Chris Albert jokes with his friends in the crowd during his performance 9/4/09 at the Hedge House Lawn.

It seemed more like fall than summer tonight, so I suppose it was an appropriate end to our summer concert series for 2009. Despite it being a little chilly, however, we ended the summer on a perfect note – that of Braintree’s own Chris Albert (of the Affective Collective and Free Breather, performing with Joey “Pants” Pantaleo of Ette and the Affective Collective) and Tyler Rheardon (of Semester Abroad)….and NO RAIN. At all. Not a drop. Hard to believe, I know.

We’re going to keep our thank yous short this time around, but believe you me we have a ton of people to thank. First we need to thank the people who came out to the shows. As someone once said, “without the crowd, it’s just another band practice,” and we truly appreciate the people who came out, enjoyed the shows, and even contributed a little hard-earned cash to help the series keep afloat. Also we need to give a giant thank you to our sponsors, without whom we’d just be sitting with our same original SPL speakers and some crappy Samson mics….well probably not, but we’d be improving/repairing our setup a lot less: The Pilgrim Sands, The Seabreeze In B&B, Rogers & Gray Insurance…..and a HUGE thank you to The Plymouth Antiquarian Society. These guys are truly incredible – we quite literally would not be able to put on our Hedge House concerts without them, because they let us use their lawn. It’s a rare instance of people not judging us by our age and dismissing us as “punk kids” – and it’s not just that – they’ve been beyond supportive and as helpful and nice as we could ever have imagined. Please support them by going on some tours of the great old houses of America’s Hometown.

And of course, our biggest thank you of all goes out to the people no concert series could do without: THE ARTISTS. We are eternally grateful to all the awesome musicians who came out to play our shows for FREE. We’ve hung out with old friends and met some incredible new people this summer, and all these connections are what keeps our concert series going. Thank you bands, you are awesome.

Tyler Rheardon performs 9/4/09 at the Hedge House Lawn as Chris Albert and Nick Santini, among others, watch from the crowd.

On the subject of meeting people, we’ve met and seen a lot of cool people over the course of the summer, including a number of well-known faces. If you were at the show tonight (or Twittering w/ someone at it), you might’ve seen Nick Santino of A Rocket to the Moon hanging out. Here comes the famous people name-drop…get ready:

- Mark Rose, of Spitalfield
- Lucas Carpenter, of pure awesomeness
- Darren Wilson, of The Hush Sound
- Nick Santino, of A Rocket To The Moon
- The Low Anthem….just kidding, that was canceled (damn you Hurricane Danny!)
- Peter Gomes, Harvard Chaplain, swore in Ronald Regan and George Bush #1, I saw him on Colbert a little while back
- Scott McEwen, of Brewster Productions…he makes the list in my book

That’s the one name-drop we’re allowed. Anyway, the point is that the concert series has been an awesome experience and we can’t wait to get back into it next year…….BUT, until then, you didn’t think we were going to stop doing shows did you?? I didn’t think so. We’ll be around all year, but I won’t be making any more posts to this site for a while. Make sure you keep yourself posted on all the goings-on at the new BREWSTERPRODUCTIONS.COM.

Chris Albert performs 9/4/09 at the Hedge House Lawn.

And that’ll do it. Thank you again to our sponsors, the Antiquarian Society, and the amazing bands we had out all summer. Brewster Productions gets music to the young people……and not just in the summer. Viva la Local Music Revolucion.

Happy fall and see you at your local watering hole or VFW!

- Jon Dorn
Brewster Productions