Cape Ann TV will air A, B and C team championship football all weekend long on Channel 20. See the schedule here. Watch the promo:
Author: Vickie & Peter
Vickie grew up in Iowa. Lived in Silicon Valley & NYC. Peter has lived all over (NJ, NY, CH, IN, CA, MA, etc.) We chose to live and raise our family in Gloucester. Owners of gimmesound.com & Van Ness Group. Producers of gimmeLIVE concerts.
Thanksgiving Message from the AGH Citizen’s Fund
Lisa Smith sent us this Thanksgiving video produced by Cape Ann TV:
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What did you forget? The Cave is here to HELP
If you are like us and remember what you forgot to buy right when they get home, there’s HELP: The Cave will be open Thanksgiving MORNING 7am – 11am for all gourmet delights you forgot to get today.
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Annual Homecoming Celebration!
I know the weather isn’t great but we are New Englanders so get out and enjoy some great music tonight before you do the whole Thanksgiving thing and the tryptophan kicks in.
Tonight (Wedneday 11/27/13)
7:00 pm 
JOHN ROCKWELL ~ Alchemy Cafe and Bistro
7:30 pm BATSU ~ American Legion
Hornets Benefit – Batsu, Hairyairya & Jeff Arcari of the Glostafarians $10, food, Cash Bar
8:00 pm JUST LIKE NEWMAN ~ The Landing at 7 Central
8:00 pm FLY AMERO and “The Band” (Brown, Mattacks, Ginandes) ~ The Rhumb Line
9:00 pm THE RUNAROUND SOUND ~ Cape Ann Brewery
9:00 pm CRAZY JAY Karaoke~ Dog Bar
9:00 pm DENNIS MONAGLE ~ Minglewood Tavern
with Groove Therapy ~ GROOVE Night B4 Thanksgiving PARTY!
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Santa Parade and Tree Lighting Sunday December 1st
Gloucester’s annual Santa Parade and Kent Circle Tree Lighting is Sunday December 1st.
Parade begins at the State Fish Pier at 3pm and ends at Kent Circle for the tree lighting around 4:30pm.
Look for the Pink Elephant and donate an unwrapped toy to Toys4Tots.
Santa arrives at Kent Circle by fire truck and children are invited to sit on Santa’s lap.
Everyone at Kent Circle is invited to sign holiday cards to be sent to our troops overseas and to bring an unwrapped toy for children in need.
Free popcorn, hot chocolate and chowder provided by Lobsta Land, MileMarker One and The Gloucester Fund.
Music at Kent Circle by North Shore Bell Ringers.
Bring the kids and help celebrate the season with your friends and neighbors in Gloucester!
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Cape Ann Symphony Holiday Pops Concert – Nov 30 & Dec 1
WORLD PREMIERE FEATURED IN
2013 CAPE ANN SYMPHONY
HOLIDAY POPS CONCERT
Performance: Saturday, November 30, 2013 8:00 P.M.
Performance: Sunday, December 1, 2013 2:00 P.M.
The Cape Ann Symphony’s Holiday Pops Concert is an exciting celebration of holiday music favorites featuring a World Premiere by Robert J. Bradshaw commissioned by the Cape Ann Symphony, The Cape Ann Symphony Singers under the direction of Rockport’s Wendy Betts and an updated sing along to kick off the holiday season on Saturday, November 30 at 8 pm & Sunday, December 1 at 2 pm. The Holiday Pops Concert features the world premiere of “Yankee Swap!: White Elephant Gift Exchange” from Suite No. 4 “Cape Ann” for orchestra by Robert J. Bradshaw, a Gloucester based composer and CAS member. “Yankee Swap!” is a super fun musical take the New England holiday tradition. Pick your number, wait your turn, unwrap or steal someone else’s present and then get ready for some serious symphonic bargaining! According to composer Bradshaw, “I am very grateful to Maestro Yoichi Udagawa and the Cape Ann Symphony for commissioning this work. It provides me with the opportunity to write for an orchestra and community I care deeply about and the commission itself offered me the chance to explore aspects of my musical experience not often heard on the concert stage (including popular musical influences such as dub step, funk, rock and jazz).” Maestro Undagawa is eager to premiere the new work,” Rob Bradshaw has written a terrific piece that captures the holidays here in New England. It shifts quickly from one idea and feeling to another, but at the same time paints a complete picture of the joy and complexity of feeling that accompanies the season. I know the audience is going to love this piece!”
The Cape Ann Symphony concerts are held at the Manchester-Essex High School auditorium on 36 Lincoln Street in Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA. Manchester-Essex High School Auditorium is handicapped accessible. Ticket prices are $35 for adults, $30 for senior citizens, $20 for Young Adults and Free for children age 18 and under. For tickets and information, call 978-281-0543 or visit www.capeannsymphony.org.
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When it comes to local entertainment the days of procrastination are over
I love to procrastinate. One of my Grandfather’s favorite sayings (he had lots of them) is “Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow, ’cause you might not have to do it.”
It used to be that if you wanted to see live music in Gloucester and Cape Ann, you could decide at the last minute, stroll down to the venue just before showtime, get your tickets at the door, mosey on in and find a good seat.
Those days are gone. Oops, did you want to see Chelsea Berry & Friends at Crowell Chapel on Dec 7 or Cape Ann Big Band’s Shalin Liu matinee on Dec 8? Too bad. They’re sold out. The good news is that Chelsea & Friends added a new show on Dec 8 and there are still a few tickets for Cape Ann Big Band at 7pm.
But if you wanted to see Overboard on Nov 30 at Old Sloop, you’re just plain outa luck. They’re completely sold out. So are a number of other local shows between now and Christmas.
More good news : we added a Sunday Matinee on Dec 15 for our Henri Smith Christmas show at The Larcom Theatre in Beverly, so you can still get good seats. And there are still a few seats left to some of the Shalin Liu shows we told you about in this post. But these won’t last long, so don’t think you’ve got much time to decide.
I think we can probably all agree that having a thriving music scene in Gloucester and Cape Ann is a good thing for all of us — even if it means we miss a few shows because we don’t pay attention to posts like this one that tell us to save the date.
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SAVE THE DATE SAT DEC 21: Cape Ann Winter Solstice Fundraiser for UU Meetinghouse
Vickie and I are honored to announce a gimmeLIVE concert series beginning on the Winter Solstice, Saturday, December 21, 2013 to help the Gloucester UU Church raise money for Meetinghouse restoration, with the goal being that the Meetinghouse becomes one of Gloucester’s premier concert and performance venues.
This is one of our City’s most cherished landmarks, it’s lantern steeple with a bell crafted by Paul Revere having guided mariners into port for over 200 years. The acoustics are excellent and the Meetinghouse currently seats about 300 people. One major goal is to renovate the balcony, which will increase capacity to 525. More restoration info here.
We will feature top Gloucester talent in this very special holiday concert:
Stay tuned to GMG for more details. You know FOBs will hear it first!
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Holiday Fair Schedule for this Weekend!
Here is the lineup for this weekend for all the fairs happening:
Saturday, Nov. 23
Holiday Church Fair Day, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., downtown Essex churches. The three churches — St. John the Baptist at 52 Main St., First Universalist Church at 57 Main St., and First Congregational Church at 39 Main St. — are offering gift bargains, white elephant items, children’s activities, homemade food and hot beverages. Parking is on the street or in the municipal lot behind the Martin Street police station.
St. Ann Holiday Fair, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Sullivan Hall at St. Ann Church, 70 Pleasant St., Gloucester. Besides the knitted items, featured will be homemade Thanksgiving pies, Italian cookies, a Chinese raffle, Wheel of Fortune, prizes, jewelry, Christmas goods, white elephant items, a Cookie Walk, lobster rolls and chowder, and pictures with Santa.
Thanksgiving Harvest Market, 9 a.m. to noon, Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church, corner of Middle and Church streets. Held by the Cape Ann Farmers Market in conjunction with the Middle Street Harvest Festival, 20-plus vendors include Alprilla Farm, Trupiano Sausage, Herrick Farm, Seaview Farm Meats, & Craquelins Crackers, varieties of produce, soups, baked goods, crafts, meats, cheese, herbs, smoked fish, pasta, and guacamole. All-natural turkey, donated by Common Crow, and raffled off to benefit the Farmers Market. UU meetinghouse serves up quiche, coffee, chocolates, plus chance to win a basket full of fine wines. Visit http://www.CapeAnnFarmersMarket.org or call Nicole Bogin at 978-290-2717.
Holiday fair, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Veterans Memorial School, 11 Webster St. Craft vendors, gift basket raffles, scratch ticket tree, cookie walk, Santa photo Ops, kids’ crafts.
Holiday bazaar, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Seacoast Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 292 Washington St. Pastries and cookies, raffles, craft vendors and white elephant table. All welcome. Snow or shine.
Country Cupboard Fair, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., St. John’s Church, 48 Middle St., in conjunction with Middle Street Harvest Festival. Handmade crafts, baked goods, jewelry, cookie walk, artisan cheese, seasonal decorations, silent auction, 50/50 raffle, fish chowder luncheon. Thrift Shop open. Parishioners in Victorian dress celebrate the 150th anniversary of the church and the Gettysburg Address.
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Santa at Cape Ann TV’s Annual Santa Party on Monday, December 9
SAVE THE DATE: Children are invited to meet Santa at Cape Ann TV’s Annual Santa Party on Monday, December 9, 2013
Cape Ann TV will host its annual Santa Party on Monday, December 9 at 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Cape Ann TV Studio located at 38 Blackburn Center in Gloucester. Children are invited to come to the studio and meet Santa Claus. Their meeting with Santa will be videotaped and shown on Cape Ann TV’s Channel 12 on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. This annual event is a free and open to the public.
As this is the season of giving, Cape Ann TV is a Project Uplift children’s toy and teen present collection site for families in need. Although it is not necessary to bring a gift, you may drop off a new unwrapped toy or new clothes for a child, or gift card for teens up to age 14.
For more information about Cape Ann TV’s Santa Party please call: 978-281-2443. Additional information can be found online at www.CapeAnnTV.org
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Meditation and Music at the Meetinghouse Sunday November 24 at 7:30
This just in from Karen Rembert
SUNDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 24, 2013 at 7:30pm
Meditation and Music in a candle‐lit setting in the Meetinghouse,
home of the Gloucester Unitarian Unitarian Church
Corner of Middle and Church Streets, on the green
Free‐Will Offering and Everyone is Welcome
Social Gathering Afterwards with Light Refreshments
INFORMATION:
The Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church is pleased to announce the fourth in a monthly series called Music & Meditation in the Meetinghouse (MMM) that offers Cape Ann residents and visitors a unique spiritual, but non-religious, experience of beautiful music and relaxing meditation. It is held in the candle-lit sanctuary of the historic 1806 Meetinghouse, Gloucester’s oldest standing church building.
The November event features meditation leader Dr. Neil Williams and pianist Nancy Grace. There will be a collation with light regreshments afterwards in the church’s Entrance House, giving participants the opportunity to meet the leaders and each other in a convivial atmosphere. The Sanctuary is accessible for persons with disabilities via the side entrance at 10 Church Street. A free-will offering is requested and everyone is welcome.
MEDITATION LEADER:
Dr. Neil Williams believes that meditation is a tool like prayer, music, beauty, silence and loving-kindness and that these tools are freely available. It is in the love of music and beauty that we are connected to one another. Silence and loving-kindness ground us in difficult times and promote healing. As a recent immigrant to Gloucester, Dr. Williams is finding everything new and fascinating, especially the rhythms of the sea and the sky. He observes that meditation allows us to slow down to the speed of life, like the movements in Nature; a gateway to connect with our internal rhythms, our music, and our inner voice. He believes that this voice within is a reflection of the divine spark we share with all beings.
MUSICIAN:
Nancy Grace, will play improvisational piano pieces with a meditative focus. Nancy has recently moved to Gloucester, and in years past played weekly musical meditations in both the Marblehead and the Framingham Unitarian Universalist churches. She has attended Berklee College of Music, and has a master’s degree in Transformative Arts, focused on the power of music and art to create individual as well as social transformation. She is currently doing doctoral work in ecopsychology, researching ways in which music can help people connect with place, particularly with the natural world. Nancy is also a visual artist, and has developed a unique style of colorful, abstract designs for prints, greeting cards,silk and stained glass.
KAREN REMBERT
Church Administrator
Hours Available: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday (9 am – noon)
Call (978) 283-3410
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Breaking News ~ Sunday Matinee Added for Henri Smith Christmas Show
FOBs Get the News First!
By Poplar demand a Sunday Matinee at 2pm has been added for the Henri Smith New Orleans Christmas. Henri Smith and his all-star band will bring the sounds and soul of New Orleans to New England once again for a special Matinee Christmas concert of traditional New Orleans jazz and blues with a touch of gospel, topped off with traditional Christmas favorites. Henri’s special guest include Grammy-Award winner Amadee Castenell, Lynne & Mike Cabaret, Carmen Spada and Diane DiSanto. See more about Henri’s special guest here.
Still some seats available for Saturday 
We are proud to sponsor an instrument drive for The Musary at this Henri Smith New Orleans Christmas concert. Everyone who brings an instrument to donate will be entered to win a door prize at intermission. The Musary serves as a free lending library of musical instruments.
The Musary is a 501(c)3 on-profit organization that that works to motivate, cultivate and inspire people, especially young people, in our community to get involved in music. It is the Musary’s goal to lend musical instruments to anyone in need, “No Strings Attached.” To learn more about The Musary, borrow an instrument or donate, visit their website.
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Brad Byrd’s New Single
This just in from Brad Byrd.
Brad Byrd New Single
“It Just Goes On”
Now available on iTunes
(and at all digital retailers)
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| Hey Friends,As we approach year end, we wanted to wish everyone a happy holiday season with the debut of Brad’s new single”It Just Goes On”
Preview the full song via SoundCloud here Brad had the pleasure of collaborating with Grammy Award winning production team Warren Huart (Aerosmith, The Fray) and Phil Allen (Adele) earlier this fall in Los Angeles and mastered at the legendary Gateway Studios in Portland, Maine. This new single marks the first official release since Brad’s second full length LP, |
Mental Photograph Click Here to Purchase |
| Also, as a special holiday treat, download the free unreleased track/demo…The Stars Are Out Tonight, Boy |
| Stay tuned for info on upcoming 2014 Spring/Summer appearances…TBA |
| Lastly, check out the brand new sounds of teen/rock/pop sensation James & JakeBrad had the unique opportunity to work with the boys on their debut EP “Blue” with the above mentioned production team. |
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Win a Pair of Tix 2 see Johnny Winter at Larcom Theatre on 1/31/14
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Ticket Tuesday! Win two tickets to see blues-rock legend Johnny Winter just by being a fan of our Facebook page AND “liking” this photo! Feel free to click the share button and tell your friends, but sharing not necessary to win. We’ll pick a winner on Thursday. Have fun and click “like”!
Disclaimer: Entrants must be 18 years old or over. This promotion does not have a connection with Facebook in any way and is not sponsored, supported or organized by Facebook. The recipient of the information provided by you is not Facebook, but M.E. Productions, LLC.
There is a lot of great stuff happening at the Larcom Theatre and it is virtually next-door not “up the line”. Do yourself a favor and check out it out.
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Don’t forget about all things happening tonight (Tuesday)!
Here is the schedule for tonight!
Vegetarian Thanksgiving Challenge
Location: Alchemy
Date: November 19, 2013
Time: 7:00 pm
Cost: $25
MC: Peter Van Ness
To keep with the season of giving, bring a canned good with you to the event for The Open Door, and we will match your donation can for can.
Are you [or someone close to you] a vegetarian who feels a little left out during the Thanksgiving season? Do pilgrim sandwich specials and Pinterest boards devoted to Thanksgiving leftovers bum you out? Then, Alchemy has the chef throw down for you!
OR
And of course live music happening around:
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Better rest up this weekend to get ready for Tuesday!
When did Tuesday become the big night of the week? Here is the schedule:
Vegetarian Thanksgiving Challenge
Location: Alchemy
Date: November 19, 2013
Time: 7:00 pm
Cost: $25
MC: Peter Van Ness
To keep with the season of giving, bring a canned good with you to the event for The Open Door, and we will match your donation can for can.
Are you [or someone close to you] a vegetarian who feels a little left out during the Thanksgiving season? Do pilgrim sandwich specials and Pinterest boards devoted to Thanksgiving leftovers bum you out? Then, Alchemy has the chef throw down for you!
OR
And of course live music happening around:
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Shalin Liu Performance Center – Great music coming in December
In December, visit the Shalin Liu Performance Center for great music–The Nutopians, led by Rex Fowler of Aztec Two Step & Tom Dean of Devonsquare celebrate the songs of John Lennon on the anniversary of his death. On December 15, hear swing guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli in Swing Xing. A master guitarist who’s known for his work with musical great Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett! See the full schedule here.
SUBSCRIPTIONS: Purchase 4 or more concerts & receive 10% discount & other benefits! – HINT GREAT CHRISTMAS GIFT IDEA!!
2013-14 SEASON TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW!
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Eagle & Dove Ministries Free Event ~ December 7th
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The Four Legged Faithful Playing Nov 23 at Cape Ann Brewery
The Four Legged Faithful are a band made up of 4 ordinary men who all thrive on playing music together. Their aim is not to play traditional folk or bluegrass music, but instead to create beautiful, heart-felt, and genuine music using traditional folk/bluegrass instruments. They create a sound that is honest and reflects the band’s many musical influences from nearly all genres. All members sing; creating multiple combinations of 2, 3, and 4-part harmonies. All members write and sing songs about their thoughts, families, and the natural world that surrounds them. For a band without a drummer, The Four Legged Faithful achieve an incredible level of intensity using foot percussion and layered rhythms throughout every measure. Check out this video and go see them on Saturday November 23rd.
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Vegetarian Thanksgiving Challenge at Alchemy – November 19
Vegetarian Thanksgiving Challenge
Location: Alchemy
Date: November 19, 2013
Time: 7:00 pm
Cost: $25
To keep with the season of giving, bring a canned good with you to the event for The Open Door, and we will match your donation can for can.
Are you [or someone close to you] a vegetarian who feels a little left out during the Thanksgiving season? Do pilgrim sandwich specials and Pinterest boards devoted to Thanksgiving leftovers bum you out? Then, Alchemy has the chef throw down for you!
On November 19th Chef Scott Jensen takes on the team at Organic Garden Cafe of Beverly in a Vegetarian Thanksgiving Challenge – and, trust us, this is nothing like your grocery store’s tofurkey. At the challenge, every guest will receive a signature challenge cocktail, a Thanksgiving-inspired dish from each chef, and the opportunity to cast their vote for the winner!
Come join the fun and say hi to Peter who will be the MC for the event.
Good Morning Gloucester 