Lots of Local Music Happening in Barrington

I love music... local music... performed by local musicians.   I want to live in a place where there’s a thriving local music scene, where families come together and the kids play while the grownups break out their instruments and jam, where people are encouraged to get up on a local community stage to sing songs and play instruments they might only recently be rediscovering after years of neglect. 

A lot of local music is happening in Barrington.  Add in some poetry, dance, and storytelling, and you have a glimpse of what’s up over on the west side of town. 

There are kitchens in the Alfred Drowne and Bay Spring neighborhoods that are often loud with musicians.  The Bay Spring Community Center on  Narragansett Avenue has a stage where local performers can find support and encouragement.  A group of creatives meet regularly in the neighborhood near Haines Park to hatch plots about coffeehouse events and to write songs.  

Many people from other parts of town have tapped into this scene.  For newcomers, it often goes like this: talk about a local gig piques their interest.  They find their way to the Community Center on 170 Narragansett Ave.  They like what they find there.  So they join in.

Barrington is known for its great schools and for all of the fabulous children that grow up here.  But many people don’t know that this town is full of artists and creatives of all different stripes.  There are many many musicians, poets, writers, painters, dancers, and so on.  Some are accomplished and professional.  Others are amateurs who work day jobs and create because they love to.

If you want to be, in any way,  a part of this local creative energy, don’t be bashful!  Come to the next Local Brew Coffeehouse on May 21 at the Bay Spring Community Center (170 Narragansett Ave. in West Barrington).  Children from the Story Cafe class will tell their stories from 6:30 pm to 7 pm.  Grownups (storytellers and musicians) go from 7:00 to 9:30/10:00.  (www.bsccri.org)

We’re making this into the kind of town we always wanted to live in.  Join us!