North of Boston

Beauport Hotel Easter by the Sea
2024-03-31 10:00 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Beauport Hotel Gloucester, 55 Commercial Street, Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Looking for a unique Easter dining experience? Join us here, at Beauport Hotel for Easter by the Sea!
Indulge in our Easter at Sea Prix Fixe in the 1606 Restaurant and Oyster Bar Main Dining Room! This Three-Course Prix Fixe Menu will feature your Easter favorites, such as Za’atar Rack of Lamb, Spring Chicken Galantine, and Pan-Seared Halibut.
Looking for endless brunch options? Join us for our Easter by the Sea Buffet in the Beauport Hotel Grand Ballroom! Featuring a Chef’s Station with our Hand-Carved Greek Marinated Leg of Lamb and Honey Baked Ham, a Waffle Bar, and a Make-Your-Own Omelet Station, you won’t want to miss out on this spectacular buffet!
Our Prix Fixe and Buffet Dining Experiences offer the best Easter cuisine in Gloucester, with sweeping ocean views and top-notch service.
Visit the links below for both booking options and make your reservations today!
Easter By The Sea 1606 Restaurant & Oyster Bar Prix Fixe: https://bit.ly/3IgCPgw
Easter By The Sea Buffet in the Grand Ballroom: https://bit.ly/42Zw1gH

DJ Cklokwīze at The Cut
2024-03-30 20:00 - 23:00, 2024-03-30 08:00 - 17:00 | The Cut, 177 Main Street , Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Top rankin’, high grade, Roots Reggae, Latin and Afro Beat dance and listening tracks with live performance on keyboards and vocals. Reggae, Dub, Ska, Rocksteady, Dancehall, Reggaeton, Afro beat, Salsa, Cha Cha Cha, Merengue, Bachata, Banda…from artists known and artists you may never have heard of. ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN as Cklokwīze mixes, re-mixes and jams along to tracks sometimes altering them so much that they take on a new mind bending, soul enticing meaning. It’s all about getting to that point of releasing tension and bringing on the ecstasy that builds in your body when the right sound hits your eardrums and rumbles the part of your reality that knows the transcendent.

SCENES - A Billy Joel Experience
2024-03-30 20:00 - 22:00, 2024-03-30 08:00 - 2024-03-31 08:00 | Firehouse Center for the Arts, 1 Market Square, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
Formerly known as Cold Spring Harbor, Scenes – A Billy Joel experience, has been performing throughout New England and beyond since 2013. Their mission from the beginning was never to play impersonator, but instead celebrate and recreate the music of Billy Joel to the highest and most authentic standard, bringing people the $400 Billy Joel concert experience, for a reasonable price that all fans can afford! Their 10+ year journey has led them to some amazing venues and events, most notably Touch of Texas in Binghamton, NY, and the Newburyport Yankee Homecoming celebration playing to more than 3500 people. From specific piano sounds that Billy uses himself, to the Billy Joel classic Ray Ban sunglasses, this show is not to be missed!

Boston Children’s Chorus: True Colors
2024-03-30 15:00 - 17:00 | Shalin Liu Performance Center, 37 Main Street, Rockport, MA, 01966, United States
True Colors
Massachusetts is home to many firsts in our nation: the first public library, the first public park, the first public school music education program, the first woman to earn a Ph. D., and just 20 years ago, Massachusetts became the first state to legalize same-sex marriage. This season, the singers of Boston Children’s Chorus (BCC) will explore what it means to courageously uplift, center and value LGBTQIA+ identities, be it through self-love or brave allyship. Through song and spoken word, BCC singers will take inspiration from LGBTQIA+ activists to highlight local and national civil rights movements. Join Boston Children’s Chorus for True Colors as we celebrate the strengths that bind us together.
Boston Children’s Chorus
Emily Howe, conductor
Boston Children’s Chorus’s vibrant, jubilant, and powerful performances have established them as leading young artists in the city of Boston and beyond. Internationally recognized for their innovative programming, passionate artistry, and ability to connect to audiences, Boston Children’s Chorus showcases the talent and passion of the diverse young people of our city.
Named Boston’s “Ambassadors of Harmony” by the Boston Globe, BCC presents over 50 performances per season in a wide range of public and private events. They have performed in venues from Boston Symphony Hall, and Royal Albert Hall in London, to Sydney Opera House, and the White House. BCC has appeared in TED talks, regular appearances on local TV and radio networks, and performances with high profile artists including Idina Menzel, Javier Muñoz, Hugh Jackman, Leslie Odom Jr, and Melinda Doolittle.
In 2013, they were presented with the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award, distinguishing BCC as one of the top arts and humanities based programs in the nation; BCC accepted the award from First Lady Michelle Obama at the White House.

Saturday Brunch with Poison Peach String Quartet
2024-03-30 12:00 - 14:30 | The Cut, 177 Main Street , Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Poison Peach String Quartet is on a quest to find where the sun goes at night. Through a wide variety of musical genres and a changing cast of characters, they take their listeners with them as they journey through farflung emotional landscapes in search of the intangible.

Will Dailey
2024-03-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Firehouse Center for the Arts, 1 Market Square, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
Described by New York Post’s music critic, Dan Aquilante, as the “real deal”, lauded songwriter and performer, Will Dailey has shared the stage and studio with the likes of Eddie Vedder, Willie Nelson, Brandi Carlile, G Love, Steve Earle, Grace Potter, Martin Sexton, Tanya Donelly, and the Wallflowers. He has charted in the top 20 on the national Billboard Heat Seekers chart twice, reaching #1 with his last album Golden Walker on the Northeast charts.
He is an advisor for Theo Epstein’s Foundation to be Named Later, on the Board of Director for the Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame hosted at Boston’s Boch Center, and has been an advisory board member for Farm Aid. As an 8-time Boston Music Award Winner, he continued his work as a Boston Music Ambassador through the pandemic by raising $32,000+ for non-salary employees of venues in Boston, other artists and the City of Chelsea through online performances. He is currently working on his first full album since 2019, while finishing his second season of the iHeart/Double Elvis produced podcast Sound of Our Town, a music travel podcast where he brings the listeners on a tour of American cities and their musical scene and history.
Always carving his own path, Dailey spent 2023 touring with a new song called “Cover of Clouds” that can ONLY be heard on a disc-man and headphones that travel with him at his merch table during shows. The first of its kind concept is called the $10 Song Project and celebrates the art of listening to music. A journal is provided to listeners to share their experience to the song that isn’t available anywhere else.

Eric Hutchinson
2024-03-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Firehouse Center for the Arts, 1 Market Square, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
Singer/songwriter Eric Hutchinson is feeling nostalgic as he prepares to spend 2023, and into 2024, celebrating the 15th anniversary of his debut album, Sounds Like This. “It’s a special record for me – one that changed my life, my career, and introduced my music to a new audience I could only have dreamt of,” the Takoma Park, MD native reflects. To commemorate the anniversary, Eric has announced that he will be playing shows all year long, performing the album in its entirety. He’s also revealed that Sounds Like This will finally be available on vinyl for the first time ever. Furthering the deep-dive into his past, Eric also released a new single, “Sad Songs”, a forgotten pop tune he wrote and performed regularly on tour in 2008 but never got the chance to record until now.
“I’m thrilled to spend 2023 reflecting on how my life and the world has changed in 15 years,” Eric says. “I hope people will join me on the trip down memory lane. Maybe bring a long-lost college friend to one of my concerts, or give Sounds Like This a re-listen for the first time in forever and remember what life was like back in 2008 – when Barack Obama was elected president, BlackBerrys were all the rage, and watching Netflix meant getting little red DVD packages in the mail.”
Sounds Like This ended up being a chart-topping album released by Warner Bros. Records, but it almost never happened. Just before Eric recorded those songs, he says he was a frustrated kid who was seriously considering quitting music. “I had spent several years toiling away on the road, playing tragically low-attended shows, and recording several failed albums that were not ready for prime time,” Eric remembers. But as discouraged as he was at the time, Eric says he hated the idea of telling his friends and family that he had quit music. “I decided to dig down deep and make one last-ditch attempt to record a professional debut that lived up to the legacies of my musical heroes like Stevie Wonder, The Beatles, Paul Simon, and Michael Jackson,” Eric recalls. “I went for broke, literally, to capture the music that I was hearing in my head – the songs that represented me at that time. I could never have imagined where those songs would take me.”
Today, Eric is a seasoned musician and touring artist who’s released eight albums, performed in all 50 states and experimented with diverse kinds of musical genres like pop, folk, reggae, alternative rock, and jazz. Still, more often than not, Eric says if people are familiar with his music, they know the songs from Sounds Like This. “I love getting to hear stories from so many people who remember growing up with the music,” Eric says. “I’ll meet people and they’ll tell me about watching the music video for “Rock & Roll” on VH1 while getting ready for school, or listening to “Food Chain” on a burned mix CD that an older sister made to celebrate getting her driver’s license, or singing “Ok, It’s Alright With Me” in their college a capella group. I’m proud of this album I made many years ago, but I’m even more gratified by the part my music got to play in so many other people’s lives. I’m hoping I get to celebrate Sounds Like This with all those people on this tour.”

Wednesday Vibes featuring Carlos Menezes Jr and The Dubtone Beat
2024-03-27 18:30 - 21:00 | The Cut, 177 Main Street , Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
From New Orleans to the Caribbean, the Dubtone Beat puts the groove in your feet!

Andrea von Kampen
2024-03-26 19:00 - 21:00 | Firehouse Center for the Arts, 1 Market Square, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
Deemed “a fine singer with guitar work reminiscent of the cult hero Nick Drake” by the New York Times, singer-songwriter, Andrea von Kampen is known for her captivating melodies and introspective storytelling. After releasing a handful of EPs, von Kampen released her independent debut album Old Country in 2019 and her sophomore album That Spell with Fantasy Records in 2021.
In 2022, von Kampen made her acting debut in the independent film, “A Chance Encounter,” distributed by Samuel Goldwyn. Along with starring in the film, she wrote and recorded the film soundtrack which was released by Fantasy Records.
Sharing the stage with an impressive array of artists, including The Tallest Man on Earth, Trampled by Turtles, Watchhouse, Punch Brothers, The Wood Brothers, Bonny Light Horseman, Darlingside, Lief Vollebekk, Dead Horses, and many others, von Kampen has established herself on the road. She has played renowned music festivals such as The Newport Folk Festival and the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival.
von Kampen has spent the past year working on a new record and getting back to the independent approach to music that she previously yearned for. Her third full-length record was recorded in the winter of 2023 by Ben Brodin (Conor Oberst, Justin Townes Earle, First Aid Kit) and arranged by her brother, David von Kampen. This new album, Sister Moon focuses on themes of climate change, the connectedness of nature, and the stories of Richard Powers.

Silent Voices Remembered - The Essex Piano Trio
2024-03-25 19:30 - 21:00 | Salem State University Recital Hall, Classroom Building, Central Campus, 71 Loring Avenue, Salem, MA, 01970, United States
TICKETS $15 general/$10 seniors/free for all students with student ID and under 18. Admission is free for Salem State students, faculty and staff with university ID.
Entitled Silent Voices Remembered, this concert of Holocaust memorial trios will explore the music of five composers dating from the 1940s to the present. Although the subject is dark, the music is gorgeous, and Essex Piano Trio believes audiences will be inspired by this remembrance, which, while portraying and mourning the atrocities of this genocide, also – as only art can – celebrates the courage and resilience of those who survived and expresses hope for the future of the Jewish people and others targeted by hatred and violence.
The members of the Essex Piano Trio, performing together since 2017, are from Essex County communities along Boston’s North Shore, violinist Ashley Offret of Salem, cellist David Cabral of Lynn, and pianist Beverly Soll of Rockport. Visit EPT at essexpianotrio.com or on Facebook.
This event is co-sponsored by Salem State’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
For access and accommodation information, visit https://www.salemstate.edu/access or email access@salemstate.edu.

Liz Longley
2024-03-23 20:00 - 22:00 | Shalin Liu Performance Center, 37 Main Street, Rockport, MA, 01966, United States
Best known for her stop-you-in-your-tracks voice, Liz Longley is an accomplished singer-songwriter based out of Nashville, TN. With her deeply emotional music, Longley has earned accolades from some of the most prestigious songwriting competitions in the country, including the BMI John Lennon Songwriting Scholarship Competition.

Tardi Mardi Gras Party
2024-03-23 19:00 - 22:00 | Ames Hall, 290 Essex Street, Salem, MA, 01970, United States
Join us for the Tardi Mardi Gras Party
Saturday, March 23 @ 7–10 p.m.
Ames Hall, 290 Essex Street, Salem, MA
Music by Jambalaya Horns Brass Band
Small Bites by Ferreira Foods
And much more!
Mardi Gras finery welcomed.
Presented by Salem Athenaeum
salemathenaeum.net
Laissez-les bon temps rouler! It’s never too late to celebrate!
Tickets: $55 / $45 members Sign up!

Emily Scott Robinson
2024-03-23 19:00 - 21:00 | Firehouse Center for the Arts, 1 Market Square, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
Colorado songwriter Emily Scott Robinson beckons to those who are lost, lonely, or learning the hard way with American Siren, her first album for Oh Boy Records. With hints of bluegrass, country, and folk, the eloquent collection shares her gift for storytelling through her pristine soprano and the perspective of her unconventional path into music.
“I think that the thread running through the album is those things that call to us, and how we can’t resist that call,” she says. “It’s about the siren songs that come up through our lives.”
Though not fully autobiographical, American Siren gracefully blends imagined characters with meaningful people she’s encountered on her journey. Showcasing her ability as a storyteller, “If Trouble Comes a Lookin’” invents a scene where a vulnerable priest and an unhappy wife meet in an Arkansas hotel bar. “Hometown Hero” is an emotional tribute to her cousin, a veteran lost to suicide. “Lost Woman’s Prayer” stems from the words of a sage friend she met while traveling abroad, while “Every Day in Faith” is a personal testament to seeing things through.
As the album’s lead track, “Old Gods” carries the siren concept to its fullest potential with beautiful three-part female harmony; she originally wrote it for a community production of Macbeth. Meanwhile, “Things You Learn the Hard Way” was completed after asking for relevant scenarios from her social media followers. Yet there’s a part of her own life in every song, too. That’s especially true in “Cheap Seats,” about a distracted waitress who’s bound (someday) to realize her dreams. Robinson wrote it after seeing John Prine and Bonnie Raitt sing together at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville in 2019.
“If you make music that you love that tells the truth, or that tells a story, everything emanates from what you have inside,” she says. “I knew at the core that I love writing, I love telling stories and I love performing. I knew if I just kept doing that, even when I didn’t always know what the next step was, that it would continue to grow and that the people who were meant to be a part of that would find me.”
Robinson grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina, and turned toward guitar at age 13, after a summer camp counselor closed out the nights by playing songs by Joni Mitchell, Cat Stevens, and Dar Williams every night. She taught herself to play in the early 2000s by printing guitar tabs from the internet and singing to CDs by Indigo Girls and James Taylor. But she didn’t pursue songwriting until after seeing Nanci Griffith perform in Greensboro in 2007.
“I went home and I wrote a really sad, beautiful country song,” Robinson remembers. “I was like, ‘Wow, that was easy.’ And then I kept trying to write through college and I realized, ‘This is not actually that easy.’”
Graduating from Furman University with degrees in history and Spanish, Robinson took a job as a social worker and translator in 2011. “I moved to Telluride when I was 24 to work as a victim’s advocate for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault,” she says. “I fell in love with Telluride. That’s really where my dream started to be born of doing music.”
In 2013, she found kindred spirits at Planet Bluegrass’ The Song School, a songwriting retreat in Lyons, Colorado, where other participants encouraged her talent, and just as importantly, showed her that being a touring musician could be a viable financial option. Before temporarily moving away from Telluride, Robinson went into town and sat on the empty stage where the city’s annual bluegrass festival is staged, promising herself that she’d be singing on it someday.
Bolstered by the positive response of her 2016 debut album, Magnolia Queen, Robinson and her husband packed everything into an RV and hit the road, with Robinson booking her own shows along the way. That same year, her songwriting landed her among the Kerrville New Folk Winners at the esteemed Texas festival. The winners embarked on an eight-city tour of Texas that fall, introducing Robinson to an audience that remains invested in her career.
“That was my first time touring,” she says. “It was so much more fun than I thought it would be. I’m a homebody and I was anxious about it because I hadn’t done it. I thought it would run me ragged. What I didn’t account for was how much energy I would get from it and how great it would feel to get in touring shape and be singing every night and have my stories be super on-point and loving the experience of finding an audience.”
Robinson received significant acclaim for her 2019 album, Traveling Mercies. And her long-held dream came true later that year when she sang on the Telluride Bluegrass Festival stage as the winner of the Telluride Troubadour Contest. A poignant standalone single in 2020, titled “The Time for Flowers,” prompted a private Instagram message from Oh Boy Records’ Jody Whelan, letting her know how meaningful the song was to his family. They struck up a fast friendship, then decided to partner for a release of American Siren.
“It is bigger and riskier and more expansive than my last collection,” Robinson says. “It feels like I wrote some songs that I’m going to grow into as I continue to perform them. I actually cried after I finished every one of them. I was so relieved that I was able to write them. I carved out a little more of my own experiences into these songs. They’re excavating some deeper stuff than I’ve touched on before. I think they will have a healing quality for people who listen.”
For her fans and for herself, this revealing collection proves that heeding the call to make music was the right decision. “Ever since this dream was born, I don’t think it’s ever left my mind,” Robinson says. “I’ve worked toward it every day, even when I felt like I was stumbling in the dark. Now I can look back and see how beautifully it all knits together.”

And That’s Why We Drink: On The Rocks Tour
2024-03-23 19:00 - 20:30 | Larcom Theatre, 13 Wallis Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Hosted by New York Times best selling authors Em Schulz and Christine Schiefer, “And That’s Why We Drink” is an award-winning comedy podcast, where the paranormal and true crime meet. Launched in February 2017, each new episode is a deep dive into whatever paranormal and true crime stories the hosts are obsessing over that week. Watch it live on the Larcom Theatre stage!
The podcast has over 196 million lifetime downloads and is consistently ranked at the top of the comedy podcast charts. The podcast is the winner of the 2019, 2021 and 2022 People’s Voice “Webby” award for Best Comedy Podcast, the 2022 and 2023 People’s Choice Podcast Award in the Comedy Category, the 2023 winner in the Best True Crime Podcast for the People’s Choice Awards, the 2023 Signal Awards Gold winner in Best Commute Podcast and True Crime Categories, the 2023 Silver Davey Award winners in the Best Co-Hosts and Best Crime & Mystery Categories, the W3 Awards Gold winner in the General Series Crime and Mystery Category and the Silver winner in the Best Co-Hosts Category. Em and Christine have been touring the show since 2018 — with their latest live tour, “On the Rocks,” selling out across North America. In May 2022, Em and Christine released their first book together called “A Haunted Road Atlas” — which debuted on the New York Times bestsellers list.
90 minutes. All ages
Thelarcom.org/ontherockstour

Met Opera in HD: Romeo et Juliette
2024-03-23 12:55 - 16:45 | Shalin Liu Performance Center, 37 Main Street, Rockport, MA, 01966, United States
Two singers at the height of their powers—soprano Nadine Sierra and tenor Benjamin Bernheim—come together as the star-crossed lovers in Gounod’s Shakespeare adaptation, with Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the podium to conduct one of the repertoire’s most romantic scores.

Saturday Brunch with Wooden Planks
2024-03-23 12:00 - 14:30 | The Cut, 177 Main Street , Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Join us from brunch with musical guest The Wooden Planks! The Wooden Planks are a North Shore based band led by Jim Coyle ( guitar /vocals) and Joe Kessler (fiddle) , playing a wide range of traditional Irish folk music . They have a deep repertoire consisting of jigs, reels , fiddle tunes , foot stompers and ballads , with some detours into acoustic Americana and Bluegrass

Firehouse Family Tea
2024-03-23 10:00 - 12:00 | Firehouse Center for the Arts, 1 Market Square, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
Join us for our 2nd Annual Firehouse Family Tea. This very special Family Event sold out last year so don’t wait to get your tickets!
Here’s what to expect:
10:00a – Welcome with tea and snacks in the Upper Lobby
10:15a – Egg Hunt in the theater!!
10:25a – Easter Bunny DANCE PARTY on stage!!
10:45a – Face painting, Relay Races, Spring Crafts, Egg Painting, and more !
11:30a – Special Story Time
11:45a – Photos with Easter Bunny and our special guest
12:00p – One Last Dance and Enjoy Your Day!
This is sure to be a fun time for families of all types – and children of all ages!

Sing & Swing: Jazz at Lincoln Center Presents
2024-03-22 20:00 - 22:00 | Shalin Liu Performance Center, 37 Main Street, Rockport, MA, 01966, United States
Featuring Bria Skonberg & Benny Benack III
Jazz at Lincoln Center returns to Rockport, this time with a Sing & Swing program featuring two of the rising stars in the genre, both dual threats on trumpet and vocals; Bria Skonberg and Benny Benack III. This will be an evening of classics of the American Songbook…George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, all interpreted by New York’s best and brightest.

History of Old Newbury in 3 Drinks: Part II: RUM 1700-1800
2024-03-22 18:30 - 20:00 | Museum of Old Newbury, 98 High Street, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
Did you know that Caldwell’s Newburyport Rum was produced along the waterfront for 171 years (with a short break during Prohibition)? The rum business boomed in Newbury(port) in the 18th century, with ships arriving from the West Indies with cargoes of molasses to be distilled into potent, inexpensive New England rum.
And we drank almost as much as we made – about three pints of rum per adult male per week in the 1770’s, and British attempts to regulate and tax this beverage helped to stoke the flames of revolution!
Join executive director Bethany Dorau for an illustrated talk and tasting on the history of rum in 18th century Newbury(port). Learn the language of punch bowls and check out the bar tab from Newburyport’s Wolfe Tavern on the eve of Revolution. Learn how the production and distribution of rum changed over time, and how westward expansion signalled the end of the rule of rum. Explore attempts to outlaw “demon rum,” long before Prohibition, and head home with recipes for rum cocktails from some of the area’s best bartenders!

Dragons Love Tacos Party
2024-03-22 17:00 - 19:00 | Wenham Museum, 132 Main St., Route 1A, Wenham, MA, 01984, United States
This special event is for Wenham Museum Members only in celebration of March is Membership Month!
Round up your little dragons and head to the Wenham Museum for our Dragons Love Tacos Party! We’ll be having a dragon dance party, making dragon-themed crafts, and meeting our friendly dragon for fun and photo ops. The museum’s galleries and exhibitions will also be open for you to enjoy.
And of course, tacos (but not spicy tacos) will be available for dinner while you’re here! Metzy’s Cantina of Newburyport, Mass. will be serving pulled chicken, shredded pork, short rib barbacoa, and crispy cod tacos from their award-winning food truck. A cash bar will also be available for beer, wine, and margaritas (ages 21+).
RSVP is appreciated! There is no fee to attend this event. Food and alcoholic beverages must be purchased separately.
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Matt Jenson Live! Latin night
2024-03-21 20:00 - 22:30 | The Cut, 177 Main Street , Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Matt Jenson is an inspired keyboard player and singer who’s toured and recorded with the internationally known jazz-fusion reggae band Groundation and teaches piano and a class on Bob Marley at Berklee College of Music.
Afro-Cuban quartet playing ROOTS salsa styles and Latin-jazz
mattjenson.com

Eileen Ivers
2024-03-21 20:00 - 22:00 | Shalin Liu Performance Center, 37 Main Street, Rockport, MA, 01966, United States
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day week with fiddler Eileen Ivers! Eileen’s Irish and American roots shine throughout the evening’s beautiful mix of traditional Celtic songs and poems along with foot stomping roots music.
What’s the difference between a fiddle and a violin? In the hands of a celebrated guest soloist with over 50 symphony orchestras, who also shreds electric fiddle through fuzz, wah and looping effects…who is called “the future of the Celtic Fiddle” by The Washington Post, and “the Jimi Hendrix of the violin” by The New York Times…who is Bronx born, yet the 9-time All-Ireland Fiddle Champion. What’s the difference? Nothing, in the hands of Eileen Ivers.
Grammy®-Awarded and Emmy-nominated, Eileen Ivers continues to push the fiddling tradition boundaries from a folk music staple to a fiercely fresh, powerfully beautiful, intensely driving world stage experience. Eileen has performed with Sting, ‘Fiddlers 3’ with Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and Regina Carter, Patti Smith, Al Di Meola, The Chieftains, was the groundbreaking Musical Star of Riverdance, a founding member of Cherish the Ladies, a former member of the Hall & Oates band, a featured instrumentalist on soundtracks including “Gangs of New York” and Back to Titanic”, and she is one of the most awarded All-Ireland Fiddle and Banjo champions ever. Eileen has been proclaimed “a national treasure” by NCTA Board Chairman George Holt as she celebrates her 30+ year career as a performer, composer, producer, songwriter, band leader, educator, multi-instrumentalist and renowned pioneer in connecting her American, Irish traditional, jazz, blues, and world roots.
Eileen’s most recent CD, “Beyond the Bog Road”, and its extensively researched 16-page liner notes focus on the influences of the Celtic tradition on Roots music (bluegrass, French-Canadian, Cajun, Appalachian, Americana) and how the music journeyed on to become a fundamental ingredient of the American Country music tradition. Irish Music Magazine called it “a triumph …a musical Magnum Opus,” and the album reached number one on the Alt-Country Roots Music Chart.
Eileen’s new, energetic, joyous and passionate band, Universal Roots, connect music, cultures, stories and emotions that tie us together…celebrating the fact that we are more alike than dissimilar. Music truly is the universal language. The ensemble, with a broad array of instrumentation, features Matt Mancuso (lead vocals, guitar, trumpet, fiddle), Buddy Connolly (button accordion, whistles, piano, vocals), Lindsey Horner (upright and electric bass, baritone sax, vocals), Dave Barckow (lead vocals, percussion, guitar), together with Eileen on fiddle, mandolin, banjo and live looping.

Hot Club of Cowtown
2024-03-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Firehouse Center for the Arts, 1 Market Square, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
“The interplay is as sleek as ever.” – The Times (London)
“The hot jazz is what Hot Club do best, and this is a staggering return to form for the band I once said I could listen to forever. That still stands.” – Country Music People
“This trio’s stylistic genesis–as well as title–stems from the realization that the great heritage of strings (guitars and violins) originates mutually with the Manouche gypsies of France and the no-less virtuosic hillbilly pickers and fiddlers of Oklahoma and Texas….Together for over 15 years and a dozen albums, the threesome of high-heeled violinist Elana James, guitarist Whit Smith and bassist Jake Erwin showed from the beginning that jazz and country music could exist together on the same page, a highly commendable achievement if ever there was one.” – Wall Street Journal
“Hot Club of Cowtown swung light and tight, like tumbleweeds made of velvet.” – Rochester City Paper
“[James’s] inventive violin style can still conjure up the unique image of Bob Wills strolling through Tin Pan Alley.” – JazzTimes
“As instrumentally and vocally tight as any band out there working in any genre today….three skilled musicians who can seemingly just tune up and play, something that’s becoming increasingly rare these days.” – American Songwriter
Award-winning Austin, Texas-based Hot Club of Cowtown may be the world’s most globe-trotting, effervescent string trio, who’s joyful sound blends the traditional Western swing of the 1940s American southwest with European hot jazz influences of the same era. The Hot Club of Cowtown, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary, writes its own original songs and reinterprets everything from hoedowns to American songbook standards in its own, original style. The band is guitarist Whit Smith, fiddler Elana James, and upright bassist Zack Sapunor.
HCCT has toured with Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Roxy Music and others and proudly represents traditional American music throughout the world for the US State Department from Azerbaijan to the Sultanate of Oman. It has been named Ameripolitan Western Swing Group of the Year and is a member of the Texas Western Swing Hall of Fame. Fifteen albums, a global following, and the relentless passion of its live shows are the band’s enduring trademark.
Recently signed to UK roots label the Last Music Company, the Hot Club of Cowtown continues to amass a devoted following worldwide through its one-of-a-kind versatility and virtuosity. Career highlights include the Fuji Rock Festival (Japan), Lincoln Center, the Grand Ol’ Opry, the Glastonbury Festival (UK) and all points in between.

1606 Restaurant & Oyster Bar Australian & New Zealand Wine Dinner
2024-03-21 18:00 - 21:00 | 1606 Restaurant and Bar, 55 Commercial St, Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Join us at 1606 Restaurant & Oyster Bar on March 21st for our Australian & New Zealand Wine Dinner Pairing! This four-course intimate dining experience will feature our Chef’s creations paired with a different varietal of Australian & New Zealand Wine for $120++. Dinner begins at 6:00PM.
1st Course: Grilled Langoustine paired with Sémillon Sauvignon Blanc
2nd Course: Lamb Carpaccio paired with Little Yering Chardonnay
3rd Course: Dukkha Crusted Kangaroo Tenderloin paired with Isabel Estate Pinot Noir
4th Course: Dark Chocolate Beetroot Cake paired with Gonzo Combat Rouge
++MA State Tax & 20% Gratuity will be collected on-site in addition to the $120 price of the dinner experience. Cancellations & no shows will be charged the full amount.

Lecture: Privateers of the Caribbean: Bermuda and the Bahamas After the American Revolution
2024-03-19 17:00 - 18:00 | Virtual, MA, United States
Join us to hear Ross Nedervelt, the 2023 Frances E. Malamy Fellow at PEM’s Phillips Library, present the findings of his research project: “Loyalism, Privateering, and American Sovereignty in the Atlantic Border-sea, 1783-1815.”
Between 1783 and 1819, the newly independent United States fought a series of skirmishes with Britain over control of the islands of Bermuda and the Bahamas. American loyalists and British military occupying the islands created a military and cultural bulwark to defend against the nascent United States, thwarting the new country’s endeavors to expand its commercial influence into the colonies of the British Caribbean. In the decades following the American Revolution, the British government remade Bermuda from a commercial hub into the Royal Navy’s staging ground for the assault on Washington, D.C. during the War of 1812.
The Phillips Library Frances E. Malamy Research Fellowship program, funded by the Malamy family, awards $5,500 to one recipient each year to perform independent research for three months at the library located in Rowley, Massachusetts.

Bailey’s Mistake
2024-03-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Firehouse Center for the Arts, 1 Market Square, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
Formed along Maine’s rocky coastline, Bailey’s Mistake is a neo traditional, Celtic-inspired folk band playing ancient songs of the sea, Newfoundland, the auld sod, as well as New England. Powered by guitar, bagpipes, tinwhistle, bass and drums, their highly danceable music invites merry hearts to sing along and feel the power of ancient music as it translates into the 21st century.

St. Patrick’s Day Dinner with Woodland Spark
2024-03-17 18:30 - 21:00 | The Cut, 177 Main Street , Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Woodland Spark’s music has been described as an authentic musical experience, drawing from folk, jazz, & classical influences. We play a wide selection of folk music, including traditional Celtic, French, Québécois, Scandinavian, Cape Breton, & more, from slow waltzes to fast reels.

Education and Community Engagement: Project STEP
2024-03-17 15:00 - 17:00 | Shalin Liu Performance Center, 37 Main Street, Rockport, MA, 01966, United States
Project STEP celebrates its 40-plus years of providing exceptional classical music training for young musicians of color. Project STEP is a national award-winning music program that offers the very best classical music education for young students in Boston and surrounding areas. Not only does Project STEP’s programs harbor a creative and safe learning environment, they advocate for a future where the classical music profession reflects the racial and ethnic diversities of our surrounding communities.
