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$20 Tickets Advance // $25 Door 7pm Doors, 8pm Show 21+ Event, Valid ID Required Full Bar Available No ticket refunds. About The Jay Psaros Band:

For nearly 15 years, New England Songsmith Jay Psaros has been carving a musical path that has been unique, compelling and fiercely independent. In an industry where one size does not fit all, Psaros has embraced many twists and turns which has earned him a reputation as one of the regions most genuine musical talents both as a solo performer or with The Jay Psaros Band.

The Jay Psaros Band is 5 piece outfit, which beautifully supports the wide variety of music that encompasses Psaros’ songwriting. Everything from open road Americana, danceable groovers, heartfelt ballads and everything in between. The Jay Psaros Band features Scituate native Sam Chase on guitar, Hanover’s Steve Davis on Bass, Newton’s Brad Goff on Keyboards, and Bennington Vermont’s Matt Heisler on drums.

About Aldous Collins and the Like Minded Folk:

Aldous Collins and The Like Minded Folk formed in the fall of 2022. Aldous Collins, Jimmy Ryan, Joe Kessler and Eric Royer came together to bring you a folk/indie/bluegrass/Americana experience. Their debut album is now out on all digital platforms. Take a listen to Aldous’ songs supported by these 3 master musicians of the mandolin, violin and banjo.

Instagram: @acandthelmf

About Ward Hayden and the Outliers:

"Modern-day Buddy Holly plus Dwight Yoakam divided by the Mavericks" -Rolling Stone

$20 Tickets Advance / $25 Door

Apr22

Saturday, April 22, 2023 $25 Advance | $28 Day of Show Doors 7pm | Show 8pm Opener: Jimmy Ryan's Wooden Leg

"We are celebrating the 35th Anniversary of our seminal album “Cuba” with the release of a double LP version that includes a live recording of the Bird album songs on the second LP. We will be performing the Cuba album, plus songs from the Bird album, from the new album “Family” and lots of favorites from all the subsequent albums. Kind of a greatest hits show for the Silos super fans."

The Silos, the still-kicking band Walter Salas-Humara co-founded in New York’s post-punk ‘80s scene played Alt-Rock, Alt-Country, and Americana before any critics coined those terms. They were named Best New Artist in the 1987 Rolling Stone Critics Poll. Throughout Salas-Humara’s career his voice has remained textured like a walnut; meanwhile, his narratives focus not on interior, abstract weaves of doubts and anxieties but on storytelling. He renders small incidents in granular detail that take on the weight of attentive, convincing poetry and wry wordplay. Each tune is marked by such humanity, which offers much refuge in a convulsive time. Salas-Humara’s legacy would seem secure; his name is on 24 albums, his Horse Paintings hang in homes and galleries around the world, and his WaltersDogs portraits even appeared in the film Get Him to the Greek. but he’s hardly ready to call it a day. “It's still really fun for me,” he says of his musical pursuits. “In fact, I'm much happier than I've ever been in my life. I really enjoy traveling around entertaining. I see myself as an artist, but I also see myself as a communicator and entertainer — and teacher and mentor. And I love that. Back in the day, the Silos just blasted everybody's faces off. We hardly talked at all. Now, I play songs, I tell stories. Then I hang out after.”

Salas-Humara might have attended art school at Pratt Institute, but his songs feel shaped by low-key vistas of everyday life. Of that era, Salas-Humara recounts: “I learned a lot about design, conceptual ideas, and the history of art. I think that has helped me bring a unique character to my music and art, but it’s being out there on the road, just playing and playing, singing and singing, connecting with audiences, trying new shit out, that has made me a not only a better entertainer, but a better person.” In doing so, he has imbued his tunes with a slightly weathered, wandering cosmopolitan Euro-Western vibe and a relaxed and open-ended ambience. Plus, they teem with a bounty of hooks and grooves that never distract from his musical portraits.

The space-time of Salas-Humara is not a Technicolor world, or a green screen world of hyped fakery, it’s a workaday world, paced as such, in which home and heart are the iconography of inspiration, played with pluck and gravelly insight. Or, as Walter suggests, “One’s environment and one’s experiences always informs one’s songwriting. This happens naturally whether you like it or not. Songs are life, and my life has been just one very long song.”

About the opener: What do you get when you combine a crooning bluegrass mandolin master, a veteran bassist, a fiddler who plays through fuzz boxes and wah-wah pedals, sounding more like Jimi Hendrix than Papa John Creach, and a big band swing drummer who inexplicably feels moved to pound the skins harder than John Bonham on a bender? Do you call it country, folk, bluegrass, rock 'n' roll, or maybe just a freak of nature?

Just call it Wooden Leg, and give the group room to do its thing. It's much safer that way. These cats rock.

$25 Advance | $28 Day of Show

Aldous Collins and Like Minded Folk

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Big Day Brewing, 20 GLEN ROAD , GORHAM, NH 03581

Aldous Collins and The Like Minded Folk formed in the fall of 2022. Aldous Collins, Jimmy Ryan, Joe Kessler and Eric Royer came together to bring you a folk/indie/bluegrass/Americana experience. Their debut album is now out on all digital platforms. Take a listen to Aldous’ songs supported by these 3 master musicians of the mandolin, violin and banjo.

Instagram: @acandthelmf

This St. Patrick’s Day, Friday March 17th, join two Tipperary men, Jimmy Ryan and Bob Bradshaw, plus some of Boston’s best musicians, for an evening of musical mischief at the Boston Harbor Distillery: 12R Ericsson St, Dorchester, MA.

Show presented by SHK Music.

Jimmy Ryan is one of those names woven into the fabric of Americana music. He's not atop the marquee, mind you, a la Lucinda Williams or Buddy Miller, but his contributions are considerable. He's perhaps best known as one of the principals in alt-country precursors the Blood Oranges, but his cheat sheet also includes the more bluegrass-based Beacon Hill Billies, the rural-rocking Wooden Leg, and [...] an extended stint with Boston folkie Catie Curtis. Ryan may well be residing in your record collection in less obvious places, too -- his oft-unconventional mandolin playing has colored songs by such varied artists as Morphine, Warren Zevon, Dumptruck, Boiled In Lead, Gerald Collier, and Mary Gauthier."

--No Depression Magazine https://jimmyryanmando.com/

Bob Bradshaw - Irish-born, Boston-based Bob Bradshaw has been exploring many facets of Americana music in the thirty years he’s lived in the States – from the Texas singer-songwriters he strives to emulate to the roots rock he plays in bar bands any night of the week. He has lived in New York City and San Francisco, where his rock band ‘Resident Aliens’ was very successful in the 90s. He graduated from the Berklee College of Music in 2009, having primarily played in bluegrass ensembles there. Praised as a writer of “instant classics” by No Depression’s Frank Gutch Jnr and a “master craftsman” by RnR Magazine’s David White. David White. Bradshaw’s tenth album of original songs,’ The Art Of Feeling Blue,’ will be released mid-2023. https://www.bobbradshaw.net/

$20/adv, $25/dos

This is a 21+ Show

Doors are at 7pm. Showtime is 8pm.

NO REFUNDS OR EXCHANGES

This event is being presented by 24 Hour Concerts and SHK Music at the Boston Harbor Distillery - a wonderfully unique and intimate setting to take in great music with its 1850's architecture, great acoustics, comfortable seating and fantastic selection of made-on-the-premises liquors and liqueurs.

More info about SHK at https://www.shkmusic.com/faq.

$20

SHK Music Presents: Royer's One Man Band and Wooden Leg at Boston Harbor Distillery Local Virtuosos Eric Royer and Jimmy Ryan join for one amazing night with Royer's One Man Band and Wooden Leg! more info Friday, October 14, 2022 8:00 PM Boston Harbor Distillery Boston, MA

Royer's One Man Band - Eric Royer has been performing and recording as his unique and widely acclaimed one man band for over 25 years. During the Covid-19 shutdown time Royer decided to add drums to his setup, something he always wanted to but never had time to get working. Now in addition to his self-made guitar machine, he is playing a drum kit.

Wooden Leg is Jimmy Ryan (Mandolin & Vocals), Mickey Bones (Drums), Brian Dunton (Bass(, Russell Chudnofsky (Guitar), and Joe Kessler (Fiddle).

"What do you get when you combine a crooning bluegrass mandolin master, a veteran bassist, a fiddler who plays through fuzz boxes and wah-wah pedals, sounding more like Jimi Hendrix than Papa John Creach, and a big band swing drummer who inexplicably feels moved to pound the skins harder than John Bonham on a bender? Do you call it country, folk, bluegrass, rock ‘n’ roll, or maybe just a freak of nature? Just call it Wooden Leg, and give the group room to do its thing. It’s much safer that way." -David Wildman, Boston Globe

$15