All Newton Music School’s Musical Memory Café is an informal social gathering for people with dementia and other cognitive changes and their care partners. Guests are welcome regardless of diagnosis. Attendees can connect with fellow community members while enjoying a musical performance by some of All Newton Music School’s outstanding…
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Historic Newton is hosting a Hayfest — a day when families can travel back in-time to the 19th century by dipping candles, pressing apples, churning butter, playing games, and more. It will take place on Sunday, October 6, 12-4PM in the backyard of the Jackson Homestead (527 Washington Street, Nonantum).…
Newton Community Farm is hosting a Fall Family Fun Day with a farm scavenger hunt, pumpkin decorating, seed matching game, and more. It will take place on Sunday, October 6, 9:30AM-12PM at the Newton Community Farm (303 Nahanton Street). Registration is free.
All Newton Music School is hosting a Con Brio Sunday “Brunch” Club concert with a program of songs that have been inspired by the themes from Mozart, Bach, Tchaikovsky, and more. There will be sandwiches, coffee, and orange juice. It will be performed by violist Scott Woolweaver, vocalists Katie O’Reilly, Carol O’Shaughnessy, and Russell…
Cherry Street Music (CSM) will present a concert — Classical with a Twist: Champions for Change — featuring works in honor of musical giant and staunch advocate of human rights, cellist Mstislav Rostropovich. This concert will be performed by CSM Director Allison Eldredge on the cello, Max Levinson on the…
Music Mondays will offer a concert with a performance of Ludwig van Beethoven’s delightful first piano trio and Armenian composer Arno Babajanian’s only piano trio, a romantic masterpiece which is considered to be one of his most important works. The concert will feature violinist Ryan Shannon, cellist Paul Mattal, and…
Ling (Lynne) Guo is known to many Newton residents as the director of the Boston Eastern Heritage Chorus (BEHC), a musical group in Newton for over two decades, based in Newton’s Chinese Language School. BEHC recently returned from performing in the International Choir Festival Held in Tuscany. While not a…
Since its beginning as a flag-raising ceremony at Newton City Hall in 2020, Newton’s India Day has grown over time, becoming a multifaceted celebration of the subcontinent’s cultural diversity. “Every year we see the participation increasing,” said Heena Bhatt, cofounder and the president of the Indian American Community of Newton…
Passing by the Boston Public Garden on a lazy summer afternoon, it’s hard to miss one of the city’s most iconic landmarks. The Make Way for Ducklings sculpture marches along the edge of the garden’s path. Yet, beneath the surface (and often, decorations), of Mrs. Mallard and her eight ducklings…
Jason Garb, a recent graduate of Berklee College of Music, will be the keyboardist for FifteenØeight at Lollapalooza in Chicago, IL on August 2, as part of the Berklee Popular Music Institute, an innovative, year-long class that brings students and Berklee-affiliated acts to major U.S. music festivals. Emily Rachel Ochlis has…
Since she was little, high schooler Giuliana Forte has attended Nonantum’s annual Festa Italiana, often sitting beside her father in the car he drove to carry the bell rung in the festival’s processions; she eventually assumed the responsibility of pulling the bell’s rope. Yet the personal importance of Festa lies…
Red, white, and green flags; porch lights and median strips; flagpole posters with pictures of local business owners and departed members of the St. Mary of Carmen Society — and temporary electronic police signs warning drivers to expect delays July 17-21 from 4PM to 11PM — announce Nonantum’s annual Italian-American…