One Roof Concert for the Homeless: Gin Blossoms, Toad the Wet Sprocket & More - Northampton, MA
Schedule
Sat, 17 Jun, 2023 at 01:00 pm
Location
Look Memorial Park | Haydenville, MA
One Roof Concert for the HomelessGin Blossoms • Toad The Wet Sprocket
Juliana Hatfield • Kay Hanley (of Letters To Cleo) • Marcy Playground • The Sighs • Amy Rigby • The Glad Machine • Eavesdrop
Saturday, June 17, 2023
The Pines Theater at Look Park | Northampton, MA
One Roof
https://www.onerooffestival.org
One Roof is a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending homelessness. They produce musical concerts and festivals in order to place families and individuals in permanent homes. Their novel approach enables them to generate funds to meet their mission while simultaneously engaging with the general public and fostering a growing sense of community.
Gin Blossoms
https://www.ginblossoms.net
The Gin Blossoms have undoubtedly left their mark on the Rock music map. The Grammy nominated band's fusion of Melodic Rock, Pop, Folk and Country elements has helped pave the way for the modern Rock of today.
Fans around the world are very familiar with Gin Blossoms’ five-time Platinum breakthrough album New Miserable Experience, containing gems like “Until I Fall Away,” “Found Out About You,” “Hey Jealousy” and “Allison Road.” Those hit tracks were followed up by the Empire Records Platinum Soundtrack hit, “Til I Hear It From You.” In 1996, the singles “Follow you Down” and “As Long As It Matters,” hit the radio again in a huge way, making their Congratulations I’m Sorry record another platinum success. Their latest release, 2018’s Mixed Reality, shares that same timeless feel, packed with 15 songs.
Gin Blossoms hits have crossed over in five different formats, taking the airwaves by siege, and held the MTV playlist captive for most of the 90s. Boasting record sales of over 10 million, the band continues to burn up the road performing over 100 tour dates per year. Don’t miss all these great hit songs, a sampling of new music, and a rockin’ the house down show!
Toad the Wet Sprocket
https://toadthewetsprocket.com
Toad the Wet Sprocket is still making new music and touring with the same spirit of unwavering independence that started it all over three decades ago. The band is thankful for the continued help and enthusiastic support of their fans, which helped spur the release of All You Want and also serves as inspiration for the band to not only tour and play live, but to continue to make new original music together. They continue to support their most recent release, Starting Now (2021), as well as their previous album New Constellation (2013), and EP The Architect of Ruin (2015). Toad the Wet Sprocket share in the kind of musical chemistry that can only come from meeting in high school and writing, recording, and touring on albums over the course of time. After Bread & Circus, they followed with Pale in 1990, fear in ’91, Dulcinea in 1994, and Coil in 1997, as well as some compilations along the way. While most will still feel the comforting familiarity of the Billboard-charting hits, “Walk on the Ocean”, “All I Want”, “Something’s Always Wrong”, and “Fall Down”, fans will also be well familiar with tracks with lyrics that resonate for so many life milestones like “The Moment”, “I Will Not Take These Things for Granted”, “Transient Whales” and so many more.
Juliana Hatfield
http://www.julianahatfield.com
Fast on the heels of April 2018’s acclaimed “Juliana Hatfield Sings Olivia Newton-John” comes Juliana Hatfield’s new self-produced all-originals album “Weird”. Freda Love Smith (Blake Babies, Sunshine Boys) and Todd Philips (Lemonheads, The Juliana Hatfield Three) each played drums on multiple songs while Hatfield played all of the other instruments (and some additional drums). Weird is an album about disconnection and discomfort. “I often feel cut-off from other people, from my feelings, from technology, from popular culture,” says Hatfield. “I feel weird, I feel like I’m dreaming my life and that I am going to wake up some day.” While Hatfield’s songs—melodies and lyrics and structures– are meticulously crafted, her guitar parts are loose and sometimes a little unhinged, first-take expressions of this temperamental uneasiness. “Personally, I feel like a malfunctioning machine. There’s a screw or two loose. I want my guitar playing to reflect that.”
Kay Hanley of Letters to Cleo
http://www.kayhanley.com
Kay Hanley began her career in music as the lead singer of Boston-based alternative rock band Letters to Cleo, releasing 3 acclaimed albums between 1990-2000, and spawning such hits as Awake and Here and Now. In 2002, Hanley released her first full length solo album, Cherry Marmalade, produced by longtime Cleo producer, Mike Denneen at Q Division Studios in Boston. Subsequent solo releases were The Babydoll EP (2005) and Weaponize (2009). After a 16-year hiatus, Letters To Cleo reunited in 2016 to release new music and embark on several sold-out US tours. They are currently writing their 4th full length studio album. In the late 90's, Ms. Hanley began expanding her work as a singer and songwriter into the TV and film world, writing songs for WB's animated series Generation O, providing the singing voice for Rachael Leigh Cook's character Josie in Universal Pictures' feature film Josie and the Pussycats and performing cover versions of Nick Lowe's Cruel to be Kind and Cheap Trick's I Want You To Want Me in Touchstone Pictures' hit film, 10 Things I Hate About You. Today, Hanley is a Peabody Award winning songwriter for animated television, penning original songs for shows like Disney Junior's hit series Vampirina and Doc McStuffins, Dreamworks' Harvey Street Kids, WB/Cartoon Network's DC Super Hero Girls and Netflix series, Ada Twist, Scientist and We The People. Her latest project is Disney Junior's Kindergarten The Musical, where she serves as composer and executive producer. Ms. Hanley is co-executive director of Songwriters Of North America (SONA), a non-profit advocacy organization that fights for the protection and value of songs and songwriters in the streaming music marketplace. As a result of her advocacy work, Hanley was chosen to represent songwriters on the Mechanical Licensing Collective, serving as vice-chair of the Unclaimed Royalties Oversight Committee.
Marcy Playground
https://www.marcyplayground.net
Marcy Playground is celebrating over 25 years of active touring and recording since their breakthrough hit in 1997, “Sex and Candy”. The band has 5 worldwide studio albums and an extensive history of tours, film & TV placements, and over 130 Million Streams. Their debut album certified platinum back in 1997, while the radio classic “Sex and Candy” spent a record 15 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Modern Rock chart. Although the album was largely known for that hit, it actually sparked a total of 3 charting singles, including “Sherry Fraser” and “Saint Joe on the School Bus” - all 3 of which were also MTV and VH1 favorites. Their sophomore album, Shapeshifter, also produced a Billboard Modern Rock charting single “Its Saturday”.
The band is named after Marcy Open grade school in Minneapolis where lead singer and songwriter John Wozniak attended. In the early 90’s Wozniak moved to New York where he met co-founder and bassist, Dylan Keefe. The two eventually signed with Capitol Records and they have been a touring and recording partnership ever since.
Marcy Playground is no stranger to the big screen either. Their songs are featured on soundtracks such as Cruel Intentions, Antitrust, Simply Irresistible, Hurricane Streets, as well as many films by writer/director Kevin Smith (Jay and Silent Bob Strikes Back, Zack and Miri Make a Prono). The band continues to actively tour their “flawlessly performed” (The Void Report) live show of cult classics and hits. The band is looking forward to the road ahead. As Wozniak concludes “I’m always growing and always learning new things. Every time I meet somebody new I feel like that’s an opportunity to grow because everyone has something new to offer. I think that the next record, hopefully, is going to reflect that”.
The Sighs
http://www.thesighsmusic.com
The SIGHS are an American power pop band from Holyoke, Massachusetts who built their reputation playing clubs around New England over an eight year period starting in 1982. It wasn't until 1990 when they played the China Club in NYC that they caught the ear of producers, John DeNicola and Tommy Allen, eventually signing with Charisma Records in 1991. Their debut album What Goes On produced by Ed Stasium (co-produced by John DeNicola and Tommy Allen) was released in 1992. The disc received fantastic reviews, and the single “Think About Soul” was a staple on Modern Rock radio charts throughout the summer of 1992. The band toured America extensively with such acts as The Spin Doctors and The Gin Blossoms. 2022 marked the 30th anniversary of that debut album, celebrated with a special show at Gateway City Arts in their hometown of Holyoke, Massachusetts.
Amy Rigby
https://www.amyrigby.com
Amy Rigby sets the small details and truths of everyday life to vivid music. From solo debut Diary Of A Mod Housewife to most recent album The Old Guys and her long-running blog and podcast, she tackles themes often associated with country and folk— getting by; getting older— from an ardent rock music fan’s perspective. Her honest, imaginative songs and performances take listeners places they don’t expect to go and leave them smiling, tearing up and nodding in recognition. Celebrating creative heroes (“From Philiproth@gmail to Rzimmerman at aol dot com”) to marital torpor (“Are We Ever Gonna Have Sex Again?”) and love for the whole damn world (“Don’t Ever Change”) —well maybe not the whole world (“The President Can’t Read”)—Rigby tackles modern-day feelings and foibles in arresting lyrics on her trusty Gibson acoustic, electric 6 and 12 string guitars. Her passion for punk, psychedelia, garage and good old songcraft spill out on record and across the stage.
The Glad Machine
https://www.thegladmachine.com
Formed in Western Massachusetts in 2012, and drawing on influences from Cheap Trick, the Posies, Jellyfish and Superdrag; The Glad Machine makes hook laden, toe tapping, “Power Pop” music with crunchy guitars, tight harmonies and soaring vocals!
Eavesdrop
http://www.eavesdropband.com
Originating as an acoustic trio, Kara Wolf, Laura Buchanan and Kerrie Wert maintain their vocal roots and continue to shape their sound through collaborative songwriting. With over seven years of writing, performing and touring together, these Western Massachusetts natives have honed a special sound that brings the listener in and surrounds them with a powerful combination of intricate harmonies, contagious melodies and moving rhythm. Their voices belong together, artfully weaving their soulful lyrics into songs that will withstand the test of time.
Where is it happening?
Look Memorial Park, Haydenville, United States
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