Amy Mercier performs at Hedge House Lawn tonight 7/30. Show starts at 6pm.

Howdy everyone,

We’ve had quite the hectic July, putting on 3 big main stage shows and running all over creation to make them happen, and now we’re back at the good ol’ Hedge House Lawn for the rest of the summer, except 1 show (the HUGE Schoolhouse Rock Music Festival at the main stage 8/14).

Molly Pope will open up the show tonight 7/30 at 6pm.

To welcome all of our loyal audience members back to the 200-year-old house’s lawn, we’ve got the talented pianist/singer Amy Mercier and singer/songwriter Molly Pope taking the stage tonight. Click on the links to take a listen to them, and then come on down to the show! I suggest grabbing some food, a blanket, and/or some lawn chairs and have a nice relaxing night of music and food. For free. Well, beside the food, unless it was a gift.

Also, since we like to be pretty open about how we run things around here, we have to be totally honest and say this past month has run us pretty dry as far as funds go. If you can, please come to the show and make a donation – it will help us make the last shows of the summer awesome.

Thanks for all the support and for coming out to the shows! See you tonight!

Jon & the School’s Out crew

Mark Rose performing August 7, 2009 at the main stage. Last year his band featured Lucas Carpenter on keys, and Darren Wilson of The Hush Sound on drums.

Why hello everyone in free concert land! We’ve got a big show for you all to enjoy this Saturday, July 24.

Mark Rose, frontman of  Spitalfield (Victory Records, rumored to be reuniting soon…) is on a US tour alongside Camera Can’t Lie, who were recently signed to Atlantic Records, which will release their debut album in the coming months.

Mark Rose is returning to the School’s Out stage, after performing last August along with Lucas Carpenter. This’ll be a great show, and we’re real excited to have these guys play.

Come check out some music you’ll probably be hearing on the radio soon – it’s your chance to say, “I saw them in Plymouth up close and personal (for free)!”

- Jon & the School’s Out team

We regrettably must cancel this Friday’s show (7/9) at the Waterfront Main Stage with Brighterside.

The next concert will be Saturday July 17 at the Main State with THE RELEASE, Bones & A Curtis Rhythm, and 14th Union. It’ll be a great show, so come on down.

More info about the next show, and photos from the July 3 show will be up soon. Keep on rockin’ in the free world!

- Jon

PLYMOUTH – Event organizers saddled with the added cost of overtime pay for public works employees to open and close the town’s portable stage, known as the showmobile, say they will be forced to cancel free summer concerts or at least seriously curtail them.

But there may be a solution.

Town Manager Mark Stankiewicz has pitched a plan to give the town-owned showmobile to the Plymouth Area Chamber of Commerce, which, in turn, would enlist volunteers to open and close the stage for free, or at very little cost.

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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

Hitch of 3rd Left, and Jake Hill, rock the waterfront last summer on July 18, 2009.

A joyful snowy February morning to everyone,

Yes, it may still be 20 degrees outside and snowing, as people painfully push themselves through 40 miles-per-hour wind bundled up head to foot, but our minds are in warmer places, namely summer 2010 and the concert series.

As you’ve probably seen, we’ve got all our summer show dates lined up, but now we’ve got an actual show to announce. We’re keeping the tradition alive with a 3rd year in a row of our big 3rd Left / Jake Hill / Eagle Hill Band main stage kick off show…..but this time it’s even bigger. Why? Because it’s on the 3rd of July, which is, for all you you non-Plymoutheans out there, one of the biggest holidays of the year (along with the 4th and Thanksgiving). It’s going to be a huge musical bash on the waterfront this July 3rd, which means the whole 4th weekend will be HUGE.

3rd LEFT + JAKE HILL
w/ The Eagle Hill Band
6pm @ The Waterfront Main stage
July 3, 2010 – All ages, FREE

We’re real excited for this and all the rest of the shows this summer, so stay tuned to this site and our Twitter, for all sorts of updates year-round. You should also sign up for our e-mail list (to the right ->). Keep coming back, because we’ll be announcing stuff as we know it, and I know you want to be the first to know. Party on Garth. Party on Wayne.

- Jon

Mark Rose (Spitalfield) performed at the main stage August 7, 2009, and put on an unreal show alongside touring partner Lucas Carpenter.

Yes, you heard it right, it’s only November 17th and we already have our 5 main stage summer concert dates lined up. This means that if you’re in a band and you want to play on the big stage in Plymouth next summer, give us a shout! We’re starting everything way ahead of time this year, and our 3rd summer of concerts is going to be the best yet. Here are the 5 main stage dates, we’ll be adding the Hedge House shows soon – there will probably be about 10 of those:

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Friday, July 9, 2010

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Saturday, August 14, 2010 (4th Annual Schoolhouse Rock, all-day charity show)

Keep checking back here for updates, and if you haven’t got OUR NEWSLETTER (look to the right of this page), you definitely need to sign up for that. It’ll hit your inbox periodically throughout the year, giving you updates on all things School’s Out Summer Concert Series and Brewster Productions. And by the time summer hits, you won’t want to miss it, because we’ll be giving away cool stuff, and doing other real cool exclusive things with the newsletter. (PS: It’s totally FREE, just sign up on the side of this page, over there —>).

Also, we’re really hoping to have a reasonable amount of funds going before the shows even start, so please help support the concert series with a donation of ANY amount (literally any amount – seriously, if you give $1, you are an incredible human being in our book). You can donate here using PayPal and your credit/debit card – it couldn’t be easier!

So that’s it from us for now. Keep checking back here as we update everyone on the goings on, sign up for the newsletter, and PLEASE DONATE! Even just a dollar or two.

Thank you for the support. Keep it real.

- Jon

PS – go to the Plymouth South HS Talent show on Thursday 11/19. We’ll be there running sound – it’s going to be a great time.