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August 2022
Culture Splash Thursdays
Culture Splash is back for 2022, building off the success of last summer’s inaugural program. Gloucester is the only city in Massachusetts to have two designated cultural districts. This summer our cultural districts join forces to celebrate and promote our vibrant cultural organizations, creative groups and individuals, galleries, artists and non-profits. Join Rocky Neck Cultural District and Harbortown Cultural District in celebrating the very best of what Gloucester has to offer. Every Thursday evening through August 25, a different cultural…
Find out more »Lanes Coven presents Shakespeare’s Macbeth
This summer Lanes Coven presents Shakespeare’s Macbeth outside at Windhover Center for the Performing Arts from August 11 - 21, Thursdays - Sundays at 7:30 pm. The show will run for about two hours, with one intermission. Rain or shine.
Find out more »Gloucester Stage Presents: Grand Horizons
Bill and Nancy have been happily married for fifty years. They can finish each other’s sentences and anticipate each other’s every sigh, snore, and sneeze. As their adult children descend on the Grand Horizons senior living community – they are forced to reexamine everything they thought they knew about their parents’ happy lives. A powerhouse comedy that explores a family turned upside-down and takes an intimate look at the wild, unpredictable, and enduring nature of love. Robert Walshº will be returning to Gloucester…
Find out more »Music on Meetinghouse Green
The seventh season of Music on Meetinghouse Green is underway!
Friday, July 29, an award-winning local jazz vocalist and rising star, Rhiannon teams up with a great quartet for another unforgettable free Friday evening concert at the corner of Middle and Church Streets at 6:00 p.m.
Gloucester Stage Presents: Grand Horizons
Bill and Nancy have been happily married for fifty years. They can finish each other’s sentences and anticipate each other’s every sigh, snore, and sneeze. As their adult children descend on the Grand Horizons senior living community – they are forced to reexamine everything they thought they knew about their parents’ happy lives. A powerhouse comedy that explores a family turned upside-down and takes an intimate look at the wild, unpredictable, and enduring nature of love. Robert Walshº will be returning to Gloucester…
Find out more »Renaissance Music Days at Hammond Castle Museum
The Penniless Jacks, Harper & Minstrel and the Ladies of Integrity, Aristocracy, Repute and Society (L.I.A.R.S) join us on Saturday, August 13th and Sunday, August 14th for two full days of medieval, Renaissance and Celtic music.
Find out more »Rockport Farmers Market
Rockport Farmers Market takes place every Saturday from June 25 to October 15. Produce and locally-grown and made farm products can be purchased on-site from their farmers and vendors from 10am-1pm. Stop by and buy fresh food directly from your farmers and food producers!
Find out more »Mini-Open Studios with the Cape Ann Artisans
Visit Studios on the first day of MA Sales Tax Holiday Cape Ann summers bring many visitors to Gloucester and Rockport and the Cape Ann Artisans are pleased to welcome everyone into their studios for a mid-summer event called the Mini-Tour. For this special event on Saturday, August 13th, nine studios will be participating between the hours of 10AM and 5PM. The tour is “self-guided” and visitors can start anywhere they wish. However, planning is encouraged and the online map…
Find out more »Gloucester Blues Festival
This annual event brings blues lovers from far and wide to Gloucester. World-class blues will reverberate through the park with some of the nation’s finest performers playing from the Gloucester Blues stage, located right on the harbor at beautiful Cressey’s Beach.
Find out more »Gloucester Stage Presents: Grand Horizons
Bill and Nancy have been happily married for fifty years. They can finish each other’s sentences and anticipate each other’s every sigh, snore, and sneeze. As their adult children descend on the Grand Horizons senior living community – they are forced to reexamine everything they thought they knew about their parents’ happy lives. A powerhouse comedy that explores a family turned upside-down and takes an intimate look at the wild, unpredictable, and enduring nature of love. Robert Walshº will be returning to Gloucester…
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