Executive Director, New Philharmonia Orchestra and Managing Director, Newton Cultural Alliance Adrienne Hartzell Knudsen has been promoting and managing the performing arts scene in Newton since 1995, when she became Executive Director of the New Philharmonia Orchestra. But her active involvement really began in the mid 1980s when her husband,…
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The Newton Centre Shop & Stroll will return this Sunday, December 18, 12PM-4 PM. Stroll about the Centre for your holiday shopping and you’ll find local artisans and entrepreneurs popping up in fourteen Newton Centre shops and restaurants. This year, the Shop & Stroll has expanded with more shops and pop-ups…
The Newton Art Association continues Art Works for Good, its annual fundraising for worthy causes, with a fundraiser this year for Facing Cancer Together (FCT), which provides care to cancer survivors and their families who cannot afford access to essential support services. Through January 14, NAA member artists selling any…
Folksinger Catie Curtis has done it all, musically. She started in Saco, Maine, where she was born, singing and playing (the guitar) the music of folk legends like James Taylor, and evolved into a folk music legend in her own right. In high school, and especially at Brown University, she…
You can’t mistake the light, crackling sound when a needle is placed on a record and it begins to play. It’s a process to hear music from an album, not the instant gratification of using an iPod. Nobody knows this better than Dave Belson and Brian Coleman, co-owners of Want List…
The Newton Cultural Alliance welcomes legendary folk singer and songwriter Catie Curtis to The Allen Center 35 Webster Street) on December 16 at 7:30PM. For over 25 years, Catie toured full-time in the U.S. and Europe. She is back live on stage in her hometown of Newton with a concert…
The New Art Center’s New Art Shop is now open at the New Art Center’s space on the 2nd floor of the Trio (245 Walnut Street, Newtonville) for holiday shopping that supports local artists. The shop will be open Wednesdays through Sundays until December 23, noon to 6PM each day…
The Newton Family Singers will present their Fall 2022 concert — Love is the Seventh Wave –featuring the music of Sting and Peter Gabriel on December 11 at 4PM at Temple Beth Avodah (45 Puddingstone Lane). It’s family friendly and their first in-person concert in two years! Tickets bought online…
The New Philharmonia Orchestra and the Boston Ballet School will present Holiday Celebrations!, featuring music and dances from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite, on December 11 at 3PM at Brown Middle School (125 Meadowbrook Road). Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for students (under 25).
Music Mondays is a women-run nonprofit presenting frequent, live music concerts in the Scandinavian Living Center’s Nordic Hall to audiences of mostly senior citizens. Their 25th concert since March 2020 will be on Monday December 12, 2PM-3PM: Violinist Peter Zazofsky, cellist Ronald Lowry, and pianist Randall Hodgkinson of the Orion Ensemble…
“Music is such a central part of my life,” said Lisa Wong, violinist, pediatrician, and long-time Newton resident. “For me, balancing music and medicine is not a choice, but a necessity.” She began playing the piano at age three and violin at eight, and also learned guitar and ukulele. Lisa…
Allison-Yoshie Eldredge is a world-renowned cellist, founder and director of the new Cherry Street Players, and the first Artist in Residence at the Allen Center, on Webster Street in West Newton. In 1854, Nathaniel Topliff Allen, a disciple of Horace Mann, Massachusetts Secretary of Education, opened the West Newton English…