Saturday, June 20, 12-6pm | Brought to you by Arlington Center for the Arts
Not Your Mom is a Medford-based acoustic Folk/Americana duo dedicated to writing songs and building community. Now joined by The Brats, the band is kicking things up a notch—transforming from an intimate folk duo into a high-energy Outlaw Pop/Country quartet; bigger sound with the same sweet harmonies and good vibes.
“A unique neoclassical/folk/baroque style…Variety in the instrumentation and the overall sound. Mel’s voice is clear and true.. “A terrific musical sense, an evocative sound, and a classic folk voice!” “This latest album is a gem, full of songs that reverberate long after the CD has finished spinning. We give it 4 out of 5 stars!” …
An alternative indie folk rock band, with members from Massachusetts and New York. Low-key, the vibiest 90s/2000s indie and sometime classic rock-inflected outfit featuring multi-lingual bite-sized stories of traveling the world and sampling dishes from afar. Get you sushi out.
Who’s ready to defend democracy? In 1860, men and women across America took to parlors, town squares, and street corners. They called themselves the Wide-Awakes, and they marched, chanted, and sang to prove that democracy was worth fighting for, to end the domination of their country by pro-slavery interests, and to elect Abraham Lincoln president. …
Continue reading “The Cropper Lads Present: Songs of the Wide-Awakes”
Georgian choral singing goes back a thousand years and more. Style, sound and structure vary from region to region and even from valley to valley in the mountains of the Caucasus. Georgia adopted Christianity in the fourth century, and independently developed a polyphonic singing style that was incorporated into the liturgy and taught in singing …
Continue reading “Iveria: Songs from the Republic of Georgia”