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Catch a Performance of Pop Song and Broadway Music by ‘Ladies First’

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The Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians will host a a production of “What No Tiara?” featuring popular songs and Broadway favorites. 

An hysterically funny and sometimes poignant musical journey into the real lives of women. Performing songs from popular music and Broadway, dealing with the many aspects of being female, are the group “Ladies First”: Christine Corbett, Jane Corrigan, Jean Dancewicz, and Carolina Lanney, according to the Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians’ announcement. Joining these ladies in both extolling the virtues of womanhood and providing a male rebuttal are Brendan Carroll and Tom Risser. The performance will be Friday, June 12 at Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians, 151 Watertown St. in Watertown.

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Revels Joining Perkins School for Free Celebration of Spring

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Celebrate the coming of spring with a free concert featuring the Revels and students from Perkins School for the Blind. The concert will be held on Thursday, May 28, 2015, at 7:30 p.m. in Dwight Hall at Perkins School for the Blind’s, 175 N. Beacon St., Watertown. Admission is FREE

This hour-long performance of seasonal music and dance will feature the Perkins School Secondary Program Chorus (Arnie Harris, director), The Revels Singers, song leader and musician David Coffin, guest soloists and a great band of musicians. And it wouldn’t be a Revels celebration of spring without morris dancing and a visit from the ancient and mysterious Padstow ‘Obby ‘Oss, all the way from Cornwall, England! “Revels’ partnership with Perkins School for the Blind these many years has been rewarding for all of us in so many ways.

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Mass Audubon Hosting Event at a Mall in Watertown

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You are invited to the “Birds and Bugs” event presented by Mass Audubon on Saturday, May 16. The Arsenal Project will introduce them to the wonders of natures around you. Right outside your door… the world is alive! Birds singing, building nests, finding food – insects and other invertebrates are active, too,” reads the announcement.

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Magic Show Will be Coming to a Watertown Church

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The First Parish Church of Watertown will host a springtime magic show, and all are invited. The show will be held on Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 3 p.m. and features members of the local chapter of the International Brotherhood of Magicians, Silent Mora–Ray Goulet (Ring 122). According to the event announcement: Performers will present a family show of amazing close-up magic before the show and spectacular stage magic. The show features several magicians, all members of Ring 122, who will engage and entertain audience members with a variety of magic. Cards, money, balls, and other familiar items will vanish, change form, and reappear; thoughts will be read and illusions witnessed. These professional and semiprofessional performers will bamboozle you while you laugh the whole time!

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See the Winning Pictures from the Watertown Savings Photo Contest

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The winning shots have been selected in the 2015 Watertown Savings Bank Neighborhood Photo Contest. For many years, WSB has held an annual photo contest for local high school students. This year, they decided to open the competition up to amateur photographers of all ages. The bank received 120 photos were submitted from 53 different photographers and 12 winners were selected. The winning photographs will appear in WSB’s 2016 calendar, available to bank customers each December.  A panel of judges composed of WSB staff selected the winners, according to the announcement from Watertown Savings Bank.     

Boston resident Bill Damon was awarded First Place for his photo Moody Street Dam, Waltham, which will appear with December in the 2016 calendar. Damon was also awarded an Honorable Mention for Ducks in Flight, Moody Street Bridge, Waltham, which will be the February photo. Previous two-time high school photo contest winner Jay Sullivan from Newton is this year’s Second Place winner for his photo, Heron Taking Off from the Charles, which will appear with July. The August photo will be Charles River, Watertown, taken by Watertown resident Chuck Dickinson. He was awarded Third Place. Nine Honorable Mentions were also awarded to: Watertown residents Ralph Holmberg and Joe McLaughlin for their photos, Waverley Oaks, Belmont, and Beaverbrook Reservation, Belmont, appearing in the 2016 calendar in January (Holmberg) and March (McLaughlin); Lexington resident Divya Jain for Lexington Minutemen, which will appear with April; AnneMarie Reynolds of Framingham, who will have her photo Early Morning Charles River Walk, Waltham in the June spot; Waltham residents Emma Magliarditi and Shouvik Gangopadhyay for their photos Leaves and Ladders and Cemetery in Autumn, which will appear with September and October respectively; Eleanor Kharasch of Newton, for her photo Fisherman, which will appear with November; and Mariah LaVache of Woburn, for her photo Watertown Fire Department, which will appear with May.  
The winning photos will also be featured on the digital screens in all WSB branch lobbies throughout the summer. For more information, please call WSB’s marketing office at 617-928-2336.

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Jazz Returns to the Arsenal Center for the Arts Next Week

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JAZZ @ The Arsenal returns on Monday, May 11, with Steven Kirby’s “Illuminations” Project, featuring vocalist Aubrey Johnson, presented by the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown. Steven Kirby is an award winning guitarist/composer and Associate Professor of Harmony at Berklee College of Music, whose music is most often categorized as contemporary jazz but who is influenced by a variety of genres, according to the announcement from Arsenal Center for the Arts. The Illuminations Project is Kirby’s newest compositional and performance endeavor. It features a six piece band comprising guitar, piano, sax/flute, bass, drums and, for the first time, vocals as a primary, featured, color in the compositions. The vocalist is Aubrey Johnson, a virtuosic singer who is capable of using her voice like an instrument to sing complex lines with wordless technique while also being able to sing lyrics with masterful interpretation and phrasing.

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Watertown’s Arsenal Center Hosts Family Arts Day on Saturday

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Celebrate the arts on Saturday at the Arsenal Center for the Arts at the free Open Arts Day. The day will include live music, art and theater workshops. The family-friendly, free event takes place on Saturday, May 2, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The drop-in open house features visual and performing arts workshops taught by the skilled arsenalARTS & Watertown Children’s Theatre staff. Participants can experiment with Clay (handbuilding and pottery wheel), Printmaking, Mixed-media and other art activities for the whole family. This year’s event will also feature a very special outdoor Steamroller Printing Project where artists will carve printmaking plates, ink them up, and then roll over them with an industrial steamroller, donated for the day by the Watertown Department of Public Works, create Relief print masterpieces! Watertown Children’s Theatre will present workshop performances of two student-written plays selected by a panel of local judges, as well as an encore performance of The Main Street Kids’ Club: A MathStart Musical, which had its Boston Premiere at the Arsenal Center in March.

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11-Year-Old Watertown Boy Will Play at NYC’s Carnegie Hall

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Watertown’s Joe MacDonald, a 11-year-old student at Cambridge Montessori School, has been selected for the 2015 Middle School Honors Performance Series at Carnegie Hall. He will perform as a violinist at Carnegie Hall in June 2015 with the Honors Junior Orchestra. Participation in one of the three Honors Ensembles is limited to the highest rated middle school performers from across North America and select schools internationally, according to the announcement from The Honors Performance Series. Joe auditioned this fall for the Honors Performance Series and was accepted after a review by the Honors Selection Board. Acceptance to the elite group is a direct result of the talent, dedication, and achievements demonstrated in his application and audition recording.