FREE Summer Concert with the Adam Ezra Group
Schedule
Fri Jul 23 2021 at 06:30 pm to 08:30 pm
Location
Hilton Mystic | Mystic, CT
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Join us on the Patio for our FREE live Summer Concert Series. Featuring the Adam Ezra Group
Beer, Wine and Dinner Options available for sale beginning at 6:30 p.m.
Concert begins at 7:00 p.m.
Bring your own chairs and blankets.
**NOTE: outside food & beverage is not allowed**
Free Parking available on site.
Concerts are open to the public and HIlton Mystic hotel guests.
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ABOUT THE BAND:
Working outside the confines of the traditional music industry, Ezra and his band, the Adam Ezra Group, built that foundation through sheer grit and determination, regularly performing hundreds of shows a year for the past two decades without any major label or mainstream radio support. Fusing folk intimacy and rock energy with soul power and pop charm, the band first emerged from Boston in the early 2000s and quickly garnered widespread acclaim for their bold, insightful songwriting and interactive, euphoric performances. From hole in the wall bars and house concerts to sold-out headline shows and dates with the likes of Little Big Town, The Wallflowers, Gavin DeGraw, Train, and The Wailers, Ezra and his bandmates treated every single gig like their last, attracting a die-hard following that believed not just in the music, but in their commitment to activism and social change, as well. Charity events and fundraisers were a regular part of the group’s touring schedule, and each year, thousands of Adam Ezra Group fans would gather in Boston for the band’s homegrown festival, The Ramble, which raised money and marshaled resources to help homeless veterans find safe and dignified housing.
“With the pandemic raging, 2020 was going to be the first time in ten years that we couldn’t host a Ramble,” says Ezra, “so we decided to incorporate it into The Gathering Series and put on a 24-hour, non-stop livestream. It was a crazy idea, but by the end of it, we had tens of thousands of people rambling with us from around the world and we’d broken our previous fundraising record, collecting enough money to help 64 of our veteran heroes off the streets.”
While that 24-hour livestream was undoubtedly the most taxing installment of The Gathering Series, finding ways to broadcast a new, unscripted hour of live music every night for a year was rarely easy. In April, Ezra came down with COVID and found himself so weak he could barely get out of bed to perform. In May, he and his wife traded Massachusetts for the Mojave, setting up a temporary home base in a cabin outside Joshua Tree, where Ezra would continue to stream daily from the desert. Over the summer, he and the band cooked up a way to bring The Gathering Series to the real world, performing nearly 50 safe, socially distanced shows in parks and backyards around the country while still managing to go live every night at 7pm.
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Where is it happening?
Hilton Mystic, 20 Coogan Blvd, Mystic, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
