Since 2010, co-founders Mark Mandeville & Raianne Richards have organized an annual non-profit bipedal concert tour of Massachusetts in support of arts and culture for towns throughout the state. Each free community concert collaborates with local artists, musicians, educational programs, trail managers and land trust groups to highlight both artistic diversity and recreational land use. With each visit, a community has pulled together and taken part in a dialogue which serves to strengthen local investment in the arts. The four-person group arrived in Fall River on June 27, 2017 at the UMass Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship on the eastern end of the new Alfred J. Lima Quequechan River Trail for a two-hour free concert. Following an introduction to the Trail by Fall River Mass In Motion 1422 Project representative Janice Velozo and Bike Fall River representative Paul DeVillers, band co-founders Mark Mandeville and Raianne Richards welcomed a small but appreciative audience. Joined by band members Amy Alvey and Mark Kilianski of Hoot and Holler Music, the group offered a number of their own tunes after inviting guitarists Vito Cattavelli from Uxbridge and Louis Leeman from Swansea to play. The group walked 13 miles from New Bedford as part of their 144-mile, 28-concert trek across the South Coast  Click here for a 43-minute video of the first hour of the event. Click here for more samples of their music and purchasing information. 

(Top row) Band member Mark Kilianski arrives after a 13-mile walk from New Bedford at the UMass Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship on the South Watuppa Bike Path where audience members and band member Amy Alvey arrives with her back pack. (Row two) Fall River Mass In Motion 1422 Project representative Janice Velozo and Bike Fall River representative Paul DeVillers talk about the new Alfred J. Lima Quequechan River Trail after co-founders Mark Mandeville & Raianne Richards welcomes the audience. (Rows three and four) Guitarists Vito Cattavelli from Uxbridge and Louis Leeman from Swansea open the concert before the band plays their own tunes. (Bottom row) Mark Kilanski plays his banjo and Amy Alvey plays the violin as the group wraps up a number and is applauded by the audience.