North of Boston

Yellow Bird Chase with Liars and Believers
2024-03-10 15:00 - 16:30, 2024-03-09 15:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Gloucester Stage, 267 East Main St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
A bumbling maintenance crew finds a magical yellow bird, and the mad chase begins. Racing over land, across the sea, and through the air, battling pirates and monsters, how far will our heroes go… without ever leaving the storage room? Leap into a world of imagination!
Bring the whole family down to Gloucester Stage to join Liars & Believers on an adventure of masks, puppets, and gibberish. This delightful romp was a smash hit at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and is fully accessible to the Deaf and hard of hearing community, as well as to non-english speakers.
Yellow Bird Chase is appropriate for ages 2+ and is fully accessible to Deaf and hard of hearing community as well as non-English speakers.
Written by the LAB Ensemble
50 min with no intermission

An Evening with Melissa Ferrick
2024-03-09 20:00 - 22:00 | Firehouse Center for the Arts, 1 Market Square, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
On August 15th, 2023, Ferrick released Black Dress, their first single in eight years, via the venerable Kill Rock Stars Records. This release coincides with the 30th anniversary of Ferrick’s critically acclaimed major label debut, Massive Blur. Ferrick will be celebrating the new release and her 30th Anniversary by touring a retrospective show titled, Throughlines. In other big news, Melissa has started a management company, Drive Music Agency (D.M.A.), where she represents Brennan Wedl and Joh Chase.
Melissa Ferrick is regarded in the industry and by their peers as one of the most prolific, generous, and hardworking people in the business. After opening for Morrissey in the U.S. and UK, Ferrick signed with Atlantic Records at the age of 21 and released her debut and sophomore albums with them. Between 1996 and 1999, Melissa released three albums with the Colorado-based indie label W.A.R. Records. In 2000, Melissa launched the nationally distributed independent record label Right On Records. Ferrick put out two critically acclaimed albums with NY-based label MPress Records between 2011 and 2013. She’s released seventeen albums over the last twenty-five years and has won numerous awards for songwriting, production, and performance. Melissa has shared the stage with countless acts, some of which include Morrissey, Joan Armatrading, Weezer, Tegan and Sara, Mark Cohen, Paul Westerberg, Bob Dylan, John Hiatt, Ani DiFranco, k.d. Lang, Suzanne Vega, Shawn Colvin, and many others.
Besides her work in the music industry, Ferrick is a Professor of the Practice at Northeastern University in the Music Department. Melissa teaches courses in the music business, songwriting, creative entrepreneurship, demo recording and production, live performance, and the psychology of creativity. From 2013 – to 2019, Melissa was an Associate Professor of Songwriting at Berklee College of Music. She holds an Ed.M from Harvard University.

Stephen Hough & Castalian Quartet
2024-03-09 19:30 - 21:30 | Shalin Liu Performance Center, 37 Main Street, Rockport, MA, 01966, United States
Renowned pianist Sir Stephen Hough and the dynamic Castalian Quartet come together for a program of Haydn, a work by Stephen Hough and Brahms’s quintet in F minor, Op. 34.

Sheryl Faye Presents Historical Women: Queen Elizabeth II – “Her Majesty”
2024-03-09 13:00 - 14:00 | Wenham Museum, 132 Main St., Route 1A, Wenham, MA, 01984, United States
Celebrate Women’s History Month by attending this interactive and educational performance about one of the most impactful women of our lifetime.
She was a true icon, inspiring people around the world with her strength, courage, resilience, and dedication to a life of service. For 70 years, she remained a constant presence as sovereign, shepherding the people of the UK through both joyful times and darker periods of challenge and uncertainty. An enduring admiration for Queen Elizabeth II united people across the Commonwealth.
She was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from February 6, 1952 until her death in September 8, 2022. Her reign of 70 years and 214 days was the longest of any British monarch and the longest verified reign of any female head of state in history. In a world of constant change, she was a steadying presence and a source of comfort and pride for generations of Britons, including many who have never known their country without her.
The Queen supported over 600 charities during her reign. She will be remembered for her calm and dignity and as someone everyone in the world could look up to, and she could be a unifying figure. She was more than a monarch. She defined an era.
The show, intended for ages 9 & up, is 50 minutes long followed by Q & A.
Queen Elizabeth II is presented by Sheryl Faye. Learn more about Sheryl Faye’s historical character performances online here.
TICKETS
Included with Admission ($10 Adults, $8 Seniors)
Free for Members

Met Opera in HD: La Forza del Destino
2024-03-09 12:00 - 16:30 | Shalin Liu Performance Center, 37 Main Street, Rockport, MA, 01966, United States
Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Verdi’s La Forza del Destino, with stellar soprano Lise Davidsen, following a string of recent Met triumphs, in her role debut as the noble Leonora. Director Mariusz Trelinski delivers the company’s first new Forza in nearly 30 years, setting the scene in a contemporary world

Saturday Brunch with StratCat Willie Hayes
2024-03-09 12:00 - 14:30 | The Cut, 177 Main Street , Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
StratCat Willie Hayes is an old-school bluesman who has been writing and playing for over fifty years.Some of his earliest influences includedT-Bone Walker, MikeBloomfield ,B.B. King, Johnny Winter, and Duke Robillard.In 1995, after several years of gigging in local clubs and fronting many cover bands, his affinity for and love of the blues led to him to form a band that would allow him to focus exclusively on the blues.“Blues Plate Special” was a harmonica driven blues band that allowed him to focus on songwriting, while covering groups ranging from Little Charlie & the Nightcats to the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.With Blues Plate Special, he worked hard to keep the blues alive in theSouthernTier of New York, recording three studio albums along with one live album.In 2019, in an effort to explore other styles of the blues, he pulled several players together that had been with him for many of those fifty-plus years to form “StratCatWillie & the Strays”.In 2020, armed with thirteen original tunes, he took the Strays into the studio. The result was“On The Prowl”,which debuted on SiriusXM BLUESVILLE’s “Rack ofBlues” and remained on the Roots Music Report charts for six consecutive months, finishing #52on theRMR“Top 200 Contemporary Blues Album Chart for 2021”.Following up on that success, late in 2021 StratCat Willie brought the same players together to record“On A Hot Tin Roof”.Comprised of twelve new original tunes written entirely during the pandemic, the music not only reflects the darkness of the times, it also reflects the “Good News of the Blues” and the joy of classic swing/jump blues by tapping into the rich sound of a backing horn section and soulful background vocals.Over his fifty plus year career, StratCat Willie has shared the stage with many musicians across theUnited States, fromNew Orleans, where he has jammed with legends like Walter “Wolfman” Washington, to San Francisco, Memphis, and Nashville, always looking to meet and play with different folks. StratCat Willie not only enjoys the spontaneity of a good blues jam, he revels in the opportunity to bring new players together and “make a statement”.Continuing the influences of the old masters, his swinging, upbeat style has been described as “always a party”and“uniquely his”, while always paying tribute to and recognizing the African-American men and women who gave us this amazing art form.

Leprechaun Potions
2024-03-09 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-03-08 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-03-07 10:00 - 11:00 | The Good Witch of Salem, 2 North St, Salem, MA, 01970, United States
Children will mix, mash, drop, and stir their very own St. Patrick’s Day themed potion. Our magical employees will guide children in creating their own magical creations. They will also learn about rainbow crystals.
This workshop is limited to 8 children, pre-registration is required. Under age 4 may attend with the help of a supervising adult.
Hosted By: Apprentice Witches

Todd Hearon
2024-03-08 20:00 - 22:00 | Firehouse Center for the Arts, 1 Market Square, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
Todd Hearon is an award-winning poet and songwriter, born in Fort Worth, Texas, and raised in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. The hymns and folk songs of his youth continue to influence his music, along with more edgy, contemporary Americana and Country-Rock sounds. He played bass and guitar for The Spin, one of the most successful alternative rock bands to come out of the Dallas Deep Ellum scene in the 1990s. After a career spanning six years and four albums, extensive touring and the cultivation of a broad fan base, he hung up his musical hat for graduate school in Boston, earning his Masters and PhD in English and Irish Studies, and co-founding The Bridge Theater Company, an independent troupe in Boston’s Theater District. He’s the author of three collections of poems, Strange Land, No Other Gods, and Crows in Eden, several plays and a novella, DO GEESE SEE GOD. He has received a PEN/New England ”Discovery” Award, the Friends of Literature Prize (Poetry magazine and the Poetry Foundation), the Rumi Poetry Prize (Arts & Letters) and the Campbell Corner Poetry Prize (Sarah Lawrence College). He was the Dobie Paisano Fellow/Writer-in-Residence at the University of Texas in Austin and served as the Dartmouth Poet-in-Residence at the Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire. His poems, essays and plays have appeared widely in literary journals in this country and abroad.​Music has never been far from his center, even as he extended his reaches into other art forms. Armed with a 1950 Gibson J-50 named Myrtle, and a host of new songs that hearken back to his roots in southern folkways and deep-flowing Americana streams, he’s back, ready to share his music with the world. Border Radio and Yodelady are his first two studio albums.

SOUTH: Ernest Shackleton & the Endurance Expedition with Psychedelic Cinema Orchestra
2024-03-08 19:30 - 22:00 | Gloucester Stage, 267 East Main St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
The Psychedelic Cinema Orchestra performs a live, improvisational score for the 1919 silent film South – Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance Expedition. When Endurance Expedition photographer Frank Hurley accompanies Ernest Shackleton’s crew on a brave journey across the South Pole, they find themselves and their ship trapped amongst the heavily packed ice. What followed this moment of disaster is one of the greatest adventure stories ever told and an unbelievable tale of survival.

In Bloom Listening Series featuring: CFG, Hayley Reardon and Judit Neddermann
2024-03-08 19:00 - 23:30 | The Cut, 177 Main Street , Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
3/8/2024
18+ under 18 must be accompanied by a parent / 7:00p doors / 8:00p show
Featuring CFG | Hayley Reardon | Judit Neddermann
CFG
CFG is a multi faceted recording artist and full time musician in the North Shore who’s been active for the past 7 years in the local and regional music scene. From reggae riddims with former band Pier Ave to the summertime hip hop melody of his latest single ‘Find My Island’, CFG brings a vibe and energy that is a perfect fit amongst your favorite good vibes artists.
HAYLEY REARDON
Hayley Reardon is a critically acclaimed singer/songwriter and a storyteller in the truest sense of the word. Her songs serve as postcards from an artist brave enough to take the road less traveled. Reardon dove head first into music at the young age of 15, and has spent much of the past decade writing, recording and performing music around the world.
Raised in a coastal Massachusetts town north of Boston, Reardon spent three years based in Nashville and the past six years carrying her songs and stories all over the globe — including a six-month artist-in-residency stay in Dachau, Germany — gathering experiences, inspiration and soulful connections. Her ever-deepening music carries a lyrical and melodic weight beyond her years, being described as “brilliantly moving folk/pop with a lyrical depth and soul” (Performer Magazine) and “a melancholy little masterpiece” (American Songwriter Magazine). No Depression writes “Reardon is truly a treasure.”
Her latest release Changes (July 20, 2023) is the continuation of a journey that began with Reardon’s 2022 release In the Good Light. Both projects were recorded in Barcelona with Catalan collaborators Pau Figueres (producer and one of Spain’s premiere instrumentalists) and Aniol Bestit Collellimir (recording engineer). The title track on Changes features an original, bilingual duet with Catalan sensation Judit Neddermann, with whom Reardon formed a deep musical bond during her time in Barcelona and who appears on the EP courtesy of Universal Music Spain.
Reardon’s songs have found a home on Spotify Editorial Playlists like Fresh Folk, Folk Pop, Morning Coffee and Today’s Singer/Songwriters, as well as Apple Music’s Acoustic Chill and New in Singer/Songwriter. She totes over 6 million streams on Apple Music alone and has shared the stage with renowned artists including Lori McKenna, Rodney Crowell and Anaïs Mitchell, among others.
JUDIT NEDDERMANN
Barcelona, 1991. A singer and a composer, she has released five solo albums and a joint album with her sister Meritxell Neddermann. She has collaborated, recording or sharing the stage, with artists such as Joan Manuel Serrat, Alejandro Sanz, Pedro Guerra, MARO, Noa, Jorge Drexler, Andrés Suárez, Rozalén, Miguel Poveda, Macaco, and among others.She is a recognized singer in Catalonia, two years ago she started singing in new countries such as Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay and Italy.
She is the composer of the original score for the play ‘When I sing, mountains dance’, a play based on the novel of the same name by Irene Solà. For ten years she was the singer of The Gramophone Allstars project, led by Genís Bou, with whom she recorded five albums. She has also had a long and close collaboration with the pianist Clara Peya, the joint project with the Quartet Brossa “Viatge d’hivern” and his participation in Coetus.
She has been awarded a Max Award, a Butaca Award, two Enderrock Awards, the Miquel Martí i Pol Award and a Descobertes Award.
She was born in 1991 into a family of musicians that has always supported her, and she grew up in Vilassar de Mar.

Seaport Grille Winter Live Music Series
2024-03-08 18:00 - 21:00 | Seaport Grille, 6 Rowe Square, Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
This Winter Season we’ll be hosting live music every Friday night from 6-9PM! Bring your family and friends to enjoy food, drinks and live music by the best local artists.

M is for Museum & P is for Playdate
2024-03-08 09:30 - 11:30 | Wenham Museum, 132 Main St., Route 1A, Wenham, MA, 01984, United States
Join us the 2nd Friday of the month for our M is for Museum/P is for Playdate program! Each month, we read a story, then do a related craft or activity.
Our P is for Playdates friends will read “If You Give a Pig a Pancake” by Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond. Following the read aloud we will create a pancake-themed craft.
Our M is for Museum friends will read “Pancakes, Pancakes” by Eric Carle. Following the read aloud we will create a pancake-themed craft.
These programs have been designed to address MA curriculum standards for Pre-K in Reading and Literature, Science, Personal and Social Development and Peer Relationships.
PROGRAM DETAILS
Friday, March 8, 2024
9:30 a.m. ages 18 months-2.9 years
10:30 a.m. ages 2.9 years+
Included with Admission
Free for Members
Free for Residents of Hamilton, Wenham, Manchester & Essex with advanced registration through Early Childhood Partners:
https://www.earlychildhoodpartners.com/registration.html
Sponsored by Early Childhood Partners via Mass. Department of Early Education & Care and the Hamilton-Wenham Regional School District.

Matt Jenson Live! Latin night
2024-03-07 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

Upstairs on Main: Michael O’Leary & Friends
2024-03-07 19:30 - 21:30 | Shalin Liu Performance Center, 37 Main Street, Rockport, MA, 01966, United States
Hear incredible local musical talent with the Upstairs on Main music series! Enjoy the intimate, lounge-like atmosphere on the third floor of the hall. Grab a beer at the bar, sit with friends and enjoy the show! Dancing is encouraged!
In anticipation of St. Patrick’s Day come celebrate with Cape Ann’s own Michael O’Leary and friends Bob & Jen Strom and Cindy McIntire for a spirited concert and céili session! For the first half of the evening, Michael and his stellar bandmates will play a set of traditional Irish songs and tunes. For the second half, they will open it up to others to sit in with them in an informal Irish céili. So bring your fiddles, flutes, bouzoukis, guitars, whistles and pipes and join us for the ‘ceol agus craic’ – Irish for ‘music and fun’! Some dancing could break out too!
Michael O’Leary (vocals, bodhran) is a singer of traditional and contemporary Irish, Scottish, English and American songs and ballads. Originally a landlubber from the Midwest, he has soaked up songs and the sea air of Cape Ann for the past thirty plus years. He has performed at the Rockport Celtic Festival, Boston Celtic Music Fest, Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival and other festivals and venues in the greater Boston area. He has co-hosted Celtic music sessions on Cape Ann since 2008 and hosts Celtic music sunset sails on schooner Ardelle out of Gloucester in the summer months.

Wednesday Vibes featuring Jorgan Trio
2024-03-06 18:30 - 21:00 | The Cut, 177 Main Street , Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
The Jorgan Trio performs classic jazz and soul featuring Jordan Gravel on hammond organ, and a stellar lineup of local talent on drums and guitar. Jordan also performs regularly with The Gravel Project who recently won a New England Music Award for Roots Act of the Year. Preview Jordan’s music at www.jordangravel.com.

Writers Series: January O’Neil & Kevin Carey
2024-03-05 19:30 - 21:00 | Salem State Recital Hall, 71 Loring Avenue, Salem, Massachusetts, 01970, United States
Salem State’s own writing stars, Kevin Carey and January Gill O’Neil, take the stage to celebrate their new books. Join us for a reception of students and alumni from the creative writing program before the reading.
Kevin Carey’s books include: three books of poetry: The One Fifteen to Penn Station (2012), Jesus Was a Homeboy (2016) which was an Honor book for the Paterson Literary Prize and Set in Stone (2020) all from CavanKerry Press, as well as three books of fiction: The Beach People (2014) Red Bird Chapbooks, Murder in the Marsh (2020) Darkstroke Books, and a new novel Junior Miles and the Junkman – September (2023) from Regal House Publishing / Fitzroy books. His poems have appeared three times on The Writers Almanac on National Public Radio and once on The Academy of American Poets Poem a Day. Kevin is also a playwright and a filmmaker. His stage play The Stand or Sal is Dead (a murder mystery comedy) premiered at the Actor’s Studio in Newburyport, MA in 2018. He has co-directed & co-produced two documentaries about poets, All That Lies Between Us and Unburying Malcolm Miller, which premiered at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival in 2017. A new poetry collection Olympus Heights (co-written with poet Colleen Michaels) dropped in October (2023) from the Lily Poetry Review. Kevin is also the co-founder of Molecule: a tiny lit mag. In May of 2024. More info at Kevincareywriter.com
January Gill O’Neil is an associate professor at Salem State University and the author of Glitter Road (2024), Rewilding (2018), Misery Islands (2014), and Underlife (2009), all published by CavanKerry Press. From 2012-2018, she served as the executive director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival. Her poems and articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day series, American Poetry Review, Poetry, and Sierra magazine, among others. Her poem, “At the Rededication of the Emmett Till Memorial,” was a co-winner of the 2022 Allen Ginsberg Poetry award from the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College. The recipient of fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Cave Canem, and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, O’Neil was the 2019-2020 John and Renée Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi, Oxford. She currently serves as the 2022-2024 board chair of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP).
O’Neil earned her BA from Old Dominion University and her MFA from New York University. She lives in Beverly, MA.

Our Fire Is Stronger Than Your Bombs – War posters by contemporary Ukrainian Illustrators
2024-03-05 12:00 - 13:00 | Salem State University Winfisky Gallery, 352 Lafayette Street, Salem, MA, 01970, United States
This exhibition was first installed at Dartmouth College from February 24 – March 31, 2023 at the one- year anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in an effort to raise awareness about the war raging in the heart of Europe. The exhibition showcases some of the brilliant artworks of contemporary Ukrainian illustrators living and working in Ukraine, sometimes, with no power, water, cell signal, or Internet connection. Many of them have long been collaborating with global media, in particular, New Yorker, the Atlantic, Zeit, Adweek, and other outlets.
A poster, as a form of fine art blending imagery and text, is a convenient and laconic statement, a means of rapid, shareable response to the urgent events and personal emotions they trigger. In the context of the massive information war, illustrators have become the voices of the art community, and their activism adds tangible strength to the ‘cultural troops’ who fight propaganda every day, broadcasting facts through artistic images and defending the truth as eyewitnesses.
Co-curators Veronika Yadukha and Hanna Leliv will present a talk on Wednesday, February 21 from 12:30-1:30 pm in the Winfisky Gallery. This will be followed by a reception from 1:30-3 pm. Gallery talks will take place on from 12- 1 pm on Wednesdays, February 14, 28 and March 5.
The Winfisky Gallery is open Monday through Friday from 10 am to 4 pm.
This event is co-sponsored by Salem State’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (CHGS).

Beauport Hotel Fireside Chat & Book Signing: Lisa Lutoff-Perlo
2024-03-04 18:00 - 20:00 | Beauport Hotel Gloucester, 55 Commercial Street, Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Join us Monday, March 4th at 6:00 PM for our first Fireside Chat Speaker Event & Book Signing with Gloucester’s own, Lisa Lutoff-Perlo.
Engage in conversation with Gloucester’s own, Lisa Lutoff-Perlo, Vice Chairman, External Affairs for the Royal Caribbean Group.
Lutoff-Perlo is recognized for her work on broad strategic initiatives with industry organizations and key external stakeholders for the Royal Caribbean Group. Prior to that, she served as President and CEO of Celebrity Cruises from 2014 to 2023, the first woman to take the helm of a Royal Caribbean Group brand and one of the few women then leading a multi-billion dollar brand.
Lutoff-Perlo is a recognized trailblazer in the global hospitality industry. She was the driving force behind transforming and re-defining today’s relaxed luxury cruise experience with a bold, innovative approach to ship design and service for both the industry and the Celebrity Cruises brand. Launching Celebrity’s Edge Series in 2018, the ships were immediately hailed as game-changing for the industry and recognized on TIME Magazine’s annual “World’s Greatest Places” list. She also led the Celebrity brand through a digital transformation, tapping into new market opportunities, customer trends, a robust digital marketing focus and increasing guest loyalty.
She is a member of the Board of Directors of Fortune 500 company AutoNation (NYSE: AN) and actively lends her expertise to numerous international and regional nonprofit organization boards.
Lutoff-Perlo shares her powerful career stories and lessons learned in her leadership book, “Making Waves: A Woman’s Rise to the Top Using Smarts, Heart and Courage,” available for preorder on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or at The Bookstore of Gloucester. “Making Waves” will be released on February 20th. Please bring your copy of “Making Waves” with you to have your booked signed immediately after the Fireside Chat here at Beaport Hotel by Lutoff-Perlo.
*Tickets are free of cost. Please make sure to reserve your spot by ordering your ticket today here on Eventbrite.

Rasa Vitkauskaite, piano and Velléda Miragias, cello
2024-03-03 15:00 - 16:30 | Salem State Recital Hall, 71 Loring Avenue, Salem, Massachusetts, 01970, United States
This is the second of a three part concert series presented this spring in conjunction with Salem State Explorers Lifelong Learning Institute and the Jewish Community Center of the North Shore.
Rasa Vitkauskaite, piano and Velléda Miragias, cello perform works by Beethoven and Rachmaninov in Salem State’s intimate Recital Hall.
Internationally acclaimed multiple prize-winning Lithuanian pianist Rasa Vitkauskaite has been hailed for “artistry of poetic and observant sensitivity” (Gramophone) and dubbed as “a Beethoven interpreter of penetrating insight” (Fanfare). Her recent CD including Mozart Concerto No. 20 in D Minor and Beethoven Concerto No. 3 in C Minor was praised as comparable to Rudolf Serkin and the New York Philharmonic. Rasa has performed in over 30 countries and was recently named a Steinway Artist. Current season highlights include Rasa’s recording of Mendelssohn Double Concerto with Tchaikovsky Gold Medal violinist Ilya Kaler. She is also the long-serving, critically acclaimed pianist of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra. For more information, please visit https://rasapiano.com.
Boston-based Parisian cellist Velléda Miragias has received critical acclaim from le Confolentais for her “impeccable technical mastery, [and] strong expression,” and currently enjoys a diverse career as a freelance solo, chamber, and orchestral musician, educator, and entrepreneur across the United States, Europe, and Asia.
Admission to this concert is free. Advance reservations are recommended as seating is limited.
Peter Sheckman will lead a pre-concert talk beginning at 2:15 pm.
Final concert in the series will take place on April 7 with Amy Sims, violin and Velléda Miragias, cello.
For access and accommodation information, visit https://www.salemstate.edu/access or email access@salemstate.edu.

Freckleface Strawberry
2024-03-03 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-03-02 11:00 - 12:00 | Firehouse Center for the Arts, 1 Market Square, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
Freckleface Strawberry will do anything to get rid of her freckles – from scrubbing them with soap to caking on makeup… and even wearing a ski mask to school! Will her schoolmates realize that it’s her under the mask? Will Freckleface be brave enough to finally face her complexion in the mirror? With the help of her loveable schoolmates, including an amazingly talented ballerina, a cutie jock, a charming ditz and a totally kooky teacher, Freckleface learns that everyone is different – and that’s what makes everyone special.
Length of show: ~55 minutes
Great show for ALL ages!!

Homecoming: A Drag Show Starring Laila McQueen
2024-03-02 19:00 - 23:30 | The Cut, 177 Main Street , Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
03/02/2024
21+ / Positive I.D. Required. 7:00p doors / 8:00p show
Laila McQueen is the stage name of Gloucester’s own Tyler Devlin. Tyler competed as Laila on the MTV reality competition show RuPaul‘s Drag Race in 2016. He went on to perform the world over in countries including Canada, the UK, Ireland, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand. In 2020 he became a make-up artist on HBO’s drag makeover series We’re Here for which he won the EMMY award for “Outstanding Makeup for a Variety, Nonfiction or Reality Program” in 2022. “Homecoming” marks Laila’s first performance in Gloucester since 2019. https://www.instagram.com/misslailamcqueen/

Women In Music
2024-03-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Firehouse Center for the Arts, 1 Market Square, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
Spend an evening with Broadways Allison Case and Andrew Kober, supported by local vocalists and students, as they perform an evening of music in celebration of the women who shape our stories. From musical theater to pop, composers to their characters, this dynamic powerhouse duo brings the stage to life for an evening of fun, energetic, and meaningful music.
Allison Case
On Broadway, Allison originated the role of Crissy in the Tony Award-winning revival of Hair (Off-Broadway, Broadway, West End). Other Broadway credits include: Matilda (Miss Honey), Hands on a Hardbody (Kelli Mangrum), Mamma Mia (Sophie). Off-Broadway: Fly by Night (Miriam) at Playwrights Horizons, NYC workshops of Hadestown, The Book of Mormon, Come From Away, and Bright Star, and originated the role of Nemo in Finding Nemo the Musical at Disney.
On screen she has recurring roles in HBO’s “The Young Pope” with Jude Law and Diane Keaton, and on USA’s “The Sinner.” Other TV credits include roles on “Nurse Jackie,” “Royal Pains,” “NYC 22.” A Southern California native, Allison is a graduate from UC Irvine and South Coast Repertory’s Professional Conservatory.
Allison can currently be heard on Disney Junior’s animated series, Firebuds, as the voice of Viv Vega-Vaughn.
Andrew Kober
Andrew Kober is a New York City based actor and singer. Most recently, he could be seen in Beetlejuice on Broadway, where he has also appeared in the Tony-winning 2009 Revival of Hair, as well as Les Miserables, She Loves Me, Sunday in the Park with George, School of Rock, and Beautiful. Andrew also performed on London’s West End with Hair, and in the First National Tour of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. He is a graduate of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama.
Regionally, Andrew has worked all over the United States at theaters including MCC, The Williamstown Theater Festival, New York Theatre Workshop, Yale Rep, The Paper Mill Playhouse, the Berkshire Theater Festival, the Denver Center Theater Company, The Old Globe, The Golden Gate Theater, Buck’s County Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, and more. He has also spent four summers performing at Shakespeare in the Park, including playing Malvolio in Twelfth Night this past summer, in which the New York Times compared him to a young John Cleese.
Andrew lives in New Jersey with his wife, Farra, his children, Asher and Joely, and his dog, Murray.

Beyond the Music: Maria Finkelmeier: Entrepreneurship & Creating Public Art
2024-03-02 11:00 - 13:00 | Shalin Liu Performance Center, 37 Main Street, Rockport, MA, 01966, United States
Have you ever wondered what paths a musician might take that is outside of performing? In this new interactive talk series, you’ll meet several musicians who speak about their own unique creative space.
Saturday, March 2 at 11:00 AMMaria Finkelmeier – Entrepreneurship and creating public art
Maria Finkelmeier is a percussionist, composer, professor, and new media artist, whose work continually transcends both genre and medium. She has created and directed large-scale multimedia events and installations in public spaces from Cincinnati to Northern Sweden, with many throughout great Boston, including Hatched: Breaking through the Silence at the Hatch Shell. She is currently an Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music specializing in Creative Entrepreneurship.

Spring & Summer Sports Sale
2024-03-02 09:00 - 16:00 | Wenham Museum, 132 Main St., Route 1A, Wenham, MA, 01984, United States
Spring & Summer Sports SaleDonate | Shop | SaveSaturday, March 2, 2024, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.Sunday, March 3, 2024, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Mark your calendars for the Wenham Museum’s first-ever spring and summer sports sale! Donate your gently used sports equipment for sale to benefit the Wenham Museum and shop for your youth sports and outdoor recreation needs for the spring and summer season!

Spring & Summer Sports Sale

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DROP-OFF DATES AND TIMESMonday, February 26, 2024, 9 – 11:30 a.m.Monday, February 26, 2024, 3 – 5 p.m.Tuesday, February 27, 2024, 9 – 11:30 a.m.Tuesday, February 27, 2024, 6 – 7 p.m.Wednesday, February 28, 2024, 9 – 11:30 a.m.Wednesday, February 28, 2024, 3 – 5 p.m.Thursday, February 29, 2024, 9 – 11:30 a.m.Thursday, February 29, 2024, 3 – 5 p.m.
As a thank you for your support, all donors to the sale will be given a coupon worth 10% off your Sports Sale purchase.
In 2024, consignment sales will not be part of this inaugural event. In future years, we may include a consignment element. Including consignment will require sufficient community volunteers to manage that process.
Please do not leave items outside the museum unattended or bring items to the museum outside of these drop-off hours. Thank you!=====
SALE DATES & TIMESVolunteer-Only Shopping Hours: Saturday, March 2, 2024, 8 – 9 a.m. Sign up to volunteer: https://www.signupgenius.com/…/10C0B4CA4AD2…/37664149…General Sale Dates & Times: Saturday & Sunday, March 2 & 3, 2024, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.=====
SALE LOCATIONWenham Museum132 Main Street (Rt. 1A)Wenham, MA 01984There is no admission fee to shop the sale. However, regular museum admission applies to visit the galleries and exhibitions.=====
WHAT CAN I DONATE?Acceptable Items for young children, youth, and adults – MUST BE CLEAN, WEARABLE/USABLE, AND IN GOOD CONDITION!We regret that we cannot accept used athletic sneakers and water shoes, although cleats and golf shoes in good condition are welcome. We reserve the right to reject any items for donation that may not be saleable due to wear, age, or other factors or do not fall into the categories listed below.
Note: Massachusetts has a waste ban regulation in effect. We, unfortunately, cannot accept items that are stained, ripped, or overly worn. Please check to make sure that all items you are donating are clean and in good condition. Having to sort and dispose of items that are note saleable takes valuable time.
DONATION CATEGORIESBaseball: Gloves/mitts, baseballs & softballs, baseball apparel, bats, cleats, bat bags, batting gloves, batting helmets, catchers gear, softball bats, and training aids.
Bicycles, Adult, Youth and Toddler
Disc Golf: Bags, goals, and discs.
Field Hockey: Bags, protective equipment, and sticks.
Fitness: Yoga mats, resistance bands, and weights.
Golf: Packaged sets, golf balls, iron & hybrid sets, Jr. club sets, drivers, putters, shoes, golf bags (stand, travel, and cart).
Lacrosse: Bags, cleats, gloves, goggles, helmets, lacrosse balls, shoulder pads, and sticks.
Outside Play & Leisure: Croquet sets, cornhole, horseshoes, and other similar outdoor games.
Racquet Sports: Badminton, balls, PickelBall, tennis, racquetball, and squash.
School/Town Branded Uniforms & Athletic Wear: We will accept sports uniforms, jerseys, sweatshirts, t-shirts, mesh shorts, and related items that are branded with your school or community’s logo or mascot.
Skateboards & Skates: Skateboards, inline skates, roller skates, and protective equipment.
Soccer: Soccer balls, goals, shin pads, soccer bags, soccer cleats, and indoor shoes.
Water Sports: Canoes, kayaks, stand-up paddle boards, life vests, body boards, diving, towables, wakeboards, water skis, and wet suits.=====
ABOUT THIS EVENTFor over 100 years, the Wenham Museum has been a multi-generational place to roam, play and discover.For many of our valued visitors, Members, and supporters, outdoor play and discovery and organized youth sports are also an important part of daily life and the spirit of our local community. We’re realized there’s a high demand for gently used sporting and athletic equipment within our multi-generational audience. 0 In keeping with the museum’s former Attic Treasures Sale tradition, the Spring & Summer Sports Sale will bring the community together for a fun and affordable resale event that benefits the Wenham Museum.=====
QUESTIONS?Questions or Sponsorship Inquiries? Please contact Emily Bottomley, Director of Development, via e-mail at emily.bottomley@wenhammuseum.org or at (978) 468-2377, ext. 140.
Happens on the following Dates:
Mar 2, 2024, 9:00am to 4:00pm EST
Mar 3, 2024, 9:00am to 4:00pm EST
