Summer on the Emerald Necklace: Clave & Blues

The Emerald Necklace Conservancy presents Clave & Blues, featuring Blue Ocean Project, at Summer on the Emerald Necklace! Clave & Blues is a young Cuban Music and Latin Jazz band that performs at several venues in the Boston area since 2014. The mix between Afro-Cuban rhythms Blues, R&B, and World music creates a contemporary sound that give this band its place in the New England music scene. The group includes professional musicians from Berklee College…

Summer on the Emerald Necklace: Henry Acker Jazz Trio

Allerton Overlook, Olmsted Park 198 Allerton Street, Brookline

The Emerald Necklace Conservancy presents the Henry Acker Jazz Trio at Summer on the Emerald Necklace! Henry Acker is a fifteen year old jazz guitarist in the style of Django Reinhardt and with abilities far beyond his years. After playing for only six years, he has already shared the stage with jazz greats Bucky Pizzarelli, Frank Vignola, Julian Lage and Andreas Oberg as well as Gypsy Jazz legends Samson Schmitt, Mozes Rosenberg, Adrien Moignard, Joscho…

Summer on the Emerald Necklace: Metropolitan Wind Symphony

Pinebank Promontory Jamaica Plain, United States

The Emerald Necklace Conservancy presents the Metropolitan Wind Symphony at Summer on the Emerald Necklace! The Metropolitan Wind Symphony was founded by Jerry Gardner in 1971, and was awarded the prestigious 2015 Sudler Silver Scroll Award for Community Concert Bands by the John Philip Sousa Foundation. The Symphony is made up of over 60 talented woodwind, brass, and percussion instrumentalists who audition for membership and seating. MetWinds presents formal performances of traditional and contemporary wind…

Summer on the Emerald Necklace: Hawthorn

Pinebank Promontory Jamaica Plain, United States

The Emerald Necklace Conservancy presents Hawthorn at Summer on the Emerald Necklace! Working from the belief that tradition is made to evolve, the women of Hawthorn chart a creative course through Appalachian and Celtic roots to the present-day. Jamaica Plain locals Heather Scott and Taylor Holland craft songs with “a weight that sits with you long after their audible presence fades” (Red Line Roots). “When they harmonize, the edges of their voices bleed together like…

Summer on the Emerald Necklace: Boston Landmarks Orchestra

Pinebank Promontory Jamaica Plain, United States

The Emerald Necklace Conservancy presents the Boston Landmarks Orchestra at Summer on the Emerald Necklace! The Boston Landmarks Orchestra was founded in 2001 by conductor and community advocate Charles Ansbacher. The orchestra is comprised of many of the area’s finest professional musicians. They are active throughout the neighborhoods of Boston, mainly in the summertime. The orchestra is part Boston tradition, part Beantown innovation. And it has become an essential part of summertime in Boston. Learn…

Renters Rising Block Party and Music Fest for Rent Control

Jamaica Plain Brewery Complex (back parking lot) 284 Amory St., Jamaica Plain

Join us as we rock out to the sounds of Oompa, Zili Misik, JahRiffe & Jah-N-I Roots Movement, The Group Activity, and dance in the streets with Metamovements Latin Dance Company. This event is free and open to our entire community. Indoors in the Brewery complex, local artists affiliated with City Life/Vida Urbana will display and sell hand-died textiles and paintings as part of JP Open Studios. Bring your friends and neighbors! Are you tired…

Free

Celebrazione Musicale d’Italiano!

Loring Greenough House 12 South Street, Jamaica Plain, MA, United States

Enjoy 18th century parlor music in our 18th century parlor! In celebration of the holiday season, the Loring Greenough House is hosting a special chamber music concert featuring students from the world-renown Walnut Hill School for the Arts. Alumni from Walnut Hill are currently members of major symphony orchestras around the globe. The works of Italian composers will be featured (or those evoking the Italian "gioia della vita!") A festive reception with light refreshments will follow. Don't miss this chance to see and hear…

$15
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The Winter Solstice in Story and Song

Loring-Greenough House 12 South St., Jamaica Plain, MA, United States

Celebrate the longest nights with Solstice stories and songs evoking the warmth of the season. Oracle award-winning storyteller Diane Edgecomb, accompanied by Celtic harper Margot Chamberlain and multi-instrumentalist Tom Megan, weaves together a tapestry of ancient tales and tunes revealing the deep meaning behind winter holiday traditions. This theatrical storytelling features the Scandinavian “Legend of the Mistletoe,” evergreen myths and legends of light all complemented by folkloric music and songs from many lands. Complimentary seasonal…

$25 – $30

A Stradivari Serenade

NEC's Jordan Hall 30 Gainsborough St., Boston, MA, United States

Spend your Valentine’s Day weekend with Grammy-nominated chamber orchestra A Far Cry for the most romantic concert of the year! During this once-in-a-lifetime event, A Far Cry performs its signature work, Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings, from memory on 18 of the finest instruments in the world – crafted by the likes of Stradivari, Guarneri, and Amati and hand-selected by Christopher Reuning of Reuning & Son Violins.

$10 – $125

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Resurgence!

Lawn of First Baptist Church of Jamaica Plain, 633 Centre Street

The Centre for Faith, Art, and Justice, the non-profit organization sponsored and housed by First Baptist Church in Jamaica Plain, will be hosting a series of three outdoor events on April 10, April 17, and April 24 at 7pm. The purpose of these events is to highlight our Capital Campaign to finish the rebuild of our upstairs sanctuary/community space which was originally destroyed when our building burned down in 2005. The events will highlight our…

Free

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