The Northborough Community Affairs Committee is thrilled to announce the return of our free Summer Concert Series for 2021!. All concerts will be held on Sundays at Ellsworth-McAfee Park (Rt. 135) in Northborough from 5-7 p.m. These events are fun for the whole family featuring great music and food trucks. Here is the summer line-up:
- POSTPONED: Playing Dead – Sunday, July 25, 5-7p.m.: Playing Dead is a Grateful Dead tribute band featuring former members of Dark Star Orchestra, Slipknot!, and Uncle John’s Band. Their marathon sets feature music and jams from the entire Grateful Dead catalog. Playing Dead faithfully recreates the experience of a live Grateful Dead concert. The music of The Grateful Dead is a complex stew of different styles of music including rock, blues, jazz, folk, bluegrass and more. Their improvisational style and large repertoire guaranteed that every musical performance would be unique. Every Playing Dead show is equally unique featuring different set lists each night and exciting improvisational jams. The food vendors will include Northborough House of Pizza, Travelin Bones BBQ, Uhlman’s Ice Cream and Yummy Mummy Bakery.
- Way Up South- Sunday, August 8, 5-7 p.m.: Way Up South has been tearing up the New England club and festival scene and rapidly gaining a reputation as an explosive live band with a deep well of compelling original music and stellar musicianship. Their expansive sound incorporates a maturity and musicianship that weaves in and out of southern, blues, country, jazz, and Americana rock – music whose precision and finesse still retain the loose spacey qualities and epitomize improvisational rock bands. This style has earned them the right to call their music “Big Sky” sound. The food vendors will include Northborough House of Pizza, Fork N’ Delicious Food Truck, Uhlman’s Ice Cream and Yummy Mummy Bakery.
- POSTPONED DUE TO TROPICAL STORM HENRI: Cold Spring Harbor – Sunday, August 22, 5-7 p.m.: Cold Spring Harbor is a Billy Joel and Elton John tribute band consisting of eight fantastic musicians and great friends from the North Shore Greater Boston area. Everyone in the Cold Spring Harbor group, founded in 2013 and formerly “The Strangers”, is a dedicated musician whose goals are professionalism, playing music and having fun while doing so. The food vendors will include Northborough House of Pizza, Fork N’ Delicious Food Truck, Uhlman’s Ice Cream and Yummy Mummy Bakery.
- Crocodile River Music- Sunday, September 5, 5-7 p.m.: Crocodile River Music group shares the cultures of Africa through song and dance that informs, connects and inspires. Zach Combs, Director of Crocodile River, fell in love with the rich and diverse culture of West Africa while in Mali on a Watson Fellowship. Deeply inspired by his journey, Zach founded Crocodile River in 2011 in an effort to provide opportunities for both emerging and established artists from Africa and evoke new ways of cultural thinking in New England.
The food vendors will include Northborough House of Pizza, Fork N’ Delicious Food Truck, Uhlman’s Ice Cream and Yummy Mummy Bakery. Thank you to the following sponsors: Judy Boyle, REMAX Executive Realty; Main Street Bank; Flaherty Physical Therapy; Carvalho and Roth Orthodontics; Lexus of Northborough; Abbey Villa Soccer Club; and Edward Jones Financial Advisor, Carol A. Crowley.