Viva Fall River

Spring Blessing Craft Fair
2026-05-02 10:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | First Congregational Church of Fall River, 282 Rock St, Fall River, MA, 02720
The First Cong. Church of Fall River, and its Missions Committee, invites you to join us on May 2nd. All proceeds from this event will help us fund our yearly projects in the Greater Fall River Area. Hope to see you there as an attendee or as a vendor!!Free admission for all shoppers!!!

Fall River Public Schools Annual Recruitment Fair
2026-05-02 10:00 - 12:00 | BMC Durfee High School Auditorium, 460 Elsbree St, Fall River, Massachusetts, 02720
We Are Hiring!

Join us for the 2026 Fall River Public Schools Recruitment Fair.Meet district leaders, explore open roles across teaching, student support, and operations, and take the next step toward a rewarding career in education.

Saturday, May 2, 202610 am until 12 pm

Durfee High School460 Elsbree StreetFall River, MA

Discover how you can make a meaningful impact in our community!

Free Comic Book Day with Scooby-Doo!
2026-05-02 09:30 - 16:00 | Fall River Public Library, 104 North Main St, Fall River, MA, 02720
Celebrate Free Comic Book Day at the Fall river public library by picking up 2 FREE comic books of your choice! Drop by the Children’s room between 11:00 am and 12:00 pm and meet that famous canine sleuth, Scooby-Doo! Children can also make a fuzzy Scooby-Doo poster in the Children’s Room while supplies last!

Bronwyn Keith-Hynes
2026-05-01 20:00 - 22:00 | Narrows Center for the Arts, 16 Anawan St., Fall River, MA
Friday, May 1, 2026
$36 Advance | $38 Day of Show
[all-in pricing, no additional fees]
Doors 7pm | Show 8pm
Grammy-winning fiddle virtuoso Bronwyn Keith-Hynes is stepping into the spotlight. After several years of wowing audiences as the fiddler for Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, the 2x IBMA Fiddle Player of the Year is striking out on her own – fronting a band for the first time and bringing her voice to the forefront. Known for her fiery fiddle playing and pure, rootsy singing, Bronwyn Keith-Hynes’ debut vocal album ‘I Built A World’ earned her a Grammy nomination this past February, and American Songwriter calls her “a world-class fiddler with a golden voice.”
Now, as her own entry in bluegrass history expands from celebrated instrumentalist to bandleader and front woman, Bronwyn isn’t just crafting a career in the image of genre greats like Sam Bush and Jerry Douglas; she’s bringing them along for the ride. Both Bush and Douglas are featured as players on I Built a World, and they’re not the only of Bronwyn’s musically-inclined pals and heroes to make an appearance on this star studded album.
Keith-Hynes’ music blends high octane bluegrass sensibilities with the soul of country and American Roots music. Backed by a powerhouse group of Nashville musicians hand picked from her tight-knit community, Keith-Hynes represents the next generation of top tier bluegrass musicians, who will be appreciated for generations to come. With a career that has already spanned collaborations with some of the biggest names in acoustic music, Bronwyn is now forging her own path—bringing her undeniable talent to audiences in a whole new way.

Body Wash Making Workshop
2026-05-01 18:00 - 20:00 | SoCo Art Labs, 418 Quequechan St. 2nd floor, Fall River, MA, 02721
Come join us for a body wash making event! Customize and create your own personalized All Natural Body Wash!

Get Tickets Here – https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1987458571087?aff=oddtdtcreator

John Saurette (live music)
2026-05-01 17:00 | Troy City Brewing, 16 Anawan Street, Fall River, 02721, United States
John Saurette will be setting the vibes with a solo acoustic performance. The music begins at 5pm. Save the date and enjoy the evening with us!

Open 3:30-10pm

Framed Woodland Scene Craft
2026-04-30 18:00 | Fall River Public Library, 104 North Main St, Fall River, MA, 02720
Join Stephanie Enloe of Craftyish Shop to create your own magical woodland scene framed wall art! In this class we will use wood, rocks, moss and other natural materials to create fanciful forest scenes to hang in your home or office! All supplies are included, just bring your creativity. Registration is required.

Social Club Karaoke: The League
2026-04-29 20:00 - 23:00 | The Tipsy Toboggan, 75 Ferry Street, Fall River, MA, United States
The League Karaoke offers a cash prize every week!!! From themed songs to open mic, come by and sing your heart out!

Margaritas & Mahjong
2026-04-29 18:00 | Morgan’s Cantina, 1 Ferry St, Fall River, Massachusetts, 02721
pice up your night with Margaritas & Mahjong at Morgan’s Cantina

Grab your friends (or come solo and make new ones!) for a fun, social night of sipping and playing. Whether you’re a seasoned pro or have never touched a tile, we’ve got you covered—our team will be there to guide you through the game and get everyone playing with confidence.

Your ticket includes:

Guided Mahjong instruction (perfect for beginners!)

Open play with friends & new faces

Complimentary chips & salsa

Access to our full margarita menu + food menu available for purchase

Come for the margaritas, stay for the laughs, and leave with a new favorite game

1st Annual Golf Tournament: Puttin' for Pups
2026-04-27 12:00 | Fall River Country Club, 195 Golf Club Road, Fall River, MA, 02720, United States
https://www.facebook.com/events/4283079325299621?

Proceeds to benefit our Military Personnel and First Responders in need of Service Dogs

Pink Granite
2026-04-26 14:00 | Troy City Brewing, 16 Anawan Street, Fall River, 02721, United States
Pink Granite will be setting the vibes in the taproom 2-5pm. Save the date and enjoy this #sundayfunday.No Cover – Taproom Open 12-6p

Pure Dance
2026-04-26 13:30 - 15:00 | Margaret L. Jackson Performing Arts Center At BCC, 777 Elsbree St, Fall River, MA, 02720, United States
On April 25th at 7pm and April 26th at 1:30pm, Ballet Rhode Island makes its first-ever appearance at Bristol Community College, bringing the contemporary ballet program Pure Dance to the Margaret L. Jackson Arts Center! Tickets here.
Striking contrast and kinetic beauty define Pure Dance, a bold celebration of what ballet can be today – athletic, expressive, and deeply human. Designed for both first-time dancegoers and seasoned audiences, the program offers a dynamic journey through contemporary ballet that highlights the moving body as both instrument and storyteller.
From the effervescent brilliance of George Balanchine’s Allegro Brillante, to the meditative intimacy of Christopher Wheeldon’s Liturgy, to the raw contemporary pulse of Yury Yanowsky’s Fading Creatures, Pure Dance reveals ballet as an art form that is alive, relevant, and accessible. Set to gorgeous music and performed by Ballet RI’s professional artists, this unforgettable experience is just a short drive away, and an open invitation to come along for the ride.
Following each performance, audiences are invited to stay for a Meet the Ballerina experience, offering a rare opportunity to connect directly with the artists, ask questions, and gain insight into the creative process behind the performance. These post-show conversations are designed to break down barriers, welcome curiosity, and deepen the audience’s connection to the art form.
Ballet Rhode Island continues to evolve through innovation, connection, and a commitment to artistic excellence and community engagement. This inspiring program is made possible through the generous sponsorship of Bank Five, a partner dedicated to uplifting local communities and fostering long-term growth across Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Through this partnership, discounted tickets are available for Bristol Community College students, ensuring continued accessibility to the arts.
Now in the midst of its bold 48th season, Ballet Rhode Island performs across six theaters in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, offering 54 opportunities to experience the power of dance. Season 48 reflects Ballet RI’s continued growth as a leading voice in the performing arts throughout New England.
Discover the movement that starts at home and soars across the region. Step away from the screen, into the theater, and experience ballet as it is today, vibrant, welcoming, and alive, with Pure Dance.
“Through bold partnerships, deep community connection, and fearless artistic innovation, we’re building a new future for ballet.”
— Kathleen Breen Combes, Artistic Executive Director, Ballet Rhode Island
For more information and to purchase tickets to Pure Dance, visit
www.balletri.org/season-48-performances/

A Night of Motown, Disco, Soul & Rock n' Roll with DJ Inkognito
2026-04-25 19:00 | The Brewhouse District, 139 South Main Street, Fall River, MA, 02720, United States

Make Your Own Empanada
2026-04-25 17:00 | Good Shepherd Parish, 1598 South Main Street, Fall River, MA, 02724, United States
FREE community event celebrating the cultures that make Fall River! Come learn to make your own empanadas with fillings representing Fall River’s heritage. Fillings, dough and space provided, BYODrinks (no alcohol!) and BYOApps, something that represents you! Let’s connect and share over food! 21+ event. Limited Spots

Get Lucky (Live Music)
2026-04-25 08:00 - 17:00 | Primo on Water Street, 36 Water Street, Fall River, MA, 02724, United States
Feeling lucky? You should be.

Join us at Primo on Water Street for a night of live music, high energy, and nonstop good vibes with Get Lucky LIVE! This is the perfect Saturday night plan — great music, late-night eats, and a packed room.

21+ Event

Proper Dress Required

Kiki's 8th Birthday - Bajah’s Rescue Fundraiser
2026-04-12 12:00 - 16:00 | Eagle Event Center, 35 North Main Street, Fall River, MA, 02720, United States
Join us as we celebrate our beloved Kiki’s 8th birthday with an unforgettable afternoon of fun, all in support of Bajah’s Rescue!

Your Ticket Includes: DJ & Dancing Light Fare Vendors & Crafters Tons of Raffles Birthday Cake & Grand Entrance—Oliver Escorts Kiki! Photo Station with Kiki & Oliver

Kiki’s Signature Cocktail & Oliver’s Mocktail Available for Purchase

Tickets: Available online at bajahscatcafe.com, at the café, or at the door!

Every ticket helps us build Bajah’s Rescue—a mission close to our hearts. Show your love and support for what we do!

Liz Gotauco F*cked Up Fairytale Tea
2026-04-12 12:00 - 15:00 | Once Upon a Bookstore, 418 Quequechan St. 2nd Fl., Fall River, Massachusetts, 02721

Get the Funk Out (GTFO)
2026-04-11 20:00 - 2026-04-12 00:01 | Primo on Water Street, 36 Water Street, Fall River, MA, 02724, United States
This is NOT your typical band…

Join us at Primo on Water Street for GTFO (Get The Funk Out) — a high-energy performance that turns the entire room into a rhythm. Think irresistable grooves, punchy brass lines, and nonstop energy that you feel as much as you hear.

WHAT TO EXPECT:• Live band performance

• High-energy, interactive rhythms• Packed dance floor + nonstop movement• A completely different kind of live music experience

After Dark Food Menu available 10PM–12AM

Full bar + late night vibes

EVENT DETAILS:• 21+ Event• Proper Dress Required• Free Entry

Back to the 80s with DJ Jackie Treehorn
2026-04-11 20:00 - 2026-04-12 00:00 | Canned Heat Craft Beer Co., 52 Ferry Street, Fall River, MA, 02724, United States
Get ready to rewind the clock…

80s Night at Canned Heat Craft Beer with DJ Jackie Treehorn!

Break out the neon, tease up that hair, and lace up your high-tops — we’re throwing it back to the raddest decade of them all!

April 11th at 8:00pm featuring DJ Jackie Treehorn spinning all your favorite 80s hits

From Madonna to Michael, Prince to Bon Jovi — it’s all the synth, pop, rock, and dance anthems you love.

-80s attire encouraged-Craft beer flowing all night-Dance floor vibes-Totally tubular photo ops

Whether you’re feeling Flashdance fierce or Breakfast Club cool, this is your night to shine.

Don’t be a wallflower! Grab your crew and let’s party like it’s 1989.

Vinyl Girl Acoustic (live music)
2026-04-11 19:00 - 23:00 | Shorty’s Pub, 87 Aetna St, Fall River, MA 02724, FALL RIVER, MA, 02724, United States
Caitlin and Rob are back at Shorty’s Pub playing acoustic tunes from artists such as:

The BeatlesAlanis MorrisetteAvril LavigneParamoreGreen DayWeezerNirvanaAND MORE!

Cambodian New Year Kick Off Celebration
2026-04-11 19:00 | Hong Meas Restaurant, 418 Quequechan Street, Fall River, 02723
For further information regarding the event, please call (508) 904-0688.

An Afternoon with Spirit, Alyissa Phillips Psychic Medium
2026-04-11 15:00 | Sanctuary – Wellness & Yoga Studio, 64 Durfee St, Fall River, Massachusetts, 02720
Alyissa Phillips, Psychic Medium, will be in-studio delivering messages from Spirit in an intimate group setting. You’re encouraged to stay for Yoga Nidra (Yogic Sleep, a type of meditation) and Sound element following the Mediumship event. A truly healing event.

Shereos Spring Paint Class
2026-04-11 11:00 - 14:00 | Veterans Association of Bristol County, 755 Pine St, Fall River, Massachusetts, 02720
We have 20 spots for our SHEROES to come and have a great time, we will have a sample of what you will be creating soon! Come have some great fellowship with our other SHEROES. Light lunch and dessert will be served. Bring your own coffee/beverage please. We will have bottled water available.

Scratch Art Keychain
2026-04-11 11:00 - 12:00 | Fall River Public Library, 104 North Main St, Fall River, MA, 02720
Make your own eye-catching and functional, Scratch Art Keychain! They are great for keeping your own keys together or to give to a friend as a gift! Choose from several different fun designs! For ages 5 and up.

Story Time with Josh Funk
2026-04-11 11:00 | Once Upon a Bookstore, 418 Quequechan St. 2nd Fl., Fall River, Massachusetts, 02721

Lung Health Fair
2026-04-11 09:00 | Charlton Memorial Hospital, 363 Highland Avenue, Fall River, Massachusetts, 02720
Join us for FREE informational sessions, health screenings and educational materials. No registration required.

See if you qualify for a Low-Dose CT scan and have our team schedule it for you.

Learn about:• Lung Health• Vaping• Quitting Tobacco• Smoking Cessation• Blood Pressure, Glucose, Cholesterol, and A1C checks

Participating Vendors:Southcoast Health Pulmonary, Southcoast Health Oncology, Intuitive Surgical, Biodesix, Galvanize, Genentech.

Electracoustic (live music)
2026-04-10 21:00 | The Tipsy Toboggan, 75 Ferry Street, Fall River, MA, United States

Walter Trout
2026-04-10 20:00 - 22:00 | Narrows Center for the Arts, 16 Anawan St., Fall River, MA
Friday, April 10, 2026
$50 Advance | $52 Day of Show
[all-in pricing, no additional fees]
Doors 7pm | Show 8pm
Great artists take the pulse of their times. In his half-century as a street-level social observer and scaldingly honest songwriter, blues-rock’s resilient icon Walter Trout has never told his fans what to think, how to feel, where to stand politically, or what to scrawl on their protest placards. But in an era when his home nation – and the wider world – is ripping at the seams over the battlelines of modern life, the iconic US bluesman’s hard-rocking new album, Sign Of The Times, is the primal scream and pressure valve we all desperately need. “I wanted to convey the anger and angst going on in the world,” explains the 74-year-old. “For me, writing these songs is therapy. They’re not just about what’s happening out there, but how it affects you in your head. Sign Of The Times just became the obvious title…”
Right now, it feels like the amps have barely cooled from 2024’s Broken (“That record debuted on Billboard at #1 – I was very, very pleased with that”). But the era-chronicling songs from Sign Of The Times wouldn’t wait, these urgent riffs flying off the guitarist’s fingers, assisted once again by Dr Marie Trout, Walter’s wife, manager and latterly co-writer, whose eloquent lyrics struck each subject on the head. “This album flowed pretty easily,” he reflects of the writing process. “I had so many song ideas and pages of lyrics from Marie. We could have kept going and made a triple album.”
With ten new songs written and arranged, Trout was ready to call up his studio band – longtime drummer Michael Leasure, bassist John Avila and keys man Teddy ‘Zig Zag’ Andreadis – for sessions at producer Thomas Ross Johansen’s Strawhorse Studios in Los Angeles. Immediately, the tinderbox subject matter sparked one of the toughest-sounding records in his catalogue. “Let me put it this way,” considers Trout, “after we finished recording the title track, my keys player Teddy said, ‘Well, you won’t be winning a blues award this year’. But I really felt like rocking on this album. We had heavy things to talk about, and we went for it musically too.”
Born in Ocean City, New Jersey, in 1951, Trout has been right there at the sharp end for all the most flammable chapters in post-war American history. Raised against the polarised backdrops of the hippie dream and the Vietnam War, his personal history was also one of jagged extremes, with his searing talent for guitar helping him escape an abused childhood that left its mark on some of his best songs. In ’74, he made the audacious coast-to-coast drive to Los Angeles and won transient gunslinger spots with titans like John Lee Hooker and Big Mama Thornton. By the early-’80s, he was a high-functioning addict whose demons simmered as he stoked the engine for boogie legends Canned Heat. “It wasn’t the smoothest road, that’s for sure,” he reflects. “A lot of potholes…”
The recent death of British blues godfather John Mayall has naturally brought Trout’s mid-’80s tenure with the Bluesbreakers into sharp focus. “His influence on my life, I can’t overstate,” reflects the guitarist. “My career would have been vastly different if he hadn’t invited me into his band and stuck with me through my drug addiction and alcoholism, when I was such a clown. It wasn’t just a musical relationship – he was a surrogate father to me. The last time he and I were together, it was very fitting and beautiful. We were in the dressing room after I invited him to my show in LA, laughing and telling stories. Then we hugged, and that was the last time I saw him.”
By ’89, Mayall’s paternal influence had cleaned Trout up and propelled him into the solo career whose breadth and quality makes his peers look sluggish by comparison. Scan his back pages and you’ll find a thousand accolades – including Music Awards, SENA European Guitar Awards, British Blues Awards and Blues Blast Music Awards – summed up by the quote from storied British DJ ‘Whispering’ Bob Harris, who declared Trout “the world’s greatest rock guitarist” in his 2001 autobiography, The Whispering Years.
While Trout has excavated himself with agonisingly personal songs across his back catalogue, when times are at their toughest, he’s also proved himself a sharp-eyed protest singer. Like 2012’s classic Blues For The Modern Daze – but with new targets and a very different musical flavour – Sign Of The Times looks outward as well as within. The album explodes to life with Artificial: a scornful, satirical, harmonica-spiced rebuke of the fake world we risk creating with unchecked AI. “We got artificial photos, artificial music, you could go on and on,” considers the bluesman. “I’m freaked out by AI. I read articles about how it’s gonna do all these wonderful things in the medical world. Then I hear Bill Gates say that 80 per cent of jobs are gonna disappear. What happens then?”
Just as combustible is Sign Of The Times’ title track. One of the most experimental cuts in Trout’s half-century studio output, it finds a monstrous guitar tone paired with massed chants and an out- there solo that few blues gods would dare put down on tape. “I’ve played it for blues fans who were outraged,” he admits. “But I wanted to outrage people. I wanted it to be dissonant. Dissonance is a sign of the times. The chant is supposed to be the repressed people of the world crying. I actually wrote it on an acoustic, but the final track is massive and John Avila had this nasty, growling bass sound. Marie had been inspired by watching Bob Dylan documentaries with me and every line of that is hers.”
With its cross-burning lyrical references and a howling solo tracked with a BluGuitar Mercury Edition amp, Trout explains that No Strings Attached skewers the small-minded (“It’s obviously about bigots”). Yet Sign Of The Times is no one-note diatribe. For Trout – who survived an eleventh-hour liver transplant in 2014 – his second chance at life still holds joy, beauty and pain. “Mona Lisa, Smile came to me in a dream,” he says of the gorgeous, bucolic acoustic strum decorated by accordion, mandolin and violin from famed string arranger Stevie Blacke (Ariana Grande, Beyoncé). “Y’know, Marie is strong and potent – but there’s another side to her which makes me love her even more. That song is about when I see her vulnerability, or her moments of self-doubt and sadness.”
With its dancing guitar lick and undeniable chorus, I Remember is also a moment of respite from the album’s stormier subject matter. “That song is a longing for when life was simpler,” he explains. “Like, when I was 20 and starting out. Or when Marie and I had just got together, and we had no money and were pawning guitars, but we were madly in love and the future was ahead of us. We didn’t have anything, but we felt like we had much more, because the world was alive with the promise of what would be revealed.”
Also soundtracking the good times are the fingerpicked porch blues of Too Bad (“That’s my little tribute to Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee”) and the barroom bounce of High-Tech Woman (“The music came from a jam with Jimmy Vivino, who was the bandleader on Conan O’Brien, and the lyric is about when I’m trying to do something on my phone, I get pissed off, then Marie comes over and makes it happen”). But for a man who has always been open about his past agonies, pain is never far away. “Hurt No More is my recovery song, with cutting yourself representing killing yourself with drugs and booze,” he says of the dust-blown rocker. “With Blood On My Pillow, I told Marie, ‘I want to do a minor blues, why don’t you write something?’ And she came to me with that lyric, which is a metaphor for a broken heart. It’s her projecting about somebody’s unrequited love.”
Even by Trout’s standards, Sign Of The Times is a record that puts you through the emotional wringer. But if you thought the bluesman’s fire might burn out before the end, closing track Struggle To Believe sets you straight. “I wanted to write a song that almost sounds like The Who if they had Hendrix playing guitar,” he says of the thundering finale. “There’s a song on Live At Leeds called Young Man Blues. And in the middle, they just go off, all three instrumentalists soloing at the same time. It’s madness, but it’s beautiful. So I told the band, ‘We’re gonna freeform and we’re only gonna do it once’. I thought about ending this record with Too Bad. But then I was like, ‘No, I’m gonna be pissed at the beginning and pissed at the end’. Artificial and Struggle To Believe are actually the same theme. As that song says, ‘Humanity and dignity/I sit and watch as they slowly die away’.”
But as long as there’s music, we have a fighting chance. As a lifelong road warrior, Trout will be taking the Sign Of The Times material to global audiences throughout 2026. And for those glorious two hours, political divides and culture wars will crumble as a crowd with nothing in common melts into a communion of souls. “I could be on social media right now, writing very explicit posts about what’s going on,” he considers. “But I don’t want to contribute to the division. When I’m up onstage playing a minor-key blues, and I look down at the front row and there’s a burly biker – and he’s crying – at that moment, I’m hitting him in our common humanity and it doesn’t matter who he voted for. At that moment, we are a community…”

Ink Portal Writing Group
2026-04-10 18:30 - 20:00 | Once Upon a Bookstore, 418 Quequechan St. 2nd Fl., Fall River, Massachusetts, 02721

Opening Reception: Citadel Exhibition
2026-04-10 17:00 - 20:00 | Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art, 44 Troy Street, Fall River, MA, 02720, United States
CITADELOpening April 10th from 5-8pm,Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art44 Troy St, Fall River, MA.Curated by Cory John Scozzari, director of CordovaFree and open to the public.ART IS FOR THE PEOPLE*Full Press Release to Follow*

Featuring artworks from: Joel Dean, Maguette Dieng, Miguel Fernandez de Castro, Emily Jones, Lydia Ourahmane, Kambel Smith, Mina Squalli-Houssaini, Viktor Timofeev,Gabriella Torres Ferrer.
