Twiddle
2022-09-01 19:30 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | 97 University Ave, Lowell, 01854, United States
With 12 years of relentless touring behind them, Vermont-based rock band Twiddle has built an impressive resume spanning Red Rocks to Bonnaroo, and multiple sellouts of historic rock venues including Port Chester, NY’s Capitol Theatre, and Washington D.C.’s 9:30 Club. And with the second half of the band’s third studio album, PLUMP, on the horizon, the band’s career continues to catapult forward. Buoyed by the generous support of 359 Kickstarter donors, the 27-song album does more than showcase the group’s beautiful music, but also tells an important story, comprised in PLUMP Chapters 1 & 2.
Recorded during a two-year span with legendary producer Ron St. Germain, PLUMP serves as a reflection of four brothers’ triumphs and struggles, both individual and as a whole. On Chapter 1, songs like “Lost in the Cold” and “Every Soul” detail what it’s like to hit rock bottom and how to rise back up.
“So many fans have shared how these songs carried them through very difficult times, and that alone makes this all worth it,” said Brook Jordan, Twiddle’s percussionist and vocalist.
Comparatively, Chapter 2 contains genre-bending instrumentals, as well as mystifying epics like “Nicodemus Portulay” and “Orlando’s.” More than ten years later, these songs mirror the earliest Twiddle arrangements of 2004-2005 when Mihali Savoulidis and Ryan Dempsey were collaborating in their freshmen dorms at Castleton State College. The completion of PLUMP is timely, coming at a moment when the band’s fervent fan base is at an all-time high and expanding rapidly.
In the live setting, more and more people are invigorated by Twiddle’s community, promoting positivity and the band’s skillful improvisational music. So many like-minded people believe in the greater good, and they find that good in Twiddle.
Premium Seats are available in the first several rows for each show. Go to the seat map on the ticketing page for each show to see the actual layout. We have reduced each row from 16 seats to 12 seats so we can provide increased space between patrons. Seats 13 to 16 on the seat maps for each show have been deleted to allow for this additional space. Seats 1 through 12 are available for sale.
Kids age 12 and under are admitted free if accompanied by a ticket holder, courtesy of Jeanne D’Arc Credit Union.
All sales are final. No request for cancellations, exchanges, changes or refunds shall be honored.

Native Gardens By Karen Zacarías Directed by Giovanna Sardelli
2022-09-02 19:00 - 21:00, 2022-09-03 19:00 - 21:00, 2022-09-04 19:00 - 21:00, 2022-09-05 19:00 - 21:00, 2022-09-06 19:00 - 21:00, 2022-09-07 19:00 - 21:00, 2022-09-08 19:00 - 21:00, 2022-09-09 19:00 - 21:00 UTC and 2 more dates | Merrimack Repertory Theatre, 50 E Merrimack St, Lowell, MA, 01852, United States
Good fences make good neighbors . . . right?

A millennial, Latinx couple moves in next door to a white, baby boomer couple in Karen Zacarías’ topical new comedy. After some good-natured ribbing over gardening styles–traditional designs versus the eco-friendlier native plants–the couples find themselves at odds over an unexpected property line dispute. A dispute that explodes into a host of verbal jabs and blows over race, culture, privilege, and the meaning of neighborly behavior.

SMART Gals (Science, Math, Art): Scribble Bots
2022-09-03 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Discovery Museum, Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, 01720, United States
Join us as we learn about dancer and roboticist, Catie Cuan. Cuan combines her passion for dance, and robots, to investigate ways of helping people feel more comfortable around machines (or robots), especially in medical settings. We’ll celebrate Cuan’s accomplishments as we create dynamic drawings using simple DIY robotic contraptions made of motors, markers, tape, and a variety of recycled and repurposed materials. Set your machine in motion and watch it leave a trail of unexpected patterns.

Tours of Thoreau Farm, the birthplace of Henry David Thoreau
2022-09-03 11:00 - 16:00, 2022-09-04 11:00 - 16:00, 2022-09-10 11:00 - 16:00, 2022-09-11 11:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | 97 University Ave, Lowell, 01854, United States
Take an inside look at the restored 1730s house listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Wheeler-Minot Farmhouse/Henry David Thoreau Birth House. Locally, it is also known as “Thoreau Farm.”
Come learn about the birthplace of Henry David Thoreau and consider lessons about living deliberately that we can learn from his legacy.
Tour includes the lovingly restored second-floor room where Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817.
Visits are by guided tour only.
Saturdays & Sundays
May through October
11:00 am, 1:00 pm, & 3:00 pm
Admission is free. Suggested Donation $5/person
You do not need to take a tour to visit the grounds.

September Summer Open Art Studios at Western Avenue
2022-09-03 12:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | 97 University Ave, Lowell, 01854, United States
September is the perfect month to see what new artists have joined us over the Summer and what new pieces some of your favorite artists have been working on during the Summer months. So come join us for our September Summer Open Art Studios event on September 3rd, from noon until 5 pm, and welcome some of our new artists to our amazing community!
Foods truck of the day: Empanada Dada
This month the Loading Dock Gallery hosts a show titled Spin. With an artist reception from 3 pm until 5 pm.
Covid-19 Guidelines:
– Face coverings/masks are not required but recommended since some studios and businesses may require them for admission into their space.
– Guests who are experiencing Covid-19 symptoms or have been instructed to quarantine by a medical professional should not attend.
– We will have hand sanitation stations throughout the building.
There is no charge for this event. This event is dog-friendly. We just ask that you keep your pup on a leash.
We will post more updates as the event gets closer, so stay tuned.

Sugar Ray and The Bluetones / Duke Robillard
2022-09-03 19:30 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | 97 University Ave, Lowell, 01854, United States
SUGAR RAY AND THE BLUETONES
Sugar Ray has been on over sixty recordings with the likes of Roomful of Blues, J. Geils, Michelle Willson, Otis Grand, Pinetop Perkins, and he is a featured vocalist on the two critically acclaimed Knickerbocker All-Stars recordings.
Three-time Grammy nominated Sugar Ray Norcia has received a total of twenty-two Blues Music Award nominations including winning two Blues Music Awards in 2014. In 2016, Sugar Ray and his band The Bluetones released a CD on Severn Records called “Seeing Is Believing”. For that CD, Sugar Ray was nominated for an unprecedented seven 2017 Blues Music Awards including Traditional Blues Male Artist and B.B. King Entertainer of the year.
DUKE ROBILLARD
Whether it’s a song, a style, an idiom or an image, Duke Robillard will render it with mastery, power, nuance, and an unerring grasp of its essence. Born Michael John Robillard on October 4, 1948, in Woonsocket, R.I., Duke has carved out one of blues’ most illustrious legacies, while also trodding some lofty related territories as a guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, bandleader, studio sideman, producer, label operator and educator.
Duke’s resume is decorated with Grammy nominations, Handy Awards and Blues Music Awards, and other honors for his artistry, recordings, and productions within the United States and internationally. His latest album is They Called It Rhythm And Blues.
Premium Seats are available in the first several rows for each show. Go to the seat map on the ticketing page for each show to see the actual layout. We have reduced each row from 16 seats to 12 seats so we can provide increased space between patrons. Seats 13 to 16 on the seat maps for each show have been deleted to allow for this additional space. Seats 1 through 12 are available for sale.
Kids age 12 and under are admitted free if accompanied by a ticket holder, courtesy of Jeanne D’Arc Credit Union.
All sales are final. No request for cancellations, exchanges, changes or refunds shall be honored.

Richrath Project 3:13
2022-09-09 20:00 - 22:30 (America/New_York) | NARA Park, Nara Park, 25 Ledge Rock Way, Acton, MA, 01720, United States
Lead by singer/guitarist Michael Jahnz, RICHRATH PROJECT 3:13 takes you back to the beginnings of REO SPEEDWAGON and tells the story of Gary Richrath via his music, up to his passing and beyond.
Michael and his band Richrath Project 3:13 continue to honor the memory of the late Gary Richrath at every show!

Into the Woods—and Weeds and Swamp and Infinity of You: A Writing Workshop with Dr. Barbara Mossberg
2022-09-10 - 2022-09-11 | 97 University Ave, Lowell, 01854, United States
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately . . . and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden
How does going to “the woods” lead to a meaningful life—the sense that we have truly lived? We have a remarkable opportunity to explore this idea for ourselves in the very woods Thoreau went to, one of the most iconic terrains in history. In the Walden Woods Thoreau made so famous through his memoir, starting from his Farmhouse birth room, we will walk in Thoreau’s shoes, literally in the woods in which he found his purpose and legacy in writing, and metaphorically as we discover our own inner Walden and purpose. By going to this Workshop’s “Woods” to write, this is a time you give yourself, to act deliberately, to honor your own identity as a writer, and through the Workshop’s Thoreau’s word prompts, to engage with yourself as an extraordinary being with “more lives to live.”
Dr. Barbara Mossberg is a prizewinning teacher and memoirist on the page and stage and in the air, with recent books (Here for the Present, A Grammar of Happiness in the Present Imperfect, Live from the Poet’s Perch, and Sometimes the Woman in the Mirror Is Not You, and other hopeful news postings), in poetry, essays, one-woman plays, and radio and podcast programs. Actor, playwright, dramaturg, literary scholar, diplomat, and California laureate/city poet in residence, Barbara is Professor of Practice, Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon.
Saturday, September 10 – 9am-6pm (with breaks)
9:00 am – 12:00 pm Workshop Instruction at Thoreau Farmhouse
2:00 pm – 4:00pm Walking Like a Camel “solitude field trips” at Walden Pond
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Group Journal Field Reports
Sunday, September 11 – 9am-1pm
9:00 am – 12:00 pm Workshop Instruction at Thoreau Farmhouse
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Conclusion and Farewell
Limited to 12 people.
