New England Performance Series with Melissa Ferrick
2024-03-07 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, 51 Sandy Pond Road, Lincoln, MA, 01773, United States
deCordova is pleased to welcome Melissa Ferrick to the New England Performance Series!
Melissa Ferrick is a Professor of the Practice at Northeastern University in the Music Department at the College of Arts Media and Design. Ferrick teaches courses on songwriting (focusing on lyric, melody, and intent), creative entrepreneurship, demo recording and production, live performance, the intersection of psychopathology and creativity, nonprofit arts management, and the music business. They have released seventeen albums over the last twenty-five years and won numerous awards for songwriting, production, and performance. From 2013 – to 2019, Melissa was an Associate Professor of Songwriting at Berklee College of Music. She holds an Ed.M from Harvard University.
Melissa is the named plaintiff of the class action lawsuit Ferrick v. Spotify for willful copyright infringement. Their publishing catalog is administered worldwide by the Raleigh Music Group.
Signed to Atlantic Records in 1992 at the age of 21, Melissa released their debut and sophomore albums on Atlantic after opening for Morrissey in the U.S. and UK. Melissa released three albums on W.A.R. Records from 1996 to 1999 and two on MPress Records from 2011 to 2014. In 2000, Melissa launched the nationally distributed independent record label Right On Records. Ferrick is currently working with the venerable Kill Rock Stars Records. Most recently, Ferrick started Drive Music Agency (D.M.A.), which offers musicians personal management and consulting services. D.M.A. currently represents Brennan Wedl and Joh Chase.
Regarded in the industry and by their peers as one of the most prolific and hardworking artists in the business, Ferrick is an active songwriter and performs throughout North America, sharing the stage with Morrissey, Joan Armatrading, Weezer, Tegan and Sara, Mark Cohen, Paul Westerberg, Bob Dylan, John Hiatt, Ani DiFranco, k.d. Lang, Suzanne Vega, Shawn Colvin, and many others.
Concert begins at 7PM, Doors Open 6:30PM
This concert will take place in the Dewey Family Hall located on the third floor of the deCordova Museum. Enter through the main museum entrance and staff will greet you and direct you.
Cancellation Policy: In the event The Trustees cancels a program due to severe weather, low enrollment, or other circumstances, we will notify registrants by email and issue a full refund or transfer to another scheduled program within two weeks of cancellation. To cancel a reservation, please contact decordovagroups@thetrustees.org or 781.259.3626 seven days prior to the start of the program to receive a full refund. Refunds will not be granted for cancellations placed fewer than 7 days before the start of the program.

Open Mic Night
2024-03-08 18:30 - 20:00, 2024-03-22 18:30 - 20:00, 2024-04-05 18:30 - 20:00 | Mill No. 5, Mill No. 5, 250 Jackson St, Lowell, MA, United States
Open Mic night is back! Every first and third Friday, come share your music! Express yourself! Grab a drink, enjoy some food & support your local arts community!!

Live Greek & Middle Eastern Music and Bellydancing
2024-03-09 20:00 - 23:00, 2024-03-16 20:00 - 23:00, 2024-03-23 20:00 - 23:00, 2024-03-30 20:00 - 23:00, 2024-04-06 20:00 - 23:00 | Athenian Corner Restaurant, 207 Market Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
Live music and dancing featuring the Athenian Corner Ensemble

Women-Owned Pop-Up Market
2024-03-10 11:00 - 15:30 | lala books, lala books, 189 Market St, Lowell, MA, 01852, United States
Join us to celebrate Lowell women’s week and women’s history month featuring women-owned local businesses and artisans.
A Portion of the proceeds will be donated to Women Working Wonders, a local non-profit bringing women together to shape the future.

Blight: Author Emily Monosson in Conversation with Brent Ranalli
2024-03-10 14:00 - 15:00 | 115 Merrimack Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
Emily Monosson’s book Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic is a prescient warning about the mysterious and deadly world of fungi—and how to avert further loss across species, including our own.
Fungi are everywhere. Most are harmless; some are helpful. A few are killers. Collectively, infectious fungi are the most devastating agents of disease on earth, and a fungus that can persist in the environment without its host is here to stay. In Blight, Emily Monosson documents how trade, travel, and a changing climate are making us all more vulnerable to invasion. Populations of bats, frogs, and salamanders face extinction. In the Northwest, America’s beloved national parks are covered with the spindly corpses of whitebark pines. Food crops are under siege, threatening our coffee, bananas, and wheat—and, more broadly, our global food security. Candida auris, drug-resistant and resilient, infects hospital patients and those with weakened immune systems. Coccidioides, which lives in drier dusty regions, may cause infection in apparently healthy people. The horrors go on.
Yet prevention is not impossible. Tracing the history of fungal spread and the most recent discoveries in the field, Monosson meets scientists who are working tirelessly to protect species under threat, and whose innovative approaches to fungal invasion have the potential to save human lives. Delving into case studies at once fascinating, sobering, and hopeful, Blight serves as a wake-up call, a reminder of the delicate interconnectedness of the natural world, and a lesson in seeing life on our planet with renewed humility and awe.
Emily Monosson is the author of Natural Defense, Unnatural Selection, and Evolution in a Toxic World. She is a member of the Ronin Institute for Independent Scholarship and an adjunct faculty member at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She lives in Montague, Massachusetts.
Brent Ranalli in an environmental policy analyst at the Cadmus Group and co-edits Environment: An Interdisciplinary Anthology for Yale University Press. He edits the Thoreau Society Bulletin.

Monster Romance Panel with Ashley Bennett, Kate Prior, and Colette Rhodes
2024-03-14 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
In Partnership with the Ashland Public Library. Sponsored by the Friends of the Ashland Public Library.
We just love our Monster Romance Panels! This time, we welcome authors Ashley Bennett, Kate Prior, and Colette Rhodes as they talk about how it is different/same from PNR/Alien romances, their publishing journeys, and experience with Romancelandia. This is sure to be an amazing conversation!
Please register for the event on the library website to receive participation information.

Acre Neighborhood Walking Tour
2024-03-16 10:00 - 11:00 | Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center, Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center, 246 Market St, Lowell, MA, United States
Parish Historian and Archivist David McKean and will lead a walking tour of “God’s Holy Acre”. The tour will last one hour and will involve an hour of walking and standing. They request that you wear comfortable shoes and dress for the weather. This event is free and open to all.
(Free parking at 350 Dutton Street in the Hamilton Parking Garage. Pick up a chaser ticket at the Visitor Center front desk to use when exiting the garage).

Visions Unleashed: A Family Concert
2024-03-16 14:00 - 17:00 | 115 Merrimack Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
Join us as we celebrate the harmony of local talent and timeless classics on a journey through sound. Experience the magic as our seasoned musicians blend seamlessly with the aspiring stars of tomorrow, as local string students take the stage alongside the orchestra to perform “Visions of the Sky,” a captivating piece that will stir the soul.
In addition to this delightful collaboration, we proudly present the winner of the 2024 LPO Concerto Competition, the exceptionally talented 16-year-old William Ge. Prepare to be captivated by Ge’s mastery as he brings to life Chopin’s Concerto No. 1 in E minor, op. 11, 1st movement, with an interpretation that will leave you spellbound.
Be one of the first to hear the newly commissioned “Lowell Symphony,” a composition inspired by the rich tapestry of Lowell’s history. In addition to this, the Saint-Saëns’ whimsical “Carnival of the Animals,” promises an experience that will linger in your heart long after the final note fades away. The venue has ample parking and is handicapped accessible.
Tickets are $20/Adult; $10/Seniors; Free Admission for kids 17 and under (must be accompanied by adult)

The Collection Connection: Celebrating Irish Culture
2024-03-17 12:00 - 12:30, 2024-03-17 14:30 - 15:00 | Mogan Cultural Center, 40 French Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
Join a Park Ranger for a short discussion of the Irish related objects in the One City, Many Cultures exhibit and their connection to Irish Step Dancing. Lowell National Historical Park’s newest exhibit, One City, Many Cultures explores how culture shapes and connects people and communities using stories of Lowell from across time.
(Free parking at 350 Dutton Street in the Hamilton Parking Garage. Pick up a chaser ticket at the Visitor Center front desk to use when exiting the garage).

Farm to Vine Dinner: A Tour de France
2024-03-20 18:00 - 21:00 | 115 Merrimack Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
Take a springtime Tour de France at the Inn at Hastings Park. An immersive and indulgent gastronomic wine journey featuring seafood offerings from Wulf’s Fish, purveyors of the highest quality seafood to the nation’s top chefs direct from Boston’s Fish Pier, paired with elegant notes and bouquets of wines from France’s top wine regions (Champagne, Burgundy, Côte-Rôtie, Loire Valley and Bordeaux) complimenting an impeccably paired 5-course dinner by Town Meeting Bistro Chef Alissa Tsukakoshi. Santé to spring!

Lowell Artist Showcase: Debbie Roy
2024-03-20 18:30 - 20:00 | Pollard Memorial Library, Pollard Memorial Library, 401 Merrimack St, Lowell, MA, 01852, United States
Introducing the Lowell Artist Showcase! Once a month the library hosts a local artist to come in, talk about & showcase their art, and give small, simple demonstration or project that attendees can participate in. Materials will be provided by the library.
This month we will be hosting Debbie Roy and her craft-foam creations. She plans to share some of her completed projects followed by a hands-on workshop demonstrating how to make simple roses using craft-foam, scissors, and a glue gun.
About the Artist:
Having spent most of her life immersed in creative endeavors (of very little career, monetary, or historical significance), Debbie Roy has decided to continue this trend. She fills her days with obsessive and varied crafting, singing, sewing, and building costumes for her scooter as well as writing stories, poems, plays, and frivolous Facebook updates. She has seldom met a craft she didn’t like. After discovering the versatility of craft-foam sheets, she’s used them to make everything from costumes and props to seasonal decorations. Getting older is mandatory, growing up is optional.
Please register for this event on the library website. Capacity: 15 people.

The Porch on Windy Hill
2024-04-03 19:00, 2024-04-04 19:00, 2024-04-05 19:00, 2024-04-06 19:00, 2024-04-07 19:00, 2024-04-08 19:00, 2024-04-09 19:00, 2024-04-10 19:00 and 1 more date | Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, 50 E Merrimack St, Lowell, MA, 01852, United States
Written by Sherry Stregack Lutken, Lisa Helmi Johanson, Morgan Morse and David M. Lutken
Conceived and Directed by Sherry Stregack Lutken
A bi-racial Korean classical violinist, Mira, and her music history grad-student boyfriend, Beck, escape months of Covid-isolation to the mountains of North Carolina. Their journey takes a surprising turn when they meet Edgar, and Mira faces a flood of memory, pain, hope, and discovery that follows. A moving, modern American play about family- with enough music for a real ‘hoot ‘n’ holler’ as the cast- Lisa Helmi Johanson, Morgan Morse, and David Lutken perform a dozen traditional and bluegrass gems. The quintessentially American melodies running through The Porch on Windy Hill illuminate a young woman’s complex, contemporary tale of healing.

Weaving Global Textile Justice
2024-04-06 13:00 - 15:00 | Lowell National Historical Park Boott Cotton Mills Museum Counting House, 115 John Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
Join Elizabeth Pellerito, director of the UMass Lowell Labor Education Program, for “Weaving Global Textile Justice” a free crafting workshop.
Learn about the fast fashion industry and the impacts on workers and the environment. Discuss ways workers are fighting back and how people can support them. Following the discussion, learn to weave with used textiles.
No experience necessary and all materials are provided!
For reservations, please email Elizabeth.Pellerito@gmail.com or visit https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScJgk6z6yhC0NvKt9L_iUDz8i2n9tPDy6tVvQuUCRK7bwft9Q/viewform
This event will take place in the counting house of the Boott Cotton Mills Museum located at 115 John Street.
Lowell National Historical Park visitors may park at the Hamilton Canal Innovation District parking garage at 350 Dutton St., Lowell. Parking in this garage (only) is available to National Park visitors at no cost provided they obtain a valid parking voucher at either the Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center at 246 Market Street, or at the Boott Cotton Mills Museum at 115 John Street.

5 Connect | April 3-28, 2024 | Loading Dock Gallery
2024-04-06 15:00 - 17:00 | The Loading Dock Gallery, The Loading Dock Gallery, 122 Western Ave, Lowell, MA, United States
This April, Loading Dock Gallery presents 5 Connect, featuring work of Nancy Cameron, Denise Driscoll, Dina Mordeno, Laurie Simko, and Janet Wolahan. Connected through friendship, these five artists’ work share an interest in color, texture, and pattern. Their styles span abstract to representational, with subjects ranging from pure color to botanicals and landscapes.
Cameron’s work is calligraphic, improvisatory, inspired by jazz and the city.
Driscoll builds layers with stamps, drips, creating work speaks to inner unseen experience and patterns of connection. Mordeno grounds the spirit with meditations on the horizon, a metaphor for hope for the future in a time of unrest. Inspired by nature’s interconnectedness, Simko creates fluid, joyful paintings, and collage. Wolahan offers two series: one based on Rockport’s stone retaining walls, the other inspired by moving homes, called “Stuff We Hide.”
5 Connect runs April 3-28, 2024, at Loading Dock Gallery, 122 Western Avenue, Lowell, MA, noon-5:30pm, Wednesday-Saturday, until 4pm Sunday. Reception 3-5pm, Saturday April 6, 2024. More at www.theloadingdockgallery.com.
Loading Dock Gallery is part of Loading Dock Arts, Inc., a 501c3.

Tartan Ball
2024-04-06 18:00 - 23:00 | Indian Ridge Country Club, Indian Ridge Country Club, 73 Lovejoy Rd, Andover, MA, 01801, United States
Scots’ Charitable Society is holding its legendary Scottish celebration, the Tartan Ball, on Tartan Day, April 6, 2024. Tartan Day is a day for Scotland to celebrate its connections with the USA and Canada and celebrations are held in major cities throughout North America to celebrate the outstanding achievements and contributions made by Scottish Americans to the United States. You can be part of this worldwide phenomena by attending the Tartan Ball celebrating local, award winning Scottish artists and traditional Scottish dancers. The evening will include live music consisting of a harpist during the cocktail hour, pipers and fiddlers throughout dinner, and will feature Apple Music recording Ceilidh band, Celtic Beats, along with the Dropkick Murphys piper (Cam Webster), together with an after-dinner Ceilidh that includes local musicians, bands, and dancers. Guests are provided instruction and encouraged to participate in the traditional Scottish Ceilidh dance after dinner. The evening promises much fun and a memorable party atmosphere for everyone.
