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 July 3 (Friday): Patty Loveless Up Close and Personal  click
for details- Oh....I love her!!!! We have wanted to get Patty here since day one, and our patience has been rewarded! This country superstar rose to stardom thanks to her blend of honky tonk and country-rock, not to mention a plaintive, emotional ballad style.To date, Miss Patty has charted more than forty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including five Number Ones. Rightfully she is a member of the 65th member of the Grand Ole Opry, and after this up close and personal performance, will be a part of our Stone Mountain Hall of fame as well!
July 4 (Saturday): Carol Noonan and friends presents: - Stone Mountain LIVE (Show #13) click
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- Featuring Special Guests:
Cheryl Wheeler, singer/songwriter
And of course, Carol Noonan and the Stone Mountain Boys fronted by guitarists Duke Levine and Kevin Barry.
Carol Noonan and her band host a star studded concert featuring many special musical guests, and a variety of amazing music. With a house band to give the Tonight Show some competition, this unique concert is fast becoming one of Maine's most treasured traditions. The show is a great display of solo performance and collaboration with all these talented musicians.
July 6 (Monday): Béla Fleck and the Africa Project click
for details- Master Banjo player and Flecktone leader collaborating with amazing traditional musicians from Africa!
In 2005 virtuoso Béla Fleck traveled to Africa to find the unlikely origin of the banjo. Not only did he travel with his banjo, but an engineer and film crew as well to capture these traditional musicians in their homeland collaborating with him on what would become a universal music. The documentary is called "Throw Down Your Heart". You can see them LIVE right here at Stone Mountain on a stage that has now become a familiar one for Béla Fleck to play. Don't miss this special show.
July 10 (Friday): Jonathan Edwards click
for details- A benefit for Mountain Top Music Center
A true folkie, Jonathan Edwards sings of the times and the change of those times. He also has a lightness to his genre most folk acts don't. His message is serious but his music is uplifting and fun. Nothing exemplifies that like his hit single. "Sunshine" (you know the one...."sunshine go away today I don't feel much like dancin") He is a lotta fun and it will benefit a place that is near and dear to our hearts: Mountain Top Music Center in Conway, NH - providing the only music lesson program in our rural area.
July 11 (Saturday): Le Vent Du Nord click
for details- Le Vent has enough virtuosity and spirit to make its four musicians sound like 40 at times, and it tackles Scot, Irish or French material with equal authority. With its offhandedly great musicianship (and where else can you hear a hurdy-gurdy these days?)a Quebecois/ Acadian folk band with their charming mix of instrumentation, their arresting stage presence and just plain good clean fun is well known.
July 14 (Tuesday): Rooster Revue click
for details- A Daytime Performance .... The Rooster Revue is a great little variety show that showcases some of New England's greatest entertainment treasures! Includes a full course luncheon for a day trip you won't soon forget.
July 16 (Thursday): Rosanne Cash click
for details- Grammy-winning singer and songwriter and daughter of the legendary Johnny Cash. Her fourteen record albums, released over the last twenty five years, have charted eleven number-one singles. She has earned numerous accolades for songwriting and performance and crosses easily from country to folk and back again. She is a rare singer and we are honored to have her here. One of my personal favorites (cn)
July 17 (Friday): Shawn Colvin click
for details- Grammy award winning singer songwriter, her song "Sunny Came Home" was a huge hit and thrust Shawn Colvin into the who's who of contemporary folk singers. She is the go to gal when it comes to guest appearances on many of your favorite artists' recordings, saught after heavily for her unique voice and outstanding musicianship. A quick sell out.
July 18 (Saturday): Signature Sounds Folk Festival click
for details- Peter Mulvey, Kris Delmhorst, Jeffrey Foucault (also of Redbird), Tracy Grammer & Jim Henry. This will be a very cool night of songwriters in the round, trading songs, backing each other up with all kinds of instruments from acoustic guitar to fiddle. The folks are all on the cool label Signature Sounds from Western Mass....This will be a great night of acoustic music.
July 19 (Sunday): Aimee Mann click
for details- Grammy award winning songwriter, singer, bassist, former front gal for 80's Boston based band Till Tuesday (remember "Voices Carry"?). But recently she has written some of the most poignient music of our decade....her work in the movie "Magnolia" was really amazing. She is great and she and her band are not around these parts much, so don't miss this rare appearance...a quick sell out.
July 21 (Tuesday): Robert Cray click
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Cuz once isn't enough!! We didn't get enough of this Guitar God in March and apparently he didn't get enough of us.....because he wants to come back! We are very honored that Robert Cray liked our little place. He sure did one of the best shows we have had here, playing to the room like he was back in his old club days. A beautiful man who plays beautiful music, with a killer band...Don't miss it this time around.... He is up close and personal!
July 24 (Friday): The Early Evening Show with Funny Man Mike Miclon- The Early Evening Show has been a sell-out hit at the Oddfellow Theater in Buckfield for the past 10 years. The show is a zany mix of the likes of Letterman, and classic Carson. Host Michael Miclon is joined by co-host Jason Tardy of the juggling group TWO. Featured on CBS Sunday Morning, The Early Evening Show has been performed from Maine to Switzerland, and comes complete with wild improvisations, comic sketches, and spectacular finales! The show will also have special surprise guests along with Matthew Tardy (A.K.A.) the Early Evening Show Orchestra. You never know who will show up or show off on this hysterical late-night talk-show spoof! Be part of the live studio audience on a show that even the performers aren't sure what will happen next.
July 26 (Sunday): The Punch Brothers click
for details- The Punch Brothers featuring Nickel Creek co-founder Chris Thile, fronts a group of amazingly gifted bandmates in this string ensemble. Guitarist Chris Eldridge (Infamous Stringdusters), bassist Greg Garrison (Leftover Salmon), banjo player Noam Pikelny (John Cowan, Tony Trischka) and violinist Gabe Witcher (Jerry Douglas) comprise the group. They are jazz, bluegrass, folk, classical or none of the above! Hard to describe but not hard to love! " ....expanding the frontier of an emerging style of what might be called American country-classical chamber music." -The New York Times
July 28 (Tuesday): Ladysmith Black Mambazo click
for details- This show sold out quickly in February, and many of you did not get to see these amazing guys last time. So they are coming back!!!!
Grammy Award winning Ladysmith Black Mambazo sings in the vocal style of a male choral group from South Africa isicathamiya and mbube. They rose to worldwide prominence as a result of singing with Paul Simon on his album, "Graceland" and have won multiple awards. They will rock the house.
August 1 (Saturday): Carol Noonan Presents ...- Stone Mountain LIVE! The Anniversary Show details
- With special guest Mary Chapin Carpenter to Kick Off our 2009 Annual Appeal!
Come support us as we launch our August 2009 Capitol Campaign Appeal..... Love us? Here's a big way you can show it! Yes, folks this is an historic SMAC event!! Stone Mountain LIVE hosted by Carol Noonan and the Stone Mountain Boys. This is our annual anniversary show that kicks off our month long appeal in August to support Stone Mountain Arts Center for the rest of the year. Those of you who have seen Mary Chapin Carpenter in the past, may remember seeing Duke and or Kevin on tour with her. Now she will honor us by sharing the stage with the guys and myself on this very special night! Not currently on tour, don't miss this rare New England appearance by the one and only Mary Chapin Carpenter!
August 2 (Sunday): Natalie MacMaster with Donnell Leahy click
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With a talent that remains both raw and wondrously refined, and backed by a band any top musician would be proud of, Natalie MacMaster continues to stun crowds around the globe with her feverish fiddling and mesmerizing step dancing. Now, add the equally athletic fiddling of husband and renown performer Donell Leahy, and this is like two shows for the price on one!!
Don't miss this very honored and special show here at Stone Mountain!
August 4 (Tuesday): Béla Fleck and Toumani Diabate click
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A very intimate and honored show with one of the virtuosos of Béla's Africa Project,Throw Down Your Heart. Toumani is to the Kora what Béla is the the banjo.
In 2005 virtuoso Béla Fleck traveled to Africa to find the unlikely origin of the banjo. Not only did he travel with his banjo, but an engineer and film crew as well to capture these traditional musicians in their homeland collaborating with him on what would become a universal music. The documentary is called "Throw Down Your Heart". But you can see Béla and Toumani Diabate relive theri collaboration right here at Stone Mountain on a stage that has now become a familiar one for Béla Fleck to play. Don't miss this special show.
August 6 (Thursday): Waybacks click
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Last year they brought the house down! They draw freely from the old school and the old world, but The Waybacks are no throwback. They've been erroneously pigeonholed as a bluegrass band and celebrated as purveyors of "acoustic mayhem." They are as uninhibited and unpredictable as the eclectic San Francisco Bay area that claims them, and for nearly a decade, their experiments have always proven sharp-witted and musically dazzling.
August 7 (Friday): Red Stick Ramblers click
for details- These great guys do a mixture of Cajun fiddle tunes, Western Swing and old timey New Orleans Jazz. Back for a third time, and fronted by one of my favorites new singers Lindsay Young, this is a smoothe sound from Louisianna, that just makes you happy. Check out their CMT video on their web page to wet you whistle. Bring your dancing shoes or just watch this band perform the best of the best of this high energy accordion and fiddle driven cajun music. Back for a third time...this is a dance show and a dinner show..something for everyone! (limited dinner seating)
August 8 (Saturday): Catie Curtis / Ellis Paul click
for details- Two great songwriters, one great show. These two friends do their own brand of contemporary folk, with their heartfelt songs and heartfelt voices. They are terrific and alway put on an outstanding show individually. Together it just makes that show twice the enjoyment.
August 14 (Friday): Maura O'Connell click
for details- One of our favorites, back for the third time, Maura is to simply put it, just a great singer of great songs. Her Irish born wit and warmth that she exudes to you from the stage makes her performances an emotional roller coaster...you'll laugh, you'll cry, and you'll wish you didn't have to wait another year to see her again. We love her, and you will too.
August 15 (Saturday): Brownfield Library Benefit with Paula Poundstone - Yes, our favorite comedian is back for a third time..and this time she will have with her a brand new cd that she recorded right here at SMAC. If you can't wait, you can order it at her website. Anyway, her improv is as sharp as her bits..and don't sit up front..you might be in one of them!
This a great night of laughs for a great cause...a little library that could in Brownfield.
August 18 (Tuesday): Rooster Revue click
for details- A Daytime Performance for those of you who can't make it out here at night..... The Rooster Revue is a great little variety show that showcases some of New England's greatest entertainment treasures! Includes a full course luncheon for a day trip you won't soon forget. The Rooster Revue will be held every third Tuesday of the month, or on special holidays, but for larger groups, we can arrange additional days, times, and or customize the event.
August 20 (Thursday): The Dan Tyminski Band click
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Since 1994, this grammy nominated bluegrass ace has been a key component of the Alison Krauss and Union Station band. With his masterful guitar playing and signature tenor voice, he is a big part of the Union Station sound. With that band on hiatus, Tyminski has formed a new incarnation of the Dan Tyminski Band, with whom he is currently recording a new album and touring with. This new edition includes longtime Union Station associate Barry Bales (bass), former Union Station and Mountain Heart member Adam Steffey (mandolin), sideman extraordinaire Ron Stewart (banjo, fiddle), and newcomer Justin Moses (fiddle, dobro).
August 21 (Friday): Suzy Bogguss click
for details- Yes, our favorite gal from down South is coming back! She is known for her big country hits, but she is much more than just country wrapping. She is a great singer of all styles of music, a great picker, and a great lady. She is one of the most likable musicians I know, and we will all be in the back yelping when she hits the stage. You will be too!
August 22 (Saturday): Eileen Ivers click
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To say Eileen is just a fiddler is like saying Tiger is a just a golfer. She is an explosion from Ireland who along with her virtuostic band mix deep celtic roots with a collage of global influences.
She's been called a "sensation" by Billboard magazine and "the Jimi Hendrix of the violin" by The New York Times. "She electrifies the crowd with a dazzling show of virtuoso playing" says The Irish Times. Ivers' recording credits include over 80 contemporary and traditional albums and numerous movie scores. Her latest CD, entitled 'Eileen Ivers & Immigrant Soul' continues to display why Ivers is hailed as one of the great innovators and pioneers in the Celtic and World music genres.
August 27 (Thursday): Marcia Ball click
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Our favorite Southern Diva is back!!!
Singer/pianist Marcia Ball knows how to raise roofs and tear down walls with her infectious, intelligent and deeply emotional brand of southern boogie, rollicking, roadhouse blues and heartfelt ballads. Over the course of her three-decade career, Ball has earned a huge and intensely loyal following all over the world. Her exquisite piano playing and passionate, playful vocals fuse New Orleans and Gulf Coast R&B with Austin's deep songwriting tradition into a sound all her own. "Rollicking, playful, good time blues and intimate, reflective balladry...her songs ring with emotional depth." - Rolling Stone
August 28 (Friday): Paula Cole Up Close and Personal click
for details- This amazing singer honored us by performing in our little Stone Mountain LIVE show in February. She wowed the audience with her unstoppable voice and heartfelt songs. Paula is known for her hit, "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone", but there is so much more to her than a pop radio hit. She is just simply put, one of the best singers of our generation. Come see what I mean up close and personally!
Oh, and her backing musicians are not too shabby either (our own Kevin Barry for one! )
August 29 (Saturday): Slaid Cleaves click
for details- Originally we called him our own, Slaid Cleaves started his carreer with the Moxie men right here in Maine. Now he is known as much in Texas as he is in our fine state..and swings easily between the two. His songwriting is deeply rooted in the Austin songwriting scene ...shades of Joe Ely and Lyle Lovett come to mind. He is not to be missed...one of my personal faves.
September 5 (Saturday): Carol Noonan and friends presents: - Stone Mountain LIVE (Show #15) click
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- Featuring Special Guests:
The great Ruthie Foster songwriter...been compared to Aretha and Ella, but has a style all her own that jumps from Gospel to Folk and then back to Blues.
*More TBA
*And of course Carol Noonan and the Stone Mountain Boys fronted by guitarists Duke Levine and Kevin Barry.
Carol Noonan and her band host a star studded concert featuring many special musical guests, and a variety of amazing music. With a house band to give the late night shows some competition, this unique concert is fast becoming one of Maine's most treasured traditions. The show is a great display of solo performance and collaboration with all these talented musicians.
September 15 (Tuesday): Rooster Revue click
for details- A Daytime Performance for those of you who can't make it out here at night..... The Rooster Revue is a great little variety show that showcases some of New England's greatest entertainment treasures! Includes a full course luncheon for a day trip you won't soon forget. The Rooster Revue will be held every third Tuesday of the month, or on special holidays, but for larger groups, we can arrange additional days, times, and or customize the event.
September 16 (Wednesday): Gaelic Storm click
for details- They're back...and what a storm they are! This is a great high energy Irish band, that is not to be missed. Famous for their scenes in the movie the "Titanic", they are exactly who I would want to be with if my ship was sinkin'! A Wild Irish Ride!
September 18 (Friday): Dave Mallett details-
Maine's own singer songwriter Dave Mallett has written songs for the likes of John Denver, Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Peter, Paul & Mary. But no one quite sings his songs the way he does. In his own words. " I like to keep in touch with the past because to me, music is timeless......I try to write songs that would have meant something to those who have gone before us as well as those yet to come." And he does just that. He is a great story teller through his songs as well as his voice, and he is one of Maine's most proud traditions.
September 26 (Saturday): Lori McKenna click
for details- The sweetest singer songwriter you are ever gonna meet! She is critically acclaimed for her work as a song writer, and heavy hitters like country star Faith Hill have recorded a pile of her songs. Faith is great, but no one sings Lori's songs like Lori.....come see why we lover her!
September 27 (Sunday): Buffy Sainte-Marie click for details- We are honored to bring another folk legend here to Stone Mountain
Academy Award-winning, Canadian First Nations musician, composer, visual artist, pacifist, educator and social activist..these are a few of the things that are attached to the resume of yet another great artist from Canada, Buffy St. Marie. Born on the Piapot Cree Indian reserve, the challenges of the Native American is her passion. But what she is most known for for, is the impact she made as a singer and songwriter. Her song "Until It's Time for You to Go" was recorded by Elvis and Barbra Streisand and Cher. Her "Universal Soldier" became the anthem of the peace movement, and many of her songs became billboard hits. Since 1996 she has limited her concert appearances to about twenty a year, speaking engagements to about the same number, and focused her time mostly on the Cradleboard Teaching Project, using her multimedia skills to create accurate, enriching core curriculum based in Native American cultural perspectives. We are lucky to be one of the twenty!
October 1 (Thursday): Richard Thompson click for details- My hero, my favorite....There is not enough room here to say how much we love him!! One of the best guitar players of our lifetime, and some of the most moving songs I have ever heard are his, and when he sings them he becomes who he writes about. His early years were spent with Fairpoit Convention, but he has always been on the cutting edge of the creative music scene. A quick sell out.
- October 13 (Tuesday): Rooster Revue for Red Hatters click
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 A Daytime Performance exclusively for members of the Red Hat Society ..... The Rooster Revue is a great little variety show that showcases some of New England's greatest entertainment treasures! Includes a full course luncheon for a day trip you won't soon forget
October 14 (Wednesday): Rooster Revue click
for details- A Daytime Performance .... The Rooster Revue is a great little variety show that showcases some of New England's greatest entertainment treasures! Includes a full course luncheon for a day trip you won't soon forget.
October 15 (Thursday): Kingston Trio click
for details- When you hear "Tom Dooley", you hear the Kingston Trio!
In 1957 The Kingston Trio emerged from San Francisco's North Beach club scene to take the country by storm, bringing the rich tradition of American folk music into the mainstream for the first time. During the late 50s & early 60s, the Trio enjoyed unprecedented record sales and worldwide fame, while influencing the musical tastes of a generation. 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. We are lucky enough to get them during one of those weeks.
October 16 (Friday): David Francey click
for details- From carpenter to songwriter – Since leaving construction and recording Torn Screen Door in 1999 Scottish-born Canadian, David Francey is recognized as one of today’s finest singer-songwriters. Earlier this year Francey’s CD, Right of Passage, earned him his third JUNO (Canada’s top music award) in less than 5 years. Francey recently had the honour of receiving the prestigious SOCAN Folk Music Award. He is a great story teller and a terrific performer....a great addtiion to the SMAC roster.
October 17 (Saturday): Savoy Family Cajun Band click
for details- Featruing Ann Savoy and her talented family. They are an honored name in Cajun music, and we are honored to have them here. Carrying on Traditional Cajun Music The Savoy Family Cajun Band plays honed down, hard-core Cajun music laced with an earthy sensuality. Though the old tunes have been revived and returned to new life intensity in their hands, the Savoy Family Cajun band doesn’t play from a studied angle. The musicians in the band, Marc and Ann Savoy and their sons Joel and Wilson, each hold their own as strong individual group members, making up a tight, intense sound. Wilson was here last year with the Pine Leaf Boys. A SMAC highly reccomended show! Limited dinner seating available to make room for a happy little dance floor.
October 18 (Sunday): Martin Sexton click
for details- Plain and simple....he is one of the best singers I have heard in my lifetime. I was lucky enough to have him sing on one of my albums when he was kicking around Boston, many, many years ago. Little did I know how big a star he would become, and we most humbly welcome him for a second time to Stone Mountain.
"His outstanding taste in songwriting as well as a soul marinated voice that can easily be compared to the likes of a young Steve Winwood or Van Morrison."- Rolling Stone
"The best live performer I've ever seen."- John Mayer
October 20 (Tuesday): Rooster Revue click
for details- A Daytime Performance .... The Rooster Revue is a great little variety show that showcases some of New England's greatest entertainment treasures! Includes a full course luncheon for a day trip you won't soon forget.
October 21 (Wednesday): Rooster Revue click
for details- A Daytime Performance .... The Rooster Revue is a great little variety show that showcases some of New England's greatest entertainment treasures! Includes a full course luncheon for a day trip you won't soon forget.
October 25 (Sunday): Nanci Griffith click
for details- Up close and personal! Whether performing her own poetically evocative material or the compositions of her influences, friends, and peers, grammy award winning Nanci Griffith possesses a powerful gift for inhabiting the songs she sings - for communicating unspoken intimacy and heartache through her tender voice and lilting, delicate phrasing. A SMAC favorite back for the second time. Sold out quick last year.
October 31 (Saturday): Carol Noonan and friends presents: - Stone Mountain LIVE! (Show #16) click
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- Featuring Special Guests:
Kathy Mattea, country star
and other guests including Guitarist Bill Cooley
And of course, Carol Noonan and the Stone Mountain Boys fronted by guitarists Duke Levine and Kevin Barry.
Carol and her band host a star studded concert featuring country star Kathy Mattea and a variety of amazing music. With a house band to give the Tonight Show some competition, this unique concert is fast becoming one of Maine's most treasured traditions. The show is a great display of solo performance and musicans collaborating for a terrific night of music.
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November 5 & 6 ( Thursday & Friday): Capitol Steps click
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The musical cast of this politically satirical group will be back annually on election week and 2009 will be no excep[tion. Their appearance and have you rolling in the aisles! Put this on your calendar for the next ten years!! Our beloved Capitol Steps sold out a year ahead for their 2008 appearance.
November 7 (Saturday): High Range 10th Anniversary Show details- This terrific New England based Bluegrass band, is top notch. They have written some really great original tunes while satifying traditional bluegrass fans at the same time. They are great friends of Stone Mountain and we are proud to help them celebrate their 10 years of delighting audiences all over New England.
November 15 ( Sunday): Marty Stuart & the Fabulous Superlatives- Hooray!!! We need our Marty fix, and no Superlative show is better than here at Stone Mountain. They have become so dear to us, and to everyone else who gets to see this amazing country legend put on what is still one of the best SMAC shows that happens now annually. From bluegrass, to old country, to Stuart originals, Marty and this amazing band slide easily from musical styles making every song uniquely "superlative". Don't miss it......only one show this year!
November 17 (Tuesday): Rooster Revue click
for details- A Daytime Performance for those of you who can't make it out here at night..... The Rooster Revue is a great little variety show that showcases some of New England's greatest entertainment treasures! Includes a full course luncheon for a day trip you won't soon forget. The Rooster Revue will be held every third Tuesday of the month, or on special holidays, but for larger groups, we can arrange additional days, times, and or customize the event.
November 20 (Friday): Chris Smither click
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Our now annual visit from this great singer, songwriter, guitar player, blues guy, but not really...what he is, is all of those things and some. Come see why he sells out everytime! We love him...Comes highly SMAC recommended!
November 21 (Saturday): Don Campbell Band click
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Once Maine called Don their own, but now we share that ownership with Nashville where he has made a big name for himself in the country music scene. He and his band have a clean country sound, good singin', good songs, and they are as American as apple pie. A nice show from one of the nicest guys I know.
December 1 - 3 (Tuesday - Thursday): Rooster Revue click
for details- A Daytime Performance for those of you who can't make it out here at night..... The Rooster Revue is a great little variety show that showcases some of New England's greatest entertainment treasures! Includes a full course luncheon for a day trip you won't soon forget. The Rooster Revue will be held every third Tuesday of the month, or on special holidays, but for larger groups, we can arrange additional days, times, and or customize the event.
December 7 - 9 (Tuesday - Thursday): Rooster Revue click
for details- A Daytime Performance for those of you who can't make it out here at night..... The Rooster Revue is a great little variety show that showcases some of New England's greatest entertainment treasures! Includes a full course luncheon for a day trip you won't soon forget. The Rooster Revue will be held every third Tuesday of the month, or on special holidays, but for larger groups, we can arrange additional days, times, and or customize the event.
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