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fossfest.livejournal.com

Please help get the word out for today's event, and follow us on Twitter for updates @fossfestival:

Carnaval @ SomerStreets
Sunday, June 5th - 12-4pm
Roads Closed to Cars....Open to You: All along Broadway from Temple St to Sullivan
http://www.eastsomervillemainstreets.org/SomerStreets.html

Come check out all the culture and energy that East Broadway has to offer! This unique one day street party brings the life and culture inside of East Broadway's businesses to the street!
Bring your friends.
Bring your family.
And enjoy our street.

    * Shape Up Somerville Road Race: http://www.somervillema.gov/alerts/shape-somerville-road-race
    * 12:15 "Samba-Motion Parade" - led by Mayor Curtatone
      Open to All --- Wear your best Carnaval Costume -- the more color, feathers and beads the better!
    * Music on 2 Stages -- the Foss Fest Stage   & the East Broadway Stage (@ the East Branch Library)
    * Villen Vibez Hip Hop Open Mic
    * Farmer's Market
    * Craft Fair
    * 30+ Participating Businesses
    * Explore the cuisine of local restaurants
    * Raffles, Facepainting, Balloon Animals, Dance and Fitness Demos

The City of Somerville is partnering with East Somerville Main Streets and Foss Fest to kick off the city's SomerStreets initiative, with Carnaval @ Somerstreets! Somerville's new Open Streets Initiative, SomerStreets, is a monthly celebration from June - October of each year, during which the City closes sections of roads to vehicle traffic in favor of walking, running, biking, dancing, and other activities! By partnering with local businesses and organizations, one Sunday each month the city transforms different Somerville neighborhoods into celebrations of active living, community pride, and live entertainment.   Find more information on the City's Website:
http://www.somervillema.gov/alerts/2nd-annual-somerstreets-series

Current Location: United States, Massachusetts, Somerville
Current Music: folk, Peruvian, indie pop, eclectic, world, rock, samba, parade, drum circle

cmhoulahan.livejournal.com

An evening of music and dance to benefit A2Empowerment featuring Boston's only all-women swing orchestra, The Mood Swings.

Saturday, June 18th
7pm - 11pm
George Dilboy VFW Post
371 Summer St.
Davis Square, Somerville

Dance instructor Liz Nania, of Out to Dance, will teach swing lessons starting at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $20 at the door. There will be a cash bar and a raffle of donated items. All ticket and raffle proceeds will be donated to A2Empowerment.

A2Empowerment is a Somerville-based nonprofit company dedicated to empowering women through education. Since its establishment in 2008, the company has awarded over 150 scholarships to young women in Cameroon. The project is coordinated by A2Empowerment and Peace Corps Volunteers working in Cameroon. Recipients are chosen by A2Empowerment based on need and merit. Approximately $65 USD will cover tuition, fees and books for a year of school. The project is set up as a Peace Corps Partnership Project, so all funding is strictly monitored by the Peace Corps and A2Empowerment. To date, all company overhead costs have been covered by the company co-founders, allowing for the full amount of all donations to be put toward scholarships. To find out more, please visit our website at http://www.a2empowerment.org/.

( View the flier )

wobblymusic.livejournal.com

Perhaps you've sat on your porch and overheard a neighbor strumming guitar on another porch? Well Porchfest takes this idea and multiplies it by 75. On May 21st, musicians and bands throughout Somerville will celebrate and utilize an underused public venue: The porch. Over 75 acts — ranging from bollywood funk, cosmic americana, killer blues, Moroccan, Balkan, gospel, American space rock and clawhammer banjo — will serenade passersby from porches throughout Somerville.

It's like Open Studios, but with Music instead of other art.

Maps and a list of performers are available at the Somerville Arts Council website.

dashford.livejournal.com

BostonFreeRadio.com is a three-month-old volunteer-run Internet radio station operating out of the studios of Somerville Community Access TV (SCATV) in Union Square. BFR has a couple of events happening next week and you are welcome to take part in them.

On Monday at 8PM there is an orientation and training session for people interested in hosting a radio show on BFR. It's at the station's studios at SCATV (90 Union Square). Any Mass. resident is welcome to host a show -- you would have to become a member of SCATV ($40 annual membership) and BFR ($20 annual membership to cover royalty payments for music played). Of course, the video resources of SCATV are also available to Somerville residents who become members.

Also, the station is having a launch party on Friday at Club Choices (379 Somerville Ave.). It starts at 10PM -- there'll be giveaways, there'll be lots of staff there, and station DJs will be spinning tunes. There is a $10 cover, but if you're a BFR member (see above) you and a guest can get in for free!

For more info, call 617-628-8826, email manager@bostonfreeradio.com, or go to http://www.bostonfreeradio.com

[Full disclosure: I am a volunteer at BFR and currently serve as Program Director]

wolftone.livejournal.com

I am looking for a native German speaker for a short copy editing job. The time frame is rather tight: we'd need to meet over breakfast in Davis Square on Friday April 22. Reply and and name your rate to get started.

Looking forward to working together.

Update: Job completed. Thanks, all!

notlobmusic.livejournal.com

“The Bee Eaters are the instrumental cream of the brand new string nation. Harking back to the ‘grand old days’ when new virtuosos seemed to spring on the scene fully formed with a whole repertoire of brilliant music nobody had ever heard before, somehow these kids have absorbed everything we had to offer and alchemized it into a new musical world.”
Darol Anger

Thursday, April 7 – doors 7:30, concert 8:00
Unity Somerville, 6 William Street (corner College Ave, just north of Davis Square), Somerville, MA

Suggested donation $15 at the door. $5 student rush (current, valid ID required).

Artist:
http://www.BeeEaters.com
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Bee-Eaters/75283481054

notloB Folk Concerts:
http://sites.google.com/site/notlobmusic
http://www.facebook.com/notloBFolkConcerts

Current Mood: creative
Current Location: United States, Massachusetts, Worcester

veronique4.livejournal.com

The Somerville Museum is a gem in our fair city and it desperately needs a new roof. The Massachusetts Cultural Facilities fund will match the money raised by the museum, BUT ONLY FOR FUNDS RAISED BY FEB. 14! Yes, that's Monday, Valentine's Day! So if you send just $5, they get $10. They still need around 30K, but an incredible amount has been raised in the last 2 weeks, so it's time for that final push.

The Somerville Museum is a lovely historic building in the center of Somerville that presents art and history exhibits, films and concerts. The museum also hosts the opening exhibit for Somerville Open Studios, houses the historic archives for the city, is available for community meetings, and can be rented for private parties. And it all happens with an army of dedicated volunteers, and some help from the Somerville Preservation Commission.

The 1920's building contains a Bullfinch-designed staircase from the original McLean Hospital, where years ago the director's wife, Mary, had a pet lamb that followed her all around--hence that cute song.

This is a great community resource that deserves some assistance. So be a supporter of the arts and check out Somerville Museum Building Fund and help if you can. You can contribute through paypal, a check in the mail (must arrive by this Monday), or even drop it off during museum hours.

Checks, made out to Somerville Museum BF, go to:
Director
Somerville Museum
One Westwood Road
Somerville, Mass. 02143

To encourage all of you to donate $50 or more between now and February 14th, not only will you receive a free one year membership in Historic Somerville, a souvenir pin that you can where with pride and a piece of the old roof slate, but you will also be given a one year membership to the Somerville Museum, which is good for a 10% discount at the Museum store. If you've given before, consider giving again. After all, we promise we will not ask you for funds toward a new slate roof again in our lifetime (and probably not in yours.)

pearlythebunny.livejournal.com

For those who missed the September episode, I just got this in an email message from WCVB's Chronicle:

Monday December 6th at 7:30 pm, we will be repeating Chronicle's "Somerville" episode from September.

notlobmusic.livejournal.com

Folk Arts Quartet (FAQ) fuses the worlds of folk and chamber music in a wild amalgam they call “ChamberGrass.” With firm roots in Celtic and American fiddle styles, FAQ enlivens traditional tunes and new compositions through innovative arrangements, recordings, and performances.

Unity Church of God
6 William St. (corner College Ave.)
Somerville, MA

Doors 7:30, concert 8:00

Suggested minimum donation is $12; $10 students and seniors; $5 children under 13. Email notlobreservations@gmail.com for reservations, or go to http://sites.google.com/site/notlobmusic/ for more information.

Current Music: Chambergrass

quinnesocrates.livejournal.com

Books of Hope, a youth-literacy empowerment program based in the Mystic Housing Project, is having a book release party on Thursday, May 13th, at 6PM in the Somerville Library on Highland. The teens are releasing collections of original writing and also kicking off their 2010 Mystic Ink Tour, which will take them all over New England with their writing. Find out more here: www.booksofhope-ma.org.

This event is free and open to the public, and there will be potluck-style refreshments. This is a great opportunity to support the lower-income youth of Somerville and hear their stories in their own words.

rachelmello.livejournal.com

Hi All,

After my last post about helping to promote Somerville Open Studios, a couple people asked if they could download the poster-graphics themselves to print and post at work. Great Idea! We were just a little behind in getting the files up, but they're on the website now.

If you want to help support and promote Somerville local artists, promotional graphics are available at:
www.somervilleopenstudios.org/participate/resources.php.

We have high-quality professionally printed versions of the poster available to anyone who can help go out and ask shop-owners, for permission to post in windows—just drop a line to maps@somervilleopenstudios.org—but if you want to print some on your own, and flier your bulletin board, friends, neighbors, classmates, etc., please do!

Hope to see you all during Open Studios... just 19 days away!

thanks everyone!

rachelmello.livejournal.com

If you've been in S'ville for a few years, you're probably already familiar with the annual Somerville Open Studios. If you're new in town, you're in for a treat!

Right now we NEED YOUR HELP getting the word out, inside and outside of Somerville, so people from surrounding towns will come and visit local artist in their studios (and maybe even buy work?!). A lot of people here could help with a small individual effort that would add up to making a *huge* difference.

Here's the deal: Over 350 Somerville Artists are participating in Somerville Open Studios this year. We have published 20,000 map-booklets that show the locations of all of the participating artist-studios across the city, and the route of the free-trolley that will run that weekend. We'll print a couple thousand flyers to go up in windows around the city and surrounding communities. Artists will be going out daily and filling the map-book-stands that you will see soon near the T-stops, bike-path, and major intersections-- BUT WE NEED MORE HANDS.

If you work or go to school or live in an area that you think might be a good place to promote SOS, you could help by simply taping a few flyers up, and bringing a stack of maps with you and putting them in a publicly-accessible area during the next three weeks. Cafes, shops, movie-theaters, libraries, hotel or B&B lobbies? Any place might do. Think about your daily commutes or the places you frequent during the week. Where do people who might be interested in local art frequent? Ask the owners/managers First. Can I put these map-books here to promote this volunteer local-artist event? Can I tape a flyer in your window? If every person on the davis square LJ list hit two locations we wouldn't otherwise hit? Actually I have no idea how many places that would be... but it would be AWESOME!

If you can help, if you find a good place or two to post a flyer and place maps, please drop an email to Jon Rich at maps@somervilleopenstudios.org. Tell him where you are thinking would be convenient to cover, and he'll hook you up with the materials (he lives near Davis and has them on his back-porch near the bike-path). Mention this posting on the Davis-Square LJ.

Thanks everyone for helping with New England's Largest Open Studios Event!

jennifer.livejournal.com

North Cambridge is close to Davis; please delete if you see fit, mods.

North Cambridge Family Opera is doing the original production, Springtime for Haman (get your Producers jokes out here, folks.) the weekends of March 20 and 27. That means this upcoming Saturday and Sunday and the next Saturday and Sunday. The two Saturday shows will be at 2:30 and 7 PM, the Sunday shows at 1:30 and 6 PM. All shows will be at the Peabody School, at 70 Rindge Avenue in Cambridge. (Off the 83 bus for MBTA folk, and it's also close to the 77.)

If you want to attend, there are two options for obtaining tickets! One being buying them online via the website, linked above. There is a small service fee this way.

The second option is, of course, buying them at the door. $10 for adults at the door, $5 for kids at the door.

It is a *really* fun show, with some fantastic music. (I admit it - I *love* a lot of the numbers I'm not in as much as I do the ones I am in.) And it is absolutely not over the top with the Biblical references - as the composer/librettist himself said, when writing this, he didn't want it to be the kind of thing that would get religious figures upset. So it's definitely not over the top, and I'm pretty sure the performers themselves range across the religious scale.

The entire cast has been working hard on this, and it's really going to be fantastic. So come see us!

ron_newman

Winter Hill Reborn started this and then Wicked Local Somerville picked it up, so let's bring it here, too.

What songs do you know that mention Somerville or any particular places in Somerville? Here are three we've found so far:

Somerville, by David Misch, 1973 (lyrics)

Wintertime in Somerville, by Local Radio

( Somerville, by the Pernice Brothers )

(the last time we had this discussion, over three years ago)

thetathx1138.livejournal.com

Just got this in my email:

Dearest Patrons,

It is my pleasure to announce that Papercut Zine Library, after months of
searching, has found a new space for our zines! We are excited to join the
Somerville community, with easy access to Union Square, the High School,
and the Public Library (as well as public transportation!)

Stay tuned for an announcement of our grand opening, this spring!

Sincerely,
The Papercut Librarians

Good news, this was a useful resource.

redcolumbine.livejournal.com

Hafli for Haiti!

Sunday, February 28
3pm-6:30pm
George Dilboy VFW Post
371 Summer Street, Somerville (Davis Square)
Suggested donation: $15, or according to your ability to give
Performances, raffles, open floor dancing and more!

The January 12 earthquake in Haiti brought to the already struggling people of that country a disaster of unimaginable humanitarian proportions, a disaster that will only grow in the days, weeks, months and even years to come. As individuals it's hard to know what we can do to help. But together, as a group, we can be more than any one of us alone, by pooling our skills and resources to give more than each of us is capable of giving alone.

Please join some of Boston's most talented--and compassionate--belly dancers in a fundraising event to help provide assistance to the people of Haiti.

100% of the profits raised will go to Partners in Health, http://www.partnersinhealth.org/

--For information on performing, please contact Badriya at badriya@rcn.com

--For information on donating raffle items or vending, please contact Baseema at lehcar1007@aol.com

Sponsored by Badriya al-Badi'a, with the help of Baseema, Di'Ahna (who did the beautiful artwork!) and more!

Current Mood: excited

notlobmusic.livejournal.com

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Unity Church of God
6 William Street, Davis Square, Somerville

Doors 7:30, Concert 8:00

Suggested minimum donation $12 at the door, $10 with advance reservation*, children under 13 & students with ID $5

*email notlobreservations @ gmail.com for reservations (at least 24 hours in advance) & information

Blue Moose and the Unbuttoned Zippers (BMUZ) is not your average folk band. Founded in 2006 by four Berklee College of Music students, BMUZ decided to do something really different. They combined Scandinavian music and a nyckelharpa with American Old Time music, four and five string fiddles and a jazz and bluegrass guitarist. The result? A contemporary string band filled with epic triple fiddles, catchy melodies and driving rhythms full of raw energy and mashy quirk.

http://www.bmuz.net/BMUZ

notloB Folk Concerts are volunteer run and not for profit.
Website ~ http://notlobmusic.googlepages.com
Mailing list ~ http://groups.google.com/group/notlobmusic
Facebook ~ http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=38565709718&ref=ts

redcolumbine.livejournal.com

Reposted from Somerville Local First on Facebook:

Calling All Musicians- Precinct is trying to put together a "Haitian Earthquake Relief Benefit Concert" Anyone able to donate their time and talent, please contact Ronan @ Precinct Bar Ph 617-623-9211. We'll supply food, beer and the venue, you supply the sounds.

Current Mood: numb

redcolumbine.livejournal.com

Condensed Cream of Content: Musicians visiting for HONK! October 9-11need places to stay.
( The whole enchilada... )

Current Mood: optimistic

josephineave.livejournal.com

Mo Lotman, who lives in Somerville, has finished a photo book on the history of Harvard Square named "Harvard Square, An Illustrated History Since 1950" . He will be having an official launch party at Passim on Tuesday, Sept. 15th from 7 pm to midnight.

You can learn more about the book at http://www.harvardsquarebook.com.

Disclaimer: I know Mo, but have no financial stake in the success of his book or the rest of his life.

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Carnaval@SomerStreets is TODAY Sunday 6/5/11: 12pm-4pm: All along Broadway:Temple Street to Sullivan

Swing the Night Away! Saturday June 18th at George Dilboy VFW 7-11pm

PorchFest This Saturday, Noon to 6pm!

Boston Free Radio - Call for DJs and a Station Launch Party!

Deutsch Redakteur Gesucht

The Bee Eaters, Unity Somerville, 4/7

Somerville Museum Needs a New Roof by Valentine's Day

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Folk Arts Quartet this evening

Books of Hope Youth Book Release Party

Promoting SOS

Spread the word about SOS

North Cambridge Family Opera - Performances March 20-21 and 27-28!

Songs about Somerville?

Papercut Zine Library moving to Somerville

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