Various time and venues throughout Lowell.   www.thetownandthecityfestival.com for times and locations

2nd Annual Tour of Multiple award-winning singer/songwriters David Buskin, Christine Lavin, John Forster, and Robin Batteau performing funny songs in-the-round for the month of April.

l’Esperance all acoustic mandolin ensemble features musicians from MA, NY, RI and CT of different backgrounds and ages who come together to play mandolins, mandolas, octave mandolins, mandocellos, mandobass and everything from bluegrass, Celtic, American Trad to Klezmer, from pop classics to Baroque.

“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 new album, “The Mother Of Trouble,” features Grammy winner Lori McKenna on background vocals, Juno award recipient and Bonnie Raitt Grammy hit song co-writer…

The Gibson Brothers will be bringing their world-class brand of bluegrass with brother-duet harmonies, and they will be joined by Shawn Lane, the mandolin player, tenor singer, and a founding member of Blue Highway. 

Garnet Rogers has established himself as ‘One of the major talents of our time”. Hailed by the Boston Globe as a “charismatic performer and singer”

Weekly Bluegrass Series and jamming with the local bluegrass community.  

carolinespencemusic.com There are some voices that manage to sound so sweet and innocent while conveying complicated truths and hard-won wisdom, as is the case with Nashville-based singer/songwriter Caroline Spence.