Entertainment

Watertown Dancer Performing in Cambridge Dance Company’s Production

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Watertown resident Grace Cassels will be dancing in the Cambridge Youth Dance Program’s production of “Divertissement Too” later this month. 

Divertissement Too, presented by the Cambridge Youth Dance Program, marks the company’s tenth annual spring concert in a showcase of depth and variety, elegance and whimsy, bringing three performances to BU Dance Theater April 28 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. and April-29 at 2 p.m. 2018. Artistic/Executive Director: Deborah Mason Dudley

Dates: April 28-29, 2018

Performance Times:

Saturday, April 28, 2018 matinee @ 2:00 p.m.

Saturday, April 28, 2018 evening performance @ 7:00 p.m.

Sunday, April 29, 2018 @ 2:00 p.m.

Location: Boston University Dance Theater, 915 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA

For tickets, click here: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3337261

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Folk Singer Songwriters Cindy Kallet, Grey Larsen Performing at Tremedal Concert

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This weekend the latest Tremedal Concert features Cindy Kallet and Grey Larsen.

Scott Alarik of The Boston Globe calls Cindy one of folk musics most respected songwriters provocative, heartwise, and original a brilliant guitarist. Mike Joyce of the Washington Post calls Grey a gifted multi-instrumentalist who consistently demonstrates his melodic finesse, while The New Mexico Daily describes his playing as positively spellbinding. Cindy and Grey have also appeared with host Andrea Seabrook on National Public Radios Weekend All Things Considered. The concert will be on Friday, April 6, from 8 p.m. at First Parish Unitarian Church of Watertown, 35 Church Street, Watertown. The Tremedal Concerts benefit the Watertown-El Salvador Sister City Project.

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Musicians Wanted for Annual Friends of Watertown Music’s MusicFest

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The Friends of Watertown Music will host its annual fundraiser, MusicFest, in early April and the group seeks performers to take part. The event will be from 5:30-9:30 p.m. on April 6, 2018, at Watertown Middle School, 68 Waverley Ave., Watertown. Suggested donations are $8 per person or $25 for a family. There will also be pizza, refreshments and a bake sale. The event has raised more than $20,000 to support the music program in the Watertown Public Schools.for more information go to Watertownmusic.org.

Entertainment

Mosesian Center Hosting Rock & Roll Celebration with Art Show, Gala

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The Mosesian Center for the Arts will host Art & Soul, with a gala featuring an acclaimed Rock & Roll historian, a concert and a BBQ dinner to go along with an art exhibit featuring portraits of rock musicians. Gala
On Thursday, April 12th, The Mosesian Center for the Arts will honor Peter Guralnick, Rock ‘n’ Roll historian extraordinaire and acclaimed author, known for his prize-winning two-volume biography of Elvis Presley, Last Train to Memphis and his most recent biography, Sam Phillips: The Man who invented Rock ’n’ Roll. The evening’s Rock ‘n’ Roll celebration – Art & Soul, a fundraiser for the Mosesian Center for the Arts (MCA) kicks off with a Memphis-style BBQ dinner followed by a spirited conversation with Guralnick and storied writer, and editor Mark Feeney, followed by a Rock ‘n’ Soul Revue featuring Giant Kings with Special Guests Barrence Whitfield, Dennis Brennan, Andrea Gillis, and Jesse Dee! Giant Kings are Chris Cote, Duke Levine, Kevin Barry, Marty Ballou, Andy Plaisted, Paul Ahstrand, and Mark Earley

For more information about the gala click here: http://www.mosesianarts.org/index.php/shows/mosesian-live/2018-mosesian-award-gala
Exhibit
On view March 22 through May 18, 2018 during regular business hours and during evening and weekend theater events. Opening reception March 23, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. (free and open to the public). Coinciding with our Annual Mosesian Award Gala that will honor Rock ‘n Roll historian, acclaimed author and prolific storyteller Peter Guralnick, the Art & Soul exhibition features professional and emerging contemporary art, as well as fan art, that is inspired by, pays tribute to or otherwise celebrates musicians, bands and music culture.

Charity

Upstage Lung Cancer Fundraiser Features the Music of George Gershwin, Cole Porter

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Upstage Lung Cancer (ULC), in its fifth year partnering with the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation, presents I Got Rhythm: In Love with Gershwin and Cole Porter, on Thursday, April 5, 7:30 pm at the Mosesian Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal Street, Watertown. All concert proceeds will benefit the Addario Lung Cancer Medical Institute’s (ALCMI) Genomics of Young Lung Cancer study and research for improved early detection of lung cancer. International jazz and cabaret recording artists The Follen Angels take center stage for a spectacular evening of entertainment in I Got Rhythm, featuring the beloved songs by two of the 20th century’s most treasured composers – George Gershwin and Cole Porter. Hosted by WBZ’s celebrity radio personality Jordan Rich, this inspirational night of live music strikes a chord to raise awareness of the changing face of lung cancer. The evening features special guest ensemble The Unisons, an all-male contemporary a cappella group from Northeastern University, known for performing up-tempo contemporary tunes in venues on campus all the way to Boston’s Symphony Hall.

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Watertown Art Gallery Features Works Made with Bold Application of Paint

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Watertown-based Room 83 Spring is hosting an exhibit called “Eye Feel,” featuring paintings where the paint has been applied thickly by hand, with a stick or straight from the tube. 

Paint and touch are paramount in Room 83 Spring’s current exhibition Eye Feel with Susan Carr, Tatyana Gubash, Katy Helman, Lavaughan Jenkins, and Ellen Wineberg. Each artist’s work has an insistent presence, which is articulated by the generous application of paint in the impasto technique. Straight from the tube, paint stick, or finger, paint is built up, slathered, and encrusted, often with colors colliding serendipitously on the surface. This deep investment in the physicality of the materials is imperative to expression, asserting object-ness and actuality. The heft of the paint preserves the hand’s mark-makings, becoming a narrative in itself, with the haptic quality underscoring a relational, even conceptual intent of the works.

Drama

Watertown High School Students Putting on the Musical “Pippin” This Week

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While the elements have not cooperated, Watertown High School’s production of the musical “Pippin” will go on this week as scheduled. Monday afternoon the 30 plus members of the cast fine tuned their numbers while the crew worked on the scenery and lighting at the WHS Auditorium. Showtimes are 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 15; Friday, March 16; and Saturday, March 17. The show is a bit of a mind bender for the actor who are putting on show within a show, said WHS junior Daniel Vanryn. “It is really cool, it is almost a show within a show.

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Watertown Author to Read from Her Book Based on Her Family’s Experience as Refugees

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Award-winning local author Kathleen Spivack, who lives in Watertown, will read from her debut novel Unspeakable Things, which uses magical realism to tell the stories of refugees fleeing the Holocaust and relocating in New York City. Spivack has had many books of poetry and has published short stories, but her first novel was published in 2016. She spoke with Watertown News about her book and said that it is based on her family’s experience as refugees moving to America (read more here). The book is now available in paperback. The reading will take place 0n Sunday, March 18, 2018 – 3:00 p.m. in the Watertown Savings Bank Room at Watertown Free Public Library.