Music: 5–8pm • No cover • Food: Yes, plenty. • Full bar, plus self-pour beer and wines

THE Band

For nearly a decade, Momentum has been rocking the Merrimack Valley with a diverse mix of recognizable tunes. From festivals to bars, covers to originals, there's always a strong groove, great lyrics, and a musical surprise around every corner! 

Carol (vocals/guitar/percussion)
Carol loves all forms of sharing music — writing, performing, producing shows, and teaching dance! After many years performing with Sweet Adelines a cappella, she started fronting bands and recording her own tunes.

Mark (guitar/vocals)
A guitarist since the age of 13, Mark grew up in a musical family environment that took him back and forth between the East and West coasts. He is well-versed in a variety of styles — rock, blues, country, jazz. A self-admitted guitar “nerd,” Mark has played or recorded with numerous bands and projects over the years.

Ted (keyboards/vocals)
Ted has been playing keyboards for most of his life. He has a wide range of experience, having played for musical theater, for a touring kids music band that played a gig at the Kennedy Center, in addition to several bands, and at his local church.

Craft Food Halls​

Craft Food Halls Boxborough offers a space built for gathering and connection. The venue blends a warm, open layout with an interactive pour-your-own beer and wine wall that features dozens of rotating options, giving you the freedom to explore new favorites throughout the night. Settle in with a full meal or keep things casual with our bar menu over the course of the evening. CFH Boxborough offers a setting that keeps energy high and the atmosphere loose, giving you a place to enjoy local talent without making the trip to Boston.

Fugitive Stories and Old Frog Pond Farm in Harvard are partnering again for four afternoons on the farm. July’s theme is “Another Chance.”

Hearing a true story in a live performance is fun, moving, and transformative. Every event brings surprises. As always, Fugitive’s featured tellers include Moth and Massmouth Story Slam Winners and Champions, theater professionals, comedians, authors, podcast producers, teachers, and university professors. Several folks from the local community will also be telling their tales, some for the first time.

$15/online • $20/door
Online sales end at noon on the event date. Plenty of tickets at the door.

Seating starts at 2:30pm. Storytelling starts at 3pm. We recommend purchasing tickets in advance. This is an outdoor event. In case of rain, please check our website after noon on the day of the show. Our back-up location is the Harvard, Mass. UCC Church, 5 Still River Road (on the Harvard Common).

Please put Old Frog Pond Farm, Harvard, in your GPS. (The street address sometimes take you to the other side of the woods.)

ABOUT OUR CO-HOST, OLD FROG POND FARM
Old Frog Pond Farm is a 25-acre farm in Harvard and one of the few Certified Organic Orchards in Massachusetts. In the fall they open for pick your own apples and raspberries. Every year, the farm hosts an Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit and gathers for Plein Air Poetry.

Visitors to the farm can purchase a ticket to take a self-guided tour around the pond and through the woods discovering the sculpture, native plants, and abundant wildlife that’s makes their home here. The self-serve farm stand is filled with fresh certified organic produce. fruit@oldfrogpondfarm.com

FEATURED FUGITIVE TELLERS
In addition to several local, hand-picked tellers, Fugitive brings regional, award-winning storytellers (see below).

Ben Cunningham
Ben is a multifaceted artist and storyteller whose recent story aired on the “Growing Up Black” episode of GBH’s “Stories from The Stage,” a 25th Annual Webby Award winner. With first place titles from 2011 and 2017, Ben is the only two-time winner of the Massmouth’s storytelling championship, the “Big Mouth-Off.” His performance on Story Collider — true, personal stories about science — was featured on WBUR’s The ARTery.

Jennifer Hillery
Jennifer, like many storytellers, wears various hats. As a storyteller, you can find her at many a Moth storyslam supporting friends or telling stories. She is the proud winner of a Moth Storyslam, has appeared on World Channel’s “Stories from the Stage” and was a teller at a Stellar Storytelling “Stories & Spirits” event. A lawyer by background, Jennifer is now the co-founder of Redwood Speaking, LLC, where she supports individuals and organizations with developing public speaking skills and confidence. You can also find her volunteering in her community and for her alma mater.

Brendyn Schneider
Brendyn has been a professional storyspinner for 17 years. He has performed at fine venues such as the Cutler Majestic Theatre, Club Passim, WBUR CitySpace Boston, and Old Frog Pond with action-packed organizations like The Moth, Fugitive Productions, Emerson College, and the ’GBH TV Show, “Stories from the Stage.” By day, he’s a job search instructor/career advisor, helping folks find their professional match. He frequently uses the principles of storytelling while advising job seekers. For more, venture to brendyn.schneider@gmail.com

Catherine Weber
Catherine — a two-time Moth StorySLAM champion — is an award-winning poet, artist and storyteller, community organizer, and marketing professional with a passion for the arts, education, and the environment. She has been telling stories and reading her poetry for more than a decade in the Boston-area. She is also founder and director of Art on the Trails ArtOnTheTrails.com, an annual juried art exhibition that is mounted in the Beals Preserve in Southborough.

Music: 5–8pm • No cover • Food: Yes, plenty. • Full bar, plus self-pour beer and wines

THE Band

Sarah Levecque is a songwriter and guitarist who moves easily between the sturdy roots of American music — influenced in equal parts by early blues, country, folk, and rock music. 

"Her musical style could easily be categorized as Americana or roots music. But, whatever the genre, her voice and songwriting approach will stop you in your tracks. She's got this smoky, ethereal delivery that makes you hang on to every word. Sarah Levecque is an introspective artist who writes from the heart and puts a lot of emotional weight into her songs. Perhaps her greatest gift is her ability to clearly articulate the human experience and share her passion, vulnerability, and strength with the listener."  —Geoff Wilbur's Music Blog (Album Review: Sarah Levecque -Moments of Silver)

Sarah Levecque (guitar & vocals) 
Peter Zarkadas (guitar & vocals) 
Johnny Sciascia (upright bass) 

Craft Food Halls​

Craft Food Halls Boxborough offers a space built for gathering and connection. The venue blends a warm, open layout with an interactive pour-your-own beer and wine wall that features dozens of rotating options, giving you the freedom to explore new favorites throughout the night. Settle in with a full meal or keep things casual with our bar menu over the course of the evening. CFH Boxborough offers a setting that keeps energy high and the atmosphere loose, giving you a place to enjoy local talent without making the trip to Boston.

Music: 5–8pm • No cover • Food: Yes, plenty. • Full bar, plus self-pour beer and wines
Dancing (optional)

THE Band

Dave Limina (keyboards, vocals)
Dave performs and records with jazz, blues, funk and soul artists from around the world including a 25-year stint with the award-winning Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters, Redtenbacher’s Funkestra, Mighty Sam McClain, BB King, RL Burnside, Joey DeFrancesco, Scott Hamilton, Chuck Berry and many more.  As the piano department chair at Berklee College of Music, he has shared his musical knowledge and passion with thousands of students.

Myanna (saxaphone)
Myanna, one of the hottest saxophonists around, plays music that mixes jazz improvisation with funky rhythms, expressive playing, and catchy tunes. She has won awards for Best Jazz Artist several times from both the Boston Music Awards and The Boston Phoenix readers’ poll. She has recorded three or her own CDs, and is featured on multiple recordings with The Love Dogs and as a side player on many other recordings.

Eddie Scheer (vocals, percussion)
Eddie has been one of the pillars of the Boston Blues/R&B scene for more than 20 years. As the leader of his award-winning band The Love Dogs, he’s toured the U.S. and Europe and recorded four critically acclaimed CDs. He’s played with virtually every top-level musician in the Northeast at one time or another, and has hosted his “Tuesday Night Allstars” series in Brighton for more than a decade.

Craft Food Halls​

Craft Food Halls Boxborough offers a space built for gathering and connection. The venue blends a warm, open layout with an interactive pour-your-own beer and wine wall that features dozens of rotating options, giving you the freedom to explore new favorites throughout the night. Settle in with a full meal or keep things casual with our bar menu over the course of the evening. CFH Boxborough offers a setting that keeps energy high and the atmosphere loose, giving you a place to enjoy local talent without making the trip to Boston.

This one is for both experienced dancers and swing dance wannabes. Sanctuary, a gorgeous converted church, features a full stage, an enormous dance floor, and one of the best bars west of Boston.

From 6–7pm, we feature instruction with some of the best instructors in the area. Instruction will be led by Sergiy Georgiyev, the founder and director of Magenta Dance Place in Acton. who has taught ballroom across Europe and the US. Sergiy’s emphasis on maximizing confidence and minimizing stress has helped students achieve extraordinary success. He is a professor at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and collaborates with the MIT Ballroom Club and Harvard Dance Sports team. At Magenta Dance Place, Sergiy and his staff believe in the transformative power of dance and strive to create a vibrant community where everyone can express themselves through movement.

From 7–9pm, Eddie Scheer’s Swinging All Stars take to the stage. Chameleon Eddie Scheer is a local favorite, gracing us with his vocal and drumming talents with a variety of groups and styles. He has been a fixture on the New England swing scene for more than 25 years. Whether with his jump blues band The Love Dogs, the 20-piece Compaq Big Band, or various smaller ensembles, his big voice and solid drumming have kept hearts beating and feet moving wherever he plays. The Swinging All Stars is a new unit featuring some of the best musicians in Boston — leaning toward the lighter, jazzy side of swing, but still with a deep connection to and reverence for the blues. 

Sanctuary, Maynard, Mass. | Doors: 5:30pm | Instruction: 6pm | Music/Dance: 7pm | Tickets

Join Fivesparks and Fugitive Productions in an intimate setting for a performance in Harvard’s beautiful town center.

About Fivesparks
Fivesparks has been cultivating arts and culture programming within the Harvard community since 2017, creating a space where people can come together to experience the arts in many forms. They are broadening their offerings and collaborating with other community organizations to expand and serve even more people through classes, events, and exhibits. Check out their website and subscribe to their newsletter to stay up to date on what’s coming up!

About the Artists
Erin Harpe Country Blues Duo has been called “today’s country blues at its very best” by America’s oldest blues periodical Living Blues Magazine, who crowned Erin “one of the finest fingerpicking acoustic blues singers in the land”! A passionate purveyor of the vintage country blues and roots music she was brought up on, Erin has quickly become considered one of the premier acoustic blues pickers in the world today – male or female.

The group features Erin on acoustic guitars, vocals, kazoo, and foot percussion, with her husband, Jim Countryman, on ukulele bass and backing vocals. The pair’s foot-stomping back-porch blues transports the audience to the delta, with catchy and danceable vintage classics by the likes of Memphis Minnie, Mississippi John Hurt, Tommy Johnson and Blind Blake — elevated by Erin’s own interpretations — mixed in seamlessly with original compositions and country blues takes on popular songs. The act has been a hit everywhere from intimate venues to blues festivals, from the US to the UK and EU, to rum bars in Jamaica!

Erin has opened for and played with many artists, including Ana Popovic, Buddy Guy, James Cotton, James Montgomery, Ronnie Earl, Roomful of Blues, and Toni Lynn Washington.

Presales end at 4:30 on the show date. Tickets available at the door.

Doors: 7pm • Performance: 7:30–9:30pm • $25/advance (incl. fees) • $30/door

Join Fivesparks and Fugitive Productions in an intimate setting for a performance in Harvard’s beautiful town center.

About Fivesparks
Fivesparks has been cultivating arts and culture programming within the Harvard community since 2017, creating a space where people can come together to experience the arts in many forms. They are broadening their offerings and collaborating with other community organizations to expand and serve even more people through classes, events, and exhibits. Check out their website and subscribe to their newsletter to stay up to date on what’s coming up!

About the Artists
The Smack Dabs specialize in good-time Swing Blues music from the 1930s, featuring the songs of Tampa Red, Big Bill Broonzy, The Harlem Hamfats, and many others. 

This delightful and timeless genre features a rich variety of musical styles, ranging from mournful blues to joyful celebrations, setting the stage for incredible solo and group improvisations and delighting audiences and dancers alike.

The 1930s were halcyon days for Swing music, but not just for the likes of big bands like Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmy Lunceford, and the Dorsey Brothers. There were literally hundreds of small Swing combos from trios to octets, each with its own unique take on the music that dominated the market during the height of the Great Depression.

The Smack Dabs’ sound is influenced by a mélange of musical styles. The band gets its instrumental configuration from Tampa Red and his Chicago Five, improvisational vitality from the small Black Swing combo, and swagger from risqué Blues.

Presales end at 4:30 on the show date. Tickets available at the door.

Doors: 7pm • Performance: 7:30–9:30pm • $25/advance (incl. fees) • $30/door