Fugitive Swing Dance is scheduled at Sanctuary in Maynard on the first Sunday of the month, most months, starting in February. This one is for both experienced dancers and swing dance wannabes. Sanctuary, a recently 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 Sanctuary 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. 

Doors: 5:30pm • Instruction: 6–7pm • Dancing: 7-9pm • Tickets

Fugitive Comedy is delighted to be partnering with Craft Food Halls in Boxborough, Mass. for a series of some of the finest stand-up comedy in the Northeast.

about Fugitive Comedy

Fugitive Comedy hosts some of the best and brightest comics working in the Northeast and beyond. The comedians who have joined us have appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Conan, David Letterman, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Last Comic Standing, America’s Got Talent, and Comedy Central.

about Craft Food Halls​

Craft Food Halls Boxborough sets the stage for Fugitive Productions’ comedy series with 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 menu before the show (until 8pm) or keep things casual with our bar menu throughout the night. CFH Boxborough offers a setting that keeps energy high and the atmosphere loose, giving you a place to enjoy incredible local talent without making the trip to Boston.

about tonight’s comics​

Emily Ruskowski (Headliner)
Emily has been featured in the Washington Post and Boston Globe and has appeared on the popular 2 Dope Queens Podcast and Laughs TV on Fox. She is a one-woman charm offensive. With a style that's totally approachable and instantly impressive, Emily has an irrepressibly cheerful demeanor and commands attention and delivers stories loaded with punchline after punchline. Emily’s comedy combines a quick mind, an infectious energy, and a totally unique eye for observation.

Bill Douglas
Bill is a long-time middle school science teacher where he has mined much of his material. He has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Comedy Festival in Scotland, the largest comedy festival in the world and has performed throughout Finland and the Baltic States. Closer to home Bill has performed at the Portland Maine Comedy Festival, the Vermont Comedy Festival, the New South Comedy Festival in Greenville, SC, and the Good Vibes Comedy Festival in Memphis. In his quest to perform in all 50 states he is currently at 39.

Amy Tee
“Not every crazy looks crazy,” says Amy, the comedian and motivational speaker who brings her boyish charm and dry wit to the stage with a storytelling style that shifts between stereotypes and reality. She delivers comedy with stigma-busting honesty. “I feel alive,” she says of the work. “I’m candid and exposed yet still fully clothed.” Identified by the Boston Globe as a comedian to watch, and in Curve magazine as one of the “funniest lesbians in America,” Amy toured nationally and was a featured comedian in the film, “Laughing Matters — The Next Generation.”

Doors: 8pm • Performance: 8:30pm • Beer & Wine Self-Serve • Full bar • Bar Menu
Tickets • Online/$22 (incl. fees) • $25/door
Arrive before 8pm to choose from CFH’s full menu.
For online sales, you will not be receiving a ticket. Just check in at the door.

Fugitive is bringing live music to Craft Food Halls in Boxborough. First up, three of the finest musicians in the Northeast join forces to bring us the best pick up band ever (in my humble opinion).

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

THE Band

Ken Clark (keyboards, vocals)
Ken is internationally known as one of the world’s greatest jazz organists. He has won the New England Blues Society, Keyboardist of the Year — four times and has toured and recorded with Bernard Purdie, Melvin Sparks, and David “Fathead” Newman among others.

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.

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

THE Band

The Woodstock Festival was held in 1969. It is widely viewed as the most famous rock festival ever held. Although the show had been planned for a maximum of 200,000 attendees, over 500,000 eventually attended. The performers were arguably the best of their time including The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Sly and the Family Stone, the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Joan Baez, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Santana, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Joe Cocker. 

Lola Sweet will be offering a lot more from that era by Traffic, Carole King, Steely Dan, James Taylor, Neil Young, Al Green, The Beatles . . . and more. Great for listening. Great for dancing!  

LOLA SWEET
Lori Zuroff  (vocals, percussion)
Jim Medvedeff (keyboards, vocals, percussion)
Al Garay  (bass, vocals)
Paul Greenspan (guitars, vocals)
Jon Golden (drums, vocals)

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

The Blues Dogs have a lot of musical depth, and their musical experience ranges from the Berklee School of Music to some pretty scary South Side Chicago bars. The Dogs still like those rocking blues tunes. But mixed in with Stevie Ray Vaughn, Eric Clapton and ZZ Top tunes are songs by Steely Dan, Stevie Winwood, Al Green, the Stray Cats, Bonnie Raitt, Eva Cassidy and more. With four lead vocalists and a rich mixture of rocking material, the band delivers a constantly changing and entertaining evening of danceable music.

Bob Jones (guitar, vocals)
Bob has backed up several national acts, including The Drifters and has opened for big British rock groups including Humble Pie and Savoy Brown. He played in a rockabilly band in California and got immersed in the blues while playing in a band from Chicago’s south side.

Jeff Thomas (bass, vocals)
Jeff learned to play the ukulele at age seven and took piano and guitar lessons in his youth. He studied bass at Berklee where he was required to learn to play many instruments, including trumpet, saxophone, clarinet, oboe, keyboards, percussion, drums, xylophone, and guitar.

Jim Medvedeff (keyboards, vocals)
Jim started his musical journey with classical piano and organ training at the age six. He counts British rock, Motown, and Leon Russell as his earliest influences. He spent his teenage years studying jazz and went on to study music theory and piano performance at the University of Colorado. He was on the road for four years which included opening for the like of BJ Thomas, Brenda Lee, the Cornelius Brothers, Wayne Cochran, and others.

Adam Wool (drums, vocals)
Adam began his drumming career in Boston playing then moved to Alaska in the 80s, playing in various settings including the Fairbanks Symphony, University of Alaska Big Band, and various dance bands. He also owned a music venue in Fairbanks where he hosted the Indigo Girls, Imagine Dragons, Snoop Dogg, Taj Mahal, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Johnnie Winter, Leon Russell, Bo Diddley, and more.

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.