The Lovell Sisters
The Lovell Sisters w/Gunther Brown
Saturday, August 01, 2009 8:00 PM
There is a word often used when describing rising Americana stars The Lovell Sisters: Passion. It’s what
these three young women (ages 18-23) feel when they step on stage. Passion is the fuel that feeds their writing and arranging, and it colors every note they play and sing on Time To Grow, their upcoming album. Winners of Prairie Home Companion‘s National Teen Talent Competition in 2005, the Lovell Sisters spread the heavenly harmony of sisterhood and sibling string virtuosity — Jessica on fiddle, Megan on dobro, Rebecca on guitar and mandolin (the first female to win the Merlefest mandolin contest).
Alternating between sincere and playful with their take on folk and Americana, Gunther Brown serves up songs of love and loss as easily as tales of bowling alleys and jailbreaks. The Phoenix says they’re a new band to watch
Price $10 adv/ $12 door
The Sweetback Sisters w/Dietrich Strause
Sunday, August 02, 2009 8:00 PM
Like their pseudo-sister role models, the Davis Sisters, the Sweetback Sisters sing country songs in close, surrogate-sister harmony and matching dresses. Their repertoire combines several of the Sisters’ passions — country music from before they were born and new interpretations of those traditions — to create a fresh take on what it means to be country.
The Sweetback line-up features the lavish voices of Zara Bode and Emily Miller joined by an all-star cast of instrumentalists including: West Virginian triple threat Jesse Milnes; Stefan Amidon on drums; Philly’s stringed slayer Ross Bellenoit on rippin’ Telecaster, and a the newest Sweetback Sister Bridget Kearney on bass.
Their debut EP Bang! was released in early 2007 and earned them a spot on A Prairie Home Companion’s talent contest for twenty-somethings. A full length album Chicken Ain’t Chicken is scheduled for release June 30th on the Signature Sounds label.
With sold out concerts across the North East these kids have had an exciting start! So why not come see this wild bunch in action? Get yer shanks in gear, grab a beer, and swoon while they croon the country classics!
Dietrich Strause is a singer/songwriter raised in southeastern Pennsylvania. When he was a young impressionable boy, he played trumpet with a rock and roll/soul band where his licks were well received at biker bars throughout rural Pennsylvania. Over the years he developed an appreciation and love for a well-written song, leading him to pursue songwriting. He currently resides in Jamaica Plain in Boston and is writing and performing more material to be polished and recorded for a debut album available in the spring of 2009.
$12 admission
www.thesweetbacksisters.com
www.dietrichstrause.com
The Imperial Hot Club
Tuesday, August 04, 2009 8:00 PM
One Longfellow Square’s 2009 Summer Jazz Festival brings you Sizzling Gypsy Jazz featuring Ed Pearlman (fiddle), Kris Day (bass), Zac Ovington (mandolin), and Mike Arciero (guitar).
Tickets available at the door only.
www.myspace.com/imperialhotclub
Price: $5.00
Jeremiah McLane, Sarah Blair & David Surette
Thursday, August 06, 2009 8:00 PM
Jeremiah McLane (accordion/piano), David Surette (guitar/bouzouki/mandolin) and Sarah Blair (fiddle) are three of New England’s top traditional players, representing the New England Celtic Tradition at its strongest in bands such as Nightingale, The Sevens, and Airdance.
Composer, accordionist, and pianist Jeremiah McLane brings together French, Celtic and North American Roots music in a style that is at once exuberant and introspective, tende
r and passionate. He places familiar sounds in unusual settings, and combines a gift of improvisation with a keen appreciation for the power of melody
“Sarah Blair is simply a great fiddler.” (Fiddler Magazine). Sarah Blair began playing Irish fiddle in Providence, Rhode Island’s thriving traditional Irish music scene. She honed her playing as a sought-after session leader in Boston and in the world of American contra dancing. With her band The Sevens and with other ensembles, Sarah has played at festivals, concerts, and dance weeks from Alaska to Quebec to Florida. She is included in “Handy with the Stick: Fiddler Magazine’s Best of Irish fiddling,” a forthcoming book profiling top Irish fiddlers.
One of New England’s finest guitarists, David Surette has been quietly generating a growing following for his work as a soloist. His solo albums “Back Roads” and “Trip to Kemper” have helped to establish him as a top player and arranger of Celtic fingerstyle guitar, yet his diverse repertoire also includes original compositions, blues and ragtime, traditional American roots music, and folk music from a variety of traditions, all played with finesse, taste, and virtuosity. He is equally at home on the mandolin and bouzouki, and is well-known as a top-notch accompanist in New England’s contra dance and Celtic music circles, and is also in demand as a studio musician and sideman.
www.burkesurette.com
www.jeremiahmclane.com
www.sarahblair.us
Price: $10.00
Moira Smiley & VOCO w/Ramblin’ Red
Friday, August 07, 2009 8:00 PM
Stompin’ rebel-harmony with cello & banjo: Original songs steeped in Appalachia & Eastern Europe. Moira Smiley & VOCO sing powerful, emotional music with lush harmony and the delicious vaudevillian combo of cello, accordion and banjo. Sprinkled throughout their songs are rompin’ stompin’ body percussion sets – always a show-stopping pleasure. Voted #1 a cappella band in the U.S., the four members of VOCO create post-folk, improvisation-built songs while digging into old Americana and Eastern European sounds. Original music and new fruits from the old songs… americana to Bartók, ethereal and gritty.
Inspired by the crashing of the ocean, the creak of the back porch, the crunch of homemade tacos, and the wonders of wine, Portland Maine based quartet Ramblin’ Red takes you down original folk roads with old-time twists and bluegrass turns, in funky dance-off shoes. And they always bring you home satisfied. They’re fun-loving gals with serious soul and unrivaled harmonies!
www.moirasmiley.com
www.myspace.com/ramblinredmusic
www.annegretbaier.com
Price $15
David Wilcox w/Randall Williams
Saturday, August 08, 2009 8:00 PM
Sponsored by The Bollard!
On stage alone, armed with a single guitar, David weaves a rich tapestry in every concert. He’s a tremendously talented singer and inventive guitarist, utilizing numerous alternative tunings and cut capos. In addition to his musical skills, he’s an expert storyteller. Performances feature his beautifully crafted songs offset by wonderful stories and wry observations on the world. His shows are a journey through the full range and richness of life. While there’s plenty of weight to the topics covered in his lyrics, David’s wit is never far away as well. His songs are an invitation to ask for more – more from your music, more from your relationships, more from your life. They are intended to be the soundtrack for a life well lived
Opener Randall Williams “has hit the musical jackpot with Praying For Land. This album contains meaningful stories told by a master singer-songwriter and supported by well crafted melodies and instrumentation.”(Steve Clarke)
www.davidwilcox.com
www.whereisrandall.com
Price $22 advance, $25 at the door
The Portland Jazz Orchestra
Tuesday, August 11, 2009 8:00 PM
One Longfellow Square’s Summer Jazz Festival continues with big band style jazz from Dr. Chris Oberholtzer’s 18 piece ensemble.
About Portland Jazz Orchestra
Started in 2004, the Portland Jazz Orchestra is Maine’s premier concert jazz ensemble. Under the direction of Dr. Chris Oberholtzer this 18-piece jazz ensemble performs a variety of traditional and contemporary big band literature. The PJO enjoys playing works written by members such as Craig Skeffington, Willie Johnson, Chris Humphrey and Terry White in addition to literature composed by a variety of jazz artists including Tom Kubis, Matt Harris, Bob Mintzer, Bill Holman and Maria Schneider. The diversity of repertoire the PJO performs may also be heard when they perform classic works from the big band libraries of the Count Basie Orchestra, Woody Herman Orchestra and the Stan Kenton Orchestra.
The PJO is made up of professional musicians, many of whom are both performers and educators here in New England. Members of the PJO have performed, recorded and toured with numerous artists including: Natalie Cole, Tony Bennett, Bob Mintzer, Marvin Stamm, Barry Manilow, Roberta Flack, the Temptations, the Artie Shaw Orchestra and the Glenn Miller Orchestra.
In 2008, the PJO was nominated for “Best Jazz Act” in the Portland Phoenix. Past performances have included working with the New York Voices, Bob Mintzer, Conrad Herwig, and Wayne Bergeron. In keeping with our educational background, the Portland Jazz Orchestra is available for clinics and performances throughout northern New England.
Tickets are available at the door only. $5
The Lighthouse & the Whaler w/The Orchards
Wednesday, August 12, 2009 8:00 PM
It began in a field. The Lighthouse & The Whaler began in 2008 when Michael LoPresti, Evan Storey, and Aaron Smith went to a park in Cleveland, Ohio to play music together. They wrote their first song in fifteen minutes. As they played it, people began to stop and listen. The boys realized they were on to something and The Lighthouse & The Whaler was born.
The Lighthouse & The Whaler blends sweeping vocals with shimmering melodies and orchestral soundscapes. They have just released their first EP, A Whisper, A Clamour. The four track EP is the culmination of that single moment in the field. The EP is now available on iTunes and Amazon.
In its short existence the band has been featured on multiple radio stations and asked to be on Paste Magazine’s compilation CD in March, 2009.
www.thelighthouseandthewhaler.com
www.myspace.com/ericschwan
Price $8
Brave Combo
Thursday, August 13, 2009 8:00 PM
Rarely, if ever, has a band name been more apropos, not only at the group’s inception, but even more so more than 30 years after the fact. At first glance, back in 1979, the Denton, Texas, based outfit was, in shorthand, pegged as a New Wave polka band, a courageous if not almost oxymoronic endeavor during that particular rebirth of the cool. Yet it clicked and launched a stunning run that has now catapulted it into the new century. Over the last 29 years, Brave Combo has collected a dizzying array of descriptive musical pegs, boldly going where few bands have gone before, and even fewer could (or would) dare to venture.
Succeeding in its first mission, Brave Combo is America’s premier contemporary polka band, and a Grammy winning one at that. In the same breath, to name some but hardly all of the colors found on Brave Combo’s musical palette, one can describe them as a groundbreaking world music act, a hot jazz quintet, a rollicking rock’n'roll bar band, a Tex-Mex conjunto, a sizzling blues band, a saucy cocktail combo, a deadly serious novelty act, a Latin orchestra, and one of America’s dance bands par excellence. It’s all in a night’s music for Brave Combo, often in a synergistic fashion that includes everything from klezmer surf rock to rocking cha cha to what The Washington Post calls “mosh pit polka,” as well as to the hokey pokey and the chicken dance. And zydeco, acid rock, Muzak, bubblegum, cumbia, classical, and the twist, to still not exhaust the list. This plethoric multitude of musical styles and flavors is frequently mixed, matched, and melded, into delicious, new concoctions by an imaginative team of musical gourmet master chefs.
Price: $17.00
Christine Lavin & Don White’s Concert & Comedy
Saturday, August 15, 2009 8:00 PM Sponsored by The Bollard!
Christine Lavin’s smart and funny songs nail our lives and foibles on the head! With a comedienne’s arsenal of irony and wit, Christine’s delightfully skewed songs cover a lot of territory.
Don White stays right at home to mine comic gold. Coming from the world of stand-up, he is a family man whose concerts can turn what happens in his home into an onstage biopic! His funny and often touching songs go straight to his audience’s heart
www.donwhite.net
www.christinelavin.com
Price: $20.00
The Lenny Breau Project
Tuesday, August 18, 2009 8:00 PM
One Longfellow Square’s Summer Jazz Festival continues with a celebration of the music of guitar legend Lenny Breau, featuring younger brother Denny Breau (guitar), Tony Gaboury (guitar), Fitz Jenkins (bass) and Steve Grover (drums).
Price: $5.00
“A Wild Patience”
Wednesday, August 19, 2009 7:30 PM
The Art Moves Dance Project presents “A Wild Patience”, a new musical comedy written by Debi Irons, composed by Phoenix McLaughlin and performed by a cast of ten dancers, singers, musicians & actors.
A musical dance comedy follows the story of dancer Davi from young girlhood into middle age capturing the funny situations a focus bordering on obliviousness can lead to. Light, poignant, timely and timeless.
The Art Moves Dance Project is a collection of dance programs, rooted in Maine, with a mission to build awareness and appreciation of self-expression and the creative process.
Price: $12.00
Primo Cubano
Thursday, August 20, 2009 8:00 PM
Formed in 2006 by bandleader Paul D’Alessio after an inspiring visit to Cuba, Primo Cubano re-creates the excitement and flavor of the Cuban SON , kept alive by musicians in the streets of Trinidad De Cuba and all over the island.
No strangers to One Longfellow Square, Primo Cubano, Maine’s own Cuban son and salsa band, provides the music to a night of Latin Dancing as part of a new Third Thursday dance series
Price $8
The Blue Sky Mission Club
Friday, August 21, 2009 8:00 PM
The Zydeco experience Blue Sky Mission Club creates can often make one think.. “I am having an Incredible time! Why haven’t I heard this kind of music before?” Thats because Zydeco music is one of the newest forms of traditional music. This spirited style of music stems from the depts of Louisiana history.
Blue Sky Mission Club’s newest form of this traditional music takes Zydeco and introduces it to blistering Lap Steel Guitar, Funky and Deep Hypnotic Grooves. All while writing songs with socially relevent lyrics that make everyone want to sing and dance along..they call it Soulgrass!
Truly, defining Blue Sky Mission Club is.. “Practicing the age old tradition of playing music people want to dance to” Love and the love of music is the influence behind Blue Sky Mission Club. Rooted in Creole, Zydeco and branching into Soul, Bluegrass, Reggae and Funk.
www.myspace.com/blueskymissionclub
Price $10
Professor Louie & Friends
Saturday, August 22, 2009 8:00 PM
Professor Louie – keyboards/accordion and vocalist. He was tagged Prof. Louie by The Band’s vocalist/bassist Rick Danko while performing together as a duo.
For the past eight years he has been recording & performing with his group, The Crowmatix. Releasing six studio CD’s and a Live Concert recording at The New York State Museum on Woodstock Records. With his writing partner, Miss Marie, they wrote an international award winning composition “Melody Of Peace”, traveling to Prague to perform and record with The Prague Radio Symphony & Kuhn Choir. This recording is on the ERM/Naxos label.
Early in his career, he toured the gospel and blues circuit playing keyboards for the The Mighty Gospel Giants Of Brooklyn.
Aaron Prof. Louie Hurwitz co-produced, engineered & performed on the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall Of Fame group, The Band’s, last three CD’s. His most recent producing credit is The Commander Cody Band’s CD, Dopers, Drunks & Everyday Losers on the Blind Pig Label, 2009. Other production and sessions credits: Ireland’s Four Men and A Dog, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, The New Riders, Graham Parker, Mercury Rev & Guy Davis.
Louie has an instructional DVD on Homespun Tapes, Rock & Blues Accordion. He has toured 4 times in Novosibirsk, Siberia, A documentary of his experiences Woodstock-Siberia Blues Express was featured at the Woodstock Film Festival and The International Maine Film Festival.
Price: $10.00
Grupo Mofongo
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 8:00 PM
One Longfellow Square’s Summer Jazz Festival continues with Traditional Afro-Cuban music from Andres Espinoza (percussion), Rafael Freyre (tres, vocals), Gary Wittner (guitar, vocals), and Nate Therrien (bass).
Price: $5.00
Vandaveer CD Release
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 8:00 PM
Vandaveer is the alt-folk song singing/record making/globetrotting project penned and put forth by DC-by-way-of-Kentucky tunesmith Mark Charles Heidinger. The son of a preacher whose father was a gambler whose father was both judge and US congressman, Mark Charles one day found himself in possession of a golden pocket watch owned, wound, and regularly counseled by each in this paternal line. On the backside of said watch was a family name engraved, passed down for a century or more like the timepiece that followed. That name was Vandaveer.
Vandaveer’s debut album, Grace & Speed, a mostly live, stripped down affair, swiftly entered this great big dusty world in the spring of 2007 garnering rave reviews and hyperbolic comparisons to Dylan, Waits, Drake, Simon, and the like. Touring continually on both sides of the Atlantic ever since, Vandaveer has played hundreds of shows, sharing stages with a host of humbling artists including Bon Iver, Alejandro Escovedo, Vashti Bunyan, Vetiver, Evan Dando, Scout Niblett, The Ditty Bops, Smog, Fleet Foxes, Alela Diane and his dear friends in DC’s ramshackle collective, The Federal Reserve. In addition to said Vandaveering, Mark Charles has been known to fraternize and conspire with other music-making hooligans, primarily as a bassist with fellow DCers These United States.
Vandaveer’s sophomore effort, Divide & Conquer, touches upon similar themes found in its elder sibling, winding timeworn themes of love & death, malice & goodwill, sin & perseverance into (mostly) four-minute vignettes. To see D&C through, Vandaveer enlisted the able assistance of longtime collaborator and producer Duane Lundy, brothers-in-arms/TUS bandmates Robby Cosenza and Justin Craig, and most notably, his fair sister Rose Guerin, supplying the loveliest harmonies this side of Eden. A decidedly more produced venture, D&C offers up a flourishing chamber folk companion to its bedroomy lo-fi folk/pop predecessor.
Price: $10.00
Holy Ghost Tent Revival
Thursday, August 27, 2009 8:00 PM
Characterized as “explosively intoxicating,” this Greensboro, NC six-piece can only be described in terms of what has already been defined, for there is no way to narrow them into any perfect genre. Mixing euphonium with banjo, and acoustic guitar with drums, keys, and electric bass, Holy Ghost Tent Revival is an eclectic mix of so many things — dirty jazz, ragtime, folk, roots country/bluegrass, big band and rock and roll.
Love, simplicity, and honesty inform their writing. They sing about uncertainty, love lost, and the consequences of stupid passion, but this is not all they know. They know that the source of their hope and creativity flows from their sincere love for and conviction to be a part of the lives of those who follow their music. These young men guarantee honesty in the hopes that you may think of their words when joys or troubles involve themselves in your life, and most importantly, they wish to extend their gratitude for all of your kind words and support as they continue to grow in their effort to bring a compelling new sound to those in need of just that.
Price: $10.00
An Evening with Maine’s Finest
Friday, August 28, 2009 8:00 PM
Building upon the recent success of An Evening w/ Maine’s Finest Female Artists Live at the Opera House in Waterville and Camden Maine, Der Simonian, LLC has teamed up with One Longfellow Square to produce a co-ed version of the event at Portland’s premiere arts venue at 8PM on Friday, August 28th. Audiences will be treated to original live acoustic performances from a collection of Maine’s finest songwriters including Marie Moreshead, Pete Miller, Anni Clark and Raffi Der Simonian.
Dubbed Portland’s newest ingénue by The Portland Phoenix, Marie Moreshead has quickly gained a reputation for her impressive lyrical prowess and melodic instinct. Winning over audiences of all ages and musical preferences, Marie embodies the edgy elegance of Ani DiFranco and undeniable charm of Joni Mitchell. Fresh out of the recording studio, Moreshead will be offering the audience a chance to walk away with one or two mixed and mastered tracks from her new EP.
Although new on the scene, Pete Miller is a songwriter with immense talent and worth taking special notice of. His laid-back brand of acoustic folk/rock/pop is influenced by contemporary artists such as Xavier Rudd, Jack Johnson, Jason Mraz and Iron & Wine. His goose-bump evoking songs are complimented by impeccable guitar, soulful vocals and musical phrasing that is spot on.
Considered among Main’s most highly respected and hardest working female artists, Anni Clark is known throughout New England for her incredible songwriting and unforgettable stage presence. According to Central Maine Newspapers, she can have you laughing one moment and in tears the next with the honest emotions in her material.
Maine native Raffi Der Simonian has released 2 original albums that have been charted on college radio stations around New England. Der Simonian has shared the stage with nationally known recording artists such as Naughty By Nature, Toots & The Maytols, Howie Day, James Montgomery, Badfish, Digable Planets and others. Armed with an arsenal of upbeat brand of laid-back rock: think of Jack Johnson or the style’s kingpin, Dave Matthews, as signposts. According to Worcester Magazine, “It’s hard to find an artist that successfully blends the boundary between folk and rock, as Bob Dylan did in the 60′s and Dave Matthews did in the 90s. That’s what makes Raffi Der Simonian so unique.”
Price: $12.00
Jimmy Tingle
Saturday, August 29, 2009 8:00 PM
Jimmy is a brand name in the national theater and comedy scenes and has become one of the most well-revered, clean, social and political humorists in the nation. Jimmy has an impressive list of career accomplishments and credits including 2 years on 60 Minutes II, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Show with Conan O’Brien, Larry King. Jimmy has also hosted his own HBO special, “One Night Stand with Jimmy Tingle”.
Price: $20.00
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