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FROM THE BOSTON GLOBE
Folk season lines up as the busiest ever
Is there another folk revival under way? Listen to the talk from the high towers of commercial radio and the mainstream pop industry, and it would hardly seem so. Continued...

Folk this fall

Bull Run Concert Series
Bull Run Restaurant, Route 2A, Shirley. 978-425-4311. $10; add $2 day of show unless noted. Shows at 8:30 p.m. unless noted. - - Sept. 11, Harvey Reid. - - Sept. 18, Acousticity, the Acoustic Alligators. - - Sept. 19, Coretta Sellars. - - Sept. 25, Connie Kaldor, Stephen Fearing. - - Oct. 2, Kate Campbell, Peter Keane. - - Oct. 3, Don White, the Loomers. - - Oct. 9, Heidi Muller, Gail Rundlett. - - Oct. 10, Vance Gilbert, Jess Klein. - - Oct. 11, 7 p.m., Eric Andersen, Keith Greeninger; $12 advance, $15 day of show.

Greg Brown
Somerville Theatre, Davis Sq., Somerville. 978-369-4127. Nov. 13, 8 p.m. $17.50 advance, $20 at door.

Cambridge Center Cabaret Connection
56 Brattle St., Cambridge. 617-547-6789. 8 p.m. unless noted. $10. - - Sept. 17, Mark Chapman, Glenway Fripp. - - Sept. 25-27, Diva Weekend: Sept. 25, Jody Ebling. - - Sept. 26, Gloria Stanton.- - Sept. 27, 7 p.m., Melinda Stanford. - - Oct. 3, Merle Perkins, Edwin Gray. - - Oct. 24 and Nov. 21, Will & Lil Show with Joe Della Penna. - - Oct. 17, 8 p.m. and Oct. 18, 4 p.m., Susan Abod.
Open Mike and Performances: Oct. 2, 8-11 p.m., Open Mike, $5. - - Oct. 25, 3 p.m. Z'arts Presents the Baverstam Chamber Players with poets David Ferry and Tom Sleigh. - - Oct. 30, 8 p.m., Benjamin Sears & Bradford Conner, $10. - - Nov. 6-7, 8 p.m., Steve Schalchlin: Living in the Bonus Round, $10. - - Nov. 7, noon-2 p.m., "Living and Surviving in the Songwriting Business," related workshop, $15. - - Dec. 4-5, 8 p.m., Holiday Cabaret Benefit, $15.

Beth Nielsen Chapman
Somerville Theatre, Davis Square, Somerville. 617-931-2000. Nov. 6, 8 p.m. $16.50 and $19.50.

Concerts at Arlington
Regent Theater, 7 Medford St., Arlington Center. 781-647-1075. At 8 p.m. unless noted. Ticket prices vary. - - Sept. 25, Chesapeake, Bryan Bowers. - - Sept. 26, Sol y Canto Trio. - - Oct. 4, 7 p.m., Jonathan Edwards, Northern Lights. - - Oct. 31, Jay Ungar, Molly Mason. - - Nov. 7, Dee Karstensen. - - Dec. 19, Burns Sisters, Northampton Harmony, Tony Trischka, Skyline.

Jerry Douglas Band
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge. * 617-496-2222 or 617-931-2000. Nov. 13, 8 p.m. $20.50 and $23.50. Featuring Maura O'Connell and Tim O'Brien.

Dremmwel
Museum of Our National Heritage, 33 Marrett Rd., Lexington. 781-862-7837. Nov. 8, 7:30 p.m. Advance tickets $14.50, $19; tickets at door $16, $21. Music of Brittany.

Festival of Great Women's Voices
Somerville Theatre, Davis Square, Somerville. 617-628-3390 or 617-931-2000. Nov. 7, 7 p.m. $16 and $15 advance; students and seniors $2 off; add $1 day of show. Jess Klein, Faith Soloway, June Rich, Trina Hamlin, Mica Richards, Rose Polenzani, Lori McKenna, Colleen Sexton.

Khenany
Casey Theatre, Regis College, 235 Wellesley St., Weston. 781-768-7220. Sept. 13, 3 p.m. $25. Indigenous and Hispanic Latin American music.

MITHAS Fall Concert Series
MIT, Cambridge. 617-258-7971. $15, students $12.
In Wong Auditorium: E-51, Amherst and Wadsworth streets. - - Sept. 20, 4 p.m., T.V. Sankaranarayan, Carnatic vocalist. - - Oct. 16, 7 p.m., P. Unnikrishnan, Carnatic vocalist. - - Nov. 15, 4 p.m., Buddhadev DasGupta, sarod.
In Killian Hall: Hayden Library Bldg., 160 Memorial Drive. - - Oct. 3, 7 p.m. Gretchen Hayden, Kathak Dance. - - Oct. 30, 7 p.m., Sanjukta Ghosh, khyal vocalist.

Christy O'Leary Band
Museum of Our National Heritage, 33 Marrett Rd., Lexington. 781-862-7837. Dec. 12, 8 p.m. Advance tickets $15, $20; add $2 at door. Music of Ireland and Scandinavia.

Ellis Paul, Diane Zeigler
Somerville Theatre, Davis Square, Somerville. 617-628-3390 or 617-931-2000. Dec. 5, 8 p.m. $16 and $15 advance; add $1 day of show.

Tom Paxton
Congregation Kehillath Israel, 384 Harvard St., Brookline. 617-277-4593. Sept. 27, 2 p.m. $5, children and seniors $3. Sponsored by Brookline Music School.

Chris Sherburn & Denny Bartley and Whirligig
Regent Theatre, 7 Medford St., Arlington. 781-862-7837. Oct. 17, 8 p.m. Advanced tickets $12.50, $17; tickets at door $14, $19.

Mercedes Sosa
Symphony Hall, 301 Mass. Ave., Boston. * 617-266-1200 or 617-931-2000. Oct. 9, 8:30 p.m. $18.50-$29.50.

Tribute to the Beatles with Beatlemania
Somerville Theatre, Davis Square, Somerville. 617-628-3390 or 617-931-2000. Oct. 17, 8 p.m. $18.50 and $16.50, $2 off for children; add $1.50 day of show.

Susan Werner
Emerson Umbrella, 40 Stow St., Concord. 978-369-4127. Oct. 24, 8 p.m. $15 advance, $17.50 at door.

Cheryl Wheeler and Cliff Eberhardt
Somerville Theatre, Davis Square, Somerville. 617-931-2000. Oct.30, 8 p.m. $16.50 and $19.50.

World Music Concerts
Various locations. 617-876-4275.
Somerville Theater, 55 Davis Sq., Somerville: - - Sept. 25, 8 p.m., Angelique Kidjo, $25, $20. - - Oct. 23, 8 p.m., Radio Tarifa, $22, $18. - - Oct. 24, 8 p.m., Alasdair Fraser and Skyedance, $22, $18. - - Nov. 21, 8 p.m., Natalie Macmaster Trio, $22, $18. - - Dec. 12, 8 p.m., Voice of the Turtle, $22, $18, children under 12 $12.
Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy St., Harvard University, Cambridge: - - Oct. 1, 7:30 p.m., the Whirling Dervishes, $30, $25, $20. - - Oct. 3, 8 p.m., WOFA, Drum and Dance of Guinea, $22, $18, children under 12 $12. - - Oct. 16, 8 p.m., Ondekoza, $30, $25, $20. - - Nov. 6, 8 p.m., Carmen Linares, $28, $22. - - Nov. 8, 7:30 p.m., Grupo Afrocuba De Matanzas and Los Hermanos Cepeda; $25, $20, $12.
The Roxy, 279 Tremont St., Boston: Oct. 18, 8 p.m., Juan de Marco's Afro-Cuban All Stars, $25 advance, $30 day of show.
Berklee Performance Center, 136 Mass. Ave., Boston: Nov. 11, 8 p.m., Marisa Monte, $30, $25.
Symphony Hall, 301 Mass. Ave., Boston: Nov. 14, 8 p.m., Mary Black and Solas, $28, $24, $20.



 


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