Entertainment

Wayne Martin Puppets Appearing at Watertown Mall’s April Vacation Event

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The Watertown Mall Hosts Wayne Martin Puppets, presenting “Spring Sings,” on Saturday, April 22 for April Vacation Week! Join award winning Wayne Martin Puppets for a special “Spring Sings” production! Experience the thrills of the greatest little string extravaganza puppet circus around! The show will be featuring “Scatterbrain the Balloon Blowing Rabbit.” Dance along with ‘The Jitterbugs,’ a ‘Grasshopper Fiddler,’ share in a ‘Teddy Bears picnic’ and march along with the ‘Doop Doop Baby Chicks Band Trio’! You’ll roar with laughter ad gasp in amazement at the antics of these amazing marionettes in a musical revue that’s great for the whole family!

Entertainment

ArtWeek Boston Coming to Watertown With Three Events

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ArtWeek 2017 will feature more than 250 events around the Boston area, including some activities in Watertown. Produced by the Boch Center, ArtWeek announced its largest season lineup ever. The award-winning creative festival will offer more than 250 events from April 28-May 7 — representing a more than 40 percent increase over the spring and fall 2016 festivals. ArtWeek events provide participants with new ways to experience art, culture, and creativity, and will now be held in 13 new neighborhoods and towns across Eastern Massachusetts, with a total presence in more than 70 communities. In collaboration with ArtSpring Cape Cod, this season’s festival will feature nearly 30

events on Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, and Nantucket.

Around Town

Watertown Arbor Day Celebration Features Food Trucks, Demonstrations

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Watertown’s Commander’s Mansion will host a free Arbor Day Celebration on Thursday, April 27. The celebration will take place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on April 27, rain or shine. In case of bad weather, the events will be in side the Mansion, 440 Talcott Ave. in Watertown (behind the Arenal on the Charles).  

Grab a bite to eat from the food trucks (they accept credit cards) or pack a picnic and join us for an afternoon of fun for all ages!

Entertainment

Check Out the Easter Activities at the Watertown Mall This Week

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The Watertown Mall hosts a couple Easter events for children this week. Breakfast with the Easter Bunny

Join us and the Watertown Family Network for a yummy breakfast at Papa Gino’s on Tuesday, April 11 at 9:30 a.m.! Breakfast will be $5 for adults and $5 for children. Every child’s meal includes a photo with the Easter Bunny at the Easter Village immediately following breakfast! It will be a fun filled morning with songs, stories and raffles for kids of all ages.

Concert

Revels Hosting Night of Traditional Quebecois Music in Watertown

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Fiddler Lisa Ornstein, who delighted audiences in last year’s Acadian Christmas Revels returns in May for a concert of traditional Québécois music with Le Bruit Court Dans La Ville featuring herself, guitarist André Marchand and singer/accordionist Normand Miron, all former members of the legendary traditional music group, La Bottine Souriante. 

Called “a trio of artists who helped define traditional Québécois music for their generation” by SING OUT! Magazine, Lisa, André and Normand will be joined by Franco-American singer and tradition bearer Josée Vachon, whose beautiful voice and guitar playing captivated last year’s Christmas Revels audiences night in and night out. Please join us for this exciting evening of music, song and spirit! Grace Vision Church is handicap accessible. The concert will consist of two 45 minute sets with a single intermission. 

Tickets: $20 (General Admission)

For Tickets and Information please visit www.revels.org

About Le Brut Court Dans La Ville:

The joy of Le Bruit Court Dans La Ville is in the music these three craft together. — SING OUT!

Around Town

The Easter Bunny Arrives at the Watertown Mall This Week

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The Watertown Mall invites the public to come to the enchanted village and see the Easter Bunny for yourself! Photographs with the Easter Bunny will be available at the Watertown Mall’s Easter Village, located near Carter’s. The Easter Bunny arrives Thursday, April 6th 2017 at 11 am! Hours of operation are 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturdays and 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sundays. The Easter Bunny Village will be open on the following dates: April 6-15.

Entertainment

Halalisa Singers Performing Songs from Around the World in Watertown

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The Halalisa Singers present Music Down in My Soul: Songs of hope and spirit from around the world, on Saturday, April 8, 8 p.m. at Follen Community Church, 755 Massachusetts Ave., Lexington, and on Sunday, April 9, 3 p.m., First Parish of Watertown, 35 Church St. The world music choral ensemble is led by Artistic Director Mary Cunningham, accompanied by Trevor Berens, piano and Bertram Lehmann, percussion. 

Music Down in My Soul features heartfelt, joyful selections to inspire hopefulness, strength in action and togetherness for both the audience and singers. Focusing on music with lyrics including ‘We keep our dreams alive, together we survive’, the program brims with positive spirit and inspirational messages. This soulful mix of spirituals, gospel, and contemporary choral music spans 300 years of courage and resistance from the Americas, Yemen, China, Tanzania, and South Africa, sung in Mandarin, Spanish, Hebrew, Swahili and Zulu. These are songs of praise bursting with positive energy, dynamic contrasts, captivating solos, exciting percussion, and a wide range of layered vocal textures.

Arts

Watertown Man Singing with Handel + Haydn Society in 2 Local Concerts

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Watertown resident Patrick Waters will sing tenor in the upcoming Handel and Haydn Society program, Monteverdi’s Vespers, in Boston and Cambridge. The program features the work of Claudio Monteverdi and is led by conductor Harry Christophers and featuring Jeremy Budd (tenor) and Mark Dobell (tenor). The H+H orchestra and chorus will be joined by special guests, The Handel and Haydn Young Women’s Chamber Choir, conducted by Alyson Greer. “Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610,” shares conductor Harry Christophers, “is quite simply one of the greatest works of sacred music ever written and without doubt the most varied and inspired before Handel and Bach began composing their oratorios and passions. Its variety alone makes it unique – thrilling psalm settings with virtuosic writing for both multi-part choir and instrumentalists to exotic and sensual settings of texts.