WAYLAND CONCERT, SATURDAY, JUNE 28TH, WAYLAND TOWN BUILDING
With the support of the Massachusetts Cultural Council, National Parks Service, Appalachian Mountain Club and Bay Circuit Trail Alliance, local musicians Mark Mandeville and Raianne Richards will once again traverse Massachusetts on foot for their 5th Annual Massachusetts Walking Tour. This troupe of artists, including Berklee alumni Amy Alvey and Mark Kilianski, will be performing free community concerts in towns throughout the state, promoting community-based cultural organizations and local support for the arts.
This year’s walk is scheduled from Tuesday June 17 through Thursday July 3 and will utilize the Bay Circuit Trail. Towns along the trail slated for MWT performances include Newbury, Rowley, Boxford, N. Andover, Andover, Lowell, Acton, Concord, Lincoln, Wayland, Framingham, Hanson, and Kingston.
Each of this year’s concerts will feature the songs of Mandeville, Richards, Alvey and Kilianski with arrangements on guitar, banjo, harmonica, tin whistle, ukulele and fiddle accompanied by a brief talk on the philosophy behind the Walking Tour. Events will also feature performances by local musicians/artists from these towns.
The Massachusetts Walking Tour sets forth on a grass roots level to organize local artists together with community based-organizations such as land conservation groups, food share programs, and local cultural councils statewide – these concerts are conducted in outright support for community-based arts events sponsored on the local level.
Musical performers will include:
Mark Mandeville, Raianne Richards, Berklee alum Amy Alvey and Mark Kilianski, in addition to performances by local musicians/artists from the Wayland area
Quote from local Bay Circuit Alliance Member :
“Welcome to Wayland. About 20% of Wayland’s area has been secured as open space, including the Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge surrounding the Sudbury River, town-owned conservation land, and land owned by the Sudbury Valley Trustees. There are 16 major town owned conservation areas totaling 739 acres and the Bay Circuit trail crosses several of these areas. From the town of Lincoln on the North, the trail visits the new Oxbow Meadows, Trout Brook, Sedge Meadows, Cow Common and Heard Farm Conservation Areas before passing into the town of Sudbury near Heard Pond. The center of town (between Cow Common and Heard Farm on the trail) where the concert will take place, is in an historical district and the town just finished celebrating its 375th anniversary.” — Betty Salzberg
While you’re in the area, be sure to check out some of the other “jewels” of the Wayland area:
- Cow Common offers several loop trails thru hay fields and good birdwatching
- 3 miles of loop trails thru diverse habitats, brook, ponds, and glacial formations at Upper Mill Brook
- Good wildlife viewing at Sedge Meadow, active and fallow farm fields and woodlands
If you have questions about the event or the tour in general, please contact either: outreach@baycircuit.org or ksykes@outdoors.org
To access the trail description click here: http://www.baycircuit.org/pdf/section7.pdf
To access a map of the trail click here: http://www.baycircuit.org/pdf/Map7.pdf
About the Bay Circuit Alliance. Since its founding in 1990, the Bay Circuit Alliance (BCA) has served as the catalyst to make the Bay Circuit dream come true. More than 230 miles of multi-use, passive recreational trail have now been dedicated, thanks to the contributions of hundreds of volunteers in 34 cooperating towns. The Alliance is a partnership of organizations and individuals, public and private, working to complete the Bay Circuit Trail and Greenway. BCA’s membership consists of six regional, four statewide, and more than 30 local member organizations, plus many interested individuals.
About the Massachusetts Walking Tour. Since 2010, co-founders Mark Mandeville & Raianne Richards have organized an annual non-profit bipedal concert tour of Massachusetts in support of arts and culture for towns throughout the state. Each free community concert collaborates with local artists, musicians, educational programs, trail managers and land trust groups to highlight both artistic diversity and recreational land use. With each visit, a community has pulled together and taken part in a dialogue which serves to strengthen local investment in the arts.
