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Heather Masse Band

A member of the acclaimed Juno-award winning Canadian band “The Wailin' Jennys,” and a regular guest vocalist on A Prairie Home Companion, native Mainer Heather has performed at hundreds of venues across the world stunning audiences with her beautiful jazz-influneced vocal style. Video! ($12 adv/$15 door)

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Big Sam's Funky Nation

Big Sam’s Funky Nation delivers a large dose of it's unique brand of New Orleans infused funk. The band is fronted by trombone powerhouse, "Big" Sam Williams, who began playing with the Dirty Dozen at the tender age of 19 before striking out on his own and creating the Funky Nation. Video!
($15, 8pm)

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Mary Flower

Yellow Dog Records recording artist Mary Flower is renowned for a uniquely personal vision of roots music that blends ragtime, acoustic blues, and folk - technically dazzling yet grounded in the down-to-earth simplicity of early 20th century American music....Video! ($10, 8pm)

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My State of the Union: An Evening with Daily Show Co-Creator Lizz Winstead

An evening of political satire with The Daily Show co creator Lizz Winstead. Lizz takes on hypocrisy with a brilliant razor sharp wit, hitting all the big guys who chose to abuse their power. From Beck to Bachmann, Healthcare to Hedge funds, no one is exempt from a hilarious jab. Don't miss this onetime show! Video! ($20 adv/$25 door, 8pm)

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A Special Acoustic Evening with Zach Deputy

There is nothing out there like Zach Deputy. Truly a one-man band, he is a powerhouse of performance, technical chops, and one hell of a charismatic presence. Put simply, Zach Deputy does what is called live looping: layering sounds through the magic of technology to create a full band effect. He isn’t the only performer out there doing this, but he has taken the technique to the next level. First and foremost, however, Zach Deputy is a songwriter, a shredding guitarist and a soulful singer with a 4+ octave vocal range. Video! ($8 adv/$10 door, 8pm)

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Miss Tess & The Bon Ton Parade w/Over A Cardboard Sea

Miss Tess is a young, Boston-based songwriter, whose “Modern Vintage” sound bridges eras and genres, strumming and picking her way through an array of styles, from ragtime, to blues; country, to swing. Over a Cardboard Sea opens! Video! ($12 adv/$15 door)

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Erin McKeown Band

DISTILLATION" 10th Anniversary Tour Come celebrate the 10th anniversary of the release of Erin's groundbreaking debut album, "Distillation". McKeown, backed by full-band, will perform the album in sequence followed by a set drawing from the best of her old and new music Video!
($15 adv/$18 door, 8pm)

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David Liebman

Grammy nominee David Liebman is a renaissance man in contemporary music. He has played with Miles Davis, Chick Corea, McCoy Tyner and others, and has been performing worldwide for over 35 years. Video!

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Jill Sobule

Jill Sobule belongs to a rare breed of artists. Her work is at once deeply personal and socially conscious, seriously funny and derisively tragic. Over five albums and a decade of recording, the Denver-born songwriter/guitarist/singer has tackled such topics as the death penalty, anorexia, shoplifting, reproduction, the French resistance movement, adolescence, and the Christian right. Did we mention love? Love found, love lost, love wished for and love taken away.Video!
($18 adv/$20 door)

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Susan McKeown: Singing in the Dark

Susan McKeown (of Chanting House) is a singer of passion, grace and striking presence with the ability to capture both the essence of a traditional folk song or the more hard-edged domain of contemporary adult rock. Video! ($22 adv/$25 door, 8pm)

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Jez Lowe

For the last twenty-five years, Jez has toured the world, building up a formidable reputation in the USA, Australia and Europe, and gaining the respect of his peers and his audience alike. Folk supremo Richard Thompson called him "the best songwriter to emerge from the UK in a long time", and his songs are among the most widely sung by folksingers and bands around the country’s clubs and festivals.Video! ($15 adv/$18 door, 8pm)

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The Kingston Trio 3:00PM Show

Two very special performances by the legendary Kingston Trio! Through changing times, the Trio has played on, remaining popular for a simple reason... great songs that sound as good today as the first time you heard them. And fifty-two years after Tom Dooley shot to the top of the charts, the Trio is still on the road thirty weeks a year, bringing back all the great memories and making new ones.. Video! ($60, 3:00pm SHOW)

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Punch Brothers 6:30 show

Collecting five singular abilities and viewpoints into one musical force, Punch Brothers featuring Chris Thile have established their place among the most dynamic and talented presences across the full range of contemporary music-making. As performing and recording artists, composers and interpreters, technicians and stylists, they continue to push the boundaries of possibility while maintaining an unerring devotion to the basic audience experience.Video! ($25, 6:30pm) Sponsored by Bull Moose Music

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The Wiyos

Working out of brooklyn, the Wiyos craft a convincing case for the benefits of delving into old blues, hillbilly swing, ragtime, and jug band music... (they) are true to the spirit of the american musical past.Video!
($12 adv/$15 door, 8pm)

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Eric Andersen

Eric Andersen's songs, voice, and guitar have created a career spanning over 40 years, that includes 25 albums of original songs, and numerous tours worldwide. His songs have been recorded by artists all over the world, including Judy Collins, Fairport Convention, Peter Paul and Mary, Linda Ronstadt, and The Grateful Dead. Video!
Danielle Miraglia opens! ($22 adv/$25 door)

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Greg Brown

Having recorded more than a dozen albums and reached chart topping success, Greg Brown’s deep, swampy voice delivers songs of sorrow and joy, born of cross-country drives and soul-searching fishing trips. Video! ($35 adv/$40 door)

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Girlyman

Girlyman sells out renowned venues such as The Barns at Wolftrap, The Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, The Ark, and The Freight and Salvage. They also frequent festival main stages, making a huge splash this past year at the Ann Arbor Folk Festival, the Kate Wolf Memorial Folk Festival, and the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, to name a few. Video!
($15 adv/$18 door, 8pm) Coyote Grace opens!

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Mike Doughty

Mike fronted Soul Coughing in the 90s, wrote an Aquaman story for DC comics, published a book of poetry, wrote one-act plays for the 24 Hour Company, was a pseudonymous gossip columnist at the New York Press, and used to drive an ice cream truck. Jennings opens! Video!
($18 adv/ $20 door)

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Joy Kills Sorrow

With its bold new brand of acoustic music, Joy Kills Sorrow pushes right through the envelope and out the other side. The Boston-based stringband brings a decidedly modern sensibility to an old-world sound, channeling the prodigious talents of its individual members into elegant arrangements and well-crafted songs. Video! ($12 adv/$15 door, 8pm)

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Christine Lavin & Don White's Concert & Comedy

Two of the funniest entertainers on today's songwriting scene, Christine Lavin and Don White tour with an evening of smart, funny songs that can make you laugh and cry within the space of a sentence. Video!
($20 adv/$23 door)

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Rachel Efron and Sarah Blacker

One night, two great singer songwriters. Both of these songstress' have graced our stage but never on the same night. Don't miss this chance to hear Rachel Efron and Sarah Blacker in the same night. Two great up and coming talents that will give you something to smile about. Rachel Video! Sarah Video!
($12 adv/$15 door, 8pm)

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Pete Miller

Lyrically clever. Melidiciously melodic. Pete's music delves into the nature of humans by exposing, proposing, desiring, and accepting. He also has a knack for making up words. The music (to come) is Folk/Rock/Jazz with bits of Blues, and a taste of the unmasking of human tendencies. Video!
($8 adv/$10 door, 8pm)

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Irish Christmas in America

Celebrating its sixth year, the hugely popular holiday show “ Christmas in America” tours throughout the USA with some of Ireland's top traditional artists. This fascinating performance features Irish music, song, dance and stories of seasonal Irish traditions. Video! ($22 adv/$25 door, 7:30pm)

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Paula Poundstone

Paula Poundstone Live! at One Longfellow Square! Attending a Paula Poundstone performance will leave you marveling at her ability to interact spontaneously with audience members. In conversations bound to garner riotous laughter. Armed with nothing but a stool, a microphone and a can of Diet Pepsi, Paula’s ability to create humor on the spot has become the stuff of legend. Little wonder people leave Paula’s shows complaining that their cheeks hurt from laughter, and debating whether the random people she talked to are “plants” – which, of course they never are. ($40, EARLY BIRD SPECIAL: $35 until October 11th, call box office for details! (207) 761-1757, 7:30pm SHOW)

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Darol Anger's Yulegrass

Renowned fiddler and Portland resident Darol Anger brings together an all-star collection of string virtuosos for an evening performance featuring some of the finest talent from today's contemporary string band scene!
($25 adv/$30 door)

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The Fishtank Ensemble

Tackling everything from French hot jazz to wild Serbian gypsy anthems, Flamenco, and oddball originals, the band is a not to be missed event for world music lovers. The LA Weekly calls them “cross pollinated gypsy music….one of the most thrilling young acts on the planet.” Video! ($12 adv/$15 door)

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George Cole Quintet

Cole's superbly crafted and melodically sophisticated original music reminds us of the best of George Gershwin, Johnny Mercer, and Cole Porter. His highly stylized approach, technical mastery and fast and furious guitar playing is in the tradition of Django Reinhardt. Video! ($15 adv/$18 door, 8pm)

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Jonathan Edwards

The word "legend" is often used to describe veteran folk/rocker Jonathan Edwards, whose varied career has included theater, commercials, record production, and 2 movie soundtracks, as well as his 1971 hit "Sunshine", which brought him instant fame. Video! ($35 adv/$38 door)

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Aztec Two Step 40th Anniversary Show

Join us at One Longfellow Square to celebrate the 40th anniversary of AZTEC TWO STEP. The band that has been described as the bridge to the Beat Generation and instrumental in ushering the music of the 1960’s into the 70’s and beyond, all the while inspiring a generation of young singer songwriters. Video! ($25 adv/$28 door, 8pm)

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Steve Forbert

As the years pass, the indefinable honesty and dignity of Forbert’s approach to music continues to have an almost magical spell on his loyal coterie of fans. Undeniably, there is something immensely appealing in his laconic delivery and hesitant assertions which still draw listeners into a universe where common people make difficult choices and occasionally win. (as was proven when Forbert was inducted into the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame in 2006.)Video! ($18 adv/$20 door, 8pm)

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Chris Smither

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Cheryl Wheeler

Cheryl Wheeler is a gifted songwriter with a beautiful voice, writer of some of the prettiest, most alluring and intelligent ballads on the modern folk scene. And there is her evil twin, comic-Cheryl, a militant trend defier and savagely funny social critic. The result is a delightful contrast between poet and comic. Video!
($22 adv/$25 door)