Come hear us in person!

Saturday, April 20th: 10 to 11:15 PM

Best Western Royal Plaza Hotel and Trade Center, 181 Royal Plaza Drive West, Marlborough, MA 01752

Come dance your heart out to Outrageous Fortune's rootsy jug band stylings of classic '20s and '30s blues and jazz. Stationary listeners are also welcome — but we can't guarantee you'll be able to stay that way!

Sunday, April 28th: 3 to 6 PM

Weston Library Monthly Concert & Jazz Jam

Weston Public Library, 87 School St, Weston, MA 02493

The concert and jam session our guitar player has been leading continues. This month's concert theme is ‘April is the Coolest Month’ (with apologies to T.S. Eliot)— Songs of Spring!
Come down and hear the top notch house band sing and play great mainstream jazz; stay to hear an array of talented singers and instrumentalists! (Supported by a grant from the Weston Cultural Council.)

Saturday, May 18th: 1:15 to 2:05 PM

Celebrate Weston!

Parking Lot by Josiah Smith Tavern, 358 Boston Post Rd, Weston, MA

Outdoor Town celebration. Featuring several additional wonderful bands: Hot Tamale Brass Band (New Orleans Jazz); and Jordan McCarron & Jason Rabin (Mellow blues sound). Not to be missed!

Sunday, June 9th, 2024; 2 to 3 PM

Newton Free Library

330 Homer St, Newton, MA

We're delighted to be returning to the Newton Free Library, home to many of our friends.** This being Newton, we can expect a highly erudite and educated audience - writers, rabbis, experts on early New Orleans cornet players, doctors, that sort of thing.

And what will all these movers and shakers be doing at 2 PM, Sunday, June 9th? Moving and shaking to the infectious groove of Boston's favorite jug band! Come down for an entertaining and edifying afternoon!

**Our friends live in Newton, that is, not the library per se. At least, we hope that they are not lurking at night, gollum-like, in the inky depths of the stacks. To wit, we trust they have someplace to go when the library closes. But we digress.

Sunday, June 30th: 6:30 PM

Alexander's Jazz Time Band!

1 Grafton Common, Grafton, MA, United States, 01519

Chris is playing rhythm guitar and singing lead w Alexander's Jazz Time Band in a concert in Grafton. It's a tuba instead of a jug and a cornet and trombone instead of kazoos, but they play with a lot of spirit nonetheless. A top-notch big band playing stock charts from the late 20s and early 30s will make a joyful noise.

Thursday, July 25th: 7 to 9 PM

The Back Room at the Burren, with 440!

The Burren, 247 Elm St, Somerville, MA

We're sharing the bill with the wonderful gypsy jazz quartet 440, led by our good friend Tomoko Iwamoto. Come down and have a Guiness and some Irish beef stew (made with Guiness), while we serenade you.

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