| 02/10/12 |
Kris Delmhorst
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February 10, 2012
Kris Delmhorst's arresting new album Shotgun Singer began as an act of solitary creation. Holed up in a rural cabin with minimal recording gear and a houseful of instruments, Delmhorst recorded her new songs alone and off the clock, in late night sessions that yielded layers of intimate vocals combined with nylon string and electric guitars, cellos, keyboards, and percussion. The result is collection of songs fully realized and even lush at times, but retaining a hushed intensity, a spirit...
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| 02/11/12 |
Laura Veirs & The Hall of Flames
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February 11, 2012
Laura Veirs grew up in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where she often spent summers camping with her family, which gave her much of her songwriting inspiration. Veirs has said that she didn’t seriously listen to music until she was in her 20s; instead, she just heard what was in her environment. She listened to folk, country, classical and pop music around the house and on the radio during her youth. Veirs’ seventh album, July Flame, was released in January 2010 on her own record...
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| 02/11/12 |
Laura Veirs & The Tumble Bees
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February 11, 2012
Tumble Bee, the first children’s record from the prolific Laura Veirs (whose last release, July Flame, was dubbed “a perfect Sunday afternoon record” by The Oxford American and “sweet and irresistible” by Rolling Stone) inspires listeners to lean in close and hit replay. The youthful innocence in Veirs’ voice lends itself well to the jaunty spirit of the album. The recording covers a wide range of folk songs, from early 20th century work songs to the...
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| 02/12/12 |
Darrell Scott CD Release
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February 12, 2012
Much of the commentary about Darrell Scott’s career has focused on the songs he’s written that have been recorded by famous names and voices – those known in music industry parlance as “artists.” But then there’s the actual word artist, whose definition has nothing to do with radio hits and red carpets. We refer of course to those who create artifacts of aesthetic and intellectual contemplation and wonder, built from experience, skill, reflection and...
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| 02/13/12 |
BCMFest Celtic Music Monday
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February 13, 2012
Neil Pearlman (innovative Scottish/Cape Breton-style keyboardist) and Friends. More details TBA
http://www.bcmfest.com/
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| 02/14/12 |
Sweethearts’ Night Out
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| 02/15/12 |
Dirk Powell & Riley Baugus: Dirk Powell & Riley Baugus
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February 15, 2012
Dirk Powell has expanded on the deeply rooted sounds of his Appalachian heritage to become one of the preeminent traditional American musicians of his generation. In addition to acclaimed releases on Rounder Records, he’s recorded and performed with artists such as Loretta Lynn, playing several instruments on her Grammy-winning release “Van Lear Rose.” Dirk founded the Cajun group Balfa Toujours with his wife Christine Balfa and is currently Artistic Director of the...
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| 02/16/12 |
Eric Stepanian
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February 16, 2012
Eric Stepanian’s Goodnight Scarlett, produced by Malcolm Burn, fits that narrative of music, which is relevant, immediate and powerful. Shorthand? Goodnight Scarlett is timeless, pure, American rock music, influenced by Stepanian’s twin heroes of Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan, tempered by ‘70s AM radio fare and personalized by the singer-songwriter’s unique history.
http://www.ericstepanian.com/
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| 02/17/12 |
Väsen
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February 17, 2012
Olov Johansson and Mikael Marin started playing together as teenagers around 1980. During the early 1980's they would regularly visit Curt and Ivar Tallroth and Eric Sahlström, older musicians who lived nearby in the Uppland region, where they would play and learn traditional music from them. In this way they became a link in the living tradition that Swedish folk music has enjoyed through the centuries. "The sound may be traditional, but the attitude is completely modern, mixing...
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| 02/18/12 |
The Cat’s Pajamas
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February 18, 2012
The Cat’s Pajamas makes very cool music for kids, bringing a musical comedy twist to high-octane kid-rock. The Cats put on more than a concert—they invite the audience from the very first note to enter a wild, wonderful world of stories, dance, puppets and props, all backed by a band making great music that just happens to be for kids. Up and down the East Coast, The Cat’s Pajamas captures the imagination of children while thoroughly engaging their families. "The Cat's...
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| 02/20/12 |
Massmouth Story Slam
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| 02/22/12 |
Marco Benevento
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February 22, 2012
Pianist and composer Marco Benevento blends electronic music with traditional jazz. On his new record, Between the Needles and Nightfall, he borrows sounds from an assortment of toy instruments, including old Casio keyboards and other toy trinkets.
http://www.marcobenevento.com/home.html
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| 02/23/12 |
Anais Mitchell CD Release Show, Rachel Ries opens
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February 23, 2012
From her current home base in a 200-year-old farmhouse in rural Vermont, Anais (“uh-NAY-iss”) Mitchell writes songs that are as intimate as conversations and as rich in detail as short stories. She is the rare musician who is equally comfortable wielding an acoustic guitar alone onstage, sharing a disc’s worth of alt-country duets, or scripting a vast operatic journey into the underworld. She’s a fearless explorer, and her world just keeps getting larger....
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| 02/24/12 |
Lucy Kaplansky
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February 24, 2012
She started out singing in Chicago bars. Then, barely out of high school, Lucy Kaplansky took off for New York City. There she found a fertile community of songwriters and performers - Suzanne Vega, John Gorka, Bill Morrissey, Cliff Eberhardt, and others - where she fit right in. Kaplansky's voice continues to remain in high demand by her peers. She teamed with Dar Williams and Richard Shindell to form supergroup Cry Cry Cry, the three choosing to celebrate the amazing revitalization in...
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| 02/25/12 |
Anne Heaton CD Release
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February 25, 2012
Heaton grew up in Chicago, lived in New York and now lives in Somerville, MA, the home of Q Division Studios, which -- only a bike ride away from her home -- is where she now records most of her music including her sophomore release “Give In” produced by Mike Denneen (Aimee Mann and Fountains of Wayne). Both “Give In” (released on Q Division Records) and Heaton’s independent debut album “Black Notebook” received national critical acclaim. Performing...
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| 02/26/12 |
What Time is It Mr. Fox, Mali Sastri, Sarah Rabdau, and Mary Bichner
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February 26, 2012
What time is It Mr. Fox like to pretend they live in a circus in the woods.
They enjoy fireplaces, dusty books, mystics, fiddles, soul music, carnivals, putting on make-up, taking off make-up, and making up stories.
http://www.whattimeisitmrfox.com/when_%26_where.html
“Torture chamber pop.” “Darkwave jazz.” “Siren rock.” These are a few of the many attempts to describe the sound of Jaggery, an art-rock collective which...
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| 02/28/12 |
Berklee American Roots Music series
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February 28, 2012
Jen Starsinic is an emerging, young singer-songwriter hailing from Pennsylvania. Informed largely by her background as an old-time fiddler and singer, her songs are built like wooden cabins containing crooked melodies and unspoken memories. And with a voice described as "beautifully human", and fiddle playing said to be "driving, charismatic, and elegantly focused", she isn't afraid to follow her intimate, yet grounded, original songs with raging fiddle tunes from a...
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| 02/29/12 |
Whitehorse (featuring Melissa McClelland & Luke Doucet)
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February 29, 2012
Melissa McClelland and Luke Doucet tie the musical knot with the debut of their new band, Whitehorse. Gutsy and resolute in their pursuits of sound and substance, Luke and Melissa’s fusion of the person and professional brings to mind the road-tested romance of Johnny and June. Individually, Luke and Melissa have been recognized with awards and nominations from the Juno Awards, the Canadian Folk Music Awards, the Hamilton Music Awards, the Independent Music Awards and the Polaris...
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| 03/02/12 |
Rose Cousins CD Release
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March 2, 2012
Rose Cousins finds insight in solitude and strength in numbers. Supported by a thriving Halifax music scene and welcomed by an equally vibrant Boston community, her new album We Have Made A Spark was made in the spirit of community and collaboration. We Have Made A Spark follows Cousins’ two multi-award-winning albums The Send Off (2009) produced by Luke Doucet and If You Were For Me (2006) produced by CBC in Halifax. Yet another collection of stunning songs by Rose Cousins, her third...
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| 03/05/12 |
Duke Special
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| 03/07/12 |
PJ Pacifico, Kristen Cifelli & Shelly Fraley
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March 7, 2012
Singer-songwriter P.J. Pacifico delivers a confident, upbeat collection of road-tested rock/pop music, on his Viper Records release, Outlet. With a radio-friendly sound that evokes Gin Blossoms and Matthew Sweet, and a storyteller’s cadence that has been compared to James Taylor, Pacifico appears poised for mainstream success with the new album, his third. P.J. has shared the stage with Crosby, Stills & Nash, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Sugarland, and Hank Williams Jr.
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03/08/12- 03/09/12 |
Audrey Ryan & Will Dailey
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March 8-March 9, 2012
Audrey Ryan is a one-man-band multi-instrumentalist whose music is quirky and genre-bending. She tours regionally, nationally, and internationally supported by Folkwit Records (UK) . She has opened for Suzanne Vega, They Might be Giants, Josh Ritter, Ra Ra Riot, Grace Potter among many others
http://www.audreyryan.org/
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| 03/09/12 |
Air Traffic Controller & Sarah Blacker
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March 9, 2012
Serving in the US Navy as a real-life air traffic controller, singer/songwriter Dave Munro sent home 4-track demos he had written and recorded during his deployment. With his enlistment up, Munro returned to hometown Boston and discovered an impressive number of fans, prompting the genesis of the aptly-named rock band Air Traffic Controller. WERS Radio calls Air Traffic Controller “One of Boston's finest independent bands” and during the height of its radio campaign the...
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| 03/10/12 |
Mary Fahl
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March 10, 2012
Blessed with a magnificent range, Fahl is an expressive, emotional singer/songwriter who first achieved fame as lead singer and co-founder of the mid-1990s cult band October Project, an East Coast folk-rock/adult alternative outfit that recorded two poetic albums for Epic: its self-titled debut album of 1993; and its 1995 encore effort, “Falling Farther In“. In a review of October Project’s first release, Allmusic.com dubbed Fahl the “lovechild“ of Stevie...
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| 03/10/12 |
Ashley Jordan
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March 10, 2012
In October of 2011, Ashley released her second CD titled Liquid Words with her new unique mix of country/pop folk-rock music at a CD release concert held at the legendary Club Passim in Cambridge, MA. Her newest album met once again with rave reviews and Ashley’s music has been getting radio play on stations such as WATD FM (“Almost Famous Show” and "Twilight Showcase") and on WMBR Radio in Cambridge, MA. Ashley continues to play her guitar and give powerful vocal...
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03/11/12- 02/03/12 |
The Sweet Remains and Jesse Terry
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March 11-February 3, 2012
http://www.thesweetremains.com/
http://www.jesseterrymusic.com/
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| 03/13/12 |
The Earth Stringband
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March 13, 2012
The Earth String Band combines bluegrass and old time Appalachian music with contemporary acoustic music, achieving synergy with soulful songwriting and musicianship. Fiery and improvisational, The Earth String Band creates pulsing earthy grooves and melodious hooks that form a unique, infective vibe.
http://www.earthstringband.com
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| 03/14/12 |
Bruce Molsky and Ale Möller
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March 14, 2012
Bruce Molsky stands today as the premier old-time fiddler in the world, the defining virtuoso of Appalachia's timeless folk music traditions. That must feel odd for a former engineer from the Bronx, who didn't begin a music career until he was forty. But folded into those strange facts is the secret to his unique genius. In addition to a prolific solo career, performing on fiddle, guitar, and banjo, Molsky frequently joins genre-busting supergroups, like the Grammy-nominated Fiddlers Four,...
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| 03/15/12 |
Maeve Gilchrist and Matt & Shannon Heaton
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March 15, 2012
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Based in New York City, Maeve Gilchrist is currently performing with her own duo and trio which blends her Scottish roots with the colors of jazz, creating a unique and multicultural sound. She performed regularly in the prestigious performance centre in shows such as Singers Showcase, The International Folk Festival, The Commencement concerts and The Stevie Wonder tribute show. The Irish Music Magazine says that, “Both as a singer and a harp...
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03/16/12- 03/17/12 |
Paul Kelly
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March 16-March 17, 2012
Paul Kelly has recorded seventeen studio albums as well as several film soundtracks (Lantana and the Cannes 2006 highlight, Jindabyne) and live albums, in an influential career spanning more than thirty years. He was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 199. Songs From The South, a selection of his popular songs first assembled in 1997 and expanded to a double album in 2008,contains many of his songs now lodged deep in the Australian psyche.
http://www.paulkelly.com.au/
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| 03/18/12 |
Mariel Vandersteel CD Release
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March 18, 2012
Inspired by her summers spent studying traditional music in Ireland and across the United States, Mariel Vandersteel decided to study traditional music in Norway after graduating from Berklee. She studied the Hardingfele and Norwegian folk music at Høgskolen i Telemark Rauland. While in Norway, she performed at outdoor festivals and in the local elementary school where she taught children about American folk music. Mariel has taught at Alasdair Fraser’s Sierra Fiddle Camp, has...
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| 03/20/12 |
Hapa
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March 20, 2012
Often encapsulated as the “Sound of Maui”, HAPA’s music evokes a place that many people at different times have referred to as heavenly. The overriding quality of their music is one of beauty and serenity, found in the majestic tones of the oli (chant), mele (song), the elegant movements of the sacred dance known as hula, and the exhilarating innovative sounds of virtuoso slack key guitar. HAPA’s self entitled debut CD released in 1993, swept the 1994 Na Hoku Hanohano...
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| 03/21/12 |
Duncan Wickel with Maeve Gilchrist, Josh Hari and Nick Falk
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March 21, 2012
Violinist, composer and multi-instrumentalist Duncan Wickel is a “Considerable talent…[he] is as persuasive in a traditional Irish ballad as he is country fiddling or ripping through cascading classical flourishes or atonal double stops” –The Boston Globe. A former native of Asheville, NC, now living and working in the heart of Boston’s thriving music scene, Duncan’s reputation has been growing quickly on a national level as a wildly diverse and highly...
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| 03/22/12 |
The Vespers
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March 22, 2012
The Vespers is two sisters, two brothers, four friends, 10 instruments, one fun little folk band. However you do the math, The Vespers are a force to be reckoned with. In the spring of 2010, the newly formed group released their debut album, Tell Your Mama, which has been received greatly by critics and fans alike. The indie release even managed to sneak on to a few top 20 lists before the year’s end. The critics have hailed the band as “magnificently unforgettable” and...
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| 03/23/12 |
Sarah Jarosz
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March 23, 2012
The best and brightest in the acoustic world move the music forward with an awareness of what came before them; that is certainly true of Sarah Jarosz. On her second album for Sugar Hill Records, Follow Me Down, she pays homage to her musical roots while pushing beyond those sometimes limited boundaries, taking us on a journey both dark and mystical. For this, Jarosz has a simple yet telling explanation: “I’m influenced by the older, and the contemporary, and the new.” Her...
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| 03/24/12 |
Parkington Sisters, Francesca Blanchard opens
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March 24, 2012
Born to each other, a band raised from the beginning, the Parkington Sisters create an aural experience that is both magnetic in its delivery and genuine in its emotional impact. Seeded from a generation of musicians, Rose, Nora, Sarah and Ariel Parkington were raised in a wildly musical household where every room sounded with a spark of song, naturally inspiring their individual hearts and hands to find their own instrumental avenues. Highlights of 2011 included performing at the Bonnaroo...
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| 03/25/12 |
Della Mae
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| 03/26/12 |
Becca Stevens Band
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March 26, 2012
The North Carolina-bred, New York-based singer/composer/guitarist’s status as a lifelong music-maker is more than apparent on the Becca Stevens Band’s Sunnyside debut Weightless. Although she’s already won significant acclaim for her membership in Travis Sullivan’s Bjorkestra and her prestigious collaborations with such esteemed musicians as Taylor Eigsti and Brad Mehldau, the sparkling 12-song set reveals the accomplished young songstress to be a startlingly...
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| 03/30/12 |
Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem CD Release
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March 30, 2012
The Boston Globe described Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem as "neo old-timey with cosmopolitan splashes of contemporary pop and jazz." It's an exuberant mix of musical idioms, held together by superb musicianship, impeccable taste, and the band's charismatic vocals. A stage show dips into country blues, vintage swing, modern songwriter fare, and Appalachian fiddle tunes and songs. It's a bracing fusion: listen to Arbo deliver Bessie Jones' version of "O Death" accompanied by...
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| 03/31/12 |
Jeffrey Foucault
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March 31, 2012
Jeffrey Foucault grew up in a small town in Wisconsin. His father played a plywood guitar and his mother liked to sing. Winter Sundays were for church or ice fishing, which are not so different when you think about it. He went to college and dropped out, took a job on a fruit farm and started writing songs about a girl from Iowa. He finished school, roofed houses, drove a snowplow, and home-schooled the son of the local bar owner in exchange for beer. He cut his first album in the winter of...
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