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RECENT PAST EVENTS 2024

OLD DEERFIELD SUNDAY AFTERNOON CONCERT SERIES

July 7 – September 1, 2024

Beautiful chamber music performed in the lovely Victorian setting of Memorial Hall Museum’s Music Room at 3 p.m. on Sundays July 7th through September 1st, 2024.

Tickets: $15 for adults; $8 for seniors and students. Tickets available at the door.

See schedule below or download the .pdf flier here.

July 7, 2024
Michael Nix, Banjar
Chris Devine, Violin

July 14, 2024
Ken Forfia & Amy Gates, Piano

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July 21, 2024
Bella Voce
Lisa Woods, Mezzo-Soprano
Teri LaFleur, Soprano
Jerry Noble, Piano

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July 28, 2024
The Fiske – Shilling Piano Duo
Jane Fiske & Cynthia Schilling, Piano

August 4, 2024
Carol Hutter, Viola
Larry Picard, piano

August 11, 2024
Liana Paniyeva, Piano

August 18, 2024
David Kopp, Piano

August 25, 2024
Three of Cups
Ann-Marie Messbauer, Vocals, Violin, Guitar, Recorder
Deborah Claar, Vocals, Tambourine
(photo credit: Michael Tredeau)

September 1, 2024
The Valtchev-Tchekoratova Duo
Georgy Valtchev, Violin
Lora Tchekoratova, Piano

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Please check the website for last minute changes (phone: 413-774-7476 ext. 100; email: pvmaoffice@deerfieldmuseum.org).

The entire 2024 season is underwritten by: Martha & Thomas Terry; Tim Neumann & Tom Mershon; and Arrivability Car Service, South Hadley. Generous sponsors for individual concerts appear on each concert program..

ANNUAL 4TH OF JULY CONCERT

July 4, 2024
3 pm
Blue & White Room
10 Memorial Street
Westmoreland Town Band FREE Concert

BARBIE GARDEN PARTY!

Sunday, June 9, 2024, 12-4 pm
FREE at Memorial Hall Museum
Celebrate the new exhibit:
BARBIE – ALL DOLLED UP

* Wear pink! Enjoy pink food & drink!
* Take photos with a visiting Barbie from Regal Princess Parties, LLC
* Create Barbie crafts
* See a most stunning array of fashion Barbie dolls
* Enter to win a door prize.

Barbies donated by Nancy Damour and Kevin

THE GREEN RIVER FESTIVAL EXHIBIT & PARTY
Exhibit: Saturday, May 4 – Sunday, June 16 at Memorial Hall Museum
Party: Join Us on Saturday May 11th from Noon-2pm for an opening day party for our Green River Festival Exhibit. Find out more here.

Valerie June at Green River Festival; photo by Jason Zucco

For nearly four decades, the Green River Festival has been the premier music, arts, and entertainment event in Western Mass. This exhibit charts the rise of the festival from its homespun beginnings to multi-stage event that draws performers and participants from all over the country, and beyond. With focuses on the growth and impacts of the festival, noteworthy moments from years past, and hot air balloons (of course!), this exhibit will offer a look back, a look behind the scenes, and a look at the impacts the festival has throughout the region. Rarely seen photographs, artifacts, and first-hand accounts will help tell the fascinating story of the Green River Festival. (www.greenriverfestival.com)

Appearing at the Green River Festival, June 21-23

“NEW ROOTS IN RIVER BANKS” Exhibit

New Roots in River Banks is an exhibit and accompanying events on Polish and other Eastern European immigrants and their contributions in the Connecticut River Valley. Told through the experiences of two Eastern European immigrant families – the Skibicki/Skibiski family on farming and the Sojka family in factories, the exhibit, through photos and artifacts, chronicles their journey from Poland and Ukraine to America and their lives here in America. For all ages; all events are free and open to the public.

March 9 to April 28,
Great Falls Discovery Center
2 Avenue A, Turners Falls

Click here for more information on the exhibit and all the events and activities surrounding it.

Lecture: “The Deerfield Massacre in Myth and Memory”
Hess Auditorium, Deerfield Academy, 2 pm (doors open at 1 pm)

1704 Exhibit Preview: Memorial Hall Museum,
11 am-1:30 pm and 3:30-4:30 pm

On Sunday, March 3, 2024, at 2 pm—close to the anniversary of the 1704 Raid on Deerfield in the early morning hours of February 29—PVMA is hosting a free lecture and book signing by renowned author and scholar, James L. Swanson, in Deerfield Academy’s Hess Auditorium. Doors open and books are available for sale at 1 pm. Get a sneak preview of new elements in Memorial Hall Museum’s 1704 exhibit from 11 am-1:30 pm before the lecture, or from 3:30-4:30 pm that same day. The redesigned sections of the 1704 Memorial Gallery include new interpretation of the Sheldon House Door, feature diverse perspectives on the meaning of the door, and highlight rarely seen objects from the PVMA collection.

“A wonderful read! James Swanson’s eloquent and gripping account of Deerfield’s bloody past transports readers across space and time, while critically assessing the town’s multiple efforts to grapple with its history. He explores the persistence of colonial memories, and welcomes the inclusion of often-ignored Native American voices and perspectives. From a midnight vigil in a haunting colonial graveyard, a visit to the tomahawk-splintered Indian House door, or a stroll along an icy moonlit river on a cold February night, Swanson evokes disparate and unexpectedly poetic connections. He invites readers to walk with him into, through, and beyond this complicated past.” —Margaret M. Bruchac, Professor Emerita of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania and author of Savage Kin: Indigenous Informants and American Anthropologists