Category: news & updates

  • Album Review: Unbound

                  Music reviewer Bill Copeland has given a thorough and highly complementary review of Marina’s new album, Unbound (2013), in his music blog. Many thanks, Bill! Here are some excerpts: Many of her songs have a haunting quality, as if there is an underlying spirit driving them on… No…

  • Live Review: Marina Evans & Hillary Reynolds at Braintree Folk

        Opening act Marina Evans and headliner Hillary Reynolds and her band received an excellent review of their sold out concert at Braintree Folk on November 8, by music critic Jay Miller at the Patriot Ledger! An excerpt: Rockport’s Marina Evans opened with a 45-minute set of her own tunes, and she managed to…

  • Supporting Hillary Reynolds Band @ Braintree Folk

                        Saturday, November 8: Marina and Bernardo will be performing in acoustic duo in support of the incredible Hillary Reynolds Band at All Souls Parish Hall, hosted by Braintree Folk! The Hillary Reynolds Band “invites listeners into a transcendent folk experience. The quintet charms with campfire…

  • Two Lively Performers at Hingham Coffeehouse

        From WickedLocal Hingham, News from the Hingham Journal (Hingham, MA): For Hingham’s Coffeehouse off the Square show to open the Thanksgiving season, Marina Evans and our own Eric Eldering Cornetta will be playing. A new face and voice for us is the widely traveled Marina Evans. She combines strong, even sultry vocals, unusual…

  • Surprise Guest to Perform at Health Project Gala

        From the Gloucester Daily Times, October 14, 2014: The Gloucester-based North Shore Health Project is celebrating 25 years of serving Cape Ann residents infected with and affected by HIV, AIDS and hepatitis C with a gala and concert featuring a top secret musician. The event, which will be held Friday, Oct. 17, at…

  • North Shore Health Project Benefit Concert

            In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the North Shore Health Project, a leading agency for HIV and HCV support in Massachusetts, Rockport Music has put together a benefit concert at its gorgeous Shalin Liu Performance Center on October 17, 2014. And I am thrilled to be a part of it!…

  • Live at Boston GreenFest!

          The Boston GreenFest is a free festival in Boston’s City Hall Plaza dedicated to bringing together Boston’s many diverse communities in an effort to make life in this city healthy and sustainable for all. The fest includes interactive exhibits, workshops, and presentations on green, eco-friendly products, services, networks, and ideas, and will…

  • Opening for Loudon Wainwright III!

                  BIG NEWS, everybody: I am thrilled to be opening for folk legend Loudon Wainwright III on Sunday, July 27 at the gorgeous Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport, MA! With a stunning stage suspended over the waters of Sandy Bay, the Shalin Liu represents the leaps and bounds…

  • Marina Plays at the Vanilla Bean

    From the Worcester Telegram:             July 10, 2014 — There’s an appealing romanticism to Marina Evans’ “California,” a song in which the Golden State stands for some better future while the song’s persona stands amid the rubble. The sweet-voiced singer-songwriter brings a sort of wistfulness to the song that creates…

  • New Bedford Folk Festival

    I am so excited to return this year to the New Bedford Folk Festival in New Bedford, MA! On July 5 and 6, the beautiful historic downtown of New Bedford will host arts, crafts, and world renowned folk music on multiple stages. Featuring such folk legends as John Gorka, Chris Smither, Jonathan Edwards, and many,…