Enjoy a variety of buskers before heading to your fringe show(s) of the night! Performances will take place on the lawn between Farm Fresh RI and Buttonwoods Brewery on Sims Avenue.

BUSKING SCHEDULE:
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Thursday July 17   
6 pm: Neal / Whatever Fate Decides 
7 pm: Florence Wallis 

Friday July 18
6 pm: Neal / Whatever Fate Decides 


Saturday July 19     
 5 PM: Teddy Lytle *at isco
6 pm: Teddy Lytle *At ISCO
 7 pm: Zan Berry 

Thursday July 24 
6 pm: Phil
7:30 pm: Niki Healy 

Friday July 25 
 6 pm: Niki Healy 
 7:30 pm: Foster Farmhands

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​MEET OUR BUSKERS! 

Teddy Lytle

Teddy Lytle is currently alive and at large in Providence as a poet, musician, theatre artist, and educator. He is a frequent collaborator with local theatre companies including The Wilbury Theatre Group and Burbage Theatre Company, and he is currently teaching at Wheaton College. As a mentally ill, ADHD, Borderline Personality Disorder, Bisexual addict in a recovery; his work centers around destigmatizing mental health, destabilizing capitalism, and critiquing those in power. A special thanks to my inspiration and muse Bay, and our two angels, Dizzy, and Zelda. Keep up to date at www.teddylytle.com.

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Zan Berry

Providence based cellist and songwriter, Zan Berry, is a passionate and creative musician who weaves together diverse musical interests in his work as a performer and educator. With a ceaseless curiosity for exploring new musical contexts for his instrument and collaborating with local artists across disciplines, Zan strives for a more creative, connected, and accessible arts community in Providence.   
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Zan performs as a member of Verdant Vibes, a new music collective that brings together artists and musicians creating new work in a variety of genres, acoustic and electronic. A staunch advocate for contemporary music, he has also participated in music festivals, including Bang on a Can, New Music on the Point, and Fresh Inc and has helped premiere countless works by young composers. Through his 2020 artist residency at the Music Mansion and initiating the first ever Providence Cello Festival, Zan has designed many unique concert experiences in Providence that have showcased the creative work of local cellists, songwriters, poets, and folk musicians. As a singer-songwriter, he has participated in the Brown Arts Initiative Songwriters workshop, performed live sets at local venues, and he recently released his debut EP of original songs, titled Loveblind. 

niki healy

Niki Healy is a composer/lyricist/performer. Her FRINGEPVD 2024 show, Bird Jail: A Musical Punishment, won the Audience Award for Best Musical Performance. Bird Jail will be available as an album later this summer. She wrote the music for Wilbury Theatre Group's Goodnight Sweetheart, Goodnight, a musical about the life of Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi, with book/lyrics by Darcie Dennigan. Previous works include Love’s Labour’s LOST: The Musical, a mash-up of Shakespeare & ABC’s LOST (Theater 150, Ojai) and The Thorny Kings, a musical about the return of an extraterrestrial Jesus (Emerson College). She is the Director of Communications & Advancement for Wilbury Theatre Group and the founder of Bright Publicity, a performing arts publicity & marketing firm: www.Bright-Publicity.com

Florence wallis

Florence Wallis is a British-American writer, musician, researcher, teacher, forager, farmer, curator and performer. She has performed in Wilbury productions such as Once and Indecent. She holds an MFA from Brown University in Digital and Cross-Disciplinary Literary Arts. Her work focuses on environment, fungi, memory and Mesopotamian mythology through experimental poetics, translation, theatre, music production and performance. Florence is a multi-instrumentalist member of a variety of bands and collaborations including Lookers and Low Anthem. Lookers' album Deeper was out this spring.

neal leaheey

Neal Leaheey is a Rhode Island, USA based artist with a world perspective. After a lucky accident in an audition, he’s been fortunate to improvise around the US, Canada, Europe and the Middle East. He is currently both a performer/teacher at Kismet Improv, an Ensemble member at The Contemporary Theatre Company and a member of The Booboisie, a clowning ensemble at The Wilbury Group.  For the last five years, Neal has been moved by the Tarot and created Whatever Fate Decides to explore a reading on stage with a live audience. Since then, the cards have carried him to Oslo for lovers to find each other, the hills of Appalachia to help someone find a lost dream and sometimes even the streets and theatres of Providence if the mood is right. With a special interest in using Johnstone-based ideas about improvisation to devise new works of theatre, Neal creates works that challenge ideas about gender, status and access the supernatural forces around us to explore our own personal narratives. 

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phillip walker

Phillip Walker is a recent graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design, where he earned a BFA in Painting and a minor in Computation, Technology, and Culture. While at school, Phillip was a member of Brown University’s Out of Bounds Sketch Comedy Group, and now also a part of the offshoot “Outer Bounds” performing this Summer here at PVD Fringe. Raised in rural Georgia and the survivor of a dark past as a TikTok Influencer, his work is largely fascinated by the eager pace of digital culture, the awkward social tensions of everyday interaction, and the grounding influence of the natural world. His work spans mixed-media painting, performance, and comedic writing.

foster farmhands

Foster Farmhands began simply as a campfire sing along with friends on a summer evening. As a growing collective, The PVD Fringe Festival will see Nico Gareca (he/him/él/-o) on guitar and vocals along with Chelsea Aubert (she/her) on vocals, melodica and tambourine accompanied by cajon. The two met shortly after Chelsea moved to Providence a year and a half ago. Only weeks after arriving, she was given the opportunity to play accordion in the Wilbury Theatre’s production of Once. As a result of this production, she was introduced to Nico and the rest is history!
Nico is an Argentine-American language teacher who currently hails from the Wolf Tree Cooperative in Foster, Rhode Island. With a background in Bilingual Education, Nico began playing guitar as a vehicle for teaching language through song. Chelsea is a singer and music educator originally hailing from Philadelphia, PA. With training in musical theatre performance, her current goal is to cultivate the simple joy of making music with like minded folx.

If you like what you hear, you can find Nico on Sunday mornings at the Foster Farmers’ Market and (hopefully) buy him a coffee!"