The Caffe stays busy, with the Chandler Travis Philharmonette on Saturday at 8 p.m. (tickets: $18 in advance, $20 at the door) and Fairview Avenue on Sunday at 7 p.m. ($14 advance, $16 at the door). Fairview Avenue is the latest really fine bluegrass band to form here; and while Travis and company live on Cape Cod, they play here so often some believe they must live here now.
Unprecedented in many ways, they are sartorially resplendent, prolific without ever relaxing their musical standards, stubbornly eclectic and highly flexible in their staffing. Travis brings the Philharmonette (a subset of his stage-filling Philharmonic) to the Caffe on Saturday on a three-show run: He leads the Phiharmonette on Friday at the Peint O Gwrw (36 Main St., Chatham; phone 392-2337) and on Saturday at Caffe Lena. On Sunday, he brings the whole Philharmonic to the Iron Horse (20 Center St., Northampton, Mass.). School for the Dead opens at the Iron Horse, starting at 7 p.m. Admission is $10 in advance, $13 at the door. Phone 413-586-8686 or visit www.iheg.com.
Reach Gazette Columnist Michael Hochanadel at hochanadel@dailygazette.net.
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