Being Petty – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers EXPERIENCE

Firehouse Center for the Arts Market Square, Newburyport, MA

What would it be like if Tom Petty was still with us, performing with the Heartbreakers to this day? Now the fantasy comes to life, with Being Petty – the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Experience. In early 2021, Bruce Hilton and Larry Ladrie embarked on a mission to create the ultimate Tom Petty tribute […]

An Evening with Chris Smither

Firehouse Center for the Arts Market Square, Newburyport, MA

Born in Miami, during World War II, Chris Smither grew up in New Orleans where he first started playing music as a child. The son of a Tulane University professor, he was taught the rudiments of instrumentation by his uncle on his mother’s ukulele. “Uncle Howard,” Smither says, “showed me that if you knew three […]