About admin

Jon is a co-founder of the School's Out Summer Concert Series and Brewster Productions. He enjoys doing things like: updating the Web site, playing in the Eagle Hill Band, making fun of his girlfriend's pointy elbows, and being an Emerson College grad student, which he is. He also thinks Scott is the sexiest sound guy to ever fade a fader.

Acoustic show; big plans for Brewster Productions

Posted on August 2, 2008 by admin

Last night’s acoustic show was great – even though we were competing with Lifehouse for an audience (they were next door at Memorial Hall). George Barber and Chris Albert each put on a great show. There will be a bunch of photos up soon, but check out a couple below.

And as for Brewster Productions, we’re feeling ambitious. Lately, we’ve been noticing a bit of a community of musicians forming around the SE Mass area – artists performing together and going to each others shows, etc. – and we want to keep this going. So in light of this, our hope is that our new web site (coming soon) is going to serve as a sort of meeting point for the growing music scene around these parts. Artists and fans alike will be able to post photos, use message boards, listen to music and lots of other things. It’ll be sort of like if MySpace was a person and decided to devolve 1,000 years and forget how to speak English. Basically, it’s going to be a small, fun thing that will get people in the immediate area interacting and, most importantly, going out to shows and supporting the musicians.

We’ll let you know when all of this is ready to go, but for now you can check out our blog (you’ve probably noticed it since you are reading it right now) and our new temporary web site.

Peace,
Jon
BP

A few photos:
George Barber 8/1

Chris Albert 8/1

New Brewster Blog and cool Web stuff coming soon!

Posted on July 31, 2008 by admin

Welcome to the new Brewster Blog! We’ll be touching up our website a bit in the coming weeks (with the help of Shaun from Sapreme Design) and our new blog is the first of many cool things to come out of it. Expect forums, message boards, photo galleries and other things of the that nature.

As far as the blog goes, we’ll be posting copies of important posts to our MySpace blog, but come here for the annals of Brewster Productions’ opinion, recollection and introspection.

-Jon
Brewster Productions

In case you thought we only do shows in Plymouth…

Posted on July 18, 2008 by admin

In case you thought we only do shows in Plymouth….

Yes it may seem that way, but stay tuned later this summer and fall for shows not only up the South Shore and down on the Cape, but in Boston, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Upstate New York. We tend to a lot of college shows during the school year and more Plymouth stuff in the summer. It just kinda works out that way.

Jon

Whoa! Shows, shows and more shows…

Posted on July 18, 2008 by admin

Howdy,

Well I just got back from seeing Greg Loftus, Stephen Infascelli, The Works and some other rad characters at Sweet Tomatoes in Falmouth, and now I’m all hopped up on caffeine and excited for the show tomorrow night. As you may or may not know, The Release is headlining. This is quite the treat because these guys have been more or less the kings of the SE Mass alt/pop-punk/ska scene since 2000 as 3 Feet Short (if you were around, you know some of the others: Leftout, Underage, 86, Comboguy, Twitch 27, Left To Prove, Drive It Like You Stole It, among a ton more). Now they’re back with a recent name change to The Release and recording a new album and lots of other exciting things. We’ve also got Boston and Bosco, a fine band of Plymoutheans rocking the stage – these guys have been playing up around Boston and at other big-deal local places, so we’re all in for a treat. And of course, kicking off the show are 2 of our Brewster semi-regulars, Ben Carter, from Andover and based in RI, and Shaun Dever, another native of America’s Hometown.

Then just when you thought Brewster was pulling out all the stops to entertain the wanton masses, we tell you this: We now have ANOTHER free concert series on good old Water St. in Plymouth, but this time it’s at the other end of the road. Starting next Saturday (7/26), the “Acoustic Evenings on the Harbor” Free Concert Series will bring some of the area’s best acoustic singer-songwriters to the lawn of the Hedge House (right next to Mama Mia’s). It’s free, but feel free (no pun intended) to give us some money at the gate so we can buy ourselves and the musicians a Gatorade or something.

OK, so everyone should be at the show tomorrow. Support the local music revolution.

- Jon
Brewster Productions

p.s. I’m actually listening to an old 3 Feet Short recording, but it wasn’t on the Myspace search thing, so i figured I’d put my favorite album ever up there. Peace.

A year in the life

Posted on June 10, 2008 by admin

A year in the life

About one year ago and i can remember the conversation. It was a simple idea to put on shows for artist that just wanted to play. A year later the idea we had is now a reality. July of last year i had no clue how to book, produce or run a show. When we rented a mixer it took me litteral an hour to figure out how to make sound come out of the speakers. So one year later to have shows going on and have a concert series on the waterfront is insane to me, but it was battle i fought with many people. Jon dorn has put just as much soul into this idea, Hes my right hand man and sometimes my left. Harry is a good kid, he tries. Im not gunna sit here and thank everyone yet. Thats for another time, The celtics tip off in a half hour.
so thank you everyone. lets make it a great year!

-Scott

Brewster Blog Time! Coming this summer…

Posted on April 8, 2008 by admin

Hey everyone -

I should be doing my homework right now, so of course I decided to initiate Brewster Productions into the MySpace blog universe.

We’re getting closer to Brewster’s 1-year anniversary and so far we’ve been having great success. We’re putting on our farthest-away show on April 19th at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY with popular Skidmore artists Lyle Divinsky, Nat Osborn and Luke Santy, as well as two of our old standbys, Shaun Dever and Stephen Infascelli.

This summer is going to be one of the rockingest summers since they started keeping track of that back in 1894. So far we have a whole free concert series featuring some of the hottest bands on the South Shore, and we’ll certainly be having lots of shows at places other than the Plymouth waterfront. The best part is the concerts are on Friday – we realized that as awesome of a place Plymouth is, there’s nothing happening for under-21-year-olds on Friday nights. That’s where the School’s Out! Summer Concert Series comes in. We’re taking on the demographic the Wednesday night concerts miss and giving amateur musicians (and a few budding professionals) the chance to perform on Plymouth’s biggest stage. Hopefully we can hip-up Plymouth for the generation that’s grown up with computers, not typewriters.

That’s all for now for the Brewster Blog. Perhaps next week I’ll go into the history of Brewster Productions and story of one bright-eyed youngster named Scott McEwen and his relentless pursuit of a dream…….. (sparkling star shoots across the night sky)

Good night and good luck,
Jon Dorn, VP