Author: Joey Ciaramitaro

A special shoutout and sincere thank you to all the local businesses and organizations who have stepped up and donated to Cape Ann LIVE! to help defray the costs of livestreaming the local high school sports games this year. The broadcast team (Lisa Olson, Phil Nicastro, John Russ and myself) really enjoy doing this and hopefully you’ve all enjoyed viewing the great year the local teams have been having. Special thanks to Meagan Marrone for really getting the donation ball rolling!

Please support our local businesses by buying local! If you’d like your business to also be mentioned during the games, please give me a shout by PM.

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Thank You All!!!

Friday March 18th at the Cruiseport in Gloucester, the Gloucester Rotary Club is having A Night at the Races (NAR). NAR is one of the Rotary Club of Gloucester’s biggest fundraising event and I want to invite anyone who wants to come, to join us.

We are also looking to finalize sponsorships and we are in need of local business gift certificates to raffle away as part of a larger prize. One of the best auction items will be a Golf Foursome with me at Ferncroft Country Club in Middleton!

Please take a look at the event and sponsorship opportunities and do not hesitate to reach out to me if you want to come, be a sponsor or provide something for us to auction off. I will be thanking our sponsors later this week.

CAFM will be moving back to Stage Fort Park this Summer for our 17th market season. We’ve missed our home and are so excited for the season ahead!

Many thanks to our customers and community partners for supporting this move back as well as Mayor Greg Verga, CAO Jill Cahill and former Mayor Sefatia Romeo Theken.

We can’t wait to see you at the market!

The historic Annisquam Village Church, with its unparalleled acoustics, extraordinary instruments, and singular New England simplicity, has long hosted unique concerts. Ranging  from Jacqueline Schwab (pianist for Ken Burns’ documentaries), to jazz great Dave McKenna, to Portuguese “Fado” chanteuse Ana Vinagre, to opera stars from Yakut (on tour for the United Nations), to the “Yokohama Lucy’s” organists, to BSO cellist Jonathan Miller, to the roof-raising New Temple Singers Gospel Choir,  performers and audiences alike have found the AVC ideal for lively, intimate musical experiences.

The church now adds a new dimension to its offerings with its first Artist-in-Residence, violinist Scott Moore. Hailing from his native Kentucky, Moore had already forged a reputation when he moved to Gloucester in 2019. Louisville Orchestra conductor Teddy Abrams praises Moore’s “great talent and inventiveness,” noting his virtuosic musicianship and his “powerful, compelling sound.” Meanwhile, Moore has kept his roots alive with rock, jazz, bluegrass, and his own fusion of these genres in his compositions. A longtime member of the 23 String Band, he has performed across the country as a crowd favorite at festivals like Rockygrass, Grey Fox, Forecastle, ROMP, Festival of the Bluegrass.  Moore’s studio incorporates both recording and composing /arranging capabilities as well. He lives in Lanesville with his wife, violinist Erica Pisaturo 

and their two children.

In 2018, Moore began performing, from memory, J. S. Bach’s complete Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin.  Sampling the acoustics at the Village Church when he first arrived on Cape Ann, Moore says he knew he’d found “an ideal space to perform this sublime music.” Music Director Kathleen Adams describes his Bach as “brilliant, transcendent playing, promising exciting and wide-ranging collaborations here.”

As Artist-in-Residence, Moore will offer three Sunday afternoon Bach recitals  (dates TBD).  Turning his fiddle to another genre, he will curate a local ensemble to perform with him in a Chamber Roots concert later in the year.

Third Sunday worship services at the Village Church will feature Moore’s violin along with organ (or piano) and choir.  The public is warmly welcomed.  For more information, or to be on a concert mailing list, contact:

Kathleen Adams, AVC Music Director –  jkadams967@gmail.com                          Rev. Sue Koehler-Arsenault, Pastor – capeannrevsue@gmail.com