Onward we type! The Robbins Library in Arlington has invited us to perform at 6:30 on January 17th. This event is open to the public and seating is available on a first-come first-served basis, so camp out and bring your riot gear!
As always, keep an eye on our socials or our Upcoming Shows page for details.
Adding another stop to the Employee Burnout Tour, BTO is happy to announce that we’ll be performing at the Peabody Institute Library on December 11th at 7:00pm! There is limited space for this event so *please* ensure that you register at THIS LINK!
As always, keep an eye on our socials or our Upcoming Shows page for details.
We’re thrilled to announce that the MIT Museum has included us in their After Dark Series for the month of October! October’s theme is: INK. Catch us on October 12th at 6:00!
Celebrate National Book Month at our novel October After Dark. Take in a performance by the Boston Typewriter Orchestra, design your own MIT Press book cover, and create a solar print. In our Collections Workshop, join our curators for a close look at prints and printmaking equipment from the 17th to the 20th centuries.
Craft beers from Lord Hobo and tasty bites from Za available for purchase.
Tickets are available HERE!
This and all of our other appearances can be found in the Upcoming Shows tab.
We’re performing at Ralph’s Rock Diner on Saturday, October 7th with Garrison, Pilot to Gunner and Sorry, Mister. We don’t play club shows very often nowadays, so if you ever wanted to see us live, this is the place!
Tickets will be available at the door.
This and all of our other shows can be found in the Upcoming Shows tab.
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We’re excited to announce our first performance in the Keystone State!
The Boston Typewriter Orchestra will play Philadelphia at the Mt. Airy Village Fair, Oct. 1, 2023! The seven-person percussive group, as seen on BBC, NPR, and NBC, will perform FREE during the Mt. Airy Village Fair in the spacious, whimsical Garden of the WPM Typewriter Shop, 11:30 am, and street-side, 1:30 pm.
Mt. Airy Village Fair spans the intersection of Greene St. & Carpenter Lane, 11 – 4 pm. In its 12th year, the annual fair is known for highly interactive engagement for children and adults. The fair this year will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Weaver’s Way Co-op (at this intersection).
Things are picking up at BTO and we’re scheduling a lot of great gigs in the fall for what we’re unofficially calling the Employee Burnout Tour. Check us out at the Milton Porchfest on September 9th and/or the Medford Public Library on November 17th.
As always, keep an eye on our socials or our Upcoming Shows page for details.
In conjunction with our Elevator Music 8 exhibition, Gallery Aferro has invited us to perform on March 5th at 6:00pm! If you happen to be in the Newark area, definitely stop in and check us out!
More information is available on the Gallery Aferro Events page here.
It’s weird when people have been asking about the BTO and wondering where they can see us play. Since the answer to that for much of the year so far had been Chicago, it seemed a bit irrelevant for our local fans. While Chicago was a blast and both of our shows were a hoot, it’s nice to have a spot in Cambridge where we are playing and can invite people to see us. That’s why we’re taking our act to the Hong Kong in Harvard Square. It’s a venue that had been known as a hub of comedy, so it’s fitting that we’re the sort of band that fits just right there.
Joining us for the night of fun is a DJ crew who do things the way I did when I used to take over the gym/cafeteria in junior high and did it all on cassette. The Hartford Yacht Goats are a crew that brings the soft rock flavor and dolby hiss to any great night, and we’re taking them out of Connecticut for the night and showcasing them to a whole new audience. As the other primary contributor to the Beyond Yacht Rock podcast, it’s nice to have us join forces like Voltron.
B&E is a duo that will be playing a live set during the evening. With the most un-googleable name, the accordion-guitar duo features Brendan’s former C4RT bandmate Ed, and we’ll find out just what it’s really all about when you do too, since you’ll already be sitting at a table right up front. We haven’t been let out to have fun in the more ribald environment of a night club in ages, so make sure you’re there, because witnesses will be needed.
June 14, 2019 7-10pm
QWERTY Laundry: A Night for Fun
with B&E
and music from the All-Cassette soft-rock DJ squad Hartford Yacht Goats
Hong Kong Restaurant
1238 Massachusetts Ave, Harvard Square, Cambridge MA
People who track our touring radius know that the one time we made it to Washington DC was the true anomaly on our appearances. Aside from a few flirtations with NYC and the Catskills, all of our performances have been within New England. Thanks to overtures from the American Writers Museum, we’re gonna try to sneak a bunch of typewriters through TSA and visit Chicago for a couple days.
While the AWM performance is for a fundraiser for them and you may need $5000 for a table to see us open and close the show, we have added a gig on Monday April 8 where we are going to play at the venerable Phyllis’ Musical Inn. If you’re in Chicago, come early, as we are scheduled for a 6pm start time. Or if you see a bunch of Bostonians wandering around the streets carrying typewriters, try to point us in the right direction.
Monday April 8, 2019 6pm
Phyllis’ Musical Inn
1800 W Division St, Chicago IL
Tuesday April 9, 2019
American Writer’s Museum fundraiser <private event>
Chicago, IL
After spending the first half of the year playing surprise shows and private events and then heading into the studio to lay down some tracks, we’re venturing Westward over the fall to play a series of shows along the Mass Pike (or maybe more appropriately Route 20). We’re bound to land a Boston gig to announce soon too, but for now you’ll have to make a bit of a trek to come and see us play, starting Sunday in Worcester…
Sunday, September 16, 2018 12:30pm
stART on the Street : World Music Stage
Park Ave & Elm St
Worcester, MA
Wednesday, October 10, 2018 7:00pm
“Our Triumphant Return”
Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation
154 Moody Street, Waltham, MA 02453
Sunday, November 4, 2018 2:00pm
Painting, Politics, and Performance: Thomas Hart Benton’s America
Modern & Contemporary Gallery of the D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts
21 Edwards Street, Springfield, MA 01103
Saturday November 17, 2018 3:00pm
in the Rotunda
Wayland Free Public Library
5 Concord Road, Wayland, MA
