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SUMMARY:Sons of the East with Ben Goldsmith
DESCRIPTION:  \n“Hello\, I’m Bill Murray\, thank you for your attention. Now if you would please direct it to the music of Sons Of The East.”\n– Bill Murray \nPremiere songwriters and a brilliant live act\, Sons Of The East are a remarkable independent success story. Their stellar debut album\, Palomar Parade\, has already seen over60 million streams\, with sold out shows at O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire London\, Williamsburg Music Hall New York\, Troubadour LA\, Razzmatazz Barcelona\, Metro Theatre Sydney\, Boston\, Denver & The Hague to name just a handful. \nThey have amassed an impressive 300 million streams\, 60 million YouTube views\, 2 million monthly listeners and sold over 50\,000 headline tickets throughout their career\, a testament to their growing connection with fans all around the world. A steadfastly independent trio\, Sons Of The East continue to defy genre and carve out a unique position amongst their indie folk contemporaries. \nAfter returning to more sellout shows across Europe\, Sons Of The East embark on their third tour of North America in July & August 2024\, playing key festivals such as San Fransisco’s Outside Lands\, Montreal Jazz\, and Floyd Festival. \n“It’s impossible not to move to – and be moved by – this exuberant sound. The atmosphere created is one of unique euphoria.” \n– 1st 3rd Magazine \n \n\nwith Ben Goldsmith\n\nMultidimensional artist Ben Goldsmith would like to tell you he “never could’ve imagined” this for himself\, but he’s quick to note that – call it confidence or a preternatural headstrongness years in the making – it’d just not be true. “In a way\, I’ve been working towards this since I was 3 or 4\,” he says. “I’ve never strayed. It’s the only thing I’ve ever wanted to do.’ \nThat “thing” Ben’s referring to is making music – more than music\, it’s an art free from genre\, with melodies as strong as some of the teen’s many influences. Ben was born and bred on acts like Aerosmith\, Dave Matthews Band\, Elton John\, Queen\, Stevie Wonder\, John Mayer\, and Bob Dylan. Ben floats between worlds\, genres\, and sounds\, truly a jack and master of all trades. \nHaving released his debut album. The World Between My Ears\, in 2023 – before he even graduated – Ben now turns the page on his next chapter. “For the first album\, it was a more tight-knit circle approach which really worked at the time while I was still in high school\,” Ben says. “However\, as soon as I closed the door on the last season and opened the door to this new era\, I knew from the get-go that I needed to expand and take a drastically different approach.” In Nashville\, Ben is working with songwriters the likes of Jon Green\, Natalie Hemby\, Alex Hope\, Laura Veltz\, Caitlyn Smith\, Brad Tursi\, and more. He has also been commuting back and forth to Los Angeles where he has spent consecutive days with Dan Wilson. Peter Fenn\, Rick Nowels\, Sean Douglas\, and Casey Smith\, to name a few. \nThe upcoming album will be released in September of 2024. The first release. “Love Again” will drop on May 3rd. \n“My goals are incredibly high for this next wave of music. There are so many different musical avenues to explore with the amazing writers and creatives I’ve been working with lately\,” he says. \nNamed to The Hollywood Reporter’s “Emerging Artists 18 and Under (hollywoodreporter.com) club for music this year and equipped with a natural yet extraordinary gift for singing\, songwriting\, and performing\, Ben is blazing his own Converse-paved trail. \n \n \n\nReservations\nTable and blanket reservations are non-refundable\, but can be transferred to another available date in the 2024 season. \nPlease Note: General Admission Donations do not include reserved seating. This is a way to make your gate donation in advance. \nTable reservations seat four.  \nBlanket reservations are placed in the blankets-only area of lawn and do not allow for chair placement. \nCelebrate our 50th Anniversary Season with us all summer long!
URL:https://www.prescottpark.org/event/sons-of-the-east
LOCATION:Prescott Park\, 105 Marcy St\, Portsmouth\, NH\, 03801\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert Series
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SUMMARY:Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy- MOVED TO THE MUSIC HALL
DESCRIPTION:CELTIC FEST\n  \n \nHearing Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy speak reverentially about the fiddle\, which has propelled their dazzling careers since childhood while cementing their status as Canada’s reigning couple of Celtic music\, is almost as electrifying as hearing them play it. \nIndeed\, when MacMaster and Leahy married in 2002 — both were already stars in their own right — they could not have predicted their merger would recast what contemporary musical success looks like. Or that they would produce a large family and ensure their mantelpiece was jammed with JUNO and East Coast Music Awards while creating an inventory of achievements spanning the globe. \nThey certainly couldn’t have imagined capping off what they jokingly refer to as their combined 83 years as performers with milestones including another hotly anticipated Christmas tour\, an accompanying TV special\, a pending third instalment of their Greenbridge Celtic Folk Fest\, a recent Road Gold Award from the Canadian Independent Music Association\, and last but certainly not least\, the arrival of Maria\, newest sib to Mary Frances\, Michael\, Clare\, Julia\, Alec and Sadie. \n“I’m continually amazed by what the fiddle has brought to my life\,” MacMaster offers. “It has carried me through my childhood\, through my teens\, my young adult life\, my married life and now motherhood. And I still love it as much as ever. Same with Donnell. It’s unexpected and awesome.” \nThough MacMaster and Leahy followed different trajectories to this point — she a Cape Breton native who could step-dance before she could walk\, he the oldest brother of acclaimed family group Leahy — both have confidently crested the traditional music peak. \nTheir synergy was brilliantly showcased on the pair’s first recorded collaboration\, 2015’s Bob Ezrin- produced album One\, a crowning achievement complementing combined album sales of over one million\, a CV listing cellist Yo-Yo Ma\, bluegrass star Alison Krauss\, and banjo ace Béla Fleck as past collaborators (and Shania Twain and The Chieftains as fans) plus a devoted audience stretching from Sydney\, Nova Scotia to Sydney\, Australia. \n“The fiddle was definitely common ground for us when we first got together\,” MacMaster\, a Member of Order of Canada since 2006\, recalls with a chuckle. “But I was so in awe of Donnell’s family\, of 11 siblings who could play and had a family band. And here I am now doing almost exactly the same thing. Well\, kind of.” \nMacMaster is referring to her and Leahy’s seven gifted children\, five of whom are often the showpiece of the MacMaster/Leahy live set though not because the couple necessarily envision showbiz careers for the kids\, who recently performed (actually knocked ‘em dead) on German TV variety show\, Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel. \nRather\, the pair realized early on that being on the road without their kids was infinitely harder than touring with them. That the children were already being home-schooled (MacMaster has a teaching degree) made enacting that decision easier. \n“Initially we were reluctant to let the kids perform. We worried the expectations might be too much\,” Leahy says. “But then one night we put Mary Frances on stage. Soon after that Michael wanted to play. And you must reward practice.” \nWhen vintage comedian W.C. Fields famously quipped\, “Never work with animals or children\,” he clearly hadn’t seen the MacMaster/Leahy clan fiddling\, step-dancing\, and positively delighting audiences\, something a forthcoming Christmas TV special\, titled A Celtic Family Christmas (after their 2016 album of the same name) will highlight. \nAs Leahy explains\, the family was initially pondering participation in a 13-episode docuseries. “Although we are public people\, we are also very private and we were unsure about having cameras in our home and following us around. So the Christmas special is a kind of test run.” \nIn it\, a spirited performance anchors a wider narrative chronicling the family at home\, in their community\, and “doing what we normally do around Christmastime.” Meanwhile\, the forthcoming 24- date Celtic Family Christmas Tour — which contains a soon-to-be-revealed theatrical element that will thrillingly traverse time and continents while contextualizing the music and its players — touches down at marquee venues across Canada\, confirming the duo as powerhouses on the seasonal circuit. \nThe TV special is also a fitting bookend to The Leahys: Music Most of All\, a short by filmmaker Peter Weyman\, whose vivid depiction of the touring musical sibs won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Student Film in 1985. \nIt’s easy to understand why Weyman — and later MacMaster — was so enchanted with the Leahys. Their rich familial history is the stuff of lore. Except it’s absolutely true. \n“My father’s people came to Canada in 1825 from County Cork\, Ireland where they were farmers before settling in a little town called Douro\,” Leahy explains. “My father was a beef farmer\, we grew up on a beef farm and it’s in our blood. Myself and two of my brothers continue to run and grow the farm.” MacMaster and Leahy point to the 120-acres of ancestral lands in Lakefield\, Ontario\, as yet another key component of their children’s education and development. “Teaching can take many forms\,”\nMacMaster notes. \nOf course\, the globe-trotting Leahys aren’t exactly like every other cattle farmer out there. “We put our bulls out with the cows based on our tour schedules so we can have people home for calving!” Leahy howls. “Running the farm is a great counterpoint to life on the road. Plus\, we believe in work and the farm is a wonderful place for the kids to learn through their chores.” \nBut there’s always room for more music. Ergo\, the couple’s launch in 2017 of the successful Greenbridge Celtic Folk Fest\, which\, for an August weekend each year\, transforms the bucolic agricultural hub of Keene\, Ontario into a foot-stomping\, fist-pumping\, string-shredding Celtic ceilidh. \n“We’ve been talking about the kinds of shows we can do since we got married 16 years ago. We finally decided to start something in our backyard\,” says MacMaster\, who with Leahy both headlines and curates the Fest. “Plus\, we wanted to bring this multigenerational\, big-picture celebration of this music to an environment that would really appreciate it. The reception so far has surpassed all our expectations.” \nMacMaster continues: “I started playing the fiddle when I was nine\, and I never intended to make a career out of it\, mostly because I didn’t think it was possible. Even the most adored fiddlers in Cape Breton had day jobs. And yet here I am. \n“This whole thing — first playing music by myself\, then playing music with Donnell\, then touring with Donnell and the children and all of us playing music together — has evolved in a very natural way. We feel incredibly lucky to be together as a family and to be letting our children develop their musical talent.” \nAdds Leahy\, “The only downside is that we can’t do all we’re asked to do and might like to do in other circumstances because we are parents first. You think about touring Australia and Ireland and The Netherlands\, where we’ve been invited to play. But then you remember the kids’ math homework has to get done!” \nAll because of fiddles. Unexpected and awesome indeed. \nNatalie returned to the studio in 2019 to record a solo LP which will be co-produced by Donnell and feature the performances of Tim Edey. Natalie’s described the artist direction of the project “I have something to say through my fiddle. It’ll be a moment of joyous appreciation inspired by years of parenting\, marriage\, life\, friendships\, and music. It is a moment during my 47th year of life\, my 37th year of fiddling\, my 16th year of marriage\, my 13th year of parenting. I have chosen one of my very favourite\nmusicians to join me\, Tim Edey\, an absolute Jen of a player and person.” \n \n\nReservations\nTable and blanket reservations are non-refundable\, but can be transferred to another available date in the 2024 season. \nPlease Note: General Admission Donations do not include reserved seating. This is a way to make your gate donation in advance. \nTable reservations seat four.  \nBlanket reservations are placed in the blankets-only area of lawn and do not allow for chair placement. \nCelebrate our 50th Anniversary Season with us all summer long!
URL:https://www.prescottpark.org/event/natalie-macmaster-donnell-leahy
LOCATION:Prescott Park\, 105 Marcy St\, Portsmouth\, NH\, 03801\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert Series
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SUMMARY:Preservation Hall Jazz Band with Soggy Po Boys
DESCRIPTION:At a moment when musical streams are crossing with unprecedented frequency\, it’s crucial to remember that throughout its history\, New Orleans has been the point at which sounds and cultures from around the world converge\, mingle\, and resurface\, transformed by the Crescent City’s inimitable spirit and joie de vivre. Nowhere is that idea more vividly embodied than in the Preservation Hall Jazz Band\, which has held the torch of New Orleans music aloft for more than 60 years\, all the while carrying it enthusiastically forward as a reminder that the history they were founded to preserve is a vibrantly living history. \n  \nPHJB marches that tradition forward once again on So It Is. The album redefines what New Orleans music means today by tapping into a sonic continuum that stretches back to the city’s Afro-Cuban roots\, through its common ancestry with the Afrobeat of Fela Kuti and the Fire Music of Pharoah Sanders and John Coltrane\, and forward to cutting-edge artists with whom the PHJB have shared festival stages from Coachella to Newport\, including legends like Stevie Wonder\, Elvis Costello and the Grateful Dead and modern giants like Beck\, The Foo Fighters\,  My Morning Jacket\, and the Black Keys. \n \n\nwith Soggy Po Boys and special guest\, Annie Linders\nThe Soggy Po Boys\, native to New England\, have quickly become an institution. They are spreading the good news of New Orleans music across the northeast and beyond\, playing at concert halls and street corners; music festivals and burlesque festivals; bars and libraries; wherever the party requires. Part of the beauty of New Orleans music is that it’s celebrated and appreciated wherever it goes\, from the street to the theater. \n\n\n\n\nThe Po Boys formed in 2012 to shake the walls of a local club on a Fat Tuesday but have honed their sound and become more than a Mardi Gras centerpiece. Exploring the vast musical traditions of New Orleans and expanding their repertoire to look beyond NOLA jazz\, the band includes traditional Caribbean tunes (it’s been said that New Orleans is the northernmost city in the Caribbean)\, as well as Meters funk\, soul\, and brass band / street beat music.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n “…These guys have done their homework\, worked it out on the bandstand and put in the hours in the studio. It all adds up to a party you can bring with you when you want to treat your friends to a real good time.” -Ben Schenck of New Orleans’ Panorama Jazz Band”. \nThere are a myriad of traditions that flow into New Orleans culture just as there are tributaries that feed the Mississippi\, and the Po Boys are eager to explore what makes the music of New Orleans so damn special. You’ll hear the heavy influence of the New Orleans sound across the band and in the stories told by their original tunes. Despite the scope of its sound\, the outfit is only seven people\, and thrives on the interplay and group dynamics that bring this music to life. \n\nThe Soggy Po Boys are:    \n     Stuart Dias (vocals\, guitar) \n     Eric Klaxton (clarinet/soprano saxophone) \n     Nick Mainella (tenor saxophone) \n     Josh Gagnon (trombone) \n     Mike Effenberger (piano) \n     Scott Kiefner (upright bass) \n     Brian Waterhouse (drums/percussion) \n \n \nand special guest\, Annie Linders (of Annie and the Fur Trappers)\n \n\n\n\nAnnie is a St. Louis-based trumpet player\, trombonist\, singer and bandleader. She is the bandleader of traditional jazz and swing band Annie and the Fur Trappers. Annie and the Fur Trappers have been touring around the country since 2018\, and have played a number of music festivals including the Big Muddy Blues Fest\, Musikfest\, and The St. Louis World’s Fare Festival. Annie plays in other ensembles including the Jane Doe Revue and the Diamond Empire Band\, and has recorded with various artists including Violet and the Undercurrents\, Kabomba!\, and the Gateway Jazz Project. She studied music education at the University of Missouri-Columbia\, and enjoyed playing and recording in various ensemble in Columbia. When Annie is not playing the trumpet\, she enjoys playing hardcourt bike polo\, hiking\, and paddling Missouri’s rivers. \n \n\nReservations\nTable and blanket reservations are non-refundable\, but can be transferred to another available date in the 2024 season. \nPlease Note: General Admission Donations do not include reserved seating. This is a way to make your gate donation in advance. \nTable reservations seat four.  \nBlanket reservations are placed in the blankets-only area of lawn and do not allow for chair placement. \nCelebrate our 50th Anniversary Season with us all summer long!
URL:https://www.prescottpark.org/event/preservation-hall-jazz-band
LOCATION:Prescott Park\, 105 Marcy St\, Portsmouth\, NH\, 03801\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert Series
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SUMMARY:Josiah and The Bonnevilles with Fancy Hagood- MOVED TO THE MUSIC HALL
DESCRIPTION:Josiah and the Bonnevilles is a musical project led by singer-songwriter Josiah Leming. Josiah was born in Morristown\, Tennessee and as a child\, Josiah was fascinated by music and began playing the piano and guitar at a young age. \nJosiah’s musical talents became evident to his family and friends\, and he began performing as a teenager catching the attention of music industry professionals. In 2010\, he formed Josiah and the Bonnevilles\, which presented a unique blend of Folk\, Americana\, and Country that draws from his roots as a true Appalachian artist\, embracing honesty and putting life’s realities into his songwriting. \nIn 2015\, Josiah and the Bonnevilles released its debut album\, On Trial. The album was praised for its raw\, vulnerable lyrics and its combination of acoustic and electric instruments that underpinned the storytelling. The band went on tour in support of the album with the artist LP\, performing at various venues across the United States and Europe. \nSince the release of On Trial\, Josiah and the Bonnevilles have continued to make music and tour\, gaining a devoted fan base along the way. Josiah remains grounded and focused on his music. He has spoken openly about his struggles with mental health\, addiction\, and the music industry as a whole and uses his songwriting as a form of therapy. He continues to inspire his fans with his honesty and vulnerability\, and his music has touched the hearts of people around the world. \n \n\nwith Fancy Hagood \n \nFancy Hagood is an artist from Bentonville\, AR who now lives and makes music out of Nashville\, TN. In 2021 he released his debut album\, Southern Curiosity\, which was nominated for Best Country Record at The Libera Awards. His follow-up single “Blue Dream Baby\,” featuring Grammy Award winner Kacey Musgraves\, was released last summer. Fancy’s music has been streamed across multiple platforms over 30 million times. He has garnered the attention of generational artists like Brandi Carlile who called Fancy “an artist to watch\,” and Sir Elton John\, who asked Fancy to be a guest on his Rocket Hour Radio Show. Elton proclaimed\, “We need more people like Fancy.” Later this year Fancy will release his highly anticipated sophomore album. \nBeyond creating music of his own music\, Fancy has written songs for Christina Aguilera\, Little Big Town\, Rascal Flatts\, Anderson East and more. He is the host of Apple Radios\, “Hallelujah Radio” and “Trailblazers Radio” which features interviews with a diverse line-up of co-hosts including Jelly Roll\, Brett Eldredge\, The War And Treaty\, Brothers Osborne and many others. \n \n \n\nReservations\nTable and blanket reservations are non-refundable\, but can be transferred to another available date in the 2024 season. \nPlease Note: General Admission Donations do not include reserved seating. This is a way to make your gate donation in advance. \nTable reservations seat four.  \nBlanket reservations are placed in the blankets-only area of lawn and do not allow for chair placement. \nCelebrate our 50th Anniversary Season with us all summer long!
URL:https://www.prescottpark.org/event/josiah-and-the-bonnevilles-with-fancy-hagood
LOCATION:Prescott Park\, 105 Marcy St\, Portsmouth\, NH\, 03801\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert Series
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SUMMARY:Mr. Aaron
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \n  \nCount on a thrilling musical adventure with award winning musician Mr. Aaron! Recently awarded “Best Children’s Performer” from New Hampshire Magazine\, Mr. Aaron never fails to delight audiences of all ages. Kids and grown-ups alike dance and laugh along to hits from his latest release\, “Get Aquatic!”\, pop favorites\, and kids classics. You’ll hear the different musical instruments like the guitar\, saxophone\, cajon\, harmonica\, and more! \nWith years of experience performing\, Mr. Aaron brings unparalleled energy\, enthusiasm and creativity to his concerts\, albums\, and videos. After nearly 10 years as a professional musician in New York City\, Jones and his family moved to Concord\, NH\,\nto have a baby and open a recording studio. He’s released 5 full length albums of music for kids\, and published two picture books. Mr. Aaron has delighted and inspired children and families all along the east coast. When he’s not performing for kids\, he performs with Bosey Joe\, toured with 90’s alt-rockers Luscious Jackson\, and has been seen on The Late Show with David Letterman\, and VH1. \n \n\nReservations\nTable and blanket reservations are non-refundable\, but can be transferred to another available date in the 2024 season. \nPlease Note: General Admission Donations do not include reserved seating. This is a way to make your gate donation in advance. \nTable reservations seat four.  \nBlanket reservations are placed in the blankets-only area of lawn and do not allow for chair placement. \nCelebrate our 50th Anniversary Season with us all summer long!
URL:https://www.prescottpark.org/event/mr-aaron
LOCATION:Prescott Park\, 105 Marcy St\, Portsmouth\, NH\, 03801\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert Series
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SUMMARY:Brent Cobb with Julie Rhodes
DESCRIPTION:The American south isn’t just Brent Cobb‘s home. It’s his muse\, too. A Georgia native\, he fills his Grammy-nominated songwriting with the sounds and stories of an area that’s been home to southern rockers\, soul singers\, country legends\, and bluesmen. Cobb has a name for that rich tapestry of music — “southern eclectic” — and he offers up his own version of it with his newest album\, Southern Star.  \n  \n“Down here\, there’s a lot going on and there’s nothing going on at the same time\,” he says. “You’ve got all these different cultures in the south\, and everything is mixed in together. Otis Redding and Little Richard were from the same town in Georgia. So were the Allman Brothers. James Brown and Ray Charles grew up right down the road. All these sounds reflect the South itself\, and that music has influenced the whole world. It’s definitely influenced mine.” \n  \nFilled with country-soul songwriting\, laid back grooves\, and classic storytelling\, Southern Star distills the best parts of southern culture into 10 of the strongest songs in Cobb’s catalog. He began writing the material after leaving Nashville — where he spent a decade releasing solo records like 2016’s Shine On Rainy Day (which earned a Grammy nomination for Best Americana Album) while penning hit songs for Luke Combs\, Miranda Lambert\, Little Big Town\, and dozens of others — and returning with his family to Georgia. It was a time of change. Not long after celebrating the arrival of his second child\, Cobb found himself mourning the death of his longtime friend\, Jason “Rowdy” Cope of The Steel Woods.  \n  \n“Rowdy was like my older brother\,” says Cobb\, who named Southern Star in part after a small-town bar that he and Cope used to frequent. “He loved the music that came out of Georgia\, and he helped me appreciate it even more. A lot of artists like to branch out and become experimental as their career continues\, but I sort of go the opposite way. I feel like I can never go wrong if I continue to get closer and closer to the core of who I am and what I love\, musically. Coming back to Georgia helped me with that. Southern Star is the sound of me getting closer to the source.” \n  \nDon’t let Cobb’s breezy songs about rural life fool you. There’s some serious complexity lurking beneath the surface. At first glance\, “It’s a Start” unfolds like the soundtrack to a leisurely afternoon in the south\, with Cobb singing the praises of crawfish\, barbecue\, and day-drinking. Dig deeper\, though\, and the song reveals itself to be something more universal: a reminder to appreciate the small things in life\, stay mindful\, and chase down new horizons at your own pace. To Cobb\, there’s something distinctly southern about that message\, too. “Sometimes\, there ain’t shit going on down here\,” he says with a laugh\, “but since there’s nothing else to do\, you learn to be laid back. You learn to use your imagination\, and you wind up imitating your surroundings. These songs sound like the place that inspired them. On ‘It’s a Start\,’ when the organ comes in\, it reminds me of the sound of the cicadas and frogs you hear in the springtime.” \n  \nCobb doesn’t just imitate his surroundings with Southern Star. He immerses himself within them. To record the album\, he headed to Macon and set up shop at Capricorn Sound Studios\, where artists like the Marshall Tucker Band\, Charlie Daniels\, and Percy Sledge once roamed the halls. “I decided to use all local musicians\,” says Cobb\, who self-produced the album with help from Oran Thorton. “I wanted Southern Star to shine a light on the southern players who are still living and working in Macon. Everyone on the album is a Georgia native apart from Jimmy Matt Rowland\, who plays keys\, and Oran Thornton\, my engineer and co-producer. That’s it. I wanted to capture that ‘southern eclectic’ sound on this album\, and I don’t think you can capture it without being in it.” \n  \nEclectic\, indeed. Track like “Devil Ain’t Done\,” “Livin’ the Dream\,” and “On’t Know When” dish up greasy servings of country-fried funky-tonk\, while “Patina” and “Kick the Can” evoke the unhurried sounds of 1970s folk music. “When Country Came Back To Town” even shifts its focus to Los Angeles (where Cobb recorded his indie debut\, No Place to Leave\, with producers Shooter Jennings and his own Grammy-winning cousin\, Dave Cobb) and Nashville. The song is a salute to the unsung heroes of the music communities in both cities\, laced with shout-outs to Nikki Lane\, Hayes Carll\, and others. “It’s about the friends I’ve made along the nearly 20-year-old path it’s taken for the independent country movement to grow into what it is today\,” he adds.  \n  \nDuring the months leading up to Southern Star‘s release\, Cobb spent much of his time on the road\, playing to stadium crowds of 60\,000 people as Luke Combs’ opening act. Perhaps that’s why Southern Star feels so well-timed. Not only is it a snapshot of an artist at the peak of his songwriting abilities; it’s also a love letter to his southern roots\, made all the more potent by his recent travels.  \n  \n“You know how when you’re growing up\, you’re told that if you ever get lost out there\, look for the northern star to help find direction back home?” he asks. “Well\, I’m from Georgia\, so I always look for the southern star. This album\, the songs\, the sounds… they’re all a product of where I’m from\, both musically and environmentally. Historically and presently\, that area also happens to be the same place that cultivated a good many of the most influential artists in the whole world of music. Music as we know it would not exist without the American south. It’s funky and sentimental. It’s simple and complex.” \n  \nWith Brent Cobb\, the southern star shines on.  \n \n\nwith Julie Rhodes\nWith a voice that combines soulful grit and bluesy passion\, Julie Rhodes has carved a niche for herself in the music scene. Her commanding stage presence and emotionally charged performances have earned her accolades and a dedicated fan base. Julie Rhodes’ journey in music is marked by authenticity and a commitment to storytelling. Her lyrics delve into the human experience\, tackling themes of love\, resilience\, and self-discovery. Audiences can expect an electrifying and soulful experience as she takes the stage with her band\, The Electric Co\, comprised of accomplished musicians who complement Rhodes’ raw energy\, adding an unrivaled depth and dimension to Julie’s performances. \n \n \n\nReservations\nTable and blanket reservations are non-refundable\, but can be transferred to another available date in the 2024 season. \nPlease Note: General Admission Donations do not include reserved seating. This is a way to make your gate donation in advance. \nTable reservations seat four.  \nBlanket reservations are placed in the blankets-only area of lawn and do not allow for chair placement. \nCelebrate our 50th Anniversary Season with us all summer long!
URL:https://www.prescottpark.org/event/brent-cobb
LOCATION:Prescott Park\, 105 Marcy St\, Portsmouth\, NH\, 03801\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert Series
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SUMMARY:The Lone Bellow with Harrison Goodell
DESCRIPTION:The Lone Bellow burst onto the scene with their self-titled debut in 2013. The Nashville-based trio (Zach Williams\, Brian Elmquist\, Kanene Pipkin) quickly became known for their transcendent harmonies\, serious musicianship and raucous live performance — creating what NPR calls\, ‘earnest and magnetic folk-pop built to shake the rafters.’ In 2015\, the band released Then Came The Morning\, produced by The National’s Aaron Dessner. The album was nominated for an Americana Music Award and took the band to numerous late night shows including Jimmy Kimmel Live\, Late Show With David Letterman and Later…with Jools Holland\, among others. In 2017\, The Lone Bellow returned with Walk Into A Storm\, produced by legendary music producer Dave Cobb (Chris Stapleton\, Brandi Carlile\, Sturgill Simpson)\, followed by 2020’s Half Moon Light\, an artistic triumph the band worked toward for years. \nIn a departure from their past work with elite producers Dessner and Cobb\, the trio struck out on their own for their fifth full-length album Love Songs for Losers\, dreaming up a singular sound encompassing everything from arena-ready rock anthems to the gorgeously sprawling Americana tunes the band refers to as “little redneck symphonies.” Recorded at the possibly haunted former home of the legendary Roy Orbison\, the result is an intimate meditation on the pain and joy and ineffable wonder of being human\, at turns heartbreaking\, irreverent\, and sublimely transcendent. \nAfter sketching the album’s 11 songs in a nearby church\, the band holed up for eight weeks at Orbison’s house on Old Hickory Lake\, slowly carving out their most expansive and eclectic body of work yet. Co-produced by Elmquist and Jacob Sooter\, Love Songs for Losers also finds Pipkin taking the reins as vocal producer\, expertly harnessing the rarefied vocal magic they’ve brought to the stage in touring with the likes of Maren Morris and Kacey Musgraves. \nFor The Lone Bellow\, the triumph of completing their first self-produced album marks the start of a thrilling new chapter in the band’s journey. “At the outset it was scary to take away the safety net of working with a big-name producer and lean on each other instead\,” says Pipkin. “It took an incredible amount of trust\, but in the end it was so exciting to see each other rise to new heights.” And with the release of Love Songs for Losers\, the trio feel newly emboldened to create without limits. “This album confirmed that we still have beauty to create and put out into the world\, and that we’re still having fun doing that after ten years together\,” says Elmquist. “It reminded us of our passion for pushing ourselves out onto the limb and letting our minds wander into new places\, and it sets me on fire to think of what we might make next.” \n \n  \n\nwith Harrison Goodell\nHailing from seacoast New Hampshire\, singer-songwriter Harrison Goodell was raised on American staples like Tom Petty\, Paul Simon\, and Billy Joel who serve as inspiration to his own sound. Their same troubadour essence is carried into his songwriting as he portrays vulnerable stories from his life and relationships. Harrison uses his songwriting as a window into his subconscious; a  bridge to his intuition and honesty. Harrison’s obsessive dedication to music and pure grit lead him to his biggest achievements to date including his run on ABC’s American Idol and opening for Grammy-nominated artist JP Saxe in Burlington\, VT. Harrison’s recent success has connected him to a dedicated New England audience who continue to sell out venues. With his passion for creating music that resonates with his followers\, Harrison is establishing himself as an artist to watch in the industry. \nhttps://youtu.be/usIVkFvcI3c?feature=shared \n \n\nReservations\nTable and blanket reservations are non-refundable\, but can be transferred to another available date in the 2024 season. \nPlease Note: General Admission Donations do not include reserved seating. This is a way to make your gate donation in advance. \nTable reservations seat four.  \nBlanket reservations are placed in the blankets-only area of lawn and do not allow for chair placement. \nCelebrate our 50th Anniversary Season with us all summer long!
URL:https://www.prescottpark.org/event/the-lone-bellow
LOCATION:Prescott Park\, 105 Marcy St\, Portsmouth\, NH\, 03801\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert Series
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SUMMARY:97.5 WOKQ CHOWDER FESTIVAL SUMMER KICK-OFF
DESCRIPTION:Get Tickets to the Chowder Festival \n  \n \nIt’s BACK! \nThe 97.5 WOKQ Chowder Festival Summer Kick-off\, presented by Avery Insurance\, returns to Prescott Park Arts Festival for its 37th year. Held on the first Saturday of June\, this staple of summer in Portsmouth\, NH offers even more this year as it kicks-off festivities for Prescott Park Arts Festival’s 50th Anniversary Season! \nJoin in the fun of the Chowder Festival with some of your favorite local restaurants serving-up mouthwatering chowder in Prescott Park. Check out the complimentary live music\, kid-friendly activities\, and grab an ice cream from the Prop. \nThis community event is always a great time from 11:30 am until the chowder runs out. Get your Chowder Festival tickets now. The Summer Kick-Off side of the park is free and open to all.  \nChowder Festival Tickets are $20 per person and FREE for season pass holders\, but you must reserve tickets! Get your season passes now for a fun-filled summer with the Arts Festival.  Already a pass holder and want to reserve your tickets for Chowder Fest? Just email us for your unique code! Events@PrescottPark.org \nNEW IN 2024! Pre-order a farm fresh oyster on the half-shell from Virgin Oyster Company who will be shucking delicious oysters in the park all day. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nPhotos by LJ Elitharp\, 2023 Chowder Festival \nThis taste-testing affair has become a New England institution for chowder lovers in the tri-state region. An impeccable roster of amazing restaurants throughout the seacoast join us to introduce their delicious chowder recipes to compete for the Best Chowder title and to take home the Golden Ladle! Recipes in the past have included Smoked Scallop Chowder\, Manhattan Chowder\, Vegetarian Chowder\, Corn Chowder and Spicy Seafood Chowder. We can’t wait to see what they come up with this year!  \nChowder not your thing or just want to hang out after? We have plenty of space for you to enjoy family friendly fun in the park. Best part – the Park is always free and open to all. We are planning lots of fun and exciting entertainment for the whole fam like a tie-dying station; giant lawn games like connect four\, corn hole\, and jenga; face painting. We will also offer complimentary live music featuring local talent and a fun raffle with some incredible prizes. People can grab delicious favorites like ice cream\, fresh squeezed lemonade\, hush puppies\, and more from The Prop\, the onsite kitchen and concessions stand.  \n  \nGet Tickets to the Chowder Festival \n\n \n  \nWho will win the Golden Ladle this year?\n \nJudges for Judges’ Choice: \nWell-known NH Chef\, Bobby “the butcher” Marcotte of Tuckaway Tavern and two-time Guy’s Grocery Games Champion\, plus Logan Sherwood of 97.5 WOKQ\, Deaglan McEachern our own Mayor of Portsmouth\,  Danielle Rice of Avery Insurance\, Eric Goodwin of Goodwin Family Management and The Friendly Toast\, and Elisabeth Pollock of the Arts Festival Board of Directors.  \n\nFeaturing Jacob McCurdy and His Large Adult Sons on the Wilcox Main Stage\nMustachioed Mainer\, Jacob McCurdy\, blends Folk\, Rock\, and Roots into his very own brand of Indie-Americana. Love\, heartbreak\, joy\, and the perfect moment; all pitched against the lush backdrop of honest harmony. McCurdy wears his heart on his sleeve and shares his songs with the hopes that others can heal from his past experiences and enjoy a glimpse of what the future might bring. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nLimited Summer Social Menu at The Prop\n \n\nEvent Map\n \nSevere Weather Date: Sunday\, June 2\, 2024
URL:https://www.prescottpark.org/event/97-5-wokq-chowder-festival-summer-kick-off
LOCATION:Prescott Park\, 105 Marcy St\, Portsmouth\, NH\, 03801\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert Series,Movies,Theatre,Special Events
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SUMMARY:Giving Tuesday 2023
DESCRIPTION:Giving Tuesday\nMark Your Calendars! November 28\, 2023 \nGiving Tuesday was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good. \nNow it’s a global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give\, collaborate\, and celebrate generosity. \nThe Arts Festival\, an independent arts non-profit\, is proud to be a part of this movement.  \nJoin us this year by making a gift to support our mission of accessibility that will propel us into our 50th Anniversary Season in 2024! Consider a $50 gift in honor of 50 years of the Arts Festival.  \nSupport PPAF this Giving Tuesday \n You can also help spread the word as an Arts Festival influencer.  \n\nShare our Giving Tuesday posts on social media\nPost about why the Arts Festival matters to you\nLaunch a Facebook or Instagram fundraiser for the Arts Festival
URL:https://www.prescottpark.org/event/giving-tuesday-2023
LOCATION:NH
CATEGORIES:Concert Series,Movies,Theatre,Special Events,Community Showcase
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SUMMARY:A Celebration of The Shaw Brothers featuring Livingston Taylor
DESCRIPTION:For many years\, The Shaw Brothers performed nationally and internationally\, recording many albums that included their original music in addition to well-known songs from the folk genre. Their travels often took them from the place where they grew up\, and where they loved to be the most\, New Hampshire. \nNew Hampshire was also where they enjoyed performing most\, in particular Prescott Park\, in Portsmouth\, where they performed live for 22 consecutive summers to literally thousands that would turn out for every show. In fact by popular demand their album\, “Concert in the Park” was recorded live in 1982\, a first for Prescott Park. Ron and Rick’s music became the soundtrack for so many New Hampshire people’s lives. Sadly\, Ron and Rick retired from playing some years ago due to ill health and Ron passed in 2018 and Rick passed soon after in 2021. \nTheir legacy lives on though and as part of the 400th Anniversary Celebration of the city of Portsmouth in 2023\, Prescott Parks Arts Festival will host an event to celebrate the life and music of the Shaw Brothers. This event will serve as a fundraiser for the Music is Magic Fund\, established to honor Ron and Rick’s memory. The concert will help fund a permanent memorial in Prescott Park\, and will support the Arts Festival’s mission of accessibility. \nA selection of performers with connections to New England\, and to the Shaw Brothers\, will create an evening of music that will include Shaw Brothers hits and other popular classics. Audience members can expect to see an eclectic group of talented singers and musicians\, and perhaps one or two surprise guests\, honoring the Shaw Brothers and supporting the Music is Magic Fund. \nThe concert itself will take place at the legendary outdoor venue\, Prescott Park Arts Festival\, in the heart of downtown Portsmouth. Over 150\,000 people attend this unique venue every summer to see the range of performing arts events that are provided exclusively on a suggested donation basis. Prescott Park Arts Festival is a much-loved and integral part of the Portsmouth community and is delighted to be supporting the Shaw Brothers legacy. \nBoth Prescott Park Arts Festival and the Shaw Brothers can rightly be considered stand outs in Portsmouth’s rich 400-year history. \n  \n1992 Official Guide to Prescott Park Arts Festival\, \n featuring The Shaw Brothers \n \n  \n \n  \n\nFeaturing Livingston Taylor\nLivingston Taylor’s career as a professional musician has spanned over 50 years\, encompassing performance\, songwriting\, and teaching. Described as “equal parts Mark Twain\, college professor\, and musical icon\, Livingston maintains a performance schedule of more than a hundred shows a year\, delighting audiences with his charm and vast repertoire of his 22 albums and popular classics. Livingston has written top-40 hits recorded by his brother James Taylor and has appeared with Joni Mitchell\, Linda Ronstadt\, Fleetwood Mac\, and Jimmy Buffet. He is equally at home with a range of musical genres – folk\, pop\, gospel\, jazz – and from upbeat storytelling and touching ballads to full orchestra performances. In addition to his performance schedule\, Livingston has taught stage performance for over 30 years\, beginning at Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1989\, passing on the extensive knowledge gained from his long career on the road to the next generation of musicians. Liv is an airplane-flying\, motorcycle-riding\, singing storyteller\, delighting audiences with his charm for over 50 years. \n  \n \n\nwith more friends to help celebrate\nTodd Hearon\nTodd Hearon is an award-winning poet\, author and songwriter\, born in 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 contemporary Americana and Alt-Country sounds. His two studio albums are Border Radio (2021) and Yodelady (2023); he’s also the author of three collections of poems–Strange Land (2010)\, No Other Gods (2015) and Crows in Eden (2022)–a number of essays and plays\, and a novella\, Do Geese See God (2021). Todd is joined tonight on stage by his good friends and close musical collaborators Ann Norton Holbrook\, Bill Holbrook\, Gretchen Bowder and Paul Wolf.\n\nFor more on Todd Hearon\, see https://www.toddhearon.com\n\n\n \n\n\nJonathan Sarty \nPerforming Artist Jonathan Sarty is a singer-songwriter and host of the popular Cold River Radio Show\, a show dedicated to promoting and celebrating the Arts and Culture of New England. Since 2012 the Cold River Radio Show has thrilled theater audiences and radio listeners with high quality production and dynamic line ups. The show received Best of NH Awards in 2017 and again recently for Best YouTube Radio Channel 2023. Jonathan has received a Best of NH Award for Best Band Leader 2019 and he can be seen performing regionally in venues throughout New England. Performing hundreds of shows each year Jonathan is known as one of New England’s hardest working musicians. \nCheck out his music at https://www.youtube.com/@jonathansartymusic \n\n\n\nTaylor Whiteside\n \n  \nTaylor Whiteside is quite simply by any standard an extraordinary multi-talented musician. His list of live and recording song credits is legendary as is his list of musical collaborations\, including recordings and appearances with the likes of Pete Seeger\, Johnny Cash\, Crystal Gale\, Tom Paxton\, and of course\, The Shaw Brothers\, whom Taylor played with for several years during their live performances. In the 1990’s he joined The Brandywine Singers and with them and Northeast Winds appeared in numerous PBS TV specials and at The Kennedy Center. Today Taylor is involved in a number of musical projects including playing live in Portsmouth-based Great Bay Sailor and in a group of his own creation\, “The Elderly Brothers.” \nThe late great Tommy Makem probably summed it up best when he said\, “a rare talent is Taylor Whiteside. Go listen to him any time you can. I’m sure you’ll consider it a privilege!” \n \n  \n\nWoody Woodward & Julie Dougherty\nTo the legions of Shaw Brothers fans Woody Woodward needs no introduction. For 12 years from 1976 Woody was the Shaw Brothers bass player and performed alongside Ron and Rick in concert\, on TV and of course in the recording studio. Any concert celebrating the Shaw Brothers musical legacy would not be complete without Woody’s participation\, and the Shaw family are delighted that he will be on stage at Prescott Park. Of course he has been an accomplished professional musician for many years\, and a close musical collaborator with his wife Julie Dougherty\, who will also feature at the Prescott Park celebration concert. Julie is a very gifted singer\, songwriter\, and musician with a wealth of experience from her time in Nashville and Los Angeles. Today\, she can be seen performing across New England\, at times alongside her life and musical partner\, Woody. \n\nReservations\nTable and blanket reservations are non-refundable\, but can be transferred to another available date in the 2023 season. \nPlease Note: General Admission Donations do not include reserved seating. This is a way to make your gate donation in advance. \nTable reservations seat four.  \nBlanket reservations are placed in the blankets-only area of lawn and do not allow for chair placement. \nSee you in the park!
URL:https://www.prescottpark.org/event/a-celebration-of-the-shaw-brothers
LOCATION:Prescott Park\, 105 Marcy St\, Portsmouth\, NH\, 03801\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert Series
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SUMMARY:Devon Gilfillian with Ali McGuirk
DESCRIPTION:Growing up in Philadelphia on a steady diet of R&B\, hip –hop\, rock\, blues\, and soul music\, Devon Gilfillian gravitated to records that ignited his mind while making his body move. For him\, listening to the towering icons of his musician father’s era—Ray Charles\, Stevie Wonder\, Otis Redding\, The Temptations—was just as formative and exciting as discovering the new sounds of his own generation\, and the beats and rhymes made by rising rap stars like Wu–Tang Clan\, Kanye West\, Notorious B.I.G.\, and Jay –Z inspired him in new ways. He began to recognize a connective thread in the sounds he loved best: from the golden throwbacks sampled by the hip–hop beat makers to the raw\, emotional vocal deliveries of the Motown greats\, for Gilfillian the key ingredient seemed to be the “soul” —not simply the genre\, but the feeling and vibe.  \nFollowing his electrifying 2016 debut EP with upbeat singles like “High” and “Troublemaker” in 2018\, Gilfillian signed to Capitol Records and hit the road––performing with the likes of Anderson East\, Keith Urban\, Gladys Knight\, Kaleo\, The Fray\, Mavis Staples\, and more. In early 2019\, Gilfillian traveled to Africa to find healing and inspiration before headlining a tour in Scandinavia and opening for Brothers Osborne on their spring tour. His debut album\, “Black Hole Rainbow\,” is available now. In early 2020\, Gilfillian embarked on a cross–country tour with Grace Potter.  \nAfter COVID–19\, Gilfillian redirected his energy to doing what he does best\, making music. He re–recorded Marvin Gaye’s iconic album\, “What’s Going On\,” releasing it in fall of 2020 around the election . The project raised funds for low–income communities and communities of color\, providing resources and education around the democratic process. In November 2020\, Gilfillian released “Freedom\,” with indie–rockers\, Illiterate Light and his debut album\, “Black Hole Rainbow\,” was nominated for a Grammy – “Best Engineered Album.” In December 2020\, Gilfillian performed his top 5 AAA hit\, “The Good Life” on Jimmy Kimmel Live. He’s currently writing for LP#2. \n \n  \n\nWith Ali McGuirk\n \nWhen I was out in L.A.\, I had the sensation that I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing\,” Ali McGuirk says of recording her stunning Signature Sounds debut\, Til Its Gone. Thats such an elusive feeling to capture.” \nOn the recommendation of producer Jonah Tolchin (a star singer-songwriter in his own right)\, McGuirk traveled from her adopted home of Burlington\, Vermont to the Los Angeles neighborhood of Silver Lake to track much of Til Its Gone. A sublime set of songs that pairs McGuirks trademark soul sound with rootsy turns and raw rock nroll detours\, the album began to bloom at the L.A. sessions. McGuirk remembers describing to Tolchin the vibe she envisioned for the record. She mentioned something about it being akin to the cool fusion of styles that Little Feat achieved in the 70s – that funky\, twangy\, jazzy and thoroughly-authentic feel. Tolchin suggested they just call up legendary Little Feat guitarist/mandolinist Fred Tackett and get him to lay down a few parts. \n“Fred Tackett came in and was casually telling stories about sessions he did with Ringo and Harry Nilsson like its not a big deal\,” McGuirk says with a laugh. It took me a minute to acclimate\, but once the music started\, everyone was so supportive and into the tunes.” \nTolchin and engineer/studio owner Sheldon Gomberg recruited an A-list of session players including Tackett\, organist Larry Goldings (James Taylor\, Norah Jones)\, singer Valerie Pinkston (Ray Charles\, Luther Vandross)\, percussionist Lenny Castro (Stevie Nicks\, Stevie Wonder). They provided the astounding chops\, but the true magic of Til Its Gone comes from McGuirks singular voice as both singer and songwriter. The nine tracks – songs that run from intimate introspection to wider meditations on oppression and justice – succeed because McGuirk has composed dynamic\, hypnotic frames for her vocals. \nGrowing up just outside Boston\, McGuirk doesnt remember a time when she didnt want to be a singer. But as a kid\, she didnt see a path forward. To her\, professional singers were pop icons like Brandy\, Britney or Mariah. McGuirk got a guitar in high school but admits she basically only played the same four chords over and over again. By college\, after a couple decades of absorbing 90s r&b\,70s singer-songwriters and classic soul of every era\, McGuirk found her own aesthetic: earthy\, pure\, propelled by a voice capable of whispering dark truths or belting out big hooks on her originals. Boston responded with a wave of love. The Boston Globe named her an artist to hear.” She racked up nominations and wins at both the Boston Music Awards and New England Music Awards. Her standing-room-only residency at Somervilles Bull McCabes Pub delivered electric performances – Til Its Gone also features key contributions from McGuirks Boston bandmates such as guitar ace Jeffrey Lockhart. \nThe songs on Til Its Gone are a culmination of McGuirks influences\, experience and soul searching. Over jazz vamping and a deep groove\, Evelyn” speaks to several layers of generational trauma that the women in my family have survived.” Somewhere between folk ballad and quiet storm r&b cut\, The Work” addresses how too many people refuse to have honest and earnest conversations about their privilege If we cant talk to each other and hold space for people when we can\, nothing will progress\,” she says. Wealthy people\, white people\, cisgender people\, straight people and anybody who holds institutional power need to first learn what institutional power is\, then realize they\, or we\, have it\, then do some work.” \nMcGuirk also spends time considering and reconsidering love gone wrong\, or love gone sideways\, or upside down. Let It Be You” sits happily in its classic blues pop vibe capturing a scorching vocal take that came at the end of an epic 10-hour day in the L.A. studio. Leave Me” winds through complex emotions If Im gonna sing about the delusions of love\, let my head be squarely on my shoulders while doing it\,” she says – over an equally complex arrangement that starts with Joni Mitchell-reminiscent folk and rises to a jamming\, Grateful Dead-esque climax. With the twang of an Emmylou Harris gem\, Empty Vase” came out of wanting to write some anti-torch songs.” \nI used to sing a lot of jazz and loved the torchsingers like Dinah Washington\, Etta James\, Sarah Vaughan\, Abbey Lincoln\, even though so many of the songs they sang felt anti-feminist to me\,” McGuirk says. Abbey Lincoln says a song is like a prayer\, and you get what you put out and I found that to be true in my life. The idea that you can be a strong\, independent feminist\, and still suffer from the leftover feelings of a culture steeped in historically unequal power dynamics between the genders is something that writing these songs has helped me process.” \nTil Its Gone is the rare record that features a young artist relaxing into tender\, homey spaces and pushing herself emotionally and sonically. Stretches of the record channel those brilliant\, warm torch singers McGuirk has spent so much time with. Then there are wild asides\, such as album closer Milk\,” a towering rock crescendo full of guitar feedback and organ swells. \nEvery artist has genre identity crises because you dont want to get pigeonholed and its so easy to\,” she says. But you get so invested in these sub-genres. In high school\, it was Joni Mitchell and Neil Young singer-songwriters. In college\, it was jazz. And all along its been soul. My go to is still turning on Donny Hathaway to chill. But I have always felt I have had these other secret interests that come out.” \n“I love ‘Milk’ because it makes people think Im a rock artist\,” she adds with a laugh. Its the last song on the record\, but definitely one of my favorites. I think we created a whole dystopian love scene on this one. I wanted the vocals to be distorted and the guitars to be out front.” \nTil Its Gone loves to dip into genres and sub-genres. But it never gets lost. Acting as co-producer with Tolchin\, McGuirk let the songs wander from shadowy emotional spaces to big\, bad guitar workouts to delicate little confessions. But her voice – bold\, buttery\, spellbinding – carries each song to the next til they’re gone. \n \n \n\nReservations\nTable and blanket reservations are non-refundable\, but can be transferred to another available date in the 2023 season. \nPlease Note: General Admission Donations do not include reserved seating. This is a way to make your gate donation in advance. \nTable reservations seat four.  \nBlanket reservations are placed in the blankets-only area of lawn and do not allow for chair placement. \nSee you in the park!
URL:https://www.prescottpark.org/event/devon-gilfillian-with-ali-mcguirk
LOCATION:Prescott Park\, 105 Marcy St\, Portsmouth\, NH\, 03801\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert Series
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SUMMARY:Kaitlin Butts with Kat Wright
DESCRIPTION:HEAR ME ROAR FESTIVAL\n\n\n  \n \nFull of reflection\, daydreaming contemplation\, sharp wit\, tough decisions in the midst of dire situations\, rosy love\, and beaming growth\, What Else Can She Do finds Country music’s Kaitlin Butts in full bloom. Behind her flowing locks of auburn hair\, Oklahoma twang\, and a wry grin\, grows a devastating storyteller and an equally demanding\, radiant voice. \nFollowing up her charming debut Same Hell\, Different Devil and a diverse run of singles–the cosmic dancer “Marfa Lights\,” the haunting murder ballad “White River\,” the sweet tranquility of “How Lucky Am I\,” and the enigmatic disco fever dream “White River (Remix)–What Else Can She Do has Butts delivering a collection of delicate\, strong\, and gallant characters and transformative storytellers.  \nWhat Else Can She Do is a visceral display of just how raw and mighty words and actions can be–and how sometimes\, knowing when to walk away can be just as compelling as holding on. Inspired by the resilience and humility displayed by the women in her life\, Butts’ latest is a welcoming nod and saving grace. Time and again\, she demands to be seen and heard as an artist\, storyteller\, and woman.  \n  \n \n\nwith Kat Wright\n \nKat Wright\, whose voice is both sultry and dynamic\, delicate yet powerful; gritty but highly emotive and nuanced\, has been described as “a young Bonnie Raitt meets Amy Winehouse”. Add to that voice enough stage presence to tame lions\, and the combination of feline femininity proves immediately enchanting. There’s soul flowing in and out of her rock ‘n’ roll with a serpentine seduction. Some of soul music’s sweet\, grand dames belt\, shout\, seethe\, and succumb\, while Wright sings gently like a heartache’s apology. It’s funky in spots and beautiful all over. And it hurts a little… like it should. \n  \n \n  \n \n\nReservations\nTable and blanket reservations are non-refundable\, but can be transferred to another available date in the 2023 season. \nPlease Note: General Admission Donations do not include reserved seating. This is a way to make your gate donation in advance. \nTable reservations seat four.  \nBlanket reservations are placed in the blankets-only area of lawn and do not allow for chair placement. \nSee you in the park!
URL:https://www.prescottpark.org/event/kaitlin-butts-with-kat-wright
LOCATION:Prescott Park\, 105 Marcy St\, Portsmouth\, NH\, 03801\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert Series
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SUMMARY:Hiss Golden Messenger with Kenny Brothers Band
DESCRIPTION:It’s spring of 2023 in the North Carolina Piedmont\, and songwriter and singer M.C. Taylor—leader of the band Hiss Golden Messenger—is feeling alive. Joyful. Eternal\, he might say. For the Grammy-nominated musician\, whose albums have traced an internal path through adulthood\, fatherhood\, spirituality\, and depression for well over a decade\, this is something new. “The tunes on Jump for Joy were composed in free moments throughout 2022\, a year during which Hiss was on the road more or less constantly\,” explains Taylor. “And perhaps because the post-pandemic energy out in the world felt so chaotic and uncertain\, I found myself thinking a lot about the role that music has played in my life and how exactly I ended up in the rarefied position of leading a band and crew all over the globe through dingy graffiti-scrawled green rooms\, venerated music halls\, dust-blown roadside motels. Sometimes playing in front of 5\,000; sometimes 200. Sleeping sitting up. Laughing until my stomach hurts. Not being able to fall asleep at 3 a.m. in some anonymous bed because my mind is spinning with anxiety or depression or adrenaline\, or because my ears are still ringing. Robbing Peter to pay Paul\, then robbing Paul to pay Peter back. Over and over again. It’s an outlaw life but one\, I’m coming to realize\, that makes me happy.” \nThe songs that make up Jump for Joy—the sharpest and most autobiographical that Taylor has written under the Hiss name—read as a sort of epistolary\, postcards between the present-day songwriter and his alias Michael Crow\, a teenaged dreamer very much like Taylor himself\, who trips his way through the 14 tunes that make up the record. In this way\, Jump for Joy is a meditation on a life lived with art\, and the ways that our hopes and dreams and decisions bump up against—and\, with a little bit of luck\, occasionally merge with—real life. “Creating this character became the way that I could explore these vulnerable\, tender moments that were so decisive in my life\, even if I didn’t know it at the time\,” explains Taylor. He continues: \nThrough Michael Crow\, I was able to get inside these places that exist so deep in my sense memory: Me at 16\, knowing intuitively that there had to be something out there for me\, something mysterious and divine that wasn’t full of fucked-up\, confusing pain; me with my hardcore band\, age 18\, wandering the vast expanses of Texas beneath a big\, fat tangerine moon\, scrounging change to fill the gas tank\, trying to make a soundcheck for a show that never happened. There’s me at 30\, having kids\, writing songs as though they were gravestone epitaphs\, not yet understanding that nothing is so permanent and serious and that I needed to be gentler with my spirit. There’s me at 35\, still chasing the thing because I’ve touched it once or twice and I know it’s the only way for me to feel whole and real and useful\, but in the rear-view mirror\, I can see everyone who gave up in search of something easier and not so heartbreaking. \nProduced by Taylor and engineered by longtime Hiss compatriot Scott Hirsch over two weeks in the late fall of 2022 at the fabled Sonic Ranch studio in Tornillo\, TX\, just a short walk from the Mexican border\, Jump for Joy dances with joyful\, spontaneous energy that feels like a fresh chapter in the Hiss Golden Messenger oeuvre. Taylor is accompanied throughout the album by his crack live band: guitarist Chris Boerner\, bassist Alex Bingham\, keyboardist Sam Fribush\, and drummer Nick Falk\, a collection of musicians that have helped make Hiss Golden Messenger’s live performances legendary affairs. \nConsider opening track “20 Years and Nickel\,” a thematic preamble that finds Taylor reckoning with the 25 years (or\, “20 years and a nickel”) spent trying to write some kind of masterpiece over a rolling second-line groove that wouldn’t sound out of place on a Meters record. Three songs later\, “Shinbone” contemplates the span—geographically\, temporally\, and emotionally—from Taylor’s childhood fence-hopping days\, the smells of sage and eucalyptus in the air\, down the winding road to the present. “You ever had a storm talking to you?” he asks\, the rhythm locked in a four-on-the-floor groove over a slippery synth line before hitting the mantra-like refrain: If you lose it all\, can you love what’s left? \nThe band finds a righteous stepping rhythm on the anthemic “Nu-Grape”—named after a saccharine grape soda available throughout the Southeast—as Taylor\, speaking through the metaphor of a gravestone cutter\, considers the futility of working towards permanence: “Cutting stone ain’t easy\,” he sings\, “but it’s how I earn my way. Some want doves and marigolds; give me a stone that says\, ‘Don’t cry\, it’s only a joke.’ Does that feel true enough for you?” Friends Aoife O’Donovan and Amy Helm (daughter of drummer Levon) join in on the Mary Oliver–channeling chorus: \nI was fire. You said I couldn’t live without water. You were water. Water to put out the fire. I’m just a nail in the house of the universe\, drinking Nu-Grape with a five-dollar bill. \n“The Wondering” is classic Hiss Golden Messenger\, an emotional meditation on art and memory (and housebreaking) set to a heart-rending riff\, over which Taylor recalls\, “Back in the day I was Michael Crow; I’d go creeping through the houses. Oh\, the things I’d see through those country windows were enough to make you cry out” before being joined by O’Donovan and longtime friend (and Fruit Bats leader) Eric D. Johnson. “I’m still here—just can’t quit wondering\,” the trio harmonizes. “I’m still here with my back to the wondering.” \nJump for Joy\, perhaps more than any other Hiss record heretofore\, is an elegant and nuanced melding of everything that makes Taylor and company’s work unique and beloved\, colored with an outward-facing elation and sense of openness that elevates the album into something truly timeless and special. “I knew that I needed this record to be full of joy because if we’re standing at some kind of finish line of human civilization—and I’m not saying that we are\, but some days it sure feels that way—then I want to go out dancing\,” laughs the songwriter. “That’s what I wanted Jump for Joy to feel like: Dancing at the end times.” \n \n\nwith Kenny Brothers Band\nThe Kenny Brothers Band is a “Mountain-Rock” brotherhood that has been captivating audiences with their folk\, blues\, and unapologetic grooves since 2016. The three brothers grew up in the backwoods of New Hampshire and since their fruition have released two full length albums\, two EP’s and have traveled across the country spreading their very own roots music. In 2021\, they linked up with keys player and good friend\, Tim Martin and released their sophomore record “Friends\, Lovers and Radios\,” while becoming one of “New England’s most exciting new acts.”  \n“A sonic projection of whiskey and honey..” –For Folk’s Sake UK \n \n \nReservations\nTable and blanket reservations are non-refundable\, but can be transferred to another available date in the 2023 season. \nPlease Note: General Admission Donations do not include reserved seating. This is a way to make your gate donation in advance. \nTable reservations seat four.  \nBlanket reservations are placed in the blankets-only area of lawn and do not allow for chair placement. \nSee you in the park!
URL:https://www.prescottpark.org/event/hiss-golden-messenger
LOCATION:Prescott Park\, 105 Marcy St\, Portsmouth\, NH\, 03801\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert Series
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SUMMARY:40th Annual Seacoast Jazz Festival
DESCRIPTION:The 40th Annual Seacoast Jazz Festival\, in partnership with Seacoast Jazz Society\, with presenting sponsor\, Jimmy’s Jazz & Blues Club is back on the Wilcox Main Stage. \n\nPrescott Park Arts Festival\, in partnership with Seacoast Jazz Society\, is delighted to present the annual festival that will feature a host of local\, regional\, and international talent\, amplifying the different styles of jazz. The festival has a tremendous history on the seacoast. The first festival was held in 1983 under the name\, Portsmouth Jazz Festival. For the last 26 years\, it has been known as the Tommy Gallant Jazz Festival\, to honor legendary local jazz pianist and composer\, Tommy Gallant. It has now become the Seacoast Jazz Festival in the hopes to expand the festival’s reach in the future as a destination event featuring acclaimed jazz artists from around the globe. \nThe Seacoast Jazz Society was formed in 1990 and its mission is to promote jazz through community outreach and education\, to support local musicians\, and to provide scholarships for young artists. A sincere thank you to this year’s presenting sponsor\, Jimmy’s Jazz & Blues Club\, and event sponsors\, Morgan Stanley\, Michael and Rebecca Harrison\, and Live from Matt’s House\, LLC. \nFor more information about the Seacoast Jazz Society\, or to donate\, please visit www.seacoastjazz.org. \n* Please Note: the line-up has adjusted due to this date change. \n \n40th Annual Seacoast Jazz Festival Line-Up for Sunday 8/27 \n1pm Chris Humphrey and the Voice of Clark Terry \n2pm Emilio Teubal Trio \n3pm YellowHouse Blues Band \n4pm Soggy Po’ Boys \n5pm Steven Bernstein’s Millennial Territory Orchestra \n 6:15pm Orrin Evans with Special Guest Tia Fuller*  \n*Sean Jones is no longer able to perform due to the date change. Thanks for your understanding \n\nANNOUNCEMENT: Orrin Evans with Special Guest Tia Fuller* will be headlining Seacoast Jazz Festival.  Orrin has traveled the world performing and is coming off of his appearance at the 2023 Newport Jazz Festival! \nDuring his kaleidoscopic quarter-century as a professional jazz musician\, pianist Orrin Evans has become the model of a fiercely independent artist  who pushes the envelope in all directions. Never supported by a major label\, Evans has ascended to top-of-the-pyramid stature on his instrument\, as affirmed by his #1-ranking as “Rising Star Pianist” in the 2018  DownBeat Critics Poll. Grammy nominations for the Smoke Sessions albums The Intangible Between and Presence\, by Evans’ raucous\, risk-friendly Captain Black Big Band\, stamp his bona fides as a bandleader and composer. In addition to CBBB\, Evans’ multifarious leader and collaborative projects include the Eubanks Evans Experience (a duo with eminent guitarist Kevin Eubanks); the Brazilian unit Terreno Comum; Evans’ working trio with bassist Luques Curtis and drummer Mark Whitfield\, Jr.; and Tar Baby (a collective trio of 20 years standing with bassist Eric Revis and drummer Nasheet Waits). One of Tar Baby’s two 2022 releases will be released on Evans’ imprint\, Imani Records\, which he founded in 2001 and relaunched in 2018. \n\nand Steven Bernstein’s Millennial Territory Orchestra\nTearing into witty and funky new arrangements of rarefied jazz nuggets from the 1920s and ‘30s\, as well as radically transforming songs by artists such as Prince\, The Grateful Dead and The Beatles\, Steven Bernstein (Grammy-nominated composer/trumpeter) leads an improvisational nine-piece outfit playing irreverent 21st-century jazz. \nHailed as one of New York City’s most legendary little big bands\, Bernstein’s MTO is consistently praised for uniting sexy grooves spanning a century of music—from Don Redman to Sly Stone to the present—with daring jazz abandon. \nMost recently\, Steven Bernstein’s MTO released a four album series dubbed “Community Music”. Few artists have the audacity to undertake recording and releasing four albums in the time it takes the earth to circle the sun\, but that said\, few artists are Steven Bernstein. He and his closest musical compatriots from MTO\, as well as friends like John Medeski\, Catherine Russell and Arturo O’Farrill\, offered both original compositions and new arrangements of material ranging from Duke Ellington to George Harrison\, Charles Mingus to Louis Armstrong\, Allen Toussaint to Earl King. Taking the lessons he’d learned working with legends like Levon Helm\, Hal Willner\, Henry Butler\, Lou Reed and Roswell Rudd\, Bernstein proves why he’s considered one of the most unique voices in both modern jazz and creative music across the board. \n“…exquisite\, with just the right mix of polish and irreverence.” \n– DownBeat \n“This music grooves on multiple levels.” \n– WBGO \n“…the euphoric energy of the pre-Big Band-era territory jazz ensembles with the audacity of Downtown music and the memorable melodies of pop.” \n– Something Else!  \n“The Hard Way is at once an exercise in humility on the part of the Sexmob and homage to its likeminded sonic savant.” \n– Glide Magazine  \n\n \n\n\n \n\n\nChris Humphrey and the Voice of Clark Terry \n“The Voice of Clark Terry” featuring vocalist Chris Humphrey singing the music of Clark Terry with new lyrics written by drummer Les Harris Jr.  Along with Chris and Les\, the musicians that appear on their new recording\, “The Voice of Clark Terry-Volume 1” will be featured in this year’s festival including Mark Shilansky on piano\, Marty Ballou on bass and Chris Klaxton on trumpet. \n  \nAll these musicians have appeared numerous times at this Jazz Festival with drummer Les Harris Jr. appearing in the festival for the 40th straight time having appeared every year going back to the very first Portsmouth Jazz Festival in 1983. \nDr. Clark Terry received an honorary doctorate from UNH in the 70’s and visited the University annually at the festival named for him\, The Clark Terry Jazz Festival\, until his passing.  A legend in the jazz world\, he performed with and mentored all of the musicians in this group. This project is a celebration of Clark Terry as a musician\, teacher\, and person. The music is fun\, joyful\, and swinging as was the great Clark Terry every time he stepped on stage. \nFor more info on the origin of the Clark Terry recording project by Chris and Les\, click here. \n\n\n\nEmilio Teubal Trio  \nEmilio Teubal is a pianist\, composer and arranger from Argentina and based in New York.  He has recorded over twenty albums\, both as a sideman and as a composer and bandleader\, including the 2018 Latin Grammy Winner album “Vigor Tanguero” by the Pedro Giraudo Group. “Futuro”\, his latest release (his sixth album as a bandleader and composer) has been included on the list of Best Jazz albums in Bandcamp for February 2023. \nEmilio is the winner of the 2022 Ise-Shima Art Committee’s 1st Popular Music Composition Competition in Japan. He also received 2nd place in the 2022 Tango Composition Contest at Kavala Tango Days Cosmopolis Festival in Greece. He is also a recipient of the 2007 Meet the Composer’s prestigious Van Lier Fellowship\, and NYSCA grantee for a composition commission award that he is currently working on. \nA versatile pianist who can navigate through different styles of written and improvised music\, Emilio has performed in some of the most prestigious venues and theaters in the United States such as Lincoln Center\, The Kennedy Center\, Brooklyn Academy of Music\, Symphony Space\, The Blue Note\, Birdland\, and Le Poisson Rouge.  He has been touring Japan regularly since 2018 performing at the most prestigious theaters and music venues in Tokyo\, Osaka\, Nagoya\, Hiroshima\, and other cities. \n\nYellowHouse Blues Band\nA nine-piece band with high energy and multiple singers\, the YellowHouse Blues Band is a Seacoast-based band that will perform for you a setlist tailored specifically for this year’s jazz festival.  Known for playing Benefit Concerts in both Maine and New Hampshire\, they’ve raised over $150\,000 for non-profits in their communities. \nMembers of the YHBB have performed all over New England at venues including Gillette Stadium\, Jimmy’s Jazz & Blues Club\, The Music Hall\, Vinegar Hill Music Theatre and Merrill Auditorium.  Band members Matt Becker and Mike Harrison are Board Members of Seacoast Jazz Society and are thrilled to be a part of the festival this year.  Mike Harrison also serves on the Board of Prescott Park Arts Festival\, and Matt Becker is in his 15th year as a Board Member at Big Brothers Big Sisters of NH. \nFor more on the YellowHouse Blues Band\, click here. \n\nSoggy Po’ Boys\nThe Po Boys formed in 2012 to shake the walls of a local club on a Fat Tuesday but have honed their sound and become more than a Mardi Gras centerpiece. Exploring the vast musical traditions of New Orleans and expanding their repertoire to look beyond NOLA jazz\, the band includes traditional Caribbean tunes (it’s been said that New Orleans is the northernmost city in the Caribbean)\, as well as Meters funk\, soul\, and brass band / street beat music. \n“…These guys have done their homework\, worked it out on the bandstand and put in the hours in the studio. It all adds up to a party you can bring with you when you want to treat your friends to a real good time.” -Ben Schenck of New Orleans’ Panorama Jazz Band”. \nThe Soggy Po Boys are Stuart Dias (vocals\, guitar)\, Eric Klaxton (clarinet/soprano saxophone)\, Nick Mainella (tenor saxophone)\, Josh Gagnon (trombone)\, Mike Effenberger (piano)\, Scott Kiefner (upright bass)\, and Brian Waterhouse (drums/percussion). \nTo Learn more\, visit their website or follow them on Facebook and Instagram. \n\nReservations\nTable and blanket reservations are non-refundable\, but can be transferred to another available date in the 2023 season. \nPlease Note: General Admission Donations do not include reserved seating. This is a way to make your gate donation in advance. \nTable reservations seat four.  \nBlanket reservations are placed in the blankets-only area of lawn and do not allow for chair placement. \nSee you in the park!
URL:https://www.prescottpark.org/event/40th-annual-seacoast-jazz-festival
LOCATION:Prescott Park\, 105 Marcy St\, Portsmouth\, NH\, 03801\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert Series
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SUMMARY:An Evening of Beatles Music with Spencer and the Walrus- Moved to The Music Hall
DESCRIPTION:Spencer and the Walrus is a consortium of Portland\, ME based musicians who come together through a shared love of Beatles music\, including solo material. All members are active recording and touring artists who were all recently featured in a Rolling Stone article which highlighted Portland’s ambitious music scene. The goal of The Walrus is to translate Beatles recordings as accurately as possible in a live show setting. No wigs\, no accents\, and a little bit too loud. \nhttps://www.spencerandthewalrus.com/ \n \n*This show was originally scheduled for June 28 but had to be postponed to FRIDAY\, AUGUST 25\, due to inclement weather. Thank you!  \n\nReservations\nTable and blanket reservations are non-refundable\, but can be transferred to another available date in the 2023 season. \nPlease Note: General Admission Donations do not include reserved seating. This is a way to make your gate donation in advance. \nTable reservations seat four.  \nBlanket reservations are placed in the blankets-only area of lawn and do not allow for chair placement. \nSee you in the park!
URL:https://www.prescottpark.org/event/spencer-and-the-walrus
LOCATION:Prescott Park\, 105 Marcy St\, Portsmouth\, NH\, 03801\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert Series
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SUMMARY:American Aquarium with Kate Redgate
DESCRIPTION:Anywhere off Hatteras Island\, Chicamacomico sounds made up\, like some wine-drunk incantation or maybe a tongue twister—try to say it ten times fast. But as a former life-saving station built in 1874 on the Outer Banks of North Carolina\, the name is perhaps the perfect metaphor and title for American Aquarium’s ninth studio album.  \nThe Old North State is tattooed on the bones of front man BJ Barham\, who has never lived more than two hours from his hometown in Reidsville. But\, more so\, what better to represent an album about loss than a place built to save the lives of shipwrecked mariners and passengers? Song as a sort of salvation is something Barham hopes this album can do for the band’s established and growing fanbase. Sometimes when we’re drowning\, music keeps us afloat. \n“When these massive life changes happen\, we feel like we are the only ones facing these problems\,” Barham said. “I hope this album serves as a salve to anyone who has experienced this sort of loss over the last few years. I hope it makes them feel a little less isolated and disconnected. I want them to know that someone out there is going through the exact same shit and that they are not alone.” \nWith tracks tackling personal loss—the loss of his mother and grandmother\, the loss of a child\, the loss of youth and time and the creative spark that drives him—Chicamacomico feels stripped down and bare-boned in its instrumentation compared to earlier records. The orchestration is dialed back leaving the lyrics to stand naked front and center. It’s reminiscent of Rockingham\, Barham’s 2016 solo album\, and this may be in part a result of producer Brad Cook\, who produced both albums as well as the band’s 2015 record Wolves. But it’s likely more a sign of the maturing sound and expanding scope of a songwriter now fully comfortable and confident in his own skin. \n“When you are young\, you want to play everything loud and fast and I think that comes\, at least in part\, from uncertainty. I hadn’t fully found my voice back in those early days so the louder and faster the songs were the less chance someone could actually hear what I was saying. I’m not afraid of the lyrics sitting way out front anymore because I am confident in the songwriting. The band can still cut loose and take over a song\, but they aren’t expected to do all the heavy lifting these days.” \nFew songwriters swing the hammer as hard and precise as Barham and it is a testament to the humility and trust of his bandmates that they take the back seat and allow his storytelling to drive us home. With a heavy tour the rest of the year and a backlist of brass-knuckled bangers\, each will surely have their fair share of time at the wheel.  \nBut as for this record\, be thankful for the subtlety\, for the stillness and for the quiet. For ten songs\, Chicamacomico will hold your head above water. \n \n  \n\nwith Kate Redgate\n \nWith a lifetime of stories put into songs\, Kate Redgate’s music is a lived-in mix of rock and roll\, folk\, roots-rock and country.  It’s the result of a rural high school dropout using time well spent absorbing her early influences: the ones she heard as a kid on the loudspeakers at the Illinois Boots and Saddle Club\, the ones she saved money and hitched rides to buy recordings of at the local record store\, and the ones she waited to hear on the radio\, cassette recorder button ready\, so she could rewind and playback songs over and over learning chords and writing down lyrics. The Stones and the Grateful Dead\, X and the Replacements\, Pretenders and Joni Mitchell\, Steve Earle and Emmylou Harris… You get the drift. \n“We wouldn’t be the first to suggest that there’s a bit of Lucinda Williams to be found in the music of Kate Redgate\, whose publicity suggests that she is a heart-worn sleeve storyteller\, alt- country rebel rouser\, musician\, artist and creative force. Listen to “Light Under The Door” and you’ll surely find yourself saying yes\, yes\, yes\, yes and yes to the whole list.” – Americana UK \nKate’s career spans decades of “here and there’s” – from southern Illinois\, to Montana\, to New England; tucked into a life spent as a survivor and a single mother.  She was selected as a finalist in the prestigious Kerrville Folk Festival\, has shared the stage with songwriting luminaries such as Richie Havens and received international acclaim for her writing.  After some years in the dark\, Kate is emerging with a suitcase full of new songs and new energy.  Her latest record\, “Light Under The Door” released on Rum Bar Records (June\, 2023 Boston\, MA)\,  is proof of her grit and determination – and not just in the songs. The album was recorded live in the studio\, vocals and all over the course of 3 days. \n“Life will take a swing at you\, and sometimes it pulls a knife. Light Under The Door is Kate stepping toward it with a roll of pennies tucked into her fist.” – Jon Nolan\, producer. \n \nhttps://www.kateredgatemusic.com \n\nReservations\nTable and blanket reservations are non-refundable\, but can be transferred to another available date in the 2023 season. \nPlease Note: General Admission Donations do not include reserved seating. This is a way to make your gate donation in advance. \nTable reservations seat four.  \nBlanket reservations are placed in the blankets-only area of lawn and do not allow for chair placement. \nSee you in the park!
URL:https://www.prescottpark.org/event/american-aquarium
LOCATION:Prescott Park\, 105 Marcy St\, Portsmouth\, NH\, 03801\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert Series
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SUMMARY:Celisse with Julie Rhodes
DESCRIPTION:Celisse has been making strides for over a decade\, but recently she has taken the music world by storm. If you ask her where she is from\, you’ll get a few different answers. Born in Oakland\, she spent a meaningful portion of her life in New York City on Broadway and television\, which helped shape her artistic vision. \nIn the past few years Celisse’s momentum has carried her into numerous ventures. She has collaborated with Alicia Keys contributing guitar and additional production to her track “Billions (Unlocked).” Her touring in 2022 included support spots for Lucius and Brandi Carlile\, Dave Matthews Band at The Gorge\, and as part of Joni Mitchell’s historic “Joni Jams” performance at Newport Folk Festival\, among various festival appearances. Her soulful voice and captivating stage presence led to her inclusion on NIVA’s Live List as a favorite up-and-coming touring artist in 2023\, with festivals this year including Boston Calling\, Bonnaroo\, and more. \nIn addition to the fireworks of her live performance\, audiences may have caught Celisse on television appearing alongside Lucius on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert or the season premiere of Austin City Limits Live with Brandi Carlile. Most recently\, Joni Mitchell once again invited Celisse to collaborate\, this time in celebration of Joni’s Gershwin Prize Honor\, where the two played a stirring performance of “Summertime.” \nWith her debut album forthcoming\, Celisse is preparing to give full exposure of herself. The thesis has been written… now we get to the good stuff. \n \n  \n\nwith Julie Rhodes\n \n“Sometimes you hear a voice and you immediately sit up and take notice. That’s what happened when I first listened to Julie Rhodes\, her vocals big\, soulful and growling through the speakers in a dark powerhouse sass that suits her Americana sound perfectly…” – For the Country Record \n“There aren’t many unknown artists who get to record their debut albums partially at Muscle Shoals’ Fame Studios with legends such as keyboardist Spooner Oldham\, guitarist Greg Leisz and fiddler Sara Watkins sitting in. But\, there aren’t many new singers as impressive as Julie Rhodes either.” – American Songwriter \n“A legacy in the making.”- The Huffington Post \n \n \n\nReservations\nTable and blanket reservations are non-refundable\, but can be transferred to another available date in the 2023 season. \nPlease Note: General Admission Donations do not include reserved seating. This is a way to make your gate donation in advance. \nTable reservations seat four.  \nBlanket reservations are placed in the blankets-only area of lawn and do not allow for chair placement. \nSee you in the park!
URL:https://www.prescottpark.org/event/celisse-with-julie-rhodes
LOCATION:Prescott Park\, 105 Marcy St\, Portsmouth\, NH\, 03801\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert Series
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SUMMARY:49 Winchester with Say ZuZu
DESCRIPTION:COUNTRY FEST\n\n \nWith its latest album\, “Fortune Favors The Bold\,” Russell County\, Virginia-based 49 Winchester is ready and roaring to break onto the national scene with its unique brand of tear-in-your-beer alt-country\, sticky barroom floor rock-n-roll\, and high-octane Appalachian folk. \n “As we’ve aged and matured\, our sound has gone from a softer place to this grittier\, edgier tone that we have now\,” says lead singer/guitarist Isaac Gibson. “So\, we’re trending more towards being a rock band instead of a country band. But\, at the same time\, I don’t think anybody’s ever known quite what to call it.” \nAlthough it’s 49 Winchester’s fourth studio album\, “Fortune Favors The Bold” marks its debut for Nashville’s New West Records — one of the premier labels for Americana\, indie and rock acts on the cutting edge of sound\, scope and spectacle. \nFormed eight years ago on Winchester Street in the small mountain town of Castlewood\, Virginia (population: 2\,045)\, the band started as a rag tag bunch of neighborhood teenagers who just wanted to get together for the sake of playing together. \nAside from Gibson\, there’s also his childhood friend\, bassist Chase Chafin\, alongside other Castlewood cronies — guitarist Bus Shelton\, and Noah Patrick on pedal steel. \n“From day one\, it’s always been a band and it will always be about being a band. This is everything\, everything we love about music — we’re going for broke with this thing\,” says Gibson. “And that gives us a unique perspective because it’s still the same guys. It’s still all of us from Castlewood traveling around\, playing music and making this band a reality — this is a story of growth.” \nAnd it’s that sense of growth — more so\, a sense of self — at the core of “Fortune Favors The Bold.” It’s not only a record that showcases the current state of 49 Winchester\, it’s a melodic stake in the ground of how this group is constantly evolving and taking shape\, sonically and lyrically. \nReflecting on his early days as a jack-of-all-trades stone mason in Castlewood\, where it was about trying to make ends meet in an effort to keep 49 Winchester rolling along\, Gibson can’t help but be grateful for a well-earned notion at the core of the band’s ethos — anything worthwhile in life is built brick-by-brick.  \n“Everything has to be built. And very few people are going to achieve success overnight\,” says Gibson. “There’s going to be people you see succeed in front of you. Maybe you don’t think they deserve it as much as you\, haven’t worked as hard as you\, haven’t done it as long as you. But\, none of that matters — they ain’t you. They’re not living your life. They’re not part of your experience.” \nAt its essence\, “Fortune Favors The Bold” is about going against all odds to bring your art into fruition and into the world. It’s about leaving your hometown and heading for the unknown horizon. And it’s about proving those wrong who snickered and waited for the day you’d give up somewhere down the line\, only to circle back home with your tail between your legs.  \nBut\, it’s also about looking into the rearview mirror with a genuine appreciation for where you came from and what you’re made of\, those hardscrabble\, salt-of-the-earth traits in your blood and character that define what it actually takes to climb that damn mountain of dreams — come hell or high water. \n \n\nwith Say ZuZu\n\nA pandemic-inspired reconnection with old friend and longtime label owner George Fontaine —-New West Records/Strolling Bones Records in Nashville\, TN and Athens\, GA respectively —-resulted in ‘ZuZu signing a multi-layered\, multi-album recording contract with Strolling Bones to release five of their past records\, and two new ones. “Here Again: A Retrospective” is the band’s first offering on the label – a selection of tracks from five of the band’s earlier records. “No Time to Lose” will be the band’s first album of new material in nearly twenty years. It’s due out on Strolling Bones Feb ‘23. \nIn the early 90s\, Newmarket\, NH based Say ZuZu found their sound in a growing alt-country movement which spawned artists like The Old 97s and Wilco\, and inspired a generation of artists including The Avett Brothers\, Kacey Musgraves and others. In their road warrior days\, the band toured tirelessly from Maine to Chicago\, Texas and Georgia\, but found their greatest success abroad as minor stars in Italy\, developing a European fanbase and signing with Germany’s Blue Rose Records. After more than 10 years\, 10 albums\, and logging more than 2000 shows in 25 states and four foreign countries\, Say ZuZu called it a day\, amicably\, in 2003. Until now.  \n  \n \n \n\nReservations\nTable and blanket reservations are non-refundable\, but can be transferred to another available date in the 2023 season. \nPlease Note: General Admission Donations do not include reserved seating. This is a way to make your gate donation in advance. \nTable reservations seat four.  \nBlanket reservations are placed in the blankets-only area of lawn and do not allow for chair placement. \nSee you in the park!
URL:https://www.prescottpark.org/event/49-winchester
LOCATION:Prescott Park\, 105 Marcy St\, Portsmouth\, NH\, 03801\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert Series
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SUMMARY:Mipso with Small Pond
DESCRIPTION:Since making their acclaimed debut with 2013’s Dark Holler Pop\, North Carolina-bred four- piece Mipso have captivated audiences with their finely layered vocal harmonies\, graceful fluency in the timeless musical traditions of their home state\, and a near-telepathic musical connection that makes their live show especially kinetic. On their self-titled sixth album and Rounder Records debut\, fiddle player Libby Rodenbough\, mandolinist Jacob Sharp\, guitarist Joseph Terrell\, and bassist Wood Robinson share their most sonically adventurous and lyrically rich work to date\, each moment charged with the tension between textural effervescence and an underlying despair about the modern world. \nMainly recorded at Echo Mountain in Asheville\, North Carolina\, Mipso finds the band joining forces with Sandro Perri (a musician/producer known for his work with acts like Great Lake Swimmers\, as well as his own post-rock/experimental-electronic material). In overseeing the production process\, Perri guided Mipso toward their goal of shaping a sonic landscape that was expansive and atmospheric yet surprisingly personal\, even playful. To that end\, the band dreamed up Mipso’s resplendent textures by stretching the limits of their acoustic instruments\, rather than employing outside musicians to create new sounds. The result is a body of work with spacious arrangements that gently illuminate the idiosyncratic details and refined musicianship at the heart of every song. \n \n\nwith Small Pond\nThe east coast’s freshest body of water is Small Pond\, a four-piece group throwing out swingy\, laid-back indie rock with big hooks and undeniably catchy lyrics. Local vocal powerhouse Molly McDevitt weaves her heartfelt words on love\, loss\, and catharsis over atmospheric tones from drummer Colin McKenna\, guitarist Ian Howard\, and bassist Joe Murphy. Their sound has an energetic personality suited to rooms of any size. After making waves in the local Portsmouth scene playing DIY shows\, and opening for national touring acts The Ballroom Thieves\, Yumi Zouma\, Mo Lowda & the Humble and Haley Heynderickx\, Small Pond is on track to be your new favorite band. \n \n \n\nReservations\nTable and blanket reservations are non-refundable\, but can be transferred to another available date in the 2023 season. \nPlease Note: General Admission Donations do not include reserved seating. This is a way to make your gate donation in advance. \nTable reservations seat four.  \nBlanket reservations are placed in the blankets-only area of lawn and do not allow for chair placement. \nSee you in the park!
URL:https://www.prescottpark.org/event/mipso
LOCATION:Prescott Park\, 105 Marcy St\, Portsmouth\, NH\, 03801\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert Series
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SUMMARY:Rayland Baxter with Sneaky Miles
DESCRIPTION:For the making of his fourth album If I Were a Butterfly\, Rayland Baxter holed up for over a year at a former rubber-band factory turned studio in the Kentucky countryside—a seemingly humble environment that proved to be something of a wonderland. “I spent that year living in a barn with the squirrels and the birds\, on my own most of the time\, and I discovered so much about music and how to create it\,” says the Tennessee-bred singer/songwriter. “Instead of going into a studio with a producer for two weeks\, I just waited for the record to build itself. I’d get up and go outside\, see a butterfly and connect that with some impulsive thought I’d had three months ago\, and suddenly a song I’d been working on would make sense. That’s how the whole album came to be.” \nThe follow-up to 2018’s critically acclaimed Wide Awake\, If I Were a Butterfly finds Baxter co-producing alongside Tim O’Sullivan (Grace Potter\, The Head and the Heart) and Kai Welch (Molly Tuttle\, Sierra Hull)\, slowly piecing together the album’s patchwork of lush psychedelia and Beatlesesque pop. In addition to working at Thunder Sound (the Kentucky studio he called home for months on end)\, Baxter recorded in California\, Texas\, Tennessee\, and Washington\, enlisting a remarkable lineup of musicians: Shakey Graves\, Lennon Stella\, several members of Cage the Elephant\, Zac Cockrell of Alabama Shakes\, Morning Teleportation’s Travis Goodwin\, and legendary Motown drummer Miss Bobbye Hall\, among many others. In an especially meaningful turn\, two of the album’s tracks feature the elegant pedal steel work of his father\, Bucky Baxter (a musician who performed with Bob Dylan and who passed away in May 2020). Thanks to the extraordinary care and ingenuity behind its creation\, If I Were a Butterfly arrives as a work of rarefied magic\, capable of stirring up immense feeling while leaving the listener happily wonderstruck. \nBaxter’s debut release as a producer\, If I Were a Butterfly bears a dazzling unpredictability that has much to do with his limitless imagination as a collector and collagist of sound. “Sometimes the bullfrogs in the pond outside would pulse in a certain tempo and I’d apply that to a song\, or I’d hear a bird chirping and it would inspire me to add harmonica in a particular place\,” he says. “I could be walking around this massive building in the middle of the night and the air-conditioning would turn on\, and it’d give me the idea to include a synth part that holds a similar note. I’d wait for those moments to happen and whenever I tried to force anything\, the music usually rejected it.” \nA perfect introduction to If I Were a Butterfly’s elaborate sonic world\, the album-opening title track begins with a recording of a Baxter singing at age four\, then drifts into a delicately sprawling reverie ornamented with so many lovely details (lavish flute and cello melodies\, radiant horns\, the hypnotic harmonies of Lennon Stella and Baxter’s girlfriend\, Sophia Rose). “I liked the idea of the first voice on the record being me as a little kid\, not knowing where I’d be today\,” notes Baxter\, who embedded newly unearthed audio clips of himself and his older sister Brooke all throughout the album. Graced with the combustible guitar work of his bandmate Barney Cortez\, “Billy Goat” kicks up a potent tension with its restless grooves and hot-tempered gang vocals. “It’s a breakup song about being with someone who’s on a different life path—one side wants to influence the other\, and inevitably you part ways\,” says Baxter. From there\, the album takes on a feverish momentum with “Rubberband Man\,” a delightfully frenzied track channeling a wild and giddy freedom. “There’s rubber bands all over the property at Thunder Sound—in the earth\, in the concrete\, used as insulation for the studio\,” says Baxter. “I took a mishmash of images in my head and it turned into a song about staying flexible\, rolling with the punches.” \nIn its searching reflection on love and loss and striving for transcendence\, If I Were a Butterfly reaches a quietly glorious intensity on “Tadpole”: a piano ballad threaded with childhood memories at turns oddly tender (catching frogs and crawfish in a nearby toxic creek) and nightmarish (hearing the gunshot when an across-the-street neighbor took her own life). And on “My Argentina\,” If I Were a Butterfly closes out with a piano-driven and painfully raw outpouring\, its starkness intermittently broken by soulful strings and gospel-esque harmonies. “One time at the studio I stayed up all night and played that song maybe 100 times; we ended up using the last take\, which was recorded at about five in the morning\,” says Baxter. “It’s a song that represents the thoughts one might have about a perfect love life\, and I love how it ends the album in a big angelic cloud of reverb.” \nFor Baxter\, the act of self-producing such a sonically and emotionally expansive body of work proved both exhilarating and arduous. “It really wore me out to spend all that time alone at the studio\, editing the hell out of this record; my heart definitely suffered\,” he says. “But I also had the guidance of my dad\, who was in my dreams all the time—if I was moving too fast\, I’d hear him telling me to slow down.” Another profound influence on the album-making process: the 2018 deaths of Baxter’s close friends Billy Swayze (a musician whose parents owned the rubber band company that became Thunder Sound) and Tiger Merritt (the vocalist/guitarist for Morning Teleportation\, who worked with Swayze in constructing the studio). “Billy and Tiger had been going up there since 2015\, and finally they turned it into a legit recording studio\,” he says. “It’s a very special place to me\, so they’re two of the four angels I decided to dedicate this record to.” \nEven in its most somber moments\, If I Were a Butterfly wholly fulfills Baxter’s mission of imparting a certain purposeful joy. “It’s been a weird few years\, but I think the big picture is for us to just exist and find love and be loved\, and try to see that all the daily bullshit is simply bugs on the windshield\,” says Baxter. “I hope that this album makes people feel the way I do whenever I listen to my favorite records\, and that it gives them a platform to dream on.”  \n  \n \n\nwith Sneaky Miles\nFormed in the fall of 2019\, indie folk band\, Sneaky Miles\, found each other through various open mic nights at the University of New Hampshire. Since forming\, the group has quickly become a local powerhouse in the NH Seacoast music scene. Despite being known for their high-energy\, good-vibe performances\, Sneaky Miles’s musical personality is a patchwork of raw reflections and life-lessons from each member. Their tracks feel destined for wistful\, late night car rides and their debut album\, Rivers Run Gold\, encompasses these feelings entirely. Sneaky Miles is a group that loves to tell stories through their music. One of their best stories is the origin of the band’s name\, but it’s not harbored inside any of their songs. For that\, you’ll just have to go to one of their shows and ask. \n \n \n\nReservations\nTable and blanket reservations are non-refundable\, but can be transferred to another available date in the 2023 season. \nPlease Note: General Admission Donations do not include reserved seating. This is a way to make your gate donation in advance. \nTable reservations seat four.  \nBlanket reservations are placed in the blankets-only area of lawn and do not allow for chair placement. \nSee you in the park!
URL:https://www.prescottpark.org/event/rayland-baxter
LOCATION:Prescott Park\, 105 Marcy St\, Portsmouth\, NH\, 03801\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert Series
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SUMMARY:The Heavy Heavy with Sara Schwab
DESCRIPTION:The Heavy Heavy create the kind of unfettered rock-and-roll that warps time and place\, immediately pulling the audience into a euphoric fugue state with its own sun-soaked atmosphere. Led by lifelong musicians Will Turner and Georgie Fuller\, the Brighton\, UK-based band began with a shared ambition of “making records that sound like our favorite records ever\,” and soon arrived at a reverb-drenched collision of psychedelia and blues\, acid rock and sunshine pop. As revealed on their gloriously hazy debut EP Life and Life Only\, The Heavy Heavy breathe an incandescent new energy into sounds from decades ago\, transcending eras with a hypnotic ease. \n \n\nwith Sara Schwab\nPicture this. A 10 year old redheaded girl is singing Bonnie Raitt to her family. Although she needs to be quiet as a service is happening in the family owned funeral home below her on the first floor. Nonetheless\, she drowns out “On Eagle’s Wings” with “Let’s Give them Something to Talk About”. Years later\, Sara is living in NYC as a Singer Songwriter writing Indie-Rock music with a Jazzy twist. She has played gigs at The Bitter End\, Pianos\, Rockwood Music Hall and more. Her original music has a unique sound that one can only describe as “melting butter” and her humorous yet honest lyrics cover topics like mental illness\, feminism and how Tom Hanks can do no wrong. She has an EP and several singles out on all streaming platforms\, and is currently in the studio recording new music. Come see Sara play live in NYC and stream her music anywhere you listen! Check back in to see if she is still talking in third person! \n \n \n\nReservations\nTable and blanket reservations are non-refundable\, but can be transferred to another available date in the 2023 season. \nPlease Note: General Admission Donations do not include reserved seating. This is a way to make your gate donation in advance. \nTable reservations seat four.  \nBlanket reservations are placed in the blankets-only area of lawn and do not allow for chair placement. \nSee you in the park!
URL:https://www.prescottpark.org/event/the-heavy-heavy
LOCATION:Prescott Park\, 105 Marcy St\, Portsmouth\, NH\, 03801\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert Series
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SUMMARY:The Tallest Man on Earth with Kate Davis
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nKristian Matsson has never remained in one place for very long. Having spent much of the last decade touring around the world as The Tallest Man on Earth\, Matsson has captivated audiences using\, as The New York Times describes\, “every inch of his long guitar cord to roam the stage: darting around\, crouching\, stretching\, hip-twitching\, perching briefly and jittering away…Mr. Matsson is a guitar-slinger rooted in folk\, and his songs are troubadour ballads at heart.” \nThen came 2020\, when Matsson left New York City and returned to his farm in Sweden. There\, during that quiet\, dreary time of isolation\, he drowned out his thoughts by manically growing vegetables in his garden. When he tried writing again\, during those many months of collective forced solitude\, “I just found myself commenting on the darkness\,” Matsson says. “I lost my imagination.” Playing live\, music and inspiration returned near the end of 2021\, and his produce became less of a priority. “When I’m in motion\, I can focus on my instinct\, have my daydreams again. When I was finally able to tour again\, I started writing like a madman.” He eventually had twenty songs he wanted to record in ten days.  \nNow\, Matsson returns as The Tallest Man on Earth with Henry St.\, his sixth studio album following 2012’s There’s No Leaving Now\, full of “vivid imagery\, clever turns-of-phrase\, and devastating\, world-weary observations” (Under The Radar) and 2015’s Dark Bird Is A Home\, his “most personal record… surreal and dreamlike” (Pitchfork). Henry St. notably marks the first time he recorded an album in a band setting. “My entire career I’ve been a DIY person––mostly fueled by the feeling that I didn’t know what I was doing\, so I’d just do everything myself.” But now\, longing for the energy that’s only released when creating together with others\, Matsson invited his friends to come and play.  \nNick Sanborn (of Sylvan Esso) produced Henry St.\, which includes contributions from Ryan Gustafson (of The Dead Tongues) on guitar\, lap steel and ukulele\, TJ Maiani on drums\, CJ Camerieri (of Bon Iver) on trumpet and French horn\, Phil Cook on piano and organ\, Rob Moose (of Bon Iver\, yMusic) on strings and Adam Schatz on saxophone. “They opened everything up\, and understood what the songs that I’d written needed: sounds that I couldn’t ever have thought of or created myself. We recorded so many of the songs live in the studio\, playing\, having fun and being really open with each other.” \nAn overarching theme of Henry St.\, he says\, is “how to be a person in this world.” The title track is about the deception that\, “as individuals\, we’re told that we should strive for success. But when we have it\, it doesn’t solve anything. The song is about stepping away and thinking: why am I actually doing this?” While writing the song back in Sweden\, he knew it would be the centerpiece of the album. “It’s the low point and the turnaround: the other songs are a reminder that I will always be a stubborn optimist\, even at the darkest of times.” He was about to record the track as a solo piece\, until Phil Cook came in on his first day in the studio. “I had Phil basically hanging over my shoulders at the piano while we were playing\, and then he recorded it. He improvised that beautiful outro. When he did\, our jaws dropped––I was in tears.” \n“Looking for Love” is one of those songs about Matsson’s stubborn optimism\, and a shining example of Sanborn’s influence on the album. “The first day in the studio\, Nick created this hissing noise while I was feedbacking electric guitar. We had so much fun jamming like that. Then Nick put down some piano to overdub my guitar\, and we knew we had the song.” The tone for their collaboration was set. “Nick is so emotionally intelligent\, and we share an almost childlike joy in things that can happen with music. He makes the songs come truly alive by keeping the performances and the humanity in––the kind of stuff that just happens during the session.” \nThe song “Every Little Heart\,” he says\, came from a feeling of fearlessness\, a confidence in making music after two years of relative silence. “But of course I still have little demons inside of me. I wrote some key changes in the song that came natural to me\, but I worried they might sound unnatural to others. When TJ Maiani heard it\, he straightaway went into this drumbeat that shocked me a little at first\, but came completely natural to him. It fit the song perfectly.” \nMatsson’s longing for social interchange\, after months spent with only his crops\, led to the collaboration that delivered the warm\, unique and sprawling sound of Henry St. “It’s the most playful\, most me album yet\, because it covers so many of the different noises in my head. When you overthink things\, you get further away from your original ideas. And God knows I overthink things when I’m by myself.” The time in isolation also brought him some newfound peace of mind. “Having been away from it taught me that making music and performing is what I’m doing for the rest of my life\, and I’m so grateful for it. It has given me new confidence and playfulness. This is what I do. It’s unconditional.” \n \n\nwith Kate Davis\n \nCalled “clever and heartfelt” by Pitchfork and compared to Liz Phair\, Madison Cunningham and Courtney Barnett\, Kate Davis has signed to ANTI- Records. \nGrowing up in Portland where she began playing violin at age five and bass at age thirteen\, Davis later moved to New York City to attend the Manhattan School Of Music. At night\, Davis would sneak down to Brooklyn\, where she watched indie-rock innovators Grizzly Bear and the Dirty Projectors and secretly dreamed of breaking away from the academic rigor of the jazz world she inhabited. With time\, Davis found a way to take control of her musical destiny and define her own path\, which began with her 2018 debut album ‘Trophy.’ \n“She has this background of tremendous musical chops and that is poured into this record\, but at the same time she is able to speak to her experiences\,” said Stephen Thompson of the album on NPR’s All Songs Considered at the time. “As I listen more\, the technical elements of her approach\, her skills\, her timing\, her intelligence around arrangement … all of who she is is in this record\, she’s just telling us about it in a different way\,” Ann Powers added. \nBandcamp also said in an interview with Davis – “That ‘Trophy’ even exists is a triumph—a symbol of Davis breaking free from her former self. But it’s also a powerful album in its own right\, one that examines our relationship with desire\, and what we’ll do to satisfy it.” In that same interview Davis added: “I’ve been in places in my life where I’ve had some ugly sides come out\, just because I felt like I wasn’t in control. It’s just about doing whatever it takes to win.” \n \n \n\nReservations\nTable and blanket reservations are non-refundable\, but can be transferred to another available date in the 2023 season. \nPlease Note: General Admission Donations do not include reserved seating. This is a way to make your gate donation in advance. \nTable reservations seat four.  \nBlanket reservations are placed in the blankets-only area of lawn and do not allow for chair placement. \nSee you in the park!
URL:https://www.prescottpark.org/event/the-tallest-man-on-earth
LOCATION:Prescott Park\, 105 Marcy St\, Portsmouth\, NH\, 03801\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert Series
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Béla Fleck\, My Bluegrass Heart
DESCRIPTION:An Evening with Béla Fleck \nMy Bluegrass Heart\nincluding Michael Cleveland\, Sierra Hull\, Justin Moses\, Mark Schatz & Bryan Sutton \nOver the last four decades\, Béla Fleck has made a point of boldly going where no banjo player has gone before\, a musical journey that has earned him 16 Grammys in nine different fields\, including Country\, Pop\, Jazz\, Instrumental\, Classical and World Music. But his roots are in bluegrass\, and that’s where he returns with his first bluegrass tour in 24 years\, My Bluegrass Heart. The Grammy award-winning album\, My Bluegrass Heart is the third chapter of a trilogy which began with the 1988 album\, Drive\, and continued in 1991 with The Bluegrass Sessions. Fleck’s band will spotlight a multi-generational gamut of the best of bluegrass players\, all sporting a myriad of Grammy Awards and nominations\, as well as gigantic piles of IBMA awards for their instruments: fiddler Michael Cleveland\, mandolin virtuoso Sierra Hull\, celebrated multi-instrumentalist Justin Moses\, bassist/multi-instrumentalist Mark Schatz\, and the amazing Bryan Sutton on guitar. \nBéla Fleck\nJust in case you aren’t familiar with Béla Fleck\, there are many who say he’s the premiere banjo player in the world. Others claim that Fleck has virtually reinvented the image and the sound of the banjo through a remarkable performing and recording career that has taken him all over the musical map and on a range of solo projects and collaborations. If you are familiar with Fleck\, you know that he just loves to play the banjo\, and put it into unique settings. \nA sixteen-time Grammy Award-winner\, Fleck has the virtuosic\, jazz-to-classical ingenuity of an iconic instrumentalist and composer with bluegrass roots. His collaborations range from his ground-breaking standard-setting ensemble Béla Fleck and the Flecktones to a staggeringly broad array of musical experiments. From writing concertos for full symphony orchestra\, exploring the banjo’s African roots\, and collaborating with Indian musical royalty Zakir Hussain and Rakesh Churasia with Edgar Meyer\, to performing as a folk duo with wife Abigail Washburn\, and jazz duos with Chick Corea\, many tout that Béla Fleck is the world’s premier banjo player. As Jon Pareles wrote for The New York Times\, “That’s a lot of territory for five strings.” \nMichael Cleveland\nThe world tends to look at accomplishments in the form of accolades and although only in his mid-30’s\, 2020 Grammy Award-winner Michael Cleveland\, has plenty to his credit. Cleveland is IBMA’s most awarded Fiddle Player of the Year with 12 wins\, has won Instrumental Recorded Performance of the Year six times\, and fronts their 6-Time Instrumental Group of the Year. And\, he is a 2018 Inductee to the National Fiddler Hall of Fame. Picking up the fiddle at age 4\, by age 9\, Michael was invited to sit in with the legendary Bill Monroe at the Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival. Soon after\, he brought his virtuosic style to the Grand Ole Opry as a guest of Alison Kraus\, and was hand picked for the IBMA Bluegrass Youth Allstars before he was 14. His blistering prowess and technical fluency have since marked him as a sought-after musician\, leading to performances with Vince Gill\, Marty Stuart\, Tim O’Brien\, J.D. Crowe and the New South\, Andy Statman\, and The Kruger Brothers in recent years. However\, it wasn’t until 2006\, when Michael formed his own band Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper\, that he found the right vehicle for his musical vision\, and he hasn’t rested since\, constantly looking for new ways to push himself and his music forward. \nSierra Hull\nIn her first 25 years alone\, singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Sierra Hull hit more milestones than many musicians accomplish in a lifetime. After making her Grand Ole Opry debut at the age of 10\, the Tennessee-bred virtuoso mandolinist played Carnegie Hall at age 12\, then landed a deal with Rounder Records just a year later. Now 28-years-old\, Hull delivered her fourth full-length album for Rounder in 2020: an elegantly inventive and endlessly captivating album called 25 Trips. Revealing her profound warmth as a storyteller\, the album finds Hull shedding light on the beauty and chaos and sometimes sorrow of growing up and getting older. To that end\, the album’s title nods to a particularly momentous year of her life\, including her marriage to fellow bluegrass musician Justin Moses and the release of her widely acclaimed album Weighted Mind — a Béla Fleck-produced effort nominated for Best Folk Album at the 2017 Grammy Awards. \nJustin Moses\nJustin Moses is an award winning multi-instrumentalist celebrated as one of the most versatile musicians in all of acoustic music. A prominent Nashville session musician\, he has appeared on stage or in the studio with an endless list of diverse artists such as Alison Krauss\, Del McCoury\, Garth Brooks\, Emmylou Harris\, Brad Paisley\, Vince Gill\, Bruce Hornsby\, Béla Fleck\, Peter Frampton\, Rosanne Cash\, Marty Stuart and Barry Gibb among many others. In 2018 and 2020 he was named Dobro Player of the Year by the International Bluegrass Music Association. Moses began his musical journey at the age of six after becoming interested in the mandolin. He soon developed a lasting passion for making music. He started to hone his skills playing in his family’s band as a child. Since then\, he’s toured with bands such as Blue Moon Rising\, The Dan Tyminski Band\, Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder\, Blue Highway and The Gibson Brothers. In his two-year stint with Tyminski\, he realized an early dream of playing the Grand Ole Opry for the first time and recorded the 2009 IBMA Album of the Year and Grammy-nominated album\, Wheels. He released his full-length album Fall Like Rain on January 22\, 2021 with Mountain Fever Records. \nMark Schatz\nTwice named IBMA’s Bass Player of the Year\, Mark Schatz has toured and recorded with a stellar array of artists including Bela Fleck\, Tony Rice\, John Hartford\, Tim O’Brien\, Nickel Creek\, Claire Lynch\, and Sarah Jarosz. Mark is the Musical Director for internationally acclaimed Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble which showcases other talents such as clawhammer banjo and Southern Appalachian clog dancing. This versatile multi-instrumentalist has two of his own solo recordings\, Brand New Old Tyme Way and Steppin’ in the Boiler House on Rounder Records\, which feature his own eclectic blend of original compositions on the banjo\, and two bass instructional videos on Homespun. Mark recently launched his own solo show: Mark Schatz — The Solo Concert\, in which he brings all of his skills to bear to tell his story through his own tunes and songs. \nBryan Sutton\nBryan Sutton is the most accomplished and awarded acoustic guitarist of his generation\, an innovator who bridges the bluegrass flatpicking traditions of the 20th century with the dynamic roots music scene of the 21st. His rise from buzzed-about young sideman to first-call Nashville session musician to membership in one of history’s greatest bluegrass bands has been grounded in quiet professionalism and ever-expanding musicianship. Sutton is a Grammy Award-winner and a nine-time IBMA Guitar Player of the Year. But these are only the most visible signs of Sutton’s accomplishments. He inherited and internalized a technically demanding instrumental style and has become for young musicians of today the same kind of model and hero that Tony Rice and Clarence White were for him. And supplementing his instrumental work\, he’s now a band leader\, record producer\, mentor\, educator and leader in online music instruction. \n  \n \n  \n\nReservations\nTable and blanket reservations are non-refundable\, but can be transferred to another available date in the 2023 season. \nPlease Note: General Admission Donations do not include reserved seating. This is a way to make your gate donation in advance. \nTable reservations seat four.  \nBlanket reservations are placed in the blankets-only area of lawn and do not allow for chair placement. \nSee you in the park!
URL:https://www.prescottpark.org/event/bela-fleck-my-bluegrass-heart
LOCATION:Prescott Park\, 105 Marcy St\, Portsmouth\, NH\, 03801\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert Series
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SUMMARY:Soccer Mommy with Purr
DESCRIPTION:Sometimes\, Forever\, the immersive and compulsively replayable new Soccer Mommy full-length\, cements Sophie Allison’s status as one of the most gifted songwriters making rock music right now. Packed with clever nods to synth-filled subgenres like new wave and goth\, the album finds Sophie broadening the borders of her aesthetic without abandoning the unsparing lyricism and addictive melodies that make Soccer Mommy songs so easy to obsess over. Sometimes\, Forever is the 24-year-old’s boldest and most aesthetically adventurous work\, a mesmerizing collection that feels both informed by the past and explicitly of the moment. It’s a fresh peek into the mind of an artist who synthesizes everything — retro sounds\, personal tumult\, the relatable disorder of modern life — into original music that feels built to last a long time. Maybe even forever. \nSophie was only 20 when she put out Clean\, her arresting studio debut\, which became one of the most beloved coming-of-age albums of the 2010s. Its bigger-sounding followup\, color theory\, brought more acclaim and continued to win her fans far outside of the lo-fi bedroom pop scene she cut her teeth playing in. But with all the highs came inevitable lows. Navigating young adulthood is often spiritually draining\, to say nothing of the artless administrative chaos associated with being a popular full-time musician. And yet she never stops writing\, consistently transforming bouts of instability into emotionally generous music. The latest culmination of that process is Sometimes\, Forever\, which sees Sophie once again tapping into the turn-of-the-millenium sensibilities she’s known for. This time\, though\, she advances her self-made sonic world beyond the present and into the future with experimental-minded production\, an expanded moodboard of vintage touchstones\, and some of her most sophisticated songwriting to date. \nThe title Sometimes\, Forever refers to the idea that both good and bad feelings are cyclical. “Sorrow and emptiness will pass\, but they will always come back around — as will joy\,” Sophie says. “At some point you’re forced to say\, I’ll just have to take both.” She articulates this sentiment on the gut-punch opening of “Still\,” her clear voice imbued with a heartbreaking blend of wisdom and hurt: “I don’t know how to feel things small / It’s a tidal wave or nothing at all.” Sophie understands that Sometimes\, Forever is lyrically dark\, with macabre imagery haunting even its most upbeat passages. But because she’s in a better place than when she wrote the songs\, she has no trouble luxuriating in the moments of uncomplicated bliss that coexist alongside the bleakness. \n \n\nwith Purr\nBetween 1966 and 1970\, the American artist Barnett Newman painted a series of four large scale paintings titled Who’s Afraid of Red\, Yellow and Blue. They’re simple\, but produce a whole register of feelings\, emotions — the color is the subject\, the paintings do not represent anything\, but only express themselves. How can a canvas saturated in red synthesize something as complicated as fear? It just does. That painting series’ title was a reference to Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?\, a play from the 60s by Edward Albee\, which was in itself a reference to “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?“\, the song from the 30s immortalized in Disney cartoons. \nThese Newman paintings are the conceptual backdrop of ‘Who Is Afraid of Blue?\,’ the sophomore album of lifelong New Yorkers Eliza Barry Callahan and Jack Staffen’s project Purr. It is in many ways a record about these abstract registers of fear — saturated with emotion\, introspection\, and that very sense of overwhelm.    \n ‘Who is Afraid of Blue?’ also exists lightly in conversation with a short novel Callahan wrote (forthcoming via Catapult\, 2024)\, an auto-fiction document of a woman losing her hearing. And all of it comes back to those Newman works: Purr makes music that functions like those large-scale paintings so very saturated with color. ‘Blue’ is a vast record\, with lyrics that bend towards abstraction. But make no mistake: in that abstraction there is intense clarity. Blue is blue: a color\, a feeling\, a signifier\, a way of looking at the world.   \n \n \n\nReservations\nTable and blanket reservations are non-refundable\, but can be transferred to another available date in the 2023 season. \nPlease Note: General Admission Donations do not include reserved seating. This is a way to make your gate donation in advance. \nTable reservations seat four.  \nBlanket reservations are placed in the blankets-only area of lawn and do not allow for chair placement. \nSee you in the park!
URL:https://www.prescottpark.org/event/soccer-mommy
LOCATION:Prescott Park\, 105 Marcy St\, Portsmouth\, NH\, 03801\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert Series
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SUMMARY:Danielle Ponder with Emme Cannon
DESCRIPTION:Bravery can take many forms. For Danielle Ponder it took the shape of a leap of faith: leaving her successful day job working as an attorney in the public defender’s office in her hometown of Rochester\, NY to devote herself full-time to sharing her powerful voice with the world. While working as a public defender\, Danielle also toured Europe and scored an opening spot with George Clinton. In 2018\, after five years as a public defender\, she made the gutsy decision to pursue her No. 1 passion – music. \nIn 2021\, Danielle performed at the Newport Jazz Festival where her performance was hailed as one of the stand-out performances of the event. 2022 was a banner year for Danielle with appearances on Late Night with Seth Meyers\, CBS This Morning\, tours with Marcus Mumford\, Amos Lee\, St. Paul and the Broken Bones\, and Leon Bridges. On September 16th\, 2022\, Danielle released her debut album\, ‘Some of Us Are Brave’\, on Future Classic. Written and recorded over three years\, the album is a refreshingly original\, shiver-inducing mix of pop\, R&B\, blues\, rock\, and moody trip-hop topped by Ponder’s celestial voice — an instrument that can plumb melancholy depths with a heartsick murmur and scrape the sky with hurricane force wails. \nDanielle continues to advocate for criminal justice reform and has been an influential leader in the Black Lives Matter movement in Rochester\, NY. \n \n\nWith Emme Cannon\nEmme Cannon is an artist whose repertoire consists of flowing ballads for life’s unpopular beauties. Along with her mystical lyricism\, her music combines chamber pop\, indie-folk\, and alternative music to create a unique feeling of being in the eye of the storm between peace and chaos. Emme has shared her “hypnotizing voice and delivery” (The Roanoke Times) with the Boston Book Festival\, The Boston Calendar\, the Songwriters in the Round (Part IV) at the iconic Grandin Theatre (BB King\, Ray Charles)\, and the Two Track series where her performance has accumulated over 10K views. Her most recent release “Can’t Say No To You” expresses forgiveness and self-realization in toxic relationships. Her first self written and produced EP\, Home Planet explores aspects of life beyond this realm and finding love in life’s uncertainties. She currently resides in Boston\, studying Contemporary Writing & Production\, and Songwriting at Berklee College of Music.  \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n\nReservations\nTable and blanket reservations are non-refundable\, but can be transferred to another available date in the 2023 season. \nPlease Note: General Admission Donations do not include reserved seating. This is a way to make your gate donation in advance. \nTable reservations seat four.  \nBlanket reservations are placed in the blankets-only area of lawn and do not allow for chair placement. \nSee you in the park!
URL:https://www.prescottpark.org/event/danielle-ponder-with-emme-cannon
LOCATION:Prescott Park\, 105 Marcy St\, Portsmouth\, NH\, 03801\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert Series
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SUMMARY:Próxima Parada with Chance Emerson
DESCRIPTION:Próxima Parada means ‘next stop’ in Spanish and Portuguese. As college students in San Luis Obispo\, California taking the bus to school\, at every stop they’d hear\, “Now approaching\, próxima parada…” 100 times a day. The name is an invitation to the present moment\, a reminder to not be too focused on the destination and to appreciate every stop along the way. \nAfter ten years of next stops\, their songs have become more and more focused on personal growth and groove\, where each player adds just what’s needed and makes up a piece of a whole. Some songs are sunny and light-hearted indie soul\, others have a late-Mac Miller mellow vibe\, all the while speaking to who they are working to be. \nWhat began as a group of college friends wanting to spread joy to their local community has led to national tours where people let loose and feel whatever they need to feel. It’s already been an incredible journey with their songs reaching a global audience online\, and they’re just getting started. 2023 will bring Próxima Parada’s strongest album to date and much touring. \n  \n \n\nwith Chance Emerson\n\nChance Emerson is a Taiwanese-American folk-rock singer-songwriter from Hong Kong now based in the Northeast.​ \nIn 2017\, Emerson posted his self-produced EP\, The Indigo Tapes\, recorded in his high school music building’s attic\, to his Facebook and Instagram. The word spread\, local radio got on board and the EP ascended the iTunes charts to #1 in the Singer-Songwriter EP category. \n\n\nChance followed up his EP in 2020 with a full album\, The Raspberry Men. Emerson plays almost everything you hear on The Raspberry Men\, mostly recorded in a wooden shed in Maine. The album premiered on NPR-partner station WICN and received praise from American Songwriter\, The Providence Journal\, Spotify’s Indie Shuffle playlist\, The South China Morning Post\, Atwood Magazine\, Ditty TV\, The Deli and more. In December 2020\, Earmilk selected The Raspberry Men as one of its best indie/alternative albums of 2020. \n\n\n​​With his 5-piece fully-live band\, Chance has toured through much of New England and shared the stage with acts such as the Eli Young Band\, Lawrence\, Ripe\, Darlingside\, Melt\, and more. Chance’s most recent headline concert sold out with 650 tickets at The Met in Pawtucket\, RI. Chance has also played at The Cutting Room in NYC\, Fete Music Hall in RI\, The Middle East in MA\, two festivals in Taiwan in 2020\, various colleges and the Museum Stage at the Newport Folk Festival. \n \n\n \n\nReservations\nTable and blanket reservations are non-refundable\, but can be transferred to another available date in the 2023 season. \nPlease Note: General Admission Donations do not include reserved seating. This is a way to make your gate donation in advance. \nTable reservations seat four.  \nBlanket reservations are placed in the blankets-only area of lawn and do not allow for chair placement. \nSee you in the park!
URL:https://www.prescottpark.org/event/proxima-parada
LOCATION:Prescott Park\, 105 Marcy St\, Portsmouth\, NH\, 03801\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert Series
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SUMMARY:Alisa Amador and Oshima Brothers
DESCRIPTION:“Music can create this intangible space where everyone belongs — beyond borders\, beyond boundaries\, beyond labels — where we’re just people with all of our complicated\, beautiful\, painful lives\, sharing the experience of taking in the music. It’s a space of connection. Real connection.” \nAlisa Amador is a connector. Her EP\, Narratives\, is a six-song snapshot in time. It’s a deep look at a person stumbling through life in two languages — English and Spanish — and in many states of mind about it all. Alisa’s crystal-clear vocals are so effortless throughout Narratives that it’s almost easy to forget how technically talented she is\, until she moves from almost-spoken-word territory to a powerful chorus without hesitation or illustrates a repetitive refrain that’s so affecting it feels like you might want to live inside it for a little while. \n“The word ‘narratives‘ encompasses not only the existing cultural messages that hurt people individually and collectively\,” she says\, “but also the revolutionary power of writing ourselves new narratives; rejecting a culture of fear; and catalyzing a culture of honesty\, bravery and self-love in the process.” \nAlisa has been learning these lessons since she began performing as a backup singer for her parents’ bilingual Latin folk band Sol y Canto at age five. This is where her ease with performing comes from; she and her twin brother grew up touring extensively with their parents’ band. Through their high school years\, Alisa and her twin were often crammed into a minivan or backstage\, loading in and out\, and passing time by making styrofoam puppets out of coffee cups and stirrers. \nAlisa began playing classical guitar at age 10\, inspired by her father\, and eventually found the electric guitar a decade later. The new instrument was versatile enough to honor her many influences and styles. “I was 19\, and playing it felt like coming home.” When listening to Alisa’s music\, her time spent immersed in Latin folk and jazz is undoubtedly present in her own songs\, written in both English and Spanish. But there is also pop\, funk\, soul\, and something uniquely her own. Alisa’s specialty is sparking connection\, across both listeners and musical styles. \n“Some musicians really love recording music\, even more than performing\,” she says. “I feel most at home\, and most purposeful\, when I am performing live.” Working with producer Daniel Radin (The Novel Ideas\, Future Teens)\, Narratives concentrates on the journey of Alisa’s live set\, taking listeners through songs that may elicit a laugh\, bring introspection\, offer a cathartic cry or encourage a sing-along. The genre-bending EP is as empowering as it is heart-wrenching. These songs might break your heart open\, but by the end\, it will be mended\, uplifted and stronger. \nAlbum opener “Timing” is a familiar tale of romantic uncertainty\, accompanied by an irresistible horn section recorded remotely with all ambient sounds left in the mix. “Slow Down” was a healing exercise\, meant to give a name to the chaos of what was happening around Alisa: navigating strained work relationships\, an endless to-do list and wishing there were a few more hours in the day to figure it all out. \nIntentionally sparse in its arrangement\, “Burnt and Broken” examines myriad systems of oppression. “Violence stems from fear\, and fear grows from a lack of understanding\,” Alisa says. “An absence of a conversation around these violences causes such pain.” Fellow singer-songwriters Hayley Sabella and Kaiti Jones sing harmonies on the song. “It was as if we were standing among the wreckage\, singing with broken hearts and hot anger pulsing through us.” \n“Alone” is a three-and-a-half-minute dissertation on the importance of committing to self-love with abandon. “After witnessing so many friends deem their worth from their perceived ‘desirability’ by a predominantly male gaze\, and realizing I was thinking that way too\, I wrote the thesis statement chorus: ‘Alone isn’t all that lonesome when you’ve got some love in store\, alone\, you’ll never be lost if you’re the one you’re looking for.'” \n“Nada que ver” is entirely in Spanish\, a love song written when Alisa was tired of writing love songs. “I was tired of having feelings for someone\, tired of all the confusion\, and very wary of opening myself up to somebody new\,” she says. “Spanish is the language closest to my heart\, and the language of some of my most vulnerable writing. This song is me bargaining with love. Stating clearly what I want and naming my qualms.” The minor 2nd at the end of each verse is intentionally at odds with the lyrics\, illustrating the tension of wanting to be open but being too jaded to trust. \n“Together” wraps up the EP with a salve for the heart\, acknowledging the pain and celebrating the revolutionary power of friendship amidst any and all odds. “Perhaps the world will always be breaking\,” Alisa says. “And\, it is our purpose on earth to be putting it back together again\, together. If it weren’t for the moments of connection in my life\, I don’t know how I would survive.” \nNarratives finds Alisa looking at life and this moment in time\, searching through lessons for a more just and loving future. She crosses throughout all the genres her work encompasses\, with an intention to create a common shared space between herself and those listening\, acknowledging the way each of our specific stories fit into something bigger. “If human connection is a prism\, this album is lifting it up to the light\, and looking at it from many angles.” \n“These songs are a reflection of the world I am moving through\, with all of its joy\, its sorrow\, its confusion and its rage. Each song is a processing of personal experience\, framed within my larger cultural backdrop of New Englander\, Latinx\, cis-gendered woman\, young adult\, twin\, daughter and so on. I’m just trying to create a space for myself and all my conflicting identities to fit in\, and it seems like I’m helping listeners feel the same way in the process.” \n“Even with all of life’s complicated and sometimes painful experiences\, I am always going to be searching for reasons to feel hopeful\,” she continues. “So\, consider Narratives a survival kit of sorts — a ‘Life and Love Survival Kit’ in the form of a bilingual EP.” \n \n\n  \n \nMaine-based indie duo\, Oshima Brothers have been creating music together since childhood. The brothers blend songs from the heart with blood harmonies to produce a “roots-based pop sound that is infectious.” (NPR) On stage\, Sean and Jamie offer lush vocals\, live looping\, foot percussion\, electric and acoustic guitars\, vintage keyboard and bass – often all at once. They want every show to feel like a deep breath\, a dance party and a sonic embrace. When not recording or touring they find time to film and produce their own music videos\, tie their own shoes and cook elaborate feasts. Maine Public Radio’s Sara Willis describes their songs as “beautiful\, those brother harmonies can’t be beat. They are uplifting and\, let’s face it\, we need uplifting these days.” \n \n \n\nReservations\nTable and blanket reservations are non-refundable\, but can be transferred to another available date in the 2023 season. \nPlease Note: General Admission Donations do not include reserved seating. This is a way to make your gate donation in advance. \nTable reservations seat four.  \nBlanket reservations are placed in the blankets-only area of lawn and do not allow for chair placement. \nSee you in the park!
URL:https://www.prescottpark.org/event/alisa-amador-and-oshima-brothers
LOCATION:Prescott Park\, 105 Marcy St\, Portsmouth\, NH\, 03801\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert Series
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SUMMARY:Dan Tyminski Band with The Green Sisters
DESCRIPTION:Throughout his 30+ year career\, Dan Tyminski has left his mark in every corner of modern music. Tyminski’s voice famously accompanies George Clooney’s performance of the Stanley Brother’s Classic song\, “I’m A Man of Constant Sorrow\,” in the film\, Oh Brother\, Where Art Thou bringing bluegrass into focus for millions of new fans. His vocal collaboration with Swedish DJ Avicii on the song “Hey\, Brother” was a global smash\, having been streamed over 1 billion times to date. \nDan has also contributed guitar and/or harmony to projects by Martina McBride\, Reba McEntire\, Brad Paisley\, Dolly Parton\, Willie Nelson\, Kenny Chesney\, LeAnn Rimes\, Aaron Lewis and Rob Thomas\, to name a few. In addition to his highly successful solo career\, Dan Tyminski has played guitar and mandolin for Alison Krauss & Union Station since 1994. His unmatched instrumental skills and burnished\, soulful tenor voice have been key components of the band. \nDan has been honored with 14 Grammy Awards\, was named Male Vocalist of the Year by the International Bluegrass Music Association 4x and was recognized as 2004’s Male Vocalist of the Year by the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music in America. \nIn 2022\, Tyminski released the EP “One More Time Before You Go: A Tribute to Tony Rice” featuring guest appearances by Billy Strings\, Molly Tuttle\, Jerry Douglas\, Todd Phillips\, Sam Bush\, Dailey & Vincent. \nTyminski’s next full-length album God Fearing Heathen is due out in late June 2023. The lead track\, a bluegrass treatment to his smash hit with Avicii\, “Hey Brother” is out now. \nThe Dan Tyminski Band is Grand Master Fiddle Champion Maddie Denton\, Jason Davis (banjo)\, Grace Davis (bass) Gaven Largent (dobro)\, and IBMA Momentum Award-winner for Best Instrumentalist\, Harry Clark (mandolin). \n \n\nwith The Green Sisters\nHailing from a small farm in rural Massachusetts\, the four Green Sisters were raised with music accompanying their chores. Their sound spans a wide range of bluegrass\, barbershop\, blues\, country\, and lots of original songs which fit right into the mix. They’ve been playing venues in New England regularly for the last several years and have garnered quite the following; it’s hard not to smile when treated with their tight harmonies and high energy tunes. Their live show is where they really shine\, bouncing their jovial banter around the stage as only siblings can. \nThe sisters’ second studio album\, Blink of an Eye\, was released in late 2020. \n \n \n\nReservations\nTable and blanket reservations are non-refundable\, but can be transferred to another available date in the 2023 season. \nPlease Note: General Admission Donations do not include reserved seating. This is a way to make your gate donation in advance. \nTable reservations seat four.  \nBlanket reservations are placed in the blankets-only area of lawn and do not allow for chair placement. \nSee you in the park!
URL:https://www.prescottpark.org/event/dan-tyminski-band
LOCATION:Prescott Park\, 105 Marcy St\, Portsmouth\, NH\, 03801\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert Series
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SUMMARY:Langhorne Slim with Hans Williams
DESCRIPTION:A special solo show with Langhorne Slim \nLanghorne Slim didn’t write a song for more than a year. A battle with clinical anxiety disorder and prescription drug abuse\, which came to a head in 2019\, had dimmed the light within. The man who once seemed to ooze spontaneity was now creatively adrift\, stumbling along in the fog. \nIn December\, he entered a program and\, for the first time in a long time\, a path toward healing began to emerge. He began to see that inner peace was possible\, even with the world outside raging. \nA few months later\, in February\, a tornado came and decimated East Nashville\, his adopted hometown. Covid-19 took root just days later\, changing lives forever. In the early days of his recovery\, a different reality was beginning to take shape\, both within and without. New worlds were being born; old worlds were dying. \nKnowing he was struggling to write songs and make sense of it all\, Slim was finally able to flesh out a throwaway ditty one afternoon. His close friend Mike then suggested he try penning a song a day. Slim didn’t like the idea\, but he gave it a shot. \nTo his surprise\, the songs came. In a flurry of stream-of-consciousness writing\, the new tunes tumbled out\, one after another\, like little starbursts of joy\, gifts from the gods you might say. Slim was tuning out the noise and finding beauty in the madness of a world coming undone. Over the course of a couple of months from March to May\, Slim penned more than twenty that were certified keepers. Out of this bumper crop came the songs that make up his new album\, Strawberry Mansion\, which is being released this winter on Dualtone Records. \n“I wasn’t sitting on the songs and I wasn’t overthinking them\,” Slim says of the writing process of those months. “Something cracked open with the slowing down and the stillness of quarantine. \nAfter finishing a song\, whether he liked the tune or not\, he’d call Mike\, a videographer\, and they’d record it and post it to Instagram. It was a form of therapy\, he now realizes. “There was nothing precious about the process and it was a bonding thing between me and Mike as much as anything else\,” Slim says. “It also gave me a release and maybe some potential form of healing\, and was an opportunity to not always listen to the shitty thoughts in my head. I wasn’t ever thinking that I was writing songs for a new record.” \nPrior to this creative outburst\, Slim’s anxiety had grown so acute there were times when he actually feared picking up his guitar and trying to write. With the help of therapy and friends\, he was now learning to confront his demons rather than run from them. So\, in the midst of a panic attack one day\, he picked up his guitar and the song “Panic Attack” was born. It’s a raw\, off-the-cuff number that rises above the dark subject matter with spirit\, irony and humor. “I called a healthcare professional/ Wanna speak to someone confidentially/ Don’t know just how I’m feelin’/ But I’m feelin’ feelings exponentially\,” he sings. \nAlbum-opener “Mighty Soul” details a world beset by Biblical-grade plagues (coronavirus\, the Nashville tornado) and government malfunction. It ultimately calls for healing through community and the recognition that we can all make a difference. It functions as the album’s spiritual center\, a secular gospel number for all mankind. \n“Morning Prayer” is inspired by the songwriter’s effort to pray for the first time in his life. “It’s not in the key of any one religion\,” Slim says of the number. “For this\, I’m grateful that my guitar was unknowingly yet appropriately out of tune. It’s a song to help me practice compassion\, surrender\, connection to nature\, the spirits and beyond.” \nThe second part of “Morning Prayer” is one of the most affecting moments on Strawberry Mansion\, with the singer reaching out and offering prayers for his loved ones who are struggling\, for all of humanity\, really. “For my friends who suffer/ For my mother\, father and brother/ For a world down on its knees/ I pray for thee\,” he sings with great poignancy. \nThe road to Strawberry Mansion\, which was recorded at Daylight Sound in Nashville with longtime compadres Paul DeFigilia (Avett Brothers) and Mat Davidson (Twain)\, began in 2019 with Slim’s decision to get sober. Even though the singer-songwriter kicked alcohol years ago\, the insidious monster of addiction had crept back into his life in different guises. The last straw came during a road trip with a friend\, who\, at the end of the journey\, let it be known that the man he knew and loved was no longer recognizable. So Slim called his manager and loved ones and soon checked into a program. That experience and his ongoing recovery program have given him a framework for grappling with the personal demons that have always skulked in the shadows\, and helped him find light in the void. “It’s important for me to talk honestly about these things\, because I feel it gives me strength\, and it might help others along the way.” he says. \nStrawberry Mansion is the singer-songwriter’s seventh full-length album. He released his first record\, Electric Love Letter\, back in 2004. Since then he has graced the stages of Bonnaroo\, Lollapalooza\, Newport Folk Festival\, and the Conan O’Brien show\, winning fans over with his heart-on-a-sleeve sincerity and rousing live shows. \nBorn Sean Scolnick in 1980\, Slim took part of his artistic moniker from his hometown of Langhorne\, Pennsylvania\, a place he’s still very much connected to despite making his home in Nashville. Since the advent of Covid-19\, he has been traveling back to PA once a month to see his mother and grandmother\, and\, like many Americans\, finding strength in his origins and family bonds. The title Strawberry Mansion refers to the neighborhood in Philadelphia where both of his grandfathers grew up\, a place he calls “dirty but sweet\, tough but full of love\, where giants roamed the earth and had names like Whistle and Curly.” That idea of a mythical wonderland informs the new album from head to toe. Strawberry Mansion is not so much about nostalgia for the past as it is about the possibility of better days ahead in this world. These are songs that remind us we’re all part of a collective “Mighty Soul\,” united in one journey\, just like the characters in that old Philly neighborhood. It’s a life-affirming album for these times. \n \n\nwith Hans Williams\nHans Williams is an independent singer-songwriter from Norwich\, Vermont. First releasing music in third grade when he would hand out CDs after school\, Hans fell in love with songwriting as a means of finding comfort and relief. He quickly amassed a strong community of listeners before graduating. \nFast forward to 2023\, after selling out his last headline show in New Orleans as a student at Tipitina’s\, and now a graduate from Tulane\, Williams looks to continue performing across the U.S. as he embarks on his first summer run tour and gears up for his debut project later this year. \n \n \n\nReservations\nTable and blanket reservations are non-refundable\, but can be transferred to another available date in the 2023 season. \nPlease Note: General Admission Donations do not include reserved seating. This is a way to make your gate donation in advance. \nTable reservations seat four.  \nBlanket reservations are placed in the blankets-only area of lawn and do not allow for chair placement. \nSee you in the park!
URL:https://www.prescottpark.org/event/langhorne-slim
LOCATION:Prescott Park\, 105 Marcy St\, Portsmouth\, NH\, 03801\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert Series
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SUMMARY:Galactic Featuring Anjelika Jelly Joseph with Kenya Hall
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Anjelika Jelly Joseph\nHistory doesn’t stand still. It impacts\, influences\, and inspires the ebb and flow of the future by informing the present. Galactic draw on 25 years together in order to progress with each performance and subsequent record. After 10 albums\, over 2\,000 gigs\, and tens of millions of streams\, the proud New Orleans\, LA quintet—Ben Ellman [saxophone\, harmonica]\, Robert Mercurio [bass]\, Stanton Moore [drums\, percussion]\, Jeffrey Raines [guitar]\, and Richard Vogal [keyboards]—have kept the torch burning through five U.S. presidential regimes\, the turn-of-the-century\, Hurricane Katrina\, a Global Pandemic\, and a much-anticipated recovery. They’re the rare collective who can support Juvenile on Jimmy Kimmel LIVE!\, contribute music to a blockbuster soundtrack such as Now You See Me\, and light up the stages of Coachella\, Bonnaroo\, and New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (a staggering 22 times).  \nJoined by vocal powerhouse Anjelika “Jelly” Joseph\, they continue to forge ahead with a 2021 headline tour and more new music. \n“There is a history to the band\, yet we continue to release and perform new material\,” says Stanton. “I’m truly excited for our fans and audience to hear this next record we’ve been working on. I think it’s some of our best work yet.” \nThey laid the groundwork for this future upon coming together in 1994. Two years later\, the guys dropped their full-length debut\, Coolin’ Off\, and hopped in a Ford Econoline van (with trailer in tow) for their very first official tour. Along the way\, they released seminal albums such as 2007’s From the Corner to the Block\, boasting collabs with the likes of Chali 2na\, Juvenile\, Trombone Shorty\, DJ Z-Trip\, and Boots Riley. During 2015\, Into The Deep marked their first debut in the Top 25 of the Billboard Top 200 and second straight #1 bow on the Billboard Top Contemporary Jazz Albums Chart. Not to mention\, it boasted the title track “Into The Deep” [feat. Macy Gray]\, racking up nearly 20 million streams and counting. Along the way\, they performed alongside the likes of Dave Matthews Band\, The Roots\, Jack Johnson\, Talib Kweli\, the Allman Brothers Band\, Widespread Panic\, B.B. King\, Counting Crows\, James Brown\, and many more.  They’ve also recorded and performed with the likes of Allen Toussaint [“Bacchus”] and Big Freedia “Double It”]. Most recently\, 2019’s Already Ready Already garnered acclaim from New York Times\, NPR Weekend Edition\, Exclaim!\, and many more\, while they’ve appeared on the covers of Downbeat and Relix Magazine. \nAround the same time\, they welcomed Jelly to the fold after joining forces on stage for a handful of unforgettable performances. \n“I was super nervous at first\, because I had some pretty big shoes to fill—but like those other singers I had to bring myself and I think I’ve fit in pretty well\,” Jelly smiles. \n“Jelly came to Fuji Rock in Japan with us to sing background with Macy Gray\,” recalls Stanton. “We needed someone to sing one of our Galactic originals\, and she stepped up. Since there was no time for rehearsal or soundcheck\, she showed up prepared\, knew the tune completely\, and rocked it. When it came time to find someone new to sing with us\, she was our first choice. She has such effortless stage presence and a very comfortable rapport with audiences. She also brings an element of unbridled fun!” \nThat fun came across loud and clear on the 2020 single “Float.” Uplifted by Jelly’s powerhouse pipes\, it hinted at the potential of their collective chemistry. \n“I love listening to Galactic’s older records\, because they were very funk driven\,” Jelly goes on. “Now\, it seems like they’re incorporating more pop\, rock\, and soul to create a newer sound.” \nAs they continue writing\, recording\, and performing\, Galactic always keep New Orleans close to their hearts at all times. In 2018\, the band purchased and took over one of the city’s most hallowed venues—Tipitina’s Nightclub. Their history with the venue even predated the band as Ben’s first job was as a cook in the old kitchen\, while they’ve graced its stage more than 100 times over the years. \nIn the end\, Galactic keep moving forward as they add more chapters to their incredible history. \n“We’ve just achieved 25 years as a band of brothers\, so we know how to work with each other and move ourselves through the next 25 years\,” Robert leaves off. “We’re always trying to push ourselves with our songwriting and studio collaborations. I look forward to where the future will take us.” \n \n  \n\nwith Kenya Hall\n“A SOUL POWERHOUSE” — ROLLING STONE \nBased out of Portland\, Maine\, Kenya Hall has shared stages with incredible local and national acts such as The Roots\, Dr. John\, Lettuce\, Jaw Gems\, Rustic Overtones\, Adam Deitch\, Jon Fishman\, Nigel Hall\, Shemekia Copeland\, and Fred Wesley. \nAs one-of-a-kind as it gets\, Kenya’s musical artistry weaves together indomitable vocals with a fierce blend of soul and funk delivered with a rare energy that leaves every audience she sings to better for having been a part of it. \nDrawing her writing and performing influences from Jill Scott\, Erykah Badu\, and Sharon Jones\, Kenya is not only relevant in what she says\, but poignant in how she communicates it. Leaning heavily on Soul\, Hip Hop\, Funk\, and the seed of what makes a rock and roll artist — Kenya is here to deeply inspire and elevate the world around her. \n \n \n\nReservations\nTable and blanket reservations are non-refundable\, but can be transferred to another available date in the 2023 season. \nPlease Note: General Admission Donations do not include reserved seating. This is a way to make your gate donation in advance. \nTable reservations seat four.  \nBlanket reservations are placed in the blankets-only area of lawn and do not allow for chair placement. \nSee you in the park!
URL:https://www.prescottpark.org/event/galactic-featuring-anjelika-jelly-joseph
LOCATION:Prescott Park\, 105 Marcy St\, Portsmouth\, NH\, 03801\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert Series
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SUMMARY:Allen Stone with Dakota Jones
DESCRIPTION:Allen Stone was raised in the small town of Chewelah\, Washington. He grew up on gospel music\, spending much of his childhood as a pastor’s son watching his parents lead their congregation in song. By the time he was 11\, he’d picked up a guitar\, wrote his first song and soon began self-recording demo tapes to pass along to classmates. After dropping out of college\, he moved to Seattle to kickstart his music career\, often driving up and down the west coast in his ’87 Buick to play any and all gigs he could. He quickly developed a reputation for powerful live shows\, playing up to 200 dates a year. And\, in the years since\, Allen has built a devoted following on the strength of his near-magical ability to channel a weight-of-the-world sensitivity into his songs while still radiating hope and promise. His easy grace in blending everything from edgy soul-pop and earthy folk-rock to throwback R&B and Parliament-inspired funk is reflected in his five full length albums–from his 2010 self-released debut album Last To Speak to 2021’s APART\, an intimate album recorded in a converted cabin during the pandemic. Stone has continued to keep a constant touring schedule and has appeared numerous times on national television including performances on Jimmy Kimmel Live!\, Late Night with Seth Meyers\, The Today Show\, and is the mentor on this season of American Idol. You can expect to hear new music from Stone later this year and 2023. \nFor more information\, visit allenstone.com. \n \n  \n\nWith Dakota Jones\n \nDakota Jones is a New York based band that’s been stomping around and making noise for nearly 8 years now. Featuring Tristan Carter-Jones on vocals\, Scott Jet Kramp on bass\, Steve Ross on the drums\, and Eddy Marshall on the guitar\, Dakota Jones have molded their sound into something at once commanding and vulnerable\, spontaneous and deliberate\, familiar and refreshing. The groove erupted in 2015\, and they haven’t looked back since\, following that gritty funky sound wherever it would take them – through some of NYC’s most respected venues\, on tours exploring America’s coasts\, and well beyond. Press play on Dakota Jones\, and follow the dripping honey through the sights and sounds that they’re serving. \n \n \n\nReservations\nTable and blanket reservations are non-refundable\, but can be transferred to another available date in the 2023 season. \nPlease Note: General Admission Donations do not include reserved seating. This is a way to make your gate donation in advance. \nTable reservations seat four.  \nBlanket reservations are placed in the blankets-only area of lawn and do not allow for chair placement. \nSee you in the park!
URL:https://www.prescottpark.org/event/allen-stone-with-dakota-jones
LOCATION:Prescott Park\, 105 Marcy St\, Portsmouth\, NH\, 03801\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert Series
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SUMMARY:Tank and the Bangas with Harsh
DESCRIPTION:Coming from New Orleans\, Tank and the Bangas are surrounded by plenty of grand musical traditions. And the five-piece group has a rare knack for combining various musical styles—fiery soul\, deft hip-hop\, deep-groove R&B and subtle jazz—into one dazzling\, cohesive whole that evokes the scope of New Orleans music while retaining a distinctive feel all its own.  \n“It’s music that can’t really be put in a box\,” says singer and poet Tarriona “Tank” Ball. She fronts the band with vivid charisma that helped Tank and the Bangas win NPR’s 2017 Tiny Desk Concert Contest by unanimous acclaim\, standing out among 6\,000 entrants because of what Bob Boilen called “the depth of their lyricism and the versatility of their players.” Those same qualities also attracted the attention of Verve Records\, which has signed the band.  \nBall’s lyrical depth has been years in the making. She came up in the strong local slam poetry scene before meeting her bandmates: Merell Burkett on keyboards\, Joshua Johnson on drums\, Norman Spence on bass and synth keys and\, eventually\, Albert Allenback on alto sax and flute. “Growing up\, I always could sing\, but I wrote better than I sang\, so I focused on writing\,” she says. After her team won the National Poetry Slam Championship two years in a row\, Ball turned her full attention to Tank and the Bangas.  \nWhat started as a loose collaboration at an open-mic night in 2011 has grown into a mesmerizing musical force that’s only picking up speed. After a featured set at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival early in the band’s career\, the musicians built a reputation outside their hometown by grinding it out on the road\, honing their live show and releasing the 2013 album Think Tank\, all the while converting audiences into passionate fans and garnering critical acclaim\, from the New Orleans Advocate to The New York Times. “It made us work hard\,” Ball says of playing Jazz Fest. “It made us want to feel deserving of it.”  \nTheir hard work is paying off: The Huffington Post says Tank and the Bangas defy description onstage\, adding\, “It’s music that you have to experience.” The experience is subject to change from one night to the next.  \n“One show will feel very electronic\, or hip-hop\, and another show will feel slow and vibe-y and jazzy\, and then another show will just be poetry and off-the-cuff riffs\,” says Johnson. “As a band\, we don’t like to hear ourselves do the same thing for too long\, so we might change a small thing here or there\, and if we change enough small things\, it seems like a big change.”  \nTank and the Bangas won the Tiny Desk contest with “Quick\,” a riotous single they released in 2017 (and soon accompanied with a cheeky\, not entirely safe-for-work video). There’s more new music where that came from as the group works on the follow-up to Think Tank. “It’s going to be awesome\,” Ball says. “It’s going to be fun\, and a little vulnerable at the same time.”  \nThe band’s ongoing evolution involves more than just music: Ball continues to grow and develop as a performer and writer. Even back in the open-mic days\, she was a force of nature. “I don’t know if there’s such a thing as too free\, but it was totally uninhibited. She was inspired\,” Spence says\, laughing at the memory. More recently\, Ball has become less of a dervish onstage—“I was running around so much I didn’t have time to sing at all\,” she say—while finding new ways of expressing herself as a writer.” \n“I don’t just think about myself when I write now\,” she says. “Just being with my bandmates taught me to think more about other people. And when you have an audience of people ready to listen to you\, you’re excited to connect with them\, you really are.” \n \n  \n\nwith Harsh\n \nHarsh is a secret society that celebrates life by producing high-octane original music combining modern hip-hop\, funk and soul influences. They are led by Thomas (Teeba) Forbes who is credited on releases from hip-hop icons including Nas\, DMX and Dave East. They have played hundreds of shows together since the band’s inception in 2013\, and have shared the stage with legendary acts including George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic\, Steel Pulse\, and The Motet. In early 2023\, Harsh introduced vocalists Adrienne Mack Davis and Sig Shalom to the lineup to realize a newfound lushness by combining four-part harmonies with contemporary flow. They are in the midst of recording new material with this lineup\, but you can check out their classic body of work and find tickets for live shows here. \n \n \n\nReservations\nTable and blanket reservations are non-refundable\, but can be transferred to another available date in the 2023 season. \nPlease Note: General Admission Donations do not include reserved seating. This is a way to make your gate donation in advance. \nTable reservations seat four.  \nBlanket reservations are placed in the blankets-only area of lawn and do not allow for chair placement. \nSee you in the park!
URL:https://www.prescottpark.org/event/tank-and-the-bangas
LOCATION:Prescott Park\, 105 Marcy St\, Portsmouth\, NH\, 03801\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert Series
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SUMMARY:Thee Sacred Souls with Dwayne Haggins
DESCRIPTION:For Thee Sacred Souls\, the first time is often the charm. The band’s first club dates led to a record deal with the revered Daptone label; their first singles racked up more than ten million streams in a year and garnered attention from Billboard\, Rolling Stone\, and KCRW; and their first fans included the likes of Gary Clark Jr.\, The Black Pumas\, Princess Nokia\, and Timbaland. Now\, the breakout San Diego trio is ready to deliver yet another landmark first with the release of their self-titled debut.  \n“Every step of the way has just been so organic\,” says drummer Alex Garcia. “Things just seem to happen naturally when the three of us get together.” \nIndeed\, there’s something inevitable about the sound of Thee Sacred Souls\, as if Garcia and his bandmates—bassist Sal Samano and singer Josh Lane—have been playing together for a lifetime already. Produced by Bosco Mann (aka Daptone co-founder Gabriel Roth)\, Thee Sacred Souls is a warm and textured record\, mixing the easygoing grace of sweet ’60s soul with the grit and groove of early ’70s R&B\, and the performances are utterly intoxicating\, with Lane’s weightless vocals anchored by the rhythm section’s deep pocket and infectious chemistry. Hints of Chicano\, Philly\, Chicago\, Memphis\, and even Panama soul turn up here\, and while it’s tempting to toss around labels like “retro” with a deliberately analog collection like this\, there’s also something distinctly modern about the band that defies easy categorization\, a rawness and a sincerity that transcends time and place. \n  \n \n  \n\nwith Dwayne Haggins\nHe’s been described as “the love child of Hank Williams and Otis Redding.” “The John Legend of rockabilly.” And even\, “the ‘what-took-you-so-long?’ fusion of Elvis Presley and Marvin Gaye.” At every performance\, whether in a venerable metropolitan concert hall or a grimy dive in an anonymous strip mall\, Dwayne Haggins is always at work. Adding new subtleties to an obvious melody line. Reinterpreting a time-worn lyrical cliché to imbue it anew with genuine feeling. Unleashing a gentle cascade of vocal acrobatics when least expected (and hence most effective) — never for show alone\, but always to express a likewise unanticipated nuance of feeling: a whisper of love\, a curse of anger\, a groan of pain\, a whoop of joy that feels\, paradoxically\, both surprising and inevitable at the same moment. \n \n \n  \n\nReservations\nTable and blanket reservations are non-refundable\, but can be transferred to another available date in the 2023 season. \nPlease Note: General Admission Donations do not include reserved seating. This is a way to make your gate donation in advance. \nTable reservations seat four.  \nBlanket reservations are placed in the blankets-only area of lawn and do not allow for chair placement. \nSee you in the park!
URL:https://www.prescottpark.org/event/thee-sacred-souls
LOCATION:Prescott Park\, 105 Marcy St\, Portsmouth\, NH\, 03801\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert Series
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SUMMARY:97.5 WOKQ CHOWDER FESTIVAL SUMMER KICK-OFF
DESCRIPTION:Get Tickets to the Chowder Festival \n  \n \nIt’s BACK! \nThe 97.5 WOKQ Chowder Festival Summer Kick-off\, presented by Avery Insurance\, returns to Prescott Park Arts Festival for its 36th year! Held on the first Saturday of June\, this staple of summer in Portsmouth\, NH offers even more this year as it adds to the festivities for the Portsmouth NH 400 Grand Parade. Join in the fun of the Chowder Festival with some of your favorite local restaurants serving-up mouthwatering chowder in Prescott Park. Check out the complimentary live music\, kid-friendly activities\, and grab an ice cream from the Prop! \nThis community event is always a great time from 11:30 am until the chowder runs out. Get your Chowder Festival tickets now. The Summer Kick-Off side of the park is free and open to all.  \nChowder Festival Tickets are $20 per person and FREE for season pass holders\, but you must reserve tickets! Get your season passes now for a fun-filled summer with the Arts Festival.  Already a pass holder and want to reserve your tickets for Chowder Fest? Just email us for your unique code! Events@PrescottPark.org \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThis taste-testing affair has become a New England institution for chowder lovers in the tri-state region. An impeccable roster of amazing restaurants throughout the seacoast join us to introduce their delicious chowder recipes to compete for the Best Chowder title and to take home the Golden Ladle! Recipes in the past have included Smoked Scallop Chowder\, Manhattan Chowder\, Vegetarian Chowder\, Corn Chowder and Spicy Seafood Chowder. We can’t wait to see what they come up with this year!  \nChowder not your thing or just want to hang out after? We have plenty of space for you to enjoy family friendly fun in the park. Best part – the Park is always free and open to all. We are planning lots of fun like a tie-dying station; giant lawn games like connect four\, corn hole\, and jenga; face painting; and Sages Entertainment will be there with bubbles and exciting entertainment for the kids. We will also offer complimentary live music featuring local talent  and a fun raffle with some incredible prizes. People can grab delicious favorites like ice cream\, fresh squeezed lemonade\, hush puppies\, and more from The Prop\, the onsite kitchen and concessions stand.  \n  \nGet Tickets to the Chowder Festival \n  \n  \nRestaurants participating in Chowder Festival:\n250 Market\, Buoy Shack\, Fire & Spice Bistro\, Jumpin’ Jay’s Fish Cafe\, Martingale Wharf\, New England Fishmongers\, River House Restaurant\,The Portsmouth Brewery\, The Press Room\, The Wilder\, The York River Landing\, and Tour. \nPlus Virgin Oyster Company will be there with delicious oysters!  \n  \n  \nWho will win the Golden Ladle this year?\n \nJudges for Judges’ Choice: \nPortsmouth Mayor\,  Deaglan McEachern; Portsmouth City Manager\, Karen Conard; Portsmouth Detective\, Rochelle Jones;  Fletcher Sokul of Avery Insurance; Logan Sherwood of Kira & Logan in the Morning on 97.5 WOKQ; and well-known NH Chef\, Bobby “the butcher” Marcotte of Tuckaway Tavern and two-time Guy’s Grocery Games Champion.  \n  \n\n\nLIVE MUSIC ON THE WILCOX MAIN STAGE\n \n \n  \n \n\n\n\n\nHappy as a Clam Raffle\nThat’s right! We also have a fun raffle to enter with lots of fantastic prizes. Check them out! Who knows\, you could win and be happy as a clam.  \n\n\n\nTickets are only: $5 = 1 Ticket\, $10 = 3 Tickets\, $20 = an Arm’s length \n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n \nParking Information\n\nCity of Portsmouth Parking Information for June 3\, 2023 \n  \n  \n\nJoin in the fun of the day!\nPodcast Karaoke by:\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nBubbles and entertainment by:\n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nGiant Lawn Games by:\n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nCoastal Life Community Spotlight event filming by:
URL:https://www.prescottpark.org/event/97-5-wokq-chowder-festival-summer-kickoff
LOCATION:Prescott Park\, 105 Marcy St\, Portsmouth\, NH\, 03801\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert Series,Movies,Theatre,Special Events
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