Another mutant lobster, lands at Capt. Joe’s. The man behind the claw is sometimes the man behind the camera.
Summer Kick Off – Music All Around
There is so much music happening this weekend – there is no reason not to go out! Make sure you check online for the lastest update.
There are still a few tickets left for tonight’s concert at Shalin Liu with Miranda Russell but you must call the box office at 978-546-7391.
Friday, May 24, 2013
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7:00 pm LINDA AMERO
Menage a Trio w/ Steve Heck and Bronek Suchanek
FREE SHOW
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| 8:00 pm FREEVOLT
Reggae On The River Bridge Deck
FREE SHOW
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8:00 pm  MIRANDA RUSSELL
Miranda Russell and her band at the beautiful Shalin Liu in Rockport, MA
37 Main Street, Rockport, MA 01966
Phone: 978-546-7391 |
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8:30 pm STEVE CARAWAY
with Professor Von Buhrendorf on Mandolin and Vocals
14 Rogers Street, Gloucester, MA
FREE SHOW
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| 8:30 pm JOE THOMAS
FREE SHOW
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9:00 pm FULL CIRCLE
FREE SHOW
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| 9:00 pm PETE AND DAVE’S MOTOWN DANCE PARTY
FREE SHOW
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9:00 pm GROOVE THERAPY
FREE SHOW
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| 9:00 pm SYM
classic rock jam
FREE SHOW
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| 9:30 pm BOSTON HORNS
FREE SHOW
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| 9:30 pm BUBBA AND THE TROUBLEMAKERS
FREE SHOW
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Saturday, May 25, 2013
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7:30 pm ROOTS 66
Acoustic Adventures from the Lost Highway. $10 Donation – Kids Under 12 Free
38 Gloucester Ave., Gloucester, MA 01930
Phone: (978) 283-4808 |
| 8:00 pm THE GLOSTAFARIANS
Bridge Deck
FREE SHOW
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8:00 pm MIRANDA RUSSELL
Miranda Russell and her band at the beautiful Shalin Liu in Rockport, MA
37 Main Street, Rockport, MA 01966
Phone: 978-546-7391 |
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8:00 pm ALLEN ESTES
w/ Orville Giddings
141 High St, Ipswich, MA 01938
FREE SHOW
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8:00 pm ORVILLE GIDDINGS
w/ Allen Estes
141 High St, Ipswich, MA 01938
FREE SHOW
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| 8:30 pm JOE THOMAS
FREE SHOW
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8:30 pm THE HOT TUB PIRANHAS
H.T.P.’s perform a Dance Party at St. Peter’s Club. This will be a so much fun. Only $3 Adm.
Rogers St., Gloucester, MA,
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| 9:00 pm MAD HOUSE
FREE SHOW
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9:00 pm THE WILKINS NOISE
Wilkins Solo Acoustic
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| 9:00 pm LOVEWHIP
FREE SHOW
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| 9:00 pm DJ VITO
Aqua Room Pool Bar
FREE SHOW
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| 9:00 pm MIKE O’CONNELL BAND
blues/jam/rock
FREE SHOW
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| 9:30 pm HDRNB
FREE SHOW
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| 9:30 pm MARI MARTIN
and The Lucky Boys
FREE SHOW
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Willie at the Cape Ann Community Cinema
Willie may be 70 but he’s still “bringin it”
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You Don’t want to miss What Time Is It Mr. Fox ~ Friday May 31, 2013 @ 8:00pm
| “Little Bit Of Blue” Celebration. with special guests, the Rockport High School Madrigal Choir, led by Patti Pike.Come join us in the stunning Shalin Liu Performance Center for the North Shore celebration of our “Little Bit Of Blue” album release. This venue was built for sound, with a beautiful ocean view backdrop. We are thrilled to be joined by the Rockport High School Madrigal Choir. We will also show two videos, “The Ladies’ Tree” about Joan of Arc and animated by Harvard animation professor and Mr. Fox back-up singer, Ruth Lingford, as well as “Helium” directed by Emile Doucette and featuring performers from the New England Center for Circus Arts.Thank you for letting our music into your ears and hearts! |
What Time Is It, Mr. Fox? is making music that feels exposed and personal, but cinematic in scope. The Boston/NYC band blends baroque pop with soul noir, conjuring up something like the dark-tinged drama of Florence + The Machine, the roots of Aretha Franklin, and the songcraft of the Decemberists.
The first thing that listeners respond to is the soulful warmth and strength of lead-singer 3rian King’s gender-defying voice, which “can simmer in blues, tremble with high drama, and faint into a yawning croon,” according to Michael Brodeur of the Boston Phoenix. Next are the words, from deeply intimate songs to those that cross into a mystical realm, making the personal feel timeless and mythic.
Named after a Victorian children’s game, What Time Is It, Mr. Fox? can time-travel from the woods of Medieval France to a 1930s New Orleans jukejoint. The effect resembles a gay male Adele leading a steampunk parade of music-school renegades. The group sells out legendary clubs like Club Passim & Oberon (Cambridge, MA) and The Duplex (NYC) and recently earned the Critic’s Pick in Time Out NYC.
Its original song “Cold Rain” was covered by New Orleans Soul Queen, Irma Thomas on her Grammy-nominated CD “Simply Grand,” with the track earning high praise in Rolling Stone, USA Today & The Village Voice.
Mr. Fox’s own CD “Little Bit Of Blue” was just released in March 2013. This performance will feature a new music video by Harvard University animation professor and Mr. Fox Fury, Ruth Lingford, as well as a new music video by Emile Doucette, showcasing the many talents of students and teachers at the New England Center for Circus Arts in Brattleboro, VT.
Mr. Fox will be joined on stage by The Rockport High School Madrigal Choir, under the direction of Patti Pike. Mr. Fox fiddler and trumpeter, Nathan Cohen, works closely with Patti Pike in the Rockport Schools where he is director of orchestras from 4th-12th grade. This collaboration should prove to be an exciting evening for all.
“Time has come for Mr. Fox.” – The Boston Herald
Tickets: $20/$23/$25
20% discount for students with ID (must call the Box Office to redeem, 978.546.7391)
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Some Good Dam News: Mill Dam has Been Restored!
This weekend the Millbrook Meadow Committee has planned a fun ceremony to recognize and celebrate the restoration of Rockport’s landmark Mill Dam. This has been a long process and the Committee has done and continues to do a fantastic job of bringing one of Rockport’s most historically and culturally significant places back to life. Plan on coming this Saturday if you can, and if you can’t, please spread the word about the opening ceremony:
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THEN and NOW – Gate Lodge at Niles Beach
THEN Photo taken circa 1900, a toll of One Penny back in those days.
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We had fun last night at the origami class at The Hive!
I am working with Art Haven to organize a 4-week series of classes in July. I will post details as soon as we have them!
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The Return of the Thacher Island Lens From Cape Ann Museum
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Mermaid found in Smith Cove Rocky Neck
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Well Lookey Here- Our EJ Is seARTS Artist of The Week!
seARTS Bass Rocks Art Loan Program
An interview with our Artist of the Week, E.J. Lefavour
How do you feel about being chosen for the Bass Rocks Art Loan Program?
Very excited. This opportunity is allowing me to exhibit my work in a venue and to a segment of our population that I may not have been able to reach otherwise (unless they are regulars to Rocky Neck). It is an honor to be in such great creative company, and I am grateful for the opportunity.
Pebble Beach through the Rearview Mirror, Mixed Media Photo Collage,
16" x 20". Click to enlarge.
What is your medium or area of creativity? I am a painter, photographer, writer, illustrator. Most recently I have been working with the over abundance of wonderful photos I have taken over the past few years and incorporating them into unique, three dimentional photo montages, which people are really enjoying. I created about 50 of them over the winter, and the series is called "Gloucester: The Grit and the Glory", since most encompass images of rope, chains, rusted hulls of boats, nets and other images from the working seaport aspect of Gloucester, combined with the glory of that industry and of the natural beauty that surrounds us here, as well as the history.
How long have you been an artist? I have been a working artist since 1991 after leaving the corporate world and making the decision to pursue my art full time.
Where do you get your inspiration? Anywhere and everywhere around me.
Other than the Bass Rocks Golf Club, where can we find your works? At my galler(ies) on Rocky Neck. Khan Studio and the Good Morning Gloucester Gallery at 77 Rocky Neck Ave., Gallery 3 from May 15 to October 15, and at my winter gallery, up the stairs at 1 Wonson Street (behind Sailor Stan’s) from October to April.
What else would you like us to know? I passionately love Cape Ann, Rocky Neck where I now reside year round, Annisquam were I lived in the winter for three seasons, East Gloucester and the Backshore, Eastern Point, paddleboarding, Good Morning Gloucester and all the people associated with it, and all the wonderful people I meet and have met since moving here. I feel very blessed to be here.
Cape Ann going’s on and opportunities for the week…
Call to Artists, Designers & Creatives
seARTS Wearable Arts Group invites you to submit ideas
for this fall’s "Celebrate Wearable Art II!" runway show.
Click here for an application. Deadline is now June 1, 2013.
Opening Reception of Visitors’ Center, Stage Fort Park, Gloucester, May 23
Opening Reception of Rocky Neck Gallery, May 25
Cape Ann TV Annual Meeting, May 28
Cape Ann Artisans 30th Annual Studio Tour, June 22-23
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Gloucester Shack Series
This group of Shacks can be found on the way out to Eastern Point.
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Opening Reception at the Visitor’s Center Thursday evening
What a great crowd at the visitor’s center, lots of fun and good vibes for a great summer season.
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Bobby Viau and His Beautiful New Stage Fort Map Displayed At the Visitors Welcoming Center
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Community Stuff 5/24/13
BIG NEWS for the Backyard Growers Program fundraising campaign!
A fantastic anonymous donor has offered to MATCH EVERY DONATION that comes in for the next 48 hours up to $1,500. That would raise $3,000 for Gloucester’s school garden program in two days AND get us so amazingly close to our $7,500 goal!
Your $25 donation will automatically become $50! Your $100 donation will automatically become $200!! You will double the power of your generosity by TWO which is like having a SUPERPOWER!!!
If anyone has been on the fence about donating, now is really the time! Your donations need to come in between NOW and Friday at midnight!
And you generous, wondrous people who have given me hope for the human race by already donating to my campaign, please SPREAD THE WORD about this great, double-your-money opportunity!
Click here to watch our fundraising video and to make a donation through our indiegogo campaign site.
And support the Backyard Growers Program’s expansion into the Gloucester Elementary Schools!
Thank you so much! Lara
Lara Lepionka
9 Beacon Street
Opening Day!
The day we’ve all been waiting for! Saturday, May 25th at 10:00 the doors to our exhibits will open for the season. We have lobsters and sea stars and eels, oh my! Look for new items in the shop, new floats off (and on) the wharf, and some familiar faces around and about: Capt. Harold on the Ardelle, Geno in the Dory Shop, Stubby making sure it all runs smoothly.
Coming soon: new look to the shop (see below), interpretive kiosks along the walk, the compass rose sculpture at our entrance!
From now until the end of October we’ll be here everyday from 10:00 to 6:00 everyday. Join us!
Where: Maritime Gloucester
23 Harbor Loop, Gloucester
A New Look at Maritime Gloucester
Aaron Snider works on a prototype frame for our new informational kiosks. The kiosks will line the walkway from Harbor Loop to the Harriet Webster Wharf. Each kiosk will describe a facet of life associated with Gloucester Harbor. Thanks to the City of Gloucester for help with this exciting project.
American Eels are the latest addition to the creatures in our Aquarium. Come by and check out the rock crabs, the skates, the sea ravens, and much more!
Our museum shop will be getting a facelift. Details are still in the works, but expect to see something like this. Many thanks to Monty Lewis Designs for his work on this and so many other things!
MG and the City of Gloucester are Winnahs!
Gloucester, Maritime Gloucester, and Untravel Media won the Gold Medal at last week’s American Alliance of Museums conference. In the "Audio Tours & Podcasts" category for Media and Technology, the HarborWalk’s "Walking Cinema: Posts from Gloucester, Maritime Gloucester and Untravel Media" beat some formidable competition — the Barnes Museum/Foundation and the National Museum of American History.
Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House opens May 25
Beauport, Sleeper –McCann House
opens for the 2013 season
on Saturday, May 25, 10 am – 5 p.m.
Come hear Oliver Horovitz talk
about growing up and looping on the Old Course.
"An American Caddie in St. Andrews"
When: May 25th, 1-3:00pm
Where: Bass Rocks Golf Club
Books available for purchase.
Great gift for Father’s Day!!
Bass Rocks Golf Club | 34 Beach Rd | Gloucester, MA 01930-0303 | United States
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Craig Kimberley. The Bruins. Fishermen’s Brew And The Best Wings In Town. #Boom!
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Ringo and His Flag Crew From Bridgette Matthews
Good Morning Joey,
Ringo and his Flag crew were up bright and early this morning adorning the Boulevard for Memorial Day!
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More live blogging at Welcoming Center
Ed finds a friend.
Donna gets da fork.
Ed now has a date.
Joey and Mayor Kirk cut up.
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Live Blogging: Gloucester Welcoming Center
You know how we do!
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Eastern Point Light and the breakwater
Another possible motif.
Good Morning Gloucester 