A quick point of clarification: In the last missive we wrote, "We've got mostly higher-profile performers through the end of 2024"... what we meant was 'through the end of our performance season', which is Fall through Spring (with Summers off). Though looking over our calendar again, it's still true — there are biggies coming up this Fall too.Sunday afternoon is going to be fun!, hope you can make it. The Fretbenders — Bob and Diane Kordas — do a toe-tapping blues / roots / americana / folk / country / rock thing... "where a down-home barbecue meets a speakeasy." They've played in New England swing, bluegrass, and roots bands through the years. The Fairlanes write songs about life that sit somewhere between folk, rock, and americana. There's gonna be about half a dozen of them Fairlanes people squeezed onto our little stage.Tickets are $10, that's just five bucks a band. All ticket proceeds go to the performers. A 3:00 PM matinee this Sunday, March 10. 

We've put in several days getting the new audio stuff racked up and wired up but still need to stress-test it before this weekend's show. Hopefully today. Excited! It never could have happened without your help, we're so grateful. Extra big pats on the back to Guilford Sound and Chroma Technology, and to four other particular individuals and private foundations — three of them said right up front that they want to remain anonymous, and we never asked the other if it would be OK to shine a spotlight on them. If you're a donor of any amount for that fundraiser or anytime prior (or anytime to come), please know how appreciated you are. You're appreciate a LOT. SO much appreciated.

Carolann Solebello is best known as a founding member of Americana trio Red Molly. Her smooth, pitch-perfect voice, compelling lyrics, and warm yet accomplished acoustic guitar work nod to folk traditions while an urban sense of rhythm and sophisticated phrasing plant her firmly in the present. She's won a pile of songwriting awards, and is currently working on her sixth solo album. Carolann has a history with Bellows Falls, having been a three-time performer at the Roots On The River festival plus appearances at fabled local venues Oona's and Boccelli's. She played a terrific set here back in 2019, and a return date got eaten by the Covid lockdown. We're so happy to finally have her in the room again.Marc Douglas Berardo will co-bill, his first appearance here. Marc composes song-length fictions and delivers them with an engaging presence and deft storytelling. His sharply drawn, award winning song-portraits cast a net on unusual and beguiling characters and situations — circus retirees, ex-pats in Florida rum bars, union ironworkers, old poets, aimless New York City debutantes, near-death car crashes, hard-nosed fishermen, and the changes that experience brings to everyone. He's shared bills with heavyweights like The Doobie Brothers, NRBQ, Guy Clark, Vassar Clements, Ralph Stanley, Buffalo Springfield, Steve Forbert, Justin Townes Earle, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Livingston Taylor, David Olney, 10,000 Maniacs, and John Hiatt.Tickets are $20 in advance through stage33live.com or at the door. Advance tickets guarantee entry. All ticket proceeds go to the performers. Seating is limited to 40; the event will be recorded and filmed. 

This show was rescheduled from January due to weather. Second chance!Reed writes stories of the human condition with lyrics and voice that push boundaries while paying homage to tradition... dusty, patient, genuine folk americana. His sixth studio album, Wild Wild Love (2022) was recorded with The Band of Heathens in Austin, TX. He first hit radars as the lead singer of the relentlessly touring Boulder, Colorado, band Acoustic Junction (Mercury/Capricorn). His songs have appeared in TV and film productions including the feature Just Friends (New Line Cinema), Joan of Arcadia (CBS), Laguna Beach (MTV), The Biggest Loser (NBC), Dawson's Creek (WB), and Party of Five (FOX). He was nominated for a Grammy Award for the song Fly, co-written with southern artist Brent Cobb, which country legend Lee Ann Womack recorded.Foehl will be joined by drummer Jeff Berlin, veteran of the Boston scene who has recorded and performed with — in addition to Reed — Jeffrey Foucault, Bow Thayer, Boris McCutcheon, and many more. He's played on over 100 albums.Tommy Crawford, multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter, will open. A talented solo musician, Crawford is better known for his work in live theater and independent film as an actor, composer and lyricist, arranger, and music director. He is a founding member and director of NYC-based band / songwriting / theater collective The Lobbyists, which often explores the intersection between musical performance and theatrical storytelling. Tommy is a lifetime artist member of Ensemble Studio Theater and a graduate of Yale University in Theater Studies. His most recent studio album, Athena and the Moon, was released in 2022.Tickets are $20 in advance through stage33live.com or at the door. Only 40 tickets will be sold, advance tickets guarantee entry. The event will be recorded and filmed. 

Aleda is a performer, producer, songwriter, and poet. This will be her first appearance at Stage 33 Live, an exclusive in-the-round Listening Party for her unreleased new album, Every Song on This Playlist Is for You, enhanced with performance and projection art. The album was co-produced with indie-pop producer Christopher Hawthorn. She calls it “a striptease with grief... it’s about oppositional force, the way we simultaneously shed and bloom. And the patience that takes. And the tenderness. And the trust.”Johnny Gifford and Trevor Robinson will open with largely improvised unnerving ambient treated-guitar and -bass, maybe synthesizers, and maybe sax, and probably voice. Tickets are $10 in advance through stage33live.com or at the door. Advance tickets guarantee entry in the event of a sold-out show. All ticket proceeds go to the performers. Admission is limited to 40; the event will be recorded and filmed. 

We welcome back London-born, Oxford-educated Rupert Wates and his thoroughly American acoustic folk steeped in deep wells of cabaret and jazz. With the lyricism of Gordon Lightfoot and the attention to craft of Richard Thompson, his highly developed songwriting is by turns vulnerable and bold, featuring intricate lyrics and memorable melodies, exceptional guitar skills, and a smooth, expressive voice. (And his enunciation is impeccable.) He’s released eleven acclaimed solo albums and won dozens of songwriting awards, and his work has been covered by artists in the UK, Canada, and the US, including two tribute albums to his material. The doors to large venues and big festivals are open to him, but he prefers intimate, up-close audiences in small listening rooms where the emphasis is on the music. The recognition that regular people — like us — are what make the world extraordinary reflects in his vivid, sophisticated songwriting about the American experience.Tom Pirozzoli’s recordings have had national and international success, and he’s in the Smithsonian Folkways Collection. He’s been on the Top 40 AAA charts, had a featured release at Tower Records back in the day, and has worked with artists like Greg Brown, Jesse Winchester, Doc Watson, and Willy Porter. Sophisticated guitar playing forms a rich backdrop for his warm tenor, with melodies and lyrics exploring a wide range of the human and global experience. His encounters with people, cultures, and ideas while traveling Europe, South America, India, Southeast Asia, China, and Tibet continue to enrich and deepen his music. His relaxed stage presence is endearing, funny, insightful, and spontaneous. These days, Pirozzoli only performs a handful of times annually as he focuses on his successful fine art career. Stage 33 Live is enthused to have him back in the room.Advance tickets are $15 through stage33live.com, or $20 at the door. Music starts at 7:00. 100% of tickets sales support the performers. Admission is limited to 40. The event will be recorded and filmed. 

The rescheduled Bad Smell / Tinkerbullet hard-synth-plus-hard-rock evening — now with Ezra Holloway's new band on the bill too — will be Saturday, July 27.Then three weeks and a day later, on Sunday, August 18, the darkly hilarious and dead serious singer-songwriter-poet Grant Peeples finally gets his tree-hugging, NASCAR-watching, leftneck skinny butt back up here from Florida for the first time since 2019.

9/8/24, Sunday: Taylor Abrahamse with Steve Hartmann (7:00 PM)9/29/24, Sunday: Julian Gerstin Sextet (time TBD)10/19/24, Saturday: John John Brown (7:00 PM)11/10/24, Sunday: Dana Cooper with Cameron Sutphin (7:00 PM)12/7/24, Saturday: Dylan Patrick Ward album release show with Ian Galipeau (7:00 PM) 

We'll have our 2025 dates approved by 33 Bridge Street's owners and its tenants sometime this summer. Everything we do is only through their grace, and those kind and generous folks make it pretty easy to be at the bottom of the food chain. We in turn try hard to make our presence beneficial for them. Or at least neutral.Once we have a calendar, we'll start filling it up from the first-come first-served wait list that some performers have been sitting on patiently (or maybe not patiently, but quietly anyway) for well more than a year. We're not going to have enough dates for everyone on the list. Seriously, it's nuts.