notlob fall 2022

Since 2007, notloB has presented >200 not-for-profit folk, Celtic, old-time, bluegrass, and progressive string concerts in unique venues throughout the greater Boston area. notloB's current home is space rented in the renovated 1890 Harvard, Massachusetts library, now repurposed as "Fivesparks." Presented in the house concert format, admission is by free-will offering, with 100% of the door going to the artists.

The season will consist of three concerts:

Friday, October 9 – Geoff Bartley (blues, folk)

Friday, October 21 - Owen Kennedy, accompanied by Ethan Tischler, Fern Tamagini-O’Donnell opens (Celtic)

Friday, December 9 – Don White (songwriter, storyteller, humorist, author, teacher) Details at https://www.facebook.com/notloBParlourConcerts/events

VENUE: Fivesparks, 7 Fairbank Street, Harvard MA 01451

Doors 7:00pm, Concerts 7:30pm

Details are in "events" -

RESERVATIONS: http://notlobmusic.eventbrite.com (no account is required).

ADMISSION: By free-will offering, suggested cash donation adults $15-20; teens and seniors $10; children $5. 100% of patron donations go to the artists.\\

CONTACT: notlobreservations at gmail dot com

notloB Music presents Shawna Caspi in an intimate house concert in Harvard, 9/27

notloB Music has been on hiatus since April, but we're back to present Shawna Caspi from Ontario.

"Shawna Caspi is a mighty singer, a fingerstyle guitarist, a story sculptor, and a truth-teller, performs solo, but there’s a whole band under her fingertips. A mighty singer, a story sculptor, and a truth-teller, she has toured across Canada and the USA and believes in poetry and the power of one person and one instrument, accompanying herself with a remarkable lyrical fingerpicking guitar style. Shawna loves the landscapes of her travels and while weaving them into her songs, she has also been portraying them on canvases, painting one-of-a-kind works of art inspired by the rich scenery she sees on tour.”

“Shawna Caspi has the rare gift of presence, a warm presence that immediately invites audience engagement, from the first strum of her skilled guitar playing to the last exquisite note she sings. Shawna’s lyrics show, her music and delivery tell; her songs are beautiful stories that stay with listeners long after the CD is spun, long after the gig is over.”
– Andy Frank, Toronto, ON, Founding Partner, Roots Music Canada

Where: A private residence in Harvard, MA. Address will be given when reservation is made.
When: Wednesday, September 27, 2017. Doors 7:00pm, Start 7:30pm
Bring: A dessert to share and BYOB.
Suggested Donation: $15-20
Reservations / address: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/shawna-caspi-house-concert-tickets-38174877085
More Info: 978-226-8862
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/491253224594939/
Artist’s Website: http://www.shawnacaspi.com/

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

"Living Legend" Paul Geremia House Concert, 4/21

Paul Geremia

Sunday, April 21, 2013 (Paul's birthday!)

Doors 6:30, Concert 7:00

A private residence in Watertown

notloB Folk Concerts' 100th concert was supposed to be on the 6th year anniversary (June 2, see below) but when a living legend calls AND it's his birthday, how can one say "no?"
For almost forty years, Paul Geremia has survived solely by the fruit of his musical labours. Having abandoned all other means of support in 1966, he has been travelling far and wide ever since, performing in every capacity from street singing to club and concert bookings, throughout the U.S.A., Canada and Europe.

In the years since, Geremia has built a reputation as a first rate bluesman, songwriter, a "scholar" of early jazz and blues, and one of the best country blues fingerpickers ever with his tools - six and twelve-string guitars, harmonica, piano and a husky soulful voice - and with an innate sense of the humour as well as the drama of the music, he keeps traditional blues fresh and alive with his performances.

Combining his interpretation of the earlier music of people like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Robert Johnson, Blind Willie McTell, Scrapper Blackwell and Blind Blake, with his original compositions, he has created a style which is very much his own and which has received accolades in the U.S.A. and Europe, too numerous to mention.

Geremia's background isn't typical for a bluesman. He is a third generation Italian-American who, as he laughingly puts it, "was born in the Providence River Delta". Growing up in a family that moved across the country and back numerous times weaned his appetite for music, history and travel, which served him well later on.

During the sixties, Paul noticed that the music he had enjoyed playing on harmonica (his first instrument) was now referred to as "Folk Music" and was enjoying popularity. During his short time in agriculture college, he was mostly occupied with learning guitar and hitch-hiking to where the music was. He soon left college and hit the road permanently. He found paying gigs in coffee houses and "basket houses" in cities and at college campuses and made occasional forays South and West in search of the music he loved and what gigs he could find.

During these years, Geremia crossed paths with people whose influences were beneficial to his development and understanding of the tradition. He worked as opening act for some of the early blues "legends" thereby gaining an immeasurable depth of knowledge from people like Babe Stovall, Yank Rachel, Son House, Skip James, Howlin' Wolf, and many others, especially Pink Anderson whose career he helped revitalize.

Geremia has recorded ten solo albums, and has appeared on numerous anthologies and compilation discs. His superb recordings have made him a critical favorite and place him firmly among the legends who inspired and influenced him over the past four decades.

Celebrate Paul's birthday at a house concert in Watertown.

Sunday, April 21, 7pm
$15-20+ suggested donation.
Dessert pot luck.
Reservations are required - notlobreservations@gmail.com
Paul's website
Facebook event

"Tootie Blues"

Called a "national treasure," Paul Geremia is perhaps the greatest living exponent of the East Coast and Texas fingerpicking and slide guitar styles. Here he performs "Tootie Blues," from the newly released DVD "Guitar Artistry of Paul Geremia.

notfarG House Concerts Presents Zoe Mulford

Date:	Thursday, April 8, 2010
Time:	7:30pm - 9:30pm
Location:	A private residence in Grafton, MA

For American singer-songwriter Zoe Mulford, the ordinary is miraculous and the extraordinary happens every day. A city planner recreates a vanished neighborhood. A roadside statue watches over drivers on US Interstate Highway 95. Even the family glassware has a story to tell. Backing her clear vocals with guitar or five-string banjo, she may bring to mind artists from Joni Mitchell to Gillian Welch in the course of a single set.

She intersperses her own songs with selections from the music that inspires them: American and British folk ballads, Old-Time banjo tunes, and the work of songwriters from George Gershwin to Richard Thompson. Her engaging presence and down-to-earth humor strike a chord with diverse audiences – who often sing along.

Originally from Pennsylvania, Zoe learned to play in the old-time picking circles of North Carolina and started touring from Washington DC, where she was nominated "Songwriter of the Year" two years running by the Washington Area Music Association. She has been a finalist in several national songwriting contests, including those at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival in New York and the Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas.

When her spouse got a job at the University of Manchester, she packed up her instruments and prepared to explore the UK. She has had a warm welcome in folk clubs and acoustic venues around the Northwest and beyond. In 2008, she played at festivals including Brampton Live, the Saddleworth Folk Festival and the Bideford Festival, supported the likes of Martin Carthy and James Keelaghan and shared stages with Ruth Notman and the Askew Sisters. She also continues to tour in the US.

"Bonfires," her third album on Azalea City Recordings, was released in the US in October 2009. Inspired by her experience of English folk clubs, it celebrates the folk tradition from Appalachia to Liverpool.

Zoe has two previous albums on Azalea City. The more recent, “Roadside Saints”, was produced by John Jennings, known for his work with Mary Chapin Carpenter. Released in 2006, it has had radio play across the US, as well as in Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Ireland and the UK.

In addition to music, Zoe loves farmers' markets, children's books, martial arts movies, and cooking with lots of garlic.

Finalist: GRASSY HILL NEW FOLK COMPETITION, Kerrville Folk Festival 2008
Selected: EMERGING ARTIST SHOWCASE, Falcon Ridge Folk Festival 2007
Nominated: SONG OF THE YEAR (Elegy), ALBUM OF THE YEAR (Roadside Saints), SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR - Washington Area Music Association Awards 2006
FINALIST, Plowshares Songwriting Contest, 2006
Nominated: SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR - Washington Area Music Association Awards 2005
GOLD WINNER, Children's Music, Mid-Atlantic Song Contest 2005
WINNER, Susquehanna Music and Arts Festival Songwriter Contest 2005
WINNER, AvalonFest Rising Star Contest 2005
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT, Great American Song Contest 2004

“I don't usually like folk music, but that underwear song is pretty good.”
—patron, Taliano's Restaurant, Takoma Park, MD

Pot luck (byob) 6:30
Concert 7:30

Suggested minimum donation $10

Reservations required ~ notlobreservations @ gmail.com

Zoe's website ~ http://zoemulford.com
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ANDY COHEN house concert and pot luck dinner - Grafton

notloB Folk Concerts

presents

notfarG House concerts presents

Andy Cohen

Wednesday, March 10

Doors/pot luck @ 6pm
Concert @ 7pm

Andy Cohen grew up in a house with a piano and a lot of Dixieland Jazz records, amplified after a while by a cornet that his dad got him. At about fifteen, he got bitten by the Folk Music bug, and soon got to hear records by Big Bill Broonzy and the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, both of which reminded him of the music he grew up to. At sixteen, he saw Rev. Gary Davis, and his course was set. He knew he had it in him to follow, study, perform and promote the music of the southeast quadrant, America¹s great musical fountainhead. Although he's done other things- a certain amount of writing, and physical labor from dishwashing and railroading to archaeology, playing the old tunes is what he does best.

What I do mostly any more, is a sort of Country Blues 101. It¹s broader than that, of course, covering material from before the twenties to about the fifties, and ranging over the several states to which Memphis is adjacent. I grew up during the Sixties Revival in Massachusetts, but I¹m a Southern boy at heart. I made a point of acquainting myself with all the blues players I could, on record and in person. In my shows, I do material by Rev. Davis, John Hurt, Big Bill, Gus Cannon, Frank Stokes, Memphis Minnie, Bukka White, Barbecue Bob, Charlie Patton, Ted Bogan, Henry Spaulding, or any of a hundred other blues people.

SEATING EXTREMELY LIMITED, RESERVATIONS REQUIRED ~ notlobreservations @g mail.com

Suggested minimum donation $10



Andy's website ~ http://www.andycohenmusic.net
More information at ~ http://sites.google.com/site/notlobmusic

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Winter, 2010 Concerts

Friday, March 12, Red Hot Blacktop @ UCG Somerville

Rescheduled from October, 2009

Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival "emerging artist", 2009

Sunday, March 14, Lucky 13@ notfarG House concerts, Grafton

notloB Folk Concerts (Somerville and Newton) are volunteer run and not for profit.
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"In this era of pop-driven acoustic music, notloB is keeping the folk tradition alive." ~ Jack Hardy

notfarG House Concerts Presents SARAH MCQUAID

Sarah McQuaid

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Time: Pot luck dinner 6:30-7:30pm, concert 7:30-9:30pm

Venue: notfarG House Concerts, Grafton, MA

Suggested donation: $15

RESERVATIONS REQUIRED: notlobreservations@gmail.com

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Born in Madrid, Spain, raised in Chicago and holding dual Irish and American citizenship, singer/guitarist and songwriter Sarah McQuaid lived in Ireland from 1994 to 2007. She has since moved with her husband and two children to the home formerly occupied by her parents near Penzance, Cornwall.

I Won’t Go Home ’Til Morning, the long-awaited follow-up to her acclaimed debut album When Two Lovers Meet, marked a distinct change of focus for the musician whose rich voice has been likened to “matured cognac”. Whereas her first album was a feast of Irish music, this is an enchanting celebration of old-time Appalachian folk, with Sarah’s arrangements punctuated by her own fine compositions and a cover of Bobbie Gentry’s classic ‘Ode to Billie Joe’.

Crow Coyote Buffalo, an album of songs co-written by Sarah with fellow Penzance resident Zoë (author and performer of 1991 hit single ‘Sunshine On A Rainy Day’) under the band name Mama, has also been garnering rave reviews since its January 2009 release; one critic described the pair as “Two pagan goddesses channeling the ghost of Jim Morrison”. (For more on Mama, see www.mamamusic.co.uk).

Sarah’s third solo album, provisionally titled The Plum Tree And The Rose, focuses both on early music (including Elizabethan material as well as songs in Old French, Old Occitan, Italian, Middle High German and Latin) and on originals inspired by such topics as Bess of Hardwick and the garden created at Kenilworth by Robert Dudley for Elizabeth I. Its release is expected sometime in 2010.

As might be expected of one who has led such a peripatetic existence, Sarah developed a taste for the road early on: From the age of twelve she was embarking on ten-day tours of the US and Canada with the Chicago Children’s Choir. At eighteen she went to France for a year to study philosophy at the University of Strasbourg, where her performance at a local folk club drew a rave review in the Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace, saluting the “superbe chanteuse d’outre-Atlantique qui fit passer comme une vibration émotionnelle dans une salle conquise” (superb singer from across the Atlantic who caused an emotional vibration to pass through a conquered hall)!

In 1994, Sarah moved to Ireland, where she became a weekly folk music columnist for the Evening Herald and a contributor to Hot PressThe Irish DADGAD Guitar Book, described by The Irish Times as “a godsend to aspiring traditional guitarists,” and has presented workshops on the DADGAD tuning at festivals and venues across the UK and Ireland.

In the autumn of 1997, she recorded her debut solo album, When Two Lovers Meet, featuring traditional tunes and songs along with one original number. “Sarah’s voice is both as warm as a turf fire and as rich as matured cognac.... An astonishing debut by a unique talent,” wrote the Rough Guide To Irish Music. Despite the critical acclaim, a long break from the music scene followed, during which Sarah married Feargal Shiels and had two children, Eli and Lily Jane.

When Two Lovers Meet was re-released in Ireland on 23 February 2007. Sarah’s ensuing nationwide tour was highly successful, thanks in large part to a very well-received appearance on The View, the acclaimed arts television show hosted by John Kelly on RTÉ1. On 30 July 2007, the album had its first UK release. The December 2007 edition of fRoots described it as “a masterclass in restraint and subtlety. Authoritative singing and quietly insistent arrangements make for a sumptuous whole – recommended.” Tracks from the album were included in FolkCast’s December 2007 “artists of the year” podcast and in Crooked Road host Mike Ganley’s Top Ten picks for 2007.

The move to the other side of the Irish Sea was triggered by the death in 2004 of her mother, in whose former home she now lives and to whom I Won’t Go Home ’Til Morning (a title taken from the lyrics of album opener ‘The Chickens They Are Crowing’) is dedicated.

Says Sarah: “My first album was immersed in Irish traditional music, which I still love – but this time round, I felt the need to revisit the Southern Appalachian songs and tunes that I learned during my childhood. My mother was my introduction to folk music. She never performed professionally, but she had a lovely natural style of singing and guitar playing.

“All the songs on this recording have powerful emotional resonances for me, and all are connected in one way or another to my mother. Looking back, I guess it was kind of a cathartic process.”

Like its predecessor, I Won’t Go Home ’Til Morning was recorded in Trevor Hutchinson’s Dublin studio and produced by Gerry O’Beirne. Both also guest on the album, alongside percussionist Liam Bradley, Máire Breatnach on fiddle and viola and Rosie Shipley on fiddle.

A cerebral and consummate performer, she is adept at researching the material she plays and this 11-track album is no exception. It is accompanied by a 24-page illustrated booklet explaining the fascinating histories of the songs and how she stumbled across them. Says Sarah: “For nearly every song, I’ve either photographed my own source material for the booklet – tattered books, LP and 78 records – or included library scans of archive transcriptions, broadsheet ballads and so on.”

Sometimes elegiac, always elegant, the album includes upbeat, fun tracks steeped in the Appalachian tradition and others perfect for mellow, late-night listening. They range from opener ‘The Chickens They Are Crowing’, first heard by Sarah as a child, sung by the great Peggy Seeger on the 1958 recording Folksongs and Ballads, to ‘West Virginia Boys’, which started life as a blackface minstrel song in the music halls of New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore.

Performed as an instrumental on this album, ‘Shady Grove’ is a song Sarah recalls singing with her mum on long car journeys, while she first heard ‘East Virginia’ on her mother’s scratched and battered copy of Joan Baez’s debut album.

She discovered ‘In The Pines’ in the 1980 Loretta Lynn biopic Coal Miner’s Daughter (as sung by actress Sissy Spacek) and couldn’t get it out of her head. Sarah recalls: “Strangely, driving home at the end of the day on which I recorded ‘In The Pines’, I switched on the car radio just in time to hear Nirvana’s 1993 acoustic version of the song being played on RTÉ Radio 2!”

Sarah’s exceptional voice is heard to great effect in the unaccompanied ballad ‘The Wagoner’s Lad’, whose origins can be traced back to the 1720s. Similarly, her stark and spellbinding rendition of the powerful Sacred Harp hymn ‘Wondrous Love’ is likely to give you goosebumps. It also resulted in her being contacted by renowned American folk singer-songwriter and Appalachian dulcimer player Jean Ritchie, who had recorded it back in 1956.

Jean saw a YouTube video of Sarah performing the song and contacted her asking where she had found the lyrics, initially thinking they differed from her own version. Says Sarah: “Having been listening to her album since my early childhood, I felt rather as I imagine a painter must feel who’d received an out of the blue message from Leonardo da Vinci!”

There are also two heartfelt compositions of her own. She describes ‘Only an Emotion’ as “a song in defence of sadness” and something of a gentle riposte to people who flippantly say “Cheer up, it might never happen!”, while ‘Last Song’ is the perfect album closer – a tender number written for both her mother and her daughter Lily Jane (who sadly never met each other), illustrating a perfect three-generation fusion of mothers singing their daughters to sleep.

Eleven years and a musical career break on from the original release of her debut album, Sarah is happy that the new album has achieved what she set out to do. “I really like that feeling of continuity and connection through music – the way it links people across generations and even on different continents. It’s been a very emotional project for me – not just because I’m keeping my mother’s spirit alive, in a sense, by singing the songs she loved but because in researching the origins and evolution of these songs and putting my own stamp on them, I’ve been taken right back to my roots.”

Now busy with upcoming tours and concerts in Ireland, the UK, Europe and the USA, Sarah will be returning to the studio in July 2009 to record her third solo album, once again with Gerry O’Beirne producing and Trevor Hutchinson engineering. Sarah is also slowly but surely working on a novel for which she’s received two Irish Arts Council Bursaries in Literature. She hopes to finish it one of these days.

© 2009 Sarah McQuaid

http://www.sarahmcquaid.com

And tune in to Worcester Community Radio WCUW (91.3fm, streaming at www.wcuw.org) Monday, February 22 between 5-8pm when Sarah will be Patrick Moriarty's guest.

Sarah McQuaid in concert, 18 April 2009 from Sarah McQuaid on Vimeo.

notloB Folk Concerts presents TONY BIRD, 2/21

notloB Folk Concerts

presents

Tony Bird

notfarG House Concerts, Grafton

Sunday, February 21, 2010

SEATING EXTREMELY LIMITED, RESERVATIONS REQUIRED ~ notlobreservations@gmail.com
Doors/pot luck @ 6pm, Concert @ 7pm

Suggested minimum donation $15

"Brilliantly original songwriter Tony Bird... wonderfully fuses African and European folk styles into songs that are clever, fun, urgent."
-- The Boston Globe

"Most of my life I've been on a search for things that can unite life, rather than divide it, possibly because of my very divisive background in growing up with colonialism and racism in Africa. My music has ended up being a synthesis of universal spirituality, politics and nature."
~ Tony Bird

Tony Bird is a folk rock singer-songwriter who was born and grew up in Nyasaland (now Malawi) in Southern Africa. He is known for his Dylanesque vocals and for his songs which describe life in colonial Nyasaland from a progressive anti-colonial point of view. He made his first solo performances at the Space Theatre in Cape Town where his unique African style was reviewed favorably by press and promoters. He recorded two albums in the 70s. His comeback CD Sorry Africa, released in 1990 on Rounder Records in the USA and Mountain Records in Europe and Africa, included the hit song "Mango Time", which describes the happiness of the mangoes being ripe, once a year.

He toured with Ladysmith Black Mambazo in the 1980s, who recorded his song "Go Willie Go".

http://www.mangotime.net

notloB Folk Concerts

Bringing traditional American, Canadian, British, and Celtic folk, folk revival, world, blues, roots and bluegrass/newgrass music toArlington, Boston, Grafton, Newton & Somerville.

"In this era of pop-driven acoustic music, notloB is keeping the folk tradition alive."
~ Jack Hardy

May is House Concert Month

Concerts in Your Home has designed May as House Concert Month.

This is a good time for all who present or attend house concerts to become acquainted with CIYH. Hosts register for free, patrons search the database for free, there is a small charge for musicians to register.

And be sure to post NE house concerts to the NEFolknRoots message list with back-up reminders to the NEFolknRoots calendar.

I encourage all house concert presenters to reply to this message with your house concert name, town/city, the kind of music you present, contact info and upcoming concert information.

I'll start.

Venue	Date	Artists
Jackson	Friday, January 29, 2010	Jim Infantino
Jackson	Sunday, February 07, 2010	TBA
Grafton	Thursday, February 25, 2010	Sarah McQuaid
Jackson	Sunday, March 07, 2010	Geoff Bartley
Grafton	March TBA	Andrew Cohen
Grafton*	Sunday, March 14, 2010	Lucky 13

Jackson = The Jackson Homestead, an historic house museum in Newton.
Website
Mailing list
Facebook

Grafton = A private residence in Grafton.
Website
Mailing list
Facebook

Reservations for both = notlobreservations @ gmail.com

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* (may move to a larger venue in Grafton)

MARYLOU FERRANTE helps launch new house concert series

Marylou is a notloB alumna, having opened for Dennis Brennan during the Spring '08 season at the Loring-Greenough House in Jamaica Plain. When we were considering artists to launch the new notfarG series, Marylou came to mind first and foremost.

notfarG House Concerts, a sister series to notloB Folk Concerts, produced in Somerville and Newton, is pleased to present

MARYLOU FERRANTE

Sunday, October 25
$10 suggested donation, all proceeds go to the artist.

Marylou Ferrante was described by music critic and writer, Daniel Gewertz, in the Boston Herald, as the Bay State's finest female acoustic blues interpreter.

Marylou is an artist who performs pre-war blues from the 1920's & 30's. She covers major artists from the delta to east coast piedmont style players such as Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton, Blind Boy Fuller and Memphis Minnie along with mandolin players such as Yank Rachell.

Her passionate expression of these old songs comes from a love of the music and the arrangements themselves, as well as what she says is an appreciation for "the history of these folks and the difficult circumstances they endured."

Marylou has honed her craft listening to the old recordings and learning from some of the great blues players today such as Paul Rishell, Guy Davis, Robert Jones and mandolin great Rich DelGrosso. Marylou has taught at The Cellar Studio, Salem MA

* "Marylou is a killer. I have watched her grow, and now she's taking over. Blues lovers look out!"... GUY DAVIS

* "Marylou has the soul of a blues Woman" Detroit's Blues Man... ROBERT JONES

Potluck lunch at noon
Concert 1pm
Pickin' party 3-4pm

Guests are welcome to bring a beverage of choice, Tea and Coffee available.

Recording is permitted and encouraged as long as we get a copy.

Seating is very limited so we ask that you RSVP ~ send email to notlobreservations @ comcast.net ~ RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED

Future notfarG house concerts:
Sunday, November 22, 2009 Claudia Nygaard
Sunday, December 13, 2009 David Massengill

More information about Somerville and Newton concerts at the notloB Folk Concerts' website ~ http://notlobmusic.googlepages.com

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Matt Brown House Concert

Matt Brown House Concert

Friday, October 2
7:30pm - Doors open
8:00pm - Music starts!!

$10 Suggested Donation ($5 for well-behaved children)

To RSVP & For Directions: notlobreservations @comcast .net

We know it's very little notice, but we hope you'll join us for a fun evening of old-time music with a great entertainer and musician. Tell all of your friends!

Matt Brown is an engaging performer of American roots music. An accomplished multi-instrumentalist and singer, he performs toe-tapping square dance tunes and a variety of songs from the blues to ballads. With fiddle, banjo, and guitar, he delights his audiences with a sound
that is both authentic and inventive. Matt has performed with many great artists including David Holt, Alice Gerrard, and Paul Brown. He has toured with Footworks and Rhythm in Shoes, opened for April Verch and Old School Freight Train, and appeared as a guest artist with Tim O'Brien, The Wilders, and Uncle Earl. Matt is also a producer, studio musician, and partner in 5-String Productions, an independent record label based in West Chester, PA.

For more about Matt and to sample his music: http://www.fiddler1.com

notloB Folk Concerts News, October, 2009

enjoy

Stevie Coyle House Concert, Malden, 7/10

...Former rhythm, fingerstyle and lap steel guitarist / vocalist with and co-founder of The Waybacks and solo performer. Co-conspirators over the years have included Roy Zimmerman, The Foremen, Bob Frassetto and The Back Room Boys, Rory McNamara and The Frontmen, Marla Fibish & Jamie Bell and The Heart Of The Roll and Doug Adamz. Regular contributor to Acoustic Guitar Magazine. Stevie gives guitar lessons both at home in the the San Francisco Bay Area and while on the road.

http://www.steviecoyle.com
http://www.facebook.com/steviecoyle
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1077019174310&ref=nf

Pot luck 7-8pm
Concert 8pm
Jamming 10-?

Reservations required - notlobreservations (at) comcast.net

More information at http://notlobmusic.googlepages.com

The Bowmans

THE BOWMANS

notloB is assisting a friend with a house concert in Malden, the featured artists will be THE BOWMANS

The Bowmans began their performance career as "singing puppeteers" in their hometown of Davenport Iowa. Sarah and Claire's ability to harmonize was discovered (by their parents, of course) at the age of three. The twins began creating their own imaginative songs immediately upon the delivery of their first tape recorder with which they cut their first album, "Chicks and Families Radio Rocks," a compilation which included performances by various artists such as Snot the pig, Little Bear Second Brain, and Bellbina. The seeds of a lifelong partnership were sown from the far-reaching success of that first album.

The twins have performed together regularly since then, early becoming fixtures throughout the Midwest from coffee-shops to huge outdoor festivals. At Duquesne they furthered their craft, playing several venues in and around Pittsburgh area while studying at the university. After finishing college, the Bowmans moved to Baltimore and continued performing together throughout the Balto-D.C. corridor, despite the demands of Sarah's duties as an orchestra teacher.

These days, The Bowmans seem to be everywhere on the New York City music scene. And why shouldn't they be? Sarah's lyrics and vocals range from reminiscently droll to poignantly sublime. Coupled with skillful cello and guitar playing, Sarah has already afforded recognition as one of the top musicians on the city scene. Claire is an artful fiddler and evocative vocalist to match. Together, the twins' harmonies sound as if they come simultaneously from one astonishing voice. Sarah and Claire share the rare, almost telepathic bond common to twins, and because of this they are clearly always on the same musical page. The latest phase of The Bowmans' development began in 2004, when Sarah did what nearly all the American musicians do - made the move to New York City. She quickly became a fixture on the Anti-Folk scene as a solo artist and guest cellist, sharing the stage with more than a dozen of the hottest musicians and bands in town. No doubt noting her sister's immediate impact on the scene, Claire was quick to join Sarah, making the move up north later that year. The Bowmans reunited and the people of New York noticed. In a very short time, they have become nearly ubiquitous, receiving rave critical reviews and garnering themselves a devoted following from the famed Sidewalk Café in the East Village to the burgeoning Whiskey Breath weekly event in Williamsburg.

The Bowmans' sound is at once unique and prototypically American. Shades of Americana connect with characteristics of modern singer-songwriters; vaudeville blends with indie-folk; undertones of classical influences meld with loads of rock and roll edge. Though the Bowmans have worked together almost since their birth, they are beginning an enlivening new chapter to their richly musical lives.

The Bowmans, from Brooklyn, have been touring with Anais Mitchell and are expanding their fan base into the Boston area for the first time.
It will be a pot-luck along with a "suggested donation" of $15.

When: April 25, Door opens 7:00, pot luck 7:00-8:15, concert 8:30-10

More information/reservations (REQUIRED): notlobreservations(at)comcast.net

Concert to be followed by more eating/drinking, a glass harmonica demonstration, and pool and ping-pong tournaments in the basement.

p.s. The artists have Friday, April 24 open, contact me if you can provide a venue in Vermont, New Hampshire or Massachusetts.

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