Pokey LaFarge 2020
**Please note, all shows have been moved to our outdoor stage on the ball field unless otherwise noted. Patron and staff safety are our highest priority, we appreciate your understanding and flexibility as we continue to navigate the pandemic.
BALL FIELD GUIDELINES:
In order to keep these events coming, we ask for everyone’s co-operation to follow the guidelines below to protect your safety, other patrons, and the safety of our staff. Please read these over before you buy your tickets.
All tickets are general admission.
All tickets are ‘Will Call’. You do not need a mobile or printed ticket. Your name will be on a list at the venue and will be checked by a Payomet volunteer or staff member.
Please arrive no more than 45 minutes before the show.
In the event of rain, we will schedule a rain date as soon as possible. Unfortunately, tickets for outside shows are non-refundable. If you cannot attend a show on the rain date, you should sell or give your ticket to someone else.
Patron Safety:
While we will be outdoors, it is wise for non-vaccinated patrons to wear a mask when less than six feet from other patrons.
We will have chairs set up but there will also be space for you to bring your own a lawn chair. We recommend a light jacket and mosquito repellent.
No smoking is permitted on-site.
No pets are permitted on-site.
BALL FIELD GUIDELINES:
In order to keep these events coming, we ask for everyone’s co-operation to follow the guidelines below to protect your safety, other patrons, and the safety of our staff. Please read these over before you buy your tickets.
All tickets are general admission.
All tickets are ‘Will Call’. You do not need a mobile or printed ticket. Your name will be on a list at the venue and will be checked by a Payomet volunteer or staff member.
Please arrive no more than 45 minutes before the show.
In the event of rain, we will schedule a rain date as soon as possible. Unfortunately, tickets for outside shows are non-refundable. If you cannot attend a show on the rain date, you should sell or give your ticket to someone else.
Patron Safety:
While we will be outdoors, it is wise for non-vaccinated patrons to wear a mask when less than six feet from other patrons.
We will have chairs set up but there will also be space for you to bring your own a lawn chair. We recommend a light jacket and mosquito repellent.
No smoking is permitted on-site.
No pets are permitted on-site.
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the artist has to reschedule this performance. We appreciate your patience and understanding, new date TBA.
Ever since his first release over a decade ago, Pokey LaFarge has been a difficult specimen to pin down, indeed– but we had such a great time with him in 2019, we've pinned him down to take the Payomet again stage on Wednesday, August 25.
Though he was raised on a healthy diet of blues, bluegrass, ragtime, Western swing and old-time country — and though he has consistently demonstrated a decided affinity for pre-1950s menswear — the Illinois native is by no means a throwback or a museum piece. Timelessness, and refined good taste, is LaFarge’s raison d’être, and his influences are as multi-hued and wide-ranging as the rhythms that buoy his starkly poetic songs — rhythms that are steeped in the very essence of jazz.
Musically, LaFarge continues to mix and match a wide variety of styles and traditions, while never losing track of his own vision. “I listen to a lot of Latino music, and I listen to a lot of French music, whether it comes from France or Africa, and I listen to a lot of rocksteady — you know, fifties and sixties Jamaican music. I’ll mess with rhythms and try to come up with stuff that sounds almost more traditional in certain genres, and then keep playing it and try and get it into something that I’ll want to sing every night. The new record is kind of like Roy Orbison and Bob Dylan hanging out with chanson singers and French jazz bands in like the forties, but I was never trying to make it sound like a particular person. It was more like, ‘If it sounds too much like this person, I need to make it sound more like me.’” pokeylafarge.net
Members: $27 // Public: $30
Ever since his first release over a decade ago, Pokey LaFarge has been a difficult specimen to pin down, indeed– but we had such a great time with him in 2019, we've pinned him down to take the Payomet again stage on Wednesday, August 25.
Though he was raised on a healthy diet of blues, bluegrass, ragtime, Western swing and old-time country — and though he has consistently demonstrated a decided affinity for pre-1950s menswear — the Illinois native is by no means a throwback or a museum piece. Timelessness, and refined good taste, is LaFarge’s raison d’être, and his influences are as multi-hued and wide-ranging as the rhythms that buoy his starkly poetic songs — rhythms that are steeped in the very essence of jazz.
Musically, LaFarge continues to mix and match a wide variety of styles and traditions, while never losing track of his own vision. “I listen to a lot of Latino music, and I listen to a lot of French music, whether it comes from France or Africa, and I listen to a lot of rocksteady — you know, fifties and sixties Jamaican music. I’ll mess with rhythms and try to come up with stuff that sounds almost more traditional in certain genres, and then keep playing it and try and get it into something that I’ll want to sing every night. The new record is kind of like Roy Orbison and Bob Dylan hanging out with chanson singers and French jazz bands in like the forties, but I was never trying to make it sound like a particular person. It was more like, ‘If it sounds too much like this person, I need to make it sound more like me.’” pokeylafarge.net
Members: $27 // Public: $30
