The 2013 Festival opened with the popular Opera and Song Showcase with three opera singers and piano accompanist who have performed internationally. The showcase has been followed by a season rich with music, theater, dance, spoken word and visual art. Instrumental and choral music includes sacred, folk, jazz, blues, swing, rock, country, bluegrass and open mic music jams in July and August. This year we presented a fully staged production of two one-act plays by noted American playwrights Thornton Wilder and Tennessee William. The season ends with a program featuring men’s and women’s fashion in Jane Austen’s literature, country, bluegrass and world music and classical harp.
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OPERA ARIA & SONG SHOWCASE
Saturday MAY 25, 2013-7:00 p.m. Sunday MAY 26, 2013 – 2:00 p.m
$15 at door, students free. wheelchair/elev. accessible
New York ensemble features baritone Christopher DeVage, soprano Tammy Tyburczy and tenor Antonio Abate, with accompanist Jerome Tan performing American songs and Italian opera excerpts: Verdi’s Don Carlo and Otello accompanied by piano. (more…)
JAZZ DUO JERRY NOBLE & BOB SPARKMAN
Jazz and Swing
Sunday, JUNE 2, 2013 – 4:00 p.m
$10 at door, students free. wheelchair/elev. accessible
Jerry Noble on piano and Bob Sparkman on clarinet return in concert to the North Hall Arts Festival playing cool blues, jazz and swing. Bob and Jerry improvise their way through the “Great American Songbook.” (more…)
SCHOLA NOVA and STRIKE A CHORD
à cappella choral concert
Sunday, JUNE 9, 2013— 4:00 p.m.
Donation at the door; students free; wheelchair/elevator accessible
SCHOLA NOVA and STRIKE A CHORD duo à cappella concert brings us sacred and secular choral music from across the centuries from Renaissance to contemporary. (www.scholanova.org ) (www.strike-a-chord.com) (more…)
“THE LADY FROM DUBUQUE” – staged reading
by Edward Albee
Sunday, JUNE 23, 2013 — 2:00 p.m.
admission:FREE; wheelchair/elevator accessible
THE LADY FROM DUBUQUE, a “rare gem” from Pulitzer Prize Award-winner playwright Edward Albee, is directed by Mitch Giannunzio, with Margery Shaw in the title role. A Fundraiser Garden Party follows with jazz legend Charles Neville performing. (more…)
A DANCE COLLAGE
Huntington Dance Centre
Sunday, JUNE 30, 2013 – 4:00 p.m
Donation, students free. wheelchair/elev. accessible
A “Dance Collage” presented by students of the Huntington Dance Centre performing Jazz, tap, ballet, modern and more. (more…)
OPEN MIC MUSIC JAM
1st Fridays JULY & AUGUST
Friday JULY 5, 2013 – 7:00 p.m Friday AUGUST 2, 2013 – 7:00 p.m
FREE or donation at the door; wheelchair/elevator accessible
Open MIC performances by musicians, instrumental and vocal. Performers to determine format. Musicians and public welcome. (more…)
Porch Jazz Trio
jazz, Latin band swing
Sunday, JULY 14, 2013 – 4:00 p.m
$10 at door, students free. wheelchair/elev. accessible
PORCH JAZZ TRIO: Smooth jazz standards, Latin rhythms, favorite ballads and Big Band swing sounds from Dave Sporny on trombone, Bob Ferrier on guitar and Don Baldini on bass. (more…)
LUI COLLINS
Folk and Bossa Nova
Sunday, AUGUST 4, 2013 – 4:00 p.m
$10 at door, students free. wheelchair/elev. accessible
Singer, songwriter LUI COLLINS in concert on guitar and banjo playing original songs, classic folk and bossa nova in the original Brazilian Portuguese and more. (www.luicollins.com) (more…)
