Thursdays, July 11 – August 29, 2024 from 5:00 – 6:30 pm
CAM Courtyard, 27 Pleasant Street, Gloucester, MA
Free and open to all. Free admission to the Downtown Campus from 4:00 – 6:30 pm for Gloucester’s Culture Splash 

Enjoy free concerts in the Cape Ann Museum Courtyard on Thursdays between July 11 and August 29 from 5:00-6:30 pm. These weekly concerts are presented as part of the city-wide  Culture Splash, an event series where Gloucester’s two cultural districts, Rocky Neck Cultural District and Harbortown Cultural District, join forces to celebrate and promote the local vibrant cultural organizations, creative groups and individuals, galleries, artists and non-profits.  

The CAM Courtyard Concerts feature local and regional musicians from a wide variety of musical genres. The Museum will be open with free admission during Culture Splash from 4:00 – 6:30 pm. The concerts will be cancelled if there is rain. Limited outdoor seating will be provided by the Museum, come early to reserve your seat or bring your own lawn chair to ensure a spot! 

Families are invited to join the Museum for free family programming starting at 3:00 pm on Thursdays. Movement @ the Museum will be offered on July 11 and August 29 and Art & Sensory for Ages 3 – 10 will be offered every Thursday from July 19 – August 22. After the CAM Courtyard Concerts, follow the Culture Splash Gallery Stroll from the Museum’s galleries down Pleasant Street and across Main Street to enjoy Gloucester’s commercial galleries. These include, but are not limited to: Jane Deering Gallery, M / M Contemporary Art, Beth Williams Studio, Cindy Efinger, Matthew Swift, Charles Fine Arts, Amend / Bish Gallery, Local Colors, Jon Sarkin, and Jeff Weaver.

About the Music:

Surnames is the music project of Liam Anastasia-Murphy. After cutting his teeth on the indie folk scene of Richmond, Virginia, he moved back home to Massachusetts and started Surnames out of his bedroom in 2019. Surnames released two EPs in 2020 – falling squarely into jean jacket, Fender-guitar indie rock. Three new singles were released in 2022 that, while still remaining in the indie sphere, started to showcase a burgeoning fascination with electronic production and sampling. Anastasia-Murphy strives to write music that is honest in its feeling and poetic in its delivery.  His music has been streamed over a quarter of a million times across platforms, added to and featured on thousands of playlists (including Spotify’s “Fresh Finds Indie”), and used in a Netflix show.