Melissa Ferrick

About this event

Three decades in, Melissa Ferrick remains one of American music's most restless and rewarding songwriters — an artist who has spent 30 years refusing to sit still inside a genre, and audiences who keep showing up because of it. Equal parts confessional folk singer, rock-and-roll firebrand, and Americana storyteller, Ferrick delivers a live show built on disarming wit, raw emotional honesty, and virtuosic guitar work that turns a room of strangers into a shared experience. Read more Ferrick's story reads like a masterclass in earning it the hard way. Classically trained in violin and piano and schooled in jazz trumpet and bass, she taught herself guitar and cut her teeth in the Cambridge, MA club scene that launched The Indigo Girls and The Pixies. Her break came in 1991, when she stepped in to open for Morrissey with an hour's notice — a performance strong enough to land her a spot on his U.S. and UK tour and, soon after, a deal with Atlantic Records. Her 1993 debut, Massive Blur, announced a songwriter unwilling to be boxed in. What followed is a career defined by independence and staying power: three albums on Colorado's W.A.R. Records through the late '90s, the launch of her own label, Right On Records, in 2000, and two celebrated records with MPress Records in the early 2010s. Eighteen albums deep, Ferrick has picked up honors for songwriting, production, and performance along the way — and she's shared stages with a who's-who of American music, including Bob Dylan, Ani DiFranco, k.d. lang, Suzanne Vega, Joan Armatrading, Tegan and Sara, Weezer, Paul Westerberg, John Hiatt, Shawn Colvin, and Marc Cohn. Ferrick offers something rare: a genuinely singular artist with a fiercely loyal fanbase, a catalog deep enough to reward longtime listeners and hook newcomers in a single set, and a live performance that critics and peers alike have counted on for thirty years running.

Who

• Melissa FerrickHeadliner

Venue

Groton Hill Music Center

122 Old Ayer Rd, Groton, MA 01450

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