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A crazy weekend of Sean P. Rogan, Shaun Dever, and a band of mummies at Sweetwater in Boston

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Sean P. Rogan is joined onstage at Sweetwater Cafe 3/27/10 by Dan Stoppelman of Big D and the Kids Table.

It was a wacky weekend at Sweetwater Cafe in Boston, where everything from a band full of mummies to a pair of musicians from Big D and the Kids Table rocked the house.

Friday night, Electric Mummy unwrapped their punk-metal sound, then on Saturday Sean P. Rogan packed the house and at some points required some bouncer backup from upstairs. At an acoustic show. It got a little rowdy and it was a great time – he was also joined for a few songs on stage by Big D trumpet player Dan Stoppelman who lent his trumpet and melodica talents. Shaun Dever opened up the night with a great crowd pleasing set of his own.

Starting next week we’ll be hosting Singer-Songwriter Night at Sweetwater every thursday night. We’ll have a show announcement for you very soon about APRIL 8th, which will be our first show.

Enjoy the photos!

Jon

Shaun, Ben, and a surprise appearance from Seth take Sweetwater by storm

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Shaun Dever is joined on stage by Ben Carter at Sweetwater 3/19/10.

What a show we had last night. Wow. From right before the show when Seth McFadyen and Ben Carter went outside of Sweetwater into the street and played “Semi Charmed Life” and “Island In the Sun”, to Ben unplugging his guitar and singing Jewel on a chair in the middle of the crowd, to Shaun Dever leading a group amorphous jam of “What I Got”, this show was something else.

Hero Ben Carter.

Last night at Sweetwater Cafe in Boston, Shaun Dever, Ben Carter, and Seth McFadyen rocked the crowd for an incredible night of wild acoustic jams and packed-room sing-alongs. At one point, Ben even called a girl from the crowd, sat her in a chair in front of him and played a song for her – she apparently was from Switzerland, which led Ben to thank her by saying, “Welcome to America.” Seth put on a great last-minute opening set, and Shaun rounded off the night with his rad tunes and some more great sing-along jams.

Last night we were giving out little flyers for a FREE DOWNLOAD of the Brewster Sessions, Volume 1 sneak peek album. More on the actual album later. But for now, go download the 6-song album for free here: brewsterproductions.bandcamp.com.

TONIGHT: Jake Hill and Greg Loftus will be playing at Sweetwater for the launch party of TRANZMISSION, the indie music blog of Ryan Wood. If you come tonight, you can get your digital hands on a free download of Greg Loftus’ EP courtesy of Tranzmission.

Now, here are a multitude of photos from last night. Thanks to Shaun Dever for some of them, and for the nice settings he put in the camera for the ones of him. We’ll add some video soon.

See you all tonight!!
- Jon

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

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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

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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)

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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)!

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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!

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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

“The Real Kris Kringle” kicks off the holiday season along with a great benefit CD, take a listen!

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Screen shot 2009-11-30 at 8.50.59 PMMerry December everyone!

It’s just about that time a year to get out the jingle bells and wrapping paper, so what better way to kick off the season and help out some people than to put out a benefit CD. Mark Bryant, of Plimro Records (Jake Hill, Patmos Brothers Revival), COOL102, and some other cool cats put together a 22-band Christmas benefit CD featuring the likes of local favorites 3rd Left, Jake Hill, Shaun Dever and more.

Featured on the CD is a new song by a new band, featuring 4 of our good friends: Shaun Dever, Nick Amendolare (both formerly of Comboguy, and Shaun frequents our stages), Nate Cristofori (you’ve seen him on the waterfront with his piano), and Tyler Kinsherf (formerly of our old friends, the Side Street Bandits). The band, The Juicebox Graduates, and the song, “The Real Kris Kringle”. You can check it out right here at Brewster Productions! http://www.brewsterproductions.com/kringle .

The sale of the CD will benefit the Cranberry Hospice and the Fragile Footprint Pediatric Palliative Care Program. Here’s the tracklist: http://www.thecheapseats.net/a_christmas_miracle-back.jpg

There are going to be a few release parties in Plymouth and Hyannis, and we’ll let you know more about how to purchase the CD.

Happy shopping!

- Jon
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