Revolutionary Valley Regional Tourism Council

Lowell Spinners vs Aberdeen Iron Birds
2021-01-06 11:00 - 2021-01-07 14:30 UTC | Edward A. LeLacheur Park, Edward A. Lelacheur Park, 450 Aiken Ave, Lowell, MA, 01854, United States
The Lowell Spinners bring America’s pastime to LeLacheur Park with 3 day home stands vs Aberdeen Iron Birds.

Native Gardens By Karen Zacarías Directed by Giovanna Sardelli
2021-01-07 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | 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.

Virtual Garden Tour
2021-06-25 - 2021-06-27
Join us for the six-episode Virtual Garden Tour series, released June 25-27. Sign up to receive exclusive access to the Garden Tour website, and watch the series anytime during or after the event weekend! Each episode is rich with both breathtaking vistas as far as the eye can see, and moments spent lingering on the intimate beauty of flower petals speckled with dew or leaves dancing in the breeze.
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80th Annual Gathering of the Thoreau Society
2021-07-07 - 2021-07-11
Register for the annual gathering of the Thoreau Society to participate in virtual events including the keynote interview with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi and The Robbins House co-president Maria Madison.

2021 Season Passes Now Available!
2021-07-08 08:00 - 2021-07-31 17:00 (America/New_York)
Get a Season Pass to all 12 evening concerts in the 2021 Lowell Summer Music Series for Just $399, which is just $33 per show. In addition, you will save on ticket fees for individual shows. There is no ticket fee for the Season Pass.

NEW: Tickets are transferrable. You will receive 12 show tickets by mail. Can’t make it to a show? Just share the ticket for that show with a friend for easy admission to the event.

This offer only available until July 31, 2021.

Questions? Call the Box Office at Lowell Memorial Auditorium.
Phone: 800-657-8774 x4.
Monday-Friday 10AM-5PM.

A Walk through Thoreau's Concord
2021-07-10 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Concord Museum, Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA, 01742, United States
Henry David Thoreau is known for the two years he spent living at Walden Pond. Did you know that he lived in other homes in Concord throughout his life? Take a tour of the domestic side of Thoreau’s wholly human life visiting the homes where he lived and hearing the stories told of him by family and friends. 1-mile walk, mostly flat sidewalk or pavement, rain or shine. Meet at the Concord Museum.

Register here. Available spots are limited. Sign up now!

July at the Concord Museum
2021-07-28 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Concord Museum, Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA, 01742, United States
Virtual Summer Course – Decorative Arts Sampler

Do you love Antiques Roadshow and Flea Market Flip? Do you wish you knew more about the antiques and collectibles you encounter in museums, shops, and your own home?

The Concord Museum is here to help! Join us online for an interactive, five-week introduction to the decorative arts, filmed live from our Lisa H. Foote History Learning Center. Each class provides a comprehensive overview of ceramics, furniture, silver, textiles, and works on paper. Curator David Wood and Curatorial Associate Erica Lome will guide you through “close looking” activities, designed to teach you how to identify style, material, and technique.

Image: Brown, Mary D., needlework, c. 1803. T0701 Concord Museum Collection.

For more information and to register, visit our website.

Virtual Book Club: The Good Lord Bird
2021-07-28 17:00 (America/New_York) | Concord Museum, Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA, 01742, United States
Members-only program. Become a member to participate!

The July Members’ book club read is James McBride’s 2013 National Book Award Winner The Good Lord Bird. A highly entertaining portrait of life on the Kansas-territory with John Brown and his army of abolitionists, Henry Shackleford, a formerly enslaved child sweeps us up in the action as he is taken under John Brown’s wing – who believes Henry is a girl, his good luck charm, and nicknames Little Onion.

Read along in the Museum’s summer book club that includes both the new and noteworthy and Concord classics. Whether you are on the beach, a mountain, or your sofa members can join us virtually for monthly reads, discussions, and themed cocktails all summer long. Book club meetings will be held remotely over Zoom.

Classics Albums Live: Hotel California
2021-07-30 19:30 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | 115 Merrimack Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
Tickets Available
Do you remember listening to an entire album? The thrill of dropping the needle on the greatest music ever recorded? Classic Albums Live does. Since 2003 they’ve been using the world’s greatest musicians to faithfully recreate these albums exactly the way they were recorded: note for note – cut for cut. No cheesy costumes, no bad imitations – just musical perfection. This summer, Classic Albums Live returns to Boarding House Park to perform the Eagle’s landmark album Hotel California.

Make a Mess: Paint Like Seurat
2021-08-03 09:30 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | Discovery Museum, Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, 01720, United States
Georges Seurat invented a special style of painting using lots of little dots, called pointillism. Explore some of Seurat’s masterpieces and then try your hand at creating you own work of art inspired by pointillism.
The Make a Mess program series introduces STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) concepts through sensory-based hands-on experiences, imagination, and fun.

Eat Like a Bird
2021-08-04 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Discovery Museum, Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, 01720, United States
Over time, bird beaks have evolved to be a variety of shapes and sizes, in order for different species to gather and eat the food they need to survive. Use a variety of common household tools (tweezers, tongs, clothespins, spoons, etc.) to simulate bird beaks and try “eating” like a bird!

Celebrate National Book Lovers Day
2021-08-05 09:30 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | Discovery Museum, Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, 01720, United States
National Book Lovers Day is August 9, a day for those who can’t live without books and reading. Join us as we create our very own books in preparation of this noteworthy day. What will you write about and illustrate? Why not write a tale about your culture, heritage and traditions then share your special story with your family and friends.

Backyard and Beyond: Nature Textures
2021-08-06 01:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Discovery Museum, Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, 01720, United States
Can you duplicate nature’s textures? You can if you create a frottage! Explore Discovery Woods as we search for and collect natural items with different textures, then create a frottage (or rubbing) of your found treasure. Inclement weather may result in changes to the program or cancellation.

Colin Hay & Band
2021-08-07 19:30 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | 115 Merrimack Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
Tickets Available

Now finding himself in the unprecedented place of having both ’80s fame and Indie credibility, singer-songwriter Colin Hay takes an epic, cinematic step forward with his newest release Fierce Mercy. An influential and celebrated frontman, Hay is most beloved for his intimate, confessional live shows, an experience he’s ready to bring back again to the Lowell stage.

Fairyborough
2021-08-10 10:00 - 2021-08-15 15:00 (America/New_York) | Discovery Museum, Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, 01720, United States
Welcome to Fairyborough – the little city with a big future! Design, build, and explore a mysterious forest environment of fairy houses, gnome homes, and sprite skyscrapers, constructed completely out of natural materials and creativity. This changing and evolving temporary space will be put together by staff and visitors over the course of 6 days. This program will happen light rain or shine. Heavy rain or other inclement weather may result in changes to the program or cancellation.

JJ Grey & Mofro
2021-08-12 19:30 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | Lowell Memorial Auditorium, Lowell Memorial Auditorium, 50 E Merrimack St, Lowell, MA, 01852, United States
Tickets Available
The J. J. Grey concert has been moved indoors due to the heat wave. The new venue is Lowell Memorial Auditorium at 50 East Merrimack Street. It is air conditioned and there is a lot of room for social distancing.

So please do not come down in the morning to place chairs in the park as the show won’t be there tomorrow night.

The doors at Lowell Memorial Auditorium will open at 5:30pm for those who want to use a jacket or other item to reserve their seat location. We expect to have about 1,100 patrons in a hall that holds 2,800 people with great sightlines everywhere. Show will begin at 7:30pm as usual.

From the days of playing greasy local juke joints to headlining major festivals, JJ Grey remains an unfettered, blissful performer, singing with a blue-collared spirit over the bone-deep grooves of his compositions. His presence before an audience is something startling and immediate, at times a funk rave-up, other times a sort of mass-absolution for the mortal weaknesses that make him and his audience human. When you see JJ Grey and his band Mofro live—and you truly, absolutely must—the man is fearless.

Tower of Power
2021-08-14 19:30 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | 115 Merrimack Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
Tickets Available

The horn-driven Tower of Power has been rocking their renowned sound since 1968, infusing Soul (with a capital S) into the music industry for 52 years – and now, they’re celebrating with their new album STEP UP, a collection of sounds guaranteed to funkifize, energize, and provide the soundtrack for new American movements of Love, Peace, Soul Power, Mind Power and People Power to rise!

Mirror, Mirror, What do You See?
2021-08-17 09:30 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | Discovery Museum, Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, 01720, United States
Have you ever wondered how you can see yourself in a mirror? Join us as we play with different kinds of reflections and experiment by using mirrors to create symmetry, refract light, and expand your field of vision.

Celebrate National Aviation Day
2021-08-19 09:30 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | Discovery Museum, Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, 01720, United States
National Aviation Day is a holiday that commemorates the development in aviation and its revolutionary impact on scientific and technological progress. It falls on the birthday of Orville Wright, one of the Wright brothers, who were the first people in the world to successfully build a motor-operated airplane, and the inventors of aircraft controls. We will also learn about several groundbreaking female pilots throughout history including: Sunita Williams, Matice Wright-Springer, Jeannie Leavitt, Jennifer Murray, Anny Divya, and Amelia Earhart. Join us as we twirl, kerplunk, flutter, bounce the many ways we can we make a piece of paper fall to the ground. Explore and create a variety of differently shaped pieces of paper, and observe how each item moves as it falls.

Backyard and Beyond: Sink or Float
2021-08-20 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Discovery Museum, Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, 01720, United States
Experiment with all sorts of natural materials, what’s your prediction: will it sink or float? The results might surprise you! This program will happen light rain or shine. Heavy rain or other inclement weather may result in changes to the program, or cancellation.

Kenny Wayne Shepherd
2021-08-20 19:30 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | 115 Merrimack Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band
Presented by the Lowell Festival Foundation
Tickets $49 In Advance / $149 Premium Seats / $60 Day of Show
Tickets On Sale Now!

In a 20-year recording career that began when he was just 16, Shepherd has established himself as an immensely popular recording artist, a consistently in-demand live act and an influential force in a worldwide resurgence of interest in the blues.
From television performances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Show with David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel Live and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (among others) to features in Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Maxim Magazine, Blender, Spin, USA Today and more, his musical career has been nothing short of phenomenal.
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Everyday Engineering: Balls and Ramps
2021-08-21 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Discovery Museum, Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, 01720, United States
Engage in some everyday engineering as you construct and create with repurposed and recycled materials. Design, build and test out some simple tracks and mini-rollercoasters. Make straightaways, loop-da-loops and hills out of tubing and cardboard to send marbles and golf balls on a thrilling ride.

New England Film Orchestra
2021-08-21 19:30 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | 115 Merrimack Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
Tickets Available

The New England Film Orchestra, led by conductor Gina Naggar, performs film
favorites such as Harry Potter, Star Wars, James Bond and Avengers for an exciting program of live music that spans decades. The New England Film Orchestra was founded in 2019 and has been lauded as “a dynamic and passionate newcomer on the Boston orchestral scene.

Summer Pops at Shedd Park
2021-08-22 14:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Shedd Park Pavilion, 433 Rogers Street (Rt. 38), Lowell, MA, 01852, United States

Tinkering With Toys: Toy Take Aparts Jr.
2021-08-24 09:30 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | Discovery Museum, Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, 01720, United States
Are you curious about what’s inside everyday toys? We’ll be taking apart various toys including mechanical toys with moving parts, remote controlled toys, toy vehicles with movable parts, electronic or music toys.

Take Aparts
2021-08-25 12:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
Are you curious about what’s inside telephones, computers, radios and more? Grab a screwdriver and discover resistors, capacitors, and circuit boards as you uncover the inner workings of everyday electronics.

Dress Your Stuffed Pet
2021-08-26 09:30 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | Discovery Museum, Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, 01720, United States
Treat your favorite stuffed animal to a new outfit! Will it be an astronaut suit? A superhero costume? A party dress? Bring a stuffed animal from home to the Museum today. You can use your imagination and a variety of creative materials to design and construct a special costume for your furry friend.

Backyard and Beyond: Working in the Garden
2021-08-27 12:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Discovery Museum, Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, 01720, United States
Learn what plants need to grow and help us take care of the Discovery Woods Garden. We will water our plants, check for weeds, and see if any plants are ready to be picked. Be on the lookout for insects that help our plants to grow!
Heavy rain or other inclement weather may result in changes to this program, or cancellation.
