Come hear us in person!

Recent Gigs:

  • 7/2024 ‐ Back Room at the Burren
  • 9/2024 ‐ Great Northeast Jug Band Festival
  • 1/2025 ‐ Newton House Concert
  • 4/2025 ‐ New England Folk Festival
Saturday, May 17th, 2025: 1-2 PM (rain date Sun 5/18)
Celebrate Weston 2025
Lamson Park aka Weston Town Green
This outdoor Town celebration runs from 11 AM to 3 PM, featuring Music & Entertainment • Local Food • Historical Exhibits Games & Activities • Fun for All Ages.
Sunday, May 18th, 2025: 3 to 6 PM
Weston Library Monthly Concert & Jazz Jam
Weston Public Library, 87 School St, Weston, MA 02493
The concert and jam session our guitar player has been leading continues -- on the 3rd Sunday this month due to Mem Day Wkd. Our opening 1 hour set will feature songs from the Great American Songbook. The house band this month features Jonathan Fagan (p), Miki Matsuki (d), Jon Dreyer (b) and Chris Welles (g, v).
Come down and hear the top notch house band sing and play music from the Great American Songbook; stay to hear an array of talented singers and instrumentalists!
Saturday, June 7th, 2025; 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM
Salem Arts Festival
Armory Park Stage, Salem, MA
We're playing for the Salem Arts Festival, held in lovely downtown Salem. Come down and see the paintings, hear the music, taste the food and celebrate late Spring outdoors in Salem's historic downtown. There will be acrobats, participatory art, crafts, and us! Be there!

Chris plays piano too. Check out his moody piano/voice demo on Soundcloud!
A Capella Fans: See our guitar player in his incarnation as a Boston Jazz Voices baritone, appear on two episodes of the 4th season of the PBS TV program "Sing That Thing" (Premiere - we're at 10m15s and Episode 7 )!

Past Gigs:

Concert Halls

The Regent Theatre (Arlington, MA)
Little Kresge Theatre (Cambridge, MA)

Festivals & Farmer's Markets & Special Events

Great Northeast Jug Band Festival 2019, 2020, 2022
Annual Meeting of the Thoreau Society 2014, 2015, 2018
The New England Folk Festival (NEFFA) 2008 ‐ 2022 (except '12 and '16)
The North Shore Music Festival 2010, 2011
Antrim Gazebo concert (NH)
First Night Needham (MA)
Land's Sake Farm, Weston (MA)
Lancaster Gazebo Concert (MA)
Natick Farmer's Market (Winter and Summer)
Newton Center for the Arts
Porchfest (Jamaica Plain, Newton & Somerville MA)
Saugus Town Day (MA)
Salem Antique & Vintage Boat Festival, Salem (MA) 2019
Salem Arts Festival (MA) 2018, 2019, 2022
Somerville Winter Farmer's Market (MA)
Wakefield Arts and Crafts Fair (MA)
Waltham Farmer's Market (MA) 2007 ‐ 2019

Radio Stations

WBUR Radio 90.0 "Here and Now"
WICN Radio 90.5
WBRS Radio 100.1
WCUW Radio 91.3

Libraries & Schools

Ames Free Library (North Easton, MA) 2008, 2009
Boyden Library (Foxborough MA) 2017, 2019
Glays E. Kelly Library (Webster MA) 2019
Harvard Public Library (MA) 2013
Lincoln Public Library (MA) 2006, 2008, 2010
Framingham Public Library (MA) 2010
Malden Public Library (MA) Morse Institute Library (Natick, MA) 2009, 2013, 2014
Needham Public Library (MA)
Newton Free Library (MA) 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2018, 2019
Thayer Public Library (Braintree, MA)
Thomas Crane Public Library (Quincy, MA) 2008
Waltham Public Library (MA) 2006, 2008, 2010
Weston PTO (MA)

Coffeehouses

Club Passim, Cambridge, MA
The 2d Friday Coffeehouse, Belmont, MA
Amazing Things Arts Center, Framingham, MA
Bolton Sings, Bolton MA
The Blue Moon Coffeehouse, Rockland, MA
The Casual Cup Coffeehouse, Brookline MA
Cafe Luna, Cambridge, MA
The Colonial Inn, Concord MA
Emily's Roadhouse, The Peace Abbey, Sherborn, MA
First Parish, Bedford (MA)
First Unitarian Society of Newton (MA)
The Kickstand Cafe (feature), Arlington MA
The Linden Tree Coffeehouse, Wakefield MA
Overall Music, Lexington MA

Retirement Communities

Cabot Park Village, Newton MA
Edgewood, North Andover MA
Fox Hill Village, Westwood MA
Newbridge On The Charles, Dedham MA
North Hill, Needham, MA
Orchard Cove, Canton MA
...and many more!

Restaurants & Pubs

The Maugus, Wellesley MA
Nourish Restaurant, Lexington MA
The Precinct, Somerville MA
Ristorante Primavera, Millis, MA
Savoury Lane, Acton MA

Private Parties, Weddings, Anniverseries, Bat/Bar Mitzvahs, etc.

The Taj, Boston MA - Engagement Party
Hotel Wentworth, Portsmouth NH - Anniversary Party
...and many more!

Other places the guitar player has performed:

Fenway Park - National Anthem for Red Sox – 2007
WGBH TV's "Sing That Thing" (with Boston Jazz Voices) 2017, 2018
First Night Boston, MA
Old Sturbridge Village, MA
Merrimack College, Andover, MA
The Middle East, Cambridge MA
The Nameless Coffeehouse, Cambridge MA
The Press Room, Portsmouth, NH
WERS Radio, Boston MA
WUNH Radio, Durham NH
WUMB, Boston, MA