The WMBR Roots Report
(Americana, Blues, Cajun & Zydeco)

• Friday, February 17:
  • Larry Flint and the Road Scholars (6pm) - Sally O's
  • Vasen (7, & 10pm) - Club Passim
  • Danny Kalb (7:30pm), & the Ross Livermore Band (10pm) - Johnny D's
  • Kimberly Fraser, Brian Conway, & Mark Simos (8pm) - Unity Church (Somerville, MA)
  • Jess Tardy Band (8pm) - Bull McCabe's
  • Tim Gearan Band (10pm) - Atwood's
  • Ruth Moody (Wailin' Jennys, & 8pm) - Center for the Arts (Natick, MA)
  • Boogaloo Swamis, & J-Bob and Lefty - Bull Run (Shirley, MA)
  • the Amy Black Band, & Danielle Miraglia (8pm) - the Me and Thee Coffeehouse (Marblehead, MA)
  • 27th annual Joe Val Bluegrass Festival w/ the Steep Canyon Rangers, Sierra Hull and Highway 111, the Spinney Brothers, Berklee Bluegrass All-Stars, Joe Sings Joe, Manic Mountain Boys, & the Get Down Boys (7pm-midnight) - Sheraton Hotel (Framingham, MA)

• Saturday, February 18:
  • Kimon Kirk (w/ Mike Castellana, & surprise guest?) performs live on the Lost Highway (9:30pm) - WMBR
  • Winter Campfire (4pm-11pm) w/ Margaret Glaspy (8pm), & Jess Tardy (10pm) - Club Passim
  • Family Jewels (4pm) - The Plough and Stars
  • Bagboys (5pm) - Burren
  • Les Sampou (6pm), & One Thin Dime (9pm) - Sally O's
  • Trailer Park (7:30pm), & Billy Keane and the Misdemeanor Outlaws - Toad
  • benefit for Muscian Medical Care w/ Shaun Wolf Wortis and the Legendary VuduKrewe All-Star Mardi Gras Band, Jenny Dee and the Deelinquents, & Jesse Dee - TT the Bear's Place
  • Barnaby Bright, Suzie Brown, & Jenee Halstead (8pm) - Cafe 939
  • Township, Black Helicopter, & Coyote Kolb - Church
  • For the Sake of the Song, tribute to Tom Waits w/ Brendan Hogan, Ryan Fitzsimmons, & Dressing the Debutantes (8pm) - Arts At the Armory Cafe
  • Preacher Jack (8pm) - Absolutely Fabulous (Melrose, MA)
  • Greg Piccolo and the Mardi Gras Expansion Pac (9pm) - Knickerbocker (Westerly, RI)
  • 20th annual Cajun and Zydeco Mardi Gras Ball w/ CJ Chenier and the Red Hot Louisiana Band, Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, the Pine Leaf Boys, & Preston Frank/Ed Poullard and the Big Daddy Zydeco Band (5pm) - Rhodes On the Pawtuxet (Cranston, RI)
  • 27th annual Joe Val Bluegrass Festival w/ Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper, the Whites, Special Consensus, the Claire Lynch Band, Bill Keith and Jim Rooney, Jimmy Gaudreau and Moondi Klein (w/ Jonathan Edwards), Josh Williams Band, Amy Gallatin and Stillwaters, the Reunion Band, Three Tall Pines, Rawhide, Southern Rhode, Wide Open Spaces, Still River, Raliroad House, Big River Stomp, Evergreen, & more (10am-midnight) - Sheraton Hotel (Framingham, MA)

• Sunday, February 19:
  • Winter Campfire (4pm-11pm) w/ Tricky Britches (7:15pm), Mariel Vandersteel and Jordan Tice (8pm), & Sunset Engine (10:15pm) - Club Passim
  • Frank Drake w/ Jimmy Ryan, Jerry Miller, Dan Kellar, Nikko Patten, & Paul Dilley (5pm) - Burren
  • the Natural Wonders (5pm), & the Frank Morey Band (9pm) - The Plough and Stars
  • the Seamonsters - Precinct
  • 27th annual Joe Val Bluegrass Festival w/ Blue Highway, Flatt Lonesome, Bluegrass Gospel Project, Della Mae, Flatt Rabbit, Reunion Hill Band, Five In The Chamber, Sleepy Hollow String Band, Darin and Brooke Aldridge, Monadnock, & Joe's Truck Stop (10am-6pm) - Sheraton Hotel (Framingham, MA)

• Monday, February 20:
  • Hope Roth (7:30pm) - Arts At The Armory Cafe
  • Nic Cowan, Old Money Boys, & Kiley Evans - Middle East Up
  • the White Owls (8pm), & the Andrea Gillis Band (10pm) - Toad
  • Bluegrass Monday's w/ Sean Staples, Eric Royer, & Scott Corneille and friends (10pm) - Atwood's
  • Geoff Bartley's open mic w/ Don White (10pm) - The Cantab Lounge

• Tuesday, February 21:
  • Brian Webb (7:30pm), & the Blue Ribbons (10pm) - Toad
  • Flogging Molly, Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears, & th Devil Makes Three - House of Blues
  • Fat Tuesday celebration w/ Eddie Scheer and the Tuesday Night All-Stars - Smoken' Joe's Bbq
  • Hannah Read Band (cd rel), & Tamsin Wilson (8pm) - Club Passim
  • Tony Watt and Friends (8:30pm), & Billy Wylder (10pm) - The Cantab Lounge

• Wednesday, February 22:
  • the Del Fuegos, & Robin Lane (8pm) - The Paradise
  • Fandango (8pm) - Toad
  • the Dennis Brennan Band (9:30pm) - The Lizard Lounge
  • Members of Morphine w/ Jeremy Lyons (10pm) - Atwood's
  • Lera Lynn - Narrows (Fall River, MA)

• Thursday, February 23:
  • Tom Hagerty Acoustic Band (6pm) - Sally O's
  • Punch Brothers (7:30pm) - Somerville Theatre, too)
  • Melvern Taylor and His Fabulous Meltones (7:30pm), Faces For Radio (Christian McNeil, Jimmy Ryan, Tim Gearan, & Eric Royer at 10:30pm) - Toad
  • Glen Campbell (8pm) - Wilbur
  • Sharon Van Etten, & Shearwater - The Paradise
  • Love In Stockholm, & the Ross Livermore Band (9:30pm) - The Lizard Lounge
  • Marcia Ball, & Joe Fletcher - Narrows (Fall River, MA, next night at the Kinckerbocker Cafe in Westerly, RI)
  • Suzanne Vega, & Elizabeth Lorry - Bull Run (Shirley, MA)

• Friday, February 24:
  • Jeremy Lyons Trio (6pm) - Sally O's
  • Anaias Mitchell (cd rel), Rachel Ries (7, & 10pm) - Club Passim
  • Toni Lynn Washington Band (9pm) - Crosby Whistle Stop (Charlestown, MA, Boston Swing Central presentation - dance lessons at 8pm)
  • Jess Tardy Band (8pm) - Bull McCabe's
  • Lucy Kaplansky, & Barbara Kessler (8pm) - Club Passim
  • Railroad Earth, & Cornmeal - The Paradise
  • Summer Villains (10pm) - Toad
  • Tim Gearan Band (10pm) - Atwood's
  • Roy Sludge Trio (10:30pm) - The Plough and Stars
  • Roomful of Blues, & Erin Harpe and the Delta Swingers - Bull Run (Shirley, MA)
  • Marcia Ball (9pm) - Knickerbocker Cafe (Westerly, RI)
  • Caravan of Thieves, & Heather Maloney - the Me and Thee Coffeehouse (Marblehead, MA)

• Saturday, February 25:
  • Frank Drake (w/ Dan Kellar and Paul Dilley) performs live on the Lost Highway (9:30am) - WMBR
  • Josh Lederman and the CSARS (4pm) - The Plough and Stars
  • Patsy Hamel Band (6pm), the Derringers, & the Elecric Heaters (9pm) - Sally O's
  • Toni Lynn Washington (7pm), Girls Guns, Glory, & JJ and Thee Cuban Heels (10pm) - Johnny D's
  • Yanni Batteau and the Styles (7:30pm) - Arts At The Armory Cafe
  • Jody Blackwell (7:30pm), & David Jonston (10pm) - Toad
  • Solas (8pm) - Somerville Theatre
  • Anne Heaton (cd rel), & Little Silver (7pm) - Club Passim
  • Andrea Gillis Band (10pm) - Atwood's
  • Sugar Ray and the Bluetones (8pm) - Amazing Things Arts Center (Framingham, MA)
  • John Mayall, & Mark T. Small - Narrows (Fall River, MA)

• Sunday, February 26:
  • Beausoleil (w/ Michael Doucet), & Marcia Ball (7pm) - Somerville Theatre
  • the Natural Wonders (5pm), & the Frank Morey Band (9pm) - The Plough and Stars
  • Tony Savarino and the Satanic Lounge Syndicate (8pm) - The Rosebud

• Monday, February 27:
  • the White Owls (8pm), & the Andrea Gillis Band (10pm) - Toad
  • Bluegrass Monday's w/ Sean Staples, Eric Royer, & Scott Corneille and friends (10pm) - Atwood's

• Tuesday, February 28:
  • Sub Rosa (9pm) - The Lizard Lounge
  • the Recession Boys, Tricky Britches, & Honey Badgers - Middle East Up
  • Jesse Baylin, & the Watson Twins - TT the Bear's Place
  • the Blue Ribbons (10pm) - Toad

• Wednesday, February 29:
  • Leap-year Day Americana showcase w/ Sam Reid and the Riot Act (7pm), Summer Villains (7:55pm), Three Day Threshold (8:50pm), Commanchero (9:45pm), & the Autumn Hollow Band (10:40pm) - Landsdowne Pub
  • Whitehorse (8pm) - Club Passim
  • Fandango (8pm) - Toad
  • Los Fletcheros (8:30pm) - Johnny D's
  • Sarah Borges spins with the American Primitive gang (9pm-1am) - River Gods
  • the Dennis Brennan Band, & Dietrich Strause (9:30pm) - The Lizard Lounge
  • Members of Morphine w/ Jeremy Lyons (10pm) - Atwood's

• Thursday, March 1:
  • Todd Thibaud (7:30pm), Faces For Radio (Jimmy Ryan, Tim Gearan, Eric Royer, & Christian McNeil at 10:30pm) - Toad
  • Pat Green, & the Josh Abbott Band - House of Blues
  • Tokyo Tramps (8:30pm) - Smoken' Joe's Bbq

• Friday, March 2:
  • Flamenco Festival w/ Compania Rafaela Carrasco (8pm) - Cutler Majestic (next night, too)
  • Rose Cousins (cd rel, & 8pm) - Club Passim
  • Twangbusters (8:30pm) - Cantina La Mexicana (Union Square, Somerville)
  • Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds, & Kaleigh Baker - Middle East Up
  • the Laura Grill Band (10pm) - Toad
  • Joe Fletcher and the Wrong Reasons (10:30pm) - The Plough and Stars
  • Black 47, & Mark Bernier - Knickerbocker Cafe (Westerly, RI)
  • Ari Hest, & Kat Quinn - the Me and Thee Coffeehouse (Marblehead, MA)

• Saturday, March 3:
  • Galen Moore rides shotgun (and drives) on the Lost Highway - WMBR
  • Johnny Mac and the Local Forecast (4pm) - The Plough and Stars
  • Carolina Chocolate Drops (8pm) - Berklee Performance Center, (at the Narrows following night)
  • Noam Weinstein (7pm), Highway Ghosts (cd rel), & the Swinging Steaks (10pm) - Johnny D's
  • Black Fortress of Opium (cd rel), Brian Carpenter and the Confessions, & Cooling Towers (9pm) - Magic Room (Brighton, MA)
  • cancer benefit w/ Jesse Dee, Banana Phonetic, B3 Kings, Brothers McCann, & special guests - Precinct
  • Jeremy Lyons family show (2:30pm) - the Me and Thee Coffeehouse (Marblehead, MA)

• Sunday, March 4:
  • TedX Somerville w/ Michael J. Epstein's Memorial Library, Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band, Jenee Halstead, & more (10am-6pm) - Arts At The Armory, (attendance through application only!!)
  • Flamenco Festival w/ Compania Olga Pericet (7pm) - Cutler Majestic
  • Brittany Haas, & Lauren Rioux (8pm) - Club Passim
  • Man and Mountain, Sun Sister, & Carolie Smith and the Good Night Sleeps - Middle East Up
  • Adam Ezra (9pm) - Toad

• Tuesday, March 6:
  • the McGann Brothers Trio (7:30pm), & the Blue Ribbons (10pm) - Toad
  • Jubilee Mule (8:30pm), & Joint Chiefs of RetroGrass (10pm) - The Cantab Lounge

• Wednesday, March 7:
  • Revolutionary Snake Ensemble (8pm) - Johnny D's
  • Fandango (8pm) - Toad
  • the Dennis Brennan Band (9:30pm) - The Lizard Lounge

• Thursday, March 8:
  • Melvern Taylor and His Fabulous Meltones (7:30pm), Faces For Radio (Tim Gearan, Eric Royer, Christian McNeil, & Jimmy Ryan at 10:30pm) - Toad
  • Session Americana (9:30pm) - The Lizard Lounge, too)
  • Liz Frame and the Kickers (10:30pm) - The Plough and Stars
  • Joe Fletcher and the Wrong Reasons - Knickerbocker Cafe (Westerly, RI)

• Friday, March 9:
  • Heather Maloney and Her Band (7:30pm), Jamie Lynn Hart, & Lovesexy (10pm) - Johnny D's
  • Lila Downs (8pm) - Berklee Performance Center
  • Todd Snider, & Kevn Kinney - The Paradise
  • Billy Keane and the Misdemeanor Outlaws - Precinct
  • Dave Aaronoff and the Protagonists (10pm) - Toad
  • Michael Tarbox (10:30pm) - The Plough and Stars
  • Coco Montoya - Narrows, (Fall River)
  • Jonathan Byrd, & Anthony DaCosta - the Me and Thee Coffeehouse (Marblehead, MA)

• Saturday, March 10:
  • Josh Lederman and the CSARS (4pm) - The Plough and Stars
  • Ryan Fitzsimmons (7:30pm), & John Cate and the Van Gogh Brothers (10pm) - Toad
  • Los Amigos Invisibles - The Paradise
  • Justin Levinson (9pm) - The Lizard Lounge
  • Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters - Bull Run (Shirley, MA)

• Sunday, March 11:
  • Royal Southern Brotherhood (Cyrill Neville, Devon Allman, Mike Zito, & more) - Bull Run (Shirley, MA)

• Tuesday, March 13:
  • the McGann Brothers Trio (7:30pm), & the Blue Ribbons (10pm) - Toad
  • Dixie Butterhounds (8:30pm), & Flatt Rabbit (10pm) - The Cantab Lounge

• Wednesday, March 14:
  • Fandango (8pm) - Toad
  • the Dennis Brennan Band (9:30pm) - The Lizard Lounge

• Thursday, March 15:
  • Todd Thibaud (7:30pm), Faces For Radio (Eric Royer, Christian McNeil, Jimmy Ryan, & Tim Gearan at 10:30pm) - Toad
  • Rich Robinson, & Amy LaVere - TT the Bear's Place
  • the Infamous Stringdusters, & Hot Day At The Zoo - The Paradise

• Friday, March 16:
  • Paul Kelly (w/ band at 8pm) - Club Passim, too)
  • Jay Farrar, Will Johnson, Anders Parker, & Yim Yames - The Paradise
  • Session Americana, & Rose Polenzani - the Me and Thee Coffeehouse (Marblehead, MA)

• Saturday, March 17:
  • benefit for Cystic Fibrosis w/ Comanchero, Rain Deer, & Three Day Threshold - Precinct

• Tuesday, March 20:
  • the McGann Brothers Trio (7:30pm), & the Blue Ribbons (10pm) - Toad

• Wednesday, March 21:
  • Fandango (8pm) - Toad
  • the Dennis Brennan Band (9:30pm) - The Lizard Lounge

• Thursday, March 22:
  • Melvern Taylor and His Fabulous Meltones (7:30pm), Faces For Radio (Christian McNeil, Jimmy Ryan, Tim Gearan, & Eric Royer at 10:30pm) - Toad
  • Sarah Jarosz, & Lera Lynn - Narrows (Fall River, MA)

• Friday, March 23:
  • Sarah Jarosz, Lera Lynn (7, & 10pm) - Club Passim

• Saturday, March 24:
  • Lera Lynn performs live on the Lost Highway (9:30AM) - WMBR

• Tuesday, March 27:
  • the McGann Brothers Trio (7:30pm), & the Blue Ribbons (10pm) - Toad

• Wednesday, March 28:
  • Fandango (8pm) - Toad
  • the Dennis Brennan Band (9:30pm) - The Lizard Lounge

• Thursday, March 29:
  • Todd Thibaud (7:30pm), Faces For Radio (Jimmy Ryan, Tim Gearan, Eric Royer, & Christian McNeil at 10:30pm) - Toad