Revolutionary Valley Regional Tourism Council

4 Years on Market Street
2025-07-19 - 2025-07-23 | lala books, lala books, 189 Market St, Lowell, MA, 01852, United States
Four years ago, we opened the door to lala books, and you have been showing us wonderful support ever since. So, let’s celebrate together.
Stop in the bookstore this week and sign up for a raffle to win a tote full of books, enjoy discounts on select staff picks, get a free “blind book” with your purchase, and maybe even find a piece of birthday cake!
See the full calendar of bookish events at lalabookstore.com

Draw the Line - An Aerosmith Tribute
2025-07-18 20:00 - 22:30 (America/New_York) | Thomas E. Tidman Amphitheater at NARA Park, 71 Quarry Road, Acton, MA, 01720, United States
Draw the Line – the “Officially Endorsed Aerosmith Tribute Show” – originating near Boston Massachusetts, the same as Aerosmith themselves. – Come and see the show at NARA Park in Acton, MA!
It doesn’t get more authentic than this… period!
Established in 1991, Draw the Line has been touring for more than 30 years spanning the continental United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and Europe. DTL has played over 3,000 shows to sold out Audiences of up to 20,000 people. From MGM Grand Arena Las Vegas, to festivals throughout the USA, plus many legendary theaters, casinos, and cruise ships, Draw the Line is the standard for tribute shows.
During a January 1998 radio interview, Aerosmith Lead Singer Steven Tyler singled out Draw the Line as the best of the Aerosmith tribute bands. With disc jockey Nik Carter adding, ” I’ve seen Draw the Line. They are Aerosmith!!” DTL has been featured in international fanzines, Boston Globe, Boston Herald and other newspapers across the country. DTL has been featured on MTV and AXSTV World’s Greatest Tribute Bands as the best Aerosmith tribute show.
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They are the only tribute band that has been featured on Aerosmith’s website as well as their Aero Force One official fan club. With support and accolades from Aerosmith themselves, as well as journalists, top DJs, and fans worldwide, it’s no wonder Draw the Line is recognized as a one-of-its-kind. “ A professional show band in a league of their own amongst tribute acts and of a caliber that is unparalleled in the tribute genre”, says Joe Reardon, reporter for the Mariner newspaper group.
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Aerosmith members have been known to appear at DTL shows over the years, with original founding Aerosmith member Ray Tabano frequently jamming with them – you never know who you’ll see at a DTL show!
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Draw the Line features lead vocalist Neill Byrnes, a true Steven Tyler doppelgänger . Neill won a Steven Tyler lookalike contest during Aerosmith’s Pump tour, which would end up kickstarting his 30 plus year career as Steven Tyler. He has appeared on talk shows, tv commercials, done voice overs and movies. He recently appeared in the 2020 Lynyrd Skynyrd biopic “Street Survivors” as Steven Tyler.
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Draw the Line, in addition to Neill, boasts some incredibly talented musicians completing the Aerosmith line-up:
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​Jim Dennis (Brad Whitford)
Barry Johnson (Tom Hamilton)
John Myslinski (Joey Kramer)
Together, these five talented musicians perfectly recreate the sound, energy, and vibe of an Aerosmith concert; if you love Aerosmith, this is a show you Don’t Wanna Miss!
Visit their website: https://www.drawtheline.net

Lowell Farmers' Market
2025-07-18 13:00 - 17:00
More than just a place to shop, our market is a community gathering space where neighbors connect, kids play, and everyone can enjoy the best of local food and culture.
We offer fresh, locally grown produce, handmade goods, family-friendly activities, and a welcoming space for all. We proudly accept SNAP, WIC, and HIP, helping to make fresh, healthy food accessible to everyone.
Come for the food, stay for the community—there’s something here for everyone!

Pawtucket Canal Tour
2025-07-18 12:00 - 13:30, 2025-07-13 12:00 - 13:30, 2025-07-12 12:00 - 13:30, 2025-07-11 12:00 - 13:30
Join a Park Ranger for a guided tour of the Pawtucket Canal – the oldest canal in Lowell’s historic 5.6-mile canal system. Discover the stories of the workers who built and operated Lowell’s remarkable waterpower system while riding along the historic Pawtucket Canal. Disembark at the historic Francis Gate and explore how mill owners and engineers harnessed the water and powered an industrial city.
Tour may include up to 0.75 miles of walking. Boats are not covered, so please keep weather conditions in mind when planning your visit.
Reservations can be made in advance on Recreation.gov.
*Water Levels Permitting – Visitors may have the option to climb a short but steep historic granite staircase and explore the site of Francis Gate on foot.
Tours begin at the Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center, 246 Market Street.

Boarding House Park
2025-07-18 10:00 - 12:15, 2025-07-16 10:00 - 12:15, 2025-07-10 10:00 - 12:15 | Boarding House Park, Boarding House Park, 40 French St, Lowell, MA, United States
Join Lowell National Historical Park for Free Fun for Kids with Lowell Summer Music Series at Boarding House Park. Each performance is unique and includes so many things to do. Starting at 10:00 am, have blast with music, performances, arts and crafts, free books, snacks, and organized playgroups. These events create joyful, enriching moments for kids and a welcoming space for families to connect and thrive. After the performance, climb on Lowell National Historical Park’s trolley for a free ride.
Learn more about the free concerts for kids on the Lowell Summer Music Series website: lowellsummermusic.org/pages/kids

Private Salty Reiki Healing with Anabel
2025-07-18, 2025-07-11 | The Salted Soul Salt Cave, 340 Great Road, Acton, MA, 01720, United States
Every Friday, Anabel is here offering private reiki sessions in the cave. Get your salt therapy and reiki healing all at once. Investment is $145.
Appointment options are:
*10:00-11:00am
*11:30-12:30pm
*1:00-2:00pm

Summer Candle-Making Class
2025-07-17 18:00 - 19:00 | Greater Merrimack Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau, Greater Merrimack Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau, 115 Merrimack St, Lowell, MA, 01852, United States
Join us for this Summer-themed candle making class filled with summer scents and bright & colorful jars, glitters, & gemstones! You’ll have a choice of candle jar, therapeutic-grade oils to create your very own scent (*we even have new summer scents for you to try!), label design, and finishing decorations such as glitter, gemstones and flowers. All decorations are done for you by the class instructor.
Each class can take about 45-60 minutes depending on class size, and there is some downtime where we will be waiting for the wax to cool down so feel free to bring your friends and drinks of your choice for this fun low-key class!
Please note: Candles take about an hour to set, so pick-up can be next day (or another day of your choice). We also provide the option to ship candles as well if the pick-up times don’t work for you!
Your ticket includes one 10 oz jar and your choice of glitter, gemstones, and flowers if desired. The class teacher will add the decorations for you after the candle solidifies. You can also choose from an array of speciality labels or even add-on a personalized one (with any message and photo!) for an additional fee.
***The candle will need time to solidify before you take it home, so you can either pick it up another day or get it shipped to you.***

Daryl Hall with special guest Glenn Tilbrook
2025-07-15 19:30 - 22:30 | Lowell Memorial Auditorium, Lowell Memorial Auditorium, 50 E Merrimack St, Lowell, MA, 01852, United States
Daryl Hall is a modern-day renaissance man, an inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the star of his very own award-winning web series, Live from Daryl’s House, as well as a successful venue owner with “Daryl’s House,” a restored venue and live music space in Pawling, N.Y.
Daryl released his sixth solo album, D, on Virgin Music Group on June 21, co-produced by one-time Eurythmics member and fellow Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Dave Stewart, who co-wrote seven of the nine new original songs with Hall penning the other two on his own. The first single from the album, “Can’t Say No To You” can be seen here on YouTube.
Daryl Hall has come a long way, and he’s still got plenty of mileage left in a career that’s taken him from the streets of Philadelphia to the halls of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. The best is yet to come.

A River Transformed Walking Tour
2025-07-15 14:00 - 15:30, 2025-07-14 14:00 - 15:30 | Lowell National Historical Park – Boott Cotton Mills Museum, 115 John Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
Discover how the power of the Merrimack River was harnessed into textile production in the 19th century. This tour combines a walk along the riverwalk accompanied by a park ranger with a guided visit to the River Transformed Exhibit at the Suffolk Mill.
June 15-August 31, 2025
Monday and Tuesday at 2 p.m.
Visitors should plan for a 75-minute tour, all of which will be spent on your feet. Visitors can expect to walk as much as 1.5-miles on paved paths and are encouraged to bring water. This tour meets and ends at the Boott Cotton Mills Museum (115 John St.)
This tour is free. To reserve your spot, call (978) 970-5000 or check in at the Boott Cotton Mills Museum front desk.

Kids' Paper Making - Summer Session
2025-07-15 10:00 - 11:00 | Museum of Printing, 15 Thornton Ave, Haverhill, MA, 01832, United States
Join Mindy for a Summer Session of Paper Making at the Museum of Printing in Haverhill (for kids pre-k through 12th grade.)
Paper Making Summer Sessions
$5 child ticket
https://www.mindypaper.com/store/p207/PaperSummerSessions.html
Tuesdays at 10am
July 8, 15, 22, 29, August 5, 12, 2025
at the Museum of Printing, 15 Thornton Ave, Haverhill, MA (Get map)
For children from preschool through highschool interested in creating with their hands, learning how to make paper and reuse scrap paper instead of throwing it away.
Learn a simplified method for making new paper sheets from scrap using a blender, water, and various molds and deckles. Ticket includes take-home paper making kit, optional for repeat participants.
Funding provided by the Haverhill Cultural Council and Mass Cultural Council.

Riverboat Tour
2025-07-13 16:00 - 17:00, 2025-07-12 16:00 - 17:00, 2025-07-11 16:00 - 17:00
Join a ranger for a 60-minute guided tour along the Merrimack River on the Francis Cabot Lowell Riverboat. Experience Lowell from a different perspective and discover the stories of the people who made the river their home throughout the centuries. Take in the view at the Pawtucket Falls Dam and learn about how Lowell’s landscape changed and developed around it.
Reservations can be made in advance on Recreation.gov

Live Greek & Middle Eastern Music and Bellydancing
2025-07-12 20:00 - 23:00 | Athenian Corner Restaurant, 207 Market Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
Live music and dancing featuring the Athenian Corner Ensemble

Free Family Day at The Umbrella Arts Center
2025-07-12 14:00 - 16:00 | The Umbrella Arts Center, 40 Stow Street, Concord, MA, 01742, United States
Come to The Umbrella this weekend for FREE family fun!
Drop by any time during the two-hour time block this Saturday, July 12, 2:00 – 4:00 PM to partake in a seasonal and creative craft led by one of our talented instructors!
This week’s creative adventure: DIY Summer Passports
Join us for a fun, hands-on workshop where you’ll create your very own summer passport—filled with dream destinations, must-do adventures, and sunny day wishes. We’ll provide all the materials needed. It’s a great way for families to plan, imagine, and create together!
Open to all ages and abilities. Registration appreciated (but not required).
For more information, visit our website:
https://theumbrellaarts.org/class/free-family-days-0
Save the Date
Mark your calendar for our next FREE Family Day: Saturday, August 9: 2:00pm – 4:00pm

Prolific Against All Odds: 19th Century Women Authors of Andover
2025-07-12 13:00 - 14:30 | Greater Merrimack Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau, Greater Merrimack Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau, 115 Merrimack St, Lowell, MA, 01852, United States
Join us for a look back at 11 women authors who persevered through the social pressure to be good mothers and wives and nothing more. They were determined, persistent, published and dared to be different. We will see their homes and their association with the November Club and Abbot Academy.
Duration: 1 1/2 hours
Terrain: Easy sidewalks, slightly hilly
Registration is required
Cost: Pay what you like
​Limited to 4-12​

Kashmir - The Spirit of Led Zeppelin Live celebrating the Physical Graffiti 50th Anniversary
2025-07-11 20:00 - 22:30 | Thoams E. Tidman Ampitheather at NARA Park, 71 Quarry Road, Acton, MA, 01720, United States
Kashmir Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Physical Graffiti Tour – Come and see it at NARA Park in Acton, MA!
Come one, come all in 2025 to see Kashmir featuring Jean Violet perform Physical Graffiti in it’s entirety!! The iconic 6th album released in 1975 is Led Zeppelin at their creative peak – with more new music than could fit on an a lbum, they opted to make Physical Graffiti their only studio double album. It was both a critical and commercial success upon release, debuting at #1 in the UK, and #3 in the US, respectively, and currently has gone 16x Platinum in the US.
Come on out and see the band perform the down and dirty blues of “In My Time of Dying”, or the melancholy and soul stirring “Ten Years Gone”, the hymn to nature “Down By The Seaside” or the grinding rhythm of their song of escape, “Night Flight”. You’ll hear the straight up rockers “Sick Again ”, “The Wanton Song” and “the Rover”, the funked up “Trampled Under Foot”, as well as the mysterious light and shade of “In The Light”. And of course you’ll hear the majestic, larger than life anthem, “Kashmir”, the song that both Plant and Page called “the bands definitive moment”, and whose lyric writing process drove Plant “virtually to tears.”
You won’t want to miss this powerful 50th Anniversary live performance of Physical Graffiti, Led Zeppelin’s highly acclaimed and wide ranging tour de force!
Visit their website: https://ledzeppelintribute.com/

Lowell Farmers' Market Grand Opening
2025-07-11 13:00 - 17:00 | Lowell Farmers’ Market, 350A Dutton Street, Lowell, MA, 01852, United States
The Entrepreneurship Center is kicking off the 2025 season with a great mix of returning favorites and new vendors—offering fresh produce, handmade goods, local art, and tasty eats from food trucks.
We’re especially excited to host a live food demo with FoodShines, who will be showcasing how to make MoMos—a delicious Himalayan-style dumpling you won’t want to miss!
Come by, support local, and enjoy great food, community vibes, and everything that makes market season special.

Pub Night ft. Music by Calli Scofidio & Guest Brewer Sterling Street Brewery
2025-07-10 17:30 - 20:30 | The Groton Inn, The Groton Inn, 128 Main St, Groton, MA, 01450, United States
Join us for Pub Night at the Forge & Vine Food Truck—an evening of outdoor dining, live music, and great company. We’re excited to welcome Sterling Street Brewery as this week’s guest brewer!
Sterling Street Brewery is a craft brewery with taprooms in Clinton and Devens, Massachusetts. Known for its variety of high-quality beers, SSB was founded by friends who are passionate about craft beer and building community engagement.
Enjoy delicious bites and refreshing drinks al fresco with a live performance by local songwriter and pianist Calli Scofidio.
It’s the perfect chance to relax, gather with friends, and kick off the weekend early.
No cover. Food & beverages are available for purchase. This event is weather dependent – music will be moved inside the restaurant if there is inclement weather.

Backyard and Beyond: Outdoor Yoga at Discovery Museum
2025-07-10 13:30 - 14:00 | Discovery Museum, Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, 01720, United States
Join us to move your body and connect with nature while doing outdoor yoga! Yoga improves physical and mental strength, like self-awareness and focus. Kelly Western, professional yoga instructor, will lead a fun yoga class for children and adults that incorporates balance, strength, stretching, and mindfulness in the context of connecting with nature. Yoga mats available. (Optional: Bring your own yoga mat or beach towel.) Inclement weather may result in changes to the program, or cancellation.

July Networking Event at Harvard Alpaca Ranch
2025-07-09 17:00 - 19:00 | Harvard Alpaca Ranch, 58 Old Mill Road, Harvard, MA, 01451, United States
Join us for a fun-filled evening of networking and alpaca cuddles at Harvard Alpaca Ranch, Inc. Beverages provided by Cider Hill Farm of Amesbury. Don’t miss this opportunity to make new connections and maybe even meet your new favorite furry friend! See you there!
