#top5 fun new things about the 2011 summer concerts – NUMBER 4

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Jon Dorn

We’re counting down on Twitter (@brewsterprod) the top 5 cool new things we’re unveiling this summer at our concert series and music festival. Here’s #4!

4. Lights, camera, action! We’ve got a lovely new lighting setup, and sweet new camera on staff this summer. We’re finally able to document all the concerts like we weren’t able to before – we’ve got a new camera, Jon’s Canon 60D to be exact, and we’re going to light the Hedge House stage for cinematography. That is, we’re going to make it look really classy and pretty – not just the colored PAR lights anymore (though they’ll still be there). Expect lots of great HD video, and maybe even a fun documentary-type movie recapping the summer. Here’s a video from our June 4th show (no lights, because it was an afternoon show):

“Cambridge” – Ben Carter, Live June 4, 2011 from Jon Dorn on Vimeo.

Stay tuned for #3…

#top5 fun new things about the 2011 summer concerts!

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Jon Dorn

We’re counting down on Twitter (@brewsterprod) the top 5 cool new things we’re unveiling this summer at our concert series and music festival. Here’s #5!

5. New names! “Acoustic Nights Free Concert Series” and “Plymouth Independent Music Festival” – like a band changing it’s name, it’s time for a fresh start so we can keep on growing. The shows were previously the School’s Out Summer Concert Series, and Schoolhouse Rock, reflecting our initial focus on the cause of public education – we haven’t abandoned the cause though! This year, we put on No More Pencils, No More Books, a free graduation day concert at the Hedge House to celebrate the graduates of Plymouth Schools and show our appreciation for the school system that produced us.

Stay tuned for #4…

Whoa, look at all those free concerts!

Posted on July 3, 2011 by Jon Dorn

We’ve got a whole bunch of free shows this summer, including the Acoustic Nights Free Concert Series and the inaugural Plymouth Independent Music Festival. They’re all between July 15th and September 1st, featuring artists like Lucas Carpenter, The Release, The Okay Win, Jake Hill, Westerly Whales, Sarah Blacker, Ben Carter, Carly Teft, Emma Ate the Lion, The Brightest Lights, Anika Scribbling, and way more.

Brewster goes to the ARTYs!!

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Jon Dorn

(These photos are also on Facebook in this album: Brewster goes to the ARTYs!)

The other night, May 6th to be exact – and almost exactly 6 years to the day after our junior prom, incidentally – we were honored with a prestigious ARTY award from the Plymouth Cultural Council. We really can’t express how truly honored we are to receive such recognition for the work we’ve done in our hometown. Thank you to everyone, especially our good friend and co-founder Harry Quinn, all the friends and family members who’ve helped us over the years, all the amazing musicians we’ve worked with, and another ARTY award-winner last Friday, Donna Curtin of the Plymouth Antiquarian Society. Also a big thank you to local artist Carly Tefft for performing at the event (she’ll be playing 8/5 at the Hedge House too!).

But just because we got a really cool award doesn’t mean we’re stopping! Get ready for a crazy summer of free concerts, for one thing, and check out a short film we just helped shoot, “Clean Pop”, directed by Jon Dorn, starring members of the Eagle Hill Band and Nick A (production photos up soon).

Check out the ARTYs photos!

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Hey fall, what’s up. NH festival a success, onward to more shows.

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Jon Dorn

Hey everyone, just a quick update. We’ve been a little absent from the website in the past few weeks (to keep up with us all the time, follow us on Twitter), so here’s a quick update.

1) The 2010 free concert series came to an anticlimactic conclusion when we had to cancel the final 2 shows, making the (awesome) show w/ Greg Loftus and Steve MacDonald on 8/20 the last for the year. We’ve got big things in the works for 2011, so keep on the lookout for clues.

2) We did side-stage sound at the Black Mountain Music Festival in Jackson, NH this past weekend (feat. Rustic Overtones, Barefoot Truth, Audio Kickstand, and more), and it went great…..until we tried to drive home. On our way home, we had a big truck problem and we had to get towed back to Plymouth from NH. Fortunately AAA Gold covered the towing distance for free. Unfortunately, those AAA free miles don’t apply to trailers – so we had to pay to get the trailer towed back. It was quite a bit.

3) We’ve got 3 events on the calendar at the moment: A kids concert in Boston, the Canton Fall Classic road race, and the PSHS Talent show. Should be a great fall – keep your eyes peeled for more shows!

Toodles.

Jon & the Brewster team

Festivals, festivals, festivals!

Posted on August 3, 2010 by Jon Dorn

Naukabout Music Festival 8/7 @ the Barnstable County Fairgrounds, all day.

Hey there,

Just a quick summer update on the Brewster site. (don’t forget to go check out our School’s Out Summer Concert Series, running until 9/3[w/ LUCAS CARPENTER!] on the Plymouth Waterfront)

We’ve got quite the festival-filled august ahead of us. We’ll actually be doing sound production at 3 music festivals this month. Yikes! First you can find us manning the side stage at the huge Naukabout Music Festival on Cape Cod 8/7 (featuring the likes of Bela Fleck, Ryan Montbleau Band, Barefoot Truth and more); then we’ll be running our very own music festival, the 4th annual Schoolhouse Rock Free Music Festival on the Plymouth Waterfront 8/14; then we’ll be running the Jenney Grist Mill stage at the Plymouth Waterfront Festival 8/28.

It’s gonna be a crazy month, so come check out some of this great music – we’ll be there.

Later!

Jon

Where you can find us this week. Hint: We’re all over the place.

Posted on June 26, 2010 by Jon Dorn

Greetings from Brewster Productions land! We’ve been working real hard this summer on our School’s Out Summer Concert Series, as well as expanding the business side of things. To give you a little taste of what we’re up to (and so perhaps you can come say hello and give us a high-five or something), here’s our schedule for the next week-ish:

This afternoon 6/26 we’ll be closing up the Showmobile at the end of the Relay For Life at Plymouth South High School (go panthers!)

Tonight 6/26 – we’ll be providing sound production for the SAIL Plymouth Boat Parade in Plymouth Harbor. It’s a cool event, check it out. 8pm.

Tomorrow 6/27 – we’ll be at T-Bones Roadhouse on Court St., Plymouth, doing sound for the inaugural T-Bones/Plimro Records Chilifest Cook-off from about 4pm to midnight.

Also tomorrow, we’ll opening/closing the Showmobile for the Sceleroderma Foundation Walk on the waterfront.

Wednesday, we’ll be taking care of our Showmobile duties for the 1st Project Arts free concert of the season.

Thursday we’ll be doing the same for the L. Knife & Son free concert series.

THEN we have our very own big weekend: FRIDAY 7/2 we’ll be back in action at the Hedge House with Sean P. Rogan (of Big D and the Kids Table), and SATURDAY 7/3 we’ll be celebrating Plymouth’s 2nd biggest holiday (you know, besides the one with the turkey dinner), the Third of July at the Waterfront Main Stage with popular local acts 3rd Left, Jake Hill, The Eagle Hill Band, and Nate Cristofori.

It’s going to be a busy, fun week. We’ll be around various places, so look for the Brewster “CREW” shirts, and come say hi!

Rock on.

-Jon

The Brewster Sessions are coming soon… sneak peek, plus “41″ covered by Ben Carter

Posted on June 10, 2010 by Jon Dorn

Howdy everyone. Hopefully you’re following along with the School’s Out Summer Concert Series, which is in full swing right now in Plymouth. But in other Brewster news, we’re working on releasing “The Brewster Sessions, Vol. 1″, a collection of Storyteller-type in-studio live recordings we did with Ben Carter, Shaun Dever, Nick Amendolare, and Seth McFadyen. You can check out and download a sneak peek of the album HERE, and listen below to a recording we did with Ben on the day he came in for his Brewster Session. More for fun than anything else (it’s not a live recording like the rest of the Sessions), it’s “41″ by Dave Matthews, performed by Ben Carter:

Enjoy, and don’t forget to come to the FREE School’s Out Summer Concert Series in Plymouth, MA all summer long!

- Jon

Photo: The Okay Win at the Acoustic Nights Free Concert Series, 2011.