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SUMMARY:Eli "Paperboy" Reed live at the Narrows
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, October 3\, 2026\n$31 Advance | $33 Day of Show\n[all-in pricing\, no additional fees]\nDoors 7pm | Show 8pm \nEli “Paperboy” Reed is a survivor. He was one of the first of the new wave of singers and songwriters to embrace unabashedly soulful music and he has been tearing up stages all over the world with his heart-stopping falsetto screams for more than a decade with no plans to slow down. From humble musical beginnings growing up outside of Boston\, at 18 Reed moved to Clarksdale\, Mississippi and cut his teeth playing and singing in juke joints all over the Delta. From there he took the well-trod path to Chicago where he spent a year as minister of music the Southside church of Soul legend Mitty Collier.\nSoon after returning to Boston\, he was bit by the songwriting bug and released his first full length\, “Roll with You” in 2008. Reed’s combination of powerful soulful vocals coupled with his strong pop sensibility as a songwriter made people all over the world stand up and take notice. Soon there were calls coming in from everywhere; television shows in the UK\, festivals in Australia\, and a jaw-dropping schedule of national and international tour dates. \nMajor record labels came calling\, deals were signed and Reed’s star kept rising\, now with the help of song placements in major movies\, television shows and commercials. The albums “Come and Get it” (Capitol – 2010) and “Nights Like This” (Warner Brothers – 2014) went on to do more than $2.5 million in total licensing\, while Reed and his crack band continued to wow audiences on five continents. In 2016\, after some much-needed time off from the road\, Reed returned to the studio to cut “My Way Home” (Yep Roc – 2016); an album that is at once back-to-basics and startlingly current. \nStarting in 2013 Reed began teaching at an after-school music education based in Harlem called for Gospel for Teens during his breaks from touring. The program worked with at-risk youth from around the New York City area and Reed specifically began teaching these young men about Gospel Quartet music\, its history and harmony. Out of those classes emerged a new project that Reed dubbed The Harlem Gospel Travelers. He produced\, arranged and played guitar on their debut album which came out on the revered soul label Colemine records in 2019 to rave reviews. Now The Harlem Gospel Travelers are at work on their second full-length and have begun conquering festival stages as well. \nParenthood gave Reed a newfound wisdom and self-reflection. His daughter Stella was born in 2016 and son Oscar in 2019. With that in mind he returned to the south to record his 7th full-length “99 Cent Dreams” at the legendary Sam Phillips Recording studio in Memphis\, TN. This time around he was joined by Soul legends The Masqueraders on background vocals. The title track was given an unexpected boost with a feature by hip-hop pioneer Big Daddy Kane! No Depression wrote: Reed never disappoints and on 99 Cent Dreams he takes his musical game to a new level\, elevating us with it.” \nIn 2022 he fulfilled a career-long dream\, making an album of his own Soulful interpretations of songs by the country legend Merle Haggard. This album brought another milestone: the opportunity to perform on the hallowed stage of The Grand Ole Opry. Now approaching two decades in his field\, Reed has improbably become an elder statesman of the genre\, and he’s begun seeing new artists who are taking inspiration from his unique sound. A sound that\, over everything else\, prizes feeling\, energy\, and\, yes\, Soul.
URL:https://www.vivafallriver.com/event/eli-paperboy-reed-live-at-the-narrows/
LOCATION:Narrows Center for the Arts\, 16 Anawan St.\, Fall River\, MA
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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SUMMARY:Narrows Center and Arte Institute present The Gift & Noiserv
DESCRIPTION:Narrows Center and Arte Institute present\nSaturday\, October 4\, 2026\n$42 Advance | $44 Day of Show\n[all-in pricing\, no additional fees]\nDoors 5pm | Show 6pm\n\nFormed in 1994 in Portugal\, The Gift has become one of the country’s most acclaimed and internationally recognized alternative pop bands. Fronted by vocalist Sónia Tavares alongside Nuno Gonçalves\, John Gonçalves\, and Miguel Ribeiro\, the band quickly gained attention with their dynamic live performances and independent spirit\, founding their own label\, La Folie Records\, in 1998. Their debut album Vinyl was named Album of the Year by Diário de Notícias\, while subsequent releases\, including Film and AM-FM\, achieved Gold certification. Over the years\, The Gift has performed extensively across Europe\, Asia\, and North America\, appearing at major events such as SXSW\, MIDEM\, and Expo 2000\, and sharing stages with artists including The Flaming Lips. They won the 2005 MTV Europe Award for Best Portuguese Act\, topped the Portuguese charts with Explode in 2011\, and in 2016 began a celebrated collaboration with legendary producer Brian Eno on the single “Love Without Violins” and the band’s subsequent recordings\, further cementing their reputation for ambitious\, genre-defying music.\n\nAbout Noiserv:\nLife is built around small details. From the very first listen\, it’s clear that in Noiserv‘s universe\, attention is focused on the smallest moments\, which come together to create deeply moving songs. His poetic and ethereal sound draws comparisons to artists such as Yann Tiersen\, Radiohead\, Sigur Rós\, and Explosions in the Sky.\n\nNoiserv is the solo project of Portuguese musician David Santos. His debut album\, One Hundred Miles from Thoughtlessness\, was released in 2008 to widespread critical acclaim. It was followed by the EP A Day in the Day of the Days and the soundtrack for José & Pilar\, the documentary about Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago\, which was shortlisted for the Academy Awards.\n\nIn late 2013\, Noiserv released his second album\, Almost Visible Orchestra\, which earned the prestigious Portuguese Authors Society Award for Best Album of the Year. Between 2008 and 2013\, he toured extensively\, performing more than 400 concerts across Portugal’s leading venues and festivals while sharing stages with artists including Arcade Fire and Portishead. His growing international profile led to performances throughout the UK\, Belgium\, France\, Germany\, the Netherlands\, Slovenia\, Austria\, and Sweden\, with standout appearances at Eurosonic Festival in Groningen and Europavox in France\, where Les Inrockuptibles described his performance as “a tender triumph… strong and opulent.”\n\nIn 2015\, Almost Visible Orchestra received an international release through the French label Naïve\, home to artists including M83 and Yann Tiersen. At the end of 2016\, Noiserv released the conceptual piano album 00:00:00:00. In 2018\, he was invited to compose the music for Portugal’s national television branding\, and after creating several film soundtracks in 2019\, he returned in 2020 with his fourth studio album\, Uma Palavra Começada Por N.\n\nOn stage\, David Santos has earned a reputation as a true “one-man orchestra\,” seamlessly combining metallophone\, melodica\, bells\, synthesizers\, omnichord\, megaphone\, guitars\, vocals\, toys\, music boxes\, and a variety of other instruments through live looping. The result is an immersive\, inventive performance that transforms each concert into a unique musical experience.
URL:https://www.vivafallriver.com/event/narrows-center-and-arte-institute-present-the-gift-noiserv/
LOCATION:Narrows Center for the Arts\, 16 Anawan St.\, Fall River\, MA
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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SUMMARY:Maria Muldaur
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, October 9\, 2026\n$43 Advance | $46 Day of Show\n[all-in pricing\, no additional fees]\nDoors 7pm | Show 8pm \nA special intimate acoustic concert featuring a fun repertoire of Naughty Bawdy Blues & Swingin’ Syncopatin’ Jazz tunes from the ’20s & ’30s! Maria Muldaur is best known world-wide for her 1973 mega-hit “Midnight at the Oasis\,” which received several Grammy nominations\, and enshrined her forever in the hearts of Baby Boomers everywhere; but despite her considerable pop music success\, her 60 year career could best be described as a long and adventurous odyssey through the various forms of American Roots Music. \nDuring the Folk Revival of the early ’60s\, she began exploring and singing early Blues\, Bluegrass and Appalachian “Old Timey” Music\, beginning her recording career in 1963 with the Even Dozen Jug Band\, and shortly thereafter joining the very popular Jim Kweskin Jug Band\, touring and recording with them throughout the ’60s.  \n\nIn the 53 years since “Midnight at the Oasis” Maria has toured extensively worldwide and has recorded 44 solo albums covering all kinds of American Roots Music\, including Blues\, Gospel\, R&B\, Jug Band\, Jazz and Big Band (not to mention several award-winning children’s albums). She has now settled comfortably into her favorite idiom\, the Blues. Often collaborating with some of the top names in the business\,( Jerry Garcia\, Aaron Neville\, Dr. John\, Bonnie RaItt\, Taj Mahal\, Mavis Staples\, Bill Wyman\, etc.)\, Maria has recorded and produced on-average an album per year\, several of which have been nominated for Grammys and other awards. \nHer critically acclaimed 2001 Stony Plain Records release\, Richland Woman Blues\, was nominated for a Grammy\, and for a Blues Foundation Award for Best Traditional Blues Album of the Year\, as was the follow up to that album\, Sweet Lovin’ Ol’ Soul. \nHer timely 2008 album\, Yes We Can!\, featured her “Women’s Voices for Peace Choir\,” which includes: Bonnie Raitt\, Joan\, Baez\, Jane Fonda\, Odetta\, Phoebe Snow\, Holly Near and others.\nIn 2009 Maria teamed up with John Sebastian\, David Grisman\, and Dan Hicks for Maria Muldaur & Her Garden of Joy\, which garnered Maria her 5th Grammy Nomination\, and was also nominated for Best Traditional Blues Album of the Year by The Blues Foundation.\nIn 2011 Maria released Steady Love\, a contemporary electric Blues album that reflects the kind of music she loves to perform live – what she calls “Bluesiana Music” - her own brand of New Orleans-flavored Blues\, R&B and “Swamp Funk”. Steady Love reached #1 on the Living Blues Chart\, and garnered her another nomination for Best Traditional Female Blues Artist from the Blues Foundation. \nIn 2012\, for her 40th album\, Maria produced the critically acclaimed…. “First Came Memphis Minnie”\, a loving tribute to the pioneering Blues woman who inspired and influenced so many female Blues artists who followed in her footsteps\, many of whom joined Maria on this special project: Bonnie Raitt\, Phoebe Snow\, Ruthie Foster\, Koko Taylor and Rory Block accompanied by the amazing guitar work of Del Rey\, David Bromberg\, Alvin Youngblood Hart\, Roy Rogers\, and others. \nIn 2013\, taking a brief hiatus from her yearly recording schedule\, Maria focused on 3 special collaborations\, performing worldwide with the 50th Anniversary Kweskin Jug Band Reunion concerts\, teaming up with the Campbell Brothers\, world-renowned Sacred Steel Gospel artists\, for a very special presentation entitled\, “Spirit & The Blues”\, and touring as Special Guest Artist with Bill Wyman and The Rhythm Kings. \n2014 marked 40 years since Maria’s big hit “Midnight at the Oasis” was riding at the top of the charts. To celebrate this landmark\, Maria created a multi-media retrospective ”Way Past Midnight”\, which chronicles her long journey to “The Oasis and Beyond”. This special presentation features all her hits and fan faves from every stage of her career\, as well as fascinating\, entertaining\, (often humorous!) stories of her personal encounters\, friendships\, and collaborations with many of the greatest names in music. \nIn 2018\, Maria released her 41st album ”DON’T YOU FEEL MY LEG ~ The Naughty Bawdy Blues of Blue Lu Barker”\, which was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Traditional Blues category. Recorded in New Orleans with an amazing cast of A-List NOLA musicians\, this album finds Maria at her finest\, and is true to the spirit and soul of New Orleans and Barker’s funny\, coy\, and risqué material. This marked her 6th Grammy Nomination! Maria says “it’s an honor to be nominated. I’m so grateful that this music is being recognized & enjoyed again after all these years!’ \nIn Sept. 2019\, The Americana Music Association awarded Maria ”The Lifetime Achievement Americana Trailblazer Award” for her lifelong work of covering the depth and breadth of American Roots music and for being one of the pioneers who laid the groundwork for what we’ve come to call ‘Americana Music’. \nIn 2020\, Maria collaborated with world acclaimed New Orleans band Tuba Skinny & recorded her 43rd album\, ”Let’s Get Happy Together”\, a collection of 20s & 30s vintage Jazz & Blues. Released in May 2021\, the album received nothing but rave reviews. It received The Blue’s Foundation’s Nomination for Best Acoustic Album\, and was voted Best Traditional Jazz Album in OffBeat Magazine’s Best Of The Beat Awards. \nIn 2021\, Maria and her guitarist\, Craig Caffall\, wrote and co-produced her latest single “I’m Vaccinated and I’m Ready For Love” to help inspire others to get vaccinated and to celebrate her feeling of liberation and renewal after her second shot. \n2026 finds Maria with her 7th Grammy nomination for her 44th album\, ”One Hour Mama: the Blues of Victoria Spivey”\, as well as 2 Blues Foundation nominations\, for Best Traditional Blues Album & Best Female Blues Singer This year marks the 53rd Anniversary of ”Midnight At The Oasis”\, and Maria and her band will be presenting her Way Past Midnight multimedia retrospective in special performances throughout the country.
URL:https://www.vivafallriver.com/event/maria-muldaur/
LOCATION:Narrows Center for the Arts\, 16 Anawan St.\, Fall River\, MA
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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SUMMARY:Joshua Burnside
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, October 10\, 2026\n$33 Advance | $36 Day of Show\n[all-in pricing\, no additional fees]\nDoors 7pm | Show 8pm \nJoshua Burnside is an experimental folk songwriter\, singer and producer. He takes influence from alternative electronica and Irish folk\, chopping and blending them with a mixture of found sounds\, world music and unorthodox production methods. \nFollowing an award-winning debut album and an acclaimed follow-up released during the height of the global pandemic\, his music lives against the grain\, in both style and spirit. Raised in the north of Ireland between the lush drumlins and hills of Strangford Lough\, and the narrow entries and alleyways of East Belfast\, Joshua’s music has defined and defied the post-conflict society of his home.\n\nTaking in the economics of existence\, family\, trauma and renewal\, while set against a backdrop of tense electronica and lush Irish folk and traditional songwriting\, Joshua has entrenched himself within the fabric of the modern folk canon\, alongside the likes of Bon Iver\, Ben Howard and Sufjan Stevens. \nWhile his award-winning first album Ephrata took in lush landscapes\, technological horrors\, night terrors and wistful Columbian vistas (set against a bed of Irish folk\, cumbia rhythms\, and electronica)\, his critically acclaimed second Into The Depths Of Hell\, took a far darker approach. Melding swirls of clanging metallic found sounds\, alt-rock\, and Irish songwriting traditions were supported by UK and US national radio and international tastemakers NPR\, Guitar Magazine\, CLASH\, The Guardian\, The Times and more. \nHis third album\, Teeth Of Time\, sits comfortably and confrontationally between the alt-folk realms of Bon Iver and Sufjan Stevens while retaining the indie singer-songwriter and traditional folk elements of Josh’s signature songwriting.
URL:https://www.vivafallriver.com/event/joshua-burnside/
LOCATION:Narrows Center for the Arts\, 16 Anawan St.\, Fall River\, MA
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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SUMMARY:Paul Bielatowicz’s “Nosferatu” Live
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, October 16\, 2026\n$30 Advance | $33 Day of Show\n[all-in pricing\, no additional fees]\nDoors 7pm | Show 8pm \nBack at the Narrows by popular demand… and this time it’s going to be bigger\, better and bloodier. \nStep into the shadows this Halloween season with Nosferatu Live\, a spine-tingling rock spectacle that brings the 1922 silent horror masterpiece Nosferatu back to life. Created by world-renowned guitarist and composer Paul Bielatowicz (Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy\, Neal Morse)\, this multimedia concert fuses classic horror with jaw-dropping musicianship and heart-pounding progressive rock. \nPerforming an original score live on stage\, Paul and his band transform the silent film into a thrilling cinematic experience unlike anything you’ve seen before. \nThree giant screens surround the band with immersive visuals\, a synchronized light show and surprise virtual appearances from an all-star lineup including Jordan Rudess (Dream Theater)\, Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal (Guns N’ Roses\, Sons of Apollo\, Asia)\, Arthur Brown (The Crazy World of Arthur Brown)\, Dave Bainbridge (Strawbs\, Iona)\, Peter Zay (New Bedford Symphony Orchestra)\, and Simon Fitzpatrick (ELP Legacy\, Jennifer Batten). \nPart concert\, part film\, part Halloween ritual\, Nosferatu Live is an unforgettable night where classic horror meets electrifying progressive rock. \nCostumes encouraged. Screams welcome.
URL:https://www.vivafallriver.com/event/paul-bielatowiczs-nosferatu-live/
LOCATION:Narrows Center for the Arts\, 16 Anawan St.\, Fall River\, MA
CATEGORIES:Film,Live Music
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SUMMARY:Eric Lindell
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, October 17\, 2026\n$50 Advance | $52 Day of Show\n[all-in pricing\, no additional fees]\nDoors 7pm | Show 8pm \nNew Orleans-based singer/songwriter and guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Eric Lindell melds West Coast rock\, swampy Gulf Coast R&B\, hard country\, and Memphis soul in a hybrid American roots music that\, while thoroughly respectful of traditions\, blazes a trail of its own.\n\nBorn in San Mateo\, California\, Lindell spent much of his youth in nearby Santa Rosa and Forestville. Although he worked as a baker by day\, Lindell turned his focus to music in the evenings\, honing his chops as a competent vocalist and guitarist by playing in bars around Sonoma County. He produced his debut album\, Bring It Back\, in 1996\, and in 1999 he won the John Lennon Songwriting Competition with his original piece “Kelly Ann.” That same year\, Lindellrelocated to New Orleans to pursue music as a career. The move was beneficial; Lindell soon hooked up with Galactic’s Stanton Moore and began playing shows around town\, frequently enlisting drummers Johnny Vidocovich and Harold Brown (from War) to sit in. He issued a self-released\, self-titled record in 2002\, but the following year saw him move to Sparco Records\, where he released both Piety Street Session and EP Volume 1. Tragic Magic followed in 2005 and sparked serious interest from Alligator Records\, which signed him. They released his Change in the Weather in 2006 and Low on Cash\, Rich in Love in 2008. Lindell continued his prolific output with 2009’s Gulf Coast Highway\, another album of blue-eyed soul and confident guitar work before leaving the label for a few years. Lindell privately issued a couple of albums to sell at gigs — 2010’s Cazadero and 2011’s Between Motion and Rest — the two were combined in a two-disc release entitled West County Drifter on M.C. Records in 2011. That year also saw the release of Live in New Orleans\, the first record from his New Orleans-based supergroup Dragon Smoke\, which also featured Ivan Neville. The next year brought I Still Love You\, another studio set from the guitarist. Dragon Smoke put out another live set\, Live at Wanee 2015\, but Lindell’s next big project was Matters of the Heart. Released in the spring of 2016\, Matters of the Heart was co-produced in part by Luther Dickinson and featured guitar from Anson Funderburgh. Lindell returned to Alligator for 2018’s Revolution in Your Heart\, with percussionist Willie McMains as his only accompaniment.
URL:https://www.vivafallriver.com/event/eric-lindell/
LOCATION:Narrows Center for the Arts\, 16 Anawan St.\, Fall River\, MA
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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SUMMARY:Dar Williams
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, October 22\, 2026\n$49 Advance | $51 Day of show\n[all-in pricing\, no additional fees]\nDoors 7pm | Show 8pm \n“It’s a highway\, filled with deep\, exotic colors and beautiful delicate things as well as the perils that come from moving so fast\,” says Dar Williams\, describing modern life. On her 13th album\, Hummingbird Highway\, out September 12 on Righteous Babe Records\, Williams celebrates the colors she glimpses from her vantage as a touring musician. “I was a kid from the suburbs who listened when her hippie teachers said to get out in the world\,” Williams muses. Hummingbird Highway is the latest chapter in a richly unfolding story. Drawing on her experience as a playwright\, Williams populates her latest album with nuanced characters that come alive in the space of a few minutes.\nOn the title track\, Williams sings from the perspective of a child speaking to her peripatetic and sometimes struggling parent. Blooming columbines\, china blue teapots\, and cinnamon bark number among the “treasures” in her life\, despite the “pirates” that she imagines populating her worldly parent’s life. “The pirates can be all sorts of things living inside and outside your head. The child\, for better or worse\, knows that there is joy\, unpredictability\, and instability on the home front. She’s rooting for the joy.” \nSince 2013\, Williams has been leading songwriting workshops where she teaches students to let songs find their own trajectories. While writing the breezy bossa nova “Tu Sais Le Printemps\,” (single release 7/29/25) Williams questioned why she was writing a light\, flirty song amidst many gloomy news stories. “I was having coffee with some of my fellow retreat leaders and Beth Nielsen Chapman\, telling them about my ‘frilly’ song\, and Beth said\, ‘That’s just what I want to hear right now!’ It was a nice moment to follow my own advice and let the song find its way.” \nWith help from Williams’ collaborators\, the other songs found their paths as well. Mainly produced by Ken Rich at Brooklyn’s Grand Street recording (with two tracks produced by Dave Chalfant in Western Massachusetts)\, the Hummingbird Highway sessions were a microcosm of the interdependence that provided inspiration from inception to full production. These songs are ecosystems that thrive on co-creation. Daisy Mayhem brings roots-rock energy to the bluegrassy “Put the Coins on His Eyes\,” while long time touring-mate and collaborator Bryn Roberts creates both the hooks and immersive sonic landscapes of every musical genre. Simpatico “studio magic” can be heard in the happy rowdiness of the Richard Thompson cover\, “I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight\,” as well as in the contemplative “Sacred Mountain” where Williams wraps a halting melody around the narrator\, a Buddhist who struggles to reconcile inward contemplation and political action. Through gray skies\, snow pigeons\, and petitions to stem industrial pollution\, the character moves through shifting mindsets to work towards “what we see; what we breathe in time.” \nWilliams sees and breathes the way people connect with one another\, as chronicled in what she calls her “take on urban planning\,” What I Found in a Thousand Towns (Basic Books\, 2017). “I traveled and watched how other people created these cool things like town-wide science fairs and hilarious celebrations of potatoes and chili\, often going hand-in-hand with providing serious resources like food banks and free clinics\,” she recalls. Along the way\, she’s seen the devotion of strong unions (as in “Put the Coins On His Eyes”) and congressional reps alike. “Maryland\, Maryland” was inspired by conversations with her friend\, Rep. Jamie Raskin\, about what a new state song would include. “In the end\, my definition of a Maryland song was song about Jamie\, who is a proud\, patriotic son of the state.” As Williams continuously takes in the social landscapes of towns and cities\, she has also taken them home\, helping to start a thrift sale\, chairing a community board\, and helping to organize group sings in her New York hometown. “For someone who’s seen a lot of pavement and airports along with all the great places where I’ve played\, it’s especially nice to come home\,” she says. \nAs hummingbirds and folk singers fly\, they gain perspective and not just distance. She finds that wise perch on “Olive Tree\,” a single out on August 26. With production of stirring percussion and twinkling keys\, she considers everything that’s led up to our current moment. Williams observes “all of these strangers and friends” talking about world events at parties and dinner gatherings and thinks back to all the iterations of those conversations from Aristotle on. In a moving verse\, she conjures a time in 1913 when California Berkeley scientists planted an olive grove in the United States and imagined the generations who would meet in the olive trees’ shade for “over one thousand years.” When Williams promises “I’ll meet you here under an olive tree\,” we all know that both she and we will\, wherever and whenever we continue to foster olive trees and a human-scale\, deeply-rooted democratic society. \nLongtime listeners know that Williams and her music are always up for those kinds of conversations that glimpse the brightest colors\, woven into the larger context of time. “As I’ve gotten older\, I feel more comfortable holding a lot of different threads in my hand to create more complicated patterns. Time has given me a better ability to hold a bunch of colors and temperaments and see what happens\, where they become interesting new stories and also where I need to stop and untangle the themes and characters. It’s daunting\, and I’ve learned that\, you know\, daunting is fine\, just keep going.” \nA prolific lyricist and composer\, Matthews has found inspiration in her surroundings; from driving through the Blue Ridge Mountains to the compelling and heart-breaking love story of Richard and Mildred Loving. Thoughtful\, realistic and emotional\, Matthews’ songs speak to the voice of our generation and remind us why music indeed soothes the soul.
URL:https://www.vivafallriver.com/event/dar-williams/
LOCATION:Narrows Center for the Arts\, 16 Anawan St.\, Fall River\, MA
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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SUMMARY:Beyond The Vision Board with Maria Holme
DESCRIPTION:Narrows Yumaverse Series\nSaturday\, October 24\, 2026\n$55 workshop\n[all-in pricing\, no additional fees]\nDoors 12:00pm | Start 12:30pm\n\nSpecial 2-hour workshop event limited to 20 participants held in the Yumaverse\, a beautifully renovated intimate space on the second floor of the Narrows Center for the Arts.\n\nLeave the pressure of the day behind as you step into this relaxing experience of learning new ways to manifest the life you desire. Join us as motivational speaker/coach Maria Holme teaches about realistic goal setting\, the importance of daydreaming and how to accomplish both.\n\nMaria will begin the program with lively storytelling about the role we play in our day to day choices and how to tackle obstacles that hold us back. Learn the importance of positive emotional wellbeing & how to achieve it.\n\nThen we’ll roll up our sleeves as we create a collage style vision board that provides inspiration and motivation on a daily basis. While attendees are creating\, Maria will share tips and techniques that sprinkle levity into your day.\n\nAttendees will leave with a canvas board of their vision that serves as a daily reminder\, an activation quote/mantra and inspiration to implement their steps along with lightness in their hearts.\n\nAbout Maria Holme: Mixed media artist Maria Holme is the owner of Your Next Step and has been providing motivational coaching\, workshops and insight to groups and clients for several years. Maria’s journey through years of anxious thoughts\, that once limited her\, to now facing the day with lightness and levity\, serves as her beacon to provide insight and well-being practices to others.\n\nFor Smiles\, Inspiration and a bit more…please check out:\nWebsite: Your Next Step Guide\nInstagram @mholme.yournextstep\nFacebook: Your Next Step with Maria Holme\nContact Maria 401-499-6764 or email  maria@yournextstepguide.com
URL:https://www.vivafallriver.com/event/beyond-the-vision-board-with-maria-holme/
LOCATION:Narrows Center for the Arts\, 16 Anawan St.\, Fall River\, MA
CATEGORIES:Other,Workshops & Classes
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SUMMARY:East Nash Grass
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, October 29\, 2026\n$30 Advance | $32 Day of Show\n[all-in pricing\, no additional fees]\nDoors 7pm | Show 8pm \nHow did East Nash Grass follow up their 2024 International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) award for Best New Artist? By earning a nomination for Entertainer of the Year\, IBMA’s highest honor\, in 2025\, and celebrating fiddler Maddie Denton’s win as Fiddler of the Year. In short\, East Nash Grass have quickly established themselves as the fresh new face of Nashville’s storied bluegrass tradition\, a supergroup of rising stars: Grand Master Fiddle champion Denton is joined by banjo player Cory Walker (banjo player on the five-time nominated “Carter & Cleveland” album this year\, among numerous accolades)\, 2022 IBMA Momentum Instrumentalist of the Year Harry Clark\, and new guitar player Frank Rische. This is an all-star band that harkens back to the sort of talent collected in the original Blue Grass Boys and a powerhouse leader of the next generation in bluegrass excellence.\n\nRolling Stone had them among the “best of what we saw” at RockyGrass in 2025\, praising their “rowdy set of high-octane bluegrass numbers\,” and noting\, “The group itself is a rapidly-rising force on the national touring scene.” \nAnd “rowdy” is right. They are far more than just a group of impressive instrumental technicians\, building on night after night of three-set gigs on Nashville’s East Side\, playing tiny stages for the love of it between tours backing bigger acts. It’s a hard-forged bond that translates into an infectious on-stage energy that audiences can’t seem to get enough of. \nWith their new release\, “All God’s Children” (Mountain Fever\, August 22\, 2025)\, they show a depth and feel\, too\, that goes well beyond the traditional bluegrass fair\, with nods to Gypsy jazz and East Village folk\, and eye toward moving bluegrass forward and keeping it from being too mired in the past. If East Nash Grass isn’t the future of the genre it’s only because they’re already among its leading lights.
URL:https://www.vivafallriver.com/event/east-nash-grass/
LOCATION:Narrows Center for the Arts\, 16 Anawan St.\, Fall River\, MA
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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SUMMARY:Robbie Fulks & Heath Maloney
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, November 13\, 2026\n$39 Advance | $41 Day of Show\n[all-in pricing\, no additional fees]\nDoors 7pm | Show 8pm \n“It’s time to make a change\,” Robbie Fulks declares at the start of Now Then\, his second album on Nashville’s Compass Records. This statement is familiar to anyone who follows this critically acclaimed and GRAMMY-nominated singer-songwriter’s career. Since emerging in the 1990s as a pioneer of today’s Americana movement\, Fulks has consistently explored different sounds\, genres\, and themes across 16 albums\, performing on stages from the Grand Ole Opry and Late Night with Conan O’Brien to the Hollywood Bowl and Jimmy Kimmel Live with Steve Martin\, Alison Brown\, and Tim O’Brien.\nThat restless spirit lies at the heart of Now Then. Like a well-stocked jukebox in your favorite bar\, the 12 songs on Now Then range from folk to power pop\, jazz to old-time country. But the perspective threaded through each one comes from the realization that the time behind you spans a greater distance than what lies ahead. “It’s from an older person’s outlook\, and mostly true\,” Fulks says. “The tone is about 70 percent reflective\, 20 percent amused\, and 10 percent angry.” \nIndeed\, the album opener “Workin’ No More Blues” quietly resists a world that demands greater conformity by the day: “Now I’m weary of those around me/And I know for sure they’re sick of me/They say I won’t do as I’m told/They say I’ve lost the thread/I’m too old.” The aged narrator of “Savannah is a Devilish Girl” — a dance between banjo and fiddle — dreams of disappearing into rural life. Love appears in the song “The Thirty-Year Marriage” as something more potent than romance. The narrator and his wife smile at young couples who don’t yet realize what only years reveal: “We didn’t fall out of love/We fell into rhythm.” \nA constant across Now Then is the novelist’s eye for lyrical detail. Peeling back these story songs often uncovers harsh truths\, as in “Your Tormentors\,” where the music’s late-night setting hides family secrets. In “That was Juarez\, This is Alpine\,” a narrator describes a cross-border journey into a troubled landscape of political division and historical injustice\, with the music providing an epic sweep. And “Ocean City” tells a coming-of-age story set in summer 1974\, narrated by a young boy. Adults drink and play gin rummy\, and the boardwalk holds lifelong desires. “The girl downstairs/Has wavy yellow hair/That I’ll be seeing a long time in dreams\,” Fulks sings. \nThroughout his career\, Fulks has collaborated with some of music’s most distinguished artists\, including Lucinda Williams\, jazz violinist Jenny Scheinman\, bluegrass pioneers Sam Bush\, Jerry Douglas\, Alison Brown\, and Sierra Hull\, singer Kelly Willis\, NRBQ’s Al Anderson\, and steel guitarist Lloyd Green. Now Then expands this circle with contributions from Scheinman\, drummers Pete Thomas (Elvis Costello) and Jay Bellerose (Aimee Mann\, Robert Plant\, Alison Krauss)\, bassist Paul Bryan (Aimee Mann\, Jeff Parker)\, keyboardist Wayne Horvitz (John Zorn\, Bill Frisell)\, guitarists Duke Levine (Bonnie Raitt\, Peter Wolf) and Kevin Barry (Jackson Browne\, Rosanne Cash)\, and accordionist Pepe Carlos (La Santa Cecilia)\, among many others. As an ensemble\, they craft intertwined musical textures that drive each song’s rhythm\, highlight their personalities\, and add depth. \nNow Then can be seen as Fulks’ proper “L.A. record\,” as it’s his first complete collection of songs written since moving to Los Angeles in 2019\, featuring musicians he connected with soon after arriving. “Working with people I admired on records but had never met\, who I was just starting to meet — that was at the front of my mind when I started working on the songs\,” he said. “They influenced me when I was trying to put the songs on the page\, and later when I was bringing them to life.” \nRobbie Fulks has always been more than a conventional country singer and songwriter. After growing up in North Carolina and spending time in New York City\, Fulks began his professional music career playing bluegrass in the band Special Consensus before emerging as a solo artist in Chicago during the mid-1990s. His early albums received nationwide praise for blending a modern sensibility with honky-tonk country. His creative partnership with the late Steve Albini resulted in a string of highly regarded albums\, showcasing his sharp lyrical wit\, sophisticated instrumentation\, and inventive storytelling. \nAlong the way\, Fulks gained recognition for his instrumental virtuosity and powerful songwriting. Artists like Sam Bush\, Andrew Bird\, John Cowan\, the Old 97’s\, and Hiss Golden Messenger have covered his songs\, and he has released full albums reinterpreting the works of Michael Jackson and Bob Dylan\, along with two collections of unreleased songs and rarities totaling 103 tracks. His creative ventures include an unhinged 2013 collaboration with the punk legends The Mekons\, productions of albums by alt-country songwriters Brennen Leigh and Dallas Wayne\, and a fiery duo with rockabilly pioneer Linda Gail Lewis. Fulks also performs with comic improvisers; he is a regular at Second City’s holiday fundraisers and has shared the stage with talents like Michael McKean\, Tina Fey\, Bob Odenkirk\, and Fred Armisen. \nFulks resides in Los Angeles with his wife\, actress Donna Jay Fulks. \nAbout Heather Maloney: With over 1\,000 international shows and 9 studio albums under her belt\, Heather Maloney has released her most personal record to date\, Exploding Star (Jan 2025). \nOn Heather’s 2019 album\, Soil In The Sky\, her “ability to channel emotion is radical” (PopMatters) and the tracks are stacked with special guests who help her deliver an immense range of sound and sentiment in 12 songs; there’s a duet with Dawes front-man Taylor Goldsmith and vocal harmonies by Lake Street Dive’s Rachael Price. The all-star band includes drummer Griffin Goldsmith (Dawes)\, and multiple members of the Amos Lee band.  The Bluegrass Situation called her 2015 release\, Making Me Break (produced by Band of Horses’ Bill Reynolds) “an intoxicating blend that captures the sonic texture of indie rock\, the humanity of folk and the spirituality of a Rumi poem.” In 2014 she released “Woodstock”\, her collaborative effort with Boston quartet Darlingside\, which drew praise from the New York Times and Graham Nash. \nHeather’s songs have played on NPR stations across the country and her live appearances have aired on syndicated programming like eTown and AudioTree. Her song “Nightstand Drawer” was featured in the season finale of the CBS TV series “Elementary”\, and her songs have also been streamed hundreds of thousands of times on editorial Spotify playlists & Starbucks’ in-store nationwide playlists. \nAs well as a songwriter and performer\, Heather is an illustrator and linocut artist who carves and prints visual representations of her songs on a variety of mediums. \nHeather has toured throughout the US & Canada as a headliner and also in support of acts including Anais Mitchell\, Lake Street Dive\, Shakey Graves\, Gary Clark Jr.\, Rodrigo y Gabriela\, Colin Hay (Men at Work)\, Mary Chapin Carpenter\, Shawn Colvin\, Dar Williams and many more.
URL:https://www.vivafallriver.com/event/robbie-fulks-heath-maloney/
LOCATION:Narrows Center for the Arts\, 16 Anawan St.\, Fall River\, MA
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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SUMMARY:Falco and Book Play Jerry Garcia
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, November 21\, 2026\n$43 Advance | $45 Day of Show\n[all-in pricing\, no additional fees]\nDoors 7pm | Show 8pm \nAndy Falco and Travis Book are both members of the Grammy award winning bluegrass band The Infamous Stringdusters. Inspired by their love of the music of Jerry Garcia\, the duo branches off on their own for occasional tours to celebrate Garcia’s timeless songs. \n“The project actually originated back stage at ‘Dusters shows where Travis and I would typically warm up with some fun Jerry songs” Falco explains. “At some point we just thought it would be fun to do it in public\n\nThey draw from Garcia’s solo material\, his Grateful Dead catalogue as well as the Traditional songs Jerry loved to play. \n“Performing this music as a duo allows us to explore the songs and jam in a way that’s unique to playing as a Duo” Says Book. “We typically hear these songs in larger ensembles\, but the songs done with just bass and guitar somehow make the music very interactive with the audience. It’s really a testament to the quality of the songwriting\, and we like to put a spotlight on that aspect of Jerry.”
URL:https://www.vivafallriver.com/event/falco-and-book-play-jerry-garcia/
LOCATION:Narrows Center for the Arts\, 16 Anawan St.\, Fall River\, MA
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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SUMMARY:Neal McCarthy Electric Band
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, November 28\, 2026\n$30 Advance | $32 Day of Show\n[all-in pricing\, no additional fees]\nDoors 7pm | Show 8pm \nFor over 30 years\, Neal McCarthy has been at the forefront of the regional music scene. Neal doesn’t play the music\, he channels it.
URL:https://www.vivafallriver.com/event/neal-mccarthy-electric-band/
LOCATION:Narrows Center for the Arts\, 16 Anawan St.\, Fall River\, MA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261203T200000
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SUMMARY:Chris Smither
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, December 3\, 2026\n$49 Advance | $51 Day of Show\n[all-in pricing\, no additional fees]\nDoors 7pm | Show 8pm\n\nBorn in Miami\, during World War II\, Chris Smither grew up in New Orleans where he first started playing music as a child. The son of a Tulane University professor\, he was taught the rudiments of instrumentation by his uncle on his mother’s ukulele. “Uncle Howard\,” Smither says\, “showed me that if you knew three chords\, you could play a lot of the songs you heard on the radio. And if you knew four chords\, you could pretty much rule the world.” With that bit of knowledge under his belt\, he was hooked. “I’d loved acoustic music – specifically the blues – ever since I first heard Lightnin’ Hopkins’ Blues In My Bottle album. I couldn’t believe the sound Hopkins got. At first I thought it was two guys playing guitar. My style\, to a degree\, came out of trying to imitate that sound I heard.”\nIn his early twenties\, Smither turned his back on his anthropology studies and headed to Boston at the urging of legendary folk singer Eric von Schmidt. It was the mid-’60s and acoustic music thrived in the streets and coffeehouses there. Smither forged lifelong friendships with many musicians\, including Bonnie Raitt who went on to record his songs\, “Love You Like A Man” and “I Feel the Same. (Their friendship has endured as their career paths intertwined over the years.) What quickly evolved from his New Orleans and Cambridge musical experiences is his enduring\, singular guitar sound – a beat-driven finger-picking\, strongly influenced by the playing of Mississippi John Hurt and Lightnin’ Hopkins\, layered over the ever-present backbeat of his rhythmic\, tapping feet (always mic’d in performance). \nSmither’s first albums\, I’m A Stranger\, Too! (1971) and Don’t It Drag On (1972) were released on Poppy Records\, home of kindred spirit Townes Van Zandt. By the time Smither recorded his third album\, Honeysuckle Dog with Lowell George and Dr. John helping out\, United Artists had absorbed Poppy and ultimately dropped much of their roster\, including Smither. Smither made his next record in 1985\, when the spare It Ain’t Easy on Adelphi Records marked his return to the studio. \nBy the early ’90s\, Smither’s steady nationwide touring and regular release of consistently acclaimed albums cemented his reputation as one of the finest acoustic musicians in the country. His 1991 album\, Another Way to Find You\, was recorded live in front of an in-studio audience with no overdubs or second takes. This would be the first of two albums with Flying Fish Records. His next recording\, Happier Blue\, was embraced by Triple A radio and received the NAIRD (now AFIM) award as Best Folk Recording of 1993. Up On The Lowdown (1995) marked the first of a trio of albums to be recorded with producer Stephen Bruton at The Hit Shack in Austin and his first of five albums with roots label HighTone Records. Up On the Lowdown rode the crest of the newly formed Americana radio format wave and sparked considerable interest abroad. A tour of Australia with Dave Alvin and extensive solo touring in Europe led to an expanding global interest in Smither. His song\, “I Am the Ride\,” from this album inspired the independent film\, The Ride\, for which Smither also composed the original score. \nIn early 1997 Smither released Small Revelations. It climbed the Americana and Triple A radio charts and led to concert dates with B.B. King\, Bonnie Raitt\, Nanci Griffith\, and the hugely successful\, original Monsters of Folk’ tour with Ramblin’ Jack Elliott\, Dave Alvin and Tom Russell. Small Revelations also generated several film projects for Smither. Emmylou Harris recorded his song\, “Slow Surprise\,” for the The Horse Whisperer soundtrack on MCA. And his recording of “Hold On” was used in the indie feature film Love From Ground Zero. Smither also shared insight into his guitar style and technique on two instructional DVDs\, available from Homespun Video. \nHis CD\, Drive You Home Again (1999)\, garnered four-stars from Rolling Stone. And with it\, Smither continued to tour world-wide. Shortly after\, in 2000\, Smither released his one-man-tour-de-force\, Live As I’ll Ever Be. Recorded in-concert at various clubs and concert halls in California\, Dublin\, Galway\, Boston\, and Washington DC\, it has proven to be a fan favorite\, capturing Smither at what he loves to do: performing in front of an audience. \nTrain Home (2003) was Smither’s last record for HighTone and his first with producer David Goodrich. Over a six-week period\, basic tracks for Train Home were recorded in the relaxed environment of Smither’s home near Boston. Working with new session musicians\, the record is simultaneously sparse and assured. Bonnie Raitt graciously provided backing vocals and slide guitar on Smither’s cover of Bob Dylan’s “Desolation Row.” And Smither’s “Seems So Real” from the CD earned a Folk Alliance Award as “Song of the Year.” \nIn 2005\, jazz great Diana Krall covered “Love Me Like A Man\,” introducing what is now a blues standard to a whole world of jazz fans. Shortly after\, Smither’s song “Slow Surprise” was included in the independent film\, Brother’s Shadow. In addition\, Smither narrated a two-CD audio book recording of “Will Rogers’ Greatest Hits.” Continuing to expand his creative horizon\, Smither was invited to contribute an essay to Sixty Things to Do When You Turn Sixty\, a 2006 collection of essays by American luminaries on reaching that milestone. In 2009\, Melville House published Amplified\, a book featuring 16 short stories by notable American performing songwriters. Smither’s story Leroy Purcell about a touring musician’s encounter with a Texas State Patrolman leads off the collection. \nWith the release of his 12th recording Leave The Light On (2006) on his own imprint\, Mighty Albert\, Smither began a new label relationship with the renowned acoustic and modern folk label\, Signature Sounds. For the recording\, Smither reunited with producer David Goodrich and session musicians Mike Piehl\, Lou Ulrich and Anita Suhanin. As an added treat\, Smither invited good friend and Grammy Award-winning multi- instrumentalist\, Tim O’Brien\, along with rising American roots stars\, Ollabelle\, to add their distinctive talents on several tracks. Smither followed this with Time Stands Still (2009)\, his most stripped down recording in some time\, working with just two accompanists after the same trio had played a rare band performance – a non-solo setup required in order to play a Netherlands festival. \nAbout the recording Smither says\, “We’re the only three guys on this record\, and most of the songs only have three parts going on. We had a freewheeling feeling at that festival gig\, and we managed to make a lot of that same feeling happen in this record.” In 2011 Smither put out two fan projects: a collection of live tracks from newly discovered concert recordings from the 1980s-1990s titled Lost and Found and the rollicking EP\, What I Learned in School\, on which Smither covered six classic rock and roll songs. \nSmither followed these fan-projects with Hundred Dollar Valentine (2012)\, a ★★★★★ (MOJO) studio record of all Smither-penned songs. With longtime producer David “Goody” Goodrich at the helm\, this collection sported Smither’s trademark acoustic guitar sound and evocative sonic textures meshed with spare\, brilliant songs\, delivered in a bone-wise\, hard-won voice. \nIn 2014 Smither released Still on the Levee (2014) – a double-CD retrospective. Recorded in New Orleans at the Music Shed\, this career-spanning project features fresh new takes on 24 iconic songs from his vast career and some very special guests including the legendary Allen Toussaint and Loudon Wainwright III. \nThe coffee table style book Chris Smither Lyrics 1966-2012 and Signature Sounds’ Link of Chain – an all-star tribute record including a stellar list of artists offering their takes on some Smither favorites including Josh Ritter\, Bonnie Raitt\, Loudon Wainwright III\, Dave Alvin\, Peter Case\, Tim O’Brien\, Patty Larkin\, and many others were fan-favorite accompaniments to the retrospective CD . \nIn March 2018\, Smither released his eighteenth record\, Call Me Lucky (Signature Sounds/Mighty Albert) once again teaming up with producer and multi-instrumentalist David Goodrich. Also joined by Billy Conway (Morphine) and Matt Lorenz (The Suitcase Junket)\, Smither recorded eight new originals along with some very special and surprising covers at the Blue Rock studios in the Texas hills in June 2017. \nIn October 2020\, More From The Levee\, the followup to the 50-year career retrospective Still on the Levee\, was released. Said Acoustic Guitar: Smither sings about “the big things – life\, love\, loss – in a penetrating and poetic yet unpretentious way.” \nThe 20th release\, All About the Bones (release date: May 3\, 2024 on Signature Sounds/Mighty Albert\, distributed by Redeye) is as elemental as the inky black shadows cast by a shockingly bright moon. Featuring eight brand new Chris Smither songs and Smither renditions of Eliza Gilkyson’s “Calm Before the Storm” and also Tom Petty’s “Time to Move On”\, the listener is welcomed into some gothic mansion on an imaginary New Orleans street\, and there in the lamplit parlor confronts the band\, a minimalist skeleton crew: Smither’s inimitable propulsive guitar and rumbling baritone are joined seamlessly to producer David Goodrich’s carpetbag of instruments\, Zak Trojano’s rock-steady\, primal drumming\, BettySoo’s diaphanous harmony vocals\, and the flat\, mournful flood of Jazz legend Chris Cheek’s saxophone. Recorded at Sonelab Studios in Easthampton MA by Justin Pizzoferrato All About the Bones has a feel that is somehow baroque and austere at once.
URL:https://www.vivafallriver.com/event/chris-smither/
LOCATION:Narrows Center for the Arts\, 16 Anawan St.\, Fall River\, MA
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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SUMMARY:Joan Osborne Sings the Songs of Bob Dylan
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, December 5\, 2026\n$60 Advance | $63 Day of Show\n[all-in pricing\, no additional fees]\nDoors 7pm | Show 8pm \nIn 2017\, Grammy-nominated artist Joan Osborne released the critically acclaimed album\, Songs of Bob Dylan. Her artistic and soulful reinterpretations of the selection of Dylan songs was an eye-opening moment in an already celebrated career. \nEight years after milestone recording\, Osborne released the stunning Dylanology Live on April 25th\, 2025. The captivating recording finds the gifted vocalist performing in front of a live audience\, with special guests Amy Helm\, Robert Randolph and Jackie Greene. Songs include “Spanish Harlem Incident”\, “Buckets Of Rain” “Masters Of War”\, “Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here With You” and “High Water (For Charley Patton)”.\nThroughout her three-decade\, multi-Grammy nominated career\, Joan Osborne has never been an artist confined to one space as she continues to seamlessly blend into any genre. Her incredible and distinctive voice always shines through her own songs\, while she has also become one of her generation’s finest interpreters. Dylanology Live is yet another testament to her artistic range.
URL:https://www.vivafallriver.com/event/joan-osborne-sings-the-songs-of-bob-dylan/
LOCATION:Narrows Center for the Arts\, 16 Anawan St.\, Fall River\, MA
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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SUMMARY:Squirrel Nut Zippers Christmas Caravan 2026 live at the Narrows
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, December 16\, 2026\n$82 Advance | $84 Day of Show\n[all-in pricing\, no additional fees]\nDoors 7pm | Show 8pm \nFor more than three decades\, the Squirrel Nut Zippers have occupied a musical universe entirely their own. Blending the hot jazz of 1920s New Orleans\, Southern roots music\, vaudeville\, blues\, folk traditions\, and a healthy dose of irreverent showmanship\, the band emerged from Chapel Hill\, North Carolina\, in the mid-1990s and quickly became one of the most distinctive and unexpected success stories of the era. \nFounded by Jimbo Mathus\, Katherine Whalen\, and Chris Phillips\, the Squirrel Nut Zippers began as a musical antidote to the alternative rock and grunge dominating the airwaves. Their wildly inventive sound—equal parts jazz revival\, Americana\, and carnival spectacle—captured the imagination of audiences looking for something entirely different. \nThat difference paid off in a big way. The band’s 1996 breakthrough album Hot became a platinum-certified phenomenon\, spawning the hit single “Hell\,” which climbed to #13 on Billboard’s Alternative Airplay Chart\, and propelled the Zippers from cult favorites to national stars. More than three million albums sold followed\, along with appearances on Late Night with Conan O’Brien\, The Tonight Show\, Late Show with David Letterman\, Sesame Street\, and Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve. They performed at Carnegie Hall with Tony Bennett\, appeared at President Bill Clinton’s inaugural festivities\, headlined multiple sold-out tours\, and even inspired an animated music video created by the artists behind The Simpsons. \nToday\, the band is celebrating the 30th anniversary of Hot with a special anniversary tour honoring the album that changed everything. Three decades later\, the songs remain as vibrant\, inventive\, and exhilarating as ever and continue to resonate with new audiences\, recently featured in hit TV series like Wednesday (2025) and Lucifer (2021). \nFar from resting on their legacy\, the Zippers have continued to evolve creatively. Their 2018 release Beasts of Burgundy debuted at number 4 on Billboard’s Jazz Albums chart and earned widespread critical acclaim. Relix praised the album as “a deliciously wide-ranging comeback” filled with sounds emanating from mysterious times and places\, reflecting the band’s enduring commitment to musical exploration. \nIn 2020\, the band released Lost Songs of Doc Souchon\, a collection that combined original compositions with rediscovered gems from America’s musical past. Continuing their fascination with vintage culture\, the Zippers partnered with the legendary Fleischer Studios—home of Betty Boop—to create a visually stunning animated video inspired by the studio’s historic archives. \nWhether performing their annual Christmas Caravan\, celebrating the enduring legacy of Hot\, or unveiling new musical adventures\, the Squirrel Nut Zippers remain one of America’s most original and entertaining live acts. Their music is timeless yet impossible to categorize—a joyous collision of jazz\, blues\, folk\, and theatrical spectacle that continues to surprise\, delight\, and inspire audiences around the world. \nNot revivalists. Not traditionalists. True originals.
URL:https://www.vivafallriver.com/event/squirrel-nut-zippers-christmas-caravan-2026-live-at-the-narrows/
LOCATION:Narrows Center for the Arts\, 16 Anawan St.\, Fall River\, MA
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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SUMMARY:Write Your Dream Book with Steven Manchester
DESCRIPTION:Narrows Yumaverse Series\nSaturday\, January 16\, 2026\n$55 Workshop\n[all-in pricing\, no additional fees]\nDoors 12:00pm | Start 12:30pm \nSpecial 2-hour workshop event limited to 20 people held in the Yumaverse\, a beautifully renovated intimate space on the second floor of the Narrows Center for the Arts. \nWrite Your Dream Book \nHave you always dreamed of writing a book that readers can’t put down? In this engaging writer’s workshop\, you’ll learn the essential building blocks of writing successful fiction or non-fiction—from identifying a compelling story idea and developing a strong plot to storyboarding\, character development\, scene creation\, and crafting authentic dialogue. \nA great book begins with a solid foundation. Without one\, creating a marketable manuscript is a long shot. #1 bestselling author Steve Manchester will guide you through the entire process\, sharing practical techniques to help you captivate readers\, keep them turning pages\, and have them staying up far too late at night saying\, “Just one more chapter.” Whether you’re starting your first book or refining your next\, this session will help you turn your dream of becoming an author into a reality.\nAbout Steven Manchester:\nSteven Manchester is the author of seven national bestsellers. His work has appeared on NBC’s Today Show & CBS’s The Early Show. He is the winner of the 2021 Los Angeles Book Festival\, the 2023 Paris Book Festival\, the 2025 New York Book Festival\, and the 2026 London Book Festival.
URL:https://www.vivafallriver.com/event/write-your-dream-book-with-steven-manchester/
LOCATION:Narrows Center for the Arts\, 16 Anawan St.\, Fall River\, MA
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture Events,Literary Events/Lectures
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