tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3636026493126530442024-03-13T20:48:01.560-04:00Newburyport ArtsJC Lockwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181971510907159869noreply@blogger.comBlogger246125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363602649312653044.post-89200811185802349492017-10-25T13:58:00.001-04:002017-10-25T14:55:05.989-04:00Couple couples plays at Actors Studio
Ray and Cynthia
Faith Arsenault have a lot in common. They’re psychologists with practices in
North Andover. They’re also playwrights mounting one-act plays this month at
The Actors Studio. And the Rocks Village couple is also husband and wife — “and
I like to think a husband-and-wife team,” Ray Arsenault says — but, when it
comes to playwriting, not so much.
OK, they have
collaborated once JC Lockwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181971510907159869noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363602649312653044.post-9521898140413166932017-10-17T18:14:00.001-04:002017-10-21T15:05:06.461-04:00The trio and the Trio: Or breaking up is hard to do
Ensemble Epomeo will perform its last show — ever — Nov. 4 in Newburyport.
By J.C. Lockwood
When it comes to
the, sadly, soon-to-be late, great Ensemble Epomeo, Russian composer Alfred
Schnittke is key — even when it’s not immediately apparent: The trio, after
all, came together nearly a decade ago at the Festivale d’alla Musica da Camera
d’Ischia, a weeklong music festival on an island JC Lockwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181971510907159869noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363602649312653044.post-74633001507552016282017-10-08T20:32:00.000-04:002017-10-08T20:32:13.972-04:00Faigen back with new comedy
Port playwright Joshua Faigen: All about logistics
Those familiar with Newburyport playwright Joshua Faigen know
his plays are either very serious and/or poetic and/or very funny. “McFarland,”
his latest, falls into the latter category. It’s an exceedingly funny
production — maybe the best Faigen comedy to date. It’s not a tale of sweeping
romance, or a swashbuckling adventure. It is not basedJC Lockwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181971510907159869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363602649312653044.post-26725612780827801442017-04-20T11:19:00.000-04:002017-04-20T13:13:18.826-04:00Welch poet on fire at Actors Studio.
photo courtesy of peterthabitjone.com
Welch poet Peter Thabit Jones at Big Sur, California, where "The Fire in the Wood," his verse drama about the sculptor Edmund Kara takes place. The play opens May 9 at The Actors Studio of Newburyport.
Written
by Welsh poet Peter Thabit Jones, “The Fire in the Wood” explores the life and
legacy of the great sculptor Edmund Kara. In both verseJC Lockwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181971510907159869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363602649312653044.post-86169340818947994862017-04-16T11:33:00.000-04:002017-04-18T13:29:29.264-04:00The ultimate three-hour tour
Never mind why a millionaire would be on a cheesy commercial cruise instead of enjoying his servant-staffed yacht or why the Professor, our generation's MacGyver, able to solve impossible problems with ordinary, everyday objects, and, of course, his ever-present Swiss Army knife, couldn't figure out how to get the castaways off that island.
Just make sure to round up your friends JC Lockwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181971510907159869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363602649312653044.post-29692682551490045272017-02-23T11:48:00.000-05:002017-04-16T11:47:15.115-04:00Tooher: Not that same old, same old
In "Perfect Sameness of Our Days," the new play by Michael Tooher, two tortured souls, each a victim of warfare in his own way, meet in an abandoned lot, metaphorically, a psychic space where their internal worlds meet and, ultimately, clash. With the play, Tooher, artistic director for the 2014 Maine Playwrights Festival and founding member of Crowbait Club and its infamous JC Lockwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181971510907159869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363602649312653044.post-17441784204825709052017-02-22T15:57:00.001-05:002017-02-22T16:19:07.973-05:00Wait a second. That doesn't sound like ...cha cha cha
Marian and Jimmy McPartland: Not a TV theme to be found between
the album covers. Plenty of cha chas. Not theirs, but, you know,
whatever?
When
I go to record stores, my goal is to get in and out without
leaving any cash behind. Even when I really, really want
something. Like “1984,” that David Peel and the Lower East Side
album that has been taunting meJC Lockwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181971510907159869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363602649312653044.post-81157456845937489482017-02-17T14:13:00.000-05:002017-02-17T14:41:39.050-05:00Still time for a, sadly, always-relevant 'Terezin'
The Actors Studio of Newburyport will stage Anna Smulowitz's award-winning "Terezin, Children of the Holocaust" Saturday
It's a small theater and the time is running out, but you might be able to slip in, just under the wire, for a new production of "Terezin, Children of the Holocaust," the award-winning play by Anna Smulowitz being staged Saturday at The Actors Studio of Newburyport. JC Lockwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181971510907159869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363602649312653044.post-61355501717664500792014-02-16T08:38:00.003-05:002014-02-16T08:38:46.212-05:00What's brewing? You can ask Dave Drouin
Ever wonder what’s going on with The Brew since the summer, when the boys closed the books on the band — forever, irrevocably — ending a decade of creative work that took the Amesbury-born, Newburyport-based quartet from free-form psychedelic jam band to road-hardened festival-headliners who shared the stage with their musical heroes, people like the Allman Brothers, Levon Helm and JC Lockwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181971510907159869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363602649312653044.post-42723208760125745442014-02-15T13:21:00.000-05:002014-02-15T15:17:01.704-05:00Blues Party laying down the Laws on Sunday
Willie J. Laws, is kicking it at the Grog this week. Kendal J. Bush photography
Ladies and gentlemen, "The Last Prophet of the Funky Texas Blues," Willie J. Laws, is in the house after long and adventurous journey from the Gulf Coast of Texas to Massachusetts, becoming, along the way, one of the Bay State’s best bluesy treasures. And what a ride it’s been. Laws has toured the JC Lockwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181971510907159869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363602649312653044.post-12252584427735278952014-02-06T16:40:00.003-05:002014-02-06T16:40:49.127-05:00Birdsongs: Flock of finches rocking at Peabody Essex
French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot's exhibit has birds interacting
with humans — and creating music — at The Peabody Essex Museum.
Wicked Local Photo / J.C. Lockwood
Three things, at least, that everyone should take away from "FreePort [007]: from here to ear," the new exhibit by acclaimed French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot at the Peabody Essex JC Lockwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181971510907159869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363602649312653044.post-52956405914715993082014-02-02T14:06:00.002-05:002014-02-03T08:53:11.181-05:00Freddie II: A 'Great' new play by Port's Joshua FaigenDon't get tripped up by
the title, or by the picture on the poster. “Frederick the Great,”
the play, is not about Frederick the Great, the fun-loving
18th-century Prussian warlord, er, king and patron of the arts who
wrote more than 100 sonatas for flute and a couple of symphonies,
including some to glorify his conquests, like when he and his BFFs to
the east sliced up Poland that time. “JC Lockwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181971510907159869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363602649312653044.post-49802474453624095142014-01-17T09:22:00.000-05:002014-01-17T09:22:01.938-05:00SSU's 'Kafka in Tel Aviv' in theater throwdown
Submitted for your approval, a story so strange – Kafkaesque, if you will – that it becomes art, or could, in the right hands, and, since the story involves old Franz himself, focusing on the legal and moral ownership of work that he insisted be burned when he checked out, well, that’s one more delicious dimension of irony, of absurdity on an already strange, Byzantine story. Imagine, the JC Lockwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181971510907159869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363602649312653044.post-64758617823641335792014-01-12T14:40:00.001-05:002014-01-16T13:26:11.862-05:00Dave Mason's Traffic-jamming at the Blue Ocean
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Let’s start by harshing your buzz, get it outta the
way, right outta the box: No, there’s no full-fledged Traffic
reunion in the works. That's not what “Dave Mason's Traffic Jam”
is all about. Not that Mason, a founding member (and one of two
surviving members) of the iconic '60s band, would be against it. In
fact, the JC Lockwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181971510907159869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363602649312653044.post-16700153328006310802014-01-11T14:55:00.000-05:002014-01-11T14:55:44.223-05:00Port jazz sessions swing into new location<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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They say that when the Big
Guy closes a door, he opens a window – or something like that. And that
certainly seems to what’s going on with jazz in Newburyport.
 JC Lockwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181971510907159869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363602649312653044.post-65709300023157771792014-01-06T09:37:00.000-05:002014-01-08T09:53:05.372-05:00French accent in new Tannery Series program at PEM
New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik will talk all things French at the Peabody Essex Museum, thanks to the Port-based Tannery Series.
Photo
by Brigitte Lacombe
Now this sounds like fun, even for traumatized ALM students who have never gotten further than “Dis donc, où est la bibliothèque?” The answer to which, as many recall, maybe, is “C’est tout droit. Tu y vas tout de suite?” Even if JC Lockwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181971510907159869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363602649312653044.post-66899516238343913652014-01-05T10:10:00.001-05:002014-01-05T10:10:31.849-05:00New look: Altered Trio in special acoustic show
Newburyport guitarist Dan Searl will roll out an acoustic version of
the Altered Trio this month at 17 State Street Cafe in Newburyport.
Courtesy photo.
A new year, a new look — a couple of them, actually — for Dan Searl: The Port guitarist will roll out an altered version of The Altered Trio for a special all-acoustic show at 17 State Street Cafe.
The Jan. 18 show will put JC Lockwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181971510907159869noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363602649312653044.post-89101840814166853872014-01-04T10:09:00.003-05:002014-01-04T10:09:54.395-05:00Motes notes: Exhibit adds color to bleak seasonSorry, Mr. Eliot. April may be the cruelest month, but it's got nothing on January — a bleak, unrewarding, darkly monochromatic month, physically and emotionally, the gorgeous natural landscape chilled and covered with a sea of white. But not to worry. Skip Motes has that covered. The Port artist unveils a bright new exhibit, “New Year, New Show, New Art: Pastels by Skip Motes,” this JC Lockwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181971510907159869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363602649312653044.post-18706798177641711552014-01-03T13:48:00.000-05:002014-01-03T13:50:21.538-05:00Newburyport Arts: Back to the blog
Riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodious vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle of Environs or, forgetting James Joyce for a moment and, with another vicus of recirculation, cuing up Billy Preston, to pose the musical question, “will it go around in circles?” And the answer, for better or worse, is yes. The blog is back. Newburyport JC Lockwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181971510907159869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363602649312653044.post-8898955912693909922013-12-13T16:54:00.001-05:002013-12-13T16:55:36.466-05:00Traffic Jam concert has got us 'Feelin' Alright'
The new year has not even begun, of course, but, still, this is looking like one of those shows we’ll look back at and say, “Dude, one of the best shows of the year.” Right? And we’ll have a lot more to say about it as the year and the actual date get closer, but, for now, as old Jack Webb used to say, just the facts, man.
We’re talking Dave Mason, singer, songwriter and guitarist. The JC Lockwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181971510907159869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363602649312653044.post-67270207337474685282013-11-30T13:57:00.003-05:002013-11-30T13:58:40.584-05:00Brother & Co. giving away first single from new CD
NEWBURYPORT — Brother & Co., the Boston-based indie band fronted by Newburyport
brothers Joshua and John Pritchard, has teamed up with Elmore Magazine
to exclusively premiere and give away a free MP3 of the band’s new
single, “Lila.” The song is on Brother & Co.’s debut album “Unknow
You,” which Seaewe Records (take a breath, sound it out: see-you) will
officially release JC Lockwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181971510907159869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363602649312653044.post-78557987445824452232012-12-20T12:12:00.002-05:002012-12-20T12:14:17.404-05:00Camerata celebrates the holiday season at home
The Boston Camerata is a pretty big deal in early music circles. It’s a
Boston-based ensemble with an international reputation. In fact, the
Camerata is America’s “foremost early music ensemble,” according to Le
Monde, the Parisian daily. Its album “A Mediterranean Christmas,” which
explores holiday musical traditions from Spain, Italy and the Middle
East from 1200 to 1900, was an JC Lockwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181971510907159869noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363602649312653044.post-1934344746429950602012-12-19T09:47:00.003-05:002012-12-19T09:47:51.573-05:00Roger Ebacher: Creating a world of sounds
Most of the time, when people talk about world music (or world beat or
whatever), they’re usually talking about one very specific thing, a
particular style or flavor, whether it's delightfully obscure, like,
say, Tuvan throat-singing or Balinese gamelan music, or maybe something
less specific, like Afro-pop or Latin-influenced jazz. But when Roger
Ebacher says he's got a new world beat JC Lockwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181971510907159869noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363602649312653044.post-49541330333450450682012-12-19T09:47:00.001-05:002012-12-19T09:47:36.934-05:00Alan Bull: Port painter keeps on truckin'
Doesn’t happen often, but sometimes you get lucky and a big, phat
concept just falls into your lap, out of the blue. Which is what
happened to Alan Bull. The Port painter, one of the most visible and
in-demand artists since moving to the city more than two decades ago,
had been playing around with the idea of putting out a calendar using
fresh images from the truck series, probably his JC Lockwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181971510907159869noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363602649312653044.post-51178001385767730202012-12-19T09:47:00.000-05:002012-12-19T09:47:12.886-05:00Tucker settles in with the NSJP All Stars
Crazy career that Mike Tucker has: You just never know where the Beverly saxophonist will turn up — or
whom he'll be playing with. He's on the road, often out of the country,
three or four months every year, sometimes stomping through Europe with
red-hot soul act Robin McKelle and the Flytones, managing to slip away
just long enough to play the Toulouse Jazz Festival with Mike Tucker
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