THE POLYPHONIC SPREE

The Polyphonic Spree and Boston University’s Marsh Chapel. This was a match made in heaven both visually (the robes!) and for the amount of space needed to facilitate the sometimes-20-member rock group.

The Polyphonic Spree and Boston University’s Marsh Chapel. This was a match made in heaven both visually (the robes!) and for the amount of space needed to facilitate the sometimes-20-member rock group.


Take a late-night walk through Boston’s music underground—into Jamaica Plain’s DIY venue, the “House That CD-Rs Built” or pass by some dark unnamed basement filled with 20-somethings in Somerville—and you’ll hear, echoing into the street, the long influence of Thalia Zedek.

Ask Forbes Graham about how he describes his music and you’ll know right away, he wasn’t born to do PR.

The huge vaulted brick room of Boston’s Waterworks Museum is filled with twisting pipes, over-sized valves and the giant flywheel of pumps stilled since the plant went off line in the 1970s.

Walking into the American Folk Arts room at the Museum of Fine Arts, one can’t help but feel the ghosts that occupy this space.