Cold River Radio Christmas Season Finale

THIS IS FOR IN-PERSON TICKETS - FOR LIVE STREAM TICKETS .

Best of New Hampshire Award Winner 2017, 2019 and 2023!

Our Season Finale Show Features Some of Our Most Loved and Special Cold River Radio Show Guests!

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In 1984, Maes began his long-standing relationship with Barry Goudreau formerly of rock group "Boston", when he successfully auditioned for the keyboardist/backing vocalist chair with Orion the Hunter. The band toured as the opening act for Aerosmith on the "Back in the Saddle" tour during the summer of 1984. After their first tour, Orion the Hunter disbanded. Maes and Goudreau made the decision to stay together and work on new material.

In 1985, while still writing and recording with Barry Goudreau, Maes began collaborating with Peter Wolf, The J. Geils Band frontman, doing pre-production and arranging work in the recording studio for Wolf's solo record "Come As You Are". Maes, Lawry, Stefanelli and Waldon all worked together in the studio recording the songs that would later be on this record and all received credit on the label. This collaboration between Wolf and Maes began a long-standing personal and professional relationship that would bring them together on numerable musical endeavors. It was during this time that Maes presented Wolf with the song "Until Your Love Comes Back Around" for consideration but Wolf passed on the song. Brian and Peter would come together again in 1993 to tour the United States and Japan in support of Peter's Long Line The band was then called "Peter Wolf and the House Party 5" with Tim Archibald on bass, David Stefanelli on drums and backing vocals, Johnny A. on guitar, Doug Dube on Hammond B3 and backing vocals, Brian Maes on keys and backing vocals and Peter Wolf on lead vocals. Maes was also a member of RTZ.

Maes is currently front man of Barry Goudreau's "Engine Room" performing alongside the Hollywood Vampires (Alice Cooper, Joe Perry, and Johnny Dep)

For this show Brian will bring along his immensely talented family to team up with the house band and celebrate one of their favorite times of year.

Boston native, Cassandre McKinley, is a singer, recording artist, composer, producer, vocal coach and educator. As an artist and singer, she channels a vast spectrum of genres that include Soul, Jazz, Blues, R&B, Pop and Country and has unwittingly unified them into a singular sound that is primitively hers. McKinley’s consensual freedom from stylistic boundaries has become her signature approach to making music. She is simply presenting a rich and acutely diversified mix of music by way of a sublime voice and a veritable gift for storytelling.

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8 year old Pierce is Son of Host and Producer Jonathan Sarty and President of Wild Mountain Dog Studio. Appearing for the first time as a guest on the show, Pierce will continue the tradition of performing his favorite Christmas Classic "The Night Before Christmas."

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Host and His Fabulous Cold River Radio Band: on Drums (Jethro Tull, Fairport Convention), Todd Baker on Double Bass, on Soprano Sax on Soprano Sax (Mike will not be joining us for the December show), and on Piano.

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