Concerts On The Common

June 8	LHS Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Lab, LMS Jazz Ensemble	Great jazz from our own kids in the middle and high schools!
June 17	The Nutfield Sessions	Run by our own Greg Descoteaux and Larry Casey, The Nutfield Sessions offer local musicians an opportunity to perform acoustic music in a non-commercial setting - and the listening public the chance to hear some great local talent. Tonight we have some of the top musicians from the Sessions playing for our enjoyment!
June 24	Blues on White	Blues on White is a three piece blues band featuring the talents of Rich "Rico" Baldwin on electric bass and vocals. "Rico" makes his home in Andover, MA. William "Billy" Parker maintains the "groove" on drums and a variety of percussion instruments and vocals. Doug Philbrook is lead guitarist and vocalist. Doug and Billy are both from Nashua, NH. Gonna be a blues Wednesday!
July 1	Liz Longley	Liz was voted the No. 1 all-time female vocalist on Garageband.com in both acoustic & folk categories. As a songwriter, she and Handy Blues award winner Jim Tullio, teamed-up to write the internet smash, “Naked Trees”. The song became the No. 1 all-time song (amid 3,400 songs) in Garageband.com’s acoustic singer/songwriter category in ’06. Liz has wonderful melodies and lyrics...this will be a great night for a concert with Liz and her band!
July 8	No Concert	Our annual week of rest...
July 15	The Jason Spooner Trio	Jason and the trio have just returned from a very successful showing at the 2009 South By Southwest festival is Austin, TX. Jason won "Best Singer/Songwriter" in the Portland Phoenix's annual "Best Music Poll 2008." Jason also won the International finals of the Mountain Stage New Song contest held in New York City. He was honored as a national finalist in the Starbucks Music Makers competition in Boston. Jason took part in a tour of the East Coast as a selected member of the Falcon Ridge "Most Wanted" Preview Tour. He was also recently named as a New Folk Finalist in the renowned Kerrville Folk Festival in Kerrville, TX. Jason and his band returned to both festivals as a main stage act in 2007. Previously, he won the Ossipee Valley Bluegrass Festival songwriting contest in NH and was a finalist in the prestigious John Lennon Songwriting Competition. Other highlights include Jason's song "Pickup Truck" airing on NPR's "Car Talk" Program and a national appearance on The Food Network's "FoodNation with Bobby Flay."
July 22	Russell Hill Band	Morgan Keating, Jonathan Grant, Gary Young, Rick Carr and Will Walker, have built simple, solid songs that can stay in your mind long after you've shut the doors and turned out the lights. No pretense. As direct as a stare. We invite you to listen and we hope that this music remains a part of your communications and a soundscape to your everyday. Welcome to Russell Hill.
July 29	Seth Glier	"A Star In The Making" - The Vineyard Times "Talent like Seth Glier's brings out the psychic in all of us...He's gonna be huge" - Ellis Paul "The next generation is alive and well" - Livingston Taylor "One of the Best albums of 2007" - The Village Voice "Takes you to a place. . . with his intoxicating groove." - Performer Magazine "A Voice That Has Never Sounded Better" - The Recorder This is going to be a very special night! Listen to Seth on his website for a preview of the evening's performance.
August 5	Nyte Shift and Funk Pod	Some rock and roll, pop...from some hometown kids! Nyte Shift is new for this season, while Funk Pod makes a return engagement. A great way to end the summer!