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

School’s Out Summer Concert Series and a whole bunch of spring shows (plus a new video!)

Posted on April 2, 2010 by Jon Dorn

Happy April everyone,

I hope anyone who visited yesterday enjoyed the show announcement. It’s entirely true – it wasn’t an april fools joke. Did you also know that April 2nd is Opposite Day?

Anyway, we’ve been getting geared up for the School’s Out Summer Concert Series for a little while now, it things are starting to get real exciting. If you haven’t been over to the CONCERT SERIES WEB SITE, please do so, there are many fun things to behold. You’ll notice the SCHEDULE, how to DONATE, and how to GET BOOKED to play. If you’ve always wanted to play on the Plymouth Waterfront, now is your chance. If you check out the schedule, you’ll also notice we’ve got an amazing field of musicians playing: Jeff Conley, Nate Cristofori, Jesse Boncek, Amy Mercier, Boston & Bosco, Barroom Heroes (a middle school punk band), 3rd Left, Jake Hill, EHB, The Release, 14th Union, Bones & A Curtis Rhythm, and a Warped Tour send-off show for The Empire State. We’ve also got a few incredible dudes who’ll be playing but we haven’t solidified their dates yet: Greg Loftus, Jake Hill, and Sean P. Rogan of Big D and the Kids Table. And we’ll be adding a ton more as we get closer.

Needless to say, it’s going to be an incredible summer of music. But wait, there’s more! Starting April 8th, we’ll be up in Boston every Thursday night presenting SINGER-SONGWRITER THURSDAYS at Sweetwater Cafe. They’re going to be awesome shows, and if you’d like to play get in touch!

I’m gonna go eat a Fluffernutter.
- Jon

Jake Hill and Greg Loftus bring the blues to Sweetwater in Boston

Posted on March 23, 2010 by Jon Dorn

Jake Hill performs at Sweetwater Cafe 3/20/10.

We helped writer Ryan Wood put on the Boston launch party for his blog, Tranzmission, at Sweetwater Cafe in Boston this past Saturday, with the help of Jake Hill and Greg Loftus. It was a great, bluesy, folky show, and Jake Hill rocked the place with a 3-piece acoustic band. You can expect to see both of these amazing guys this summer at the concert series. Check out the photos below!

Next weekend: Electric Mummy on Friday, then SEAN P. ROGAN (of Big D and the Kids Table ) on Saturday. Check SHOWS for all the info.

- Jon

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Shaun, Ben & Nick on Friday; Jake and Greg on Saturday. Come on friday get a free Brewster Sessions download.

Posted on March 17, 2010 by Jon Dorn

Howdy and a merry springtime to you all,

Shaun Dever at the School's Out Summer Concert Series, June 5, 2009.

We’ve got 2 amazing shows this weekend: On Friday, Shaun Dever will rocking the stage, freshly back from a surfing excursion to Costa Rica. He’ll be joined by our good friends Ben Carter and Nick Amendolare. Then on Saturday, we’ve got the big Boston launch party for TRANZMISSION, a great indie music blog by our friend Ryan Wood – that show will feature JAKE HILL and GREG LOFTUS. This is all going down at Sweetwater Cafe in Boston: 10pm, 21+, $5 cover. See our SHOWS page for more info and other shows!

FREE STUFF?? Yes, that’s right. Just last week, Ben Carter joined us in the studio for The Brewster Sessions, and tomorrow Shaun will be doing the same. We’ve also got a few Brewster Session tracks from Nick A that we recorded during the summer. SO, if you come to the show on Friday, you’ll get a free mini-album sample download of The Brewster Sessions, Volume 1 (which we’re working on for release this summer….stay tuned). If you come to the show, we’ll give you a little piece of paper with a code on it and you can download it from our forthcoming online music store.

Don’t miss these shows (and your free music!!!). You’ll also want to head on over to the School’s Out Summer Concert Series site for pretty much constant updates to the schedule. We’ve already got a bunch of artists booked. Take a look!

See you at the shows!
Jon

Marching the beat of Brewster: A full month of ‘sweet’ music and a big track meet

Posted on March 1, 2010 by Jon Dorn

Sean P. Rogan, of Big D and the Kids Table, will perform on March 27th. Don't miss that show.

Happy March everyone!

We’re very excited to say that, not only because it means it’s getting closer to spring, and maybe some nice weather, but also because we have a crazily awesome March schedule for everyone to enjoy. To start off the shows this month (all of which are at Sweetwater Cafe in Boston), we’ve got the southern bluesy-folk stylings of Greg Loftus this friday 3/5. Then next week, while we hammer away at the Nike Indoor Nationals track meet at the Reggie Lewis center, we’ve got The Okay Win and Big Big Buildings 3/12 and an open spot 3/13 (let us know if you want to play). March 19-20 we’ve got a Plymouth-in-Boston weekend, featuring our very good friend Shaun Dever on 3/19 – on 3/20, our other very good friend, indie music writer Ryan Wood is hosting the Boston launch party for his awesome blog, Tranzmission, which will feature the incomparable folk stylings of Jake Hill and Greg Loftus. Then, if you thought that was enough, to round off the month, we’ve got Electric Mummy (yes, they are mummies) on 3/26, and here’s the big one: SEAN P. ROGAN of Big D and the Kids Table on 3/27. You can check out all the show details by clicking those links, or going to the SHOWS page.

Needless to say (but I’ll say it anyway), it’s going to be a great Brewster month. So please come out to the shows, if you’re 21 that is, and don’t you worry kids under 21, we haven’t forgotten about you. We’ll be having more all ages shows than you can shake a stick at very soon. (and hey, if you’re a band and you’re planning to put on a show at an Elks Club or KoC sorta thing, give us a shout and we’ll do some sound for ya)

See you at the shows!!

- Jon

PS – shamless self promotion: check out my weekly cartoons in the Old Colony Memorial as a part of ‘Jam Session’ on Saturdays!
PPS – unfortunately, this probably won’t be the last time I use the ‘sweet’ pun in a post.

A Plymouth-in-Boston weekend coming this march to a Sweetwater near you (feat. The Tranzmission indie music blog launch party)

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Jon Dorn

Shaun Dever, performing 3/19 at Sweetwater Cafe, is also our main graphics and poster guy here at Brewster. So, without his computer while surfing the days away in Costa Rica, this is the poster he came up with.

This will be a great weekend. On March 19, Shaun Dever will rock the Sweetwater Cafe in his ‘back in the USA’ debut show after surfing his way through Costa Rica for some time (see the photo). Then the very next day, March 20, our good friend and international indie music writer Ryan Wood will be hosting the official Boston launch party of his new music blog, The Tranzmission, which will feature the incomparable JAKE HILL w/ another incredible mainstay of ours, Greg Loftus – it’s sure to be a bluesy, folksy night.

So you’re probably beginning to see that March at Sweetwater Cafe in Boston, presented by Brewster Productions, is going to be a pretty rad time. Make sure you check out the show schedule because we’ve got 7 SHOWS coming up featuring the likes of Sean P. Rogan (of Big D and the Kids Table), The Okay Win, Big Big Buildings, Nate Cristofori, Electric Mummy and more. It’s gonna be a great month as we get geared up for the big 3rd season of the School’s Out Summer Concert Series. (and yes, we know all these shows at sweetwater are unfortunately 21+, but you just wait a tiny bit longer and we’ll make it up to you and then some)

Later!
Jon

New featured music!!!….and The Brewster Sessions are here (sort of)!

Posted on January 31, 2010 by Jon Dorn

Shaun Dever performing at the Hedge House in 2009. A little kid named Brody wandered up to the stage to enjoy the show.

Good afternoon everyone in Brewsterland!

We’ve just added some great new songs to our FEATURED MUSIC player (look to the right –>) and we’re really excited to tell everyone. There are some of our old standby artists, plus two brand new (sort of) tracks off “The Brewster Sessions, Vol. 1″, which is a new thing we’ve been trying to launch for a while where artists come into the studio with us and do a live-recorded session. The first one we did was with Shaun Dever, Seth McFadyen, and Nick Amendolare, and it turned out to be a really fun time with each of the guys doing a few songs, then we miked the whole room with some overhead mics and had a big sing-along party (Andrew Carleen, Harry Quinn, and myself were also there). They aren’t the prettiest recordings ever, but it was a good time. Here’s what we’ve got for the new featured music:

• “Bloodshot Eyes” by Ben Carter, who will be playing at Sweetwater Cafe this Saturday 2/6/10. This is a demo of a song he’s going to be recording for an acoustic EP (more news on that soon).
• “Forget Your Name” by The Release. These guys are awesome, and you should go download their songs. You’ll likely be seeing them again this summer at the concert series.
• “Heave To” by Jake Hill. The title track off his 2008 album. This is a great song about facing death and all that, and it’s got some great horns and electric guitar. A rockin’ gritty folk song.
• “Path Of the Enemy” by The Eagle Hill Band. Another song off EHB’s 2009 release “In Cahoots”.
• “She’s A Drug” by Nick Amendolare, from “Brewster Sessions, Vol. 1″. A few swears in this one, so watch out if you have a sensitive disposition.
• “Heaven Is A Halfpipe” cover performed by Seth, Shaun, and Nick on “Brewster Sessions, Vol. 1″. This was just a fun one, with everyone singing along in the studio and making weird noises and having a good time. A few bad words in this one too.

Please enjoy the music, go to those artists’ shows, and definitely come check out the Ben Carter show this Saturday in Boston.

Keep it real,

Jon

Here, hear!: Featured music!

Posted on December 9, 2009 by Jon Dorn

Yes, this is a picture of the music player to the right. Take a listen! >>

Good morning everyone out in Brewsterland,

We have a fun announcement for anyone who likes to visit our Web site: we now have a FEATURED MUSIC PLAYER! I know this might not be terribly exciting to some, but we’re very happy we get to present one more way for the bands we work with to get exposure and new fans. We’ll be rotating the music around fairly frequently so keep an eye out for new stuff. For now, we’ve got 2 tracks from the [amazing] Christmas compilation, “A Christmas Miracle”(2009), put out by our good friend Mark Bryant at Plimro Records, and a few tunes from our good friends. Here’s the track list:

1. “The Real Kris Kringle” by The Juicebox Graduates (a new band w/ Shaun Dever, Nick Amendolare, Nate Cristofori, and Tyler Kinsherf)
2. “Starry Night (Fairy Tale)” by McCarthy & Legge (also from “A Christmas Miracle”)
3. “Wake Up” by The Release (off their debut EP, this is an incredible song)
4. “Out of My Hands” by Jake Hill (another tune from the studio of Mark Bryant)
5. “His True Song” by The Eagle Hill Band (not quite up to the engineering par of the others [i recorded this one], but nice nonetheless)

Please enjoy the music as you poke around the site (it’ll pick up right where you left off if you go to another page) – and look for new music every so often.

Laterade,

Jon

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