Music
Butcher, Baglio, & Estes
Firehouse Center for the Arts Market Square, Newburyport, MA, United StatesJon Butcher, Sal Baglio & Allen Estes. Three veteran musicians and familiar names from the Boston music scene. Their debut album, GYPSY CARAVAN is 11 new electric and acoustic stories steeped in the blues and Americana.
Rayland Baxter
Firehouse Center for the Arts Market Square, Newburyport, MA, United StatesEven 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.”
Tiger Saw – 25th Anniversary Concert
Firehouse Center for the Arts Market Square, Newburyport, MA, United StatesThe beloved indie rock band Tiger Saw formed in Newburyport, MA in 1999. The band has since released nine albums, and played almost 1000 shows across three continents. The ever-changing lineup has included 65 different players on record, and even more in a live setting.
An Evening with John Gorka
Firehouse Center for the Arts Market Square, Newburyport, MA, United StatesFrom New Jersey, John Gorka is a world-renowned singer-songwriter who got his start at a neighborhood coffeehouse in eastern Pennsylvania. Many well known artists have recorded and/or performed John Gorka songs, including Mary Chapin Carpenter, Nanci Griffith, Mary Black and Maura O’Connell. John Gorka lives in Minnesota and when not on the road, he enjoys spending time with his wife and children. He continues to tour, playing festivals, theaters and clubs all over North America and Europe.
Big Yellow Taxi
Firehouse Center for the Arts Market Square, Newburyport, MA, United StatesBig Yellow Taxi was created to explore Joni's amazing music from it's early folk roots, to her pop masterpieces to her jazz influenced compositions, Big Yellow Taxi brings Joni's music alive.
The Suitcase Junket
Firehouse Center for the Arts Market Square, Newburyport, MA, United StatesThe Suitcase Junket is multi instrumentalist Matthew Lorenz. Solitary on stage and on the road, his mind is crowded with characters, narratives, voices, imagery, sounds as wide and varied as mountain throat singers and roadhouse juke boxes, plus newsreels of the planet's destruction and salvage. With his 2020 release, The End is New, Lorenz's grand vision for the song overrides the how of it.
YellowHouse Blues Band
Firehouse Center for the Arts Market Square, Newburyport, MA, United StatesThe YellowHouse Blues Band is a 9-piece, high energy band with horns and multiple vocalists. They’re known for putting their own take on popular songs and playing benefit concerts for causes we believe in, selling out venues all over New England.
Duke Robillard Band
Firehouse Center for the Arts Market Square, Newburyport, MA, United StatesDuke's resume is decorated with Grammy nominations, Handy Awards and Blues Music Awards, and other honors for his artistry, recordings and productions within the United States and internationally. On his latest release, "Duke Robillard and his Dames of Rhythm" on M.C. Records, he wields an acoustic archtop and joins six thrushes for evocative and enjoyable renditions of 1920s and 1930s swing tunes; it's a worthy successor to his 2016 BMA-winning "The Acoustic Blues And Roots Of Duke Robillard."
BLKBOK
Firehouse Center for the Arts Market Square, Newburyport, MA, United StatesBLKBOK’s critically-acclaimed debut album Black Book, served as a founding cornerstone at the Juneteenth Foundation’s Freedom Concert. His first Mixtape release, (VRARI, and current Mixtape project Angels Watching Over Me, with world-renowned tenor Lawrence Brownlee, illustrate the innovative and disruptive musical landscape that is BLKBOK.