Fred Abong News Today

When LSMS impresario Peter Aucella sent over the latest batch of announcements for the 2024 Lowell Summer Music Series, he punctuated his email with the following: “Good to have a lot of new blood this year!”

Folk rockers The Lumineers visit the Pavilion at Star Lake on Wednesday for their Brightside World Tour with support from Caamp. The band, who hit it big with “Ho Hey” in 2012, are touring in support of their album, “Brightside,” which came out earlier this year. Tickets start at $35.

Hersh, of Throwing Muses, is set to play City Winery on May 30 with Fred Abong, also of the band.. Read more about this event on Boston.com.

MAGIC is on the cards in the week ahead, and you cant wrong if you follow Charles Hutchinsons tips for what else to do and see.

“Everybodys life is boring. But if they give you 30 years to work with, you can edit out all the boring sh-t. It makes your life look insane,” she marvels. But Hersh’s life has been anything but dull. She spent her childhood running around naked in a commune in Georgia. “It was a barn in the woods for hippies. The cops would come to the door sometimes and search the house for drugs.” Her mother Crane, a special educational needs teacher, was a “nice Southern lady” (who later marri...