Events
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AHA! Night (art, history and architecture)
Presented by AHA! (art. history and architecture) May 14, 2009 - Ongoing AHA! takes place every 2nd Thursday and is a FREE art and culture event that features exhibits, performances, live music, talks and tours in downtown New Bedford.
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AHA! (art. history and architecture) |
05/14/09 -
Ongoing |
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Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam
Presented by Poetry Jam February 13, 2011-June 29, 2014 Every Sunday with a Poetry Slam co-hosted by Joyce Cunha and Jeff Robinson starting at 7:30pm and a Featured Poet and Open Mic accompanied by the Jeff Robinson Trio starting at 9:00pm – there’s a $5 cover and you must be 21 to enter the venue – Sultry red lights, intimate tables, and wooden church pews give this small room one of the best ambiances in town.
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Poetry Jam |
02/13/11 -
06/29/14 |
Lizard Lounge, Cambridge |
Brother Sun (Greg Greenway, Joe Jencks, Pat Wictor)
Presented by Stone Soup Coffeehouse April 14, 2012 Pat Wictor, Greg Greenway, and Joe Jencks have formed a dynamic new male trio. Their harmonies, as much as their lyrics, tell what they are about: warm as a campfire, stirring as a gospel church, rousing as a call to arms. Calling upon contemporary songwriting, and informed by the deep roots of gospel, blues, and folk, the trio weaves a tapestry of harmony that is brilliantly fresh and yet familiar. Nationally touring folk artists from three major points on the map - Boston, New York, and...
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Stone Soup Coffeehouse |
04/14/12 |
St. Paul's Church, Pawtucket |
Boston Bhangra Classes
Presented by Boston Bhangra, Inc March 19, 2011-March 17, 2012 Bhangra! Bhangra! Bhangra! Bhangra is one of the fastest growing dance forms in the world! It is traditionally a folk dance based out of the Indian sub-continent. However, it is now being used in hip hop songs and ALL indian parties out there!
If you love dance, and want to try something that is new, fun, energetic and where you will get a great workout, check out this class!
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Boston Bhangra, Inc |
03/19/11 -
03/17/12 |
Brookline Ballet Studio, Brookline |
The Honey Dewdrops and Ari & Mia at Me & Thee Coffeehouse
Presented by me and thee coffeehouse May 11, 2012 Laura Wortman and Kagey Parrish are The Honey Dewdrops. They make their home in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Charlottesville, Virginia.
The couple has been playing music in some capacity for over 15 years, but honed in on their natural duet abilities 7 years ago when they met for the first time in college. It was their love of folk music that brought them together and has since taken them out on the road to tour fulltime as the award-winning duet they are...
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me and thee coffeehouse |
05/11/12 |
me & thee Coffeehouse, Marblehead |
Bay State Winds Concert
Presented by First Church of Christ, Congregational February 15, 2012 First Church of Christ, Congregational, 25 The Great Road, Bedford will be hosting a special evening event in their Sanctuary featuring The Bay State Winds, the clarinet quartet of the Air Force Band of Liberty. Admission is free.
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First Church of Christ, Congregational |
02/15/12 |
First Church of Christ, Congregational, Bedford |
Daniel Stepner plays "The Four Seasons"
Presented by Boston Classical Orchestra March 17-March 18, 2012 Brahms: Der Frühling (transcribed for string orchestra)
Chadwick: Serenade in F
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (with Daniel Stepner)
Daniel Stepner, one of North America's preeminent Baroque violinists, leads the BCO in Vivaldi's vivid musical traversal "The Four Seasons". Complementing this iconic masterpiece are works by other nature-inspired composers: Brahms' blooming invocation of Spring, and George Chadwick's neo-Romantic Serenade, a bucolic...
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Boston Classical Orchestra |
03/17/12 -
03/18/12 |
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Irina Muresanu plays Mendelssohn
Presented by Boston Classical Orchestra April 21-April 22, 2012 Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel: Overture in C
Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor (with Irina Muresanu)
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 1 in C minor
BCO favorite Irina Muresanu returns in one of her signature works, Mendelssohn's passionate Violin Concerto in E-minor. The program opens with Fanny Mendelssohn's glorious concert overture, and concludes with Felix Mendelssohn's First Symphony, a work of Beethovenian power and invention. Steven Lipsitt conducts. ...
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Boston Classical Orchestra |
04/21/12 -
04/22/12 |
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THE LIGHTHOUSE BY Peter Maxwell Davies
Presented by Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) February 8-February 12, 2012 Sung in English
New Opera Annex production
Music and libretto by Peter Maxwell Davies
Boston Lyric Opera channels Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ ominous maritime ghost chamber opera, THE LIGHTHOUSE, with four performances overlooking the Boston Harbor at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum.
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ opera is an unforgettable gripping and overwhelming portrait of growing madness and...
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Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) |
02/08/12 -
02/12/12 |
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum, Boston |
Ciompi Quartet with Laura Gilbert
Presented by Music In Deerfield, Inc. March 31, 2012 A quartet "from America, but is of international stature" (La Sicilia), the Ciompi Quartet will feature the premiere of a new String Quartet composed for them by Smith College composer, Donald Wheelock.
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Music In Deerfield, Inc. |
03/31/12 |
Sweeney Concert Hall - Smith College, North Hampton |
PLATFORM 8: Soo Sunny Park and Spencer Topel, Capturing Resonance
Presented by deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum September 18, 2011-July 29, 2012 In their first collaboration, sculptor Soo Sunny Park and sound artist and composer Spencer Topel have transformed deCordova’s Window Gallery into a multi-sensory environment. In Capturing Resonance, the eighth project in the PLATFORM series, Park and Topel have composed a large-scale installation that utilizes the intense natural light in the gallery with the flow of museum visitors through this transitional space to create an ever-changing sculptural soundscape.
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deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum |
09/18/11 -
07/29/12 |
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln |
Arts in the Village presents the Zéfira Trio
Presented by Arts in the Village April 21, 2012 Although Zefíra is newly formed, its members have already established themselves as solo artists and chamber musicians of the highest standard. The idea for the Zefíra Trio grew out of a striking rapport between pianist Eleanor Perrone and cellist Ashima Scripp, which was enhanced by the addition of violinist Olga Patramanska-Bell. With the commitment to excellence as its foundation, Zefíra’s programming highlights the unique sonorities and capabilities of each...
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Arts in the Village |
04/21/12 |
Goff Memorial Hall, Rehoboth |
BSO Chamber Music Series: Mendelssohn and Mozart
Presented by Boston Symphony Orchestra February 24, 2012 BSO Community Chamber Music Series at Northeastern’s Fenway Center
Hosted by the Music Department
Now in its fifteenth season, the series was previously held in a function room at Symphony Hall. The move to Northeastern allows a larger audience to attend the concerts, and takes advantage of the Fenway Center’s outstanding acoustics. Students and faculty in the Music Department at Northeastern’s College of Arts, Media and Design will take an active role in the...
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Boston Symphony Orchestra |
02/24/12 |
Northeastern’s Fenway Center, Boston |
BSO Chamber Music Series: Bach, Beethoven and More
Presented by Boston Symphony Orchestra March 16, 2012 BSO Community Chamber Music Series at Northeastern’s Fenway Center
Hosted by the Music Department
Now in its fifteenth season, the series was previously held in a function room at Symphony Hall. The move to Northeastern allows a larger audience to attend the concerts, and takes advantage of the Fenway Center’s outstanding acoustics. Students and faculty in the Music Department at Northeastern’s College of Arts, Media and Design will take an active role in the...
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Boston Symphony Orchestra |
03/16/12 |
Northeastern’s Fenway Center, Boston |
BSO Chamber Music Series: Shostakovich, Ewald and More
Presented by Boston Symphony Orchestra April 13, 2012 BSO Community Chamber Music Series at Northeastern’s Fenway Center
Hosted by the Music Department
Now in its fifteenth season, the series was previously held in a function room at Symphony Hall. The move to Northeastern allows a larger audience to attend the concerts, and takes advantage of the Fenway Center’s outstanding acoustics. Students and faculty in the Music Department at Northeastern’s College of Arts, Media and Design will take an active role in the...
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Boston Symphony Orchestra |
04/13/12 |
Northeastern’s Fenway Center, Boston |
The Blue & The Gray
Presented by Boston Metro Opera February 24-March 3, 2012 Come watch as history repeats itself in this double-bill of American one-act operas. Featuring the New England premiere of George Andoniadis’ Lincoln: A Poetic Opera and the East Coast premiere of Terence J. O’Grady’s The Final Cause, this program reexamines the American Civil War from both sides of the conflict.
Performances are:
February 24, 2012 | 7:00 PM
February 25, 2012 | 7:00 Pm
March 2, 2012 | 7:00 PM
March 3, 2012 | 7:00 PM
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Boston Metro Opera |
02/24/12 -
03/03/12 |
Hope Central Church, Jamaica Plain |
2012 Contemporary AmericanaFestival
Presented by Boston Metro Opera May 3-May 5, 2012 There's no music like new music, and our AmericanaFestival, a dedicated venue for new Classical vocal works, proves it! These three unique programs feature operas, art songs, and choral pieces submitted by composers world-wide.
Performances are:
May 3, 2012 | 7:00 PM (Choral Program)
May 4, 2012 | 7:00 PM (Vocal Program)
May 5, 2012 | 7:00 PM (Opera Program)
Free and open to the public. Ticket reservations recommended.
For more...
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Boston Metro Opera |
05/03/12 -
05/05/12 |
Hope Central Church, Jamaica Plain |
Invisible Cities
Presented by Boston Metro Opera June 22-June 30, 2012 Join Marco Polo on his extraordinary travels in this concert premiere: Christopher Cerrone’s Invisible Cities. Based on the acclaimed novella by Italo Calvini, this opera is a melting pot of musical styles, documenting Polo and his role in the rise and fall of Kublai Khan’s Mongolian empire.
Performances are:
June 22, 2012 | 7:00 PM
June 23, 2012 | 7:00 PM
June 29, 2012 | 7:00 PM
June 30, 2012 | 7:00 PM
Tickets are $10.00/per...
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Boston Metro Opera |
06/22/12 -
06/30/12 |
Hope Central Church, Jamaica Plain |
Sharon Van Etten
Presented by World Music/CRASHarts February 13, 2012 With a voice known for its stark power and subtle refinement, Sharon Van Etten has a mastery for writing songs with direct honesty and feeling. Over the course of releasing two full-length albums, Because I Was In Love (Language of Stone; 2009) and epic (Ba Da Bing; 2010), Sharon has been celebrated by fans and critics, alike. Since epic’s release, she has opened the Pitchfork Music Festival, played the Hollywood Bowl with Neko Case and at Radio City Music Hall with The Antlers, sung...
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World Music/CRASHarts |
02/13/12 |
Paradise Rock Club, Boston |
Boston College University Wind Ensemble Chamber Music Concert
Presented by Boston College Bands March 31, 2012 Members of the University Wind Ensemble perform works written for and performed by small chamber groups.
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Boston College Bands |
03/31/12 |
O'Connell House, Chestnut Hill |
Gaelic Roots: Irish Dance and Ceili
Presented by Boston College March 29, 2012 With live music by Séamus Connolly and friends.
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Boston College |
03/29/12 |
Boston College, Gasson Hall, Irish Room, Chestnut Hill |
Gaelic Roots: Irish Songs with Cathie Ryan
Presented by Boston College April 12, 2012 Concert by Cathie Ryan. The Boston Globe describes her as "a thrilling traditional vocalist whose honey-pure soprano is equally at home on probing original ballads about a woman's place in the modern world…. Her singing is simply sublime... "
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Boston College |
04/12/12 |
Walsh Hall Function Room, Chestnut Hill |
Gaelic Roots: Irish Accordion, Fiddle, and Song
Presented by Boston College May 2, 2012 Concert by Séamus Begley and Oisin Mac Diarmada.
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Boston College |
05/02/12 |
Walsh Hall Function Room, Chestnut Hill |
McPeake
Presented by MASS MoCA March 16, 2012 Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day a day early with Belfast’s McPeake who carry on a family tradition of Irish folk music that goes back 100 years. Francis McPeake IV, the fourth generation of this musical dynasty, has revived the band with a new generation of young players who blend original Celtic compositions with contemporary rhythms and styles.
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MASS MoCA |
03/16/12 |
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Bobby McFerrin
Presented by FirstWorks May 10, 2012 “McFerrin’s greatest gift to his audience – changing them from spectators into celebrants and
transforming a concert hall into a playground.” —The Los Angeles Times
One-man orchestra Bobby McFerrin uses his four-octave range and a vast array of vocal techniques to conjure the unmistakable sound of a trumpet in a jazz standard, the cello in a classical composition and the bubbly melody of a pop song.
Best known for his Grammy...
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FirstWorks |
05/10/12 |
The Vets, Veterans Memorial Auditorium, Providence |
Showcase Of Stars @ Cantab benefit night JDRF
Presented by DAY TRIPPER ENTERTAINMENT January 6-December 7, 2012 benefit nights for JDRF walk for cure Diabetes 2012 all proceeds donated
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DAY TRIPPER ENTERTAINMENT |
01/06/12 -
12/07/12 |
CANTAB LOUNGE, Cambridge |
Lighthouse Opening
Presented by Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy January 12-March 30, 2012 Come out for the opening of Lighthouse, a temporary art installation on the Greenway at the Boston Harbor Islands Pavilion. Join us for a brief presentation from the team of artists followed by an after party at a Greenway neighborhood establishment (TBA).
Thursday, January 12, 6:00 – 8:00PM
Boston Harbor Islands Pavilion (between State St. & Atlantic Ave.)
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Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy |
01/12/12 -
03/30/12 |
Boston Harbor Islands Pavilion, Boston |
Vanessa Trien and the Jumping Monkeys
Presented by Soule Early Childhood Center PTO February 12, 2012 Vanessa Trien and the Jumping Monkeys perform! Amazing raffle baskets, food & drink, fun for the whole family!
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Soule Early Childhood Center PTO |
02/12/12 |
Baker Elementary School, Brookline |
Gordon Bok
Presented by Stone Soup Coffeehouse March 10, 2012 Gordon Bok grew up around the boatyards of Camden, Maine. He learned many tunes, sea songs, stories, legends and ballads from the people he worked with. Where he couldn’t find songs that matched his experiences or needs, he began to write his own, and has kept up a lively flow of poems, songs, stories, choral and instrumental works. He has appeared on the radio show “A Prairie Home Companion” with Garrison Keillor. Gordon’s music has been sung by many other performers...
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Stone Soup Coffeehouse |
03/10/12 |
St. Paul's Church, Pawtucket |
Kate Taylor, opener: Paul Pasch
Presented by Stone Soup Coffeehouse March 31, 2012 Kate Taylor formed her first band at age 15 and had her first record deal with Atlantic Records four years later. Since her debut album, Sister Kate, she has released five more wonderful records. The most recent CD, Fair Time, was released in 2009, and is her first album featuring all original songs and has received critical acclaim. Kate’s songs are simple and beautiful, and reflect her simple way of life on Martha’s Vineyard, spending summers in a tipi there, and the rich...
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Stone Soup Coffeehouse |
03/31/12 |
St. Paul's Church, Pawtucket |