Chadwick Stokes & The Pintos
With Special Guest: Mark Erelli
Saturday, August 17th, 7:30PM
Boarding House Park: 40 French St. Lowell, MA 01852
TICKETS:
Advance: $45 + $6 service fee
Day of Show: $55 + $8 service fee
Premium Seating: $145 + $16 service fee
VIP Parking: $27 + $3.25 service fee
Kids age 12 and under will be admitted free to this show (general admission seats only) if accompanied by a ticket holder - courtesy of Jeanne D'Arc Credit Union.
Chadwick Stokes is an accomplished musician and songwriter who grew up on a small farm outside of Boston. A songwriter since early adolescence, his many projects have woven together music, art, history and activism. From Dispatch, which he started in his early 20s; to his politically driven band, State Radio; to his solo project, Chadwick Stokes and the Pintos, Chad has committed himself to using music as a vehicle for social and political change.
Along with his wife, Sybil, he founded Calling All Crows, a non-profit organization dedicated to engaging music fans around women's issues both at home and abroad. They’ve worked to bring awareness to the worldwide refugee crisis, to the proliferation of violence against women and to the persistence of sexual violence within the music industry. Through his many years of working independently within what can be a difficult industry, Chadwick has been continually motivated by his love of music and the people he makes it with.
Special Guest: Daffo
Grown from the green, buggy, grass in the Philadelphia suburbs and raised by the buzzing New Jersey and Philadelphia DIY scenes, Daffo — aka Gabi Gamberg (19, they/them) — has been gigging from the moment they picked up a guitar. Stifled by a traditional high-school experience, they ventured west to receive a formal education in songwriting from performing arts school Idyllwild Arts Academy. Shortly after, they relocated to New York and cut their teeth at the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music while simultaneously becoming a fixture in the local DIY scene.
Equal parts artistry, introspection, and bombastic expression of sheer creative will, Daffo's 2023 EP Pest is a striking portrait of a young artist who revels in the messy and delights in the delicate. Anchored by singles "Poor Madeline" and "Good God," the EP explores the emotional dissonance between loneliness, self-doubt, and self-discovery as one comes of age in an isolating, calculating world constantly asking them to define themselves.
In keeping with their DIY roots, Gamberg recorded Pest in the span of three weeks in a series of studio apartments, childhood bedrooms, and home studios with collaborators Hudson Pollock and Jake Weinberg (Quinnie, Zach Bryan).
Toggling between bedroom folk, grungy guitar rock, and fiddle-laden Americana jaunts, the EP is a testament to the many layers that make Gamberg so compelling as an artist: Whether they are playing a kinetic grunge set or confessing a tender folk song to their walls, Daffo's distinct sound is a product of their aim to make discomfort digestible.
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