NJ foursome Ortolan, fresh of rave reviews at SXSW, will hit the Plymouth Waterfront for Schoolhouse Rock August 14th.

They were just down in Austin, TX for South By Southwest, the gargantuan music and film festival, and get this: New Jersey folk quartet ORTOLAN will be rocking the stage in Plymouth this summer! Ortolan, a talented group of 3 sisters and 1 sister-in-law will bring their melodic folk music to the stage at this year’s SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK, thanks especially to Ryan Wood of the indie music blog TRANZMISSION. This will be the 4th year we’ve put on the show (the first on July 27, 2007 was the spark that started Brewster Productions). We’ll be taking donations for the Vh1 Save the Music Foundation in support of a very important cause: Music and arts education, especially in under-served urban and rural schools. In addition to Ortolan, the SHR10 stage will be rocked by Boston & Bosco, The Barroom Heroes (a punk band of middle school kids), and Doug Ratner & His Watchmen, plus a couple more to be announced.

Keep checking our Schedule page for near-constant updates. We’ve also just added The Eagle Hill Band acoustic on 5/28 to kick off the season, and Jesse Boncek, playing with Nate Cristofori on June 11 at the Hedge House.

Summer’s coming soon, and so are we. Get ready for School’s Out!! And while you’re at it, go to some Brewster Productions shows – we’ve got at least 1 a week up in Boston, and lots more at various places and times.

- Jon

Jeff Conley of the band Tin Can Tele will be performing on June 4th at the Hedge House. We've got a ton of new shows to announce every week so keep coming back.

Happy Saturday everyone,

Right now we’re sitting up on some big scaffolding, producing sound for the Nike Indoor Nationals track meet at the Reggie Lewis Center in Boston, and Miley Cyrus is gracing the speakers. But the big news for the concert series right now, is that starting now for the next little while, we’ll be working like crazy on booking shows for the concert series, and preparing for the summer in general. SO, let’s get to the show announcements!

Here’s what we have so far for some Hedge House stage headliners: 1) June 4th: Jeff Conley, 2) June 11th: Nate Cristofori, 3) July 30th: Amy Mercier; and at the Main Stage: 1) July 3rd: A huge show with 3rd Left, Jake Hill and EHB, 2) July 9th: A send-off for The Empire State, who’s heading off to Warped Tour on the 13th. Remember, each of these shows still has some spots free for openers, so let us know if you want to play.

It’s going to be a great summer of all ages, free outdoor shows – just the kind we love. Make sure you keep checking back here, and on our SCHEDULE page for new updates every week until the summer. For real-time updates of when we book a new artist, check our Twitter.

Rock on.

- Jon

Have we got some great news for a cold February night: We’re officially announcing our 9 acoustic summer shows at the Hedge House Lawn! That’s right, that puts the 2010 School’s Out Summer Concert Series up to 14 shows, which is 1 more than we tried for last year (the weather was not our friend at many points), and 5 more than we actually pulled off. It’s going to be an incredible summer concert series, and we’re trying to raise some money to get some great names in there to play with the local guys – you can find out how to support the series with your donations here. So without further adieu, here they are, the 2010 ‘Acoustic Evenings On the Harbor’ shows @ the Hedge House Lawn (which was graciously donated as a venue by the Plymouth Antiquarian Society):

5/28/10

6/4/10

6/11/10

6/18/10

7/2/10

7/30/10

8/20/10

8/28/10 (saturday)

9/3/10

So that’s that. We’ll be announcing the performers in the coming months, which means if you want to play, send us an email. These shows are for ‘acoustic’ acts, which means pretty much any act with a few people and no drums. It’s more of an intimate coffeehouse sorta vibe going on. If you think you fit the bill, give us a holler. We love pianos and definitely want to get some different instruments up there too. Concert series booking info.

And please, DONATE! Thanks everyone, happy Groundhog Day!

- Jon