Crafted Concert Series
Crafted Concert Series (3 Saturdays in a row!)
Saturday, September 24: Wooden Horse
Saturday, October 1: Chris Fitz Band
Saturday, October 8: Adam Ezra Group
All three shows start at 7:30 PM
Jean’s Playhouse • Need Directions?
General Seating
Rated G
Music, Craft Beverages, Food, Good Times!
Join us for this very special series, featuring 3 different bands on three different weekends! We’ll be raising the roof in the theatre, but outside there will be food trucks and crafted beverage on the grounds. Performances start at 7:30, but food trucks, craft beverages, and more begin at 4 PM!
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Wooden Horse
An Acoustic Rock Show in the tradition of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and America!
Saturday, September 24 • 7:30 PM • $25 per ticket
They are back to kick off the start of our Crafted Concert Series. After last Fall’s smash hit, Wooden Horse returns to the Playhouse, bringing authentic sounds and incredible music!
Wooden Horse is six piece powerhouse musical show and is the east coast’s premier dual tribute to the music of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and America! This group of accomplished musicians was founded in 2012 and has performed to standing ovations from very enthusiastic crowds at Foxwoods Fox Theatre, the Loos Center for the Arts, Danbury City Centre, the North Country Center for the Arts, and numerous other venues and concert series.
Over 10 years of hard work and dedication have gone into the show we present today. Stunning sound and lights come together with great music to make this a truly memorable concert. The Wooden Horse experience presents the intricate vocal harmonies and musical arrangements of the greatest hits these monster groups in a realistic and inspiring manner that is sure to thrill every audience!
Wooden Horse … a one of a kind musical experience! Kurt Voland – Acoustic Guitar, Percussion and Vocals Guy LaPointe – Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, and Vocals Gary St. Jean – Bass Guitar Scott Zurowski – Keyboards Ken Lubinsky – Drums and Vocals Jeff Mattson – Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar
https://www.facebook.com/woodenhorseband/
Chris Fitz Band
One of the premier “original” blues and roots acts in all of New England.
Saturday, October 1 • 7:30 PM • $25 per ticket
Chris Fitz broke into the Boston music scene back in 1994 after a 5 year stint in the San Francisco area. Chris honed his blues guitar chops by floating around all the blues clubs in the Bay Area and finding inspiration in the local and national blues artists who frequented them. He would then spend countless hours holed up in his apartment, guitar in hand and record player by his side, tirelessly teaching himself to sound like the great players he loved to watch live.
Upon moving back to Boston, his hometown, he wasted no time hitting the various blues jams around the city with a guarded confidence that he could play well enough to find his way into a working band. The singing and songwriting would come a little later but the blistering guitar work soon began to make an impact! Over twenty years and thousands of gigs later, the Chris Fitz Band, with Chris as band leader / singer / songwriter / guitar player, Mike Aiello on Drums and “Fretless Dave Kendarian” on bass remains one of the premier “original” blues and roots acts in all of New England.
https://www.chrisfitzband.com/
Adam Ezra Group
Fusing folk intimacy and rock energy with soul power and pop charm
Saturday, October 8 • 7:30 PM • $30 per ticket
Working outside the confines of the traditional music industry, Adam Ezra and his bandmates – Corinna Smith (fiddle), Alex Martin (drums), Poche Ponce (bass) – built a community of fans through sheer grit and determination, regularly performing hundreds of shows a year for the past two decades without any major label or mainstream radio support. Fusing folk intimacy and rock energy with soul power and pop charm, the band first emerged from Boston in the early 2000s and quickly garnered widespread acclaim for their bold, insightful songwriting and interactive, euphoric performances. From hole in the wall bars and house concerts to sold-out headline shows and dates with the likes of Little Big Town, The Wallflowers, Gavin DeGraw, Train, and The Wailers, Ezra and his bandmates treated every single gig like their last, attracting a die-hard following that believed not just in the music, but in their commitment to activism and social change, as well.
After their tour was cancelled at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ezra brought the show online to continue this commitment and created The Gathering Series which to-date has reached a cumulative audience of 15 million viewers. In addition, they brought The Gathering Series to the real world as they performed over 100 safe, socially distanced shows in parks and backyards around the USA. The Adam Ezra Group hit their 500 th Live stream show on July 25 th , 2021, and although they don’t live-stream nightly anymore, they do still live-stream to the fans at least two times a week. AEG has also started to tour heavily again in traditional and outdoor venues.
As if this wasn’t enough to keep them busy, the band also embarked on an ambitious new recording series dubbed ‘The Album Project’ which will see the band releasing at least 19 new singles over the next few years. What comes next for the Adam Ezra Group? The future is anyone’s guess right now, and the only thing the Adam Ezra Group knows for sure, is they’ll be out there making music however and whenever they can.
