Viva Fall River

Monday Nights with Nick Sanfilippo (weekly)
2026-07-27 18:30 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | The Tipsy Toboggan, 75 Ferry Street, Fall River, MA, United States
Join us at The Tipsy Toboggan every day and every night! Always something delicious to eat and always something exciting happening! From a beautiful winter/summer garden patio, to fireside dining, to rotating acoustics, karaoke and live bands! We have it all! Don’t miss out! Check our facebook and website at www.thetipsytoboggan.com for a full calendar of events each month!

Our late night menu is served Wednesday, Friday And Saturday nights until midnight!

Historical Fiction Book Club
2026-07-27 18:00 - 19:00 | Fall River Public Library, 104 North Main St, Fall River, MA, 02720
Join us on the last Monday of every month from 6:00-7:00 in the meeting room to read, discuss, analyze, review, and suggest all books Historical Fiction. Drink some tea and enjoy living in another time.

Matt Silva Sunday Funday
2026-07-26 16:00 - 19:00 | The Tipsy Toboggan, 75 Ferry Street, Fall River, MA, United States
Every Sunday meet Matt Silva in the Tipsy Toboggan Lounge. He brings the vocals, the charm and charisma and you bring your friends! See you there!

Weekend Brunch
2026-07-26 10:00 - 12:30 | The Tipsy Toboggan, 75 Ferry Street, Fall River, MA, United States
Bring the crew! Enjoy brunch, mimosas, bloodys and more!!

Every Saturday and Sunday from 10am-1230pm!

Los Lobos
2026-07-25 20:00 - 22:00 | Narrows Center for the Arts, 16 Anawan St., Fall River, MA
Saturday, July 25, 2026
$90 Advance | $92 Day of Show
[all-in pricing, no additional fees]
Doors 7pm | Show 8pm
It’s a matter of time. 50 years to be exact. And in that time Los Lobos have created an unprecedented body of work, a legacy of greatness. The numbers are staggering: 100+ gigs a year for five decades running, crossing millions of miles to rock millions of fans. And that’s just at the live shows. In between they’ve recorded 17 studio albums, 7 live LPs, 3 compilations, 2 EPs, 2 DVDs, and contributed 40+ guest appearances on their friends’ recordings—all garnering 4 Grammys, an Austin City Limits Hall of Fame induction, the ALMA Ritchie Valens Pioneer Award, NEA and Hispanic Heritage Foundation Honors, Congressional recognitions, plus countless “Keys to the City” and “Los Lobos Day” celebrations. And those are just a few of the highlights. But beyond all the hoopla and applause (and the source of it all, really) is the tremendous heart. Rather, hearts. Cinco corazones. Five blood brothers who have dedicated their off-stage time to helping others, working for peace and justice, penning some of the most literate and important music of their time, transforming the hard cries from the East L.A. barrio into songs of hope, tales of common folk finding ways to endure. The young wolves were weaned on late-night radio’s soul, R&B, and doo-wop. Were cured through the African-American currents of the blues, jazz, and rock ‘n’ roll. An amalgam. As proud Chicanos, their songs have always glistened with the distillation from their Mexican and Latin American roots—nourished by Norteña and rancheras, buoyed by bolero and cumbias, soaring on the rhythms of son huasteco and son jarocho. Los Lobos have helped spread the rich diversity of cultures across every continent, throughout the global community. Kids in Antwerp now know about Aztlán. Residents of Luxor and Ghana are crooning Lalo Guerrero. People from Laos and Bulgaria are belting “La Bamba”—all thanks to The Wolves as cultural ambassadors. Talk about a living legacy. Talk about a productive half century. And in the true rebel spirit, they did it all on their own terms, against formula. For the ages. To our delight. Quite simply, they are one of the tightest, one of the best, one of the most prolific bands ever. And, amazingly, with the original founding members as the pack the entire time. Unprecedented. As their liner notes put it, quite simply: “Los Lobos still are David Hidalgo, Louie Pérez, Jr., Cesar Rosas, Conrad Lozano, Steve Berlin.”

Kid's Art Workshop with artist, Susan Drayton
2026-07-25 15:00 - 16:00 | SoCo Art Labs, 418 Quequechan St. 2nd floor, Fall River, MA, 02721
Join local artist, Susan Drayton for a free monthly children’s workshop. These workshops are free of charge due to a generous grant from the Fall River Cultural Council and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Each month will feature a different workshop.

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Chess Club
2026-07-25 12:30 | Fall River Public Library, 104 North Main St, Fall River, MA, 02720
Play a game of chess at the library! Chess players at all levels are invited to stop by on Saturday afternoons. Bring your own chess board and pieces, or we have some available at the desk.

Social Club Karaoke w/ DJ Dan Mac (weekly)
2026-07-24 21:00 | Canned Heat Craft Beer Co., 52 Ferry Street, Fall River, MA, 02724, United States
Join DJ Dan Mac with Mac Attack Entertainment every Friday night. It’s always a good time, it’s always a party! Everyone sings at Social Club Karaoke!

Primo After Dark - Weekly DJ Sets
2026-07-24 20:00 | Primo on Water Street, 36 Water Street, Fall River, MA, 02724, United States
Turn your Friday night up at Primo After Dark

Sip, dance, and hang late while our After Dark Food Menu is available from 10PM–12AM.Free entry, great vibes, and the perfect late-night scene at Primo on Water Street.

Feb 27: DJ Jackie Treehorn

March 6: DJ Adam DeMelo

March 13: DJ Nuno

March 20: DJ Jackie Treehorn

March 27: DJ Joey Green

Silent Book Club
2026-07-24 18:00 | Once Upon a Bookstore, 418 Quequechan St. 2nd Fl., Fall River, Massachusetts, 02721
Bring along whatever you are currently reading, and join other readers for Fall River’s very own chapter of Silent Book Club.

Big Richard
2026-07-23 20:00 - 22:00 | Narrows Center for the Arts, 16 Anawan St., Fall River, MA
Thursday, July 23 2026
$28 Advance | $31 Day of Show
[all-in pricing, no additional fees]
Doors 7pm | Show 8pm
Opener: Eric Royer
Bluegrass band Big Richard makes music for the 21st century’s twisted cultural unease. Their latest album Pet, is a fierce, provocative, rejoinder to what troubles them and the world right now, which was recorded live to tape in order to capture the fervor of their live shows.
“Big Richard is so much about our energetic delivery, and so I think it’s been really important for us as a group to figure out how to do that for a record,” says mandolin and guitar player Bonnie Sims.
“We made the album all on tape and did it all in these single-shot performances,” cellist Joy Adams adds. “The collection of songs, we wanted to take our most hard driving, heavy hitting songs, we wanted to craft a banger set list. Like, if we had a 30-minute set, what would we put on there that says the most, and makes people feel the broadest bunch of feelings? And it was all these songs.”
Adams and Sims both studied music and toured and played extensively before (and outside of) joining Big Richard, as did the other members of the band: Adams has three degrees in cello, toured with Darol Anger and Nathaniel Rateliff, and has recorded for television and film (including the Queen’s Gambit); Sims, who grew up playing music with her family, has a degree in commercial music, with a vocal specialization in yodeling, toured and recorded extensively with her husband, Taylor Sims (including a platinum-certified record); fiddler Eve Panning, who also grew up playing with her family, studied violin performance and music education, taught orchestra, and played in bluegrass bands, including touring widely with classical group Barrage; and bassist Hazel Royer started out playing music with her dad Eric Royer in the Boston, MA folk and rock music scene, and studied at the Berklee College of Music.
Pet, the band’s sophomore studio album, was engineered by Mark Anderson and produced by the Big Richard members, will be released February 5, 2026 on Signature Sounds. Anchored by staples from the band’s live sets, the album includes their urgent, vociferous version of Dave Olney’s anti-capitalist anthem, “Millionaire,” and an equally-vehement rendition of the anti-gun violence treatise, “Red Fox Run,” written by Cecelia and Andy Thorn (of Leftover Salmon). Both songs are emotionally potent at shows, and the audience’s anger often palpable; feeling it together as they play is cathartic, Sims says.
Big Richard opens Pet full force, with a blistering medley of Sims’ song, “It’s Gonna Fall” and the Bill Monroe fiddle tune, “Old Daingerfield”: “Our air has turned to poison and our water catches flame / You know we’re blowing out the ground under our beds in which we lay / And we’re digging holes we’ll never fill, the ground shakes to protest / But we just close our minds and eyes and ears, there ain’t no stopping progress,” Sims sings about her despair at the destruction of the natural world through fire and flood, and the fracking wells she sees springing up in Colorado. (At shows, the band also jibs at Monroe’s infamous habit of claiming credit for all songs written by his band members, by joking that Sims wrote both tunes.)
“A lot of the time in our sets, we like to follow a heavy-hitting song with an instrumental that meets that energy,” Panning says of tacking “Old Daingerfield” onto the end of “It’s Gonna Fall.” “It feels good to reflect on something for a moment, or keep going with it, and keep that energy somewhere.”
The band applied the same pressure release system on Pet, which features two entirely instrumental tracks written by Panning. Comparatively gentle, “K’s March,” inspired by a musical phrase Panning’s roommate used to sing around the house, follows “Millionaire” with a wholesome old-time jam track that lets audiences blow off steam after being wound tight; and later in the album, “Circus Jerk” (double entendre intended), hints at the band’s raunchy stage banter and bluegrass music’s reputation for showoff solos (by giving each band member her moment to rip).
“We’re in the most musically locked spot we’ve been in thus far, since I’ve been in the band, and this album feels like a really good reflection of that,” says Royer, who joined in 2023.
Unapologetically outrageous and provocative, the band’s name is a wink to the ‘big dick’ energy Big Richard is reclaiming from male bluegrass bands. They’re intent on making audiences laugh and feel a little uncomfortable, for the sake of making them think, as well. To that end, the album’s cover portrays the band dressed in deranged clown outfits and crouching on railroad tracks in front of an oil refinery. And its title track “Pet,” delivered like a slightly demented circus sound track and written by Adams, is a rich paean for the people society too often lets fall through the cracks.
“I wrote it thinking about people who are stuck in circumstances outside of their control, whether they were born into it or not. That might be childhood trauma or poverty or a chronic health problem, or something that they didn’t choose, and they’re just hauling it around with them,” Adams says. “I think in a deeper sense, the song is reflective of how many people get lost in the big turning of the world right now.” It’s a sentiment and a sound she doubles down on later on the album with the spooky music box track, “Holy Holy,” about religious/childhood trauma and growing up with an addict in the house.
Big Richard’s power to deliver emotionally evocative music derives in part from their rare make up. Though the album also employs toy piano, banjo, and octave mandolin, the band primarily performs on bass, mandolin and guitar, fiddle, and with Adams on cello, which adds an extra sonic dimension for bluegrass (though Adams, who wrote her doctoral dissertation on the history of cello in fiddle music, says the cello actually predates the bass in string bands).
Still, among the strife and intensity, Pet leaves room for a little sweetness. First with “Alaska,” a yearning love-song Royer wrote about a crush when she was 16, and then with a cover of Hank Cochran’s “Make the World Go Away,” which concludes the album, and often their live show, too. At concerts, the band’s four members descend from the stage, and play the song clustered together in a clearing in the crowd, a final act of gathering after an intense show.
“Our live performances are so raw and so gritty, and I think that our sound never really flourished in that digital landscape.” Adams says. “[Recording live to tape] we were all in the same room together, very close together, with a lot of mic bleed, etc. And the energy was insane. It felt so good to record this way. Even on the first day, we were like ‘wow, this sounds like our band.’ And to do something that’s very real and gritty and has little mistakes in it just feels alive and human.”
About the Opener: Eric Royer
Eric Royer has performed as Royer’s One-Man Band since 1993. After building his one-of-a-kind, self-made mechanical contraption—The Guitar Machine—in Tucson, AZ, he has recorded and toured extensively. The device allows him to play acoustic guitar, bass, and drums with his feet while picking banjo with his hands, singing, and playing harmonica. No looping or digital effects involved.
Royer won a Boston Music Award for Best Roots Act as the banjo player in his band The Resophonics, and he has played and recorded with many local bluegrass bands.

Open Mic Night
2026-07-23 19:00 - 22:00 | The Belmont Club, 34 Franklin Street, Fall River

Zach Guillette Thursdays
2026-07-23 18:00 - 21:00 | Canned Heat Craft Beer Co., 52 Ferry Street, Fall River, MA, 02724, United States
Every Thursday catch Zach and his reggae vibes and chill with us in the taproom! Make friends, play arcade games and enjoy complimentary popcorn!

Free Yoga Class
2026-07-23 18:00 - 19:00 | First Congregational Church of Fall River, 282 Rock St, Fall River, MA, 02720
All levels welcome!!Open to the public (13yrs and up)Please refer to our Facebook page for class cancelations or changes.

The Banned Book Club
2026-07-23 18:00 | Fall River Public Library, 104 North Main St, Fall River, MA, 02720
Join The Banned Book Club – a place where we devour literature that has been historically challenged throughout American history. Every 4th Thursday of the month we will discuss what lies beneath these pages and engage in conversation about the importance of the freedom of reading, which is essential to our democracy.

During our first meeting we will be discussing 1984 by George Orwell. Pick up a copy at the circulation desk!

Knitting Club
2026-07-23 13:00 | Fall River Public Library, 104 North Main St, Fall River, MA, 02720
Do you like to knit or crochet? Come join a group of fellow crafters – just bring your yarn, needles, and yourself. It’s a great way to make friends, share patterns and tips, and make progress on your projects. Beginners are welcome and no registration is required.

Chair Yoga Class
2026-07-23 09:30 - 23:30 | First Congregational Church of Fall River, 282 Rock St, Fall River, MA, 02720
Chair Yoga Calls-Find Your Balance, Strength, and Inner PeaceFirst Congregational Church of Fall River invites you to join our Chair Yoga classes, taking place at our church hall every other Thursday from 9:30-10:30 am.

Who can join? All levels are welcomeWhat to bring” Comfortable clothing/Yoga Mat/Water Bottle

For more info. contact the church office at 508-672-5862 or churchoffice@fccfallriver.com

Coffee with the Pastor
2026-07-23 09:00 - 11:00 | First Congregational Church of Fall River, 282 Rock St, Fall River, MA, 02720
Thursdays Coffee with the PastorCome and enjoy a good cup of coffee and a good conversation with Rev. Andy.Every Thursday from 9:00-11:00 am at Bethany Hall

First Congregational Church of Fall River282 Rock St. – Office Door!

WING WEDNESDAY!!
2026-07-22 18:00 - 2026-07-23 00:00 | Saint James Irish Pub, 91 Purchase Street, Fall River, MA, 02720, United States
Every Wednesday after 6pm enjoy half priced wings!
$0.50 wings all night long after 6pm!
*dine-in only!!*

Blind Draw Double Elimination Cornhole (weekly)
2026-07-22 18:00 - 21:00 | Canned Heat Craft Beer Co., 52 Ferry Street, Fall River, MA, 02724, United States
Every Wednesday sign up and join our Social Cornhole games!

Blind Draw, Double Elimination tournament! $10 on site to enter. Sign up on Scoreholio app and look up “Canned Heat Social Cornhole”

Bags start flying at 6pm!

FiA Southcoast
2026-07-22 17:30 - 18:30 | MA
Free . All woman’s fitness group. Peer- led workout classes! All fitness levels are welcome! Join us every Saturday 8am- 9am,in the park! (top of North Park) corner of HooD and Highland Ave. Wednesday nights, 5:30-6:30pm Lot 6 at BCC.

Kids eat FREE on Wednesdays
2026-07-22 07:00 - 23:00 | Primo on Water Street, 36 Water Street, Fall River, MA, 02724, United States

The Waiting Room - Comedy Open Mic
2026-07-21 19:30 - 20:30 | MA
List out at 7:30Show starts at 8Cheap drinks + cash bar (ATM inside)175 Danforth St, Fall River (AmVets Hall)

Sign up before 8:00 to get put “in the bucket” and get extra time!

Stay the whole bucket to become a VIP (and get extra time next week.)

The time you give is the time you get.

Thank you for your patience, your set is important to us.

Free Yoga Classes
2026-07-21 18:00 - 19:00 | First Congregational Church of Fall River, 282 Rock St, Fall River, MA, 02720
13years and up

Open to the Public

Middle Grade Book Club
2026-07-21 17:00 | Fall River Public Library, 104 North Main St, Fall River, MA, 02720
The Children’s Room invites our middle grade readers (ages 8-12) to join our monthly book club! On the third Tuesday of every month, we will meet to discuss the assigned title which will be chosen from a selection of popular fiction and nonfiction.

Copies of the assigned title will be provided for members to keep! Each month’s title and any related materials will be announced and distributed at the end of the previous session.

Half Priced Food (weekly)
2026-07-21 16:00 - 21:00 | Canned Heat Craft Beer Co., 52 Ferry Street, Fall River, MA, 02724, United States
Some say it’s the best bar pie in the area! Come see for yourself! Wings? We got those too!…and some extra bites for snacking while you enjoy Delicious Craft beer brewed right on site!

Preschool Storytime
2026-07-21 11:00 | Fall River Public Library, 104 North Main St, Fall River, MA, 02720
Join Children’s Room staff for a fun morning of stories! Each storytime includes 30 minutes of stories from popular children’s books followed by a short literacy-based movie and an easy-to-make craft. Introduce your preschooler to the exciting world of children’s literature! Recommended for ages 3 to 5.

Open Draw for Teens
2026-07-18 14:00 - 16:00 | Fall River Public Library, 104 North Main St, Fall River, MA, 02720
Open Draw for Teens provides a space in the library every other Saturday for teens to draw and socialize with other creative peers! Every session we will have ample time to free draw, and occasionally will host workshops on paper crafts like making zines, flipbooks, pop-up comics, as well as assorted drawing exercises.

Bring your sketchbooks, drawing pads, loose paper, old magazines, your favorite pens and pencils… whatever it is you use to draw! Some basic materials will also be available to use each session.

For teens ages 13 – 18.

Bluebird Improv
2026-07-16 20:00 - 22:00 | Narrows Center For The Arts Fall River Massachusetts, Narrows Center For The Arts Fall River Massachusetts, Fall River, 02720
Narrows Comedy Series
Thursday, July 16, 2026
$52 Advance | $54 Day of Show
[all-in pricing, no additional fees]
Doors 7pm | Show 8pm
Get ready for a night of spontaneous comedy with Bluebird Improv. Over the past several years, Bluebird Improv has built a reputation you can trust – if you go to one of their shows, you know you’ll see high-caliber comedians and experience something hilarious, unpredictable, and completely original. Past performances have included Rachel Dratch (SNL) and Matt Walsh (Veep), and this year’s lineup promises to be just as exciting.
Each show begins with a quick chat with the audience, sparking entirely improvised scenes that you’ll only see that night. We’re not revealing the full cast yet, but no matter who takes the stage, this Bluebird show will be a night full of laughs, surprises, and unforgettable moments.

Fantasy & Sci-Fi Book Club
2026-07-16 18:00 | Fall River Public Library, 104 North Main St, Fall River, MA, 02720
Science fiction and fantasy lovers are invited to join us for our monthly book discussion group! On the third Thursday of each month, we will meet at 6 pm to talk about a different sci-fi or fantasy book, ranging from new titles to classics. Each month’s selection will be announced on this calendar and at the previous meeting.

For more information, contact Diana in the Reference Department, or email dfaulkner@sailsinc.org.
