Would like to host a private comcert in your own home?

notloB Music Presents...

A PRIVATE HOUSE CONCERTSaturday, April 4

notloB is connected to a galaxy of great talent. If you own a home in the greater Boston area that can fit at least 25 people and would be intested in hosting, send an email to notlobreservations@gmail.com

Jayme Stone's Lomax Project, Arlington, 4/1

notloB Music Presents...

Jayme Stone's Lomax Project
Wednesday, April 1, 8pm
PACC, Arlington

Jayme Stone (banjo) | Margaret Glaspy (voice) | Brittany Haas (fiddle) | Eli West (guitar, voice) | Joe Phillips (bass)

http://jaymestone.com/projects/lomaxproject

"...Focusing on songs collected by folklorist and field recording pioneer Alan Lomax, this collaboratory brings together some of North America's most distinctive and creative roots musicians to revive, recycle and re-imagine traditional music. The repertoire includes Bahamian sea chanties, African-American acappella singing from the Georgia Sea Islands, ancient Appalachian ballads, fiddle tunes and work songs collected from both well-known musicians and everyday folk: sea captains, cowhands, fishermen, prisoners and homemakers. The new album will be out on Borealis Records on March 3, 2015..."

Tickets and more info 

Dinner and a show! Patrons who purchase tickets in advance through eventbrite for our Arlington shows get 10% off dinner at the nearby...

Thai-E-Sarn Cuisine, 1377 Massachusetts Ave, Arlington.

(781) 648-2223
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Thai-E-sarn-cuisine/729662723716568
http://www.thaiesarncuisine.com/

OR
Szechuan's Dumpling, 1360 Massachuetts Ave, Arlington.

(781) 648-8882
https://www.facebook.com/SzechuansDumpling

Please base your tip on the pre-discounted amount.

The Emma Beaton Band, Arlington, 3/28 - CANCELLED

notloB Music Presents...

THIS CONCERT IS CANCELLED - WILL BE REBOOKED FOR OCTOBER.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

The Emma Beaton Band
featuring Nic Gareiss
Saturday, March 28, 8pm
Park Avenue Congregational Church
50 Paul Revere Road, Arlington

"...The Emma Beaton Band first coalesced at several music camps and began playing together late at night after square dances and evening-long fiddle tunes sessions. The songs they sang became the last music of the night.  Today, their music retains a sense of staid nostalgia and quiet, almost secretive intimacy, grounded in Celtic and Americana traditions, but ultimately all their own. Their eponymous CD was nominated for a Canadian Folk Music Award for 'Traditional Singer of the Year...'"

Tickets and more info

Dinner and a show! Patrons who purchase tickets in advance through eventbrite for our Arlington shows get 10% off dinner at the nearby...

Thai-E-Sarn Cuisine, 1377 Massachusetts Ave, Arlington.

(781) 648-2223
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Thai-E-sarn-cuisine/729662723716568
http://www.thaiesarncuisine.com/

OR
Szechuan's Dumpling, 1360 Massachuetts Ave, Arlington.

(781) 648-8882
https://www.facebook.com/SzechuansDumpling

Please base your tip on the pre-discounted amount.

Ellie and Suaima | Jenna and Mairi

Ellie and Suaima | Jenna and Mairi
Sunday, March 22, 7:30pm
Outpost 186
186 Hampshire Street (Inman Square) Cambridge

Ellie & Sumaia

As long-time friends from their studies at Berklee College of Music, Ellie Buckland and Sumaia Jackson explore their mutual love of songs with accompaniment of guitar and fiddle. To this new project, both musicians bring backgrounds in American Old Time Appalachian music as well as Bluegrass and Celtic fiddle styles.  
Stemming from these influences comes Ellie's original songs, complemented by Sumaia's engaging and lyrical fiddle playing. As a duo, their delicate interpretation of songs demonstrate a deep understanding of the melodic and rhythmic aspects of traditional roots music while blending elements of contemporary sound.

Jenna & Mairi

Rooted in traditional Scottish and Appalachian Old-Time music, Jenna and Mairi have developed a sound which celebrates and explores beautiful melodies. The pair met whilst studying at Berklee College of Music and are a product of the thriving and rich Boston music community. Jenna and Mairi have both been heavily steeped in tradition, but their arrangements push boundaries with original compositions and breathe new life into old tunes.

Tickets and more in formation 

notloB Music's Spring Concert Season - 8 concerts in Arlington, Newton, Cambridge and Brookline

NotloB Spring Performances Our spring 2015 events range from up-and-coming performers to folk travelers. With the this long winter soon to be behind us, the rejuvenation of spring is the perfect moment to come out and show your support of local, talented performers. Tickets Sunday, March 22nd Ellie & Sumaia Jenna & Mairi  Cambridge, MA | Outpost 186 Sunday, March 22, 2015 7:30 PM to 10:00 PM Saturday, March 28th The Emma Beaton Band  Arlington, MA | Park Avenue Congregational Church (hall) Saturday, March 28, 2015 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM Wednesday, April 1st Jayme Stone Lomax Project  Arlington, MA | Park Avenue Congregational Church Wednesday, April 1, 2015 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM Thursday, April 16th Mari Black w/ Joseph Carmichael  Newton Upper Falls, MA Carriage House Violins of Johnson String Instrument Thursday, April 16, 2015 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM Friday, April 17th The Onlies  Cambridge, MA | Outpost 186 Friday, April 17, 2015 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM Saturday, April 25th Darol Anger and the Furies  Arlington, MA Park Avenue Congregational Church Saturday, April 25, 2015 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM Wednesday, April 29th Wrong is Right  Cambridge, MA | Outpost 186 Wednesday, April 29, 2015 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM Tickets Founded in 2007, notloB Music has presented more than 150 folk, old-time, blue grass, string band and Celtic concerts in unique venues throughout the greater Boston area. Concerts in your home can be arranged. Website - https://sites.google.com/site/notlobmusic/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/notloBParlourConcerts Twitter - https://twitter.com/notlobpresents Eventbrite (tickets) - http://www.eventbrite.com/o/notlob-music-presents-6730833315 Mail Chimp (mailing list) - http://tinyurl.com/notlobmail Share Tweet Forward

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East Coast Debut of The Onlies (Seattle, Wa) April 17 in Cambridge

When a young band is recommended by the likes of Darol Anger, Brittany Haas, Tristan Clairridge and Kristin Andreassen (notloBBers all), one listens...and responds...and books. The Onlies are Sami Braman (fiddle, vocals, guitar), Riley Calcagno, and Leo Shannon (both of whom sing and play fiddle, guitar, mandolin, banjo). All three are only children (hence 'The Onlies"). They've played gigs up and down the West Coast, and have been featured performers at Northwest Folklife, theBerkeley Oldtime Music Convention, and the The Festival of American Fiddle Tunes.

Presented by notloB Music, who once again gives the discerning public the opportunity to be able to say "I saw them when."

The Onlies play original and traditional fiddle-driven music, with Celtic, old-time American, and Canadian roots. Members Leo Shannon, Riley Calcagno, and Sami Braman are Garfield High School (Seattle) juniors who’ve literally played together since they were two years old. Singing and playing fiddle, guitar, mandolin, banjo, and piano, they have developed a strong fan base throughout the Pacific Northwest, performing concerts, dances, restaurants, and pubs from Port Townsend to Ojai, CA,,,,and now to Cambridge, MA.

Photo: The Onlies in EMP Sound Off! 2014 by Malayka Gormally  –malaykagormally.com/photography

Admission by free-will offering, $5-10+ suggested. 

Reservations are highly recommended.

notloB Music presents... The Onlies
Friday, April 17, 2015.
Outpost 186, 186 Hampshire Street, Inman Square, Cambridge, MA.
http://www.outpost186.com/
http://www.TheOnlies.com/
https://www.facebook.com/theOnlies/

Brittany Haas and Nic Gareiss, a benefit for the Old Schwamb Mill

notloB Music presents... 

Brittany Haas and Nic Gareiss

notloB veterans many times over, it will present Brittany and Nic not once, but TWICE!

On Saturday, January 17 notloB will end its 6-year hiatus from the Park Avenue Congregational Church, returning to the acoustically-alive wooden hall, where in 2008 it presented several concerts, including The Folk Arts Quartet, The Boston Boys, Joy Kills Sorrow and Blue Moose and the Unbuttoned Zippers.The concert will be a benefit for the Old Schwamb Mill.

Then on Sunday, January 18 Brittany and Nic will be presented a second time, at Carriage House of Violins' beautiful and intimate (just 50 seats) performance space.

ARLINGTON TICKETS 

NEWTON TICKETS

YouTube Video

Nic Gareiss and Brittany Haas at Shasta 2009

BRITTANY HAAS
http://brittanyhaas.com/
California-born Brittany Haas is widely regarded as one of the most influential fiddlers of her generation. She grew up honing her craft in fiddle camps nationwide, and came to her unique sound through the old-time fiddling of Bruce Molsky and the innovative stylings of Darol Anger. A prodigious youth, she began touring with Darol's Republic of Strings at the age of 14. She simultaneously studied baboons in the evolutionary biology department of Princeton University (and minoring in music performance, composing with professor Dan Trueman) and joined seminal chamber-grass band Crooked Still. She has toured with them since, and also performed with Yonder Mountain String Band, Tony Trischka, Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas (her cellist sister), Abigail Washburn, and The Waybacks. She played her fiddle on Steve Martin's Grammy Award-winning CD, "The Crow," and performed in his band on Letterman and SNL. She released her debut self-titled solo album at 17, produced by Darol Anger and featuring Bruce Molsky, Mike Marshall, Alison Brown and others. Currently residing in Nashville, she is the co-leader of the Brittany Haas/Dan Trueman band who released their debut record "CrissCross" in 2011. She also plays in a fiddle duo with Lauren Rioux, an all-girl indie old-time band called The Fundies, "4tet" with Cleek Schrey (hardanger fiddle/pump organ), Jordan Tice (guitar) and Nic Gareiss (percussive dance), a trio with Jordan Tice and Paul Kowert (bassist in the Punch Brothers), and a duo with Kai Welch.

"So here is a real roots musician in the most modern sense--Brittany Haas fiddles from a very deep and personal place, the way she feels it, the way she wants to hear it, with seemingly infinite facility, and a spirit that's simply uplifting." -- Bruce Molsky

"...a major fiddling talent has emerged." -- Mark O'Connor

"She can shove the whole room around with her fiddle." -- Danny Barnes

"A joy to listen to...” -- Alasdair Fraser

"There's no one I'd rather listen to play the violin than Brittany Haas – her playing just slays me." -- Matt Glaser

"Britt opens the window, gets out of the way, and the music floods through in a tide of joy." -- Darol Anger

NIC GAREISS
http://www.nicgareiss.com/
Michigan-born dancer, musician, and dance researcher Nic Gareiss has been described by the Irish Times as “the human epitome of the unbearable lightness of being,” and "the most inventive and expressive step dancer on the scene” by the Boston Herald. His choreographic work re-imagines movement as a musical activity, recasting dance as medium that appeals to both eyes and ears. Gareiss draws from many percussive dance traditions to weave together a dance technique facilitating his love of improvisation, traditional footwork vocabulary, and musical collaboration. He has performed with many of the luminaries of contemporary traditional music and dance, including The Chieftains, The Gloaming, Darol Anger, Dervish, Buille, Liz Carroll, Genticorum, Bill Frisell, Yvon Mimeault, poet Aonghas MacNeacail, Step Afrika!, Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble, Rhythm in Shoes, Bruce Molsky, Alasdair Fraser, and Martin Hayes. 

In 2011 Gareiss was commissioned by the Cork Opera House to create and perform two new solo percussive dance pieces to celebrate the 75th birthday of composer Steve Reich. In 2013, he served as community liaison for the Wheatland Music Organization's 40th Anniversary production 'Carry it on...', supervising a cast of 70 non-professional dancers from the state of Michigan. He received a Traditional Arts Commission from the Irish Arts Council to create a new duo fiddle and dance work with Caoimhín Ó Raghalliah. The resulting piece, MICE WILL PLAY had a sell-out run at the Project Arts Centre during the 2013 Dublin Fringe Festival. 

Gareiss has concertized in Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Ireland, Scotland, England, Canada, and New Zealand and continues to tour and teach internationally, working with dance communities and presenting solo percussive dance choreography. Nic holds degrees in anthropology and music from Central Michigan University and recently completed his MA in ethnochoreology at the University of Limerick.

notloB Music Presents... Brittany Haas and Nic Gareiss, a Benefit for the Old Schwamb Mill
Park Avenue Congregational Church
50 Paul Revere Road, Arlington, MA
Saturday, January 17, 2015
Doors 7:30pm
Concert 8:00pm

TICKETS
$20 VIP seats, 50% of the sales go to the Old Schwamb Mill
$15 regular 
$10 seniors and students
and, if not sold out, at the door 30 minutes before the concert begins.

Do you like Szechuan and/or Thai food? We have great news for you! Show your eventbrite ticket receipt for the 1/17 Park Ave Congregational Church concert to your server at Szechuan's Dumpling Chinese Restaurant, 1360 Mass Ave or Thai-E-Sarn Cuisine, 1377 Mass Ave in Arlington and get 10% off your dinner tab!

notloB Music Presents... Brittany Haas and Nic Gareiss
Carriage House Violins - of Johnson String Instrument 
1039 Chestnut Street
Newton Upper Falls, MA
Sunday, January 18, 2015
Doors 1:30pm
Concert 2:00pm

TICKETS
$20 First two rows (14 seats)
$15 regular 
$10 seniors and students (due to the small total size, we are limiting this to 15, first come first served)

and, if not sold out, at the door 30 minutes before the concert begins.


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Brittany Haas & Nic Gareiss / Peaks of Otter / Old Schwamb Mill / Salt Stage / 01.18.15

from Jason Elon Goodman 

A Traveling Salt Stage Production.

Recorded on a pair of "Edwina" microphones hand made by Philip Graham of ear trumpet labs. eartrumpetlabs.com

Salt Stage Presents both local artists and those on a migratory path through the state of Maine in intimate portraiture: musicians, poets, performers, chefs, farmers, painters, sculptors and more. These performances are archived live without over-dubbing or post manipulation unless insisted upon by the artist in the performance. A high resolution recording system and one or two camera angles capture a cinematic feeling full of both visual and sonic tonality, paired with simple & clean editing . When not outside on location, windows are often left open to incorporate gulls, rainfall and other sonic signatures of Maine. Vintage lenses are also integral to enhance the filmic look of the vignettes. The Salt Stage began in Old Port, Portland but has now expanded to everywhere and anywhere, as archived in the Traveling Salt Stage section.... Watch the video here.