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Malcolm Collins; musician, organizer, humanitarian

Malcolm Collins serves up another huge B4B fundraiser, rallies bands for the cause Oct 18

The Boathouse 4 Boobies Breast Cancer Fundraiser is a huge event. Featuring 12 local cover bands playing to raise money for the Ellie Fund and the Susan G. Komen 3-day Walk, the music event takes place each year at The Boat music and night spot in Dracut, Massachusetts. How does an event with 12 bands […]

Perry Paolucci; Rock Can Roll food drive organizer

Perry Paolucci continues his personal mission with 8th Annual Rock Can Roll food drive party; October 25

The annual food drive at Sons Of Italy in Quincy, Massachusetts is a personal mission for organizer Perry Paolucci. The booking agent and promoter started the annual food drive in 2014 to assist a local food pantry. Hosting the Eight Annul Rock Can Roll food drive party with a band like East Coast Alice, Paolucci […]

Nikki Jarek, Mugshot Monday singer, cousin to Ashley Sargent

Nikki Jarek, A-Brews, others organize Bike Ride Fundraiser for music fan’s children

Singer Nikki Jarek has been busy with a labor of love. Jarek, of the band Mugshot Monday, with a little help from her friends, has been organizing a fundraiser. Jarek’s cousin Ashley Sargent lost her life in a motorcycle accident last month, leaving four children in need of as much support as the local music […]

Phil Pemberton

Phil Pemberton to receive a Roomful Of Love from all of his friends at The Bull Restaurant July 27

Roomful Of Love is an apt title for the benefit singer Diane Blue has organized to help pay down the cost of local blues singer Phil Pemberton’s healthcare issues. Blue has pulled together an assemblage of talent made up of former Roomful of Blues alums. Headlined by Ronnie Earl and Duke Robillard, the band will […]

Andrew North And The Rangers

Andrew North And The Rangers dominate New Hampshire’s jam band scene

Lead by Concord, New Hampshire keyboardist, singer, Andrew Grosvenor, Andrew North And The Rangers, after much hard work, became one of the most recognizable names in northern New England jam bands. Grosvenor (pronounced grove -ner, the “s” is silent) and his band mates put together a sound that is at once complex, entertaining, and sometimes […]

Ambitious, Chick Singer Night to bring flair, variety to Parish Center in Westford, Massachusetts

Ambitious, Chick Singer Night to bring flair, variety to Parish Center in Westford, Massachusetts

Chick Singer Night co-directors Jennifer Truesdale and Marcia Ridings-Macres are busily preparing for another of their spring CSN events. On March 18, Chick Singer Night will present, at the Parish Center for the Arts in Westford, Massachusetts, a mix of women performers performing a mix of blues, R&B, jazz, and rock. There’s a special theme […]

Greg Sherrod

Greg Sherrod, rocking southern New England and beyond for decades, his personal story

Connecticut blues, rock, and soul singer, songwriter, arranger Greg Sherrod has been rocking southern New England for decades. His latest CD Do You Feel It garnered favorable reviews and has served as a successful calling card for Sherrod’s startling good original songs, an amalgamation of blues, rock, and soul. Though this singer has had numerous […]

Juli Gort Finn

Chick Singer Night to rock The Burren in Somerville with Juli Gort Finn, Joy Reo, Natalie Bearfield, Emma Moreau

This Saturday’s Chick Singer Night event will present some of best women musicians in New England. CSN co-directors Jennifer Truesdale and Marcia Ridings-Macres have lassoed guitar goddess Juli Gort Finn, jazz vocalist Joy Reo, and youth performers Natalie Bearfield and Emma Moreau to participate. Each will perform with the Chick Singer Night band at The […]

Worcester singer Niki Luparelli terrified by Bull Mansion venue hosting her Haunted Speakeasy events

Worcester singer Niki Luparelli terrified by Bull Mansion venue hosting her Haunted Speakeasy events

People who have seen the advertisements and read local news articles may still not know what are the events known as Haunted Speakeasy produced by Worcester-based singer, comedian, and zany local celebrity Niki Luparelli. “I’s me and my eight, nine piece band and we do three sets,” she said. “It’s burlesque and drag performances. There […]

Sandy Martin

Sandy Martin continues her remarkable career in the greater-Boston music scene

A staple on the greater-Boston/New England music scene since the 1980s, bass player Sandy Martin continues to impress audiences with her control of the groove Discharged from the Navy in 1977, Martin knew she wanted to attend a music college. She chose Berklee College of Music which drew her out to the Boston area. Martin […]