Festival event focus: Words & Music

Rachel Sumner performing

37th annual festival is Oct. 9-13

Words & Music 

📅 7:00–9:00 PM (doors at 6:00)
📍 Dragonfly Café, 165 Thorndike St.
💲 $10 suggested donation (food available for purchase)

An evening of poetry and song awaits! Enjoy powerful readings from:

  • Malissa Lach (Lowell poet)

  • Tanya Grae (former writer-in-residence at the Kerouac House, St. Petersburg, FL)

Then stay for music by Rachel Sumner, the critically acclaimed folk & bluegrass artist praised for her “songs about saints, scientists, and stubborn women.”

Hosted by Amy Roeder & Meg Smith. Proceeds benefit Lowell Celebrates Kerouac.