Happy spring (officially)!!

NJ foursome Ortolan, fresh of rave reviews at SXSW, will hit the Plymouth Waterfront for Schoolhouse Rock August 14th.

They were just down in Austin, TX for South By Southwest, the gargantuan music and film festival, and get this: New Jersey folk quartet ORTOLAN will be rocking the stage in Plymouth this summer! Ortolan, a talented group of 3 sisters and 1 sister-in-law will bring their melodic folk music to the stage at this year’s SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK, thanks especially to Ryan Wood of the indie music blog TRANZMISSION. This will be the 4th year we’ve put on the show (the first on July 27, 2007 was the spark that started Brewster Productions). We’ll be taking donations for the Vh1 Save the Music Foundation in support of a very important cause: Music and arts education, especially in under-served urban and rural schools. In addition to Ortolan, the SHR10 stage will be rocked by Boston & Bosco, The Barroom Heroes (a punk band of middle school kids), and Doug Ratner & His Watchmen, plus a couple more to be announced.

Keep checking our Schedule page for near-constant updates. We’ve also just added The Eagle Hill Band acoustic on 5/28 to kick off the season, and Jesse Boncek, playing with Nate Cristofori on June 11 at the Hedge House.

Summer’s coming soon, and so are we. Get ready for School’s Out!! And while you’re at it, go to some Brewster Productions shows – we’ve got at least 1 a week up in Boston, and lots more at various places and times.

- Jon

Yes, you heard it right, it’s only November 17th and we already have our 5 main stage summer concert dates lined up. This means that if you’re in a band and you want to play on the big stage in Plymouth next summer, give us a shout! We’re starting everything way ahead of time this year, and our 3rd summer of concerts is going to be the best yet. Here are the 5 main stage dates, we’ll be adding the Hedge House shows soon – there will probably be about 10 of those:

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Friday, July 9, 2010

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Saturday, August 14, 2010 (4th Annual Schoolhouse Rock, all-day charity show)

Keep checking back here for updates, and if you haven’t got OUR NEWSLETTER (look to the right of this page), you definitely need to sign up for that. It’ll hit your inbox periodically throughout the year, giving you updates on all things School’s Out Summer Concert Series and Brewster Productions. And by the time summer hits, you won’t want to miss it, because we’ll be giving away cool stuff, and doing other real cool exclusive things with the newsletter. (PS: It’s totally FREE, just sign up on the side of this page, over there —>).

Also, we’re really hoping to have a reasonable amount of funds going before the shows even start, so please help support the concert series with a donation of ANY amount (literally any amount – seriously, if you give $1, you are an incredible human being in our book). You can donate here using PayPal and your credit/debit card – it couldn’t be easier!

So that’s it from us for now. Keep checking back here as we update everyone on the goings on, sign up for the newsletter, and PLEASE DONATE! Even just a dollar or two.

Thank you for the support. Keep it real.

- Jon

PS – go to the Plymouth South HS Talent show on Thursday 11/19. We’ll be there running sound – it’s going to be a great time.