Our house concert at Kate Butler’s Labour of Love in Glover. The room is cozy, the house is very comfortable, and sometimes there’s even a jam session afterwards. And the plants!

www.labouroflovelandscaping.com

Fiends for the Bean o’ Caffeine! That’s the theme for this fun-filled concert evening in Watertown.  Naturally we’ll also look at politics and religion; science and spirituality; wisdom and folly; and the art of laughing and crying at the same time.

There will be a festive spread of  delicious and entertaining holiday fare from Central America before the show, and very repeat very good coffee, of course.

December 14,  8 p.m., at 35 Church St., Watertown, MA, for El Tremedal Coffeehouse. http://tremedal.org/

Put put your left foot in, Hokey-pokey, and come out to the Concert for the New Economy. Featuring Lorraine and Bennett, Andy Cohen, Dubl Handi with Hilary Hawke and others, October 12, 2013 – 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm, at the Old Labor Hall, 46 Granite Street, Barre Vermont

http://youngtraditionvermont.org/locations/old-labor-hall/ 

http://vtneweconomy.org/node/45

Cornwall, CT native Lorraine will feature in concert for the

The Historical Society, Cornwall, CT.   860/672-0505  http://www.cornwallhistoricalsociety.org/

in their Cornwall Women series. Bennett will accompany, naturally.

Yeah, so they misspell my name. Just a reminder that the experts can be wrong! Great venue, though. Acoustics? Oh, yes. We’ll pick and sing American mountain music, including traditional music from the Northern Appalachians, which was largely ignored by scholars, Northeasterners themselves generally, who pretended that the areas of isolation and poverty necessary for the preservation of tradition against cross-pollination  lay far from their own educated and industrious part of the world.

http://www.mfa.org/programs/series/nancy-lee-clark-concert-series

Lorraine and Bennett performing an afternoon concert in  Brookline Music School’s Faculty Artist Series

Brookline Music School, Brookline, MA

http://www.bmsmusic.org/Special_Events.htm

New Year’s Eve in Rockport is our favorite. It is on a  human scale, the venues are good, the food is really good. Very cool, lit.&fig.

Library-Peggy Brenner Room 8-8:45 & 9-9:45 PM
Lorraine and Bennett Hammond – Peace on Earth

The Third Annual Fundraiser for The American Parkinson’s Disease Association will take place from 12 Noon- 4:45 p.m. on Sunday December 9th at Sally O’Brien’s, 335 Somerville Ave in Union Square, Somerville, Ma.  [617-666-3589]  with

CHARLES WILLIAMS, RICK DEMERS AND JOEL GREENE,

JACKIE DAMSKY AND THE STRING RIVER BAND,

 MARYLOU FERRANTE AND BILL McQUAID,   LARRY FLINT AND CHUCK PARRISH

Nov. 16, at 7:30 p.m. Lorraine and Bennett will give a Celebration concert as part of the Dick Pleasants Concord House Concert Series, for “The Opal Ring,”  Lorraine’s brand new old-time autobiographical CD. There will be cake!

1295 Main St., Concord, MA.  Parking available nearby.  Seating is limited, so we recommend you call Dick at 978-369-8730 to reserve your spot.  Tickets are $15.