Blue Troubadours ~ Jack Kelly: harmonicas; Larry Power: guitar & vocals.

Jack and Larry have been playing music together for ten years, beginning at the now defunct (but never forgotten) Sunday Blues Jam at The Cove, Revere, MA. 

Blue Troubadours began as an idea and some jamming. 
Their idea: to play all styles of music acoustically- 
Their jamming: always with a touch of the Blues-
That little touch of the Blues: they wouldn’t have it any other way.

Blue Troubadours

Composition by LJP Music©2022. All rights reserved.

Edited by Lajla Dale for TravelOggy. com

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89 Burrill Street
Swampscott, MA 01907
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Blue Troubadours ~ Jack Kelly: harmonicas; Larry Power: guitar & vocals.

Jack and Larry have been playing music together for ten years, beginning at the now defunct (but never forgotten) Sunday Blues Jam at The Cove, Revere, MA. 

Blue Troubadours began as an idea and some jamming. 
Their idea: to play all styles of music acoustically- 
Their jamming: always with a touch of the Blues-
That little touch of the Blues: they wouldn’t have it any other way.

Blue Troubadours

Composition by LJP Music©2021. All rights reserved.

Edited by Lajla Dale for TravelOggy. com

Series in association with ReachArts.org
89 Burrill Street
Swampscott, MA 01907
Open Sundays 10-1

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Larry Power-Guitar

“Phil’s Tune” is in honor of my friend of over 50 years, Phil Mayo, who died in October, 2021. He loved music. If he took you under his wing there was nothing he wouldn't do to help you achieve success.  When the call came, I picked up my guitar. What came out was “Phil’s Tune.”  It wrote itself. This is for my friend because his spirit was what moved my hands and heart that day. 

Larry has played professionally for over thirty years and performed with many blues and rock legends: His greatest memory is jamming with the Allman Brothers Band and playing slide guitar face to face with Dicky Betts. "My ultimate fantasy come true". 

Composition by LJP Music©2021. All rights reserved.

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Julie Butters is a Salem-based writer and actress who's participating in two of Sunday's panels at our literary festival. As the author of the book Pocket Prayers for Young Professionals, she'll speak about writing for young audiences. She will also speak about screenwriting as the author of a stage adaptation of Jane Eyre that was produced as a Zoom film in 2020. To close out Day 1 of the festival on Saturday,  November 6, Julie will also give a dramatic reading in costume of a new solo performance, Jane & Rochester, which she adapted from Jane Eyre.

juliebutters.com

Learn more and register for the Red Rock Literary Festival on Nov 6 & 7, 2021 at https://www.reacharts.org/event-4516540

Original music: Phil’s Tune by Larry Power

Editing by Lajla Dale

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Cenna Khatib is a recent graduate of Hofstra University. She majored in Psychology and has a minor in Creative Writing.

In this interview with Agatha Morrell, Cenna reads A Reminder When Vision Blurs, Something to Be Perceived and Pondered, He Went to Jared and I Went to the Bar .


Learn more and register for the Red Rock Literary Festival on Nov 6 & 7, 2021 at https://www.reacharts.org/event-4516540

Original music: Phil’s Tune by Larry Power

Editing by Lajla Dale

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Deahn Berrini is the author of three novels: Milkweed, set in Ipswich during the Vietnam era; How to Earn Your Keep, a tale of how economic stresses wear down a family; and, A Roanoke Story, which recounts the first European settlement in North America, solely from the Native American point of view. 

She teaches the long-running Creative Writing Class at the Swampscott Senior Center. She has been a journalist for several local papers. 

Pre-Covid, she worked as a coordinator for a Boston-based homelessness charity, and she now works in affordable housing preservation. 

Although she travels widely, Deahn has spent most of her life on the North Shore of Boston, where she lives, in Swampscott. She is a graduate of Brown University and Boston College Law School.

Learn more and register for the Red Rock Literary Festival on Nov 6 & 7, 2021 at
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Original music: Phil’s Tune by Larry Power

Editing by Lajla Dale

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89 Burrill Street
Swampscott, MA 01907
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David Townsend is a 4th generation Swampscott resident. His career is in international telecommunications policy and economics, which has taken him around the world to more than 85 countries.  He has written countless reports and papers and book chapters in his professional field, but his non-career literary interests have gone in very different directions. 

David has a deep interest in the history of Rock 'n' Roll music: the topic of his first book, "Rock 'n' Roll and War and Peace," along with a number of other essays, blog, etc.  And his recent book and current interest focus on both hiking in nature and local history: "Retracing Steps: An Exploration of Nature and History on the Massachusetts North Shore". 

David also has a podcast with his daughter Alexandra, concerning Romance Comic Books: "My Comical Romance".   

Learn more and register for the Red Rock Literary Festival on Nov 6 & 7, 2021 at
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Original music: Phil’s Tune by Larry Power

Editing by Lajla Dale

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Mary Higgins has been writing for most of her life. At the age of 16, she won a National Essay Writing Contest describing shoppers at Filene’s Basement.

With her nutrition background, she has written about food for several websites. Mary enjoys using her camera and combined her love of photography with writing for the Peabody Institute Library Blog, Nourish.

Her children’s picture book, Daddy Trains for the Marathon, was published in 2012 She also had a nutrition column in North Shore Children and Families Magazine.

Her most recent book Too Tired to Cook: the Guide to Choosing Foods that will boost your energy and enhance your immune system, is available at online booksellers. Mary wrote this book for those of you who find it a challenge to cook meals. Maybe you have an autoimmune disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, or you are a long-hauler Covid survivor. 

Mary experienced chronic fatigue and post-viral illness herself so she knows what it is like to be too tired to put on a pair of sox. 

Working as a nutritionist in various health clubs in the Boston area, Mary uses her experience and knowledge of nutrition to help you achieve your nutrition goals.

https://www.amazon.com/Mary-Higgins-B-S-M-Ed/e/B09FFWJS8K/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1

Learn more and register for the Red Rock Literary Festival on Nov 6 & 7, 2021 at
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Original music: Phil’s Tune by Larry Power

Editing by Lajla Dale

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89 Burrill Street
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Robert Jauron is a graduate of Swampscott High School, Brown University, and Suffolk University Law School and practiced law for 37 years before retiring in 2014. Thereafter he decided to write a book. He is the author of Big Blue Days - The Story of a Small-Town Football Dynasty in Swampscott Massachusetts.

The book, published in 2018, tells the story of legendary high school football coach Stan Bondelevitch and the remarkably successful program he established and led in Swampscott during the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s. It is based on extensive archival research, interviews of more than 50 individuals, and the author’s own experiences (as Bob played football in Swampscott on Bondelevitch-coached teams in the mid-1960s).

In writing the story Bob hoped to provide an understanding of why he and many others recall those bygone years in Swampscott "as special times in a special place”. According to the Lynn Item’s  front-page review of Big Blue Days:

"This book has it all: warm anecdotes, good insight into some of the era's greatest players, and — most of all — a fascinating character study of the man who made it all possible: Stanley Walter Bondelevitch.”

Website is www.bigbluedaysbook.com

Books can be purchased through a link on the website and can also be ordered directly from Amazon - search “Big Blue Days”. 

Books can also be purchased directly from Robert in Swampscott. He is always happy to sign copies. He can be reached at [email protected] or at (603) 289-2246.

Learn more and register for the Red Rock Literary Festival on Nov 6 & 7, 2021 at
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Original music: Phil’s Tune by Larry Power

Editing by Lajla Dale

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89 Burrill Street
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Barry Brodsky currently teaches Screenwriting and Playwriting at Boston University Film School and Lesley University’s Low-Residency MFA program in Creative Writing. He also taught Screenwriting at Emerson College for 19 years and taught in the Theatre Dept. at U.Mass-Boston for 9 years. He taught Greek Drama, Playwriting, and essay writing to Boston high school students for five years in the Urban Scholars program at U.Mass-Boston.

Barry is a former recipient of a grant from the Massachusetts Artists Foundation (now the Mass. Cultural Council). He was born and raised in Boston, served three years in the Army, and also directed an educational program for military veterans at U.Mass-Boston. Barry earned his undergraduate degree in Political Science at U.Mass-Boston and his Master’s in Fine Arts in Theatre at Brandeis University. He’s lived in Swampscott since 1998 with his wife Nancy Meacham, a public-school educator in Salem, and his daughter Kate, who graduated Swampscott High in 2015, U-Mass Amherst in 2019, and now lives and works in Western Mass. growing and selling native plants.

https://lesley.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/barry-brodsky

Learn more and register for the Red Rock Literary Festival on Nov 6 & 7, 2021 at
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Original music: Phil’s Tune by Larry Power

Editing by Lajla Dale

Edited by Lajla Dale for TravelOggy. com

Series in association with ReachArts.org
89 Burrill Street
Swampscott, MA 01907
Open Sundays 10-1

CONTACT

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