Alexus Lee at The Porch
The Porch Southern Fare & Juke Joint 175 River's Edge Drive, Medford, MAThe Porch Southern Fare & Juke Joint welcomes back Alexus Lee for a First Thursday Soul Music performance. The Providence native and Berklee grad's commanding vocals and powerful presence earned her a 2022 Best Vocalist nomination in the Rhode Island Music Awards. Free admission for the music; reserve a table if you plan to have …
Matt Heaton & The Electric Heaters Album Release Happy Hour
Virtual MAToday, the band Matt Heaton & The Electric Heaters releases their latest album, "From the Film of the Same Name," a selection of forgotten soundtracks from forgotten films, all done in classic Heaters retro sonic surf style. To celebrate the occasion and kick off the Labor Day holiday weekend, Heaton will perform at an album …
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Big Jon Short at The Porch
The Porch Southern Fare & Juke Joint 175 River's Edge Drive, Medford, MAOne-man band Big Jon Short provides free blues with your dinner at The Porch Southern Fare & Juke Joint at River's Edge. Armed with foot percussion, a National Reso-phonic Guitar and Lowebow cigar-box reso-hillharp, Short’s high-energy performances tap into the heart of the songs, regional styles, and folklore of the blues and its importance to …
The Woggles, Muck and the Mires, Chelsea Curve at The Porch
The Porch Southern Fare & Juke Joint 175 River's Edge Drive, Medford, MAThe Porch Southern Fare & Juke Joint at River's Edge presents an enormous night of rock and roll with the legendary Woggles, and Boston's Muck and the Mires and the Chelsea Curve. The Woggles, seasoned garage rockers for more than 30 years, are touring with a renewed rallying cry to move ever forward despite the …
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Chess in Medford Square
Saltonstall Building 121 Riverside Ave., Medford, MAThe Medford Chess Club invites you to drop by its new meeting location — the gazebo outside the Medford Housing Authority's Saltonstall Building on Riverside Avenue — for a friendly game of chess. The club has chess sets, chess clocks, and helpful members who are willing to teach you the rules if you're new to …
Matt & Shannon Heaton Virtual Guided Session
Virtual MABeginning in September, Matt and Shannon Heaton are hosting their Virtual Guided Sessions on the first and third Thursdays of the month. Tune learners, second instrument players, or anyone who just enjoys traditional Irish music are welcome for moderately paced Irish tunes and upbeat chat and connection with other trad music lovers. Resources/tunes lists can …
Jacob Green at The Porch
The Porch Southern Fare & Juke Joint 175 River's Edge Drive, Medford, MAJacob Green provides some bluesy folk music during dinner at The Porch Southern Fare & Juke Joint. Hailing from Vermont, Green is a folk blues singer songwriter, one-man band and multi-string player. Free admission to enjoy the music, but reserve a table if you plan to have dinner.
WMCC Labor Day Block Party
Dugger Park Mystic River Road, Medford, MAThe West Medford Community Center is pleased to announce the return of the Labor Day Block Party at Dugger Park, a family fun day with activities for all ages. The day will feature food, a video game bus (noon to 2 p.m.), petting zoo (noon to 3 p.m.), fun kids zone, a Round the River …
The People’s Jam at The Porch
The Porch Southern Fare & Juke Joint 175 River's Edge Drive, Medford, MAThe closing of Johnny D's Uptown in Somerville left a big hole that needed to be filled. For decades, blues musicians jammed on that stage on Sundays. Some big names grew up on that stage and everyone supported everyone else. That is the spirit that The Porch fosters with its weekly People's Jam. Bass amp …
LIZZIE the Musical
Balch Arena Theatre, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesTorn Ticket II, the only student-run musical theatre group at Tufts University, presents "LIZZIE" by Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer, Tim Maner and Alan Stevens Hewitt. The four-woman rock musical is about the story of Lizzie Borden, the Fall River woman aquitted in a celebrated 1892 double murder case. The event is free and open to the public. …