Nichole’s Picks 7/30 + 7/31
Pick #1: Gloucester Country Fest
Gloucester Country Fest
Stage Fort Park
Gloucester, MA
Cassadee Pope, The Houston Bernard Band, and Southern City Band!
July 30, 2016
Gates open at 11:00
Show starts at 12:00
Show starts at 12:00
Tickets go on sale
May 13 at 10:00am
May 13 at 10:00am
Tickets purchased in advance
$30.00 at Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce
$30.00 at Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce
33 Commercial Street, Gloucester
Tickets purchased at gate
$35.00
$35.00
Pick #2: B. Good Festival at the Farm
Festival at the Farm is about connecting a community around great live music and delicious, local food and drink. And then giving back all the proceeds to our community together.
There’s no better time to do it than on a Summer afternoon. No better place than on a beautiful farm with a picturesque hill as the backdrop.
The farm provides natural good vibes with plenty of elbow room, a huge dance floor, and sprawling lawn for picnics, games, and booths where you can meet our farmers and charity partners. It’s about creating a community event that’s good for all — music lovers who want to jam, foodies who want to eat delicious food and drink craft beer, and kids who want to run free.
We’re out to do some good by delivering good times for everyone on the farm.
READ MORE ABOUT THIS EVENT AND PURCHASE TICKETS HERE
Pick #3: See The Whales
One of my very best friend’s husbands, whom I adore, told me the other day that he has never seen a whale! Wait, what!? Hailing from Connecticut and having lived on Cape Ann for well over a decade….how is that possible!! Sorry, T!
So, if you’re like him…. it is time. Even if you’ve seen 1,000 whales, it could never be enough!
Capt. Bill and Sons Whale Watch
As always, for a more comprehensive list of family activities, please visit our friends at North Shore Kid
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Hey Joey C GMG every Wednesday Homey comes sits on the movie screen and keeps us company. Thank you sponsors.
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Movie night Wednesday. Hey Joey C Gmg every Wednesday Homey comes sits on the movie screen and keeps us company. Thank you sponsors.
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The Fiesta Hat Ladies Are Headed To Lowell’s 30th Anninversary Folk Art Festival This Weekend To Represent Awesome Gloucester…Viva!
Sisters Robyn Clayton McNair and Amy Clayton Invite all to join them this weekend at the the Lowell Folk Festival!
Robyn and Amy write~
My sister and I are heading out to the Lowell Folk Festival, the largest folk festival in the U.S.A. This coming weekend! Saturday July 30th & Sunday July 31st 12:00-5:00pm @ the Larcom Park near Merrimack St . We will be representing our fine community with our “crazy hats”. Our booth will be located at Lucy Larcom Park near the Lowell High School. Our booth with be adored with our families handmade replica of the St. Peter’s statue and festive decorations collected over the years from our Annual Fiesta Hat Ladies Backyard Celebration hosted before Fiesta Saturday Races! This year the city of Lowell have plans to celebrate this year’s 30th anniversary with lots of cultural food, music and entertainment throughout the city all weekend! We are honored to be invited to represent Gloucester and our communities celebration of the St. Peter’s Fiesta With our Handcrafted Fiesta Hats in the folk craft artists section of this year’s 30th Folk Festival event. We will be handing out Discover Gloucester travel Brochures and Fiesta Pins to promote our awesome communities cultural event hosted in late June and information about what our beautiful seaside landscape has to offer year round. All are welcome! Please stop by our our booth and say hi!
July 30th & 31st 12-5 pm
Festival Address; North Billerica, Massachusetts 01824
Stop By their booth for a photo with the St. Petet’s Fiesta Crazy Hat Ladies & their Incredible Handcrafted 2016 Fiesta Hats! They are truly works of art & should be on display year round at Cape Ann museum ! Robyn and Amy began their Fiesta Hat Tradition several years ago. Thier had crafted hats change each year highlightng a special event, landmark, or a tribute/memorial hononning a past Fiesta legend. Their hat creations take months to design and craft, and that have become a highlight of our communities Fiesta Celebration each year! MA CHE SIAMO TUTTI MUTTI
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Two more days and Stage Fort Park becomes Gloucester’s shoreline amphitheater for Country Fest. @cassadeepope headlining, also Houston Bernard Band and Southern City Band
Apparently and not surprisingly Ringo helps Boston Fence set in the fences at Stage Fort for Gloucester’s first country fest, coming this Saturday noon -5 (gates open 11 AM). I didn’t stop to chat or take more photographs because we were in the middle of a Gloucester beaches challenge. What an unforgettable venue to listen to Cassadee Pope (big single out right now and Voice Season 3 winner. Who was her coach?) and Boston bands Houston Bernard Band and Southern City Band ! Cassadee Pope’s twitter photograph features beach/dune background. Wonder where it was taken? Everyone will have some good photos from Stage Fort. You can listen to Ringo and Emily talk to Joey about the Country fest on the podcast.
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Eat Your Vegetables, But Take Care ‘Fiddling’ With Fiddleheads
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Promoting Optimal Wellness for Body, Mind and Spirit
Fiddlehead Ferns – Considered a gourmet, wild food found locally from April – July.
I was first introduced to fiddleheads in the 1980’s. A side dish sautéed by my friend Michael Claudio was a delicious accompaniment to one of his many amazing, gourmet meals.
Fiddlehead Nutrition Facts – Low in calories – 34. High in vitamin A (72%) and Vitamin C (44%) (per 100 grams.)
Shop Local. ‘Fresh is Best. Fiber is Filling.’ Though I occasionally had seen fiddleheads at local farm stands and produce stores since I first had them, I had never ventured to cook them myself. This spring I began seeing and enjoying fiddleheads on the menus of some higher end Cape Ann restaurants. Delicious! So when I saw them at a local farm stand (not on Cape Ann and whose name will remain anonymous!) I decided to add them to a meal I was preparing…
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Pro Tip: If you need a quick yes or no answer to a question, text the person instead of calling them
Chances go up exponentially that you will get a succinct answer in a more timely manner and if that person is unable to answer a phone call immediately, they can text you back as soon as they can.
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WONDERFUL BUZZ ABOUT ANNA SOLOMON’S “LEAVING LUCY PEAR,” A NEW NOVEL SET ON CAPE ANN!
At the Bookstore of Gloucester -“Leaving Lucy Pear” is a real page turner – Sharon Bo Abrams can’t put her copy down!
Chosen as a must-read book for summer 2016 by TIME Magazine, InStyle, Good Housekeeping, The Millions, and the Minneapolis Star Tribune
One night in 1917, Beatrice Haven sneaks out of her uncle’s house on Cape Ann, Massachusetts, leaves her newborn baby at the foot of a pear tree, and watches as another woman claims the infant as her own. The unwed daughter of wealthy Jewish industrialists and a gifted pianist bound for Radcliffe, Bea plans to leave her shameful secret behind and make a fresh start. Ten years later, Prohibition is in full swing, post-WWI America is in the grips of rampant xenophobia, and Bea’s hopes for her future remain unfulfilled. She returns to her uncle’s house, seeking a refuge from her unhappiness. But she discovers far more when the rum-running manager of the local quarry inadvertently reunites her with Emma Murphy, the headstrong Irish Catholic woman who has been raising Bea’s abandoned child—now a bright, bold, cross-dressing girl named Lucy Pear, with secrets of her own.
In mesmerizing prose, award-winning author Anna Solomon weaves together an unforgettable group of characters as their lives collide on the New England coast. Set against one of America’s most turbulent decades, Leaving Lucy Pear delves into questions of class, freedom, and the meaning of family, establishing Anna Solomon as one of our most captivating storytellers.
For more information visit Anna Solomon’s website here. Anna has three upcoming Cape Ann events. In addition to the two posted below, she is also having a reading at the Rockport Library on August 24th.
Praise for Leaving Lucy Pear
From the first page, I was under the spell of Anna Solomon’s emotionally engaging narrative about the devastating choices we make and the unexpected consequences they bring. This is a fine literary tapestry woven with beautiful language, complex characters, and a precise probing of human desires and demons.
SUE MONK KIDD, New York Times bestselling author of The Invention of Wings
Anna Solomon writes with a poet’s reverence for language and a novelist’s ability to keep us turning the page. Leaving Lucy Pear is a gorgeous and engrossing meditation on motherhood, womanhood, and the sacrifices we make for love.
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN, New York Times bestselling author ofMaine and The Engagements
Leaving Lucy Pear is that rare combination of stunning language, raw emotion, and profound wisdom that catches you up and wrings you out and yet somehow leaves you fuller than when you began. In this tender new novel, Anna Solomon looks at our most fundamental relationships—between mothers, children, and lovers—with more compassion and grace that seems humanly possible.
CELESTE NG, New York Times bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You
In Anna Solomon’s marvelously textured new novel, Cape Ann in the late 1920’s thrums with the issues of the day, prohibition and the vote, the immigrant problem and labor strikes, Sacco and Vanzetti and Mother Jones. When two seemingly dissimilar women, Emma and Bea, become bound to the same child, we’re given a piercing and often profound look at motherhood, what it is and isn’t, as well as the ways suffering makes and unmakes us all, sometimes many times over. Solomon is an enormously gifted writer, and her penetrating tale will linger in your mind long after the last page has turned.
PAULA MCLAIN, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife and Circling the Sun
Leaving Lucy Pear is a mosaic of longing: a cast of characters wrestling with lives they might have led, keeping secrets that could free them, and building uncertain futures. With great empathy, Solomon transports us to an evocative and overlooked time and place in this morally complex and deeply satisfying story.
CHRISTOPHER CASTELLANI, author of All this Talk of Love
A marvel of a novel, bursting with intelligence, insight, compassion, and truth. It reminds me of books I read when young, the ones made me want to write, the sort that keep you reading through the night, unable to close the covers. Anna Solomon is an extraordinarily gifted storyteller and we are the lucky beneficiaries of her gift.
ROBIN BLACK, author of Life Drawing
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Excursion
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Cripple Cove early on Saturday Morning
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The 5th Gloucester Blues Festival August 6, 2016…Just ten days away! From 11:00am to 7:15pm on the water at Cressy Beach.
What a wicked good mix of blues…
Check out The Gloucester Blues Festival website for all the info and also get familiar with all the artist.. their websites are below.
Enjoy them now and really enjoy them live on August 6th.
http://www.tascru.com/
http://annikachambers.com/
http://www.brucekatzband.com/BK/home_news.html
http://www.seanchambers.com/
http://www.slamallen.com/
http://www.mrsippthemississippiblueschild.com/
http://www.popachubby.com/#!tour/c21gn
TICKETS are $28 ADVANCE ONLINE / $40 AT THE GATE / $50 V.I.P.
A special children’s ticket will be available at the gate only to
youngsters 6 to 12 for $5. Children under 5 admitted free.
You can also get tickets locally with no online fee from
Cindy Schimanski, Frank Biscardi, Gary Gorczyca, Cape Chamber of Commerce, Stephen Pitman & Yours Truly
It’s going to be another good one…I can feel it!
Tickets > https://shared9.mainehost.net/~gloucest/buytickets.html
Questions on price:
Rain or shine!
Tickets are $28.00 in advance. Available at Cape Ann Chamber and our street team in Gloucester.
On line tickets END Aug.3, 2016 Service charge $3.00 per ticket
$40.00 at the gate.
VIP (chair Only) $50.00 Open seating in VIP area
Children under 12 yrs $5.00
Age 5 and under free
http://gloucesterbluesfestival.com/
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Whoa… Jon Butcher Tonight! Wednesdays with Fly Amero @ The Rhumb Line 7-10pm 7.27.2016
Dinner Specials Each Week!
Wednesday, July 27th – 7pm
Musical Guest: JON BUTCHER!
Fresh off another iconic National Anthem performance at
majestic Fenway Park, the legendary Jon Butcher graces our
stage at the Rhumb Line this week. Among the hardest working
people I’ve ever known, my friend Mr. Butcher never allows
himself to stand still. He continues to grow as an artist, and
spends each waking moment toward that end. Accordingly,
he’ll be featuring brand new material from his upcoming CD.
Every bit as gutsy, rootsy and soulful as we’ve always known
his music to be. Come meet Jon Butcher, up close and
personal. It all starts at 7! ~ Fly
Dinner with great music!
*Each week features a special, invited musical guest
The Rhumb Line Kitchen……now features Janet Brown with some new and healthy ideas!
Plus a fine, affordable wine menu!
Upcoming…
8/03 – Inge Berge
8/10 – Ron Schrank
8/17 – John Rockwell
8/24 – Charlee Bianchini
8/31 – Jay & Laurie Keefe (and friends)
9/07 – Liz Frame & The Kickers
Visit: http://www.therhumbline.com/
Looking forward……to seeing you there 🙂
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Are you up for the 13-2 Gloucester beaches challenge? 13 beaches. 2 jumps. 1 city. Go!
A mid-week vacation day is the easiest. Oh, and you’ll need your resident beach sticker. We prepped our car with a picnic blanket for the seat, extra towels, and ice waters. Start early and grab a big “lobsterjack” breakfast because you’ll need the fuel. End late.
Let’s establish some base rules here.
First off, you need to spend at least 15 minutes at each beach. (You can tweak this a little if you want.) Next, you need to dive under. We suggest a ritual for each beach, e.g. ‘The Five and Dive’. Finally, you have to stop for ice cream and candy. Remember, you can do these beaches (or others in Gloucester) and jumps in any order. Be flexible for unexpected delays like staying at one beach for hours, or a friend asking you to drop off a sub (*cough* Joey *cough*). Most importantly, you have to do at least 13 beaches and 2 jumps in one day. Mind the tides. Be grateful we have so many choices.
The Beaches- partial list
alphabetical order
Annisquam lighthouse. Coffin’s beach. Good Harbor beach. Long beach. Magnolia beach. Niles beach. Pavilion beach (by Beach Court). Pavilion beach bonus (by the cut). Plum Cove beach. Rocky Neck Oakes Cove beach. Stage Fort Park (1) – Cressy’s beach ( our alt. title ‘sea serpent’ big beach). Stage Fort Park (2) – Half Moon beach. Wheeler’s Point. Wingaersheek beach.
The Jumps- partial list
Annisquam bridge. Magnolia Pier.
*We do this challenge at least once each summer. Yesterday we started off with breakfast at Willow’s Rest and continued from there. Our timing was random especially as we spent hours at Wingaersheek. The second meal to get us through the day came from the sandwich counter at Annie’s by Wingaersheek. Yes, they have a sandwich counter.
Gloucester Beaches sandwich directory
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“Rasta” A New artist in Town
The results in the making of a new sign for Rockport Lobster Company.
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Gloucester Smiles-325
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Sister Visiting from Arizona
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Low tide at Annisquam Light
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What’s Up with the Spraying?
Who can tell me why they have been spraying the train bridge each and every time I have gone under it this summer?
I have passed under the train bridge 10-12 times this summer and each time someone has been spraying the tracks…or maybe the wood. Sometimes the bridge has been open…and sometimes it has been closed…so that doesn’t seem to make a difference.
I’d kind of love to know.
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HomieCast 19 With James Eves, Craig Kimberley, Chris DeWolfe, Rick Doucette, Eric Lorden, The Intern, Barry Mohan and Joey C Taped 7/26/16
Topics Include:
Cargo Shorts?, How Will Jimmy Garoppolo Do In His Four Starts With The Pats?, Eric’s Pirate Party Wrap Up, Over The Bridge Band, Soul Rebel Project On Crane Estate Thursday Will Be Filmed By Craig, Selling Used Bras On Cape Ann Yard Sale Facebook Page, You Don’t Poke The Sausage, Rating The Summer, What Can Be Done To Stop Dog Owners That Ignore The Law and People Who Litter At The Beach.
Good Morning Gloucester 