Organically Good Trio
2024-11-08 21:00 - 23:30 (America/New_York) | Lizard Lounge, 1667 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Organically Good Trio returns to the Lizard Lounge for a special two night stand!

Lizard Lounge is a 21+ club.
$15/$20
Doors at 8

Sometimes the band has a sound reminiscent of the great soul jazz organ trio albums of the late 60’s and at other times sounds like a Jacki Mittoo album with a heavy dose of roots reggae and dub.

Members
Paul Wolstencroft – Hammond Organ
Van Martin – Guitar
Tommy Benedetti – Drums

Organically Good Trio Night 2
2024-11-09 21:00 - 23:30

Poetry Jam-Radiant Jasmin
2024-11-10 20:00 - 23:30
The Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam with featured poet Radiant Jasmin!

Event is 21+$10 Doors at 7
Radiant Jasmin is a multidisciplinary poet, singer/songwriter, harpist, dancer, jeweler, and painter. Like a chef, she selects each art ingredient to bring out the best in the others. She was born and raised in Boston into a Black family of performing and visual artists.
Performances & Exhibits include: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, VerBaLizAtiOn, Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam, Stone Soup Poetry, the Massachusetts State House and AAMARP. She is a recipient of Certificates of Special Recognition from the Governors of Massachusetts and Rhode Island for her Service in the Arts.
She is a channel in her Music and Poetry creation. Songs and poems come to her while dreaming, cooking and painting. They mirror her values of self-love, happiness and empowerment. She mixes funk, jazz, hip-hop, gospel, African, house music and more. Her dreamy harp music is very soothing and calming for a society that’s in high stress mode. She released her first album of spoken word poetry, “Breaking It Down”, in 2014 and her 2nd album, “PERSISTENCE” in 2023.
Radiant Jasmin builds art programs, teaching performance and visual art to children, teens and adults using fun ways to link art with preventative healthcare, literacy, science, math and Black History for a balanced educational experience and to facilitate healing from trauma.
Sharing these gifts is her contribution to uplifting the world!

Julia Cannon/Crystal Rose/Chris Walton
2024-11-13 20:00 - 23:30
Julia Cannon, Crystal Rose and Chris Walton together at the Lizard Lounge!

Event is 21+
$12/$15
Doors at 7

Julia Cannon is an Alaska raised and now Nashville-based songwriter, recording artist and music producer who is hard to forget. Lauded for her “beautiful balladry” by Rolling Stone (2022), Julia’s soothing, honeyed voice and quirky personality offer a refreshing, vibrant contrast to the bittersweet honesty of her lyrics.
Crystal Rose, a dynamic artist from Kansas City, is blazing a trail in Nashville’s music scene with her genre-blending sound and emotionally charged lyrics that feel like stolen glimpses into her diary. Crystal’s magnetic presence has garnered support from all corners. She’s shared stages with Jess Nolan, Medium Build, Alice Merton, Trombone Shorty and more.
Chris Walton is a singer/songwriter/producer based just outside Boston. Inspired by the likes of Stevie Wonder, early John Mayer, and Cory Wong, Chris creates smooth, jazz kissed songs that tug at your heartstrings but still make you want to groove. Chris is currently a professor of songwriting at his alma mater, the Berklee College of Music.

Rich Hinman Quintet
2024-11-14 20:00 - 23:30
Guitarist Rich Hinman returns to the Lizard Lounge Nov 14th!

$15 adv/$18 door
This fall, guitarist and pedal steel player Rich Hinman brings a mind-expanding instrumental ensemble to the Lizard Lounge featuring Sam Kassirer, Nate Radley, Chris Morrisey, and special guests!
On his recent LP “Memorial,” on Colorfield Records, multi-instrumentalist and composer Rich Hinman creates an arresting collage containing elements of electronica, psychedelia, and searching improvisation, with Hinman’s pedal steel as the primary voice. In this fall residency he experiments with a quintet of like-minded explorers. Collectively, Hinman, Kassirer, Radley, Drohan and Morrissey have worked with kd lang, Sara Bareilles, Emily King, Maggie Rogers, Mark Guiliana, Norah Jones, Nick Hakim, Josh Ritter and many many others.

Abbie Barrett Band/Morning Is Rising
2024-11-15 21:00 - 23:30
Abbie Barrett returns to the Lizard Lounge with special guests Morning is Rising

Event is 21+
$15/$20 door

Fueled by a pop-rock sensibility, Abbie Barrett’s songwriting is unique and unpredictable—but always something you can sing along to. Her music has been featured in Magnet, American Songwriter, the Boston Herald, Vanyaland, and on CMT’s Cool Album Cuts. In 2015 she received a Boston Music Award for Best Singer-Songwriter. Her band plays regularly in the New England area and has opened for notable acts including the B-52s, Juliana Hatfield, The Motels, Will Dailey, and Rhett Miller.
https://abbiebarrett.com/

Boston-based band Morning is Rising are Chloe Green (Vocals, Bass, Guitar), Iarla O’Halloran (Vocals, Guitar, Bass) and John Krone (Drums, Bass). Their music is comprised of tight vocal harmonies and driving rhythms, drawing inspiration from classic folk-rock, alternative guitar/new wave, and blistering electro-pop. They are longtime songwriters and performers who have played with various bands in the US, Ireland, the UK, and throughout Europe, with a deep collective catalog of original songs to draw from.
https://www.morningisrising.com

CA McNeill With Special Guest Samantha Farrell
2024-11-16 20:00 - 23:30
CA McNeill – AKA – Christian McNeill, will bring a 9-piece rock and soul machine to the Lizard Lounge stage on Saturday, November 16th.

Event is 21+
$20/$25
Doors at 7:30
“CA McNeill (or Christian McNeill) has always been a force. He doesn’t just come out to say hello to the audience. He sometimes engulfs them. He is one of most charismatic singers I’ve ever seen, and skips effortlessly from beautifully arranged folk, R&B, rock/soul and jazz, all with a globally Celtic edge. He gives 110 percent of himself, working up to one passionate high after another. After an evening with this gentleman, you will truly have had a uniquely soulful experience.”– STEVE MORSE, a staff critic at the Boston Globe for 28 years who authored and now teaches Rock History for Berklee College of Music
https://www.facebook.com/mcneillsongs/

Poetry Jam-Lexi Wight
2024-11-17 20:00 - 23:30
Poetry Jam with featured poet Lexi Wight!

Event is 21+$10 Doors at 7
Lexi Wight is excited to bust out of her maternity leave and into her first feature back at Lizard Lounge! She was on the Lizard Lounge Slam Team for three consecutive years. During that time, she performed with them regionally as well as traveled to Nationals in Atlanta, Denver, and Chicago. In addition she has been a feature poet at Lizard Lounge, Hale Education, and Stone Soup poetry, as well as a guest on Smokin’ Rhymes and the Boston Stoops podcast.
Growing up, she was an avid writer and reader, as well as ran a traveling summer Shakespeare troupe. Today, she spends her days working with host families of international students and spends her nights enjoying art in all its forms.

SESSION AMERICANA with Eleanor Buckland Residency Night 1
2024-11-19 20:00 - 23:30
Event is 21+
GA $25/$30 at the door
Reserved Tables $60
Doors at 7
SESSION AMERICANA is thrilled to return to the venue that saw the group gel into what has become a 20 year journey of accessing the joy. For years the band held down a weekly Lizard residency that not only formed the core of the band’s support but also witnessed the birth of many new songs and introduced a wide variety of musical guests to an unsuspecting crowd each week. SESSION AMERICANA with Eleanor Buckland will once again call The Lizard Lounge home for four consecutive nights this November 19-22
For the uninitiated SESSION AMERICANA is a cast of top-shelf players, singers, and writers who tour internationally, taking their own songs, plus hundreds more from the American songbook, on the road. Whether you catch Session Americana in a rock hall or on a festival stage, you’ll be a part of the intimate, raucous scene these players built years ago at Toad, the neighborhood bar where it all began in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Looking back, the group has had a natural, almost inevitable evolution from a loose bunch of friends sitting around swapping songs in a bar, to a hot-ticket weekly residency, to a touring collective. Along the way, the band has made nine records (so far), played clubs and festivals across the U.S. and Europe, and developed deep collaborative bonds with a wide community of musicians. Session Americana’s diligent avoidance of music business “shoulds” has led the band down a quirky and joyful path through the music world. The result is evident in the musical prowess the players and singers bring to every show. Swapping instruments, trading off lead vocals and sharing songwriting credits, Session Americana is constantly exploring new collaborations and touring like a band out of time, always searching for a welcoming and homey venue, a long lunch with old friends, and a good glass of wine.
https://www.sessionamericana.com/

SESSION AMERICANA with Eleanor Buckland Residency Night 2
2024-11-20 20:00 - 23:30

SESSION AMERICANA with Eleanor Buckland Residency Night 3
2024-11-21 20:00 - 23:30
Session Americana return with Eleanor Buckland to the Lizard Lounge with a special four night residency!

Event is 21+
GA $25/$30 at the door
Reserved Tables $60
Doors at 7
SESSION AMERICANA is thrilled to return to the venue that saw the group gel into what has become a 20 year journey of accessing the joy. For years the band held down a weekly Lizard residency that not only formed the core of the band’s support but also witnessed the birth of many new songs and introduced a wide variety of musical guests to an unsuspecting crowd each week. SESSION AMERICANA with Eleanor Buckland will once again call The Lizard Lounge home for four consecutive nights this November 19-22
For the uninitiated SESSION AMERICANA is a cast of top-shelf players, singers, and writers who tour internationally, taking their own songs, plus hundreds more from the American songbook, on the road. Whether you catch Session Americana in a rock hall or on a festival stage, you’ll be a part of the intimate, raucous scene these players built years ago at Toad, the neighborhood bar where it all began in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Looking back, the group has had a natural, almost inevitable evolution from a loose bunch of friends sitting around swapping songs in a bar, to a hot-ticket weekly residency, to a touring collective. Along the way, the band has made nine records (so far), played clubs and festivals across the U.S. and Europe, and developed deep collaborative bonds with a wide community of musicians. Session Americana’s diligent avoidance of music business “shoulds” has led the band down a quirky and joyful path through the music world. The result is evident in the musical prowess the players and singers bring to every show. Swapping instruments, trading off lead vocals and sharing songwriting credits, Session Americana is constantly exploring new collaborations and touring like a band out of time, always searching for a welcoming and homey venue, a long lunch with old friends, and a good glass of wine.
https://www.sessionamericana.com/

SESSION AMERICANA with Eleanor Buckland Residency Night 4
2024-11-22 20:00 - 23:30

The Blue Ribbons/Andrea Gillis
2024-11-23 21:00 - 23:30
The Blue Ribbons return to the Lizard Lounge November 23rd with Andrea Gillis

Event is 21+$15/$18
“The Blue Ribbons’ latest album, 2024’s “Forever, But Not For Long,” has plenty of pop hooks. Or rather, it had plenty of them before the band took sledgehammers and scalpels to most of the pretty bits.
“It took a while to get the bones of some of the tunes down just so we could break them,” bandleader James Rohr told Herald with a laugh.
Local champs the Blue Ribbons are a pop band in the same way that the Beatles or Steely Dan or Television are pop bands in that they like pop but “aren’t too precious about the songs,” Rohr said.
Jed Gottleib – Boston Herald

Hailing from South Boston, Andrea Gillis is the real deal – a Northeast legend of rock & soul…” “She has been blessed with the pipes of Etta James and with the boozy swagger of Jim Morrison.” – The Boston Globe

Drag Brunch!
2024-11-24 12:00 - 15:00
An iconic afternoon of local drag performances!

What do wigs, eggs benedict, pop mixes & mimosas have in common? They’ll all be in the Lizard Lounge the last Sunday of every month! We’re hosting our very own Drag Brunch, an iconic afternoon of performances from some of our favorite local drag queens scrumptious brunch favorites & fun cocktails! Doors open at 12pm, show starts at 1pm.

21+
Doors lock once show starts
General Admission $20, with bar stools first come first serve
Tables for $45, comfortably seats 2 guests

Poetry Jam-Tru Kwene
2024-11-24 20:00 - 23:30
The Lizard Lounge poetry jam with featured poet Tru Kwene

Event is 21+$10
Doors at 7
My name is Tru Kwene, and I’m from Boston, MA. I’ve traveled all over the country doing spoken word poetry and poetry slams. I am a slam champion in Boston, and national finalist in the National Poetry Slam and the Woman of the World Poetry Slam. Poetry and my youth advocacy work mean so much to me and I’m grateful to be able to serve my community and share in great art from so many wonderful artists all across the country and all over the world. Please take some time to check out your local community of artists!

https://www.lizardloungepoetryjam.com/

Four Piece Suit/Fran McConville Trio
2024-11-27 20:00 - 23:30
We’ve got the perfect spot for you to kick off your holiday weekend, Four Piece Suit and the Fran McConville Trio live Nov 27th!

Event is 21+
$12/$15 door
Doors at 7
Four Piece Suit is “a highball of sea-foam-soaked guitar and squalling tenor sax, shaken—not stirred—with surf tangos, Battista-era mambos, beach blanket boppers, spy music, crime jazz, and movie themes.” The predominantly instrumental group brings humor, romance and a pulsing rhythm to the category-defying range musical styles they reinvent. Heard on soundtracks for Sex and the City and Dexter, Four Piece Suit puts on a sizzling live show.
The band is: Milt Reder on guitar, John Aruda on sax, Dean Cassell on bass and Seth Pappas on drums. For more on 4PS, please visit www.fourpiecesuit.com. Truly beyond category, their eclectic instrumental, sometimes jazz, sometimes rock style, brings forth a unique blend of long forgotten musical influences and often suggests a certain film noir feeling.
The sexy, sophisticated, yet tongue-in-cheek music of FOUR PIECE SUIT is frequently featured on the highly acclaimed HBO series Sex and the City, Telemundo, NBC’s Ed, Dexter on CBS, and cable shows such as Keeping Up with the Kardashians, America’s Top Model, Run’s House, and many others. Film work includes Our Lips are Sealed (Olsen Twins), In the Weeds (Molly Ringwald), Stag (HBO films), Psycho Beach Party, Along Came Polly (Jennifer Aniston), and others.
The band has also been heard in many independent films, including Sundance Festival Winner Blue Vinyl. They have also done a full score for an HBO claymation film, Real Men Wear Hawaiian Shirts, an award winner at the San Francisco Film Festival.
Like many of the greatest bands, only at a live show can one really “get” what FOUR PIECE SUIT is all about…
https://fourpiecesuitband.com

The Fran McConville Trio plays an eclectic, cosmic blend of instrumental rock, groove & reggae music. We like to get weird and play in odd time signatures, go to outer space, and come back again. Members of the FMT have played with Lions At The Gate, Lady Lupine, Ethan Rossiter Band, Sonya Rae Taylor, and others!

Some artists that have had a big influence are The Beatles, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, John Scofield, Jeff Beck, Jerry Garcia, Bela Fleck, & MMW.

Closed for Thanksgiving
2024-11-28 - 2024-11-29

Flying Vipers/Trio Kobeta Ya Makasi
2024-11-29 21:00 - 23:30
Flying Vipers celebrate their debut 7″ release for Easy Star records with Trio Kobeta Ya Makasi November 29th at the Lizard Lounge!

Event is 21+
$15/$20 Door
Doors at 8

Flying Vipers emerged from a basement lair outside Boston Mass in 2015, releasing a couple cassette EPs worth of raw yet highly melodic dub (The Green Tape and The Copper Tape). Entirely produced on an antiquated 4-track cassette recorder and mixed live by Jay Champnay of 10 Ft. Ganja Plant, this amateur equipment is wielded by seasoned pros as their songs mutate with a keen sense of classic JA sounds and post-punk experimentation.
Typically a 7-piece unit live, the core quartet of twin brothers Marc & John Beaudette on drum & bass (Destroy Babylon, The Macrotones), Zack Brines on keys (Pressure Cooker, Kings of Nuthin’), and Kellee Webb on vocals (Destroy Babylon) have 20+ years in the New England scene, sharing the stage with legendary reggae acts from around the world, including Burning Spear, Lee “Scratch” Perry, the Skatalites, and Hollie Cook, among many others.
This November, the Vipers will be celebrating the release of their new 7″ single, “Show Me”, their debut for Easy Star Records.
https://flyingvipers.com/

Kobeta ya Makasi (Lingala: “hitting it hard!”) is the new trio led by Nathaniel Braddock (Occidental Brothers, Air Congo, Accra Quartet) with King Eric and Kilo Bass: two Congolese musicians raised in Kampala, Uganda. The group are sebenologues, pushing the edges of contemporary ndombolo and soukous into new worlds of dub, shoegaze, surf, and Central African “bofenya rock.” The sound is now.

Soggy Po Boys-"Leave the Light On" Album Release with Itay Dayan
2024-11-30 21:00 - 23:30
The Soggy Po Boys return to the Lizard Lounge to celebrate their latest release “Leave the Light On”! November 30th with Itay Dayan!

Event is 21+$15/$20 door
Doors at 8
This fall, New Orleans jazz exponents The Soggy Po Boys will celebrate the release of their 6th full-length album, Leave the Light On, in a series of not-to-be-missed release shows around the Northeast.
The Po Boys formed in 2012 to shake the walls of a local club on a Fat Tuesday but have honed their sound and become more than a Mardi Gras centerpiece. Exploring the vast musical traditions of New Orleans and expanding their repertoire to look beyond NOLA jazz, the band performs traditional Caribbean tunes (it’s been said that New Orleans is the northernmost city in the Caribbean), as well as Meters funk, soul, and brass band / street beat music.
The latest record captures the 7-piece band’s mission of embracing tradition without becoming a museum piece. By blending traditional and original songs, the album embraces themes of joy, frustration, loneliness, love, and sadness, and explores these feelings with the group’s trademark humorous sincerity.
Leave the Light On was recorded at Acadia Recording Company in Portland, Maine where it was tracked by Jason Phelps. Phelps helped to sculpt the sounds and provided a perfect environment to capture the essence of what the band loves most: playing live. The result is music that is very much grounded in the sonic liminal space that the Po Boys occupy best–happy-ish, live-ish, new-ish, and bull-ish.
“These guys have done their homework, worked it out on the bandstand and put in the hours in the studio. It all adds up to a party you can bring with you when you want to treat your friends to a real good time.” -Ben Schenck of New Orleans’ Panorama Jazz Band
“There’s no retro to their sound, no putting on airs, this is living music respectful of the source, played by consummate professionals.” -Syncopated Times
https://www.soggypoboys.com/

Currently based in Boston, Massachusetts, Israeli clarinetist and composer Itay Dayan is considered one of today’s most promising klezmer musicians. His recent album, “Hoffman’s Farewell”, demonstrates Itay’s proficiency within the traditional klezmer idiom and his pursuit in looking for new sounds and options for his music. Drawing inspiration from different musical worlds, Itay played with various ensembles such as the Klezmer Conservatory Band, Meitar Ensemble and the Israel Klezmer Orchestra, with which he has toured internationally.While studying for his M.Mus at New England Conservatory and his B.Mus at the Jerusalem Academy of Music, Itay won scholarships from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Ronen Foundation, Ima Foundation, and the Zvi and Ofra Meitar Family Foundation. Notably, Itay is a recipient of the Siday Fellowship for Musical Creativity by the Jerusalem Institute of Contemporary Music, and of the Peter Row Global Musician Award.

Poetry Jam-Jennifer Martinez
2024-12-01 20:00 - 23:30
The Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam with featured poet Jennifer Martinez!

$10
Jennifer Martinez (she/her) is a Bronx-born, Boston-based poet and copywriter. Captain of the 2022 Urban Word NYC Slam Team, two-time New York City Youth Poet Laureate Ambassador, and member of the 2024 Boston Poetry Slam team (2024 NorthBeast Regional winners), she has performed in spaces such as Lincoln Center, the Apollo Theater, Barclays Center, her bedroom mirror, and more. Her poetry explores themes of queerness, family, womanhood, and liberation. Her work can be found in anthologies BX Writers Anthology Volume 2 and Patron Saints and Bitches.
Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam

Van Gordon Martin
2024-12-05 20:00 - 23:30
Van Gordon Martin trio comes to the Lizard Lounge!

Van Gordon Martin is a sonic chameleon and deeply creative artist.
Performing a wide range of musical styles.
VGM is a multi-instrumental producer and powerhouse on lead guitar,
an has toured nationally and internationally with a unique mix of artist including;
Current projects Organically Good Trio, Dub Apocalypse
G Love and Special Sauce, Big Daddy Kane, The Skatalites, and many more.
The current line up of VGM trio ft Nate Edgar & Tommy B (JBB)
Van Gordon Martin

Billy Wylder/Emily Haviland
2024-12-06 20:00 - 23:30
Event is 21+
$20/$25 door GA
$50 reserved tables
Doors at 7
From the front-lines at Standing Rock to the archaic streets of Jerusalem, the Sahel Desert to Carnegie Hall, music has been the source of strength for Billy Wylder. The band features Avi Salloway (Bombino/Hey Mama) joined by an inspired cast of singular artists who have performed across five continents including concerts at Coachella, Newport Folk Festival, New Orleans Jazz Fest, Montreal Jazz Fest, Carnegie Hall, and Lincoln Center.
Billy Wylder released their seminal third album, Trying to Get Free (Sand & Gold Records), on August 25, 2023. The music weaves together American folk and rock with sensibilities from the Sahara Desert, exploring new musical space akin to Devendra Banhart, Beck, and Tinariwen. Billy Wylder’s new recordings evoke musical evolutions built on grooves informed by ancient African rhythms, art-rock textures, expansive guitars, violins, synths, and drum machines. Salloway’s lyrics flow with inspiration from mythical songwriting hero Leonard Cohen, while threading together more abstract imagery reminiscent of Thom Yorke.
On the new record, Billy Wylder grapples with some of the most critical questions of our time. What is freedom? Has the American dream died? What is truth and what is truly important to us? The band knows that it takes courage to follow your dreams, to create your own sense of purpose and meaning while living in a society where the media and politics relentlessly project fear, hatred, division, and consumerism. Billy Wylder’s live shows are known for bringing together diverse audiences and building community through uplifting performances, movement, and a sense of universal goodwill. The global band includes musicians from Vermont, Cuba, Peru, and Chicago.
Billy Wylder has toured extensively, performing and collaborating with renowned artists including Jack Johnson, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Bombino, The Low Anthem, and Pete Seeger.
“A sense of mystery and majesty.” â€“No Depression
“Songs that sound impossibly up-to-minute while remaining steeped in tradition.” â€“PopMatters
Touring band:
Avi Salloway (vocals, guitar), Rob Flax (violin, synth, vocals), Jennifer Giammanco (bass, vocals), Ricardo Guerra (drums, vocals)
billywlder.com

As a graduate of Berklee College of Music with a double major in fiddle performance and music therapy, Emily Haviland studied everything from American Roots and its rocky history to how music can alter brain chemistry. Throughout her career, Emily has shared the stage with some of the greats, like Darol Anger, the late Emy Phelps, Bruce Molsky, Aoife O’Donovan, Margot Price, Abigail Lapell, Twisted Pine and Cold Chocolate, and has been showcased on records released by Alisa Amador and Kaiti Jones, among others. Emily released her debut solo album, “Not Who You Think”, in February 2024, showcasing her vast musical repertoire—modern folk music with roots in jazz and americana. World-renowned fiddler Darol Anger aptly describes her as the “Realest Deal in a long time,” praising her genuine voice, profound reflections, and songs that boldly articulate the unspoken truths we all harbor. “Real voice, real thoughts, real songs that say – with pungent power – what everyone’s really thinking. Glad to welcome her work into the world.”
https://www.facebook.com/emilyhavi/

MC Kabir Sen with Krush Factory Monthly Residency
2024-12-07 21:00 - 2024-12-08 00:00
MC Kabir Sen continues his monthly residency at the Lizard Lounge with the Krush Factory

An Evening With Lyle Brewer
2024-12-11 20:00 - 22:30
$20 adv/$25 door
Lyle Brewer is a guitarist and songwriter from Massachusetts. He has released several instrumental guitar albums and has performed all over the country with such artists as Neighbor, Ryan Montbleau and Lori McKenna. For the last decade Brewer has been a professor of guitar at The Berklee College of Music in Boston. He has released three transcription books and maintains a hearty teaching schedule through his Patreon site. His solo show will consist of instrumental music from his albums Juno, Get It Together and Hold On.
Lyle Brewer

Rich Hinman Quintet
2024-12-12 20:00 - 23:30
Rich Hinman’s Christmastown Dec 12th at the Lizard Lounge!

$15 adv/$18 door

On December 12, Rich Hinman finishes off his fall residency with a holiday spectacular featuring Sam Kassirer, Zachariah Hickman, Dan Drohan and special guests. They’ll play Rich’s 2022 Christmas classic “Christmastown” all the way through and then back up some of the best singers in town as they croon various Christmas classics and obscurities.

The Family Township/Ex-Hyena
2024-12-13 21:00 - 23:30
The Family Township and Ex-Hyena live at the Lizard Lounge December 13th!

Event is 21+
$15/$20 Doors
Doors at 8
The Family Township, AKA Township, has been making their unique Boston-bred brand of vintage rock and roll for nearly 2 decades. With 7 studio albums, 2 live albums, 3 EPs, 2 double singles, and 1 collection, the band has never stopped progressing, evolving, andperfecting. Initially known for their heavily mustached brand of driving rock, the band has steadily grown their sound and writing to reflect these days rather than “those days.” Their most recent album, 20th Century Wasters, and double single, Rosie Come Back /Autumn Bell, have earned the band some of the highest praise of their career. Live shows burn with energy,heart, melody, and sweat, celebrating an ever-growing catalog, depth, and fanbase.
https://township.bandcamp.com/

Ex-Hyena is a Boston-based dark electronic duo consisting of Bo Barringer and Reuben Bettsak. The band debuted in 2021 with “Artificial Pulse” and continued to expand their sound with “Moon Reflections” (2022) and “A Kiss of the Mind” (2024). Their music blends elements of synthpop, darkwave, and trip-hop, with a distinctive dual-vocal approach that contrasts deep, dark tones with brighter, higher-pitched melodies.
https://linktr.ee/Exhyenah

Closed for Private Event
2024-12-14 - 2024-12-15

Poetry Jam-A Celebration of Douglas Bishop
2024-12-15 20:00 - 23:30
A celebration of the life of longtime Poetry Jam collaborator Douglas Bishop.

It is with a heavy heart that Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam announces the passing of our dear longtime collaborator, Douglas Bishop, who left us several weeks ago.. Douglas was originally scheduled to perform at his traditional “December birthday” feature, and we will now dedicate that evening to honoring his memory and celebrating his poetry. He was a cherished presence, and will be deeply missed by everyone in our community who had the privilege and pleasure of knowing him.
“Douglas Bishop has been jamming and slamming at the Poetry Jam since it got going – which means he’s been a regular at the Lizard for more than 20 years. As a teacher, he has worked with classrooms ranging from early childhood to university, but now mostly teaches online for Mill City Speaks and Lowell Poetry Wheel. As a poet, he has performed in venues from Glasgow to Guatemala, but now primarily appears as one of the hosts of the Untitled Open Mic in Lowell. His doctoral study on the development of literate identity in young writers continues in his work for Freeverse!, Lowell’s youth poetry group. He also works as a visual artist, as well as performing vocals, flute, and percussion with his jazz-poetry band, Dr. Dougie’s Dangerous Delight (4D). For more, see douglasbishoppoet.com.This feature will involve a special collaboration between Douglas and Blake Newman to present a poem and song cycle, “Requiem for the Trees,” which will include live video recording and special guest musicians along with the Trio.”

Skunk Jesus/CLAMB
2024-12-18 20:00 - 23:00
Skunk Jesus and CLAMB return to the Lizard Lounge Dec 18th!

Event is 21+
$15/$20 door
Doors at 7

Skunk Jesus
Experience the sounds of Skunk Jesus, a band that emerged from the creative minds of Riley Stockwell and Mike Dettorre in 2015. Together with a rotating cast of top musicians from New England, they create an improvisational art form that delves into the unknown, transforming initial ideas into fully formed pieces of music on the spot. Drawing inspiration from free jazz, psychedelia, and experimental grooves, Skunk Jesus offers a dark and whimsical journey into uncharted musical territories.
https://m.facebook.com/skunkjesus/

CLAMB was born out of a Dadaist desire to create music free from societal norms of perfection. They dig deep into the groove of soulful American music from the infinite James Brown and Alice Coltrane to the aether of seventies European krautrock pioneers like Cluster and Harmonia to patiently sketch foreign landscapes from the ground up. Clamb are devoted to keeping an attitude of acceptance in their largely-improvised songs, choosing a direction and exploring its corners and nuances to tell stories without words.

Clamb’s tonal palette features Peter Danilchuk’s synths blissfully wiggling through the air, Jameson Stewart’s mythical gold-glitter-encrusted fretless bass sending terrestrial energy rippling through a rogue’s gallery of cheap pedals, Joshua Merhar’s playful drumming that constantly eggs the band onward to new hemispheres of groove, and in 2022 Clamb introduced guitar hero and best friend Sam Crawford whose tonal character and improvisational voice have propelled the band’s ensemble playing further into the fever-dream-realm than ever expected. Clamb hopes they have cornered the market on the Venn diagram intersection of 60s psych nerds raised on Soft Machine Volume 2 and their kids who have spent the past decade gorging on Brainfeeder and Meshuggah. It is Clamb’s distinct wish that each performance function as a Polaroid of the exact moment of its creation, never to be repeated quite the same way ever again, remaining both pensive yet hard-grooving all the same.https://www.facebook.com/clambband?mibextid=LQQJ4d

Legends of Mary: All Star Tribute to Legion of Mary
2024-12-19 20:00 - 23:00
Legends of Mary return to the Lizard Lounge Dec 19th!

Event is 21+$15/$18 door
Doors 7
Legends of Mary is an all-star tribute to the Jerry Garcia side project: legion of Mary. The group brings together some of the foremost Grateful Dead musicians in the Boston music scene to pay tribute to the fiery spiritual predecessor of the Jerry Garcia Band. Legends of Mary features: David Rubin of Diamond Blues, Dan Crea of the Garcia Project, Justin Lopes formally of Bearly Dead, Kade Parkin of Bella’s Bartok and Chris Belden of Diamond Blues. With a deep love of the repertoire and many years of experience under their belt this crew will deliver an incredible night of music for fans of the Grateful Dead and Legion of Mary!
