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Aug. 30 Darius Rucker at the Cape Cod Melody Tent in Hyannis. www.melodytent.org

Sept. 3 Bread and Roses Festival at Campagnone Common in
Lawrence. www.breadandroses
heritage.org

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Sept. 4 Boston Comedy Arts
Festival
opens at ImprovBoston and the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge. www.bostoncomedyarts.com

Sept. 7 John Pizzarelli Quartet at Bull Run Restaurant in Shirley. www.bullrunrestaurant.com

Sept. 13 Steve Vai at the Wilbur Theatre. www.thewilbur.com

Sept. 14 SpeakEasy Stage Company’s “The [Expletive] With the Hat” starts at the Calderwood Pavilion. www.bostontheatrescene.com

Sept. 15 Etheria Film Festival at Somerville Theatre. www.allthings
horrorpresents.ticketleap.com/
etheria-film-festival

Sept. 16 The Avett Brothers
(below) at the Bank of America
Pavilion. www.livenation.com

Kiss and Motley Crue at Comcast Center in Mansfield. www.live
nation.com

Sept. 19 Barrington Stage Company’s “Dr. Ruth, All the Way” opens at St. Germain Stage in Pittsfield. www.barringtonstageco.org

Sept. 20 “100 Steps to the Mediterranean” opens at Rose Art
Museum at Brandeis University in Waltham. www.brandeis.edu/rose

ArtsEmerson: The World on Stage’s “The Civilians’ Paris
Commune”
opens at the Paramount Center Mainstage. www.arts
emerson.org

JUNE WULFF