BARRE — The Adam Ezra Group returns to the Barre Opera House on Saturday, April 12, 7:30 p.m.
Ezra began playing shows over 20 years ago. When music venues wouldn’t hire him, he played bars, bookstores, fields, and parking lots, often raising money for causes he cared about; a practice that grew into his nonprofit organization RallySound.
“We’d play five hours a night,” Adam reminisces, “more often than not, in danger of outnumbering the audiences we were playing for…”
Ezra says his fans increased “One person at a time, over many years and thousands of shows, decided to turn their heads to listen. One person at a time decided to share our music with folks they care about. That’s always been our story. It’s no fairytale, but it sure makes me proud and humbled when I look out from the stage to watch theaters full of people singing along to our music.”
These days Ezra and his bandmates, Corinna Smith (fiddle), Poche Ponce (bass) and Alex Martin (percussion), are on the road. His band and nonprofit organization RallySound host a free festival every summer that raised $143,000 for homeless veterans in 2023, and he live-streamed for 500 nights in a row during the pandemic.
Tickets may be purchased online at barreoperahouse.org or call the Barre Opera House at (802) 476-8188. The Opera House is located at 6 North Main St., and is handicapped accessible and equipped for the hearing impaired.
