Thursday, June 21, 2007

DANILELLE MIRAGLIA & TOM BIANCHI – “Sweet Ol' World”. Special guest BRENDAN HOGAN








DANILELLE MIRAGLIA & TOM BIANCHI,
with special guest BRENDAN HOGAN


Friday, July 20, 2007. Doors 7:00pm, concert 7:30pm

VENUE: Loring-Greenough House, 12 South Street, Jamaica Plain, MA. 02130 - http://www.lghouse.org/

TICKETS: $14 day of show, ($12 if reserved in advance through Thursday, July 19) - email notlobmusic@gmail.com

ARTIST INFO:
http://www.daniellem.com/

DANIELLE MIRAGLIA (murr-Ä L e a) A strong steady thumb on an old Gibson guitar is the driving force behind Danielle Miraglia's delta blues influenced guitar style. Add a raw, powerful, whiskey tinged voice and one might be tempted to label her a blues artist. But while Miraglia's style pays homage to these blues traditions, her classic rock verve, catchy melodies and eclectic array of song subjects that range from deeply personal to socially relevant give it an original twist that is all her own. A fresh sound along with a sharp wit and a captivating stage presence is gaining her fans all over the map. "It won't be long before the rest of the country takes notice." - Performing Songwriter.

TOM BIANCHI “…he cut quite the picture approaching the stage holding his beat-up bass guitar with a strap proudly displaying scores of old buttons. The crowd was immediately suspicious…” Nick Zaino, The Boston Globe The Performer Armed with 4 strings, theatrical voice, killer wit and the will to live, 24 Hour Tom is always ready to put on a show. Improvisation is a big part of the routine as he weaves seamlessly in and out of songs, good times and fun. Funky bass lines, witty humor, and killer tunes is what you can expect when you go to see this self-proclaimed 24 hour entertainer. What People Say Randomly catching Tom in action prompted this Boston Phoenix writer to say, "The guy is funny, and he's singing about exactly what's happening to all of us right this second". In a live review, Sound Check Magazine wrote "As the crowd danced, sang, and shouted, Tom riffs and ripples through stories and songs, ballads and funky one-man jams, personal greetings and other on-the-spot lyric changes, doing all he could to make his audience feel at home." The Man Tom cut his teeth on the street. No, he did not fall down and cut his teeth on the street, I mean he has worked on his chops on the streets and in the subways of Boston, Massachusetts. After being told he just wasn’t good enough to roll burritos for a living, Tom was determined to make it as a musician. He hasn’t looked back since. The Show Are you ready for this??? Straight up slap bass funk, power polkas, improvisation, stand up comedy, original music, cover tunes like you’ve never heard them before, ballads, bass solos, suspenders, maybe even a bit of juggling and balancing if he really gets going. That’s the show folks.

Brendan Hogan is host and producer of the popular radio program, 'Blues On WGBH', found on WGBH 89.7fm on Saturday nights from 9 to 1.


Future concerts:

DAVE CARTER BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE
Adam Sweeney, Eric McDonald, Beth DeSombre, Ryan FitzSimmons, Dana Price, & Chris Thompson
Saturday, 08/11/07 ~ $20.00 (no discount)
Contemporary Folk

GEOFF BARTLEY w/ Eliza Blue
Saturday, 08/18/07 ~ $15
Traditional
BRIAN WEBB
Friday, September 21
$15.00
Contemporary Folk
http://www.brian-webb.com/
http://www.myspace.com/brianwebbmusic

STAY IN TOUCH: Register as a MySpace"friend" ~ http://www.myspace.com/notlobhouseconcerts or join the mail list ~ http://groups.google.com/group/notlobmusic and be among the first to learn of schedule adds or artist news.

Reservations: Seating is limited (40) and all prior concerts have sold out. Make reservations by sending an email to notlobmusic@gmail.com. Include your name, number of seats and contact information.
Refreshments (coffee, teas, soda, water, pastries) are available.

Transporation:
Parking is limited to 12 vehicles, the gates will be closed when its lot is full. There is a public lot behind Blanchard’s liquors, one block away.

MBTA: Take #39 bus from either Back Bay Station or Forest Hills Station to Monument stop, directly in front of the Loring-Greenough House, at the intersections of Centre and South Streets.

Notlob Music is grateful to the following local businesses for their generous support.

BUKHARA INDIAN BISTRO
701 Centre Street
617-522-2195

SWEET FINNISH OLD WORLD PASTRIES
761 Centre Street
617-522-5200

JP LICKS
659 Centre Street
(617) 524-6740

Monday, June 11, 2007

Rose Polenzani & Sharon Lewis, "Kings and Queens" tour, Wednesday, June 20

Wednesday, June 20, 2007. Doors 7:00pm, concert 7:30pm

VENUE: Loring-Greenough House, 12 South Street, Jamaica Plain, MA. 02130 - http://www.lghouse.org

TICKETS: $15 day of show, ($12.50 if reserved in advance through Tuesday, June 19) - email notlobmusic@gmail.com


ARTIST INFO:



Sharon Lewis
After touring the world and releasing 4 albums as one half of the brilliant female duo Pooka, UK songwriter Sharon Lewis is now performing songs from her debut solo album The Hour Lilies. Previous tours in the UK, USA and Europe have seen her accompanying acts such as Everything But The Girl, Kristen Hersh, The Levellers and Al Stewart, in addition to intensive headline tours throughout France, Italy and the UK. Accompanied by piano and guitar Sharon's songs are classic and soulful. Her performances have been described as "remarkably intimate with melodies that turn you inside out". Sharon has recently sung with legendary dance act The Chemical Brothers and also collaborated with artists such as Orbital, Ultramarine and Rob Ellis of PJ Harvey. Produced, composed and recorded by Sharon, The Hour Lilies is a home spun record featuring a very fine collection of gentle and original songs.

Rose Polenzani
Rose Polenzani was raised in the Chicago area and attended Knox College before leaving to pursue a singing career. Her singing style is distinctive and emotionally charged. She plays guitar and, less frequently, piano. Her lyrics often consist of rich blends of obscure images and emotions. Rose has performed in Lilith Fair in 1998, and the Sundance Film Festival in 1999. She has opened for the Indigo Girls, David Gray, Vic Chesnutt, Patty Griffin, Joan Baez, Jonatha Brooke, and Shawn Colvin. She has been reviewed positively in the Utne Reader, BUST Magazine, and the Boston Globe. Rose performed as part of Voices on the Verge, a collaborative musical project with Beth Amsel, Jess Klein, and Erin McKeown. Voices on the Verge toured together in 2001 and 2002 and released a live album, Voices on the Verge: Live In Philadelphia on the Rykodisc label. In 2004, Polenzani toured with Sharon Lewis of the British band Pooka, whom she cites as a major musical influence.

Series information:

Friday, July 20 2007, 7:30P

Saturday, Aug 4 2007, 7:30P (may change to late September)
Brian Webb w/ Carrie Cheron
Saturday, Aug 11 2007, 7:30P
Dave Carter Tribute

Saturday, Aug 18 2007, 7:30P

Saturday, June 2, 2007

MIKE & RUTH MERENDA, "Music is Effervescence", w/ TOREY ADLER, Saturday, June 9, 2007





Doors 7:00pm,
Concert 7:30pm

VENUE: Loring-Greenough House, 12 South Street, Jamaica Plain, MA. 02130 - http://www.lghouse.org

TICKETS: $12 day of show, ($10 if reserved in advance through Friday, June 8) - email notlobmusic@gmail.com

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Ruth Merenda, who graced Notlob Music Series' first concert last Saturday's as a part of Sometymes Why (with band mates Kristin Andreassen (of Uncle Earl) and Aoife O'Donovan (of Crooked Still)) returns with husband, Mike Merenda. They are touring the US in support of their new CD, QUIVER, in between The Mammals tours which will bring the band all over America as well as Australia and Europe

Mike is a wordsmith, vocalist and guitarist who has long recognized that a good song has the ability to improve the world. On both an intensely personal and universal level Merenda’s work strives to entertain as well as illuminate. His early fascination with the socially conscious writings of Bob Marley and Bob Dylan met head-on with the arrival of young, smart, outspoken artists such as Ani Difranco and Dan Bern, furthering the young writer’s blossoming ideology that politics need not be polarizing and dry, but alive, vibrant and inspiring.

“Ruth Ungar is the daughter of Jay Ungar and Lyn Hardy, two musicians who have kept American folk traditions stoked. Ungar spent her childhood amidst all manner of string instruments and the visitations of members of New York’s Jewgrass gang. She met songwriter Michael Merenda in the late 90’s and, after hearing him perform an original tune, asked him to play it again, whereupon she promptly sang a part in perfect harmony. Thus began a professional and romantic relationship . . . Ungar is a sensational singer . . . Merenda is one of the best songwriters of his generation - literate, political, melodic, alternately angry and satirical and sensual.” - Michael Simmons, High Times

Their travels with the internationally acclaimed string-band The Mammals have made them exceedingly comfortable on stage. Familiar yet enigmatic, Michael and Ruth Merenda are talents to watch in this songwriting renaissance of the 21st century.

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Torey Adler is a guitar-picking wordsmith and a builder of well-crafted, hardwearing songs. He might be young, but he sounds as though he learned to play in the rural South of the '30s, then came of age in the halcyon days of New York City punk. On this icy winter day in Massachusetts farm country, the dash of his pickup truck is cluttered with CDs of Woody Guthrie, Townes Van Zandt, Otis Redding, and Skip James. The Rolling Stones' Let It Bleed is playing, loudly, as he downshifts hard into a turn. He is talking about the term "folk-music". "Everything is folk music that folks can play" he says, grinning. "Rock, Adult Contemporary, (he puts an emphasis on the industry term that suggests disdain) pop, country, it's all folk. But I understand what the audience means when they use the term 'folk' and it's different from what a scholar means. In the clubs, my music is folk because I play an acoustic guitar. In my mind I sing modern literature with traditional sounding chords." Whatever it is, audiences are starting to respond. At tonight's concert they start to sing along with "This Land is Your Land", a song he introduces as "Our real national anthem". A woman in the crowd confides to me later that she has to consider Bruce Springsteen in a new light after hearing "Thunder Road" broken down over sparse ukulele accompaniment. But every request during the show calls for one of Torey's own songs, more remarkable for the fact that most of them are not yet released. His guitar ranges from soft and haunting finger-style airs to driving, punkish romps. His lyrics tell stories, capture stills of urban drama. Torey paints a tableau of the American landscape; highways and depots, cars and trains, of bedeviled loners and innocent girls always moving and always wanting.Rarely does an artist emerge on the scene with a voice so completely his own who so clearly belongs to a deep folklore. There is tradition behind his words, but you’ve never heard it like this before.

"His sound has roots in old blues, folk and early rock, with a real American sound that smacks of urban grit, dusty back roads, adventure and heartbreak." -Sarah Craig, Caffe Lena

"He is a savvy stylist on the six-string, the music coils around his acoustic anthems and swings to countrified rhythms all the while tinged with the hint of a bluesy sorrow or bursting in an outright celebration of grooves."-Thomas Dimopoulos, The Saratogian

"A truly powerful writer / performer, Torey unifies the quiet wisdom of a Zen master and the straight honesty of Johnny Cash with wry lyrics and growling guitar licks torn from the roots of rock and roll"-Bob Warren, Singer / Songwriter
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Wednesday, Jun 20 2007, 7:30P
Sharon Lewis (Pooka) & Rose Polenzani (Voices on the Verge)

Friday, July 20 2007, 7:30P
Danielle Miraglia & Tom Bianchi

Saturday, Aug 4 2007, 7:30P (may change to late September)
Brian Webb w/ Carrie Cheron

Saturday, Aug 11 2007, 7:30P
Dave Carter Tribute
Saturday, Aug 18 2007, 7:30P
Jaded Mandolin w/ Eliza Blue

Friday, June 1, 2007

Inaugural Concert: SOMETYMES WHY

Sometymes Why is a mesmerizing trio of modern-day sirens. Their vocal intensity, sparse arrangements, and passionate lyricism whirl into the air and cut a cyclone's path through the heart. Kristin Andreassen (of Uncle Earl), Aoife O'Donovan (of Crooked Still) and Ruth Merenda (of The Mammals) have honed their recipe for ruthless tenderness with utter disregard for conformity or convention. Their songs tell the secret tales of our own lives and beg us to believe in the power of revelation.

Ticket Price: $15 ($13 if reserved in advance by email to notlobmusic@gmail.com).

June 2, 2007. Doors 7:00pm, Concert 7:30pm.

Tune in to WGBH-fm Saturday afternoon at 4:30pm to hear "the girls" intervewed by Brad Paul - 89.7fm, streaming at www.wgbh.org

Welcome to Notlob Music

With an emphesis on Americana / roots and etherial folk music, Notlob House Concerts produces unique musical artists in unusual and often unexpected environments. The Spring / Summer 2007 series will be held at the Loring-Greenough House - http://www.lghouse.org. Built in 1760, it is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and has been a historic house museum since 1926. Its beautiful period decor and intimate size make it an ideal setting for acoustic music.


Spring / Summer, 2007

SOMETYMES WHY
http://www.myspace.com/sometymeswhy
http://www.sometymeswhy.us/
Saturday, June 2 ~ $15 day of show / $13 advance
Ambient / Experimental / Folk

Sometymes Why is a mesmerizing trio of modern-day sirens. Their vocal intesity, sparse arrangements, and passionate lyricism whirl into the the air and cut a cyclone's path through the heart. Aoife, Ruth and Kristin have honed their recipe for ruthless tenderness with utter disregard for conformity or convention. Their songs tell the secret tales of our own lives and beg us to believe in the power of revelation.

Kristin Andreassen (Uncle Earl) - vocals, guitar, harmonica, glockenspeil, piano, cymbals, tambourine;
http://www.myspace.com/uncleearl
http://www.myspace.com/kristinandreassen

Aoife O'Donovan (Crooked Still) - vocals, guitar, ukulele, piano, glockenspeil, tambourine, cowbell;
http://www.myspace.com/aoifeodonovan
http://www.myspace.com/crookedstill

Ruth Merenda (The Mammals) - vocals, guitar, ukulele, fiddle, glockenspeil, high hat.
http://www.myspace.com/michaelmerenda
http://www.michaelmerenda.com/
http://www.myspace.com/ruthungar
http://www.ruthungar.com/
http://www.myspace.com/76978728
http://www.themammals.net

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MIKE & RUTH MERENDA (The Mammals)
Saturday, 06/09/07 ~ $12.00 / 10.00
Folk / Indie / Experimental
"Music is the effervescence. "
http://www.myspace.com/michaelmerenda
http://www.michaelmerenda.com/
http://www.myspace.com/ruthungar
http://www.ruthungar.com/
http://www.myspace.com/76978728
http://www.themammals.net

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SHARON LEWIS & ROSE POLENZANI
Wednesday, 06/20/07 ~ $15.00 / 12.50
Folk / Americana / Alternative
http://www.sharonlewis.net/
http://www.myspace.com/sharonlewis
http://www.rosepolenzani.com/
http://www.myspace.com/rosepolenzani

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DANIELLE MIRAGLIA & TOM BIANCHI
Friday, 07/20/07 ~ $14.00 / 12.00
Acoustic / Folk Rock / Blues
http://www.daniellem.com/
http://www.myspace.com/daniellemiraglia
http://www.24hourtom.com/
http://www.myspace.com/tombianchi

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BRIAN WEBB w/CARIE CHERRON
Saturday, 08/04/07 ~ $15.00 / 12.50
Contemporary Folk
http://www.brian-webb.com/
http://www.myspace.com/brianwebbmusic
http://www.carriecheron.com/
http://www.myspace.com/carriecheron

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DAVE CARTER Birthday Tribute
Adam Sweeney, Eric McDonald, Beth DeSombre, Ryan FitzSimmons, Dana Price, & Chris and Meredith Thompson ... more
Saturday, 08/11/07 ~ $20.00 (no discount)
Contemporary Folk
http://www.bethdesombre.com/
http://www.sonicbids.com/BethDeSombre
http://www.adamsweeney.net/
http://www.myspace.com/adamsweeney http://www.jadedmandolin.com/mandolinenator.html http://www.myspace.com/mandolinisgoodforthebrain
http://www.ryanfitzsimmons.com/
http://www.myspace.com/ryanfitzsimmons
http://www.myspace.com/danaprice
http://www.cmthompson.com/

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JADED MANDOLIN w/ Eliza Blue
Saturday, 08/18/07 ~ $14.00 / 12.00
Newgrass / Traditional
http://www.jadedmandolin.com/
http://www.myspace.com/jadedmandolin
http://www.elizablue.net/
http://www.myspace.com/elizabluesings



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VENUE: Loring-Greenough House, 12 South Street, Jamaica Plain, MA. 02130 http://www.lghouse.org

MySpace: Register as a "friend" at http://www.myspace.com/notlobhouseconcerts and be among the first to learn of schedule adds or artist news.

Join the mail list ~ http://groups.google.com/group/notlobmusic

Doors: 7:00pm, Performances: 7:30pm

Seating is limited (40) and shows are likely to sell out. Make reservations by sending an email to notlobmusic@gmail.com. Be sure to include your name, number of seats and contact information.

Well-behaved children are welcome, but please communicate before coming.

Refreshments (coffee, teas, soda, water, pastries) are available.

Transporation: Parking is limited to 12 vehicles, the gates will be closed when its lot is full. There is a public lot behind Blanchard’s liquors, one block away. MBTA: Take #39 bus from either Back Bay Station or Forest Hills Station to Monument stop, directly in front of the Loring-Greenough House, at the intersections of Centre and South Streets.

Notlob House Concerts is grateful to the following local businesses for their generous support.


BUKHARA INDIAN BISTRO
701 Centre Street
617-522-2195
http://www.bukharabistro.com/

SWEET FINNISH OLD WORLD PASTRIES
761 Centre Street
617-522-5200
www.sweetfinnish.com

JP LICKS
659 Centre Street
(617) 524-6740
www.jplicks.com