Pumpkin Head Ted at The Tryworks Auditorium
Schedule
Sat, 29 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
71 8th St, New Bedford, MA 02740-6025, United States | New Bedford, MA
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Join UUNB in collaboration with Infinity Productions on November 29 at 7 PM for Pumpkin Head Ted. Tickets are $20 in advance or $25 at the door. (Online ticket sales will close an hour before showtime.)Handicapped accessibility is at the rear of the building - please enter through the parking lot door.
Pumpkin Head Ted will perform an eclectic mix of originals and covers from their 30 years of music-making. Expect anything from thoughtful narrative songs with rich harmonies to high-energy rockers. With many of the band members being multi-instrumentalists, listeners will get to experience a large variety of tones, textures, and genres rarely experienced from a single group.
About the Band:
Just over thirty years ago in a downtown haunt named Kricket’s Club, a pick-up band consisting of Tom Short, John Neiman, and Mike Lavoie, played the 6-10 songs they all knew, all night long. From these humble beginnings, a New Bedford musical institution was born, soon to be called: Pumpkin Head Ted. Over the last 30 years, the band has gone through several permutations in both personnel and repertoire, but has now settled into a core group of members consisting of Tom, John, and Jason Smith. A group of superb bass players have taken responsibility for the low end over the last several years, most recently, Giulio Manfredonia, who first played with the band in the mid-1990s. The band has played all over New England during this time. Though loosely fitting under the Americana genre, Pumpkin Head Ted feeds on a steady diet of blues, jazz, country, swing, Afro-Latin, rock and roll, show tunes, punk, alternative, and any other eclectic sounds that may catch their ear. Though Tom and Jason are from afar a field, heralding from Flint, Michigan, and Long Valley, New Jersey, respectively, the band members make their home in New Bedford and the area. Pumpkin Head Ted has released two CDs, Swamp Yankee from 2000, and The New Bedford Knockabout, from 2010. When not playing with a full band, Tom, Jason, and John have been exploring acoustic trio arrangements of classic PHT material and newer songs, both covers and originals.
Band Members:
Tom Short: Flute, Saxophone, Clarinet & Vocals
Jason Smith: Guitar, Drums, & Vocals
John Nieman: Guitar, Drums, & Vocals
Giulio Manfredonia: Bass
Eric Costa: Keyboards
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