Performing Arts: Concerts @ Crocker Park Artist Bios
Saturday June 30 6:00pm – 7:30pm Nicholas Barron/Chris Fitz Reunion Band - Blues/R&B/Soul http://www.nicholasbarron.com/
MFoA is excited to bring together a reunion 20+ years in the making, as a then 15 year old Marblehead native Nicholas Barron learned guitar licks and cut his teeth playing with another 15 years old Marblehead kid and now legendary local Blues guitar slinger, Chris Fitz.
Decades later, Barron is now a celebrated Chicago-based Blues performer and we’ve brought them together tonight to form The Nicholas Barron/Chris Fitz Reunion Band!
Nicholas Barron is singer, songwriter & guitarist who blends blues, funk and soul with his signature voice and vocal percussion. Hailed as “undeniable” by James Taylor, Nickolas has entertained audiences across the US and abroad as a headliner. He’s also opened for his music idols - Al Green, James Brown, Buddy Guy & BB King, The Meters, Johnny Cash plus many more! Nicholas’ natural talent, raw energy and charisma have earned him over five million You Tube views. A prolific artist, he has released ten albums of original music and he’s also a gifted abstract painter.
Chris Fitz knows how to walk the walk as a guitar powerhouse with a dynamic stage presence and never a dull moment. Since 2002, The Chris Fitz Band has received more than a dozen music awards including a 2002 Boston Music Award, 2005 Boston Blues Challenge Winners Award, as well as numerous song-writing and best guitar player awards, while touring the States and Europe. CFB seamlessly fuses swing, jump blues, soul, jazz, and rock-n-roll into a contemporary yet true to the roots signature sound.
Together this Reunion Band with Mike Aiello on drums, Dave Kendarian on bass and legendary Ken Clark on Hammond B3 Organ, delivers a thunderous attack that grooves with vigorous energy, delivering a sound that is truly all their own. Come on down to enjoy this Reunion of Blues “Rockers at Crocker!”
Saturday June 30 8:00pm – 10:30pm Barry Goudreau’s Engine Room – Blues/Classic Rock http://barrygoudreausengineroom.com/
Guitar Legend and Swampscott resident Barry Goudreau (formerly of Boston) started his journey to stardom like most kids from the 60’s, listening to the radio. After hearing the sounds of Elvis and Roy Orbison, Barry asked his parents for a guitar and though they thought it was just a phase, to Barry, that ’62 Strat was the beginning of a dream fulfilled. From those early years to meeting lifelong friends (and former Boston bandmates), singer Brad Delp, drummer Sib Hashin and bassist Fran Sheehan, Goudreau’s path lead to placing an ad in the Boston Phoenix for a keyboard player. Answering that ad, was a recent MIT Master’s Program grad and the rest, as they say, is history…
After worldwide mega-success and a “Behind The Music” like story, Barry founded several bands and produced others musicians, along with his signature sound solo work. During these years, Barry met two of the regions’ very best players, keyboardist/writer/producer/arranger Brian Maes and bass monster, Tim Archibald.
Recently, as Barry looked to get back to his “blues roots”, he reconnect with Brian and Timmy along with local drummer, (Old) Tony DiPetro to form Barry Goudreau’s Engine Room.
Barry Goudreau’s Engine Room is fueled by best of the best on the local music scene;
Brian Maes, keyboardist/writer/arranger/producer, was a local prodigy studying, playing and performing in his teens, then matriculated through Berklee College of Music, graduating in 1979. After extensive worldwide performing and touring, Maes began his long-standing relationship with Barry Goudreau in 1984, when he was hired as keyboard player and backing vocalist for Barry’s band” Orion the Hunter”. The band toured as the opening act for Aerosmith on the "Back in the Saddle". After disbanding a year later, Maes and Goudreau made the decision to stay together and work on new material. In the following 20+ years, Maes wrote, arranged and produced his own solo material (13 Albums) and with a wide variety of bands and artists including; Peter Wolf of the J. Giles Band. Brian rejoined Barry and former Boston singer Brad Delp, to form RTZ (Return To Zero), penning their charting hit, “Till Your Love comes Back Around.”
Maes recently co-wrote a rock opera with George D. Simpson, "The Devil And Billy Shake" in which he currently stars and directs.
(Old) Tony DePietro has been performing and recording as a drummer for almost 25 years. Tony has worked with many local artists including Pistacio, Irontail and Mary Beth Maes. He helped Mary Lou Lord support her "Got No Shadow" release and,toured with her the United States, making appearances on television and several music festivals. For over 15 years now, Tony has been performing and recording with Brian Maes and the Brian Maes Band.
Tim Archibald, the Bass Monster, has been playing since he could crawl. As a rocker from Cleveland, Ohio (Hello Cleveland!), Archibald moved to Boston in 1976 where he attended Berklee College for 4 years playing with performers Ralph Moore, Kevin Eubanks (Tonight Show), Mike Stearn, Bruce Bartlett and Randy Roos on the local scene. After forming his own band Urge, he also played for 3 years with Fly By Night as a jazz migrant worker touring the south and the east with as well as with Groove Holmes, Dobie Gray, Dizzy Gillespie and others. Tim played with John Butcher in 1984 on Capitol records, and was a member of local sensation band New Man, signed to Epic records in 1985. Tim then joined Barry, Brad Delp and Brian in the band RTZ. Folowing RTZ, Tim joined in Peter Wolf’s House Party Five for the next 6 years, He’s been working regularly with Brian Maes since the eighties. Tim endorses LaBella Strings, Harkte amps and Pedulla basses. Tonight, Barry Goudreau’s Engine Room also features killer backing vocalists Mary Beth Maes, Terri O’Soro and Joanie Brown Cicatelli …