North Central Mass Events

Live Music: Green Heron at Red Apple Farm

Red Apple Farm 455 Highland Ave., Phillipston, MA, United States

Green Heron returns to Red Apple Farm's Brew Barn for an afternoon of good food, brews, and lively folk and bluegrass music. Admission is free!

Live Music: Lori McKenna at Groton Hill

Groton Hill Music Center 122 Old Ayer Road, Groton, MA, United States

American folk and country music singer-songwriter Lori McKenna performs Nov. 9 at Groton Hill Music Center. McKenna got her start singing at local open-mic nights back in 1996 and writing lullabies to her children. Her career took off in 2005 when Faith Hill recorded four of her songs for “Fireflies,” and then brought her on […]

Ray Bonneville Blues it up at Bull Run

Bull Run Restaurant 215 Great Rd., Shirley, MA, United States

Grizzled Vietnam war veteran Ray Bonneville is a man of many talents. His award-winning bluesy storytelling ability will be on stage at the Bull Run on April 22. Acclaimed raconteur Ray Bonneville strips his bluesy Americana down to its essentials and steeps it in the humid grooves of the South, creating a compelling poetry of hard living […]

Livingston Taylor Comes to the Bull Run

Bull Run Restaurant 215 Great Rd., Shirley, MA, United States

Folk-pop royalty Livingston Taylor plays his sultry songs of folk at the Bull Run on June 11. Part of the famous musical Taylor family, the Berklee College of Music professor and longtime performer has Top 40 hits “I Will Be in Love with You” and “I’ll Come Running,” to “I Can Dream of You” and […]

Chris Smither at the Bull Run

Bull Run Restaurant 215 Great Rd., Shirley, MA, United States

Deemed “one of the absolute best singer-songwriters in the world” by the Associated Press, Chris Smither continues his brilliant 50 year career as a significant songwriter and an electrifying guitarist, drawing deeply from folk and blues, modern poets and philosophers. He will be at the Bull Run on September 22. Great music sounds easy. And great musicians […]

Vance Gilbert at the Bull Run

Bull Run Restaurant 215 Great Rd., Shirley, MA, United States

Vance Gilbert is coming to The Bull Run on Sunday, November 19 at 7:30pm to share the 14th release for this acoustic stalwart. Vance Gilbert:  “If Joni Mitchell and Richie Havens had a love child, with Rodney Dangerfield as the midwife, the results might be something close to the great Vance Gilbert", says Richmond Magazine. Vance's […]

Amy Speace Live at the Bull Run

Bull Run Restaurant 215 Great Rd., Shirley, MA, United States

Amy Speace one of contemporary folk and Americana's leading voices will be live at the Bull Run Restaurant Saturday, February 17 at 8:00pm. Amy Speace has played concerts all across the US and Europe and has graced stages from Glastonbury Festival, Cambridge Folk Festival in the UK to Rocky Mountain Folks Festival and Mountain Stage. […]

$25

An Evening with Madeleine Peyroux at Groton Hill

Groton Hill Music Center 122 Old Ayer Road, Groton, MA, United States

An evening with singer-songwriter Madeleine Peyroux at the Groton Hill Music Center on Saturday, May 17 at 8:00pm. Acclaimed singer-songwriter Madeleine Peyroux brings her most assured, courageous work to date to the Concert Hall at Groton Hill, with songs from her captivating ninth album, “Let’s Walk.” Powered by the distinctive, honeyed croon that delivered her […]

Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams Live at The Bull Run

Bull Run Restaurant 215 Great Rd., Shirley, MA, United States

Americana duo Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams live at the Bull Run Restaurant on Sunday, June 15 at 7:30pm. Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams acclaimed eponymous 2015 debut, released after seven years of playing in Levon Helm’s band – and frequent guesting with Bob Dylan, Phil Lesh, Little Feat, Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady, brought […]

$35