Marc Douglas Berardo and Craig Bickhardt w/Special Guest Larry Ahearn

Name: Marc Douglas Berardo and Craig Bickhardt w/Special Guest Larry Ahearn
Start: 2025-10-18T16:00:00-04:00
Location: McCarthy's Toad

Schedule

Sat, 18 Oct, 2025 at 04:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

McCarthy's Toad | Cambridge, MA

Craig Bickhardt is a journeyman singer-songwriter and performer with a career spanning five decades. He signed his first record deal at 19 and has since recorded 11 CDs for multiple labels, including Capitol-Liberty Records, Warner Brothers Records, MTM Records, and his own Stone Barn Records label. His latest critically acclaimed CD, Outpourings, reached #2 on the Folk/Americana Chart in 2023. His songwriting is praised for its emotional depth and literary lyricism. His original song catalog contains over 800 songs, some of which have been covered by Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Alison Krauss, Kathy Mattea, Art Garfunkel, Nicolette Larsen, the Judds, and B. B. King. He also wrote and sang the closing theme for 1984’s multiple Academy Award-winning film Tender Mercies starring Robert Duvall and Tess Harper. He signed his first record deal at 19 and has since recorded 11 CDs for multiple labels, including Capitol-Liberty Records, Warner Brothers Records, MTM Records, and his own Stone Barn Records label. His latest critically acclaimed CD, Outpourings, reached #2 on the Folk/Americana Chart in 2023.
"Craig Bickhardt is the American counterpart to Richard Thompson... stylistic, original, creative and daring." - John Apice, No Depression
craigbickhardt.com

Marc Douglas Berardo lives on the southwestern coastline of Rhode Island on a river that runs into the ocean. Berardo’s songs mine the deep feelings and lessons gleaned from real-life characters and situations. It's his songs combined with an onstage presence that uses humor and deft storytelling to rally an audience and lead them into a deep and sometimes spiritual experience. It’s an adventure that brings to mind James Taylor, Jimmy Buffett, Guy Clark, or Steely Dan with a touch of Mark Twain or Hunter S. Thompson for good measure. After thirty years of bars, theaters, house concerts, and festivals, as well as a boatload of song awards and national recognition, Berardo has established himself as the real deal. A lifer that No Depression Magazine called: “sincere, fluid, charming, and above all gripping.”. He has opened for or shared the stage with The Doobie Brothers, The Pousette-Dart Band, Jimmy Lafave, Catie Curtis, Martin Sexton, 10,000 Maniacs, John Hiatt, The New Riders of the Purple Sage, The Buffalo Springfield, Kevin Welch, Lucy Kaplansky, Eric Andersen, Ruthie Foster, Eric Taylor, David Olney, Red Molly, Kim Richey, Will Kimbrough, Walt Wilkins, Ari Hest, Dan Navarro, Kenny White and Livingston Taylor. Berardo’s new full-length record, “The Beauty of This Now,” was released on May 31, 2024. It was recorded in Austin, Texas, and produced by Texas legends Ron Flynt and Walt Wilkins. John Apice of Americana Highways wrote: “There’s a seriousness to Marc’s compositions that’s not apparent in the slew of artists who seem to have a lot of nothing to say in an album’s worth of music…Marc is cut from the same cloth as James Taylor, early Elton John…”

"Berardo takes you to a place within yourself to make changes you want to see in the world." Mary Sue Twohy, The Village, Sirius/XM Radio
marcdouglas.com

Larry Ahearn - Once upon a time, Rockport, MA native Larry Ahearn landed at Villanova University and immediately began working at the nearby Main Point in Bryn Mawr, PA. For 11 years he was an integral part of all aspects of Main Point operations, booking, promoting and producing many of the now legendary shows that took place at the Main Point in its “golden years.” Throughout that period, he also began to write and perform his own music as a solo artist, and, later, with the Larry Ahearn Group (Tom Crosthwaite, Bill Cannon, Bill Shultz, Chris Shannahan, Dan Rossi). He has shared the bill with artists like Tom Rush, Jimmy Buffett, Livingston Taylor, Jaime Brockett, Janis Ian, Elvin Bishop, Velvet Underground, Sha Na Na, Spider John Koerner, Eric Andersen, Good News, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Pearls Before Swine, and John Prine. There is a gritty, road-seasoned grace to the words and music of Larry Ahearn. His music is steeped in the classic singer-songwriter tradition, with folk and blues-based melodies framing poetically evocative lyrics that tell stories and paint pictures. Ahearn’s wealth of experience as a writer, performer, concert organizer, and mentor to other performers informs every note of his music. His songs are doorways into his own life and the people he’s met, loved, and imagined.
LarryAhearn.com