• Motif No.1 Day

    Downtown Rockport  

    Motif No.1 Day, a long cherished community event celebrating Rockport's iconic fishing shack, returns for 2024! Come join us for a kickoff to the summer season featuring gallery openings, plein air painting, children's activities, delicious food, music and artistic performances to take place on Saturday May 18 (rain date Sunday May 19).

    Free

    Abenaki Woodland Stories with Anne Jennison

    Salem Regional Visitor Center  

    Join Native American storyteller, historian, and educator, Anne Jennison, for a special in person performance of traditional Abenaki/Wabanaki stories. This engaging and interactive presentation features the “Animal People” and their adventures in the Northeastern Woodlands. Essex Heritage is pleased to host this FREE event which is open to all ages! Registration is strongly encouraged as...

    Free

    Saturday Bluegrass Brunch with The Clements Brothers

    The Cut  

    The Clements Brothers are George and Charles Clements, identical twins from New England. They’ve been playing and writing music together for as long as they can remember and ‘The Clements Brothers’ marks their first project together since playing in the internationally touring grass-roots band. Come hear them play an array of bluegrass tunes at the...

    THE NET WORKS: a multi-sensory installation built upon the narrative of Gloucester’s fishing community

    52 Commercial Street  

    The Net Works is a multi-sensory installation built upon the narrative of Gloucester’s fishing community. The net serves as a literal and metaphorical symbol in an immersive exhibit that includes scents, sounds, and tactile experiences, where visitors, like fish, move through a passage of netting. It evolved during the pandemic and artist Erika Senft Miller’s...

    Free

    Changes In Latitudes

    Larcom Theatre  

    Changes In Latitudes is the ultimate Jimmy Buffett tribute band, renowned for delivering an authentic concert experience. Traveling across the country for over sixteen years, they bring lively conga lines and ‘Trop Rock’ fun to every venue. With members from Jimmy Buffett’s “Coral Reefer Band,” they flawlessly recreate Buffett’s classics like “Margaritaville”, “Cheeseburger In Paradise”,...

    $29.00

    Eurydice

    Eurydice

    Firehouse Center for the Arts  

    Eurydice reimagines the classic myth of Orpheus and Eurydice not through Orpheus’s infamous pilgrimage to retrieve his bridge, but through the eyes of its heroine. Dying too young on her wedding day, Eurydice must journey to the underworld, where she reunites with her father and struggles to remember her lost love. With contemporary characters, ingenious...

    $30 – $33

    A Paper Orchestra by Michael Jamin

    The Actors Studio of Newburyport  

    Presented by The Actors Studio of Newburyport & 3 Girls Jumping Directed and Produced by Cynthia Jamin. In his debut collection of personal essays, Emmy-nominated screenwriter Michael Jamin ... recounts the true stories of a sensitive, anxious man searching for the most important things: identity, love, forgiveness, and redemption. A cross between David Sedaris and...

    $25 – $34

    Concert: Small Paths to the Greenwood

    St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church  

    In celebration of St. Andrews Episcopal Church’s 100th anniversary, early music ensemble Seven Times Salt will herald Spring with a brand new program. We’ll perform 16th- and 17th-c. music from across Europe including works by Lassus, Encina, Manerio, Campion, Senfl and many more. Songs of true love and heartache, rough winds and sweet birdsong, small...

    $10

    THE NET WORKS: a multi-sensory installation built upon the narrative of Gloucester’s fishing community

    52 Commercial Street  

    The Net Works is a multi-sensory installation built upon the narrative of Gloucester’s fishing community. The net serves as a literal and metaphorical symbol in an immersive exhibit that includes scents, sounds, and tactile experiences, where visitors, like fish, move through a passage of netting. It evolved during the pandemic and artist Erika Senft Miller’s...

    Free

    House of Hamill

    Shalin Liu Performance Center  

    Whether they’re ripping through a set of original jigs and reels, adding lush three-part harmonies into upcycled folk ballads or cracking up a crowd with stories from the road, Indie Irish folk band House of Hamill puts on a show that captivates audiences from the very first note.

    $18.00