Chris Albert performing at the Hedge House, Sept 4, 2009.

Yes it’s that time of the year again when we get to sit down and plan out the School’s Out Summer Concert Series, which is basically the culmination of our year here at Brewster Productions, and we’re very excited for our 3rd year of bringing great music to the Plymouth waterfront. We love the planning, and booking all the shows, and producing them in the summer, but the tough part that gets us every year (and probably always will) is the money. The concert series takes a little bit o’ cash to keep it going and we’ve managed to survive the past 2 years on very very generous donations from the general public and businesses.

So right now, to kick off February, we’re going to shamelessly plead for some money from people. Sure, if you’re deciding whether to give your money to our concert series or a Haiti earthquake relief fund of sorts, go ahead and give your money to the people who need it. But, if you’ve already given a bunch of money to Haiti relief, and cancer research, and a soup kitchen somewhere, we’d love if you’d keep the donation train rolling and throw us a few dollars. And really, that’s all we’re asking for, a few dollars – whatever you have to give will help out, because we are a very low-budget concert series. And if you donate anything at all, we will dig through our merch boxes and send you some cool stuff like pins, pens, sampler CDs, and maybe an old Schoolhouse Rock t-shirt if we have any left.

We’ve already revealed the main stage show schedule – 5 huge shows for the hot summer nights – and pretty soon, the super-awesome-and-popular Hedge House acoustic dates are going to be unveiled to the world, so make sure you stay tuned. If you are a business, these concerts are awesome opportunities to get great exposure through sponsorship, so get in touch with us. And if you are just a regular person who doesn’t have any reason to promote themselves (we’ll still put your name up all over our web site in gratitude), it still feels great to help out a good cause by donating some money.

To find out more about DONATING, click here.  The concert series is a non-profit organization and every cent that is donated goes right back into making the series awesome. And even though NPOs certainly can legally pay employees, we are all-volunteer, and not even the directors get paid. This is all because we’re devoted to creating an awesomely fun concert series, and we need every bit of money we can get to pay for various things.

So please help us out. To learn all about the concert series check out the Web site: brewsterproductions.com/concertseries. Rock & roll.

- Jon