HARVEY
Play by Mary Chase
Sunday POSTPONED TO 2021
Harvey, a Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy by Mary Chase, is the story of a gentleman, Elwood P. Dowd, and his best friend, Harvey a six-foot tall, invisible rabbit. The staged reading of Harvey directed by Mitch Giannunzio features Kenneth Tigar, Ellen Barry, Sandra Blaney, Justin Fuller, Michelle Joyner, PJ Adzima and Mitch Giannunzio, with cameos by members of the North Hall board. Annual Afterparty Celebration follows, donations welcome (more…)
Khalif Neville Trio
Music – Traditional jazz forms, funk, R&B & hip-hop
LISTEN to Khalif’s latest album WISHIN‘
Keyboardist and composer Khalif Neville with Talyn Neville on drums and Kristine Neville on clarinet blend traditional jazz forms with derivative styles of funk, R&B and hip-hop. Traditionalists will be drawn to the distinctive New Orleans groove while younger audiences will identify with a peppering of more contemporary influences. (more…)
BOB SPARKMAN TRIO
Songs of Hope by Jerry Noble
LISTEN to Jerry Noble Noble’s Songs of Hope, Songs 1,2,3,4,5,, a series of Duets written so he can play together with cellist friend AnupKumar Biswas who lives in London and is founder of the Mathieson School, a school for needy children in Kolkata, India.“I began writing these instrumental duos because he and I will not be playing together in person as we had planned this summer. Bob and Kara and I have performed with Anup many times and we look forward to the next opportunity,” explains Jerry.
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OLD COUNTRY ROAD BAND
Country, Bluegrass Music Concert
LISTEN to to OCR at JoeVal Festival 2016, OCR at North Hall, OCR at Rural Mission Project
Old Country Road, dedicated to keeping the sound of “true” or vintage country music alive, features songs from the 1950s and 60s. The group, says member Ron Jackson, “takes folks back to the golden years of country music, when country music was country music.”(www.oldcountryroad.net) (more…)
2020 Sponsors and Business Supporters
We thank our sponsors, The Westfield News and Original Pennysaver, The Daily Hampshire Gazette, the Arts Councils of Chester, Cummington, Huntington, Middlefield, Montgomery, Russell, Westhampton and Worthington; along with our business supporters: B and D Variety, Blandford Animal Hospital, Chester village Cuts, Down to Earth Excavating, Gateway Farm and Pet, Hut, Huntington Country Store, J & R Service, Knightville Package Store, Main Street Barber Shop, Main Street Styles and Spa, Milltown Landscape, Moltenbrey’s Market, Montgomery Grille, New England WebArt, North Country Landscapes, Outlook Farm, SG Custom Homes, Signature Sounds, Simply You, Swinging Bridge Auctions, The Pit Stop, The Rapids Restaurant Bar & Grill, Wheeler Oil.
2019 is our 10th year of the Historic North Hall Arts Festival opening with the Opera Showcase. For theatre we offer a staged reading of The Chalk Garden, a comedy by National Velvet author Enid Bagnold. And plenty of music follows. We start June with Dixieland Stomp, a Louis Armstrong tribute, moving on to Meadow Flutes, a flute quartet with classical, traditional and popular music. In July the Berkshire Mountain Boys play folk, gospel and bluegrass while Wild Thyme brings memorable Irish and Scottish tunes. In August, La Voz De Tres play infectious Latin rhythms with a blend of jazz. In September the Bob Sparkman Trio moves us into swing and smooth jazz and Old Country Road Band closes our festival with vintage country and bluegrass. Two Open Mic Music Jams are back along with two art exhibitons. And a special Square Dance event on July 19 at 7 pm has been added featuring longtime caller Gene King leading the dance. All ages, all levels – from first timer to pro are welcome to this free event.
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OPERA ARIA & SONG SHOWCASE
Saturday MAY 25 2019-7:00 p.m.
Sunday MAY 26, 2019 – 2:00 p.m
$15 at door, students FREE. Wheelchair-accessible, air-conditioned
The accomplished NYC ensemble of soprano Amy Orsulak, tenor Antonio Abate, baritone Samuel Bowen and pianist Jerome Tan will perform various Italian arias and Schubert art song favorites including “An die Musik”, “Gretchen am Spinnrade”, and “Standchen”. Several Italian opera gems such as the fierce soprano aria “l’altra notte” from Boito’s Mefistofele, the emotional aria “Nessun Dorma” from Puccini’s opera Turandot, and arias from La Boheme will be included, and more . (more…)
DIXIELAND STOMP
Louis Armstrong Tribute; Banjo and Brass instruments
Sunday JUNE 23 2019 – 2:00 p.m
$10 at door; students FREE. Wheelchair-accessible, air-conditioned
David Neil and ensemble present Life, Times and Music of Louis Armstrong. The ensemble has 6 members playing trumpet, clarinet, two trombone, banjo and tuba performing traditional Dixieland, Blues and Rags. Much of the music is from actual transcriptions of Louie Armstrong’s music from the Hot 5 and Hot 7 recording done in Chicago 1927 to 1929. (more…)
MEADOW FLUTES
classical, traditional and popular
Sunday. JUNE 30, 2019 – 2:00 p.m.
$10 at door; students free. Wheelchair-access, air-conditioned.
The Meadow Flutes quartet featuring, classical, popular and traditional music was founded in 2011 by Andrea Taupier, Lynn Winsor and Karen McCarthy as a venue for exploring the flute chamber music repertoire with an ensemble versatile enough to present instrumentation from duets to six-part scoring that included the entire family of flutes. (more…)
