Ah yes, that week between Fiesta and Fourth of July. A special time here in Gloucester. And The Cut has you covered for Live Entertainment!
Wednesday it’s Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers. There are still tickets available for this rock show from the band that was dubbed “The Springsteen of the Southwest,” by the Asbury Park Press! Doors at 7pm. Show at 7:30pm
Thursday we are thrilled to have Johnny A Syndicate up on The Cut stage! Come rock out with grammy-nominated guitarist Johnny A and his star-studded new band! There are still some tickets available, both seated and GA. Doors at 7pm. Show at 7:30pm.
Friday night is for the Beach Boys fans. Join us for a night of nostalgia & Pet Sounds Live! There are still some tickets available. Doors at 7pm. Show at 8pm.
Saturday it’s Tell Me Lies – The Fleetwood Mac Experience in the venue. This is a nationally touring Fleetwood Mac tribute that really delivers! There are still tickets available. Doors at 7pm. Show at 8pm. DJ Vito will also be throwing it down in the restaurant starting at 9pm. After you catch some fireworks, come dance with us!
Sunday is a good recovery day. We will have 50 cent wings and FREE pool and live music from Mike O’Connell and Alen Estes, so come chill!
We will also have the following World Cup Games on: Wed 7/1 8pm USA vs Bosnia (sound on) Thu 7/2 7pm Portugal vs Croatia (sound on if requested) Fri 7/3 6pm Argentina vs Cape Verde (sound on if requested) 9:30pm Colombia vs Ghana (sound on if requested) Sun 6/28 4pm TBD Round of 32 (no sound – Live music in the Restaurant) 8pm TBD Round of 32 (sound on if requested)
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Join us on Friday to watch the Horribles Parade as it passes right by the Rhumb Line. We’ll be having a cookout in our parking lot and then live music with Above Water begins immediately after the parade. The Rhumb Line is closed on July 4th. Have a safe and happy holiday, everyone.
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Salt Island Scooters- “Want to be part of the fun? We’re looking for volunteers to ride some of our scooters in the parade this Friday! As a thank-you, you’ll receive a FREE half-day scooter rental to use another time🛵✨
Interested? Send us a message for more details, we’d love to have you join us!”
Congratulations to all the Junior Men’s Seine Boat crews who participated at any level in this year’s championship run. The Warriors, Young Guns and Tonno met on Pavilion Beach last night after the men’s race to determine a new champion for 2026: Tonno! Congratulations to Tonno!
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The Surge crew won last night’s Men’s Seine Boat Race Championship to bring home the trophy for 2026 against ZFG and Careless Whisper. A decent sized crowd gathered on Pavilion Beach in support of all the crews. Congratulations Surge!
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Date and Time: Saturday Jul 18, 2026 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Location: Stage Fort Park 24 Hough Avenue Gloucester, MA 01930
Fees/Admission: Advance Purchase General Admission – $45 At the Door General Admission – $50 Designated Driver – $10 Click here to purchase tickets: blackburnbrewfest.com
Website: blackburnbrewfest.com
Contact Information: Call 978-283-1601 Send Email
Blackburn Brew Fest 2026: The current list of sponsors is:
Growler:
Discover Gloucester
Ocean Breeze Cultivators
Reverie 73
Renewal by Andersen
Cape Ann Savings
Pint:
BankGloucester
Cape Ann Motor Inn
Flight
Burgin Platner Insurance
Cape Ann Lanes/Laneside Pub & Brewery
In Kind:
Streamography
Brooks Gibson Company
Description: The Greater Cape Ann Chamber is pleased to announce the return of the Blackburn Brew Festival on Saturday, July 18th (RAIN or SHINE) at Stage Fort Park! Over 20 breweries will be convening from Cape Ann, the North Shore, and across New England to showcase their best brews to attendees from far and wide. The event will also offer live music, local food trucks and lawn games all while located at Gloucester’s historic waterfront park.
The event will also be supporting a good cause as a portion of the proceeds will support local non-profits through the Cape Ann Community Foundation, an organization established by the Chamber to award grants for projects supporting educational, social service, recreational and economic initiatives throughout the Cape Ann Community.
PLEASE NOTE: This event is 21+
For breweries interested in participating, please contact Sam Bevins at sam@capeannchamber.com.
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The Junior Men’s Seine Boat Championship was held earlier tonight and included Warriors, Tonno and Young Guns. There was an enthusiastic crowd supporting each of the teams and Tonno reached the beach first in yet another great race. Congratulations Tonno crew! More photos tomorrow morning. It’s a great race to watch so maybe put it on your calendar for next year.
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The Men’s Seine Boat Championship was rescheduled to today and the weather conditions had improved considerably. ZFG, Careless Whisper and Surge got off to a powerful start and gave the spectators quite a sight to see out there on the horizon and back. Surge prevailed to win 2026 Men’s Championship. More photos tomorrow.
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On Sunday, Fiesta was special. The mass that takes place at St. Peter’s Park is always inspirational. The smell of the food, the sounds of the rides and happy people make for an enjoyable day. The Greasy Pole and Seine boats were a challenge with the fog coming in. Congratulations to Derek Hopkin for his win on Sunday. The Seine boats were postponed until Monday at 5:00. Thank you, the Fiesta Committee, for another successful event. Looking forward to the 100th next year.
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GLOUCESTER, MASS. (June 2026) — On June 30, the Cape Ann Museum (CAM) in Gloucester, Massachusetts, will present Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko: By the Sea, a landmark exhibition featuring 82 works of art from 26 lending institutions, including 16 museums across the country.
On view at the Cape Ann Museum from June 30 through September 27, 2026, the exhibition is guest curated by Eliza Rathbone, Chief Curator Emerita at The Phillips Collection. Following its Gloucester debut, the exhibition will travel to The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, in October 2026—marking the first time an exhibition organized by the Cape Ann Museum will tour to a national museum.
The exhibition also coincides with the reopening of the Museum’s main campus after 20 months of closure for renovations and improvements, following an unprecedented $23 million fundraising campaign, far exceeding the Museum’s original $18 million goal.
“This is an extraordinary opportunity to tell the story of the close friendship among these major artists as they summered together on Cape Ann in Massachusetts from the 1920s to the 1940s, influencing one another’s careers as they went on to garner international renown,” said Oliver Barker, the Cape Ann Museum’s Director.
“Their time together painting and drawing along the shores of Gloucester left a lasting mark on them individually and on the broader art world. This is the first exhibition to explore the three friends together, and it is a great honor for the Cape Ann Museum to organize the show in partnership with The Phillips Collection, bringing to light many works that audiences have not previously had the opportunity to see. It is especially meaningful as we welcome back visitors to the Museum’s main campus with this historic exhibition.”
The artists, Milton Avery (1885-1965), Adolph Gottlieb (1903-1974), and Mark Rothko (1903-1970), met in New York City and were drawn to Gloucester by Avery, who first visited in the 1920s. As the oldest of the three, Avery introduced his younger friends to Cape Ann in the 1930s. Their time together in Gloucester and beyond sparked creative developments that would define their careers. Works on view—many never before seen—highlight their shared experiences by the sea, including Avery’s coastal scenes, Rothko’s early seaside figures, and Gottlieb’s beach box motifs.
Avery, an American modernist well-known for his representational art in the mid-1920s, is not typically associated with Gottlieb and Rothko, who were internationally known for abstract art and their connection to the New York School in the 1950s.
Through sketches, watercolors, and monumental canvases, the exhibition will trace each artist’s evolution, from identifiable scenes of Gloucester Harbor to the abstract imagery of the 1950s and ‘60s. This unprecedented exhibit and accompanying catalog, to be published and released by Rizzoli Electa on March 24, 2026, will reveal the deep connections between these artists, emphasizing their role as both mentors and peers, while showcasing the unique working methods and lifelong friendship that shaped their groundbreaking art.
Rathbone, who has contributed to several major publications about Rothko and curated shows about Avery and Gottlieb for The Phillips Collection, has uncovered intriguing details, shedding new light on how the artists collaborated on Cape Ann during those summers.
“So many artists, from Edward and Josephine Hopper to Winslow Homer and John Sloan, discovered Cape Ann’s magnificent light and other natural qualities for painting and creating art,” Rathbone said. “It has been eye-opening for me to explore how Avery, Gottlieb, and Rothko were among them, too. How the three artists worked together and were inspired by one another, although working in very different styles of painting and drawing, tells an interesting —yet mostly untold—story about American art during those years.”
Being near the ocean factored prominently in all three artists’ works. For Avery, his sketches led to numerous watercolors and oil paintings of the sea, rocks, boats, birds, and bathers. For Rothko, the sea was more of a metaphor for the unconscious and a means to explore ancient myths abstractly. For Gottlieb, his Gloucester paintings of boxes on the beach led to his Pictographs, a series of paintings from the 1940s and early 1950s. In the case of each artist, their small sketches, created over these summers, evolved into prodigious canvases, both of which will also be on view in the show.
“It is an honor to present this exhibition, which sheds light on a lesser-known chapter in the careers of three influential American artists. The Phillips Collection has long championed Avery, Gottlieb, and Rothko, being the first US museum to acquire Avery’s work, establishing the first permanent Rothko Room in 1960, and collecting iconic paintings by Gottlieb. This exhibition reflects our ongoing commitment to these artists’ legacies and to advancing scholarship in American modernism,” said Jonathan P. Binstock, the Vradenburg Director and CEO of The Phillips Collection, which is lending 10 works of art, four of which will be shown at the Cape Ann Museum. The Phillips Collection will host the exhibition from October 24, 2026, through January 24, 2027.
Numerous works will be loaned from the artists’ family collections as well as from major museums and institutions across the country. The 16 lending museums include the National Gallery of Art—which is contributing ten works by Mark Rothko—the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Phillips Collection, the Brooklyn Museum, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, the Rhode Island School of Design Museum (The Albert Pilavin Memorial Collection of 20th-Century American Art), the Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, and the Cape Ann Museum.
The forthcoming Rizzoli catalogue, edited by Eliza Rathbone, includes contributions from March Avery Cavanaugh, daughter of Milton and Sally Avery; Sean Cavanaugh, Avery’s grandson and Director of the Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation; Sanford Hirsch, Executive Director of the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation; Dr. Christopher Rothko, son of Mark Rothko and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Rothko Chapel in Houston; Kate Rothko Prizel, daughter of Mark Rothko and retired physician; Martha Oaks, the Cape Ann Museum’s Henrietta Gates and Heaton Robertson Chief Curator; Dr. Adam Greenhalgh, Associate Curator at the National Gallery of Art; Reneé Maurer, Associate Curator at The Phillips Collection; and Patricia Favero, Conservator at The Phillips Collection.
This major show and the Museum’s reopening will culminate the celebrations of the institution’s 150th Anniversary in 2025-26. Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko: By the Seawill be the first exhibition to mark the confluence of these milestone achievements. In 2023, the Cape Ann Museum also broke records for attendance with the critically acclaimed exhibition, Edward Hopper & Cape Ann: Illuminating an American Landscape.
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Date and Time Saturday Jul 11, 2026 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM EDT
EVENT TIMELINE: 5 PM: Streets closed off to traffic & parking 6 PM: Music Stages Open (See below) 6:15 PM: The Red Trousers 7:10 PM: Cape Ann Dancers at Hancock & Main 8:00 PM: The Red Trousers
MUSIC PERFORMANCES BY STAGE:
The West End: Sponsored by Institution for Savings 6 PM: TBD 7 PM: TBD 8 PM: TBD
Cape Ann Savings Bank Stage: Sponsored by Cape Ann Savings Bank 6 PM: TBD 8 PM: TBD
The East End: Sponsored by BankGloucester 6 PM: TBD 7:30 PM: TBD
Location: Main Street (Closed from Pleasant St to Washington St) Gloucester, MA
1-160 Main Street Gloucester MA 01930
Fees/Admission: FREE for the Public to attend *Registration required for participating Businesses and Non-Profits
Main Street, Downtown Gloucester comes alive when the Street is closed off and we have live music, street performers, non-profits, food vendors, and more! A fun night for young and old alike!
Many of the shops and businesses on Main Street will be open and welcoming partygoers. Other Gloucester businesses and local non-profits also will be represented on the Street. It will be a night full of live music, great food, and fun activities with lots of local flavor!
Entertainment: Headline Act: The Red Trousers Captain Jack Cape Ann Dance Cape Ann Vernal Pond Team Face Paint by Miss Wendy Food Vendors & Restaurants Bravo by the Sea Crepe du Jour Meat & Sweet Foods The Lobster Roller Three Ginger’s Jerky Whoopie Wagon
Among the many fine events organized by the St. Peter’s Fiesta Committee, the Sunday procession is near the top of my favorites. We see so many familiar faces passing us during the procession and it hails back to traditions refined over the last 99 years. It’s such a warm feeling. This year, there were a number of floats which seemed to make many of the spectators very pleased. The procession is a well organized, well run event and Gloucester should be proud. Here are some of the images I collected.
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Good Morning Gloucester 