the year” lists. Hutchinson spent 2008 touring heavily in the U.S as well as Ireland and the UK, easily winning over new fans on both sides of the Atlantic. She was a favorite at South By Southwest (SXSW) and the International Folk Alliance Conference, showing that this was a young talent to be reckoned with.

In fall the of 2009, Meg Hutchinson joined fellow songwriters Antje Duvekot, Anne Heaton and Natalia Zukerman to record the holiday EP WINTERBLOOM: TRADITIONS REARRANGED. A collection of eclectic holiday and wintertime tunes, the CD features original and traditional songs from a variety of backgrounds from a German hymn to a Yiddish folksong to a midwinter Greg Brown ballad.

Window prtglmIMG_9969Touring in support of the album, the four women performed concerts and radio interviews in 12 cities that December, and formed a deep musical bond and camaraderie which continues to the present day. They have toured Germany and the Netherlands, sang alongside Sarah McLachlan at Lilith Fair, performed for a week on the Cayamo cruise with the likes of John Prine and Lucinda Williams, and brought laughter and reverence to stages each holiday season since.

In 2010 Hutchinson released her second album on Red House Records, THE LIVING SIDE, showing that she was a songwriter who had fully arrived. With this album the lens grew larger as Hutchinson tackled some of the big issues of the time, all while maintaining that intimate and relatable voice which makes her songs resonate deeply.

In her newest album, BEYOND THAT (releases September 24th 2013 on Red House Records) Hutchinson teams up once again with veteran Boston producer Crit Harmon for what is her most modern and intricate production to date.

She says “Crit and I have worked together for a decade now. I wanted to build on that trust and that shared musical language and really encourage each other to find new sounds. I felt that I had reached a new landscape in myself and I wanted the album to reflect that.”

Hutchinson has been busy in the three years since we last heard from her. She has relearned the piano and established a home studio, giving her greater flexibility to explore new territory.

In addition to mastering these skills Hutchinson has clearly spent much of the last three years finding a deep peace. These songs are at once ecstatic and meditative. They are about coming home, about transforming desire, about how human love can open the heart for some greater purpose.

These are celebratory hymns from a woman who has made it out the other side of some difficult years and who is inviting us to go “Beyond That” with her now.

Get Tickets > http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/537624

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