Sunday, May 4 2008

Live the first Sunday in each month, Patricia Adams [vocals], Ray Santisi [piano], Greg Loughman [bass] and Gary Johnson [drums] play to standing room only, singing and swinging jazz and blues standards from Tin Pan Alley and Harlem renaissance. Offering a delicious brunch menu of both traditional and creative specialties, chef Mitch's selections will delight your palette. Complimentary parking in two lots. Children welcome. Wheelchair accessible.

Featuring: Tony Gallo Trio

Having studied voice with one of America's great sopranos, Eleanor Steber, song stylist Monica Hatch is one of the very few who managed to have a successful career as both a classical and jazz singer. With her classical background, Hatch not only brings a technically advanced set of vocal chords to her jazz work, but an appreciation of the lyrics of the material she sings. She conveys a sense of warmth in her interpretations never letting her naturally strong voice overwhelm the material.

Of Pamela Hines - April 28, 2007 edition of Midwest Record Recap: " Straight ahead jazz isn't a dirty word, in the right hands it's a wonderful thing that sounds good and feels nice... Whether delivering chestnuts or originals, Hines is right there, on point playing the clean, bold lines that make you take notice that let you concentrate on the fire with being distracted by false pyrotechnics.

Malcolm Halliday, music director for Master Singers of Worcester, and First Congregational Church in Shrewsbury, puts all 4,500 pipes of Wesley's 1927 E.M. Skinner Great Organ through their paces in this exciting, 30-minute concert. The concert will be followed by an informal demonstration of the organ. This program is supported in part by a grant from the Worcester Cultural Commission, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

This lively and poignant comedy about love and survival illuminates the relationships, humor, and feelings of three close friends who meet at the cemetery each month to pay their respects to their late husbands. Each of the widows is at a different stage of healing and moving on with her life. The flamboyant Lucille – whose husband was unfaithful – flirts outrageously, as if to avenge herself. The quieter Doris is content to remember her husband. Ida is beginning to think she’s ready for a second chance at love. But Lucille and Doris aren’t ready for her to take that chance. How the friends resolve this conflict is funny, touching, and thought-provoking.

Bowker Auditorium in Stockbridge Hall

REPERTOIRE: Featuring works by David Skidmore, Thierry de Mey, James Campbell, and a large ensemble arrangement of Steve Reich's Electric Counterpoint by UMass Alum Chris Retschulte

Every Sunday at 4:30 we host one of the longest running open blues jams in the Boston area with guitarist MIKE WELCH, and the HOODOO MEN acting as MCs- it's open to all ages (under 18 with a parent)- come on in, sign up, and let us hear your stuff!!

Featuring The John Baboian Quartet, Sandi Bedrossian (vocals), Hye Fusion Trio.

Benefit for Armenian Women's Welfare Association. Abundant Mezzeh & Desserts. For ticket and event info call: Elaine 617-926-0228

Featuring: dan and nathalie bongiorno

The Blue Collar Band

Onset Bay Blues Cafe' features open mike & jam sessions weekly to promote the blues by letting aspiring artists have a venue to play. We extend our offering to the musical community by having house instruments available for musicians to use when they don't have theirs.

"...a magnificent balance of virtuosity, drive, and finesse is firmly upheld. Carroll's bowing and Doyle's picking represent a kind of soloing in sync, each supporting and inspiring the other without a whiff of self-indulgence... (They) are a duo in every sense of the word here: synaptic in communication, instinctive in reaction, tight in execution, rich in ideas, and unabashedly having a ball." - Earle Hitchner, Irish Echo

Wanda Paik is a frequent performer in the greater Boston area, both as solo recitalist and orchestra soloist. She has appeared as soloist with the Boston Pops, the Boston Classical Orchestra, the Civic Symphony of Boston, and numerous other orchestras in the area. She will give a recital of works by Romantic and Post Romantic composers including Beethoven's monumental and iconic work, the "Appassionata" Sonata in F minor, Op. 57, a Chant Polonais and Scherzo # 1 in B minor by Chopin, shorter works by Dohnanyi, and a set of 4 pieces by Rachmaninoff.

Bezanson Recital Hall

REPERTOIRE: Premiers of works and arrangements by Catherine Jensen-Hole and Jazz Composition Graduate Students; original compositions by Greg Jasperse, Kerry Marsh & Julia Dollison