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Downtown! Tomorrow! On the Worcester Common! Gear up for the Latin Festival!

Tomorrow! Thursday!

11 AM to 2 PM

Free music! Grupo Fantasia!!!

REC Farmers Market!

Vendors!

Food trucks!

Artisans selling their art/crafts!

CELEBRATE WORCESTER’S DIVERSE CITIZENRY!! ENJOY A FREE CONCERT!!

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Out to Lunch Summer Concert!

On the historic Worcester Common Oval! (behind Worcester City Hall)

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Creative, local and fun – all in the heart of downtown!

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Thursday’s band: Grupo Fantasia

Grupo Fantasia:

Originally from the Dominican Republic, Angel Wagner began his career playing with a cheese grater and fork!

At age eleven, Angel went on professional tour with a Merengue band, later performing in Miami and at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Angel has performed with such groups as Aramis Camilo, Orchestra Cafe, Luis Ovalles and Manguito.

Angel Wagner provides traditional island entertainment for all people and much of the music is performed on original, handmade indigenous instruments.

The extensive repertoire includes original and cover songs from the Caribbean and Latin America. Also represented are various Cuban, Dominican Merengue, Puerto Rican Bomba and Plena, Colombian Cumbia, Mexican Mariachi, Calypso, Reggae and Salsa music.

A teaser!

Here’s to a VIBRANT downtown Worcester!

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From the City of Worcester website/R.T.;pics R.T.

In style: FREE! TODAY! 11 – 2! OUT TO LUNCH CONCERT! WORCESTER COMMON …

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Support your downtown – so it gets even better! pics/text:R.T.

FREE MUSIC, food trucks, farmers market, crafters … Lots of folks enjoying tbe green space behind City Hall!

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Grab lunch, sit at one of the tables with the purty umbrellas … groove to the tunes!

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After lunch head to UNIQUE FINDS! Open until 7 p.m. EVERY DAY!

GREAT PRICES! UNIQUE ITEMS STARTING at $5!

Unique Finds Antiques and Vintage gift shop – 1329 Main St. – Worcester (Webster Square)

Lovin’ their new arrivals!!

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And the world will always idolize, adore … intensely fetishize Marilyn!

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On the road yesterday…Have you checked out THE OUT TO LUNCH CONCERTS, FARMERS MARKETS, FOOD TRUCKS extravaganza …

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ICT head honcho Rosalie … It’s hot out!

behind Worcester City Hall? On the Worcester Common? FREE! Every Thursday – 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

God, it was fab seeing so many people exuding optimism! Happy to be in our downtown! Such a diverse crowd! Everyone energized by our city! There was exuberant music, food, farmers market, pretty tables to sit at, rolling green lawn for billowing blankets!

Was I in another city??!

Was this our downtown Worcester?

Dare I use the adjective “festive” to describe the vibes behind Worcester City Hall?!

Keep it up, OUT TO LUNCH CONCERT SERIES!

EVERY THURSDAY 11 AM TO 2 PM!

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The Broadway,located at 100 Water St., needs to get down here with some of their homemade icecream!

You need to make the jaunt!

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Pics/text: Rosalie Tirella

It’s music to our ears! Free Worcester music – all styles, for all tastes!

CAM00194Worcester’s  “Out-to-Lunch” concerts on the Worcester Common – every Thursday this summer,  from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. – feature live music! Local rock bands, oldies bands, salsa bands, they’re all behind City Hall, Main Street  …. FREE FUN! Plus: there’s also a local FARMERS MARKET and artists selling their art! Plus: great umbrella-topped picnic tables at which you can eat your lunch, while listening to the music! Best of all: There’s room on the plaza for dancin’! pic – R.T.

By Edith Morgan

Music is said to be the universal language – we all respond to it from the moment we were born (some think we even appreciate it in utero).  It is said to soothe the savage breast and, for teachers, it is a great mnemonic device (a lot of us learned the alphabet by singing it).  And stutterers miraculously can sing without hesitation. We all respond to rhythm in various ways, but we all DO respond.

So, as the days get warmer and longer, and many of us enjoy a bit of leisure time, we look for opportunities to enjoy the great outdoors while we listen to all kinds of music.

Worcester offers something for everyone! I will focus on some of Worcester’s great free concerts, available this month and in August, in some of our beautiful parks.

If you like to be out in the midday sun, you can attend the ten “Out –to-Lunch” concerts on the Worcester Common on Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Now until August 20th there will be concerts by the Sonic Explorers, Boombox, Dale LePage and the Manhattans, Farmers Union Players, Grupo Fantasia, Matthew Sanchez y su Orquesta, and the Drunken Uncles.

And while you listen to the music  there is the Farmers’ Market, where you can buy fresh, homegrown produce!

In the evenings, you can attend the Newton Square Concert series, on Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m., now through August 11th. Here you can buy refreshments and enjoy the scenery.

On Thursdays, in Elm Park, beginning at 6:30 p.m., Park Spirit, Inc. will present its iconic concert series, featuring Country Night with MYCHAEL DAVID and the HELP WANTED BAND (Nashville recording artist) on July 23rd; Classic pop night with THE DINOSAURS on July 30th; the 20 piece swing band THE MILFORD JAZZ MACHINE ORCHESTRA on August 6th, and finally, Maximum Rockin Rhythm with THE SIVERBACKS ON August 13th.

Sunday evenings at Institute Park, the Central Mass Symphony began more than six decades of performances on July 13th, at 7 p.m. when  Maestro Myron Romanut presented works by a wide variety of classical composers, among whom are Bizet, Strauss, Rossini, Schubert and others.
If you can’t make it every week, there are “one-shot” events!

On Saturday August 15th, there will be the yearly Latin-American festival, with music from all over the world, and of course dancing, food, and activities! FREE!

Sunday, August 30th, at Institute Park, beginning at noon, the Caribbean Carnival will start with a parade beginning at 305 Chandler street and proceed to the Worcester Common (behind City Hall). Again, there
will be vendors, music, local and international stars.

There are many more musical celebrations going on in Worcester! Our city is rich in resources which charge from very minimal fees to some more expensive venues. Whatever your resources are, whatever your tastes run to, there is something for you –from rock, to classical, folk, ethnic … . Whatever suits your fancy – you can find it and enjoy it in Worcester this summer!

In back of Worcester City Hall! This Thursday! CONCERT AND FARMERS MARKET!

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It’s BACK!

IT’S FREE!

ON THE WORCESTER COMMON

Out to lunch CONCERTS AND FARMERS MARKETS!

First concert and farmers mARKET THIS THURSDAY!

Local farmers selling their veggies, bread, eggs and other goodies!

Local crafters selling their art!

Be there! And enjoy … Great live music to shop to or just enjoy while eating lunch at one of the picnic tables topped off with huge, colorful umbrellas!

The City of Worcester does summer right and gets pretty, healthy and musical!

June 18 – August 20 

… every Thursday!

11 am – 2 pm 

… on the Worcester Common!

Each week will provide a new band and different farmers, crafters and vendors!

The schedule:

June 25 –  The Curtis Mayflower

July 2 – The EJMAC Project

July 9 – The Sonic Explorers

July 16 – Boombox

July 23 – Dale LePage & The Manhattans

July 30 – Farmers Union Players

August 6 – Grupo Fantasia

August 13 – Matthew Sanchez y su Orquesta

August 20 – The Drunken Uncles

Outside Worcester City Hall! In a few weeks! Farmers’ Market + FREE summer concerts!!!

Out to Lunch Summer Concert Series and Farmers’ Market!

The City of Worcester and the Worcester Cultural Coalition hosts its 6th Annual Out to Lunch Summer Concert Series and Farmers’ Market!

Cool, friendly vibe. Local farmers selling their great veggies and other goodies! Local crafters selling their art! Great live music to shop to or just enjoy while eating lunch at one of the picnic tables topped off with huge, colorful umbrellas! The Worcester Common does summer right and gets pretty, healthy and musical! Be there!

June 18 – August 20 

… every Thursday!

11 am – 2 pm 

… on the Worcester Common!

The 10-week concert series brings music, local food and produce and art to the downtown area!

Each week will provide a new band and different farmers, crafters and vendors!

June 18 – Li’l BeeDee & the Doo-Rites

June 25 –  The Curtis Mayflower

July 2 – The EJMAC Project

July 9 – The Sonic Explorers

July 16 – Boombox

July 23 – Dale LePage & The Manhattans

July 30 – Farmers Union Players

August 6 – Grupo Fantasia

August 13 – Matthew Sanchez y su Orquesta

August 20 – The Drunken Uncles

Below: Rosalie usually buys her afternoon FAIR TRADE cup o joe at McDonald’s in Quinsig Village!  Not on Thursdays! … P.S. Did you know Los Angeles raised its minimum wage to $15 an hour? Yay, LA!!! When I told my McDonald’s friend, pictured here, he gave me the thumbs up. I told him in Massachusetts we are FIGHTING FOR FIFTEEN, too!

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