2016 SUMMER
Old Deerfield Sunday Afternoon Concert Series
Beautiful chamber music performed in the lovely Victorian setting of Memorial Hall Museum’s Music Room—newly renovated and air-conditioned—at 3 p.m. on Sundays July 3rd through August 28th, 2016. Tickets: $10 for adults; $5 for seniors and students. Tickets available at the door. See schedule below.
July 10th
Ken Forfia, Piano
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July 17th
Carol Hutter, Viola
Anderson Paes, Clarinet
Larry Picard, Piano.
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July 24th
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Akal Dev Sharonne, Flute
Larry Picard, Piano
“Stolen Goods,” works by Mozart, Albeniz and Brahms
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July 31st
The Pioneer Consort
Chris Devine, Violin
Michael Nix, Banjar
Greg Snedeker, Cello
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August 7th
Duo Fusion
Sarah Swersey, Flute
Joe Belmont, Guitar
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August 14th
The Valtchev-Tchekoratova Duo
Gregory Valtchev, Violin
Lora Tchekoratova, Piano
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August 21st
Bella Voce
Lisa Woods, Mezzo-Soprano
Teri LaFleur, Soprano
Jerry Noble, Piano
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August 28th
The Deerfield Duo
Mark Fraser, Cello
Anthony Berner, Violin
MORE 2016 EVENTS
FREE Independence Day Band Concert
Please join us for our annual 4th of July concert (Monday, July 4th, 2016) featuring the Westmoreland Town Band at 3:00 p.m. in the Deerfield Teachers’ Center at 10 Memorial Street, Deerfield, in our handicap accessible Multi-Purpose Room. We hope you’ll join us for this wonderful concert, which has been a tradition for more than a quarter century! There is seating available for over 100. FREE ADMISSION.
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2016 Juneteenth Concert
Old Deerfield’s Brick Church at 4:00, June 19, 2016; Admission is $10
June 19th, 1865, known as Juneteenth, was the first African American celebration of the end of slavery. It is still celebrated every year. This program addresses the little known, but extensive presence of African Americans in New England’s history and their significant influence on the unfolding American Culture.
Performers, a storyteller, and musicians take their audience on a “journey back in time” in the Connecticut River Valley of Western Massachusetts, 1700 through the 1920s. The stories reveal specific historical African American individuals, their day-to-day lives, the events they were involved in, and the music they thrived on as the time period unfolds.
From 1700s West African Homelands, to Colonial New England, to 1920s Jazz – The journey begins with memories of the ancestral West African homelands, where daily life included tribal music of Senega; and Gambia tied to the passing of seasons, as well as traditional Griot storytelling music. Moving through time, the program’s fourteen stories with songs and tunes include:
~Napthalo, a lover of sacred music, singing in the Sunderland Church during the revivals of the Great Awakening;
~Angeline finding refuge in Colrain after a harrowing rescue from Amherst;
~Put’s fiddlin’ in Greenfield’s Mansion House, and traveling with his band to county-wide gigs by horse-drawn carriage or sleigh;
~Pre-battle singing of Black soldiers in the tent camps of the Massachusetts 54th Regiment;
~Gospel singing in the first local African churches;
~Rent parties in Holyoke’s Black community during segregation and prohibition;
~Finding Gil Roberts – a custodian at the Lord Jeffrey’s Inn – on the back porch or furnace room in the late afternoons, playing amazing jazz on his banjo.
The performance is the culmination of a week-long workshop for local seasoned and amateur musicians of mixed ages, facilitated by professional musicians, who are collaborating with the project’s creator, conductor of research, and program director, Jacqueline Cooper, and PVMA. This program is funded in part by the Cultural Councils of Deerfield, Conway, Sunderland, and Whately.
June 18, 2016, Eaglebrook School, Deerfield, MA
Glacial Lake Hitchcock and Its Primal Inhabitants: A Conference Dedicated to the Native American Culture, Legacy and Artifacts in the Connecticut River Valley
Learn more here. Download the registration form here.
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COMMEMORATION OF THE 1704 RAID ON DEERFIELD
Saturday, February 27, 10 am–4:30 pm
Sunday, February 28, 10 am–2 pm
Old Indian House Children’s Museum, Old Deerfield, MA
See the full weekend schedule here!
“Rain or shine”—but the number of reenactors present may be fewer if the weather is bad (the Indian House will still be open with limited activities).
