Two nights of music will celebrate the life and legacy of Michael Weddle, a well-known and well-loved icon of the local music scene who died October 17, with proceeds benefitting the Hull High School music department.

On Friday, April 7, an all-ages night at the C-Note will feature six performers, and the 21+ show on Saturday, April 8 has a lineup that includes at least eight bands.

“Michael Weddle was a legend around here. I don’t think there was a person who stepped into the C-Note who hadn’t heard his name,” said club manager Barbara Rhind. “He was a quiet, soulful, kind, and generous human being who relentlessly and enthusiastically supported countless charities over the years – all through his love of music and his enormous support of the youth movement of music.”

The all-ages show, an event that Weddle began on the first Friday of each month with a different charitable beneficiary, is organized by Lily Andrey, who is continuing the tradition.

“Michael shaped me not only as a musician I am today, but he also shaped me as a person. He had a wonderful superpower of always seeing potential in young people when others had yet to discover it,” Andrey said. “This quality is what created and drove the all-ages shows. He made the C-Note a home to explore a passion for music and a wonderful venue to find like-minded musicians. He taught me how loving a musical community can be, and I will forever miss his kind spirit and generosity.”

Performers on April 7 include Eye Socket, Jess Caso, AV Club, Jack Holland, Round Trip, and Learn To Speak (Andrey’s own band). Doors will open at 7 p.m. with a donation of $10 at the door that will go to the Hull High music program.

On April 8, the show organized by Rhind and Joe Viglione includes the bands Blacking Out, Mad Painters, Tokyo Tramps, Tsunami of Sound, Kenne Highland’s Airforce, Count Joe Viglione, Climate Change (Michael Weddle’s bandmates) and 1.4.5, among others. Saturday night will wrap up with a Johnny Thunders Jam tribute. Doors open at 2 p.m., with the music starting at 3 p.m. and a suggested donation of $20. As with the all-ages show, donations from Saturday’s admission, as well as 50/50 raffles on both days, will be donated to the Hull High School Music Department in Weddle’s name.

Weddle considered himself a “child of the American Dream.” He was an A+ student of counterculture who believed he would have played professional baseball. He was a former state Representative in New Hampshire, and was a U.S. Army veteran who taught himself guitar and thought himself a “back-bench folk singer.” For many years, he organized numerous charitable concerts for local causes, such as fire victims, veterans, opiate awareness, animal shelters, and school music department. He was a fixture at the Rathskeller in Kenmore Square and organized the annual C-Note Rat Beach Party every Labor Day weekend with four nights of more than 50 bands.

“Michael Weddle was the last of the age of Aquarius/smile on your brother/good vibrations. He was always smiling, doing good for others, turning the annual Rat Beach Party at the C-Note into a Woodstockian gathering of tribes,” said Highland, of Airforce & Mad Painter. “Even his own music was late ’60s San Francisco. He will be missed by us all; but now he is Saint Michael.”

Viglione said Weddle was “a kind, gentle soul who cared about people.

“He loved the Boston music scene and had a vast musical vocabulary which will be missed by all,” Viglione said. “We all lost a very dear friend.”

Two members of the Tokyo Tramps remembered Weddle as passionate about music and about promoting local talent.

“Michael was a grassroots movement leader. We were moved by his passion and selfless dedication to bringing the community together and offering the platform for the youth to learn and perform music,” said Satoru Nakagawa. “He was a man of determination and action. He got my respect. We were honored to be a part of his project.”

“Michael Weddle was a man with a big heart,” Yukiko Fujii added. “He invited us to play for several charity events, and although Tokyo Tramps was not an official ‘Rathskeller veteran,’ he always fit us in to his Rat Beach Party as an ‘international host performer.’ He brought in the youth bands and has kept the Rat’s legacy alive and helped the community to thrive – so creative, so generous and so supportive.”

In Weddle’s own words, “There will come a time when I no longer cast a shadow upon Earth; when my smile becomes unseen and when the goodness in my heart has quivered. My hope is to fade into a memory which will sometimes awaken among those who have known me and also in those I have touched but have never known.”

The musicians whose lives and careers he touched will be keeping his memory alive with the shows on April 7 and 8, and will be sure that his legacy is secured with the support of youth music education in the Hull Public Schools.

As they prepare for the upcoming shows, the performers added as a postscript: “This time the shows are for you, Michael. We will do all the work and you just rest easy, put your feet up and listen. Godspeed.”