Porchfest Performers Schedule, Location & Info
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Thomas Charles Clukey - 254 Pleasant Ave
Click here for website. Folk / Country Singer Songwriter.
Chipped Enamel - 33 Brentwood St
Click here for website. An eclectic mix of folk, blues, originals and (18 and 19)50s popular music.
The Flukes - 86 Leland St
Click here for website. The Flukes (Fun-Loving Ukulele Society) loves to play for audiences of all ages. We play songs from Bach to the Beatles and beyond. Our upbeat and positive music brings smiles to all.
Maine Academy of Modern Music (MAMM) - 65 Brentwood St
Click here for website. All-Ages Open Mic/Porch! The Maine Academy of Modern Music (MAMM) will host an open stage. Porchfest attendees young and old are encouraged to hop up to the mic and perform*. MAMM will provide a full PA, drum set, keyboard, and amps. Full bands, small groups, and soloists are all welcome. Let’s rock! *Day-of signups only. First come first served. All band members must be present in order to sign up for a performance slot.
Yard Sauce - 114 Leland St
Click here for website. Yard Sauce is an eclectic roots trio that travels from Russian folk tunes to rowdy Cajun blues and everything in between. Featuring Chris Moore on mandolins, Mitch Reed on fiddles, and Deering Center's own Jeff Christmas on guitar.
Russ Mason & Duane Asdourian - 30 Richardson St
Russ Mason is a Singer/Songwriter from Nashville TN accompanied by Maine Harmonica player Duane Asdourian.
Hurry Down Sunshine - 28 Leonard St
Click here for website. We play a wide range of American music from Jazz standards to Tom Waits to Bob Dylan to the Blues- and more.
Day for Night - 45 Leonard St
Click here for website. Day for Night is an acoustic duo, living in Portland, that emphasizes vocal harmonies in performing distinctive original songs and Americana from the mid-20th-century.
K-58s - 54 Richardson St
The K-58s, a father-son duo from Nason's Corner, take inspiration from the sounds of classic surf rock from the '60s. Their 14 year-old guitarist, Mason Shaddox, has a deep appreciation for classic artists like Dick Dale, The Chantays and The Beach Boys. He's spent hours exploring the reverb-drenched riffs that define the genre. His dad, Bobby, a teacher at Rowe Elementary, keeps things grooving on the drums. Their rocking performance will bridge generations in what will be their first public performance.
Idea Maine Social Aid & Sanctuary Band (Ideal Maine Band) - 118 Brentwood St
Click here for website. The Ideal Maine Social Aid and Sanctuary Band is a community brass band that welcomes players of all levels. They are regulars in public spaces around Portland and the local pep-band at progressive rallies of all kinds. Get ready for New Orleans Second Line, street band funk, cumbia grooves and a few pop tunes thrown in for good measure!
Why Whisper - 58 Alba St
Click here for website. Eclectic rock country and soul
Space Fog - 88 Mabel St
Click here for website. Space Fog is a collective that mostly creates soul infused pop rock with an identity crisis.
Austin Flyers (formerly Lost Highway) - 55 Hamblet Ave
Click here for website. Austin Flyers are Dale Henry Geist (vocals, guitar, bass), John “Flying Crowbar” McNamara (vocals, bass, guitar) and Mike Michaels (vocals, lead guitar). They play a mindfully-curated selection of classic hip country tunes from the likes of Kristofferson, Hank, Townes, and John Prine, plus a selection of like-minded originals.
Becca Biggs - 123 Mabel St
Click here for website. Becca Biggs has been establishing herself as a Midcoast musician over the last nine years. Her twangy sound, born of Tennessee roots, colors but never overpowers her band. With Biggs, their blend of alt-country and rock propel original tunes that are both muscular, catchy, and enveloping.
Juniper Ginger - 117 Alba St
Click here for website. Juniper Ginger is the songwriting project of Maine-based musician Alex Millan.
Hussey Sound - 156 Brentwood St
Click here for website. Playing mostly original music and with a few unique spins on covers you know and love, Hussey Sound specializes in a Sneak Rock sound driven by three-part harmonies and driving drums, keys, sax, guitar and mandolin.
Gray Matters - 3 Hyde St
Acoustic guitars and harmony vocals, performing mostly our own original songs plus a few songs by other artists, with flavors of rock and blues.
2pm
3rd Shelf Kava - 25 Bedell St
Click here for website. 3SK is an awesome OG rock band with a blend of unique heavy and melodic riffs that will make your porchfest experience fire!
First in Maths - 15 Newman St
Click here for website. Portland’s finest indie dad rock since 2012. If you like Built to Spill, Pavement, Talking Heads, etc., please come check us out!
KindKids Music - 153 Brentwood St
Click here for website. KindKids Music is a dynamic duo with original music, puppets, and a highly interactive program that seeks to entertain, educate, and inspire children and grown ups with messages of kindness, friendship, nature, mindfulness, and silliness!
Pejepscot Station - 132 Brentwood St
Click here for website. We play Americana/Bluegrass/folk with interesting mix of covers and and our own songs. We sing a lot of prison songs, not sure why but it seems to work.
Giant Pine - 100 Alba St
Giant Pine plays a very interesting, mix of Americana, blues, rock, folk, and, on occasion, a bit jazzy or funky. Most of our set list is less mainstream, but a few tunes are familiar to most folks. Well play a few original instrumental tunes as well. We're a four-piece band including electric guitars, vocals, harmonica, bass, and drums. Hope you come check us out for our 2nd Deering Porchfest performance.
Keith Prairie / Prairie Music - 100 Mabel St
Click here for website. Folk music got its hooks into Keith early on playing guitar and singing in high-school. For decades his fans have enjoyed his rich voice and mastery of the hammered dulcimer and guitar. He has a wide-ranging repertoire, from instrumental folk tunes, classical, to silly covers and his own compositions. Hear songs that have a story and can bring a tear or a laugh. Tunes that lead feet to tap and dance or souls to move to meditation. Bring your heart, your spirit, and your funny bone.
65 John Sayles - 65 Best St
Click here for website. I’m a Portland-based guitarist and singer/songwriter. I record and release music under the name The Franklin Farm.
Forest Syntax - 86 Best St
Almost ambient sound collage and electronics.
Truth About Daisies - 43 Richardson St
Click here of website. TRUTH ABOUT DAISIES features original music with layered harmonies and multi-instrumental arrangements. The band delights audiences with their unique blend of genres that’s been described as Urban Folk Groove Pop— a mix of singer songwriter, country, blues, folk, reggae, with a nod to rock. Truth About Daisies’ music is full of heart and dives deep with universal themes of love and loss, nature and beauty.
Unique Unknown & Friends - 19 Richardson St
Click here for website. Unique Unknown is an improviser, freestyler, and comedian based out of Portland, ME. Unique Unknown and friends includes Unique Unknown and Bagels (who is the drummer) Unique Unknown will create full songs with a loop pedal (beatboxing and creating the melody) based off of peoples suggestions. This performance is for all ages.
James Day Leavitt - 107 Leland St
Click here for website. Introspective, innovative folk. Acoustic based songs with poetic lyrics.
Maine Academy of Modern Music (MAMM) - 65 Brentwood St
Click here for website. All-Ages Open Mic/Porch! The Maine Academy of Modern Music (MAMM) will host an open stage. Porchfest attendees young and old are encouraged to hop up to the mic and perform*. MAMM will provide a full PA, drum set, keyboard, and amps. Full bands, small groups, and soloists are all welcome. Let’s rock! *Day-of signups only. First come first served. All band members must be present in order to sign up for a performance slot.
Sootsprite - 91 Brentwood St
Melodic freely improvised music with heavily processed and looped guitar and trumpet. We are obscure in the extreme but promise not to be annoying or unprofessional on the day of the show. Porchfest pretty much has a world exclusive on our performances.
Zach Bouchard Collaborative - 15 Alba St
Click here for website. Original music, folk/rock and sometimes a little reggae.
Glassfishis - 251 Pleasant Ave
Click here for website. Indie Rockers drawing inspiration from American folk, blues, classic and alt-rock, psych and jam. Fans are often enamored by their organic live performances and emotional earnestness.
COSMIC - 229 Pleasant Ave
Click here for website. Rock band fronted by singer Talya Corsetti and guitarist Bill Bourassa. Bernie Tajonera jams the bass and Todd Gibson hold the beats. The band has just released their EP "Enemy" which is available at all Bull Moose locations and streaming everywhere.
Deering Center Community Church Band and Singers! - 4 Brentwood St
We sing hymns and worship songs together! Feel free to join!
Gnocchi - 27 Brentwood St
Click here for website. Gnocchi is a rock band that got their start by playing fun and energetic shows at local bars and breweries while they were students at UMaine. They have done more of that after moving to Portland, ME and recently released their debut EP titled “Mug Club.”
3pm
The Misadventures - 14 Leonard St
Click here for website. We are a classic and root rock band playing songs by Tom Petty, The Old 97s, REM and a lot more!
van Voorst Jazz - 11 Richardson St
Click here for website. The van Voorst Jazz group has taken many forms over the last 20 years, with variations of jazz music and instrumentation, from organ/drums driven duos and small straight ahead groups to outside jazz with hints of the hard sounds of the 60s and 70s.
Jonathan Bell (w/the Family Band?!) - 33 Brentwood St
Exquisitely curated solo piano selections (including TV theme songs!) with special family guests!
Akela Moon - 230 Pleasant Ave
Click here for website. AKELA MOON is from right here in Portland, Maine, and over the last decade has been performing eclectic upbeat rock music with a diverse set of influences, including funk, soul, latin, and aftobeat.
Racer-X - 254 Pleasant Ave
Click here for website. We play 80s top 40 pop and rock.
The Drop Sets - 53 Leland St
Click here for website. The Drop Sets are an indie rock band from Portland. With their roots in punk, indie, metal and rock, Emily Serway, Tony Manhart, and John Winikka play original songs with a heavy, yet melodic sound.
Wayne Street - 15 Alba St
Click here for website. Wayne Street is an acoustic roots band in Portland, ME. Playing originals, pop covers, country, a little bit of bluegrass, blues...full of surprises. Find us busking on the street in Portland, ME or in local living rooms and venues.
2nd Chance UKE Band - 58 Alba St
Click here for website. 6 strumming and singing musicians who perform pop, country, jazz & Hawaiian music all with the intention to share joy!
innnni - 73 Alba St
Click here for website. Formed in 2016, INNNNI ("eye for an eye") is Maine-based singer-songwriter Korra Andrei, blending confessional lyrics and 90's pop-punk hooks into energetic and emotional acoustic punk for weird nerds and sad queers. innnni's music has been described as "sometimes personal, sometimes political, often humorous," delicately balancing sincere honesty against self-effacing irony to create relatable folk punk songs steeped in the trials of modern life, but hopeful for a better future.
Rusty Groh/Geezer - 107 Mabel St
Acoustic anti-hits from the last century & beyond.
Elise and Anthony - 108 Alba St
Pleasantly uke-ified versions of pop, punk, and pop-punk.
Portland Old Time Jam Band - 11 Newman St
We play Old Time Music: American, Appalachian, Southern, Acoustic, traditional.
AlbaCapella - 3 Hyde St
Eight member a capella ensemble - mostly from the neighborhood - coming together to perform vocal music from the Renaissance through the 21st Century... and back again!
ZEME LIBRE - 128 Brentwood St
Click here for website. ZEME LIBRE (Zem-may Lee-Bray) is a New England based band that has quickly garnered a reputation for its unique high energy blend of Afrobeat, reggae, ska, and funk. Since 2015, the band has played well over 200 shows and festivals throughout New England all the while continuing to grow an increasingly devoted fan base. Whether on a stage at a local club or a high-profile festival, Zeme Libre packs a wall of sound that is sure to get the crowd moving and dancing.
Rumple - 71 Best St
We are Rumple! We bring jaunty jams and good vibes! We can't wait to meet you!
Church of Good Times - 34 Richardson St
Click here for website. The Church of Good Times is a Contemporary Instrumental Jazz/Jam trio exploring the FUN-damentals of sound and the FUN-KEY-ness of collective creative expression. We provide live music for festivals, events, nightclubs and community gatherings throughout Maine and New England. Eric Napier - Guitar, Rev. Todd Ketcham - Bass, Rev. Todd Glacy - Drums.
Maine Academy of Modern Music (MAMM) - 65 Brentwood St
Click here for website. All-Ages Open Mic/Porch! The Maine Academy of Modern Music (MAMM) will host an open stage. Porchfest attendees young and old are encouraged to hop up to the mic and perform*. MAMM will provide a full PA, drum set, keyboard, and amps. Full bands, small groups, and soloists are all welcome. Let’s rock! *Day-of signups only. First come first served. All band members must be present in order to sign up for a performance slot.
4pm
Les Vagues - 55 Hamblet Ave
We are 3 fiddles, a bouzouki, a banjo, and a mandolin. We play traditional Québécois fiddle tunes.
Plague Dad - 107 Mabel St
Click here for website. Fresh off a northeast tour, Plague Dad brings a lo-fi, grungefolk sound that’s steeped in old-timey tradition and fueled by punk-rock attitude.
Joe James & The Carrot - 88 Mabel St
Click here for website. We play mostly acoustic indie pop, with a lot of slower and quieter sounding songs.
The John Buffalo Project - 73 Alba St
Click here for website. Powerful vocals playing bumping bass to songs from classic rock/blues/1990's rock/modern country/and definitely The Doors!
Honeytones - 156 Brentwood St
Click here for website. The Honeytones offer a sweet blend of vocal harmonies and acoustic accompaniment. Their repertoire - an eclectic mix of originals and popular and lesser-known blues, swing, and folk music from various genres - are a pleasing combination of old, new and undiscovered tunes with a little groove. Honeytones members - Kim Fox on vocals, Marion Walsh on vocals/guitar, Scott Elliott on guitar, and Chris Dombrowski on bass - have played in various ensembles/genres from jazz, acapella, bluegrass, and folk in Maine and the Northeast/Canada and bring these influences together to produce a unique sound with sweet harmonies.
Taiko - 25 Newman St
Click here for website. Taiko Maine Dojo is a multi-generational, multicultural community drumming group from Portland, Maine. Founded in 2006, we aim to share Japanese culture via the unifying spirit of kumi-daiko.
Spencer Albee - 80 Best St
Click here for website. Spencer Albee is a Portland based and nationally acclaimed singer, songwriter and producer. Since 1995, he has toured internationally, signed multiple major recording and publishing deals, and has worked with artists ranging from David Bowie to De La Soul. Rolling Stone Magazine called Spencer a "21st Century master in the lost art of Beatlesque hooks.”He produced The Ghost Of Paul Revere’s “Good At Losing Everything” which was met with wide acclaim, and is presently working on his next studio album.
The Earthtones - 19 Richardson St
Click here for website. We are a 3 piece acoustic string band playing Bluegrass, Americana and good old rock-n-roll!
Indoor Friends - 107 Leland St
Click here for website. Brought together through every conceivable social fabric (longtime friends, coworkers, dating apps). Under one roof, their combined musical sensibilities take them from riotous punk, foot-stomping power pop, to tender ballads. Indoor Friends is Amanda Bysheim (lead vocals), Kat Delitto (lead guitar), Krista Marie Setera (ukulele and backing vocals), Ben Bonadies (bass) and Matt Wilson (drums).
King Kyote - 53 Brentwood St
Click here for website. Born under the pines & raised in the sea. This Maine native echoes the yells of Rock N Rolls forebearers while having a deeply rooted harmony with the Blues, Folk & Americana genres.
City Planners - 86 Brentwood St
Click here for website. Based in Portland, CITY PLANNERS is a female-fronted 5-piece local indie band with original songs that are influenced by 80s/90s post punk and synth pop and 60s doo wop. Our sensibilities combine to create upbeat, eclectic, and always hooky songs filled with soaring synth, mind melting guitar, and girl group harmonies. Fun and subversive in all the best ways. Members include Becky Brosnan (synth & vocals), Katie Gallegos (guitar & vocals), Steve Soloway (guitar), Dave Ragsdale (bass), and Zac Hansen (drums).
Unreal Housewives - 19 Alba St
Click here for website. Garage folk rock band out of Portland.
Maternal InSync - 53 Leland St
Maternal InSync is an a cappella group of Deering Center moms who love to sing. Their repertoire includes an eclectic mix of genres including pop, folk, and rock.
Rocket Allen - 244 Pleasant Ave
Original rock and roll and spoken word.
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