Revolutionary Valley Regional Tourism Council

Live Music at the Chelmsford Center for the Arts: The Honeysteelers
2024-03-16 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | 97 University Ave, Lowell, 01854, United States
Join us for a night of great music with The Honeysteelers. Full bar and snacks available as you
listen to great music! The CCA is the Place to Play

St. Patrick’s Day 4 Day Celebration
2024-03-16 18:00 - 22:00, 2024-03-15 18:00 - 22:00, 2024-03-14 18:00 - 22:00 | Owen And Ollie’s, 91 Mill Street, Dracut, MA, United States
Get your Irish on at our 4 day St. Patrick’s Day celebration. We will have Live Music, Irish Drink and Food Specials, Irish Dancers and Bagpipers.

Visions Unleashed: A Family Concert
2024-03-16 14:00 - 17:00 | 97 University Ave, Lowell, 01854, 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)

Black Women in Science: Civil Engineering with Jamila H. Lindo
2024-03-16 13:00 - 14:30 | Discovery Museum, Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, 01720, United States
Join us for an exciting program series that honors the contributions of Black women in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math. In this program, we will host a virtual meet and greet with Jamila H. Lindo and learn more about her work as an engineer and author. From 1:00pm to 1:30pm, hear Jamila share her personal journey as a young Black woman in STEM, and ask her questions about why she finds civil engineering cool and exciting. Then, try some hands-on activities inspired by different areas of Jamila’s work, to include building simple structures and bridges, then testing their strength Jamila H. Lindo is a civil engineer who currently lives and works in London. Jamila will be joining us virtually for the speaking portion of this program.

Plant A Sunflower at Wilson Farm!
2024-03-16 11:00 - 16:00 | 97 University Ave, Lowell, 01854, United States
We’ll provide supplies to start your very own sunflower in our Garden Shop!
One per person, please!

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).

March Happenings at Burtons Grill & Bar!
2024-03-16 - 2024-03-17 | Burtons Grill & Bar N. Andover, 145 Turnpike Street, N. Andover, 01845, United States
Our famous Reuben sandwich is back for one weekend only! Join us Saturday 3/16 through Sunday 3/17 to spend St. Patrick’s Day with a Guinness & classic corned beef-sauerkraut-swiss combo.

Munch Madness
2024-03-16, 2024-03-15, 2024-03-14, 2024-03-13, 2024-03-12, 2024-03-11, 2024-03-10
Your local support means the world to us, and we want to say thank you with an opportunity to win big this month.
Munch Madness is a City-sponsored initiative in partnership with the Greater Lowell Chamber of Commerce to support, encourage, and reward Lowell-based businesses and their patrons.
From March 1-31, 2024, patrons who dine at participating restaurants and businesses and spend at least $25 can earn an entry toward giveaways of sports-, arts-, and culturally-themed events based in Lowell, and a Grand Prize drawing to see who gets to Dine Around Lowell for a Year.
How it works

Spend $25 or more at a participating business between March 1-31, 2024, Submit your qualifying receipt and contact information – simply take a picture, upload, and submit!
Winners will be selected in a random drawing in April 2024.
Make sure to check out our full list of participating businesses and don’t forget to get those entries in! Each qualifying receipt equals an additional entry and chance to win.

Prizes

One Grand Prize Drawing to Dine Around Lowell for a Year: $25-$50 gift cards from all participating businesses!
2 runners up will sports-, arts- and culturally-themed prizes!

Restaurants

Athenian Corner – 207 Market Street, Lowell
Brew’d Awakening Coffeehaus – 61 Market Street, Lowell
Cobblestones of Lowell – 91 Dutton Street, Lowell
Dragonfly Cafe – 165 Throndike Street, Lowell
El Potro Mexican Grill – 124 Merrimack Street, Lowell
FORK included – 176 University Avenue, Lowell
Purple Carrot Bread Co. – 107 Merrimack Street, Lowell
Sahel Restaurant & Lounge – 135 Central Street, Lowell
The Jolly Lobster – 101 Pheonix Avenue, Lowell
The Old Court – 29 Central Street, Lowell
Worthen House Cafe – 141 Worthen Street, Lowell

Are you a restaurant interested in participating? Click here to sign up!

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.

Braided Streams: Women of Faith Speak (27th Annual)
2024-03-14 14:00 - 15:30 | Dugan Hall at UMass Lowell South Campus, 883 Broadway St, Lowell, 01854, United States
Women student panelists from diverse faith traditions reflect on their experiences of the intersection between religion and gender. 2024 marks the 27th annual offering of Braided Streams.
(For more information and/or to arrange for parking, contact Imogene_Stulken@uml.edu)

Women's Action During the American Civil War (Walking Tour)
2024-03-14 10:00 - 11:00 | Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center, Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center, 246 Market St, Lowell, MA, United States
While no battles of the Civil War were fought in Lowell, the people of Lowell were involved in a variety of ways, from fighting to providing support. One group not in the forefront of the conversation that aided in the war effort was the US Sanitary Commission made up of women of the Union. Join a ranger to explore how women were able to have a large impact in the American Civil War through local organizations and groups like the US Sanitary Commission. This 45-minute walking tour will explore a few notable places in downtown Lowell and tell the stories of the impact these women had on the victory of the Union.
The walk will cover 0.75 miles of walking and will involve up to an hour of walking and standing. 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).

Wine-INN Wednesday
2024-03-13 17:00 - 19:00 | The Inn at Hastings Park, 2027 Massachusetts Ave, Lexington, MA, 02421, United States
Lexington’s Inn at Hastings Park, Boston area’s ONLY Relais & Châteaux property, is hosting a complimentary wine tasting of the world’s best wines every second Wednesday of the month throughout 2024 at Town Meeting Bistro’s beautiful bar beginning on March 13, 2024. Meet and learn from the industry’s top experts, leaders, distributors, and winemakers as you sample the delicious aromas and flavors of each month’s featured varietals. Make a night out of it and book a reservation at Town Meeting Bistro after the tasting and order a bottle of your favorite! These events are for adults only, 21 and older.

Braided Streams: Women of Faith Speak (27th Annual)
2024-03-13 14:00 - 15:30 | Dugan Hall, 883 Broadway St, Lowell, 01854, United States

SING AND SWING – A JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER PRESENTS PRODUCTION, FEATURING BRIA SKONBERG AND BENNY BENACK III
2024-03-10 19:00 | Lexington’s Cary Memorial Hall, 1605 Mass Ave, Lexington, MA, 02420, United States
For over three decades, Jazz at Lincoln Center has been a leading advocate for jazz, culture, and arts education globally. Under the direction of Wynton Marsalis, Jazz at Lincoln Center has brought the art form of jazz from the heart of New York City to over 446 cities in more than 40 countries.
The JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER PRESENTS touring initiative provides an affordable opportunity to present great jazz programming, featuring up-and-coming musicians who have been identified as rising stars by JALC. The initiative also allows for expansion of the mission of JALC “to entertain, enrich and expand a global community for jazz through performance, education, and advocacy.”
After the success of JALC Presents Songs We Love tour, this new and highly anticipated touring project from Jazz at Lincoln Center Presents celebrates the Great American Songbook in all of its playful — and sophisticated glory — brought to life by two of this generation’s brightest stars.
Each armed with prodigious trumpet talent and vocal charm, Bria and Benny will re-live and re-imagine some of the classic partners in jazz and popular song, including Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland and Bing Crosby and Dean Martin and Peggy Lee. Featuring songs by Gershwin, Ellington, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and many more and joined by a who’s who of New York all-stars, this is an “unforgettable” evening of singin’ and swingin’ with Bria and Benny.
Personnel
Bria Skonberg: Trumpet, Vocals, Co-Music Director
Benny Benack III: Trumpet, Vocals, Co-Music Director
Jocelyn Gould: Guitar
Jon Thomas: piano
Charles Goold: Drums
Mark Lewandowski: Bass

RED HOT CHILLI PIPERS
2024-03-10 19:00 | Lexington’s Cary Memorial Hall, 1605 Mass Ave, Lexington, MA, 02420, United States
It’s Bagpipes. It’s Rock. It’s Bagrock. AC/DC meets the poet Robert Burns. Where rock anthems sit comfortably alongside the great tunes from the glens and the mountains of Scotland.
It’s The Red Hot Chilli Pipers – an internationally renowned ensemble consisting of pipers, guitarists, keyboards, and drummers — who have been rocking the world from New York to Beijing to Melbourne and everywhere in between with musicianship of the highest order and a passion for pipes that will leave you breathless. The band has four music degrees from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and all the pipers and drummers have played at the top level in bagpiping.

PWHL vs. New York
2024-03-10 15:30 - 17:30 | Tsongas Center, Tsongas Center, 300 Arcand Dr, Lowell, MA, 01852, United States
The Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL) has announced that its Boston franchise will play home games at the Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell.
The PWHL officially launched in August with the introduction of six original teams and the foundation to assemble rosters featuring the best women’s hockey players in the world. Among the stars suiting up for New York are Hilary Knight, Megan Keller, Aerin Frankel and the team’s third overall draft pick Alina Muller.

Blight: Author Emily Monosson in Conversation with Brent Ranalli
2024-03-10 14:00 - 15:00 | 97 University Ave, Lowell, 01854, 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.

Celebrate International Women’s Day with Wilson's Farm!
2024-03-10 11:00 - 16:00 | 97 University Ave, Lowell, 01854, United States
Celebrate International Women’s Day with us!
Join us on March 9th and 10th for a weekend featuring some of our women-owned and women-led vendors as well as the women of Wilson Farm!
Enjoy samples, find new products, and meet the impressive women behind these companies.
The Weekend Will Include:
Dumpling Daughter
Boston Wick Co.
Creme De Liqueur
P.S. I Love You
Boston International
Alicia’s Spice Co.
Gina B Designs
Livwell
Hammelman’s Florals
Good Dog Goods
Harbor Sweets
Ginger Gems
Mei Mei Dumplings
Renee’s Garden
Shubh Kitchen
Mom’s Indoor Cat
Wilson Farm Bakery
Wilson Farm Kitchen

We will also have a raffle to support Girls Inc., a nonprofit girls’ leadership organization.
We are excited to celebrate the women of our community with you!

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.

Easter Egg-Stravaganza 2nd Annual Craft & Vendor Fair
2024-03-10 10:00 - 14:00 | 97 University Ave, Lowell, 01854, United States
Hop on over to our
Easter Egg-Stravaganza
Craft & Vendor Fair
March 10th
10a-2p
Chelmsford Lowell Elks
300 Littleton Rd.
Chelmsford MA
30 plus vendors
Visit from the Easter Bunny
Raffle Table
Cash Bar
Event Page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/709973631102654

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

Irish Tavern Night
2024-03-09 17:00 - 19:00 | 97 University Ave, Lowell, 01854, United States
This year’s Tavern Night experience takes you on a journey to an 18th century Irish pub, as we recreate a historic tavern experience. Grab your beer from the historic bar, mingle with costumed reenactors, play games, listen to live Irish music, and sample delicious whiskey from GrandTen Distillery.
This event is generously sponsored by Lester E. Savage Real Estate at Berkshire Hathaway!
$20 members, $25 nonmembers.
Ticket includes one drink and whiskey tasting. This is a 21+ event.
