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Session Americana

Session Americana is a group of musicians musicians : a cast of top-shelf players, singers, and writers who tour internationally, taking their own songs, plus hundreds more from the American songbook, on the road. Get ready to be part of the intimate, raucous scene these players built years ago at Toad, the neighborhood bar where it all began in Cambridge, MA. Ry Cavanaugh, Billy Beard, Dinty Child, Jon Bistline, Jim Fitting.

On stage is a collapsible bar table wired with microphones, a vintage suitcase recast as a kick drum, an old Estey field organ, a pre-war parlor guitar, a mandocello and all of its smaller siblings, a harmonica case, and an assortment of other instruments that get passed around in this freewheelin modern hootenanny.

For the uninitiated, Session Americana is a stalwart Boston band grown up in the model of an Irish session, with a bunch of players around a table in a bar, holding acoustic instruments and nipping at various drinks, sharing the tunes everyone knows. From there the band evolved around a rotating cast of writers and players with complimentary voices and skill sets: suitcase kit, harp, guitars, various other stringed instruments, sometimes a pump organ or squeeze box. They write great songs and sing them, and if theres a better, sweeter, more genuinely fun live show, I dont know about it. Go find them, and buy a round for the band. Then buy another. Then hide. Jeffrey Foucault

This band delivers a musical experience unlike any other. Buy your tickets early as we always sell out!

Doors open at 5:00. Show starts at 8:00.