DECEMBER '08
4 - The Circle Bar
New Orleans, LA
11 - Luna's Bar and Grill
Lake Charles, LA
13 - Bisbano's
Lafayette, LA
FEBRUARY '09
13 - Blue
650A Congress St.
Portland, ME
7 pm
18-22 Folk Alliance
Memphis, TN
MARCH '09
21 - North Star Music Cafe
225 Congress St.
Portland, ME
With Raina Rose and Rebecca Loebe!
PAST GIGS
NOVEMBER '08
3 - Freeport Cabaret
As part of the YIKES! Monsters Theater Night
Should be a great evening of music, short plays, comedy
sketches and the like!
7pm
6 - North Star Music Cafe
Portland, ME
8:00 PM
No Cover
Maine Songwriter's Association Showcase.
10 - Second Monday Songwriter's Circle
7:00 - 9:00 PM
75 State Street
Portland
I'll be hosting this Songwriter's circle through the Maine Songwriter's Association.
Whether you're working on your 1st song, or your 101st song -- come on down!
more info at: www.mesongwriters.com
20 - Banjo Jim's
New York, New York
9th St. and Ave C
11pm
With the Carolina Jug Stompers! Should be one hell
of a good time!!
21 - Dante's Bar
Frostburg, MD
OCTOBER '08
4 - North Star Music Cafe
225 Congress St.
Portland, ME
8pm
9 - One Longfellow Square
Portland, ME
8pm
$7
Opening for the Mutineers, CD Release Party!!
11 - Spruce Row Gallery
St. Agatha, ME
7pm
Playing with the one and only Travis Cyr!
12 - Private Party
27 - Freeport Cabaret
As part of the YIKES! Monsters Theater Night
Should be a great evening of music, short plays, comedy
sketches and the like!
7pm
SEPTEMBER '08
27 - Blue
650A Congress St.
Portland, ME
7 pm
26 - House Concert in Bowdoinham, Maine
7pm
email me for more info: putnamsmith@gmail.com
AUGUST '08
9 - Summer Concert Series
Thomas Knight Park
South Portland, ME
11:30am
Come on out and enjoy summer!!
AUGUST
29 - LIVE ON THE AIR!
WMPG 90.9, Portland
On "US Folk" with Chris Darling
8:30am
To listen on line click here.
29 - Fifth Maine Museum
Peaks Island, ME
Peaks Island Music Association
8pm
JULY '08
2 - Onyx
444 Fore St.
Portland, ME
Great new place right down in the heart of the Old Port!
5 - North Star Music Cafe
225 Congress St.
Portland, ME
7pm
I'll be playing with my good friend DAVE KOPPERMAN
from New York, who'll be playing bass and keys!!
And, sharing the evening with Brooke Brown Sarcino (www.brookebrownsaracino.com)
and Christian Cuff (www.christiancuff.com)!
13 - The Dream Away Lodge
Becket, MA
8pm
Amazing food! Legendary Place! Back in the day,
Bob Dylan and Joan Baez graced this place with their presence...
18 - The Colony Cafe
Woostock, NY
7pm
19 - Langdon Street Cafe
Montpelier, VT
8:30pm
Opening for The Lonesome Brothers!
20 - Radio Bean
Burlington, VT
7pm
23 - Live on Brattleboro Community Radio, WVEW, 107.7!
Brattleboro, VT
10pm
To listen online, Click Here.
25 - House Concert
Dummerston, VT
(right outside of Brattleboro)
email me for more info!
putnamsmith@gmail.com
27 - The Burren
Somerville, MA
8pm
JUNE '08
1 - Bayside Music Festival
Brunswick, ME
7 - North Star Music Cafe
225 Congress St.
Portland, ME
8pm
With Ramblin Red!
21 - Sweet Leaves Teahouse
Brunswick, ME
8:30pm
Great new place in Brunswick -- and not just tea!
Beer, wine -- and absolutely amazing food! Come for
dinner, stay for music...
26 - North Star Music Cafe
Portland, ME
8:45 PM
No Cover
Maine Songwriter's Association Showcase.
27 - Live on Portsmouth Community Radio, 106.1 FM
on Stay Tuned Music, with host Shawn Henderson
3pm
To listen online Click Here
28 - Arootsakoostik Music Festival
New Sweden, ME
10am - 9pm
This is a great new Roots music festival way up 'noth' in
"The County"! Also Featuring: Tree By Leaf, the Tough Cats,
Travis Cyr, and other amazing folks!
MAY '08
1 - LIVE ON THE AIR!
WMPG 90.9, Portland
On "Kitchen Party!" with Ceci Gilson -- a great show, check it out
every Thursday 10am-12noon.
11am - on the air
3 - North Star Music Cafe
225 Congress St.
Portland, ME
8pm
Adam Sweeney from Northampton, MA opening!
Good times to be had...
30 - Live on WMPG, 90.9 Portland
On "Local Motives"
7:30pm
to listen online click on:
http://www.wmpg.org/include/listenlive.htm
APRIL '08
4 - North Star Music Cafe
225 Congress St.
Portland, ME
Opening for the sterling Brooklynite Richard Julian!
$10
5 - North Star Music Cafe
225 Congress St.
Portland, ME
North Star's One Year Anniversary Party! Come
and join the fun -- with Vanessa Torres, Sorcha
Merrill and other good folks!
18 - Knock On Wood GuitarFest
Given Auditorium
Colby College,
Waterville, ME
7:30 PM
Part of the Maine Songwriters Association feature --
with Sorcha Cribben-Merrill and Kate Schrock!
21 - One Longfellow Square
One Longfellow Square
Portland, ME
Playing with SETH YENTES!
Also, sharing the bill with banjo-pluckin songstress Mya Elaine from Portland, Oregon.
MARCH '08
14 - LIVE ON THE AIR!
WMPG 90.9, Portland
On "US Folk" with Chris Darling
With the Indomitable SETH YENTES on Cello!
9:30am
14 - Blue
650A Congress St.
Portland, ME
6pm
No cover
With the Incomparable SETH YENTES on cello! If you
haven't seen us play as a duo, you just gotta come
out and check it out!!
March 08
4 & 5 - Hampden Academy
Songwriting Workshop
Feb/08
29 - Friends School of Portland
1 Mackworth Island Falmouth, ME
1pm
Gettin the kiddos hip to the Old-Timey!
23 - Sweet Leaves Teahouse
Brunswick, ME
8:30pm
Great new place in Brunswick --
check it out!
22 - LIVE ON THE AIR! WBOR, 91.1 FM
Airing out of Brunswick, ME
(Webcasting worldwide!)
8:30 am
In the studio at my old Alma Mater,
Bowdoin College -- Last time I was in
this studio, I was enrolled as a long-bearded
philosophy student!
17 - The Gorham Grind
Gorham, ME
2pm
Feb 8 - North Star Cafe
225 Congress St.
Portland, ME
8pm
Sharing the evening with the
fabulous Vanessa Torres!
January 3-February 6
On tour with the Weird Sisterz rock band
(that's right, banjo boy will be picking up
the old electric guitar!)in a traveling production
of Macbeth, with the Theater at Monmouth
(I know, I said I was giving up the theater,
but how could I turn this down?!)
Live at One Longfellow Square
One Longfellow Square
Portland, ME
1/5/08
8pm
$5
Not to be missed! I'll be playing with the incomparable SETH YENTES on cello.
The evening will also feature The Low Tide String Band, and a full set of the one and
only SARAH JESSOP!
For more info: info@putnamsmith.com
Live at the North Star Cafe
225 Congress St.
Portland, ME
12.6.07
8:45 PM
No Cover
Maine Songwriter's Association Showcase.
Performances start at 7pm -- come check out
all the good local songwriters!
For more info: info@putnamsmith.com
Live at Rockwood Music Hall
196 Allen St.
(b/w Houston and Stanton)
New York City
12.5.07
7pm
No Cover
For more info: info@putnamsmith.com
Live at Blue
650A Congress St.
Portland, ME
11.23.07
7pm
No Cover
Stay after my gig for 'old-time' night!
(I'll probably be working more traditional
old-time banjo tunes into my set -- so get
ready for some foot-stompin!)
For more info: info@putnamsmith.com
Live at the North Star Cafe
Portland, ME
11.17.07
8 PM
No Cover
With the indomitable SETH YENTES on cello!
Opening for Jason Myles Goss
For more info: info@putnamsmith.com
Live at The Maple Room
Lewiston, ME
11.9.07
7:30pm
$25
Opening for Mark Erelli -- who is awesome!
Should be a great show at a sweet new venue.
For more info: info@putnamsmith.com
Live at the North Star Cafe
10.28.07
1:30 PM
No Cover
Singer/Songwriter circle
For more info: info@putnamsmith.com
4 - The Circle Bar
New Orleans, LA
11 - Luna's Bar and Grill
Lake Charles, LA
13 - Bisbano's
Lafayette, LA
FEBRUARY '09
13 - Blue
650A Congress St.
Portland, ME
7 pm
18-22 Folk Alliance
Memphis, TN
MARCH '09
21 - North Star Music Cafe
225 Congress St.
Portland, ME
With Raina Rose and Rebecca Loebe!
PAST GIGS
NOVEMBER '08
3 - Freeport Cabaret
As part of the YIKES! Monsters Theater Night
Should be a great evening of music, short plays, comedy
sketches and the like!
7pm
6 - North Star Music Cafe
Portland, ME
8:00 PM
No Cover
Maine Songwriter's Association Showcase.
10 - Second Monday Songwriter's Circle
7:00 - 9:00 PM
75 State Street
Portland
I'll be hosting this Songwriter's circle through the Maine Songwriter's Association.
Whether you're working on your 1st song, or your 101st song -- come on down!
more info at: www.mesongwriters.com
20 - Banjo Jim's
New York, New York
9th St. and Ave C
11pm
With the Carolina Jug Stompers! Should be one hell
of a good time!!
21 - Dante's Bar
Frostburg, MD
OCTOBER '08
4 - North Star Music Cafe
225 Congress St.
Portland, ME
8pm
9 - One Longfellow Square
Portland, ME
8pm
$7
Opening for the Mutineers, CD Release Party!!
11 - Spruce Row Gallery
St. Agatha, ME
7pm
Playing with the one and only Travis Cyr!
12 - Private Party
27 - Freeport Cabaret
As part of the YIKES! Monsters Theater Night
Should be a great evening of music, short plays, comedy
sketches and the like!
7pm
SEPTEMBER '08
27 - Blue
650A Congress St.
Portland, ME
7 pm
26 - House Concert in Bowdoinham, Maine
7pm
email me for more info: putnamsmith@gmail.com
AUGUST '08
9 - Summer Concert Series
Thomas Knight Park
South Portland, ME
11:30am
Come on out and enjoy summer!!
AUGUST
29 - LIVE ON THE AIR!
WMPG 90.9, Portland
On "US Folk" with Chris Darling
8:30am
To listen on line click here.
29 - Fifth Maine Museum
Peaks Island, ME
Peaks Island Music Association
8pm
JULY '08
2 - Onyx
444 Fore St.
Portland, ME
Great new place right down in the heart of the Old Port!
5 - North Star Music Cafe
225 Congress St.
Portland, ME
7pm
I'll be playing with my good friend DAVE KOPPERMAN
from New York, who'll be playing bass and keys!!
And, sharing the evening with Brooke Brown Sarcino (www.brookebrownsaracino.com)
and Christian Cuff (www.christiancuff.com)!
13 - The Dream Away Lodge
Becket, MA
8pm
Amazing food! Legendary Place! Back in the day,
Bob Dylan and Joan Baez graced this place with their presence...
18 - The Colony Cafe
Woostock, NY
7pm
19 - Langdon Street Cafe
Montpelier, VT
8:30pm
Opening for The Lonesome Brothers!
20 - Radio Bean
Burlington, VT
7pm
23 - Live on Brattleboro Community Radio, WVEW, 107.7!
Brattleboro, VT
10pm
To listen online, Click Here.
25 - House Concert
Dummerston, VT
(right outside of Brattleboro)
email me for more info!
putnamsmith@gmail.com
27 - The Burren
Somerville, MA
8pm
JUNE '08
1 - Bayside Music Festival
Brunswick, ME
7 - North Star Music Cafe
225 Congress St.
Portland, ME
8pm
With Ramblin Red!
21 - Sweet Leaves Teahouse
Brunswick, ME
8:30pm
Great new place in Brunswick -- and not just tea!
Beer, wine -- and absolutely amazing food! Come for
dinner, stay for music...
26 - North Star Music Cafe
Portland, ME
8:45 PM
No Cover
Maine Songwriter's Association Showcase.
27 - Live on Portsmouth Community Radio, 106.1 FM
on Stay Tuned Music, with host Shawn Henderson
3pm
To listen online Click Here
28 - Arootsakoostik Music Festival
New Sweden, ME
10am - 9pm
This is a great new Roots music festival way up 'noth' in
"The County"! Also Featuring: Tree By Leaf, the Tough Cats,
Travis Cyr, and other amazing folks!
MAY '08
1 - LIVE ON THE AIR!
WMPG 90.9, Portland
On "Kitchen Party!" with Ceci Gilson -- a great show, check it out
every Thursday 10am-12noon.
11am - on the air
3 - North Star Music Cafe
225 Congress St.
Portland, ME
8pm
Adam Sweeney from Northampton, MA opening!
Good times to be had...
30 - Live on WMPG, 90.9 Portland
On "Local Motives"
7:30pm
to listen online click on:
http://www.wmpg.org/include/listenlive.htm
APRIL '08
4 - North Star Music Cafe
225 Congress St.
Portland, ME
Opening for the sterling Brooklynite Richard Julian!
$10
5 - North Star Music Cafe
225 Congress St.
Portland, ME
North Star's One Year Anniversary Party! Come
and join the fun -- with Vanessa Torres, Sorcha
Merrill and other good folks!
18 - Knock On Wood GuitarFest
Given Auditorium
Colby College,
Waterville, ME
7:30 PM
Part of the Maine Songwriters Association feature --
with Sorcha Cribben-Merrill and Kate Schrock!
21 - One Longfellow Square
One Longfellow Square
Portland, ME
Playing with SETH YENTES!
Also, sharing the bill with banjo-pluckin songstress Mya Elaine from Portland, Oregon.
MARCH '08
14 - LIVE ON THE AIR!
WMPG 90.9, Portland
On "US Folk" with Chris Darling
With the Indomitable SETH YENTES on Cello!
9:30am
14 - Blue
650A Congress St.
Portland, ME
6pm
No cover
With the Incomparable SETH YENTES on cello! If you
haven't seen us play as a duo, you just gotta come
out and check it out!!
March 08
4 & 5 - Hampden Academy
Songwriting Workshop
Feb/08
29 - Friends School of Portland
1 Mackworth Island Falmouth, ME
1pm
Gettin the kiddos hip to the Old-Timey!
23 - Sweet Leaves Teahouse
Brunswick, ME
8:30pm
Great new place in Brunswick --
check it out!
22 - LIVE ON THE AIR! WBOR, 91.1 FM
Airing out of Brunswick, ME
(Webcasting worldwide!)
8:30 am
In the studio at my old Alma Mater,
Bowdoin College -- Last time I was in
this studio, I was enrolled as a long-bearded
philosophy student!
17 - The Gorham Grind
Gorham, ME
2pm
Feb 8 - North Star Cafe
225 Congress St.
Portland, ME
8pm
Sharing the evening with the
fabulous Vanessa Torres!
January 3-February 6
On tour with the Weird Sisterz rock band
(that's right, banjo boy will be picking up
the old electric guitar!)in a traveling production
of Macbeth, with the Theater at Monmouth
(I know, I said I was giving up the theater,
but how could I turn this down?!)
Live at One Longfellow Square
One Longfellow Square
Portland, ME
1/5/08
8pm
$5
Not to be missed! I'll be playing with the incomparable SETH YENTES on cello.
The evening will also feature The Low Tide String Band, and a full set of the one and
only SARAH JESSOP!
For more info: info@putnamsmith.com
Live at the North Star Cafe
225 Congress St.
Portland, ME
12.6.07
8:45 PM
No Cover
Maine Songwriter's Association Showcase.
Performances start at 7pm -- come check out
all the good local songwriters!
For more info: info@putnamsmith.com
Live at Rockwood Music Hall
196 Allen St.
(b/w Houston and Stanton)
New York City
12.5.07
7pm
No Cover
For more info: info@putnamsmith.com
Live at Blue
650A Congress St.
Portland, ME
11.23.07
7pm
No Cover
Stay after my gig for 'old-time' night!
(I'll probably be working more traditional
old-time banjo tunes into my set -- so get
ready for some foot-stompin!)
For more info: info@putnamsmith.com
Live at the North Star Cafe
Portland, ME
11.17.07
8 PM
No Cover
With the indomitable SETH YENTES on cello!
Opening for Jason Myles Goss
For more info: info@putnamsmith.com
Live at The Maple Room
Lewiston, ME
11.9.07
7:30pm
$25
Opening for Mark Erelli -- who is awesome!
Should be a great show at a sweet new venue.
For more info: info@putnamsmith.com
Live at the North Star Cafe
10.28.07
1:30 PM
No Cover
Singer/Songwriter circle
For more info: info@putnamsmith.com