Please note: Many Artists will be offering their CD’s and Merchandise for sale and we invite you to take home the music and products of your favorite performers..

Local Artists Showcase: On Saturday and Sunday afternoons beginning at noon, the Performing Arts Committee features local artists on the big stage at Crocker Park. We encourage you to stop by and support these artists.

Orakular is Tyler Beck on lead guitar, Tyler Pedersen on lead vocals and drums, and Ben Webber on rhythm guitar. They are all from Marblehead and completing their sophomore year. Together for three years, Orakular has rocked the concert stage and been a part of various fundraising events on the North Shore.

SPANG is four musicians from Marblehead High: Ben Barber, vocals, bass; Jake Corcoran, vocals, drums; Bridger Trap, vocals, electric guitar; and Dylan Welch, lead vocals, keyboard, acoustic guitar. They write and perform their own original material, crafting melodic, indie-flavored, power pop peppered with vocal harmonies. SPANG performs at venues in the Boston area and has been featured in the Berklee College of Music Battle of the Bands, the Natick Center for the Arts Rock Showdown, and Children’s Hospital Boston's Notes for the Cure concert, a fundraiser for pediatric cancer research.

Formed in 2007, Jessica Prouty Band has honed its sound with help from super producer Brian Maes, and has mastered its stage performance by relentlessly touring from Maine to Connecticut, becoming one of the top local acts in the region. At the beginning, it was a good band of teens playing rock 'n’ roll. Now they’re an incredibly tight unit just killing it show after show. Battle of the Bands and multi-award winners, Jessica Prouty on vocals and bass, Cam Pelkey on drums, Cody Nilsen on guitar and vocals, along with Andy Covino on keys, delivered their first CD, Saving My Sanity, in July, 2008; and they have just released their new, highly acclaimed, five track CD, Time to Escape, and Time to Escape Video, from The John Lennon Tour Bus. Don't miss this return MFoA performance from a band absolutely on top of its game!

The Gravel Project plays to packed rooms across the region, electrifying crowds with both inventive original songs and creative interpretations of well known classics. With the release of More Ways Than One, the Boston based band’s first full-length album, The Gravel Project has taken great strides to further define and solidify its musical style. The Gravel Project is guitarist/singer/songwriter Andrew Gravel; Nikko Patten, drums; Zach Jagentenfl, bass; and Josh Fobare, keyboard.

After having studied piano and percussions at a Parisian conservatory, Violette de Bartillat started singing at the age of fifteen. Armed with a solid vocal technique gained by the study of the classical repertoire, she soon felt a need for a greater freedom of expression. One year later, she fell under the spell of the Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong duo recordings, which awakened her taste for Jazz.

A chance encounter with pianist and artistic director Laurence Apithy would then mark a crucial turning point in Violette’s career, when she first started training as a professional artist. This privileged apprenticeship, spiritual as well as musical, encouraged her to explore the diversity of Afro-American music. She soon formed her own band and started developing her own Jazz Soul infused sound while performing throughout French & European venues

In 2007, after graduating in Liberal Arts and encouraged by renowned French violinist Didier Lockwood, she decided to fully embrace her passion. Violette relocated to Boston to enroll in the prestigious Berklee College of Music where she studied arranging, songwriting and performance. She soon started writing and performing her own songs, releasing her first album, Innervoice, in 2009.

Currently living in the US, Violette has delivered her inspiring new release, Joie de Vivre, and is performing internationally. Past appearances include venues in Paris, Senegal, Boston, New York, Prague and Dubaï. At the age of 23, Violette sings thus her passion for the Afro-American music and culture. Her warm and inviting voice, tinged with the diverse influences of jazz, blues, soul & gospel, immerses you in the heart of a genuine emotional experience. Tonight Violette performs with her band which includes Ami Nakazono on saxophone, Yasser Tejeda on electric guitar, Enrico de Trizio on piano and keyboards, Sam Jun C Lee on bass, and Jun Nishijima on drums. Unique talent, unforgettable voice, beauty and grace…Violette

Machine 475 brings its truly unique sound to Crocker Park incorporating electronic beats, guitar, vocals, harp, sitar, violin, theremin, didgeridoo, keytar, vocoder, and percussion. Machine 475 live shows incorporate music and video (where feasible), in styles ranging from dance to ambient, from rock to cinematic soundscape. Formed in 2006 by Richard Lewis and James Forrest, this Salem based music collaborative has recently released its second full length album, Sinking Fast. In addition to Lewis, the mastermind and professor, on theremin and vocoder, and Forrest on guitar, moog synth, melodica, cowbell, and code, the band features Olga Kouznetsova on violin, harpist Emily Lewis, Danielle Meara on sitar, Spira Politis on vocals, and Matt Natti on didgeridoo and percussion.  Machine 475's unique blend of programming and live improvisation creates a stew of old and new, hypnotic and melodic, mesmerizing and magical which is creating a growing fan base with each performance.