Upcoming Music and On Stage Open-Mic Events
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Music
Audience: All Ages
Artist: The Dan Moretti Quartet
Join us for a lively lunchtime performance featuring Dan Moretti at the Brown Bag Concert Series on Wednesday, November 12, 2025. Saxophonist Dan Moretti brings his signature mix of jazz, funk, and Latin rhythms to Mechanics Hall for an afternoon of packed with jaw-dropping rhythms and performances.With a career spanning decades, Moretti has performed with legends like Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, and Robert Plant. Whether you’re a long-time jazz fan or new to the genre, this concert promises something special for everyone.
| Event Date | 11-12-2025 12:00 pm |
| Individual Price | Free Event |
| Location | Mechanics Hall |
| Categories | Music, Latin, Jazz, Jazz Concert |
Mechanics Hall presents Club 321 with Mark Mandeville & Raianne Richards
Artist: Mark Mandeville & Raianne Richards
Massachusetts-based Musicians
Little by little, you will get to know Mark Mandeville & Raianne Richards through their unmistakable vocal harmonies, poetic lyrics and down-to-earth personae. They are a married musical couple based out of Webster, Massachusetts. These prolific and hard-working Massachusetts-based artists have contributed over seventeen albums within their first decade and toured consistently throughout the US and Canada.
Touches of Nature & Post-Industrial Era
Their songs poetically reflect personal experiences as factory workers, teachers, community organizers, and natives of post-industrial mill towns in central Massachusetts. The memories of days gone by and toils of history can be better remembered through songs such as “That Old Machine” or “Winds of Change.” Listeners feel refreshed lyrics with references to elements in nature.
| Event Date | 11-13-2025 7:00 pm |
| Individual Price | $20 |
| Location | Mechanics Hall |
| Categories | Music, Americana |
Gaelic Storm, a multi-national, Celtic juggernaut grows stronger with each live performance, and after two decades and over 2000 shows, they are a true force to be reckoned with.
The band attributes their continued success to their fanatic audience, and it’s a well-diversified crowd for sure – attracting fans of every genre with their rich storytelling, energetic instrumentals, devotion to Celtic traditions and passion for their stagecraft. They are as loyal to their fans as the fans are to them, as front man Patrick Murphy states, “The fans are the ones that have given us this life. We’re here for them.”Gaelic Storm takes a true blue-collar, hard-nose approach to touring, consistently traveling the US and internationally forging a unique path in the Celtic music world. “You have to see us live. We are the true working-man’s’ band,” says longtime member Ryan Lacey. “We still, and most likely always will, tour most of the year, and that’s how we constantly hone our craft.”
| Event Date | 11-13-2025 7:00 pm |
| Individual Price | See Registration |
| Location | The Cabot |
| Categories | Music, Ethnic, Celtic, Ethnic Concert |
“Shemekia Copeland is the greatest blues singer of her generation.” - The Washington Post
Award-winning blues, soul and Americana singer Shemekia Copeland possesses one of the most instantly recognizable and deeply soulful roots music voices of our time. She is beloved worldwide for the fearlessness, honesty and humor of her revelatory songs, as well as for her winning, engaging personality. Copeland, winner of the 2021 Blues Music Award for B.B. King Entertainer Of The Year, connects with her audience on an intensely personal level, taking them with her on what The Wall Street Journal calls “a consequential ride” of “bold and timely blues.”
| Event Date | 11-13-2025 7:30 pm |
| Individual Price | See Registration |
| Location | Bull Run Restaurant |
| Categories | Music, Americana, Blues, Soul, Americana Concert |
Keb’ Mo’
Solo Performance
It’s a little over 2,000 miles from Compton to Nashville, but drop the needle on Keb’ Mo’s captivating new album, Good To Be, and you can make the trip in a cool three-and-a-half-minutes flat.
“I’ve lived in Nashville for the last eleven years,” says Keb’, “but Compton has always been my home. Finding a way to connect those two places on this album was a powerful thing for me. It felt like something I needed to do.”
Written partially in Nashville and partially in the Compton house Keb’ grew up in, Good To Be is a celebration of roots and resilience, of growth and gratitude, of hope and memory. The songs here draw on country, soul, and blues to forge a sound that transcends genre and geography, weaving together past and present into a heartwarming tapestry spanning more than forty years of sonic evolution. Though Keb’ worked with a wide variety of collaborators on the project—country legend Vince Gill produced three tracks, while famed producer Tom Hambridge (B.B. King, Buddy Guy) helmed several more, and special guests like Darius Rucker, Kristin Chenoweth, and Old Crow Medicine Show appear throughout—it remains a deeply cohesive work, one anchored by the five-time GRAMMY winner’s magnetic vocal delivery and relentless optimism. “It’s good to be here / It’s good to be anywhere,” Keb’ sings on the album’s easygoing title track. “It’s good to be back / Good to be home again.”