Arts and Entertainment
July 20, 2023
From: New Bedford Roots and Branches FestivalNB Roots and Branches is a free, one-day, acoustic music festival by and for the people taking place July 22, 2023. The festival is free to all, devoted to ensuring the various diverse folk communities of the city are represented on the performance schedule, and it aims to have a positive impact on the downtown New Bedford community. Roots and Branches will be hosting local and regional performers of true traditional music, indie folk, acoustic roots rock, contemporary songwriting, and further flung compositional & exploratory acoustic music. In direct collaboration with our fiscal sponsor, Downtown New Bedford Inc, the festival is creating unique indoor “stages” in New Bedford’s small business including Calico, Pour Farm Tavern, April Evans Beauty Salon, and Destination Soups. Each venue functions as a unique listening concert while simultaneously bringing attendees directly into the showrooms of the vibrant downtown business community. The outdoor traditional music performance areas will be hosted in downtown New Bedford’s Wing’s Court as an official city event sponsored by Destination New Bedford, the tourism department of New Bedford city government. The park directly abuts our concert venues. In those outdoor spaces, authentic experiences of 6 different traditional music cultures will include some scheduled events where festival goers can directly participate in the music making. In addition, our traditional music areas will have performances that represent the demographics of the city and the region as a whole with exciting opportunities to connect our shared present through our various rich and diverse pasts.
2023 Performers:
The Symphony Music Shop Stage at Pour Farm Tavern
12noon Louis Leeman
1pm Roots Run Wild
2pm Hot Club Cheese Roll
3pm Fourteen Strings
4pm Riley Coyote
5pm The Jethros
The Southcoast Lessons Stage at Destination Soups
12 noon Joanne Doherty
1pm MB & the Daves
2pm Shannon Davis
3pm Justin Arena
4pm Putnam Murdock
5pm Molly O'Leary
The Fiber Optic Center Stage at April Evans Beauty Lounge
12 noon The Moonbellies
1pm Youth String Band
2pm Christian Camarao
3pm Pebbles of Rain
4pm Pumpkin Head Ted Trio
5pm Eddie Dillon
The Downtown New Bedford Inc Stage at The Bristol Building
12noon Born October 4, 1998
1pm Carl Simmons
2pm Breachway
3pm John Dalton's Sphere's of Influence
4pm Nick LeBlanc
5pm Olivia W-B
The New Bedford Creative Stages
2 stage areas both located in Wing’s Court
12noon Bluegrass Jam w Paul & Erin Dube
12noon Shape Note Sing with Nate & Jim Bean
1:30 Rancho Folclorico de Recordacoes de Portugal
2pm Old Time Fiddle Session
2:30 pm New Bedford Sea Shanty Choir
4pm Irish Session with Colin Everett
5pm Pepe Bana
Date: Saturday, July 22, 2023
Location: All 6 stages are located within a block of Wings Court in historic New Bedford, MA.
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