I've been looking for what's happening around Boston around the end of May / beginning of June, for some people coming in from out of town, and I happened to notice that Leonard Cohen is doing a couple of shows at the Wang Center.

Tickets in the mezzanine and back rows are about $100, and range up to $253 for the front sections.

Okay, he's good. But is an hour or two of Leonard Cohen really worth as much or more than, say, a full 4 days of the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival? (FRFF 4-day tickets were $100 in the super-early sale this year, but even at the gate tickets won't be over $200)

P.S. Molly Zenobia with Mali Sastri at the Lily Pad in Inman Square this evening 7-10pm, "From the Inside Out". Lily Pad at 1353 Cambridge Street, all ages, $10 (I think).

Dada, Molly Zenobia's first interactive themed show at the Lily Pad last month with the Army of Broken Toys, featured such things as:
- Molly performing one of her songs backwards
- Each of the main acts drawing the other during the other's set
- A collaborative audience poem
- Molly with cellist Valerie Thompson, in the video on the right

Molly's next in the series is this Thursday evening, 7-10pm, with Valerie and Vessela of Goli (the same Valerie who's playing cello in the video - there will be more Molly + cello at this show), Brendan Burns, and Nate Greenslit from Humanwine. And more art.

Silhouettes - the joining of Music & Art
Thursday, March 12th, 7-10pm
The Lily Pad, 1353 Cambridge Street (Inman Square)
$10, all ages



see the art
listen to the music.
be a silhouette.

featuring:
Molly Zenobia
Vessela Stoyanova
Brendan Burns
Valerie Thompson
Nate Greenslit

constant surprises.
forward art.
~molly zenobia

P.S. Molly's next interactive show after Silhouettes will be April 23rd at the Lily Pad.

Molly Zenobia has two more shows coming up this month in Somerville and Cambridge, then she's going back to LA for a few months to record stuff. Both of these shows happen to be all ages, and inexpensive!

• Tuesday, August 12th, 7-9pm: Backyard concert near Davis Square, with Mali Sastri of Jaggery. $5 suggested donation. RSVP to backyardconcerts@gmail.com; they'll send you the address when you RSVP.


• Thursday, August 21st, 10pm: The Lily Pad, 1353 Cambridge Street, Cambridge (Inman Square)... with possible special guest accompanying her on cello!

Reminder: Jason Webley at the Lily Pad tomorrow evening at 7:30pm, all ages, $7, and I hear it might sell out so get tickets in advance! See you there?

Jason Webley is coming to our part of the country next week and the week after!

I'm out East to work on projects with some friends. While I am out here, I'm doing a small handful of shows. I am playing in Portland and Providence with the amazing Amanda Palmer of the Dresden Dolls just after Thanksgiving. Then I am playing solo shows in Boston and New York. I am also doing a few college shows at Hampshire, Bard and Sarah Lawrence.

Here are the details about the shows:

• Nov 24 - Portland, ME
  Space Gallery, 538 Congress St., (207) 828-5600
  9pm - 18+ - $12
  with Amanda Palmer of the Dresden Dolls.
  Special guest appearance by Evelyn Evelyn.
  Tickets at: http://www.dresdendolls.com/
  


• Nov 25 - Providence, RI
  The Living Room, 23 Rathbone Street
  9pm - All Ages - $12
  with Amanda Palmer of the Dresden Dolls.
  Special guest appearance by Evelyn Evelyn.
  Tickets at: http://www.dresdendolls.com
  


• Nov 29 - Cambridge, MA
  Lily Pad, 1353 Cambridge St
  7:30pm - All Ages - $7
  Special guest appearance by Evelyn Evelyn very likely.
  Advance tickets and more info at: http://www.jasonwebley.com/events.html
  


• Dec 1 - Amherst, MA
  Hampshire College, SAGA Dining Hall
  9 pm - All Ages - $5 donation
  With Dr. Science and Hampshire Circus Folk Unite!
  


• Dec 3 - Bard College, Details TBA
  


• Dec 4 - Sarah Lawrence College, Details TBA
  


• Dec 5 - New York, NY
  Parkside Lounge, 317 East Houston, (212) 673-6270
  10pm - 21+ - $7
  Advance tickets and more info at: http://www.jasonwebley.com/events.html
  

I'm going to the Lily Pad show on Thursday, November 29th.

Two of my favorite musicians that I rarely see, tonight at the Lily Pad:

• Ashley Maher, afropop/world/jazz singer-songwriter from Los Angeles


• Balla Tounkara, one of the world's best kora players, originally from Mali but mostly in Boston for the past decade

This is the sort of show I'd go see at Sanders Theatre or similarly sized venues, and it's kind of amazing that it's gonna happen at such a small venue. Ashley's not that well known here in Boston, and Balla plays all over (last time I saw him was randomly in Harvard Square). If you like African music and world music this show will make you very happy!

Lily Pad, 1353 Cambridge Street, Inman Square
Sunday, October 14th, Ashley @7pm & Balla @8:30pm
$10 suggested donation, all ages

Amanda Palmer is doing a solo show at the Lily Pad in Inman Square, Cambridge, at 5pm today. It's unpublicized because it's a small place - the former home of the Zeitgeist if you remember it - and she didn't want more people to show up than could fit. Which might still happen, so arrive early (4:30, she suggests). 1353 Cambridge Street, a few doors down from the 1369 Coffeehouse on the corner of Cambridge & Hampshire.