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October 2020
Ocean Ave Band
(10/23 - Blues) Lisa Mills and Don Wessels have played for presidents and graced the stage with some of the biggest names in show business. Nowadays they work close to home, sharing their unique brand of improvisational pop with Maine audiences 100 nights/year. For this, their first appearance at Cadenza, they've enlisted three longtime sidemen to present a night of blues both classic and original. Come on and groove! Lisa Mills (lead vocals) ranks among the hardest-working musicians in New…
Find out more »Anni Clark
(10/24) Anni Clark is part folk, part blues, sometimes pop, but all parts original. With decades of touring and seven successful recordings under her belt, this Maine native has pleased audiences nationwide with her captivating voice, mindful lyrics and spot-on guitar style. Her 2019 song & video "I'm With You Greta" was screened at the International Environmental Film Festival in Barcelona, Spain, & won Best Folk Video at the Music Video Portland Awards in January 2020. Maine's Kennebec Journal wrote…
Find out more »Peter Gallway
(10/30 - Folk/Rock/Americana) Called a master of free verse in the Boston Globe, Peter Gallway has released more than 25 albums on Warner/Reprise and various independent labels. A founding member of The Fifth Avenue Band, albums have spanned styles from 60's rock and roll, to jazzy folk, to atmospheric Americana. Along with his solo recordings, he has collaborated with acclaimed singer-songwriter Annie Gallup in the duo Hat Check Girl, with six releases to their credit. Peter Gallway has also produced…
Find out more »Liz Lannon Band – Married with Chitlins CD Release Party
(10/31 - Blues) After twenty years on the New England blues circuit and seven albums to her credit, Liz Lannon is one of the premier local talents in Boston. Her music has been played on such well-heard radio stations as WZLX with Carter Allen, WERS, and WGBH with Brendan Hogan, WBOS with Holly Harris, WJUL with John Guregian, WATD with Peter Black, WMVY, WMSU, WCUW, and others in the greater Boston and New England area. Now in Maine, she plays…
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Troy Hudson & The High Road
(11/6 - Americana Rock) Americana rock band Troy Hudson and The High Road are Troy Hudson, Matt Kincaid, John Hurd and Leon Doyle. TH&HR have created a band filled with big hooks, soaring harmonies and an electric live show that has fans and critics talking. Maine based, Troy Hudson and The High Road are setting out on the road in 2020 in support of their latest EP Atlantic Highway. www.troyhudsonandthehighroad.com Tickets are $12.00 in advance (order here) and $15.00 at…
Find out more »Country Roads
(11/7 - Country) Country Roads, the 2018 Pine Tree State Country Music Association Modern Country Winner, is a band from Southern Maine covering today's Country music. Band Members Jamie Ruhlin - Vocals, Guitar Chris Biggar - Guitar, Vocals Roger Gagnon - Bass, Vocals Richmond Palmer - Keys, Vocals Mark Descoteaux - Drums, Vocals Tickets are $12 in advance (order here), $15 at the door.
Find out more »The Rainsockets
(11/13 - Eclectic) Hailing from Brunswick and Bath, Maine, The Rainsockets are three musical souls with numerous musical influences, a handful of instruments, and a repertoire of eclectic, original songs that cover a lot of musical and emotional ground. Featuring... Giff Jamison: Acoustic & Electric Guitar and vocals Nancy Sferra: Guitar, pedal steel, banjo & accordion and vocals Tom Mitchell: Bass & Acoustic Guitar and vocals Tickets are $12 in advance (order here), $15 at the door. The performance will…
Find out more »Mama Tried – Benefit For Maine Adaptive Skiing
(11/14 - Eclectic) Mama Tried are an accumulation of musicians with day jobs: Dr. John Parker on keyboards, Paul Barron and Clark Porter on guitar, Bill Clarke on bass, Pete Hutchinson on drums and Jenny Strout on vocals. They have a math teacher, technology teacher, special educator and a guidance counselor, with a school nurse and doctor in case things get out of hand. They came together over a period of many years and don't get out of the basement…
Find out more »The Strangely Possibles
(8/15 - funky psychedelic rock-folk) The Strangely Possibles are a Portland, Maine, based band playing a fresh blend of funky psychedelic rock-folk. Authentic West African percussion with a ethereal cello allows for travel to new musical places. The lyrics could stand alone as simple poetry and the band competent arrangements support the emotion behind those lyrics, sung honestly by Al Timpson. The Strangely Possibles are in it to have fun but strive to keep it fresh. As one critic noted,…
Find out more »Hiroya Tsukamoto – Fingerstyle Guitar Virtuoso
(11/21 - Folk/Jazz) Hiroya Tsukamoto is an innovative guitarist and composer who fuses folk, jazz, and world music. Born and raised in Japan, in 2000 he received a scholarship to Berklee College of music and came to the U.S. "His brand of finger style guitar is so intricate, and so blazingly fast at the same time, I kept imagining how many clones I would need to make of myself to accurately replicate his sound. One song that drove that point…
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