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NEMA presents Freevolt and Pat &The Hats at Olympia Zorba in Lowell, Friday May 29th

NEMA presents Freevolt and Pat &The Hats at Olympia Zorba in Lowell, Friday May 29th

The NE Music Awards Presents: New England Nights ~ Concert Series #NEMANIGHTS This will take place on Friday, May 29th Olympia’s Zorba Music Hall at 439 Market Street in Lowell, Massachusetts. Featuring live performances by: Freevolt and Pat & the Hats Tickets $10 advance/$15 day of show 21plus https://www.facebook.com/events/347584445437138/ Share on Facebook

New England Music Awards announces host and musical performers

New England Music Awards announces host and musical performers

The New England Music Awards announced it will be hosted this year by Boston Comedy Festival winner – Comedian Dave Russo.

Dave Austin & The Sound will make a mark on Boston music scene with Revival album

Dave Austin & The Sound will make a mark on Boston music scene with Revival album

Hub Band Dave Austin & The Sound is one of those bands that could become a big name act in greater-Boston, if they’re noticed and accepted by the right people. The right people are those who would like this fusion of classic rock and neo-hippie funk rock. So, you fans of classic rock and neo-hippie funk rock, and you know who you are, read up, then listen up. This band’s Revival album is actually good for you. Good for your health, good for your soul. Dig it.

Jabbers guitarist Chris Lamy to auction memorabilia from GG Allin & Johnny Ramone; RR Auction handling July sales

Jabbers guitarist Chris Lamy to auction memorabilia from GG Allin & Johnny Ramone; RR Auction handling July sales

Guitarist Chris Lamy has had an interesting history in the punk rock scenes in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and New York. A member of the Jabbers during the GG Allin period and a friend of Johnny Ramones during The Ramones’ heyday, Lamy collected many pieces of memorabilia. Having reached an age of maturity, Lamy has decided to sell these pieces through RRAuction’s online auction service in July.

Gil Correia Band coming to Nelson's Candies in Wilton, NH this Sat night

Gil Correia Band coming to Nelson’s Candies in Wilton, NH this Sat night

Do you want to see a really cool can playing some really cool blues guitar? Would you like to see the really, really cool cat playing blues guitar in a local candy store? Well, you’re in luck. Gil Correia Blues Band will appear at Nelson’s Candies in Wilton, New Hampshire this Saturday night, March 28. Doors will open at 7:00 p.m. at the B.YO.B. venue.

Amy Kucharik masters early 20th century music idioms on her marvelous Cunning Folk album

Amy Kucharik masters early 20th century music idioms on her marvelous Cunning Folk album

Amy Kucharik’s debut full length CD Cunning Folk is delightful beyond what the word delightful could ever define. Listening to Cunning Folk makes one feel he’s just woken up inside the world of Jay Gatsby in the swinging 1920s. Kucharik has mastered the idioms and nuances of early American music so well that she completely immerses her listener in a lovelier, simpler time in history.

Local artists shone at NEMA Hard Rock Cafe showcase; Thomas Anderson Band, Fil Pacino, Singlecast, In Spades, Elementary

Local artists shone at NEMA Hard Rock Cafe showcase; Thomas Anderson Band, Fil Pacino, Singlecast, In Spades, Elementary

Hosted by the boisterous Bryan Tann of the Tanndemonium radio show and sponsored by Granite Coast Entertainment, the New England Music Awards hosted an artist showcase at Faneuil Hall’s Hard Rock Café in Boston last Saturday night. Each band had something special to offer, and each received quite a welcome and quite a boost from the ever so enthusiastic Mr. Tann. Man, can that guy announce a band.

Girls Guns & Glory show the proper respect on fun filled tribute to Hank Williams

Girls Guns & Glory show the proper respect on fun filled tribute to Hank Williams

A killer album is a killer album no matter when and where it was recorded or who wrote the material recorded for it. Girls Guns & Glory latest CD is a live recording of a tribute show to Hank Williams, titled, simply enough, A Tribute To Hank Williams Live!

Bruce Mattson offers much gumbo fun on Crescent City Swagger CD

Bruce Mattson offers much gumbo fun on Crescent City Swagger CD

Bruce Mattson’s new, mostly instrumental, Crescent City Swagger CD is a fantastic gumbo mix of blues, stride, and Louisiana flavored music. Mattson and his band mates play a huge, polished sound on this album, and it’s very entertaining from beginning to end. Mattson’s piano work adds authentic New Orleans colors and tones to many things on this album, and that keeps it sounding different from anybody else in the local scene indulges in. He’s also a hell of a Hammond B3 organ player.

Joanne Lurgio scores big on Rise From The Storm CD

Joanne Lurgio scores big on Rise From The Storm CD

Joanne Lurgio’s third album Rise From The Storm is a fully realized collection of songs focused on recovery and survival. Every number focuses on loss, struggle, and spiritual injury. Never maudlin, Lurgio presents each one as a story of hope, as there is almost always a way to change course, even if the only course is acceptance. Wrapping her singer-songwriter themes with flinty, gritty, emotive roots style instrumentation, she presents these nuggets as something wholly organic and earthy.