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Mar
28
Thu
Liz Longley at One Longfellow Square @ One Longfellow Square
Mar 28 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Liz Longley at One Longfellow Square @ One Longfellow Square | Portland | Maine | United States

Best known for her stop-you-in-your-tracks voice, Liz Longley is an accomplished singer-songwriter based in Nashville, Tennessee. With her deeply emotional songs, Longley has earned accolades from some of the most prestigious songwriting competitions in the country and cultivated a following that enthusiastically supports the creation of her music.

In 2020, Longley’s “Funeral For My Past” received widespread acclaim, with Forbes hailing it as a “stunning new album.” Billboard described it as spanning genres from Americana to gospel-flavored soul to shimmering pop anthems. The album was also included in Newsweek’s list of “100 Albums Released in 2020 to Put on Your Radar.”

2024 brings a new release from Liz, “It’s Me Again,” an EP featuring acoustic remakes of career-defining songs. Notably, among the revisited songs is “Unraveling,” a track that previously earned Longley the prestigious BMI John Lennon Scholarship Award. Fans eagerly anticipate this next chapter in her career, alongside hints of an upcoming full-length record.

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Mar
29
Fri
James Montgomery at One Longfellow Square @ One Longfellow Square
Mar 29 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
James Montgomery at One Longfellow Square @ One Longfellow Square | Portland | Maine | United States

Playing harmonica and singing with his band, Montgomery belied his origins by digging into the music of black Americans. As a student at Boston University, he formed his own band in 1970, which became locally successful. In his early years he sometimes worked, at first informally, with senior bluesmen such as James Cotton, John Lee Hooker and Junior Wells. The experience thus gained in blues clubs stood the young musician in good stead as he sought to succeed in a world where white musicians were viewed with some doubts. In Chicago, he was encouraged by Paul Butterfield and although he later worked in rock and funk bands, the blues tradition was too deeply ingrained for him to leave it behind. As he matured still further, this factor considerably informed his playing. He formed the East Coast Funkbusters with Alex Taylor, played with Dan Aykroyd (Blues Brothers) and was also a member of an All-Star Blues Brothers Band. He was also with Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen, backed Delbert McClinton and played with Johnny Winter as featured soloist.

Through more than three decades, Montgomery has continued to lead his own band and at one time or another this group has included musicians such as guitarists Marc Copley, Jeff Golub, Wayne Kramer, Jeff Pevar, Nunzio Signore, Billy Squier and Matt Woodburn, keyboard player Tom West, bass player David Hull and drummers Bobby Chouinard, Jim McCarty and Marty Richards. In addition to performing, Montgomery works energetically to promote the blues through schools and radio broadcasts. Songs in Montgomery’s repertoire include ‘Back From The Dead’, ‘Mystery’, ‘Nobody Could Love You’, ‘Back On My Knees Again’, ‘Sinkin’ Blues’, ‘Miss You’, ‘Ramblin’ Man’ and ‘Smokey’s Barbecue’.

Mar
30
Sat
Sol Y Canto at One Longfellow Square @ One Longfellow Square
Mar 30 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Sol Y Canto at One Longfellow Square @ One Longfellow Square | Portland | Maine | United States

Sol y Canto is the award winning Pan-Latin ensemble led by Puerto Rican/Argentine singer and percussionist Rosi Amador and New Mexican guitarist, singer and composer Brian Amador. Featuring Rosi’s crystalline voice and Brian’s lush Spanish guitar and inventive compositions, Sol y Canto is known for making their music accessible to Spanish- and non-Spanish speaking audiences of all ages. On occasion the group is accompanied by virtuoso musicians from Latin America and the U.S.

Sol y Canto’s original songs are distinguished by poetic, often quirky lyrics set in a framework of varied musical styles with surprising twists. They can make you dance, laugh, cry and sigh all in one concert. Their arrangements of classic and contemporary Latin tunes are always fresh and original. With Brian’s commanding, intricate guitar playing, Rosi’s rhythmic drive on cajón and bongos, and liberal use of vocal improvisation, the duo often sounds like a much larger ensemble.

Since 1994, Sol y Canto has brought audiences to their feet from the Kennedy Center to the California World Music Festival, Boston’s Symphony Hall, Puerto Rico’s Museo de Arte and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, as well as countless club shows and house concerts. The Boston Globe hails them as “sublime ambassadors of the Pan-Latin tradition”. Music critic Norman Weinstein of the Christian Science Monitor and Boston Phoenix observes:

“Every Sol y Canto album is a demonstration of what the poet Federico García Lorca identified as deep song. Always they evoke the sensual splendor of simply being vitally, vividly alive in a magical and mysterious universe. Brian Amador is a Spanish modernist poet in the guise of a musician…Together, Rosi and Brian Amador create a musical marriage made in heaven.”

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Apr
4
Thu
Gawler Family Band at One Longfellow Square @ One Longfellow Square
Apr 4 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Gawler Family Band at One Longfellow Square @ One Longfellow Square | Portland | Maine | United States

John and Ellen Gawler and their daughters Molly, Edith, and Elsie, and joined by Ethan Tischler and Bennett Konesni, bring you an assortment of old and new sounds from many folk traditions. They accompany interweaving family harmonies with fiddles, banjo, cello and guitar, as well as a few surprises.

Whether they are crooning a poignant ballad or delivering a rollicking fiddle tune, their unique arrangements are especially engaging and often go along with anecdotes of historical or humorous content.

Although the Gawlers may be best known for their extensive collection of dance tunes in the Scots-Irish and French Canadian traditions, their repertoire may include a gutsy a’capella worksong or an amusing ode to everyday life.

With their infectious spirit and sparkling musicianship, and with several albums to their credit, the Gawlers have earned a beloved place in the delighted hearts of varied audiences across the Northeast.

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