The Refugees
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Doors 7:00 PM, Showtime 8:00 PM
The trio of women that is The Refugees emerged on the music scene as a verifiably unmatched force of talent, diversity, and experience. Each successful in her own right as a solo artist, Cindy Bullens, Deborah Holland and Wendy Waldman formed their unique and innovative group in 2007 and since that time have been wowing audiences, radio DJs, and music critics alike with their soaring harmonies, indelible musicianship, and unforgettably humorous stage presence.
Spring Wine Tour 2012
Sunday, May 20, 2012
12 pm - 5 pm
A self-driving tour featuring nine wineries and their food partners offering fine wine and fare!
South Tour - Sunday, May 6th:
Buckingham Valley Vineyards,
Crossing Vineyards and Winery,
Rose Bank Winery,
Rushland Ridge Vineyards,
Wycombe Vineyards
North Tour - Sunday, May 20th:
New Hope Winery,
Peace Valley Winery,
Sand Castle Winery,
Unami Ridge Winery
Jim Weider's PRoJECT PERCoLAToR
Friday, June 15, 2012
Doors 7:00pm, Showtime 8:00pm
Jim Weider, former member of the legendary group "THE BAND" is a Master of classic Telecaster Guitar. ProJECT PERCoLAToR represents Jim's newest musical venture into a powerful groove & atmospheric guitar driven band. The All Star Line up Featuring RODNEY HOLMES - Drums (Santana &Brecker Bros), JASON CROSBY- Keyboards/Violin (Robert Randolph Band) & STEVE LUCAS on Bass - AVI BORTNICK -guitar (John Scofield Band). Jim blends rock & blues, with funk & jazz groove's combining modern drum loops and samples, to playing beautiful melodic ballads. The band's amazing improvisation and chemistry from worldwide touring, plays a show both exciting and mesmerizing!
The Simon & Garfunkel Songbook: An Evening of Songs & Stories- featuring Aztec Two-Step
Friday, June 22, 2012
Doors 7pm, Showtime 8pm
When Rex Fowler and Neal Shulman, the critically acclaimed duo Aztec
Two-Step, burst on the scene in 1972 with their Elektra Records debut, they
were reviewed as having the “intellectual lyricism” and “ethereal harmonies”
of their legendary predecessors, Simon & Garfunkel.
Renowned for bringing the folk/rock music of the 1960s into the '70s and beyond,
Aztec Two-Step continues to be one of acoustic music's most respected
and enduring acts.While the duo possess a rich musical legacy of their own,
it only makes sense that they would choose to interpret and perform the timeless
songs and harmonies of Simon & Garfunkel.
Dave Mason (2 Nights!)
VIP Sold Out!
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Doors 7pm, Showtime 8pm
*VIP Sold Out!
Dave Mason is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist from Worcester, who first found fame with the rock band Traffic. In his long career, Mason has played and recorded with many of the era's most notable rock musicians, including Jimi Hendrix, Delaney Bramlett, Michael Jackson, The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Fleetwood Mac and Cass Elliot.
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Mason's best known song is "Feelin' Alright", recorded by Traffic in 1968 and later by many other performers, including Joe Cocker, who had a major hit with the song in 1969. For Traffic, he also wrote "Hole in My Shoe", a psychedelic pop song that became a hit in its own right. "We Just Disagree", Mason's 1977 solo hit written by Jim Krueger, has become a staple of Classic Hits and Adult Contemporary radio playlists
Dave Mason (2 Nights!)
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Doors 5pm, Showtime 6pm
Dave Mason is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist from Worcester, who first found fame with the rock band Traffic. In his long career, Mason has played and recorded with many of the era's most notable rock musicians, including Jimi Hendrix, Delaney Bramlett, Michael Jackson, The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Fleetwood Mac and Cass Elliot.
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Mason's best known song is "Feelin' Alright", recorded by Traffic in 1968 and later by many other performers, including Joe Cocker, who had a major hit with the song in 1969. For Traffic, he also wrote "Hole in My Shoe", a psychedelic pop song that became a hit in its own right. "We Just Disagree", Mason's 1977 solo hit written by Jim Krueger, has become a staple of Classic Hits and Adult Contemporary radio playlists
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Jefferson Starship
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Doors 7:00pm, Showtime 8:00pm
Jefferson Starship was created by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and Jefferson Airplane founder Paul Kantner; and, David Freiberg, also a former Jefferson Airplane member.Jefferson Starship 2012 features a luminary assemblage, fronted by Grammy nominated lead vocalist Cathy Richardson who starred on Broadway on “Love, Janis.” Joining Richardson,Freiberg & Kantner is longtime lead guitarist Slick Aguilar who has been with the band 20 years, drummer Donny Baldwin who appeared on many of
the band’s classic recordings, and keyboardist/bassist Chris Smith who joined the band in 1998 after years with The Supremes. The band continues to perform their iconic repertoire of hits spanning all eras of their
existence, including “Jane,” “Somebody To Love,” “Miracles,” “White Rabbit,”
“Volunteers,” “Count On Me” and many more.
The Grand Slambovians featuring Gandalf Murphy
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Doors 7:00pm, Showtime 8:00pm
Together since the late 90's where they met in art school, Gandalf Murphy & The Slambovian Circus of Dreams are shedding their skin and come out boldly as 'The Grand Slambovians' in 2011 touring the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. in support of their latest creative effort. Unleashing their hauntingly signature songs on the world once again, the new album is getting rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic. Manically melodic, the bold, new songs knit into the band’s classics like an old paisley quilt wrapped around a very large family. The ultimate DIY’ers, the band runs its own label and has previously released 3 critically acclaimed studio albums - 'The Great Unravel' (2008), 2004's double-disc 'Flapjacks from the Sky', 'A Good Thief Tips His Hat' (1998). Known for electrifying live performances and great original music, they have a devoted and growing international fan base.
An Evening With: The Smithereens
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Doors 7:00pm, Showtime 8:00pm
The Smithereens formed in 1980 with members Pat DiNizio (vocals & guitar), Jim Babjak (guitar & vocals), Mike Mesaros (bass guitar & vocals), and Dennis Diken (drums & percussion). This lineup continued until 2006, when Mesaros left the band and Severo Jornacion took over on bass guitar. They released the near-perfect "Especially for You" in July 1986, and FM rock radio was quick to embrace the moody “Blood and Roses” and the hard-hitting “Behind the Wall of Sleep,” both of which reached Billboard magazine’s Album Rock Tracks chart. Produced by Jersey guy Ed Stasium, the muscular and melodic 11 would be certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America, and the powerhouse single “A Girl Like You” would peak at No. 38 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1990.
The rest of the ’90s were a whirlwind of activity for the band: regular touring, changing record labels, more albums, some side projects as well as appearances on such TV staples as The Tonight Show and Saturday Night Live.
Rare Earth
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Doors 7:00pm, Show 8:00pm
Rare Earth had a number of Top 40 hits in the 1970-1971 period, including covers of The Temptations' "(I Know) I'm Losing You" (which was used in the documentary video It's Time) and "Get Ready". The cover of "Get Ready" was their biggest hit, peaking at #4 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, a more successful performance than the original. This disc sold over one million copies and received a Gold record awarded by the Recording Industry Association of America.
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In 2005, Rare Earth was inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends online Hall of Fame. The band's first big hit, "Get Ready", was voted a Legendary Michigan Song in 2011.[4]
Their hit "I Just Want to Celebrate" has been used in major national advertising campaigns by Ford Motor Company and AT&T. It appeared in the final episode of the TV show Six Feet Under and has also been prominently featured in the movies Arthur, Three Kings, A Knight's Tale and Land of the Lost, as well as in the trailer for the movie Tropic Thunder and in the end credits music in episode 24 ("One Day in the Valley") of Entourage. It was sampled in the opening song, "Sirens", on the 2007 Little Brother album Getback and was done as "We Celebrate" on the new Ghostface Killah album The Big Doe Rehab.
Melanie
Original Woodstock Performer
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Doors 5:00pm, Show 6:00pm
Melanie is a singer/songwriter best known for her hits "Brand New Key", "Ruby Tuesday", "What Have They Done To My Song Ma" and "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)". She performed at the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and the inspiration for her signature song, "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)", apparently arose from the Woodstock audience lighting candles during her set.
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In 1970, Melanie was the only artist to brave the court injunction banning the Powder Ridge Rock Festival, playing for the crowd on a homemade stage powered by Mister Softee trucks. Shortly following this performance, she played at the Strawberry Fields Festival, held from August 7 to 9, 1970, at Mosport Park, Ontario. She also performed at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 where she was introduced by Keith Moon and received four standing ovations (she also appeared 40 years later at the 2010 Isle of Wight festival). She was also the artist who sang to herald in the summer solstice at Glastonbury Fayre (later the Glastonbury Festival) in England in June 1971. She performed again at Glastonbury in 2011, the fortieth anniversary of the original festival
Sophie B. Hawkins
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Doors 7:00pm, Show 8:00pm
Since her instantaneous 1992 breakthrough with the indelible hit single “Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover” and her acclaimed debut album Tongues and Tails, Hawkins has proved an enduring artist with a fierce commitment to constantly evolving, while remaining steadfastly true to her own authentic history and experience.
This comes to the fore as she breaks open her heart without reservation on The Crossing, her longawaited first album of new songs in several years.
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Whaler, her second album, was released in 1994. Produced by Stephen Lipson, it also contained a US Top 10 hit, "As I Lay Me Down," and made gold status. Three singles from the album made the UK top 40, including "Right Beside You" which peaked at #13.
After a hiatus she is releasing her 5th album of all new material in 2012, The Crossing. It is a searing, lush and startlingly naked chronicle of the most intense period of Hawkins’ life, in which she has come to terms with her father’s death, openly surrendered to the haunting specter of her past, discovered the exhilaration of motherhood and arrived at a profound reckoning of acceptance. All of this emerges in songwriting and vocals that mix the brashly playful and the unabashedly poignant in fresh ways for Hawkins. Critics and pre-reviewers are already hailing it one of her best albums she's ever recorded.
TUSK- The Ultimate Fleetwood Mac Tribute Band
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Doors 7:00pm, Show 8:00pm
TUSK covers all the great hits of Fleetwood Mac, which has featured the talents of Mick Fleetwood, Christine and John McVie, Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks and others over the years. The Fleetwood Mac story is an episodic saga that spans more than 30 years. It is the saga of a British blues band formed in 1967 that became a California-based pop group in the mid-Seventies.
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In between came a period where Fleetwood Mac shuffled personnel and experimented with styles, all the while releasing solid albums with chart topping hits such as Landslide, Rhiannon, Go Your Own Way, Don’t Stop, Dreams, Say You Love Me, Hold Me and many others. The five seasoned, well-respected musicians comprising TUSK have been making music together in various combinations and styles, in original outfits and in cover bands, for over twenty-five years. It seemed only fitting that they should come together to form the Ultimate Fleetwood Mac Tribute, and pay homage to a group that dominated the charts during the band members’ formative years. Fronted by solo artists Kathy Phillips (vocals) and Scott McDonald (guitar, vocals), and supported by veteran musicians Kim Williams (keys, vocals), Randy Artiglere (bass) and Tom Nelson (drums), TUSK takes its audience members on a sweet ride down memory lane. Authentic-sounding and always respectful, TUSK leaves no stone unturned in replicating the sounds of one of the world’s best-loved, top-selling bands.
Mary Fahl (of October Project)
Saturday, October 6, 2012
Doors 7:00pm, Show 8:00pm
“Sounding like no other singer of her generation” (Allmusic.com), Mary Fahl is an expressive, emotional singer/songwriter who first achieved fame as lead singer and co-founder of the mid-1990s cult band October Project, an East Coast chamber-pop group that recorded two poetic albums for Epic, selling over 300,000 albums.
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Since her "October Project" days, Fahl has written and performed songs for several major motion pictures, including the lead song (“Going Home”) for the Warner Bros. Civil War epic “Gods and Generals” and recorded solo albums for Sony Classical and V2 Records, including her recently released re-imagining of the Pink Floyd classic, “Dark Side of the Moon”. Mary Fahl defies stereotypes and that may be her greatest strength. Her elegant, cinematic songs draw on classical and world music sources, American art song, as well as thinking man’s folk-pop. The one constant in Mary’s varied career is a deeply passionate, soul-searching voice that Steve Morse of the Boston Globe dubbed “A voice for the gods”. With a myriad of powerful new songs that she’s written over the past few months, coupled with October Project favorites and a mix of songs from her recorded albums, Fahl is back on tour, continuing to take audiences on a journey of emotional discovery and “transport listeners to other realms” (Boston Globe).
