Narrows Center for the arts celebrates all things music with March concerts, exhibit

FALL RIVER — The busy season continues at Narrows Center for the Arts.

March is full of concerts, and the Narrows is also celebrating music through art, with a unique exhibit of Grateful Dead posters.

Here's what's coming up at the Narrows, 16 Anawan St.:

Friday, March 3: Brennen Leigh, Kelly Willis, & Melissa Carper

• Kelly Willis, Brennen Leigh and Melissa Carper, all celebrated singer songwriters, have joined forces for a run of shows collaborating on a collection of each of their works, all for one amazing night of music.

Sunday, March 5: Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway

• One of the most compelling new voices in the roots music world, Molly Tuttle is a virtuoso multi-instrumentalist and singer/songwriter with a lifelong love of bluegrass. A Grammy award-winning guitarist and songwriter, native Californian Molly Tuttle continues to push her songwriting in new directions and transcend musical boundaries. Since moving to Nashville in 2015, she has worked with many of her peers and heroes in the Americana, folk, and bluegrass communities.

Thursday, March 9: Sierra Hull

• Sierra Hull’s positively stellar career started early. That is, if you consider a Grand Ole Opry debut at age 10, called back to the famed stage a year later to perform with her hero and mentor Alison Krauss to be early.  She played Carnegie Hall at 12; at 13 signed with Rounder Records and issued her debut, Secrets, and garnered the first of many nominations for Mandolin Player of the Year.  She played the Kennedy Center at 16 and the next year became the first bluegrass musician to receive a Presidential Scholarship at the Berklee College of Music.

Friday, March 10: Nervous Eaters & Mark Cutler and Men of Great Courage

• The Nervous Eaters are an original rock and roll band from Boston who helped define the Boston underground garage/punk rock scene of the late 70s. The band was formed by Steve Cataldo in Beverly. Fueled by the raw sounds of Link Wray, early Chicago Blues greats and British guitar legends Beck, Clapton and Page, the Nervous Eaters created a raw edgy song style uniquely their own.

Saturday, March 11: Sol y Canto and Fabiola Méndez

• Sol y Canto is the award-winning Pan-Latin ensemble led by Puerto Rican/Argentine singer and percussionist Rosi Amador and New Mexican guitarist and composer Brian Amador. Featuring Rosi’s crystalline voice and Brian’s lush Spanish guitar and inventive compositions, Sol y Canto is known for making their music accessible to Spanish- and non-Spanish speaking audiences of all ages.

Thursday, March 16: Sound Meditation with Gongs

• A multi-dimensional, multi-instrumental sound experience offering profound relaxation and relief. Gongs, singing bowls, drums, flutes and sacred song will wash over, around and through you for a blissful harmonic journey you will thank yourself for taking.

Saturday, March 18: Forever Young — A Tribute to Neil Young

• The Forever Young band is a group of performers that pay tribute to the songs of Neil Young. No one in the band tries to imitate Neil Young. There are five vocalists in the band and the songs are fronted by different members with added backing harmonies.

Friday, March 24: James McMurtry

• The son of one of America's most celebrated novelists, James McMurtry followed the family's tradition: he's a master storyteller who relates his tales in verse and music. Part of the Texas singer/songwriter community, McMurtry has a gift for character studies, documenting lives not in perfect balance, and offering political commentary on how the choices of the powerful impact the lives of ordinary folks.

Saturday, March 25: Ryan Montbleau Band

• Ryan Montbleau sings about more than just himself, mixing sly humor and deep revelations to craft a broad, insightful collection exploring the ties that bind all of us perfectly imperfect humans together. Hailed by NPR’s Mountain Stage for his “eloquent, soulful songwriting,” Montbleau first emerged from New England in the early 2000s, building his reputation on ecstatic live shows that balanced boisterous rock & roll energy with intimate folk introspection.

“Grateful Dead: The Vintage Posters, 1966-95”: Through March 31

• The Narrows Center and the Bahr Gallery present the largest exhibition of Grateful Dead posters ever exhibited. The Narrows is excited to share a walk back through time, displaying an array of original vintage posters used to advertise Grateful Dead concerts from back in the 1960s until the band’s final year in 1995.

The Narrows Center for the Arts is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. The Narrows exhibits visual artwork of every medium in two art galleries and houses a 430-seat concert space showcasing international, national and local performers of various musical genres.

For more information, visit: narrowscenter.org.

This article originally appeared on The Herald News: Here's what's happening in March at Narrows Center for the Arts