Boston Bluegrass Union

Old Time Jam at The Bebop
2024-11-17 19:00 - 22:00, 2024-11-24 19:00 - 22:00, 2024-12-01 19:00 - 22:00, 2024-12-08 19:00 - 22:00, 2024-12-15 19:00 - 22:00, 2024-12-22 19:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | The Bebop, 1116 Boylston St, Boston, MA, 02116, United States
Groovy old time jam every Sunday night, 7-10 pm.

Tuftonboro Country, Bluegrass and Gospel Jam session
2024-11-19 18:30 - 21:30, 2024-11-26 18:30 - 21:30, 2024-12-03 18:30 - 21:30, 2024-12-10 18:30 - 21:30, 2024-12-17 18:30 - 21:30 | The Old White Church, Center Tuftonboro, NH
The weekly Tuftonboro Country, Bluegrass & Gospel Music Jam Session continues at the historic Old White Church of Center Tuftonboro every Tuesday from 6:30 until about 9:30 pm. Fans of country, bluegrass and gospel music are invited to enjoy an evening of music. There is no admission charge, a donation is requested to help cover operational expenses. The Church is located on Route 109A, just across from the Tuftonboro General Store & Post Office. Everyone is invited to attend the jam session while enjoying cookies and a cup of coffee. For more info call Joe at 569-3861.

Bluegrass Jam at The Bebop
2024-11-20 21:00 - 23:30, 2024-11-27 21:00 - 23:30, 2024-12-04 21:00 - 23:30, 2024-12-11 21:00 - 23:30, 2024-12-18 21:00 - 23:30 | The Bebop, 1116 Boylston St, Boston, MA, 02116, United States
Bring your instrument and play some tunes with this talented bunch of bluegrass musicians! Or just come to eat and drink at The Bebop Boston.
Every Wednesday 9-midnight.

Concord Conservatory Open Bluegrass Jam
2024-11-21 19:30 - 21:00, 2024-11-28 19:30 - 21:00, 2024-12-05 19:30 - 21:00, 2024-12-12 19:30 - 21:00, 2024-12-19 19:30 - 21:00 | Concord Conservatory of Music, 1317 Main Street, Concord, MA, 01742, United States
The Open Bluegrass Jam is back!
Thursdays, 7:30 – 9:00 pm in the sanctuary
Open to bluegrass players at all levels – guitar, mandolin, banjo, fiddle, dobro, bass, singers – join Max Anderson as he calls the tunes, posts the charts, and leads the group (at a manageable speed) through the great repertoire of tunes and songs from the bluegrass tradition.
Open to musicians and those who just want to listen and observe.
Jam dates:
December 2, 9, and 16, January 6, 13, 20, and 27, February 3, 10, and 17, March 3, 10, 17, 24, and 31, April 7, 14, and 28, May 5, 12, 19, and 26
$10 suggested donation is greatly appreciated to support the program.

Jamvember 2024
2024-11-22 - 2024-11-24 | Sheraton Framingham, 1657 Worcester Road, Framingham, 01701, United States
JamVember is a weekend-long bluegrass “non-festival”
focused on jamming, jamming, and more jamming!
JamVember will be held on November 22nd, 23rd & 24th, 2024
(a.k.a. the weekend before Thanksgiving)
at The Sheraton in Framingham, MA
Lots of jams hosted by local luminaries and workshops too!
https://jamvember.com/ for pricing.

Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway
2024-11-22 20:00 - 22:00 | Groton Hill Music Center, 122 Old Ayer Road, Groton, MA, 01450, United States
On her new album, City of Gold, Molly Tuttle — joined by her band Golden Highway — shares a batch of spellbinding stories that span time and place: wildly colorful fables populated by gold miners and fortune tellers, true-to-life tales of love and loss and a fast-changing world, and a reimagining of Alice in Wonderland set in the backwoods of Kentucky, to name just a few. The follow-up to 2022’s Crooked Tree—a widely lauded LP that won the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album, with Tuttle earning a Best New Artist nomination—the Northern California-raised musician’s fourth full-length album brings those narratives to a resplendent form of bluegrass rooted in her virtuosic guitar playing. This time around, the Nashville-based singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist chose to record with her live band — Bronwyn Keith-Hynes (fiddle, vocals), Dominick Leslie (mandolin), Kyle Tuttle (banjo, vocals), and Shelby Means (bass, vocals) — for the first time, lending a potent new energy to her exquisitely crafted sound.

Nora Brown with Stephanie Coleman + Dirk Powell with Amelia Powell
2024-11-24 19:00 - 22:00 | Groton Hill Music Center, 122 Old Ayer Road, Groton, MA, 01450, United States
First brought together by Brooklyn’s tight-knit old-time music community in 2017, Nora Brown and Stephanie Coleman share a rich musical partnership that belies their 20 year age difference.
Dirk and Amelia Powell are a daughter/father duo with strong roots in the bayous of Louisiana and the mountains of Kentucky.

WUMB Presents Twisted Pine, Damn Tall Buildings & Ali McGuirk
2024-11-30 20:00 - 23:30 | The Sinclair, 52 Church Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
WUMB presents Boston’s own Twisted Pine celebrating their record release “Love Your Mind” with friends Damn Tall Buildings and Ali McGuirk — all home for the holiday.
Doors open at 7 pm. Tix range from $15-20 in advance.
Twisted Pine / LOVE YOUR MIND
On October 18th, Twisted Pine releases its joyous third LP, Love Your Mind, on Signature Sounds Recordings. The title represents the quartet landing on a more expansive sound than ever, after years of touring, serious introspection, bouts of self-doubt, glorious bursts of creativity, and many after-hour festival jam sessions and pickin’ till dawn.
Co-produced by the band and longtime-collaborator Dan Cardinal at his studio Dimension Sound in Boston, the record is loaded with experimental production, fearless songwriting featuring input from each member, finely-crafted collaborative arrangements, playing that’s virtuosic and visceral. It’s a reflection of what the band listens to. It’s buoyant pop and delicate folk, raging old-time energy, and old-school r&b grooves.

Mr. Sun Plays Ellington's Nutcracker Suite
2024-12-06 20:00 - 22:30 | Groton Hill Music Center, 122 Old Ayer Road, Groton, MA, 01450, United States
Bluegrass supergroup Mr Sun performs a new interpretation of Ellington’s legendary Nutcracker Suite!
If you haven’t heard of the cheerfully named supergroup Mr Sun, you’ve certainly heard its proponents, four of the finest musicians on the American roots scene: Renowned fiddler Darol Anger, Professor Emeritus at Berklee College of Music, who has released many solo albums in addition to his work with David Grisman and Mike Marshall, and founded the Turtle Island Quartet, Psychograss, and Republic of Strings; Joe K. Walsh, mandolin virtuoso and vocalist who spent four years with the award-winning bluegrass act the Gibson Brothers before becoming solo artist and songwriter and Strings Department Professor at Berklee; all-around guitar genius Grant Gordy, a former member of Dawg Music guru David Grisman’s band; and the phenomenal Scots bassist Aidan O’Connell, who has backed harpist Maeve Gilchrist and countless modern Jazz heroes.

A Bluegrass Christmas at the Homegrown Coffeehouse
2024-12-07 19:30 - 21:30 | Homegrown Coffeehouse, First Parish Church, 23 Dedham Ave., Needham, MA, United States
A joyous evening of Bluegrass Gospel and Holiday favorites at the Homegrown Coffeehouse! Wonderful home baked holiday goodies during intermission. Not to be missed!
Note the new starting time for this season!

Andrew Marlin String Band / The Murphy Beds
2024-12-11 19:00 - 22:00 | The Red Room @ Cafe 939, 939 Boylston Street, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
Andrew Marlin is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. His latest solo record, Phthalo Blue, is out now. It features all original music by Marlin, recorded with a single mic at the Tractor Shed in Goodlettsville, Tennessee.
Eamon O’Leary and Jefferson Hamer (a.k.a. The Murphy Beds) present traditional and original folk songs with close harmonies and deft instrumental arrangements on bouzouki, guitar, and mandolin.
Red Room @ Cafe 939 Boston, MA

3rd Friday Jam at PCA
2024-12-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Parish Center for the Arts, 10 Lincoln St, Westford, MA, 01886, United States
Featuring, but not limited to Bluegrass music
Bring your Guitar, Banjo, Fiddle, Bass, Dobro, Harp (all types), mandolin,
bones, etc.. and come and enjoy a night of great music.
The Parish Center For The Arts (The PCA). 10 Lincoln Street Westford, MA
PCA is a BYOB facility, so feel free to bring snacks, a bottle, whatever!
Please bring whatever you need, and be sure to police up everything when we go. I ask you to leave no trash, garbage, bottles, cans, etc behind.
There are chairs and tables as needed.
This is a pass-the-hat event, with proceeds going to the PCA to offset the cost of our usage.
Welcome to players of all skill levels and audiences alike.
Free parking
Monthly on 3rd Fridays, 7-10pm

Bluegrass Christmas at Hopedale Unitarian
2024-12-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Hopedale Unitarian Parish, 65 Hopedale St, Hopedale, MA, 01747, United States
Celebrate the Christmas season with a joyous evening of Bluegrass Gospel and Holiday favorites at Hopedale Unitarian Parish! Wonderful home baked holiday goodies during intermission. Not to be missed!
