Music Seen & Heard
Stages I've Faced
This is a reasonably complete list of concerts and other stage presentations I've attended. My recollections sometimes have been bolstered by journals or ephemera. Web-based fact checks have been frequent, despite the inherent risk.
In the Beginning
- July 1976: "The Wiz", New York City
- February 3, 1977: Queen, Thin Lizzy, Springfield
- April 1, 1977: Electric Light Orchestra, Hartford
- June 15, 1977: Crosby, Stills, and Nash, Hartford
- November 19, 1977: Jethro Tull, Springfield
- January 29, 1978: Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, Springfield
- September 2, 1978: Yes, Springfield
- September 12, 1978: Electric Light Orchestra, New Haven set list
- May 30, 1979: Supertramp, Springfield
- October 10, 1979: Jethro Tull, New Haven
I'm Moving Out
- August 6, 1983: Talking Heads, Portland ($11.50)
- April 12, 1984: The Clash, Portland ($12.50)
- December 31, 1984: Kendall Morse, Jackson Gillman, Milbre Burch, Portland
- April 6, 1985: Joan Armatrading, Cook Da Books, Portland
- April 25, 1985: Harry Anderson, Springfield
- May 18, 1985: Abrams & Anderson, Portland
- 1985-86?: Judy's Tiny Head, Portland
- July 27, 1985: Abdullah Ibrahim, Portland
- August 3, 1985 (Maine Festival): Richard Thompson, Brunswick
- August 17, 1985: Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (Terence Blanchard, Lonnie Plaxico, Jean Toussaint, Donald Harrison, Mulgrew Miller), Portland
- October 7, 1985: Dire Straits, Portland info
- August 3, 1986 (Maine Festival): The Roches, Brunswick
- 198x: Geno's etc.
Coast to Coast, Westbound
- May 2, 1987: Husker Du, Seattle ($11.50)
- June 27, 1987: X, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Seattle ($13.50)
- July 10, 1987: The Cure, Seattle ($16.50)
- 1987: The Green Pajamas, Seattle
Quick Visit #1
- August 23, 1987: Bo Diddley, Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey, Portland
And Back
- September 1987: Fugazi, Olympia
- September 6 & 7, 1987 (Bumbershoot; $4-5/day): Lonnie Brooks, Miles Davis, Sukutai Marimba and Gwinya, Michael Powers, Napalm Beach; Caliente, Je Ka Jo, Obo Addy, Stanley Jordan, Jerry Granelli, Jay Clayton, Denny Goodhew; Robert Cray, Slamhound Hunters, Dr. Science, Thomas Arthur, Seattle
- March 13, 1988: Willem Breuker Kollektief, Seattle
Quick Visit #2
- August 13, 1988 (Maine Festival)
And Back Again
- September 1988 (Bumbershoot): Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Jonathan Richman, John Mayall, Barenaked Ladies, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Ry Cooder and David Lindley, Nana Vasconcelos, Trilok Gurtu, Odo Addy and Kukrudu, Michelle Shocked, Robert Cray Band, Seattle
- November 11, 1988: Sonic Youth, Mudhoney, Screaming Trees, Seattle
- September 2-4, 1989 (Bumbershoot): Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Bumber Drum (New York Percussion All-Stars, Nana Vasconselos and Trilok Gurtu, Michael Shrieve), Al Green, Zion Harmonizers, Little Richard, George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars, Seattle
- 1989: Impacttestdummy, Olympia
- August 26, 1990: L7, Olympia
- November 10, 1990: Nirvana, Some Velvet Sidewalk, Witchypoo, Olympia info
- January 1991: Beat Happening, Mecca Normal, Bikini Kill, April 73, Olympia
- August 1991 (Yoyo A Go Go): Bikini Kill, Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, Nikki McClure, Olympia
- December 5, 1991: Nutcracker, Seattle
- February 5, 1993: Carlos Nakai and William Eaton, Olympia
- 1993?: Alice Donut, Olympia
- 199x: Jonestown, Olympia
- August 21, 1993: Some Velvet Sidewalk, Olympia
- September 1993: (Bumbershoot) $8
- October 9, 1993: Screaming Trees, Olympia
- July 16, 1994 (Yoyo A Go Go): Jad Fair, Kicking Giant, Georgia & Ira, Codeine, Olympia
- July 17, 1994?: Raymond Kane, Olympia
- March 3, 1995: Masters of the Folk Violin (Claude Williams with Rob Thomas and John Stewart, Brendan Mulvihill with Donna Long, Michael Doucet with David Doucet and Mitchell Reed), Olympia info
- May 7, 1995: Flutes in the Rotunda, Olympia
Seattle, Part 2
- September 1995: (Bumbershoot; $9)
- September 1996 (Bumbershoot): Reverend Horton Heat, Milt Jackson Quartet (Jeff Chambers, Albert Heath, Cedar Walton), Skerek, John Lee Hooker, Trilok Gurtu's Crazy Saints, Prohibition Jazz Band, Shanghai Acrobatic Theater, Seattle
- November 8, 1996: The Palladian Ensemble, Seattle
- May 19, 1997: Freedy Johnston, Seattle
- July 5, 1997 (Lilith Fair): Suzanne Vega, Paula Cole, Jewel, Tracy Chapman, Sarah McLachlan George (The Gorge)
- December 14, 1997: Portishead, Seattle
- December 1997: Cirque Ingenieux, Seattle
- January 23, 1998: George Kahumoku, Cyril Pahinui, Dennis Kamakahi, Seattle (King Cat Theater) Natalie MacMaster, Seattle
Olympia, Part 2
- Squirrel Nut Zippers, Olympia
- Austin Lounge Lizards, Olympia
- Natalie MacMaster, Olympia
- July 16, 1998: Frank Black, Frequency db, Olympia
- November 20, 1998: David Sedaris, Olympia
- January 29, 1999: Hal Holbrook, Tacoma
- April 16, 1999: Battlefield Band, Tacoma
- July 1999 (Yoyo A Go Go): Negativland, Dub Narcotic Sound System, Marine Research, The Donnas?, Olympia
Coast to Coast, Eastbound
- October 16, 1999: The Amazing Kreskin, Rochester
- January 22, 2000: Black Eagle Jazz Band, Rochester
- March 24, 2000: Cherish the Ladies, Rochester
- April 15, 2000: Patty Larkin, Rochester
- April 21, 2000: "Grease", Biddeford
- 2000: Natalie MacMaster, Rochester
- October 14, 2000: Doc Watson, Portland
- April 6, 2001: Asleep at the Wheel, Rochester
- April 19, 2001 (Experimental Folk Music Project): Drekka, The Iditarod, The Eyesores, Stone Breath, (In Gowan Ring was on the bill but we left before they reached the stage) Durham
- Fall 2001: Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Sara Cox, Portland
- October 12, 2001: Iris DeMent, Portsmouth
- July 31, 2002: Hackmatack Players "Into the Woods", Berwick
- August 29 to September 1, 2002: Mountain Heart, Quicksilver (w/o Doyle Lawson), Doc Watson (w/ J. Lawrence and R. Watson), Seldom Scene, Karl Shiflett & The Big Country Show, Valerie Smith & Rick Lang, The Abram Family, Canadian Grass Unit, Leroy Troy, Liberty Pike, Gopher Broke, Schankman Twins, White Mountain Bluegrasss, Brunswick
- February 15, 2003: The Maine Fiddle Camp Concert (2nd Annual) with Don and Cindy Roy, Greg Boardman, John and Ellen Gawler, Lissa Schneckenburger, John Pranio, Carter and Kaity Newell, Jeff McKeen, Doug Protsik, Steve Muise, Hank Washburn, Sharon Pyne, and Pam Weeks Bath
- May 4, 2003: Three Generations of Maine Fiddlers, featuring Lissa Schneckenburger, Greg Boardman, Don Roy, and Ben, Danny, and Stephen Guillemette, Brunswick
- July 12, 2003: Kaiulani Lee "A Sense of Wonder", Kennebunk
- July 2003: The Schankman Twins, Dry Branch Fire Squad, Jennifer Roland, The Kruger Brothers, Joyce Andersen and Harvey Reid, Cornish
- October 11, 2003: Halali, Joyce Andersen and Harvey Reid, Brendan Carey Block and Rich Block, Wells
- December 5, 2003: Childsplay, Portland review
- May 8, 2004: Niamh Parsons and Andy Irvine, Lexington
- May 28, 2004: The Fogg Brothers, Bar Mills
- July 25(?), 2004: Bedlam, Lebanon
- August 21, 2004: Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum, Hood River
- September 2-5, 2004: King Wilkie, Del McCoury Band, Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys, The Atkinson Family, Jerks of Grass, White Mountain Bluegrass (RIP Karen), Brunswick
- September 2004: Chief Noda, Wells
- October 9, 2004: Danu; Rodney Miller, David Surette, and Susie Burke; Jerks of Grass, Wells
- August 2005: Angel Band, Dave Rowe Trio, Dover
- September 24, 2005: J.P. Cormier, High Range, North Star, South Hiram
- October 9, 2005: High Range, Nightingale, Cluck Old Hen, Wells
- November 19, 2005: Liz Carroll and John Doyle, Portland
- February 25, 2006: Jake Shimabukuro, Waimea
- September 9, 2006: Chief Noda, Wells
- September 17, 2006: Susie Burke, David Surrette, and Joyce Andersen, Limington
- October 22, 2006: Fiddleicious, Portland
- September 21, 2008: Keith Murphy, David Surrette, and Sarah Blair, West Springfield
- September 27, 2008: Hope Hoffman & Kittlish, Erica Brown & The Bluegrass Connection, Jackson Gillman, Wells
- March 14, 2009: A Celtic Sojourn [Maura O'Connell; Gráinne Hambly and Billy Jackson; Lóchrann (Diarmaid Ó hAlmhain, Caoilfhionn Ní Fhríghil, Aoife Greene, Eibhlin Healy, Pauric Stapleton, Brian Shinners); Folk Arts Quartet (Ivonne Hernandez, Hannah Read, Julie Metcalf, Liz Davis Maxfield); Donnchadh Howard; Kieran Jordan; and others], Boston
- August 2009: Clara Berry, Steve Jones Band, Dominic and the Lucid, Jason Spooner Trio, Wells
- September 26, 2009: Joyce Andersen, Lilly Pearlman & Family, Hope Hoffman & Jim Tolles, Wells
- September 25, 2010: Paul Wells and Sally Sommers Smith, David Surette and Isa Burke, Erica Brown and Matt Shipman, Robert Sylvain and Pip Walter, Wells
- September 2011: Laura Cortese Trio, Gordon Bok, Ellie and Andy Buckland, Wells
- October 15, 2011: Stretch Dawrson, Rollinsford
- December 2011: Childsplay, Lexington
- September 9, 2012: Gary Wittner, Wells
- September 22, 2012: John Terczyak, Sammie Haynes, Deep Hole Road, Salt River, Wells
- July 17, 2013: Venti Cordi, Wells
- August 11, 2013: DaPonte String Quartet, Wells
- September 2013: Matt Loosigian; Ellen Carlson and Todd Thurlow; Ryan McKasson, Neil Pearlman, and Emerald Rae, Wells
- August 27, 2014: Masanobu Ikemaya, Wells
- September 2014: BYOC, The Gather Rounders, Shana Aisenberg and Friends, Mari Black and Neil Pearlman, Wells
- August 27, 2015: Soggy Po' Boys, Wells
- September 2015: Joyce Andersen and Harvey Reid, The Gather Rounders, Susie Burke and Melissa Bragdon, Highland Soles, Wells
- December 10, 2015: Mosaic, North Berwick
- February 29, 2016: Christian McBride Trio (Christian Sands, Jerome Jennings), Durham
- September 2016: Corey Husic, Seagrass, Laurel Martin and Jim Prendergast, Wells
- February 24, 2017: Hunter and the Gatherers (Hunter Burgamy, Benjamin Cousins, Colescott Rubin, Volt Jingit, Kan Yanabe, Malwina Masternak), Boston
- September 2018: Elizabeth and Ben Anderson, Jason Anick Trio, Wells
- September 2019: OldHat String Band, The Reel McCoys, Wells
- September 2022: The Fretbenders, Owen Marshall and Alden Robinson, Long Journey, Wells
Reset
- February 2026: Jake Shimabukuro and Pure Heart, Honolulu
- May 15, 2026: The Wailin' Jennys, Olympia
- July 19, 2026: Lake (billed as Eli Moore), Califone, Olympia
- August 23, 2026: Mona Reels, Tall Toad, Olympia
- August 28, 2026: GRRRizzly, Trust Fall, T.R.U.E., Annie DiRusso, Sleater-Kinney, Olympia
- August 29, 2026: Ella Rae, IROIRO, Olympia
- September 7, 2026: Gigi, Corduroy Fox, Yarrow, Anna Gordon, Olympia
So Close / Wish I Hadn't Missed
- 199x: Eugene Chadbourne, Olympia
Notes
- About the image: TBD
- In part, originally posted to Blogger as Tracking Shows.
- Last modified September 14, 2026.