Visiting artist from Billerica captures the Harbor from the Harriet Webster Wharf at Maritime Gloucester.

See FOB Melissa and Jessica Biker

Happy Connecting. Sent from my Sprint Samsung Galaxy S® 5

Music in the Courtyard at the
Cape Ann Museum

An afternoon with
Rockport High School musicians

  The Cape Ann Museum is pleased to present cellist, Jace Mason and violinist, Clara Mazo on Friday, June 24 from 4:00p.m. to 5:00p.m. as part of the Museum’s Music in the Courtyard summer concert series.  This program is free and open to the public. For more information please call (978) 283-0455 x10 or email info@capeannmuseum.org.

Jace Mason is going into tenth grade at Rockport High School. He is an accomplished student cellist who has studied the instrument for six years, has just completed his second year in New England Conservatory’s Preparatory Program, and is a former member of Northeast Massachusetts Youth Orchestras. He has also studied at Berklee College of Music’s Global String Intensive and at Brooklyn Conservatory of Music under the tutelage of Mike Block. He enjoys playing jazz, contemporary, and fiddle music in addition to classical. He also studies guitar, piano, and voice in addition to the cello.

Clara Mazo is entering her tenth grade at Rockport High School. She has been playing violin for 12 years and has been taking private lessons at New England Conservatory for 3 years with Mark Lachirovich. She has played in the Massachusetts Northeastern District Orchestra since 7th grade and made the Massachusetts All-State Orchestra this year, performing at Boston Symphony Hall in March. Clara has also played the trumpet for 5 years, performing with Rockport High School’s top jazz ensemble in addition to the school orchestra on violin. Clara has also played at local weddings in Gloucester and in Rockport.

This program is free and open to the public.

Interested in supporting the Museum through membership? Join now and get free admission to the Museum and discounted tickets to all of our events!

*In the event of inclement weather the concert will be moved inside the Museum.

Gina Loves Gary and other
new works by Brian Murphy

Rocky Neck Art Colony’s Goetemann Artist Residency Studio
51A Rocky Neck Avenue Street, Gloucester, MA  01930

Friday, June 24 from 4 to 9 pm and
Saturday, June 25, 2016 from noon to 8 pm

Former Gallery 53 Summer Artist, Brian Murphy is showing a new collection of his whimsical wire sculpture on Friday and Saturday June 24-25 at the Goetemann Artist in Residency Studio. (51A Rocky Neck Ave. between the Studio Restaurant and Gallery 53).  Brian is hosting public reception on both evenings from 5 to 8pm.

For more information contact Brian Murphy at
857-334-4323
or murphycares@gmail.com.

Bird Mancini and T Max return to help raise money for the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck by performing an entire night of wonderful songs made famous by The Beatles. Within the hits and their personal favorites, expect a lot of three-part harmony, familiar riffs, and the unforgettable melodies that have lived in our hearts and minds since The Beatles 1964 invasion. Tickets available in advance at www.rockyneckartcolony.org – programs – music.

BIRD MANCINI

Boston’s Bird Mancini is a cosmopolitan fusion of blues-tinged rock, Latin-flavored bossa nova, country-folk balladry, and woolly psychedelia, with lush vocals, guitar, accordion, and a variety of percussion, bells and whistles. In recent years they’ve toured the West Coast and performed for the International Pop Overthrow Festival in Boston, NYC, and The Cavern Club in Liverpool, England.

Critically acclaimed and ASCAP/Boston Music Award nominees, Bird Mancini were twice named among the Top 10 Year’s Best by Metronome Magazine.  They’ve opened for Leon Russell, David Crosby, Joan Osborne, Gregg Allman, Jonathan Edwards, The Stompers, The Outlaws and others.

The duo features Ruby Bird-vocals, accordion, melodica, harmonica, percussion; Billy Carl Mancini-vocals and guitar.

www.birdmancini.com

T MAX

New England-based, T Max is a man of many hats (literally and figuratively).  He’s the singer/ songwriter/ storyteller who has run The Noise (New England’s longest running music magazine) for 34 years. He also founded Boston Rock Opera (produced and acted in Jesus Christ Supertar), wrote two folk-rock operas, released nine solo albums, produced Boston Rock ‘n’ Roll Trading Cards, was the music director for Project Eno (a tribute to Brian Eno), lectured on marketing music media at Emerson College, was a fine artist in wood, is an art photographer, graphic artists, and to show that he’s not just interested in fields of art, he placed 4th in the US Open in 1988 (playing chess). New England music legend Willie “Loco” Alexander says, “T Max is a man from another century, like Ben Franklin or Ian Whitcomb, a man of a thousand voices (and hats). His music runs the gamut of standards to scat—creating songs from the lost jukeboxes of time.  Amen.”

www.gimmesund.com/tmax

NORTH SHORE ARTS ASSOCIATION,
EXHIBITIONS, RECEPTIONS, AND LECTURE.

“New Members” Exhibition and “Artist Members” Exhibition II plus “Art of the Sea and Science” Exhibition and Silent Auction:  ALL June 17 – July 30th.  Receptions for all three Exhibitions on Sunday, June 26th, 2-4 PM.  Open Free to the Public.

            Lecture, “Why Whales”, same date as Receptions, June 26th from 12:30-1:30PM, given by Ian Kerr CEO of Ocean Alliance in conjunction with “Art of the Sea and Science” Paint Factory Painted Slate Show and Silent Auction.

 

Hello, Gulliver!

Nearly 300 entries to name the Cape Ann Reads gull flew in to the Cape Ann libraries, to partners like Cape Ann Museum, GMG comments, and social media. Some names were repeated. Thank you to everyone who sent in an entry. Here’s a word cloud from Sawyer Free Library that illustrates the frequency.

Every month Cape Ann Reads features exceptional programs. Check them out!

You can buy a t-shirt featuring Gulliver, the endearing Cape Ann Reads logo. We can thank Asley Curcuru through the Hive for the endearing gull.

 

I’ll be heading down to the beach after work today with my camera in tow to see if I can get lucky and grab a few action shots.    Until then here’s a look back of the past few years’ captures.

2015 Friday:  Leo Taormina –   Saturday:  Joe DaSilva – Sunday:  Jake Wagner

2014 Friday:  Jack Russ – Saturday: Kyle Barry – Sunday: Mark Allen

2013 – Saturday: Zach Allen (not sure where I was the rest of this weekend!)

2012 – Friday:  Ross Carlson – Saturday: Nick Avelis – Sunday: Stew McGillvray

 

 

First Time I’ve Seen One Of These In Action. It went along at a pretty good clip and very stable-

Tuesday, June 7th, Patrick Thorpe, President and CEO of BankGloucester, announced the winners of the bank’s ninth annual “Banking for the Community” program and presented checks to them during a celebratory reception at the bank on Main Street in Gloucester.

With over 6,000 votes cast by the public, the ninth annual “Banking for the Community” program was a tremendous success. The program awarded 19 organizations a combined total of $20,000.  BankGloucester would like to thank the members of the community whose votes determined how the funds were distributed.  Votes were cast through the bank’s website at www.BankGloucester.com or via paper ballot at the Gloucester and Essex locations of the bank.

There were eighteen organizations featured on the ballot, and write-ins were welcomed. The organization receiving the most votes was Cape Ann Animal Aid which received a check for $5,000. Open Door Food Pantry and Care Dimensions finished second and third respectively and received $3,000 each. The Rose Baker Senior Center and HAWC each received a check for $1,000 for coming in fourth and fifth place. Family Promise North Shore and Day by Day Adult Care both write-in’s, each received $500 along with the following 12 organizations: Grace Center, Wellsping, Old Farm Rockport, Gloucester Education Foundation, Saint Vincent De Paul, Sawyer Free Library, Action, Inc, North Shore Health Project, North Shore Art Association, Essex Senior Center/Council on Aging, Education Foundation Rockport, Magnolia Library.