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SUMMARY:FULL BLOOM 8| April 29 – May 31\, 2026| Reception on Saturday May 2\, 3 - 5 pm| Loading Dock Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Loading Dock Gallery\n 122 Western Avenue\n Lowell\, MA 01851\n Show: Full Bloom 8\n Show dates: April 29 – May 31\, 2026\n Reception: Saturday\, May 2\, 3 – 5 PM\nFlowers hold a quiet mystery. They are fleeting\, luminous\, and generous—reminding us of what is briefly beautiful in our lives. Their glow feels like an invitation.\nLoading Dock Gallery welcomes the warmth of summer with Full Bloom 8\, a vibrant celebration of flowers\, birds\, insects\, gardens\, and the wonder found in small\, radiant moments. Featuring work by Loading Dock Gallery members\, this exhibition captures the color\, energy\, and renewal that define the season.\nAs daylight lingers and blossoms unfold\, artists turn their attention to nature’s cycles of growth and transformation. The works in Full Bloom 8 evoke memory\, hope\, and the simple joy gardens bring. Though nature’s beauty exists to lure pollinators\, it also calls to us—drawing us closer\, inviting reflection.\nJoin us for a show alive with color and light.\nFull Bloom 8 will be open Wednesdays-Fridays 12–5:30 PM and weekends 10 AM–3:30 PM\, April 29 through May 31. Join us for the opening reception on Saturday\, May 2\, from 3–5 PM\, coinciding with Western Avenue Studios’ Open Studios.\nLoading Dock Gallery is part of Loading Dock Arts\, Inc.\, a 501(c)(3). For more information\, visit www.theloadingdockgallery.com.
URL:https://revolutionaryvalley.org/event/full-bloom-8-april-29-may-31-2026-reception-on-saturday-may-2-3-5-pm-loading-dock-gallery/
LOCATION:Loading Dock Gallery\, 122 Western Avenue\, Lowell\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibits,Free Events
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SUMMARY:Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light at Bedford Town Hall
DESCRIPTION:On May 16\, New Song welcomes Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light\, a Boston-based string band blending folk tradition\, feminist storytelling\, poetic detail\, and just enough grit. \nSumner—formerly of Twisted Pine—has earned wide recognition\, including the 2021 John Lennon Songwriting Award (Folk)\, a Kerrville New Folk Competition win\, and five original songs archived at the Library of Congress. As a group\, Traveling Light has won the 2023 Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival competition and the 2025 Telluride Bluegrass Band Contest and has been featured four consecutive years by WBUR/NPR as a top Massachusetts entry in the Tiny Desk Contest.
URL:https://revolutionaryvalley.org/event/rachel-sumner-traveling-light-at-bedford-town-hall/
LOCATION:Bedford Town Hall\, 10 Mudge Way\, Bedford\, 01730\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Live Performances
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SUMMARY:The Truth About Baked Beans: An Edible History of New England
DESCRIPTION:Meg Muckenhoupt will bring smiles—and a hunger for popular foods—during her discussion about the history of New England’s food\, immigration\, tourism\, and how ideas about identity have shaped our menus from 1825 to today. \nAuthor of “The Truth about Baked Beans: An Edible History of New England\,” Muckenhoupt’s book began with a simple question: When did Bostonians start putting molasses in their baked beans? That question sent her on a lengthy journey through invented histories\, selective memories\, and changing tastes from colonial New England to the present day. \nHer presentation will cap the Society’s Annual Meeting\, including elections of Directors and reports from Society officers. \nDoors open at 2 PM for a social period and refreshments\n2:15 PM – Announcements and Annual Meeting\, followed by the Guest Speaker
URL:https://revolutionaryvalley.org/event/the-truth-about-baked-beans-an-edible-history-of-new-england/
LOCATION:Bedford Historical Society\, 16 South Road\, Bedford\, 01730\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Food,Free Events,Historical,Lecture
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SUMMARY:Peter Mulvey and Jenna Nicholls Present: Floyd Mercantile
DESCRIPTION:In April 2025\, Peter Mulvey and Jenna Nicholls\, along with guitarist Ross Bellenoit\, traveled to Floyd\, a small mountain town located in the Blue Ridge Highlands of Southwest Virginia\, for five uninterrupted days of recording. What emerged is Floyd Mercantile — a record that feels both intimate and timeless. \nThe makeshift studio was a decommissioned general store called (you guessed it!) Floyd Mercantile — a weathered wooden building standing across the road from an open pasture where cows wandered and grazed in the gentle early spring. (One cow even volunteered to be on the album cover.) Inside those old walls\, the trio recorded the album live — no isolation booths\, no heavy overdubbing — just three musicians in a room\, listening closely and letting the songs unfold in real time. \nThe sessions were recorded by Jeff Oehler and filmed in their entirety by partner Sue Bibeau and their associate Skylar Locke. Together\, Sue and Jeff comprise Beehive Pro\, an audio\, visual\, and design collective famed for their intimate recordings and thoughtfully considered visuals. They captured not just the sound\, but the atmosphere — the wood floors\, the daylight through the dusty windows\, and the creak of the porch boards could all be considered session players on this album. \nThe repertoire bridges eras. Mostly comprised of songs Peter and Jenna wrote separately\, there are a few gems from the Great American Songbook: “Skylark” (Hoagy Carmichael/Johnny Mercer)\, “Them There Eyes” (Maceo Pinkard/Doris Tauber/William Tracey)\, and “I’ll Be Seeing You” (Sammy Fain/Irving Kahal). \nThe visual and sonic tones of the project reflect the periods these songs evoke — even the newly composed tracks feel in conversation with another time. The goal was not nostalgia\, but continuity: to stand inside the lineage of American song and add something honest and present to it. \nFloyd Mercantile is not just an album. It’s a document of place. Of three musicians in a room. Of songs — old and new — allowed to breathe in the quiet of a Virginia afternoon.
URL:https://revolutionaryvalley.org/event/peter-mulvey-and-jenna-nicholls-present-floyd-mercantile/
LOCATION:Bedford Town Hall\, 10 Mudge Way\, Bedford\, 01730\, United States
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