Revisit one of the world’s most beloved musicals. THE SOUND OF MUSIC tells the tale of a young postulant who is dispatched from the local abbey to serve as governess
July 24 - August 17Solo acoustic musician.
August 16 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pmJazz night.
August 16 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pmStand-up comic, certified jabroni.
August 16 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmBlues legend.
August 16 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmA singer/songwriter/actor.
August 17 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pmThis comedian’s comedy is deeply rooted in his own life and relationships which makes it honest, abrasively funny, yet refreshingly vulnerable.
August 17 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pmJohnny Cash tribute.
August 17 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm7 piece jump swing blues & New Orleans style R&B band.
August 17 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmThis comedian’s comedy is deeply rooted in his own life and relationships which makes it honest, abrasively funny, yet refreshingly vulnerable.
August 17 @ 9:00 pm - 11:00 pmFolk music. Don’t take it too seriously.
August 18 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pmAlso known as the “sandman.” Honest songs about love, loss, and everything else that afflicts us.
August 18 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmExplore Gothic Revival manor house on 4.8 acres filled with gorgeous collections. Plant highlights include an extensive beech collection, a host of conifers, mature oaks, and plants capable of thriving
August 21 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 amRoots, blues, and rock.
August 21 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmR&B quartet.
August 22 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmThe 7-piece Talking Heads tribute band brings much of the Heads unique live show to the stage, with front man Jon Braun as a spot-on David Byrne, giving you a
August 22 @ 9:00 pm - August 23 @ 12:00 amThe album, entitled Get Outta Your Mind, marks the 20 year anniversary of his self-titled debut album.
August 23 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmThe 7-piece Talking Heads tribute band brings much of the Heads unique live show to the stage, with front man Jon Braun as a spot-on David Byrne, giving you a
August 23 @ 9:00 pm - August 24 @ 12:00 amSix guests are anonymously invited to a strange mansion for dinner, but after their host is killed, they must cooperate with the staff to identify the murderer as the bodies
August 25 @ 2:00 pm - August 29 @ 5:00 pmNo stranger to local rock 'n roll, Sean Carlson ran Just Another Scene as a resource on independent music across New England from 1998 until 2005. He now runs his own consultancy, and his writing has been published in The Irish Times, Boston Globe Magazine, New York Daily News and elsewhere.
While we greet St. Patrick’s Day in Rhode Island this year with parades cancelled, restaurants and pubs closed, and gatherings discouraged on account of the coronavirus pandemic, we’re looking back […]
During October 1918, the Providence Public Library closed for three weeks on account of the influenza pandemic, known as the Spanish flu. That year, the outbreak claimed the lives of […]
Almost a decade before founding The Dallas Morning News, in 1876 A.H. Belo installed the first commercial telephone in Texas, registering the line to a local coffee merchant whose sons […]
Since growing up in Beverly, Massachusetts, Elizabeth Rush’s journeys have carried her far and wide — college in Oregon, a solo cycling trek to Alaska, a book project in Myanmar, […]
Brian Venable grew up on the self-proclaimed hillbilly country music of Dwight Yoakam and the Dust Bowl sorrows of Buck Owens and the Buckaroos. On a walk home one afternoon […]
When Elizabeth Rush arrived in Yangon, Myanmar, in 2008, she dwelled on the former capital’s colonial buildings. For nearly a century, the British Empire claimed and governed the city as […]
Compared to Blondie, inspired by Elvis Costello and opening for the Ramones at Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel, The Mundanes roused Providence in the late ’70s and early ’80s. After they left […]
Around the world, shared-reading programs bring communities together to experience a single work of literature. Canada’s public broadcaster sponsors a nationwide Canada Reads campaign. In Dublin, Ireland, One City, One […]
It’s winter in New England. Plan a local getaway to take in some books with a side of beers. After you read our feature (motifri.com/riffraffturns2) and Q&A (motifri.com/ramadanroberge) on PVD […]
On December 7, Riffraff bookstore and bar (60 Valley St. #107A, PVD) celebrated its second anniversary (see story motifri.com/riffraffturns2. Sean Carlson interviewed cofounders Emma Ramadan and Tom Roberge for Motif. […]