Studio Fresh | Josh Falk at work. Mural in progress in downtown Gloucester (Rogers St and Flannagan’s). Blue wall prepped last week and image going up over Labor Day weekend.
Gloucester Public Art | Mural map
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Both Long Beach and Good Harbor Beach were closed to swimming again due to shark sightings –and seals, too, viewed from Good Harbor. Rumors about a beached Great White circulated and dissipated. Long Beach reopened to swimmers. The waves are tremendous.
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Cape Ann Symphony proudly announces the launch of the orchestra’s Season 74 concert season on Sunday, September 28 at 2:00 PM with The Virtuoso Orchestra Concert at Manchester-Essex Regional High School auditorium on 36 Lincoln Street in Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA. Tickets are on sale now for Season 74. Season subscriptions offering discounted tickets are available to purchase in 3 and 4 concert packages. Single ticket prices are $55 for adults, $50 for senior citizens, $20 for students of any age with valid Student ID; $5 for youth 12 years old and under. For information and to purchase subscriptions and single tickets, call 978-281-0543 or visit www.capeannsymphony.org
“Season 74 consists of 4 powerful and inspiring concerts ranging from the Majestic to the Serene!” says Cape Ann Symphony Board President John Todd. “Each concert highlights the talent, passion and versatility of this cherished regional professional orchestra – Your Cape Ann Symphony! Our leader, the unparalleled Maestro Yoichi Udagawa, will take audiences on 4 unique musical journeys featuring beloved masterworks, brilliant guest artists and the ever-growing excellence of our CAS musicians. Many concerts sold out in Season 73. I highly recommend getting your season subscription NOW so you will not miss a note of Season 74!”
Cape Ann Symphony Music Director and Conductor Yoichi Udagawa looks forward to opening Season 74 in September, “We are so excited about the 2025-26 season of the Cape Ann Symphony. In September, we’re highlighting the virtuoso musicians of the orchestra in two monumental works for orchestra – Holst’s Planets and Mussorgky/Ravel’s Pictures at an Exhibition. Our Holiday Pops will feature the wonderful Cape Ann Symphony Chorus led by the extraordinary Brittany Betts. The March concert will spotlight the amazing guitar soloist Grisha Goryachev in a performance of Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez. We will finish the season in May with Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 and the Grieg Piano Concerto with the incredible pianist Frederick Moyer. We can’t wait to get started!”
FROM MAJESTIC TO SERENETHE VIRTUOSO ORCHESTRA CONCERT
Performance:
Sunday, September 28, 2025: 2:00 PM | Manchester-Essex Regional High School, Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA
Cape Ann Symphony kicks off Season 74 with THE VIRTUOSO ORCHESTRA CONCERT!, a celebration of our talented CAS musicians. The concert program featuring two awe-inspiring pieces: Gustav Holst’s majestic The Planets, Op. 32 and Modest Mussorgsky’s vibrant Pictures at an Exhibition, orchestrated by Maurice Ravel, spotlight the full power and beauty of the orchestra. The Cape Ann Symphony Chorus led by Brittany Betts joins the orchestra for the final movement of Gustav Holst’s The Planets.
THE HOLIDAY POPS CONCERT
Performances:
Saturday, November 29 2025: 2:00 PM | Dolan Performing Arts Center, Ipswich High School. Ipswich, MA
Saturday, November 29, 2025: 7:30 PM | Manchester-Essex Regional High School, Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA
Sunday, November 30, 2025: 2:00 PM | Manchester-Essex Regional High School, Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA
TheHoliday Pops Concert, Cape Ann Symphony’s joyful holiday tradition, features a program of holiday favorites, the return of Cape Ann Symphony Chorus led by Rockport’s Brittany Betts, now in her second season as the Director of the Cape Ann Symphony Chorus. The program for Holiday Pops 2025 includes selections from TheNutCracker, Christmas on Broadway arranged by John Higgins and many more holiday favorites. The concert will conclude with the CAS beloved tradition of an audience sing along.
MOZART, MENDELSSOHN, AND RODRIGO
Featuring Guitarist GRISHA GORYACHEV
Performance:
Sunday, March 15, 2026: 2:00 PM | Manchester-Essex Regional High School, Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA
Cape Ann Symphony welcomes back internationally celebrated flamenco guitar virtuoso Grisha Goryachev to perform Joaquin Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez. Grisha Goryachev made his CAS debut in March 2016. The Mozart, Mendelssohn and Rodrigo Concert program also includes Mozart’s Don Giovanni Overture and Mendelssohn’s Symphony No.4 “Italian.”
ROSSINI, GRIEG, and TCHAIKOVSKY
Featuring Pianist FREDERICK MOYER
Performance:
Sunday, May 10, 2026: 2:00 PM | Manchester-Essex Regional High School, Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA
Season 74 concludes with renowned pianist Frederick Moyer performing Edvard Grieg’s beloved Piano Concerto. Frederick Moyer made his CAS debut in September 2001. The program for the CAS powerful season finale concert also features Gioachino Rossini’s Barber of Seville and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4.
SINGLE TICKET PRICES FOR CONCERTS
Adults/$55.00
Senior Citizens/$50.00
Students (of any age with valid Student ID)/$20.00
Youth (Age 12 and Under)/$5.00
Season Subscriptions are Available for 3 or 4 concert packages.
Season Subscriptions and Tickets for all concerts are ON SALE NOW!
After 5pm, I had only got about this far changing the tire when Bill circled back to offer to help–even though he was on his way home and gearing up for a milestone weekend celebration. Thank you ! Congratulations to you and the staff over so many, many years. That’s a long successful run for a local business that is clutch for so many.
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Solo show featuring new works by Adin Murray and group show, Pulp Fiction, featuring artists’ books by Gail Barker, Linda Ekstrom, Leslie Lyman, Jeffrey Marshall, Rhoda Rosenberg, Louise Strawbridge, Willie Alexander, and Geoffrey Bayliss opening this weekend at Jane Deering Gallery location in downtown Gloucester. Jane Deering Gallery is hosting Turning Spells and Cuttings at the satellite The Shed in Annisquam, by Dana Clancy and Audrey Goldstein
Details from Jane Deering Gallery below:
Opening August 9th with a reception from 4-6pm: ADIN MURRAY | august reverie @ Jane Deering Gallery . 19 Pleasant Street . Gloucester.
“In a 2011 opinion piece on reverie, Rachel Enthoven wrote: ‘Born of the desire to be directly involved in our surroundings, reverie strips the world of its utility. It borrows the power of narration from wakefulness and the power of divination from sleep … and blends their realms. … It is contemplation from within, letting the person who gives way to it feel change.’
Artist Adin Murray, known for his direct observations of nature, offers viewers the chance to ‘feel change,’ to suspend the perpetual motion of our lives, to loosen thought.
This exhibition, Murray’s 6th solo show with the gallery, includes eleven small paintings which evoke dreams of nature. Murray notes: Reverie: A state of being pleasantly lost in one’s thoughts; a daydream. Oxford Languages. And writes: My hope is that somewhere in this collection of work you are able to find yourself in such a state.
Along side the small oil paintings are larger works, each a new exploration of Murray’s vision.
Adin Murray holds a BA in Art/Biology from Tulane University and an MFA in painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design. His work is in the permanent collection of the Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester MA and in corporate and private collections in the US and abroad. Murray lives and maintains a studio in Gloucester, MA.
PULP FICTION | artists’ books opens at Jane Deering Gallery with a Reception on Saturday August 9th from 4-6pm. The gallery is located at 19 Pleasant Street, Gloucester. Hours: Fri & Sat 1-5pm; Sun 1-4pm and by appointment @ 917-902-4359.
Participating artists include: Gail Barker, Linda Ekstrom, Leslie Lyman, Jeffrey Marshall, Rhoda Rosenberg, Louise Strawbridge, and Willie Alexander, featuring a papier mâché sculpture by Geoffrey Bayliss, and contributing sculpture by Audrey Goldstein
In essence, the artist’s book is an attempt to unify text and image, giving the images as much prominence as the text. The Yale Library has a wonderful (and lengthy) history of artists’ books. Link: https://guides.library.yale.edu/c.php?g=295819&p=1972527. Here are excerpts from that text:
The first forerunner to contemporary artists’ books is probably the British artist William Blake, who worked in the late 1700’s and early 1800’s. Blake was a poet, painter and printmaker. He wanted to integrate his visual and written work.
Often, the first suggestion of the book format combined with the work of a visual artist is credited to France in the 1890’s.
Around the same time period, artists, writers, and political thinkers were publishing pamphlets, posters, and magazines expressing their avant-garde ideas.
The Dada movement (late 1910’s, early 1920’s) in Europe used books as a means of expression, and their “ethical and political concern for the function of art in society” is a precursor to the American idea behind using books as art during the 1960’s.
In the next two decades, artists’ books were influenced by trends in the art world: the prominence of sculpture in the 1970’s and installation art in the 1980’s. [13] Performance and conceptual art were also intertwined with the artists’ books movement. From here to the present, artists’ books have continued to be made and continued to be misunderstood because of their undefinable nature.
Jane Deering Gallery hours: Friday & Saturday 1-5pm; Sunday 1-4pm;
by appointment at 917-902-4359.
The gallery is located at 19 Pleasant Street, Gloucester.
at the SHED
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printable below. Original poster design — Note tonight’s show will not be at Evans Field due to potential weather. Venue change to Cape Ann YMCA in Gloucester.
The Cape Ann YMCA performs Beetlejuice JR.on July 31 and August 1 at 5:00 PM on Evans Field in Rockport , MA . Tickets are $16 for Adults and $12 for Children 12 and under. Tickets can be purchased with cash at the door day of the performance. For more information: Contact YMCA Creative Arts Coordinator Heidi Dallin at dallinh@northshoreymca.org or 978-283-0499.
The talented young cast of North Shore residents led by Director Heidi Dallin and her YMCA Theatre Team have been working to bring this frightfully funny and magical modern musical to the stage on Evans Field over the past 3 weeks. In addition to Director Heidi Dallin the YMCA The Production Team includes Music Director Anthony Prestigiovanni, Music Teacher at Gloucester’s West Parish Elementary School; Choreographer Seania McCarthy, Rockport Middle School Choreographer; and Stage Manager Julia Drost, Rockport native and Tufts University Senior.
Based on the blockbuster motion picture turned Broadway musical, Beetlejuice JR. tells the story of a strange and unusual teenager named Lydia Deetz, who is grieving the loss of her mother. Lydia and her father move to a new house haunted by a recently deceased couple and Beetlejuice, a delightful demon with a real zest for life. When Lydia calls on Beetlejuice to scare away anyone with a pulse, this double-crossing specter shows his true stripes, unleashing a (Nether)world of pandemonium.
With music and lyrics by Tony Award nominee Eddie Perfect and a book by the Tony Award–nominated pair Anthony King and Scott Brown, Beetlejuice was nominated for eight 2019 Tony Awards, including Best New Musical.
“My team and I were so excited to produce Beetlejuice Jr. and make our YMCA theatre debut in Rockport on Evans Field this summer,” says Gloucester native and Harvard University graduate Heidi Dallin, the show’s director, “I am not sure if many theatre performances have been held on Evans Filed, but we love performing here!”
“Beetlejuice Jr.,” continues Dallin, ”focuses on family relationships, humor and imaginative magical reality. The movie song hits Day-O(The Banana Boat Song) and Jump in the Line are in the show, but the new original songs are contemporary masterpieces and really give out young actors a chance to shine especially Aubrey Hamm as Lydia and Molly Doherty as Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice JR. is sure to leave audience members laughing and singing those catchy tunes for hours after they leave the theater.”
“Beetlejuice has a large and fervent fan base among people of all ages,” said Drew Cohen, Music Theatre International’s President and CEO. “The response to Beetlejuice JR. from audiences around the country is nothing short of astounding. Bravo to Director Heidi Dallin and her Cape Ann YMCA Theatre Team for bringing this musical so vividly to life…figuratively speaking, of course.” Music Theatre International (MTI) is one of the world’s leading theatrical licensing agencies, granting theatres from around the world the rights to perform the greatest selection of musicals from Broadway and beyond. Founded in 1952 by composer Frank Loesser and orchestrator Don Walker, MTI is a driving force in advancing musical theatre as a vibrant and engaging art form.
Beetlejuice JR. is presented through special arrangement with, and all authorized materials are supplied by, Music Theatre International 423 West 55th Street, New York, NY 10019, 212-541-4684, mtishows.com.
The Cape Ann YMCA presents Beetlejuice Jr. on July 31 and August 1 at 5:00 PM on Evans Field in Rockport , MA . Tickets are $16 for Adults and $12 for Children 12 and under. Tickets can be purchased with cash at the door day of the performance. For more information: Contact YMCA Creative Arts Coordinator Heidi Dallin at dallinh@northshoreymca.org or 978-283-0499.
Attached Photos : Beetlejuice Jr Company
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Cape Ann Symphony Chorus Director Brittany Betts is Conducting Auditions for Vocalists to Perform with Cape Ann Symphony in Two Heralded Programs (Concerts Sept. 28, Nov. 29, Nov. 30)
The Virtuoso Orchestra: September 28: 2 PM & The Holiday Pops: November 29: 2 PM & 7:30 PM; November 30: 2 PM
Audition details
“Cape Ann Symphony kicks off the 74th season on Sunday, September 28 at 2:00 pm with The Virtuoso Orchestra Concert featuring Gustav Holst’s majestic The Planets where a chorale is featured in the final movement, Neptune. Cape Ann Symphony’s annual Holiday Pops Concert on November 29 at 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm and November 30 at 2:00 pm features The Cape Ann Symphony Chorus.
Ms. Betts, entering her second season as CAS Chorus Director, is looking for Sopranos & Altos/Countertenors/Boy Sopranos who are able to read and render music quickly to perform with the chorus in Gustav Holst’s The Planets in The Virtuoso Orchestra Concert on September 28. To audition, please send a video to Brittany Betts at brittanybetts@gmail.com by August 1, 2025. The video should contain the following vocal material: Sing a short piece you can sing well that showcases your range, especially your upper register; Sing a 9-Note Scale up and down at the top of your range on an “ah”; and Sing through 4 Octave Arpeggios (1, 3,5, 8, 5, 3, 1)on “ah” at the top of your range and holding the 8 for 4 long counts before returning to 1. If you are unable to create a recording, contact Ms. Betts at brittanybetts@gmail.com before the August 1 deadline to set up an audition.
CAS Chorus Director Betts is looking for Altos, Tenors and Basses to sing in The Holiday Pops Concert in November. According to Betts, “We are not looking for Sopranos at this time. The Soprano section is full for this year’s Holiday Pops Concert.” Altos, Tenors and Basses can contact Ms. Betts at brittanybetts@gmail.com to set up an audition appointment. The audition deadline is August 10.”
About the upcoming season:
The Cape Ann Symphony’s 74th Season opens on Sunday, September 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM with The Virtuoso Orchestra Concertfollowed by the annual Holiday Pops Concert featuring The Cape Ann Symphony Chorus on Saturday, November 29 at 2:00 PM and 7:30 PM; and Sunday, November 30 at 2:00 PM. The 74th Season continues in 2026 with The Mozart, Mendelssohn and Rodrigo Concert featuring Guitarist Grisha Goryachevon Sunday, March 16 at 2:00 PM and the season wraps up with The Rossini, Grieg and TchaikovskyConcert featuring pianist Frederick Moyer on Sunday, May 10 at 2:00 PM. All concerts are held at the Manchester-Essex High School auditorium on 36 Lincoln Street in Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA
Tickets are ON SALE NOW for the Cape Ann Symphony’s 74th Season. For season subscriptions, single tickets and further information, call 978-281-0543 or visit www.capeannsymphony.org
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“This is an exhibit about the sea. The horizon is the destination. Where the sea and the sky meet, there is no reference to land. Hope and longing are between here and there. A storm might be approaching or subsiding, it’s not clear in the stillness. There are questions of geomorphology, but distance is measured in the heart, not in miles. These are paintings about painting. They are an homage to Fitz Henry Lane, whose stillness of brush reflecting safe harbor contrasts and balances the perils of voyage and of distance. They are an homage to Captain Harvey MacKay, whose home was the Jane Deering Gallery at 19 Pleasant Street in 1842. His ship “Boston” was struck by lightning and lost on May, 26, 1830. They are an homage to poet Charles Olson, who saw Gloucester in mythical terms and in actual terms, a place made up of people. In his poetry of space, Gloucester moves Outward—to the sea. These paintings speak of the sea as a distance measured in the heart, not in miles. They work in the space between geology and poetry, a mythical expanse of loss and hope. They are about moving forward and about what is left behind. In the eternal space between here and there, there is the finite stillness of the present, measured by the heart. Solitude is the intimate and immediate present of being here, in a brushstroke or a drip, among the winds and the currents.
William Albert Pettit
About the Artist
William Albert Pettit III is a Professor of Studio Art at Temple University Rome and at Iowa State Rome Program, Italy. He specializes in historical materials and techniques related to Italian art. He currently teaches Fresco Painting, Medieval Materials, and Darkroom Photography. He is a painter and published poet and works with photography, sculpture, music, video, and installation. His recent shows at NBWM and at The Vincent House, MVY, are about working with museum collections and records to revalorize and reinhabit stories of our past. Pettit has exhibited extensively in the United States and Italy. He is the 2024-2025 recipient of the Dean’s Research Grant and 2019 recipient of the OVPR Arts and Humanities Grant from Temple University Rome. His research on pigments has been supported by residences and shared at conferences. The artist lives in Tarano, Italy, where he maintains a small vineyard, olive grove, and garden.
This exhibition was supported by a Temple University Rome Dean’s Research Grant.
UPCOMING AT JANE DEERING GALLERY
DOWNTOWN AND ANNISQUAM SUMMER 2025
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photos: Scenes from Sat & Sun. Fiesta 2025 flashed by. Summer is established now. Greasy Pole from Stacy Blvd., Seine Boat races, walkers, storefronts on Main (Stone’s Pub and Salon One), and a Tiramisu pop up at Mutha Shuckas.
Crowds were out walking in the streets downtown—especially Main St., Roger, and Stacy Boulevard—funneling to St. Peter’s, Beach Court and Pavilion Beach. Police in blue shirts and Beauport Hotel valets in red were stopped or moving among them. Gloucester harbor was equally knotted with boats and a wide of variety of water sport conveyances darting in and out. As ever, St. Peter’s Fiesta 2025 was a tremendous success. the next St. Peter’s Fiesta is scheduled June 24-28, 2026. The 100th Anniversary is a mere two years away!
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The 2025 Cape Ann YMCA Performance Camp will run from July 7th through August 1st, culminating in two public performances of the fresh new Broadway musical comedy, Beetlejuice Jr.
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Spend a Magical Summer in the World of BeetleJuice at the Cape Ann YMCA Performance Camp
“The 2025 Cape Ann YMCA Performance Camp will run from July 7th through August 1st, culminating in two public performances of the fresh new Broadway musical comedy, Beetlejuice Jr.
“We’re thrilled to announce that we will have our own dedicated space this summer at the Rockport Teen Center, 32 Pooles Lane, Rockport, MA! “, says Camp Director and Production Director Heidi J. Dallin. The camp meets Monday -Friday from 9am to 4pm. “We will spend our days singing, dancing and acting, making props and costumes and learning about costume & set design, stage makeup and stage magic! Our production of Beetlejuice will incorporate Stage Makeup and Stage Magic designed and performed by the actors!!,” according to award-winning professional actor and Gloucester native Heidi J. Dallin. The staff consists of theatre professionals who work in theatre and education. West Parish Music Teacher and professional musician Anthony Prestigiovanni joins the Beetlejuice Team as Music Director, and the Choreographer at Rockport Middle School Seania McCarthy joins the team as Choreographer!”
How hot was the weather on June 17, 1775 at the Battle of Bunker Hill?
Stage Fort Park came alive with hundreds of participants this weekend, each reenactor draped in layers of colorful, authentic period attire, creating an immersive spectacle worthy of a PBS miniseries. On this sweltering Sunday, the anniversary week of the fateful 1775 battle, spectators experienced firsthand how arduous the fighting must have been, getting a tangible sense of the summer conditions, too. Saturday there was a breeze. Participants found shade where they could. How hot were the tents? The temperature dipped into the 60s on Friday and Saturday and participants told me sleeping there was great.
‘Pastureland’ images: View of the City of Boston from Breeds Hill in Charlestown (Library of Congress) | View from Stage Fort Park in Gloucester.
Photos: Frank Ryan. Scenes from Saturday and Sunday.
Photos: C. Ryan. Sunday. Minute Men were busy every minute. After the battle, the breakdown commenced!
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photos: Good Harbor Beach. Long Beach. Inn at Good Harbor Beach. June 20, 2025. The weather forecast for next week is more unbroken fine summer weather for beach and Fiesta 🙂
Photos: June 19, 2025. Mesmerizing fog then the sun broke out and the sky was cloudless and blue. And June 12th.
video clip: Unusual seagull line up. They usually tuck in clumps along Long Beach for weather events.
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“The wacky ghost-with-the-most comes to the stage in Beetlejuice Jr., the frightfully funny musical based on the hit motion picture turned Broadway phenomenon. The camp culminates in two public performances of Beetlejuice Jr. Participants ages 6-17 will have the opportunity to learn from theatre professionals in all areas of production: acting, music, dance, scenic, prop, costume and stage makeup design”
JULY 7 – AUGUST 1, 2025. M-F 9-4. ROCKPORT TEEN CENTER.
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