Come hear us in person!

Recent Gigs:

1/2025 ‐ Newton House Concert
4/2025 ‐ New England Folk Festival

Wednesday, July 9th, 2025: 7 PM

Allen Center, 35 Webster Street, West Newton, MA

Outrageous Fortune is playing at West Newton's historic Allen Center, starting up their July OUTDOOR performance series. The W.C. Handy award winning acoustic blues duo Paul Rishell & Annie Raines will round out the concert. Thrill to the three part harmonies, the virtuosoistic finger-picking, the down-home blues and the uptown swing, the harmonious harmonicas and the joyous jug playing!

Tickets are $20.
Outdoors if sunny, indoors at the Allen Center's lovely barn if rainy.

Thursday, July 31; 6:30 - 8 PM

Lancaster Summer Concert On The Green

717 Main Street, Lancaster, MA

The Friends of Lancaster's Thayer Library sponsors an outdoor concert series at the gazebo (pronounced "gah-zay-bo") on the Town Green Thursday evenings in July. Pull up your lawn chairs and enjoy the sounds of summer. Concert begins at 6:30p.m. We hope to see you there!
Pizza and water for sale by Friends of Seniors at 6 PM. In case of rain, concert will be held inside the First Church, on the Town Green.

Chris plays piano too. Check out his moody piano/voice demo on Soundcloud!

A Capella Fans: See our guitar player in his incarnation as a Boston Jazz Voices baritone, appear on two episodes of the 4th season of the PBS TV program "Sing That Thing" (Premiere - we're at 10m15s and Episode 7 )!

Past Gigs:

Concert Halls

The Regent Theatre (Arlington, MA)

Little Kresge Theatre (Cambridge, MA)

Festivals & Farmer's Markets & Special Events

Great Northeast Jug Band Festival 2019, 2020, 2022

Annual Meeting of the Thoreau Society 2014, 2015, 2018

The New England Folk Festival (NEFFA) 2008 ‐ 2022 (except '12 and '16)

The North Shore Music Festival 2010, 2011

Antrim Gazebo concert (NH)

First Night Needham (MA)

Land's Sake Farm, Weston (MA)

Lancaster Gazebo Concert (MA)

Natick Farmer's Market (Winter and Summer)

Newton Center for the Arts

Porchfest (Jamaica Plain, Newton & Somerville MA)

Saugus Town Day (MA)

Salem Antique & Vintage Boat Festival, Salem (MA) 2019

Salem Arts Festival (MA) 2018, 2019, 2022

Somerville Winter Farmer's Market (MA)

Wakefield Arts and Crafts Fair (MA)

Waltham Farmer's Market (MA) 2007 ‐ 2019

Radio Stations

WBUR Radio 90.0 "Here and Now"
WICN Radio 90.5

WBRS Radio 100.1

WCUW Radio 91.3

Libraries & Schools

Ames Free Library (North Easton, MA) 2008, 2009

Boyden Library (Foxborough MA) 2017, 2019

Glays E. Kelly Library (Webster MA) 2019

Harvard Public Library (MA) 2013
Lincoln Public Library (MA) 2006, 2008, 2010

Framingham Public Library (MA) 2010

Malden Public Library (MA) Morse Institute Library (Natick, MA) 2009, 2013, 2014

Needham Public Library (MA)

Newton Free Library (MA) 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2018, 2019

Thayer Public Library (Braintree, MA)

Thomas Crane Public Library (Quincy, MA) 2008
Waltham Public Library (MA) 2006, 2008, 2010

Weston PTO (MA)

Coffeehouses

Club Passim, Cambridge, MA
The 2d Friday Coffeehouse, Belmont, MA
Amazing Things Arts Center, Framingham, MA

Bolton Sings, Bolton MA
The Blue Moon Coffeehouse, Rockland, MA

The Casual Cup Coffeehouse, Brookline MA

Cafe Luna, Cambridge, MA
The Colonial Inn, Concord MA

Emily's Roadhouse, The Peace Abbey, Sherborn, MA
First Parish, Bedford (MA)
First Unitarian Society of Newton (MA)
The Kickstand Cafe (feature), Arlington MA
The Linden Tree Coffeehouse, Wakefield MA

Overall Music, Lexington MA

Retirement Communities

Cabot Park Village, Newton MA
Edgewood, North Andover MA
Fox Hill Village, Westwood MA
Newbridge On The Charles, Dedham MA
North Hill, Needham, MA
Orchard Cove, Canton MA
...and many more!

Restaurants & Pubs

The Maugus, Wellesley MA

Nourish Restaurant, Lexington MA
The Precinct, Somerville MA

Ristorante Primavera, Millis, MA

Savoury Lane, Acton MA

Private Parties, Weddings, Anniverseries, Bat/Bar Mitzvahs, etc.

The Taj, Boston MA - Engagement Party

Hotel Wentworth, Portsmouth NH - Anniversary Party

...and many more!

Other places the guitar player has performed:

Fenway Park - National Anthem for Red Sox – 2007
WGBH TV's "Sing That Thing" (with Boston Jazz Voices) 2017, 2018
First Night Boston, MA
Old Sturbridge Village, MA
Merrimack College, Andover, MA
The Middle East, Cambridge MA
The Nameless Coffeehouse, Cambridge MA
The Press Room, Portsmouth, NH
WERS Radio, Boston MA
WUNH Radio, Durham NH
WUMB, Boston, MA