Connor Garvey & Ben Cosgrove — Together in Concert

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@ Doors open an hour before showtime. ADVANCE PURCHASE: $20 (+ fees) DAY OF SHOW: $25 (+ fees) All surcharges and member discounts will be calculated at checkout. Click Here to learn how our ticket surcharge supports OLS. Two distinctive New England musicians, two very different musical voices, and a shared love of great songs, stories, and the spaces between them. Award-winning Portland, Maine singer-songwriter Connor Garvey and acclaimed pianist/composer Ben Cosgrove have been making music together for years, bringing an unusually dynamic combination of Garvey’s rhythmic, soulful songwriting and Cosgrove’s richly textured, landscape-inspired piano work to stages throughout New England and beyond. Their collaboration has included concerts in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, Colorado, and beyond, with notable appearances together at venues including One Longfellow Square in Portland, The Word Barn in Exeter, and Stone Cottage Studios in Boulder. They have also shared the stage at festivals and special events, including Connor’s Great Northeast Folk Festival in Portland. Their musical partnership has grown from individual appearances into a genuine creative collaboration, with Cosgrove performing and recording with Garvey and becoming part of the larger musical world surrounding Garvey’s albums and live shows. In concert, the pairing offers something more than two artists taking turns onstage. Garvey’s intimate, humorous, deeply human songs provide the narrative center, while Cosgrove’s inventive piano playing adds color, movement, atmosphere, and surprise. The result is a show that can move effortlessly from quiet reflection to rhythmic energy, with plenty of conversation, spontaneity, and musical interplay along the way. Connor Garvey & Ben Cosgrove bring years of friendship, collaboration, and shared stages to every performance—a meeting of songwriter and composer that feels both carefully crafted and completely in the moment Connor…

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