Live Music

The Porch Southern Fare & Juke Joint at River's Edge presents Way Up South, whose expansive sound weaves southern, blues, country, jazz, and Americana rock together with finesse, yet still retains the loose spacey qualities that epitomize improvisational rock bands. This style has earned Way Up South the right to call their music "Big Sky" sound. General admission tickets are $10 through The Porch's Facebook event page/Eventbrite.

The Ruta Beggars will provide the live music for this week's Bluegrass Brunch at The Porch Southern Fare & Juke Joint at River's Edge. The Ruta Beggars formed at Berklee College of Music in the American Roots Program. Their high-energy licks infuse traditional bluegrass and early swing. Band members are Micah Nicol (guitar), Sofia Chiarandini (fiddle), Ariel Wyner (mandolin) and Trevin Nelson (banjo). Free general admission tickets may be reserved through The Porch's Facebook event/Eventbrite.  

Chevalier Theatre presents another edition of ABBA The Concert, which drew capacity shows at the theater in 2018 and 2019. ABBA The Concert continues to be the top ABBA tribute group in the world, dazzling audiences while playing the most iconic ABBA hits including “Mamma Mia,” “S.O.S,” “Money, Money, Money,” “The Winner Takes It All,” “Waterloo,” “Gimme, Gimme, Gimme,” and “Dancing Queen.” Tickets, $29 to $45, are available through the Chevalier Theatre website/Ticketmaster. Tickets also may be purchased, free of…

The Porch Southern Fare & Juke Joint at River's Edge presents an evening of Delta blues featuring Erin Harpe and the Delta Swingers. Harpe has been called “one of the most dynamic, talented and exciting roots rocking blues women on the scene” by Living Blues Magazine. She was the winner of the 2018 Boston Blues Challenge, and was nominated for 2018 Blues Artist of the Year by the Boston Music Awards. Her soulful vocal style and accomplished finger-picking guitar playing…

Join violist Scott Woolweaver and friends as they celebrate Scott's 30 years on the Tufts University Music faculty. The program will feature works of Telemann, Walter Piston, Howard Frazin, and the premiere of Cambridge composer Graham Gordon Ramsay's Concertino for Viola and Piano. Free; no tickets required.  

Chevalier Theatre and radio station WZLX present the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame classic rock band Cheap Trick in its first Medford performance. Frontlined since 1974 by Robin Zander (vocals, rhythm guitar), Rick Nielsen (lead guitar), and Tom Petersson (bass guitar), the band also features  Daxx Nielsen on drums. Among Cheap Trick's memorable hit songs are "The Flame," which reached No. 1 on Billboard's Top 40, "I Want You to Want Me," Dream Police," and "Can't Stop Falling in…

The Porch Southern Fare & Juke Joint at River's Edge welcomes back Muddy Ruckus, a punk blues rock duo of guitarist Ryan Flaherty and percussionist Erika Stahl from Portland, Maine. The band blends rootsy guitar and edgy percussion on a suitcase drum kit and is known for a full rock band sound, despite the fact that they're a duo. They season their music with the salt of the eastern old ports, backroad electric grooves, and the mud of the Mississippi…

The Noor Ensemble at Tufts University presents a program of North African, Middle Eastern and Islamic music. This concert is made possible by the Granoff Music Fund. Free; no tickets required.