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Never out of style
Mission of Burma, Bob Dylan, Fashion Exhibits at Lowell’s American Textile History Museum, plus more

The road to Burma

Energized, perhaps, by their last-second gig filling in for Sonic Youth at FleetBoston Pavilion last month, your friendly neighborhood post-punk legends Mission of Burma have announced a pair of New England gigs for the fall — neither of them in town. Tickets are on sale now for shows at Pearl Street in Northampton on October 3, and at Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel in Providence on October 4. Meanwhile, bassist Clint Conley is gearing up for this month’s release of Love and Affliction (Fenway Recordings), the second album by his group Consonant, who will play a release party at T.T. the Bear’s Place in Central Square on September 5. For Pearl Street tickets, call (800) THE-TICK; for Lupo’s tickets, call (617) 931-2000; and for T.T.’s tickets, call (617) 492-BEAR.

The road from Newport

Bob Dylan got a considerably better reception at the Newport Folk Festival last year than he did the previous time he showed up, but that didn’t mean he felt like coming back again this year. His absence doesn’t appear to be a matter of scheduling, either, since he’s got three solo dates in New England this month: Oakdale Theater (203-265-1501) in Wallingford, Connecticut, on Sunday August 17; the Pines Theatre (413-586-8686) in Northampton on Tuesday August 19; and the Meadowbrook Farm Musical Arts Center (603-293-4700) in Gilford, New Hampshire, on Thursday August 21. Meanwhile, another old Newport vet, Bob’s old gal pal Joan Baez, has announced an October 11 gig at Berklee Performance Center, 136 Massachusetts Avenue in Boston; call (617) 931-2000.

Chicks factor

Amarillo singer-songwriter Susan Gibson doesn’t have to worry about paying the bills anymore: she wrote "Wide Open Spaces," the chart-topping song from the Dixie Chicks’ album of the same name that made the Chicks a household name in country music. It wasn’t Gibson’s first brush with music — she’d been playing in a folk-pop band called the Groobies, whose final, post–"Wide Open Spaces" disc was produced by Lloyd Maines, the pedal-steel legend and father of Chick Natalie Maines. Now Gibson has struck out on her own, and her solo debut, a self-released affair titled Chin Up, brings her to Club Passim, 47 Palmer Street in Harvard Square, next Friday, August 15; call (617) 492-7679.

Runway madness

Lowell’s American Textile History Museum goes couture crazy next weekend with the unveiling of "Runway Madness!: The Fashion Photography of Lucian Perkins." In addition to some 60 images, dating from 1987 to 1998, by the Pulitzer-winning Washington Post shutterbug, the museum is also digging out "fashionable costumes" from its collection, presenting a juried exhibit of "Future Fashions," running runway footage on video screens, and offering a practical fall-fashion forecast. The exhibit, timed to coincide with NYC’s Fashion Week mayhem, opens next Saturday, August 16, and runs through January 4; Perkins himself will show up for a reception on September 20 at 8 p.m., for which tickets are $40. The museum is at 491 Dutton Street in Lowell, and regular admission is $6; call (978) 441-0400, or visit www.athm.org.


Issue Date: August 8 - August 14, 2003
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