Live Blues & Roots Music Returns to Harvard Square: Wednesday Nights @ The Sea Hag Restaurant & Bar
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The Sea Hag Restaurant & Bar and The Barrett Anderson Band are excited to announce a new weekly series, Blues & Roots Wednesdays , bringing live music back home to historic Harvard Square. “Cambridge, our fair city, and I share deep roots, and I’m thrilled to find a new musical home at The Sea Hag,” says Massachusetts-based singer/guitarist, Barrett Anderson. “Good music and good food are two of our most basic, fundamental needs,” he continues, “What great joy they give us. I am so happy to revel in that every Wednesday night with my dearest musical friends, and Kari and her incredible team at The Sea Hag. We go way back together, and I can’t imagine all the fun we have ahead.” Indeed, Anderson has strong connections to this scene. He remembers: “My first professional experience came when I was 15, backing up Muddy Waters’ band alums Pinetop Perkins and Bob Margolin at the original House of Blues on Winthrop Street. A few months after that I began busking, you’d often find me in Brattle Square or by the pit. This would have been mid/late 90s.” While still a teen, Anderson was a member of The Monster Mike Welch Band and Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters (“Ronnie was my guitar hero. Then he was my teacher, then my boss. Now he’s my musical Father,” Anderson says), before eventually starting The Barrett Anderson Band in 2007. Anderson won a Boston Music Award (2013 Blues Artist of the Year), was on the Billboard charts (2020’s live album Hynoboogie spent 3 weeks on the Billboard Bl
