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A guide to 2021 outdoor music festivals in Connecticut and beyond Mike Horyczun FacebookTwitterEmail 1of12 Ellis Paul performs at the Black Bear Americana Music Fest.Tim Rice Photo /Show MoreShow Less 2of12 John Hiatt performs at the Rhythm and Roots Festival in Rhode Island.Jim McGuire Photo /Show MoreShow Less 3of12 4of12 5of12 Lizzie No at performs at the Black Bear Americana Music Fest.Gabriel Barreto Photo /Show MoreShow Less 6of12 8of12 Richard Thompson performs at the Rhythm and Roots Fe...

CAMDEN — After a year of limited and no-audience shows, the Camden Opera House is ready welcome the public back in for a safe and busy season of arts and entertainment. And while audience members are allowed to remove masks, the Opera House is...

Here’s who’s playing this summer so far, as pop concerts return to Maine Outdoor venues like Thompsons Point are starting to book shows, and some indoor ones already have full schedules. Photo by Zoran Orlic After an eerily quiet 2020, venues all over Maine will be filled with music this year. There were some small outdoor shows in Maine last year – at drive-ins or musicians’ homes – but this year, indoor venues and large outdoor ones are booking national acts once again. Some smalle...

The Narrows Center for the Arts will present a live concert at the arts venue with music legend Tom Rush on May 28.

Matt Nakoas official website Each Wednesday and Sunday evening at 8 p.m. “Live At The Linda” brings you some of the best musical acts to grace the stage at The Linda - WAMCs Performing Arts Studio. This week features two shows from our “Open For Take-Out Virtual Concert Series;” Julia Alsarraf recorded live in March 2021 and Matt Nakoa recorded in April 2021. Credit Julia Alsarraf We start the night with Huston, TX native Julia Alsarraf, an RPI grad, who decided to stick around in Tro...

Ed Ward at his home in South Austin on Nov. 14, 2019 (Photo by John Anderson) In 1964, when the New Yorker (born Nov. 2, 1948) began scribbling prose for mimeographed folk fanzine Broadside at the age of 16, rock & roll ranked right up there with newsprint at the bottom of the birdcage or litter pan: utterly disposable. Teen Beat and 16 ruled the day with “fab pix and fax,” but Ward lit out for an entirely unexplored musical universe the moment Bob Dylan strapped on...

8 p.m., Friday, May 7, 2021 It was an old recording of Mongo Santamaria doing a cover of The Beatles’ classic “Day Tripper” as an Afro-Cuban cha cha cha dance beat that inspired the birth of Los Day Trippers. This unique and lively band started their musical journey at a neighborhood Mexican restaurant in 2018, striking a chord with generations of Beatles lovers while hitting a groove that drew from Latin music traditions like mambo, cumbia, cha cha cha, bossa nova, merengue, bolero, and ...

Written by Emily Morrow on April 12, 2021 What brought you to hosting a show on WICN? Why do you love being on the air? I moved into Worcester proper in the summer of 2007. I had been listening to The Folk Revival on WICN on and off—I love folk music and I was working on a book about folk music. I had known then-host Norah Dooley through The Revels in Boston, and I called her and asked if I could drop by the station some Thursday to see her in action. By late s...

CAPITAL REGION, N.Y. — Spring is a season of rebirth, a fact proven by local entertainment announcements over the past week. Playhouse Stage company announced that at the end of April it will be producing a musical indoors at the Cohoes Music Hall. “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” will run Fridays through Sundays, April 30-May 9. Seating is limited to 50 people a performance. Masks, social distancing and contact tracing will be in effect. Tickets are $30 each. - Adve...

Five decades later, she can still remember the high points, like meeting a few Beatles, encountering Mick Jagger or a very young Michael Jackson in the studio, or sharing a bill with Tina Turner. And she can also recall the precise moment when she decided to shut it all down, at least for a long while. It was the summer of 1971, and Kate Taylor — along with her siblings, especially her older brother James — was having a moment. Earlier that year, Atlantic Records had released her first albu...