Who’s playing Nice, A Fest on Saturday
Somerville and Cambridge celebrate the return of live music with an all-local Saturday music festival cutely titled Nice, A Fest. “It’s just like, ‘Nice, we’re having a festival,’ or ‘Nice, we get to do this again,’” organizer Alex Prickett said.
Between poetry and a biochemistry degree, Victoria Heitzmann has an EP to squeeze in
A gift for Victoria Heitzmann’s birthday this year is easy: Just help crowdfund the album being produced by the recent CRLS grad before she heads off to study biochemistry in California.
Wednesday show covers Dylan for his birthday, while Saturday class shows how it’s done best
Passim is celebrating Bob Dylan’s 80 birthday in advance by getting dozens of artists together Wednesday to sing his greatest hits; before that comes a Saturday class called “Tangled Up in You: Interpreting & Imagining Bob Dylan in the 21st Century.”
Creative Music Series returns to Assembly Square with jazz, free-form artist Eric Zinman and band (updated)
The return of warmer weather means the return of the free Creative Music Series to Saturdays at Assembly Square, starting with an Easter Weekend concert led by Boston musician and composer Eric Zinman.
Yo-Yo Ma, with two charitable events coming, treats a Covid clinic to 15 minutes of cello bliss
Cambridge’s resident celebrities are low-key, but renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma has popped up lately in a flurry of charitable work – and with an impromptu performance Saturday after getting vaccinated.
Subcentral sounds like revival in Central Square for electronic music and DJ industry, education
A space for aspiring electronic music artists and studio producers called Subcentral launches this weekend in Central Square – just steps from where The Mmmmaven Project operated with a similar mission until April 2019.
Coasting a new wave of interest from TikTok, Revels offers a free Sea Chantey Sing with a pro
Sea chantey TikTok somehow became the music that sang goodbye to 2020 and ahoy to the new year. Folk musician and chantey expert David Coffin will tell you all about those videos you’ve been loving and lead a free, virtual Sea Chantey Sing on Feb. 19.
Baratz makes conceptual cabaret ‘Private Lives’ into antidote for pandemic’s emotional distance
These modern, accessible and utterly lighthearted takes on cabaret songs offer the closest thing resembling companionship most of us have felt in months.
Passim’s Boston Celtic Music Fest will go online for safe four-day celebration of musical tradition
If there was any doubt: The Boston Celtic Music Fest will be online for its 18th year due to coronavirus restrictions.
Passim board elects Bartlett as its next chair, honoring outgoing Potts with grant for artists
The board of the music venue and arts nonprofit Passim has seen some turnover, with Jerry Potts stepping down as chair and musician Annie Bartlett elected by the board to replace him. Passim announced the creation of an annual giving program in honor of Potts.
