My new cover duo with Shelley Hines....we'll be playing all your favorite songs!

With Mama's Marmalade and Emma June!  Benefit for TheatreTruck!

Deer Paths Nature School presents a home-made musical, Great to Be an Eagle!  I play the music!

Original musical with Piti Theater, featuring the 3rd grade....I play the songs!

Awards banquet with my duo, 2TheMoon

Original musical with Piti Theatre, featuring the 3rd grade...I play the songs!

I'm honored to be a part of this benefit concert for the ACLU.  Also on the line up:  Pamela Means, The Nields, The Winter Pills.

This is a dinner show at the lovely Deja Brew in Wendell, MA.  Shelley Hines and I play familiar cover tunes:  Joni Mitchell, Carol King, The Weepies, Annie Lennox, Carly Simon and others, plus a few originals thrown in.

This year's headliner is two time Grammy winner Bill Harley who will be performing his own set and narrating stories performed by Piti's Shelburne Falls Youth Troupe at 4 pm. 

Get in the mood for Bill's mix of hilarity and heart with Piti Theatre's world premiere of Sammy and the Grand Buffet, a solo physical-international comedy featuring Jonathan Mirin as Sammy, an American clown in Paris at 2 pm. Plus musician-in-residence Carrie Ferguson's "Praise to Spring" featuring choreography by Godeliève Richard and Ballet Renversé at 4 pm to lead off Bill's set. 
Extended Intermission includes free Real Pickles, syrup tasting, a raffle (GRAND PRIZE: RED SOX TIX:) and sweet discounts around the Village.

  I am proud to be a member of the Wendell Full Moon Coffee House booking committee!  This March 11 event is a Variety Show featuring a smorgasbord of performers who are members of the committee and also talented performers in their own right.  This is always a very entertaining, eclectic, and moving evening.  Plus, as always, WFMCH has the best bake sale in the world!

This is a dinner show at the lovely Deja Brew in Wendell, MA.  Shelley Hines and I play familiar cover tunes:  Joni Mitchell, Carol King, The Weepies, Annie Lennox, Carly Simon and others, plus a few originals thrown in.

I'm playing keys in the band for the Rock Voices January 2017 shows.  come see a massive choir of 180 + voices sing a bunch of your favorite rock and pop songs!

Here's a bit about the choir:

WHAT: It’s like karaoke, but better: a rock band with lots of singers!

WHEN: Weekly rehearsals for a few months, then a concert or two.

WHO: Anyone, any ability, any age (18+).  No Auditions.

WHY: Because you need music in your life.

Our mission is simple: to help everyday people find their voices. Can’t read music? No problem. Recordings are provided for you to learn at your own pace; sheet music is loaned out and returned at the end of the season. Scared of not being good enough? Don’t be. This choir is full of people just like you! People who want to sing, and lack only the safe & supportive environment to try it out. This is what you’ve been looking for. You’ll make new friends, learn something about using your voice, and sing the music you love with a roomful of kindred spirits. What are you waiting for?

I'm playing keys in the band for the Rock Voices January 2017 shows.  come see a massive choir of 180 + voices sing a bunch of your favorite rock and pop songs!

Here's a bit about the choir:

WHAT: It’s like karaoke, but better: a rock band with lots of singers!

WHEN: Weekly rehearsals for a few months, then a concert or two.

WHO: Anyone, any ability, any age (18+).  No Auditions.

WHY: Because you need music in your life.

Our mission is simple: to help everyday people find their voices. Can’t read music? No problem. Recordings are provided for you to learn at your own pace; sheet music is loaned out and returned at the end of the season. Scared of not being good enough? Don’t be. This choir is full of people just like you! People who want to sing, and lack only the safe & supportive environment to try it out. This is what you’ve been looking for. You’ll make new friends, learn something about using your voice, and sing the music you love with a roomful of kindred spirits. What are you waiting for?

I'm playing keys in the band for the Rock Voices January 2017 shows.  come see a massive choir of 180 + voices sing a bunch of your favorite rock and pop songs!

Here's a bit about the choir:

WHAT: It’s like karaoke, but better: a rock band with lots of singers!

WHEN: Weekly rehearsals for a few months, then a concert or two.

WHO: Anyone, any ability, any age (18+).  No Auditions.

WHY: Because you need music in your life.

Our mission is simple: to help everyday people find their voices. Can’t read music? No problem. Recordings are provided for you to learn at your own pace; sheet music is loaned out and returned at the end of the season. Scared of not being good enough? Don’t be. This choir is full of people just like you! People who want to sing, and lack only the safe & supportive environment to try it out. This is what you’ve been looking for. You’ll make new friends, learn something about using your voice, and sing the music you love with a roomful of kindred spirits. What are you waiting for?

I'm playing Contra music with Garrett Sawyer and Susan Conger in this amazing show:

TheatreTruck and The Swift River Valley Historical Society present THE WATER PROJECT (IMMERSIVE), created by Emma Ayres, Directed by Emma Ayres and Brianna Sloane. 

Performances September 22-24 at 6:30 and 8:30pm 

at The Swift River Valley Historical Society, 40 Elm Street in the village of North New Salem, just west of Rt. 202.

Tickets $20 in advance ($15 students with i.d. and seniors) or $25 cash only at the door ($20 students with i.d. and seniors). 

The show is 90 minutes long with no intermission.

"Newspaper headlines read: 4 towns flooded, 2,500 people relocated, houses moved on the backs of trucks, 7,500 graves dug up and reburied on higher ground, memories drowned, and little know..."

TheatreTruck Collaborator Emma Ayres has created a truly unique experience: live theater joins forces with the Pioneer Valley's thriving independent music scene in this original immersive production. Audiences will navigate a house of memory to the sound of live music. 

Immerse yourself in the currents of time in this story of the flooding of the Quabbin Reservoir. The water is rising.

THE WATER PROJECT (IMMERSIVE) submerges the audience in the final week of the decision making-process: to flood or not to flood the Swift River Valley in service of providing clean water to rapidly growing Boston. The audience is invited to explore the story unfolding around them in this theatrical journey. Faced with imminent flooding, the Doubleday family confronts the end of life and home as they know it, while anxiety rises and rumors walk the halls.

This site-specific performance, featuring fourteen local actors and four bands, (including Amber Wolfe, Wishbone Zoe and Mammas Marmalade, and Garret Sawyer of Gaslight Tinkers), takes place in the buildings and grounds of The Swift River Valley Historical Society (SRVHS), a museum complex filled with memorabilia from the towns of Dana, Enfield, Greenwich and Prescott, telling us stories of life in the Swift River Valley before the Quabbin.

TheatreTruck is a Collaborative of multidisciplinary artists crafting mobile and site-specific performance, sustainably and playfully. www.theTheatreTruck.com


This production is made possible through the generous support of the Orange, Amherst, Shutesbury, Wendell, New Salem and Pelham Cultural Councils.

I'm playing Contra music with Garrett Sawyer and Susan Conger in this amazing show:

TheatreTruck and The Swift River Valley Historical Society present THE WATER PROJECT (IMMERSIVE), created by Emma Ayres, Directed by Emma Ayres and Brianna Sloane. 

Performances September 22-24 at 6:30 and 8:30pm 

at The Swift River Valley Historical Society, 40 Elm Street in the village of North New Salem, just west of Rt. 202.

Tickets $20 in advance ($15 students with i.d. and seniors) or $25 cash only at the door ($20 students with i.d. and seniors). 

The show is 90 minutes long with no intermission.

"Newspaper headlines read: 4 towns flooded, 2,500 people relocated, houses moved on the backs of trucks, 7,500 graves dug up and reburied on higher ground, memories drowned, and little know..."

TheatreTruck Collaborator Emma Ayres has created a truly unique experience: live theater joins forces with the Pioneer Valley's thriving independent music scene in this original immersive production. Audiences will navigate a house of memory to the sound of live music. 

Immerse yourself in the currents of time in this story of the flooding of the Quabbin Reservoir. The water is rising.

THE WATER PROJECT (IMMERSIVE) submerges the audience in the final week of the decision making-process: to flood or not to flood the Swift River Valley in service of providing clean water to rapidly growing Boston. The audience is invited to explore the story unfolding around them in this theatrical journey. Faced with imminent flooding, the Doubleday family confronts the end of life and home as they know it, while anxiety rises and rumors walk the halls.

This site-specific performance, featuring fourteen local actors and four bands, (including Amber Wolfe, Wishbone Zoe and Mammas Marmalade, and Garret Sawyer of Gaslight Tinkers), takes place in the buildings and grounds of The Swift River Valley Historical Society (SRVHS), a museum complex filled with memorabilia from the towns of Dana, Enfield, Greenwich and Prescott, telling us stories of life in the Swift River Valley before the Quabbin.

TheatreTruck is a Collaborative of multidisciplinary artists crafting mobile and site-specific performance, sustainably and playfully. www.theTheatreTruck.com


This production is made possible through the generous support of the Orange, Amherst, Shutesbury, Wendell, New Salem and Pelham Cultural Councils.

I'm playing Contra music with Garrett Sawyer and Susan Conger in this amazing show:

TheatreTruck and The Swift River Valley Historical Society present THE WATER PROJECT (IMMERSIVE), created by Emma Ayres, Directed by Emma Ayres and Brianna Sloane. 

Performances September 22-24 at 6:30 and 8:30pm 

at The Swift River Valley Historical Society, 40 Elm Street in the village of North New Salem, just west of Rt. 202.

Tickets $20 in advance ($15 students with i.d. and seniors) or $25 cash only at the door ($20 students with i.d. and seniors). 

The show is 90 minutes long with no intermission.

"Newspaper headlines read: 4 towns flooded, 2,500 people relocated, houses moved on the backs of trucks, 7,500 graves dug up and reburied on higher ground, memories drowned, and little know..."

TheatreTruck Collaborator Emma Ayres has created a truly unique experience: live theater joins forces with the Pioneer Valley's thriving independent music scene in this original immersive production. Audiences will navigate a house of memory to the sound of live music. 

Immerse yourself in the currents of time in this story of the flooding of the Quabbin Reservoir. The water is rising.

THE WATER PROJECT (IMMERSIVE) submerges the audience in the final week of the decision making-process: to flood or not to flood the Swift River Valley in service of providing clean water to rapidly growing Boston. The audience is invited to explore the story unfolding around them in this theatrical journey. Faced with imminent flooding, the Doubleday family confronts the end of life and home as they know it, while anxiety rises and rumors walk the halls.

This site-specific performance, featuring fourteen local actors and four bands, (including Amber Wolfe, Wishbone Zoe and Mammas Marmalade, and Garret Sawyer of Gaslight Tinkers), takes place in the buildings and grounds of The Swift River Valley Historical Society (SRVHS), a museum complex filled with memorabilia from the towns of Dana, Enfield, Greenwich and Prescott, telling us stories of life in the Swift River Valley before the Quabbin.

TheatreTruck is a Collaborative of multidisciplinary artists crafting mobile and site-specific performance, sustainably and playfully. www.theTheatreTruck.com


This production is made possible through the generous support of the Orange, Amherst, Shutesbury, Wendell, New Salem and Pelham Cultural Councils.

Come check out the Red Band!  Red Band is a collaboration with Garrett Sawyer and his daughter, Ajika, on bass.  Fun mix of tunes from waltzes to pop.  Fun!

I'll be playing keys with vocalist Shelley Hines for an afternoon of eclectic favorites at the legendary Deja Brew Pub in Wendell, MA.

Potluck at 1 pm!  

For location and more info, email:  barbara.getsinger@gmail.com

Performing with Piti Theatre in our show about Colraine history, Olde Coleraine

Triple bill with the FABULOUS Heather Pierson Trio from Conway, New Hampshire  ( www.heatherpierson.com)

and The Woman's Songwriting Collective from the Western MA.

• Jill Sobule is a Denver-born singer, songwriter, storyteller, guitarist and gypsy. Over eight  albums and nearly two decades of recording, Jill has mused on topics such as the death penalty, anorexia, shoplifting, reproduction, the French resistance movement, adolescence and the Christian right. Her recording career began in 1990 with her debut album "Things Here are Different," recorded by Todd Rundgren. Her 1995 self-titled album, Jill Sobule, yielded the hit songs "I Kissed A Girl (the original)" and "Supermodel." Jill remains a prolific, and diverse, writer and performer.  On her latest studio release,  “Dottie’s Charms," she collaborates with 11 of her favorite authors, including  Rick Moody, David Hajdu and Jonathan Lethem.  She tasked each to write a song based on a charm from a bracelet Jill purchased on Ebay.   Jill then put the words to music.   Jill’s idea was to  bring the bracelet’s previous owner, “Dottie,” to life by imagining the importance of each charm to her life.

I'm excited to have been chosen as one of five finalists for this songwriting competition at the CT Folk Festival!

Please save the date!   Date to be confirmed shortly!

Super fun to be playing keyboards with the Valley Rock Choir.  This show's theme is "California Summer" and features songs by The Monkees, Jefferson Airplane, Mamas and Papas and more!

I'm thrilled to be playing keyboards with The Valley Rock Choir this summer.  This show's theme is "California Summer" and features songs by Steely Dan, Captain and Tennille, The Grateful Dead, the Beach Boys, and more.

World premiere of INNOCENZO, the musical play I'm doing with Piti Theatre.  www.ptco.org

My song, The Grumpy Time Club (co-written with Garrett and Samara Sawyer) is receiving the Silver Award in the children's music category!

Full band show!  Buy First Night Buttons at www.nohoarts.com

Neutral's Not Enough, Rm #1409, 11:45 PM

Pie and Whiskey, Rm #1521, 1:30 AM

People's Music Network, Rm #1305, Juried Showcase, 12 AM

The Ladies' Room, Rm # 1502, 12:30 AM - 1:15 AM

Pie and Whiskey Rm # 1521, "Cover Your Friends", 11:30 PM - 12:2- PM

Cup of Joe Rm #1318, 1:20 AM

I was chosen to be one of 10 finalists at this year's Solar Fest Songwriting Contest!  Yippee!

Arjuna Greist opens!

With the amazing Bernice Lewis!

I get to be the guest this week on Mary Wheelan's fabulous show about songwriters and their songs. It tapes May 6th and will be aired some time the following week.

The Valley Women Songwriter's Collective is hosting this cool series in March.  I'll be playing with Wishbone Zoe and other folks on March 8.

I'm really excited to do this show with my buddy, Heather Pierson.  She is an incredible piano player and an award-winning songwriter...with a beautiful voice as well.  The whole package!

CD Release party for The List Of Whales!  Chris Scanlon and the Other Guys open!
 

Doors open at 5:30 pm show starts at 7 pm
 
Tickets can be purchased ahead of time  (skip the transaction fees!) from Carrie (carrie@carriefergusonmusic.com)

Tickets can also be purchased by calling The Northampton Box Office: 413/586-8686

M-Sa 9-6 Su 12-5
 

Check out the fabulous June And The Bee!  www.facebook.com/pages/June-the-Bee/142217149143529

I'll be performing "To Bee Or Not To Bee" with Piti Theater in the morning, and then performing with my band in the afternoon.  Times TBA

Check out the amazing Heather Pierson!  Seriously. www.heatherpierson.com

Check out the fabulous June And The Bee!  www.facebook.com/pages/June-the-Bee/142217149143529

The Bee show!

To read a review, click here. 

I am lucky to be part of this wonderful show with Piti Theater, designed specifically for kids, but also all ages, about Colony Collapse Disorder in Bee Hives.  Sounds like a grim subject, but the show is fun and inspiring, employing clowning, puppetry with music performed and written by me (I collaborated on the lyrics with artistic director Jonathan Mirrin).

For a review of this show, click here.

I'm playing keys with my buddy Chris and his band!

I am lucky to be part of this wonderful show with Piti Theater, designed specifically for kids, but also all ages, about Colony Collapse Disorder in Bee Hives.  Sounds like a grim subject, but the show is fun and inspiring, employing clowning, puppetry with music performed and written by me (I collaborated on the lyrics with artistic director Jonathan Mirrin).

For a review of the show, click here.

We will be playing at Lyman Hall, at Smith.

We will be recording this show.  

Kids welcome!

This is Boston's bi-monthly Queer Dance Party and live music showcase, run by Kristen Ford.  Lots of great stuff happening!  

Holiday bake sale, and free light refreshments.  Proceeds will be split between the UMC World Mission and the church's music program.

Don't miss this show!  I get to play with this FANTASTIC new band, Wishbone Zoe, fronted by Saera Kochanski:   rusty-dusky, gypsy-tinged, circus-flavored, BEAUTIFUL original music.  You must come hear for yourself!

I am so excited and honored to have been invited to this year's Labor Day Campfire Festival at Club Passim!  It is a weekend filled with musical collaboration with bands and songwriters performing sets in the round.  For more info. check out www.clubpassim.org

I'll be doing a (mostly) solo show, joined by the Jennifer Greer band from Boston

Also featuring Bill Buyer, Chris Lewis, Jim Berry!

This is going to be an amazing show!  

Girls In Trouble are our friends from NYC....they're celebrating the release of their new CD on JDub Records, Half You Half Me.  They play Jewish-flavored "art-folk"- this album is based on stories about female characters in the Torah.

Check them out at: www.myspace.c/girlsintroublemusic

We're renting out the wonderful Dynamite Space below Thornes Market in Northampton and throwing a great party!  

This will be a solo show.  All ages welcome!

This is an anuual massive, all night, multi-band party at the Positronic Design Headquarters in Holyoke, MA.