Rees Shad
Sat, Jul 26
|Cadenza
Singer/Songwriter- $25 in Advance | $30 at the Door. Student rate $12. The show will also be livestreamed from Cadenza's Facebook page. Contributions to the artist are encouraged.
Time & Location
Jul 26, 2025, 7:00 PM
Cadenza, 5 Depot St, Freeport, ME 04032, USA
About The Event
When Rees Shad began his musical journey three decades ago with the 1994 debut release, Anderson, Ohio, critics called him a “wordsmith to watch.”
It’s a reputation the remarkably prolific and eclectic singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and storyteller has proudly cultivated. Shad now boasts some 30 albums, each of which reflect an unyielding combination of emotion and expression that has become the hallmark of Shad’s catalog.
With every successive outing, he has been committed to raising the bar, and the upcoming album The Galahad Blues signals a significant uptick as it may well be his most ambitious effort yet. As Shad explains in the liner notes, the songs were spawned from a musical he has been crafting for several years.
“That's how I often work, assigning myself compositional parameters and writing pieces of music that must work within those creative restraints,” he reflects. “This might be story songs in keeping with a particular writer’s style…