Author: Joanne

I am a live music advocate and seek to share the news of bands playing at local venues in my home town. Being drawn to blues mostly but embrace all kinds of music. One does not have to go over the bridge to hear some real fine tunes, however there are some bands that draw you elsewhere. I hope this blog is a good use to you as it is to me. Enjoy, Joanne

Bradley Royds Playing Seaport Grille tonight 12-2-2010

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Photo by Louise

Bradley says,

I am playing The Seaport grill Thursday 6:30 …solo acoustic with guests…it’s also lobster roll special night…huge for 9.95…yum

http://www.cruiseportgloucester.com/seaport_dining.htm

http://www.myspace.com/bradleyroyds

 

The Tide Floods the Dog Bar

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The Tide, featuring Gordon & Jock Baird and Dr. Keen
The Dog Bar
65 Main St,
Gloucester 978-281-6565
Saturday, Dec 4  9-12 p,m,

One last Saturday night in between the Thanksgiving Stuff and the Christmas Crush. Kick the family out and join The Gloucester Beatles, the singing  Baird Bros and the guitar legend, Dr. Keen. to dance the night away, singing along to songs you haven’t heard for decades but you know every word to them. Songs that no other band will dare play, but wish they could. Eat, drink and be merry at Dog Bar,  Gloucester’s rock’n’roll livingroom – the former White Rainbow –  it’s nothing but fun and The Official Best Burger in Town, plus a menufull of tempting eats, reasonably priced and yummy. As yummy as the music

There’s A new girl in town Heather Rose and her band ~ Stealing Earth

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Photo by Adrian Lauterstein

Heather and her band will have air time Saturday Dec. 4th with Douglas Mascott in the early afternoon on, WWW.WMWM.COM 91.7 F.M  Also at 3:00 on Wednesday the 8th, with “Joyce the Voice”.  Later that the evening, “On the Town with Mikey Dee” at 9:00  www.wmfo.org 91.5 F.M
The next night Heather will be debuting with her band Stealing Earth at the Dog Bar. Thursday the 9th from 9:00 to close.

http://www.stealingearth.com/

http://www.dogbarcapeann.com/


 


Bradley Royds ~ Joe and Renee @ The House of Blues Foundation Room ~ 11-30-2010

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Please be advised That Bradley Royds will not be able to play this event @ The House of Blues Foundation Room Tuesday evening. However, You can look forward to Joe and Renee for your listening pleasure from 7:00 to 10:00. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Bradley will be playing sometime in Feburary or March.

Tuesday November 30th at 7:00pm – December 1 at 12:00am

The Foundation Room @ House Of Blues Boston 

15 Lansdowne Street
Boston, MA

Tues November 30Rene and Joe play from 7-10 and Bradley from 10-12 the House of Blues Foundation Room.
$10.00 at the door. 80% goes to musicians and 20% goes to Foundation Room charity to provide creative arts for financially challenged young adults. You can go to HOB website then go to Foundation Room then read about their charity. 

Please tell everybody that they can carpool with each other if at all possible. It will be great to support our local musicians making it into Boston’s music scene.

It will also be Cynthia Sisco’s birthday  and I hear she is going to celebrate.


Photo by Louise

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Bradley Royds

You might not have heard of him yet, but you have probably heard him play. Bradley Royds is a performer, composer, producer and recording artist whose songs and sounds can be heard in television shows, commercials, video games, theater, and on the radio, Cds and the Internet.

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Bradley’s musical career began in Houston Texas, where he picked up the guitar at age six and was playing professionally by the time he was ten. In his formative years, he taught himself to play multiple instruments, and developed a unique voice and an engaging stage presence. After earning a high-honors degree in political science from The London School of Economics and The University of Texas, he moved to Los Angeles where he dove in to the business of music as both performer and producer. He quickly landed gigs, including playing guitar with the likes of Boy George, working as a session musician, fronting his over-the-top rock band The High Court, and producing and recording bands and solo artists in his Hollywood Hills studio. Bradley earned a reputation and the moniker ‘The Acoustic Bomb’ for playing explosive solo shows. He also launched a successful career creating scores, songs and sounds for television, commercials, video games, film promo and theater. His hard hitting techno-rock project AndRoyd found huge success placing songs in some of the world’s biggest video games, collectively selling millions of copies.

A longtime summer resident of Cape Ann Massachusetts, Bradley prefers to spend time on the East Coast, playing live, writing, recording and producing a host of talented artists in his studio. In the world of theater he has participated as an actor, musician and sound designer. His recent portrayal of General Benjamin Butler in the play The Beauport Anthology has been described as a ‘knockout.’ He proved perfect for the part, playing guitar in the rock opera Tommy. Israel Horovitz once told Bradley that his sound design work is of ‘Broadway’ quality. As if that were not enough, Bradley is mixing live shows at the new Shalin Liu Hall in Rockport Ma, working with legendary rock, blues and folk artists including John Sebastian, Jonathan Edwards, Livingston Taylor, James Montgomery and Paula Cole, and world class jazz acts like Dave Brubeck, the Grace Kelly Quintet, Lavay Smith, Taylor Eigsti & Julian Lage and Kurt Elling.

Bradley is currently producing his own Cd and is looking forward to an early 2011 release &tour.

www.bradleyroyds.com

www.androyd.com

www.pfilbryte.com

Photo by Louise

Joe and Renee
Renee Dupuis (voice, piano) and Joe Cardoza (voice, guitar) have been playing together for over ten years accumulating a vast repertoire of songs from the popular, rock, and folk traditions, as well as original music.
A graduate of the Hartt School, Renee sings everything from Weezer, to Etta James, Janis Joplin, and Led Zeppelin. You can most recently hear/see her playing the role of Alicia Keyes in comedian Juston McKinney’s (Comedy Central) parody of Jay Z’s “Empire State of Mind”

Berklee graduate Joe Cardoza plays electric and upright bass with many artists in the greater Boston area. He recently opened for Livingston Taylor at the brand new Shalin Liu Performance center in Rockport MA as bassist of the Jake Pardee Trio.

Together both Renee and Joe are a part of the alternative rock country band, The Bandit Kings (www.banditkings.com) who will be celebrating the release of their first full length album at TT The Bears in Cambridge and The Mint in Los Angeles.
“She is a strong, throaty alto with the voice of an earthy angel; he plays guitar with pure passion. The two together are like kids playing in a school playground, with ever so much spark and spontaneity; two swallows darting about together in mid-air, flying tandem with well-practiced precision and skill…Their voices and harmonies match up perfectly in jazz and the more popular songs of the Americana tradition…They leave a feeling of delightsomeness floating on the air.”

–Alfred Nesser, after a gig in Salem, MA

Read/Hear more:http://www.myspace.com/reneeandjoemusic

New Local Band~Rockin Rewind debuts at The Dog Bar tonight ~ 9:00pm to 12:00pm.

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http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/RockinRewindBand/137793966263785

http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=138560812861079

Chelsea Berry Shares some great news.

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Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! I have a lot to be thankful for this year..
and the list keeps on growing.
You can always check out www.chelseaberry.com for more dates and info,
but I had to send out an email about this particular show…

Livingston Taylor has asked me to perform with him NEXT weekend,
December 3rd and 4th, at the Firehouse Center for the Arts in Newburyport, MA.
Show times are at 8pm.

This is so exciting for me.. it would be fantastic to have your support out there!!
Tickets can be purchased at http://www.firehouse.org/
And if you want to check out Livingston, he’s at www.livtaylor.com .

Thank you all so much! What a lot there is to be thankful for!
Love,
Chelsea

THE BOYS ARE BACK!!!! @ The Rhumb Line this Wednesday night.

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This Wednesday at the Rhumb Line!
Hello friends ~ Happy Thanksgiving and  thank you for coming to my shows this year.  GO FISHERMEN!!!!! ~ Fly

GARFISH Performs at The Gloucester ELKs Lodge – Harvest Dance Saturday Novermber 20th

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Greetings Music Fans,

GARFISH will be performing at the Elks Lodge Harvest Dance this Saturday from 8pm to 12am. This is a public invited event where admission is $10.00 per person which includes a light dinner buffet and best of all “cheap drinks”. Cocktail and buffet hour runs from 7pm to 8pm. Music and dancing from 8-12am. The Elks is located at 101 Atlantic Road, Gloucester and tickets can be purchased at the Lodge or by contacting pcurley58@verison.net.

Garfish will be performing classic rock-n-roll music from 1960’s, 70’sand 80’s with some contemporary songs that will get the crowd to its feet. So come on down and enjoy some of the Gloucester Elks hospitality.

Garfish consists of local well known musicians: Walter Piscitello, Kevin Lopes, Doug Comeau, Gary “Gar” Hiltz and Jeff Worthley.

Reservations suggested for tables of 6 or more.  For further info http://www.elksatbassrocks.com/ or call 978-282-3200

Hope to see you their. All the best…..Gar

Jenny Dee & The Deelinquents at The Rhumb Line on Friday 11/19

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Jenny Dee & The Deelinquents will be returning to The Rhumb Line this Friday, November 19th, for three sets starting at 9:30pm.  We’ll be there shaking it til’ we close the place down!

Q-Dee Records has just released a new Jenny Dee 45rpm single on *purple vinyl* as part of the ‘Rock’n’Soul’ Series that includes releases by Barrence Whitfield and The Monkeyhips, Eli Reed’s “True Loves”, and Muck and The Mires.  The single features a stereo mix of “Big Ol’ Heart” b/w a Lillian Hale tune called “Don’t Boom Boom”.  The single will be available at the show, or it can be downloaded from the Q-Dee Records site.
See y’all Friday!

 

Rhumb Line to host Special Guest ~ Kinloch Nelson ~ Tuesday from 8:00 to 9:00

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Hi Folks,
Ken Parker here, happy to announce that Kinloch Nelson will be
returning to the Rhumb Line this Tuesday evening, November 15th, for a
one hour set from 8 to 9pm.

Kinloch is an amazing guiatrist with a completely unique approach.
He’s full of surprises and lots of fun.  No guitar player or fan of
guitar wizardry should miss this show!

Kinloch’s first appearance at the Rhumb Line started out with an
impromptu duo with host Bradley Royds, followed by a solo session that
set the house onfire.

Click here to listen>       http://www.kinlochnelson.com/index.html

Photos by Louise

Alchemy Tapas & Bistro – Nov 2010

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Alchemy~http://www.alchemybistro.com/

Burrr… Winter is coming.  But that doesn’t mean it has to be the end of our social season.  We’ve created a calendar of fun for ‘most every night at Alchemy.Don’t miss our  “Art of Alchemy” Gallery Opening next Wednesday.

10% of proceeds go to fund Gloucester Arts Education.
We’ll have a new artist every month. Matt