Upcoming Bluegrass Related Events

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The HillBenders: WhoGrass at Lookout Farm

The Center for Arts in Natick (TCAN) 14 Summer Street, Natick, MA

TCAN presents THE HILLBENDERS live and in concert, outdoors at Lookout Farm in South Natick, MA.  DOORS at 4:30pm CONCERT at 5:30pm The HillBenders present... WhoGrass A chronological journey of The Who’s legendary catalog through the wood and wire of bluegrass instrumentation. Framed as a follow-up to The HillBenders 2015 acoustic interpretation of The Who’s TOMMY, WhoGrass now gives audiences a high-energy acoustic twist on the catalog of one of Rock ’n’ Roll’s greatest bands. From the early hits all the way through The Who’s discography, and even a peek into Pete Townshend’s solo career, the rolling banjo, intense dobro percussion, and thunderous vocals have the biggest Who fans pumping their fists and singing along!

Appalachian Road Show at First Congregational Church Pelham

First Congregational Church Pelham 3 Mains St, Pelham, NH

This year at FCCP we are excited to host the Appalachian Road Show who just took home Instrumental Group of the Year and New Artist of the Year at the 2021 IBMA (International Bluegrass Music Association) Awards. Members of the band have won a number of Grammy awards as well as IBMA awards, and they have been a big part of the bluegrass scene for decades. Appalachian Road Show is a visionary acoustic ensemble, bringing new-generation interpretations of traditional Americana, bluegrass, and folk songs, as well as offering innovative original music, all presented with a common thread tied directly to the heart of the Appalachian regions of the United States. Profit from this show goes toward the repairs and preservation of our historic church.

$25

1794 Meetinghouse presents Southern Rail

1794 Meetinghouse 26 South Main St, New Salem, MA

Located at  26 South Main St. in New Salem.  This is a popular music series in a beautifully restored classic acoustic hall.  Seating limited, so reserve yours today!

$10 – $18

Verrill Farm Family Farm Day: Featuring Boston Road!

Verrill Farm Harvest Festival 11 Wheeler Road, Concord, MA

Come see a very special Boston Road reunion show (featuring famed fiddler Dave Reiner!) at Verrill Farm's "Family Farm Day." We'll be playing Sat, Sep 17th from 11am to 3pm. Get your $5 ticket here if you're older than 5!: https://verrillfarm.com

$5

Twisted Pine

GuitartownCT 166 Mather Street, Hamden, CT

Twisted Pine is a Boston based band that was once bluegrass, but now has a more poppy vibe. With virtuosic playing and tight harmonies, driving rhythms, and clever songwriting, the band is, according to the Boston Globe, “ A wider version of a string band, boundary jumpers akin to outfits like Punch Brothers, Nickel Creek, and Crooked Still.” Great live show, maybe the most exciting acoustic band around! Bring a chair and refreshments.

$35

Geoff Bartley

notloB Parlour Concerts at Fivesparks 7 Fairbank Street, Harvard, MA

Geoff Bartley, notloB Parlour Concerts #208 Fivesparks, 7 Fairbank Street, Harvard MA 01451 Friday, October 7, 7:30pm Geoff Bartley (1948 - ?) is a folk-blues guitar player singer-songwriter and recording artist. His last two CDs, 2009's "Put the Big Stone Down" and 2011's "Mercy for the Dispossessed", were promoted by Kari Estrin Management in Nashville and went to No. 1 on folk radio. In the 1980s, Geoff won four guitars at the National Fingerpicking Champion-ships in Winfield, Kansas. Some of his songs and co-writes have been recorded by other artists in New England, Canada, Ireland, and Nashville, and some are included in the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings of the Fast Folk Musical Magazine collection in Washington, D.C. A new CD called "Particles of Light" will become available in late summer 2014. Since 1994 Geoff has played guitar and sung harmony for folk treasure Tom Paxton. Geoff was also instrumental in bringing the HD-40LSH Tom Paxton Signature Model Martin guitar into production in 2004. In 2007, Geoff's song A Letter from Prison about Nelson Mandela was recorded by the progressive bluegrass band, The Infamous Stringdusters, on their CD "Fork in the Road" on Sugar Hill. Subsequently, that recording was used in the independent 2008 Lionsgate film "The Lucky Ones". Before his main stage appearance at the 2009 Boston Folk Festival, the Boston Area Coffeehouse Association awarded Geoff its Jerry Christen Memorial Lifetime Achievement Award. Geoff presents two nights of acoustic music every week at the Cantab Lounge in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Both nights have been voted Best of Boston. In further recognition, the Cambridge Mayor's Office in conjunction with the Boston Bluegrass Union proclaimed February 13, 2004 to be Geoff Bartley Day. Songs and instrumentals he has written … Read More »

$10 – $100

Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway at Belleville Roots

Belleville Congregational Church 300 High Street, Newburyport, MA

Belleville Roots Music Series is excited to host one of the most compelling new voices in the roots music world, Molly Tuttle & her band Golden Highway. Molly, a virtuosic multi-instrumentalist and singer/songwriter with a lifelong love of bluegrass, is on tour celebrating her debut release on Nonesuch Records, Crooked Tree.

$10 – $40

Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway

Belleville Stage 300 High Street, Newburyport, MA

Molly Tuttle wins 2022 IBMA Female Vocalist of the Year!!! https://bluegrasstoday.com/2022-ibma-bluegrass-awards/   Belleville Roots Music Series is excited to host one of the most compelling new voices in the roots music world, Molly Tuttle & her band Golden Highway. Molly, a virtuosic multi-instrumentalist and singer/songwriter with a lifelong love of bluegrass, is on tour celebrating her debut release on Nonesuch Records, Crooked Tree.  Her band of bluegrass virtuosos, features mandolinist Dominick Leslie, banjoist Kyle Tuttle, fiddle player Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, and bassist Shelby Means On Crooked Tree each track showcases Tuttle's guitar technique, for which she was the first women ever named 2017 Guitar Player of the Year by the International Bluegrass Music Association, as well as her voice—an instrument that shifts from warmly understated to fiercely soulful with equal parts precision and abandon, occasionally treating the listener to some high-spirited yodeling. More Molly Tuttle at:  www.mollytuttlemusic.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mollytuttle/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mollytuttlemusic/

$10 – $40

Chris Smither & Tim O’Brien with Jan Fabricius

The Center for Arts in Natick (TCAN) 14 Summer Street, Natick, MA

Born in Miami, during World War II, Chris Smither grew up in New Orleans where he first started playing music as a child. The son of a Tulane University professor, he was taught the rudiments of instrumentation by his uncle on his mother’s ukulele. “Uncle Howard,” Smither says, “showed me that if you knew three chords, you could play a lot of the songs you heard on the radio. And if you knew four chords, you could pretty much rule the world.” With that bit of knowledge under his belt, he was hooked. By the early ’90s, Smither’s steady nationwide touring and regular release of consistently acclaimed albums cemented his reputation as one of the finest acoustic musicians in the country. In October 2020, More From The Levee, the follow up to the 50-year career retrospective Still on the Levee, was released. "Bathed in the flickering glow of passing headlights and neon bar signs, Smither’s roots are as blue as they come. There is plenty of misty Louisiana and Lightnin’ Hopkins in Smither’s weathered singing and unhurried picking. So fine." -Rolling Stone Born in Wheeling, West Virginia on March 16, 1954, Grammy winning singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Tim O’Brien grew up singing in church and in school. Gaining attention in the 1980’s with Colorado’s Hot Rize, O’Brien scored a country hit with Kathy Mattea’s cover of his song Walk the Way the Wind Blows in 1986. Soon artists like Nickel Creek and Garth Brooks also covered his songs. Collaborators include his sister Mollie O’Brien, old time musician Dirk Powell and songwriter Darrell Scott, as well as Steve Earle, Bill Frisell, Mark Knopfler and Sturgill Simpson. O’Brien formed his own record label, Howdy Skies Records, in 1999, and launched the digital … Read More »

$40 – $45