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“For All the Fish” Conference & Concert Featuring The Mallett Brothers
Join us for a conference in the morning and a concert at night!
Greenhorns and Downeast Salmon Federation are celebrating the traditional fisheries, wild fish, and clean water of Downeast Maine with educational presentations at DSF’s East Machias Hatchery followed by a FREE concert at Bad Little Falls Park in Machias.
Featuring music from:
The Mallett Brothers Band
The Midnight Riders
The Milk & Honey Rebellion
Sun. May 31st:
9am-12pm: Join us at Downeast Salmon Federation’s Hatchery in East Machias for conference presentations (RSVP required, virtual access through Zoom). This will be a jam-packed series of speakers, films, and a tour of the hatchery, capped with hearty fish chowder lunch. Topics include river and habitat restoration, Passamaquoddy environmental programs, the outcomes from dam removal on major rivers to our south, and more.
4pm-9pm: Free concert with The Mallet Brothers & more at Bad Little Falls Park in Machias, famously home to the beloved Black Fly Ball. Concertgoers can enjoy local food vendors, beer from Mason’s Brewery, wild smoked fish, creative merchandise and interspersed environmental presentations with representatives from great local organizations. The music kicks off with the Milk & Honey Rebellion, followed by the Midnight Riders, leading up to our headliners the Mallet Brothers.
Learn more about our mission to protect our fish at forallthefish.org.
The Mallett Brothers Band
About this event:
We all know this place is special. To put it bluntly:Â we have all the fish.
Downeast Maine holds some of the most intact coastal ecology on the entire U.S. Atlantic seaboard. Our cold, powerful tides. The clean flushing of our bays. The great, free-running rivers that empty into broad, lobed estuaries. Though our landscape was heavily damaged by logging and damming of rivers, we still have all our native fish species present in these waters, and we don’t have much heavy industry or development pressure on this coastline. As a result, our wild, native fish populations remain stronger and are rebounding farther here than almost anywhere else along the coast.
While the Gulf of Maine is warming faster than nearly any body of water on Earth, and areas to our south like Casco Bay face devastating losses of eelgrass and habitat from nitrogen runoff, places like Cobscook Bay, Machias Bay, and Chandler Bay still pulse with life.
In Washington County, more than anywhere else in Maine — or even New England — our wild coastal ecosystem is our economy. Clammers. Lobstermen. Elver harvesters. Generations tied to the water. The most valuable fishery in Maine by pound happens right here. And our county boasts the most diverse fisheries in the state.
This isn’t just scenery. It’s livelihood. It’s inheritance. It’s identity.
And under something called the Public Trust Doctrine, these waters belong to all of us. We are their stewards — and their co-owners.
This concert isn’t just music.
It’s a celebration of a living coast.
It’s a gathering for the rivers, the bays, the working waterfront — and the people who love them.
Come raise your voice for the wild edge of Maine. Celebrate what makes this place unlike anywhere else.
Because when we protect these waters, we protect ourselves.
Brought to you by Greenhorns, Downeast Salmon Federation, Necessary Music Productions, and the Artist Rapid Response Team.