Shemekia Copeland, Jackie Venson among headliners at The Narrows in June

FALL RIVER — It's another month full of music and creativity at The Narrows Center for the Arts, 16 Anawan St. From nationally acclaimed acts to local favorites, there is something for everyone to enjoy in the month of June.

Here's what's happening at The Narrows:

Sound Meditations with Gongs

Thursday, June 8

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

Shemekia Copeland

Saturday, June 10

• Award-winning blues, soul and Americana singer Shemekia Copeland possesses one of the most instantly recognizable and deeply soulful roots music voices of our time. She is beloved worldwide for the fearlessness, honesty and humor of her revelatory music, as well as for delivering each song she performs with unmatched passion. Copeland — winner of the 2021 Blues Music Award for B.B. King Entertainer Of The Year — connects with her audience on an intensely personal level, taking them with her on what The Wall Street Journal calls “a consequential ride” of “bold and timely blues.”

Jackie Venson

Thursday, June 15

• Jackie Venson is a multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter known far and wide for her complexly beautiful music and blazing guitar skills. Born and raised in Austin, Texas, Venson has traveled the world playing to massive crowds both as a headliner and as support for major acts such as Gary Clark Jr, Melissa Etheridge, Aloe Blacc, Citizen Cope to name a few.

Abigail Washburn & Wu Fei

Friday, June 16

• Wu Fei and Abigail Washburn's duo project is as unlikely, perhaps, as it was inevitable — a manifest sonic consequence of politics and vibrations commingling across continents. There is a directness in the musical duo format that makes it such a good vehicle for melodic conversations between close friends who obviously listen to each other with an athletic respect matched by their respective virtuosity.

Jorma Kaukonen

Thursday, June 22

• In a career that has already spanned a half-century, Jorma Kaukonen has been the leading practitioner and teacher of fingerstyle guitar, one of the most highly respected interpreters of American roots music, blues, and Americana, and at the forefront of popular rock-and-roll. He was a founding member of two legendary bands, The Jefferson Airplane and the still-touring Hot Tuna, a Grammy nominee and a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Dayna Kurtz w/Robert Mache

Friday, June 23

• Over the past decade, the New Jersey born, now New Orleans (and seasonal Vermont) resident vocalist/writer/musician/producer Dayna Kurtz has been bestowed with many awards and praises, including being named the Female Songwriter of the Year by the National Academy of Songwriters. She's toured and opened for the likes of Elvis Costello, Richard Thompson, Mavis Staples, Rufus Wainwright, B.B. King, Dr. John, Richie Havens, Keren Ann, Chris Whitley, and the Blind Boys of Alabama.

Jimmie Vaughan and the Tilt-A-Whirl Band

Saturday, June 24

• In true Texas fashion, four-time Grammy-winner Jimmie Vaughan has helped breathe new life into the music that has been his lifeline all these decades, becoming a hero to those who cherish America's real gift to musical history.

Eddie 9V

Thursday, June 29

• As far back as he can remember, Capricorn Studios was calling Eddie 9V. As a kid scanning the sleeves of his favorite vinyl records, this fabled facility in Macon, Georgia, was always the secret ingredient, adding a little grit and honey to every song born on its floor. Capricorn and the bands who blew through it urged the Atlanta guitarist to ditch school at 15, play his fingers bloody throughout the south, and turn apathy into acclaim for early albums “Left My Soul” in Memphis (2019) and “Little Black Flies” (2021.)

Eilen Jewell

Friday, June 30

• Hailed by American Songwriter as “one of America’s most intriguing, creative, and idiosyncratic voices,” Eilen Jewell rises from the ashes on her captivating new album, Get Behind The Wheel, picking up the pieces of her shattered world and finding new purpose and meaning after watching her marriage, her band, and what felt like her entire career fall apart in a series of spectacular, heartbreaking implosions.

“Remedy: How we Feel” 

June 10 to July 14

• A three-person group show of artists who are linked together by their interpretations of how art can be a healing force for the self as well as individual viewers, communities, and the planet.

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. Offering arts educational programming, local school tours, artist studio spaces and free festivals for the community, the Narrows presents an ever-growing access and fellowship in the arts.

For more information, visit narrowscenter.org.

This article originally appeared on The Herald News: Narrows Center June 2023 concerts Shemekia Copeland Jackie Venson