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Dada, Molly Zenobia's first interactive themed show at the Lily Pad last month with the Army of Broken Toys, featured such things as ( Read more... )

Molly Zenobia has two more shows coming up this month in Somerville and Cambridge, then she's going back to LA for a few months to record stuff. Both of these shows happen to be all ages, and inexpensive!

• Tuesday, August 12th, 7-9pm: Backyard concert near Davis Square, with Mali Sastri of Jaggery. $5 suggested donation. RSVP to backyardconcerts ( Read more... )

Reminder: Jason Webley at the Lily Pad tomorrow evening at 7:30pm, all ages, $7, and I hear it might sell out so get tickets in advance! See you there?

Two of my favorite musicians that I rarely see, tonight at the Lily Pad:

• Ashley Maher, afropop/world/jazz singer-songwriter from Los Angeles
• Balla Tounkara, one of the world's best kora players, originally from Mali but mostly in Boston for the past decade

This is the sort of show I'd go see at Sanders Theatre or similarly sized venues, and it's kind ( Read more... )

Amanda Palmer is doing a solo show at the Lily Pad in Inman Square, Cambridge, at 5pm today. It's unpublicized because it's a small place - the former home of the Zeitgeist if you remember it - and she didn't want more people to show up than could fit. Which might still happen, so arrive early (4:30, she suggests). 1353 Cambridge Street, a few ( Read more... )

The Matthew Stubbs Band has a show in the city! Right near where I used to live, in fact. It's this Wednesday night at Ryles in Inman Square. This is the band I wrote about last year when they were in the Boston Blues Challenge - and won - featuring Kit Holliday as lead singer. She writes,

On Wednesday, September 22, the Matthew Stubbs Band ( Read more... )

Where have all the independent performances spaces gone?

Boston area people...
The Zeitgeist Gallery is having a hearing before the Cambridge Zoning Board this evening, to see if they will be able to continue performances in their space. 8:45pm at the Senior Center, 806 Mass Ave., Cambridge (next to the YMCA in Central Square).

The Zeitgeist is ( Read more... )

Molly's got another solo gig at a performance art night here in Boston! This time it's Whimsy, which stopped running a while ago and was recently resurrected by jenfrisbee and her friend Markus Nechay. Same name, sort of a new series. I don't know who else is performing this Tueday, but I may know more later, and if I do I'll update this post ( Read more... )