Community Calendar

Don't miss the BIGGEST Bhangra Competition in the USA! This will be our 22nd year and we're looking for it to be our biggest and best yet! Bhangra is a folk dance from India that is very high energy and really fun to watch. People have compared it to a fusion of hip hop and cheerleading with a folk twist.

We will have some of the best Bhangra teams from the USA and Canada battling it out to be crowned the champions!! Don't miss it at the Strand Theatre in Boston on Saturday, November 15th, 2025 @ 6 PM Sharp!

This year we will have 2 categories: music category with pre-recorded music that the teams dance to and a live category, where teams bring their own bands and they perform to their bands! This will be a FIRST for a US competition!

LEGENDARY Bhangra singer Bhinda Jatt will be performing live!!!

You can count on some delicious indian food being sold by Mirchi Nation restaurant throughout the night along with drinks.

We will also have the biggest Bhangra party in the northeast directly following the event featuring the Nations Finest Xtreme Productions featuring DJ Bunty & DJ Jaskaran along with Dhol Players!

Learn more @ http://www.bostonbhangra.com/bbc or call 617-448-2508

"LIVE from Ashtonwood" closes its 2025 season presenting international rising jazz star and NYC-based vocalist Laura Anglade. Laura will be accompanied by the consummate vocal accompanist and pianist Michael Kanan.

This house concert will be streamed LIVE and free of charge via Facebook here - https://www.facebook.com/AshtonwoodHouseConcerts.

Renowned mandolinists Matt Flinner and Joe K. Walsh unite for an evening of rich tone, intricate interplay, and masterful musicianship. Flinner, a National Banjo and Mandolin Champion celebrated for his genre-spanning compositions, joins Walsh, the acclaimed Berklee professor and boundary-pushing member of Mr Sun, for a dynamic performance that bridges bluegrass, jazz, and contemporary acoustic music. Experience two of the finest voices in modern string music in an intimate, unforgettable concert.

Soundbath with KAMAUU is unlike any other experience at Bombyx - a synthesis of meditation, and yoga - an hour of calm, intention, introspection, and humor. Rapper, poet, thinker, producer, and language & sound artist KAMAUU provides improvisational vocal layerings via live loop pedal sound building with call and response and communal discussion in a safe, relaxed environment where guests can recline and simply focus on breath.

Please bring your own water, yoga mat or small rug, blanket, and pillow. Whatever you need to feel comfortable resting on the floor. Chairs are also available for those who prefer.

Doors open at 6:30PM. Soundbath will commence promptly at 7PM.

Sandglass Theater's A Rafter of Crankies returns to Green Mountain Orchards for the 11th consecutive year! Performances will take place on Friday, November 28, at 5 PM and 7:30 PM, and on Saturday, November 29, at 5 PM and 7:30 PM. This event will be part of the Putney Craft Tour over Thanksgiving Weekend.

Crankies are panoramic scrolls that are “cranked” through a box, creating an experience reminiscent of an analog movie or a comic strip paired with a song or story. Together, they produce performances that are charming, often wildly funny, or strikingly haunting. While traditionally associated with Appalachian folk culture, today’s crankies embrace cultural, musical, and artistic expressions that are contemporary and as unpredictable as the weather!

Heating will run before and between shows; the temperature in the building should be somewhere between outdoors and cozy. Bring layers! Cider and baked snacks will be available by donation.

And why a Rafter of Crankies? Rafter is the group name for turkeys (just as fish group in schools or geese in gaggles). Just look at the ceiling of Green Mountain Orchards and you’ll see why the name fits for a group of crankies as well. And on Thanksgiving weekend, what better way to tie the rafter together than with the traditional meal and a crankie performance!

As a part of our CT River & Roots Series, enjoy a free concert by pop/folk musician Jessye DeSilva in our gallery at 2:00pm. Bring your family and friends–all are welcome!

Generously supported by the Town of Windsor.

ABOUT JESSYE

Jessye DeSilva seamlessly blends theatrical pop elements with traditional folk and roots music to form her piano-driven alt-americana sound. She infuses hope into songs about religious alienation, mental health struggles, and societal injustice to create a uniquely queer and unholy ruckus. Jessye’s forthcoming album Glitter Up the Dark was produced by Aaron Lee Tasjan and incorporates Eighties pop and Nineties alternative flourishes to the stately Americana and country-rock sounds of 2023’s Renovations and 2022 debut Landscapes, which earned her a nomination for Americana Artist of the Year at the 2022 Boston Music Awards. No Depression says “Comparisons to Elton John and Brandi Carlile are easy — DeSilva clearly takes a page from these idols, anchoring [her] songs in pop melody juggernauts, gauzy textures, and vocal bravado.” Nashville Scene named her a 2023 Artist To Watch, saying “DeSilva could inject new life into a genre that could definitely use a little more pretzel logic.”

Sandglass Theater's A Rafter of Crankies returns to Green Mountain Orchards for the 11th consecutive year! Performances will take place on Friday, November 28, at 5 PM and 7:30 PM, and on Saturday, November 29, at 5 PM and 7:30 PM. This event will be part of the Putney Craft Tour over Thanksgiving Weekend.

Crankies are panoramic scrolls that are “cranked” through a box, creating an experience reminiscent of an analog movie or a comic strip paired with a song or story. Together, they produce performances that are charming, often wildly funny, or strikingly haunting. While traditionally associated with Appalachian folk culture, today’s crankies embrace cultural, musical, and artistic expressions that are contemporary and as unpredictable as the weather!

Heating will run before and between shows; the temperature in the building should be somewhere between outdoors and cozy. Bring layers! Cider and baked snacks will be available by donation.

And why a Rafter of Crankies? Rafter is the group name for turkeys (just as fish group in schools or geese in gaggles). Just look at the ceiling of Green Mountain Orchards and you’ll see why the name fits for a group of crankies as well. And on Thanksgiving weekend, what better way to tie the rafter together than with the traditional meal and a crankie performance!

Will Evans pulls everyone into his embrace. He musically accesses a space without boundaries where all are welcome to commune openly and move freely. Through quotable folk-inspired lyrics, breezy grooves, and roots energy, it’s as if he’s giving you permission to be that pure self you can’t always be at work or even at home…
The Rhode Island-based singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist also puts his words into action via his “Kind Folk” fan community, activating small acts of kindness, charity, and goodwill in tandem with performances nationwide. After generating over 50 million streams independently, he inspires once again through a series of 2025 releases and much more to come.

Through experimentation, exploration, and plenty of failures, Roomful of Teeth has learned that the boundaries of the human voice are never what they seem, that rules can be bent, even broken, and perhaps they should be.

Through their unique collaborative process, Roomful of Teeth has worked with many of today’s most compelling musical creators to build a significant and continuously growing repertoire. They have collaborated with a wide range of artists and ensembles spanning genres and art forms.

As the world rapidly changes, Roomful of Teeth is cultivating deeper relationships with technology, continuing to explore and expand the artistic reach of the human voice. They are excited about new collaborative projects focused on stories of place, home, and community in diverse environments around the world. They explore, learn, and collaborate with passionate curiosity, contagious enthusiasm, and deep gratitude.

AFTERNOON WORKSHOP
1:30 doors for Community Sing
2-3pm Community Sing

EVENING CONCERT
6pm doors
7pm performance

“New Songs for an Old Poet” is a series of four concerts spanning July through December 2025. Organized by long-time Valley vocalist Peter W. Shea, who is also the principal performer, the series presents an enormous variety of songs, all of them musical settings of the great nineteenth-century German-Jewish poet Heinrich Heine, whose verses have been set to music more than any other poet. All are works that Peter has in some way helped to bring into the world, either by suggestion, commission, or premiere, as part of his thirty-year project on Heine and the music his poetry continues to inspire.

“Seas, Birds and Trees,” to be presented on Heine’s 228th birthday, is an evocative potpourri of works by eleven composers, among them Massachusetts residents Clifton “Jerry” Noble, David Kidwell, John Craig Cooper and Gregory Hayes, as well as Vermonters Paul Dedell and Zeke Hecker.

The ocean was a major recurring theme in Heine’s poetry, particularly the shore and islands of the cold and stormy North Sea, where he spent several holidays in his twenties. The sea’s bleak beauty haunted Heine the rest of his life, inspiring him to write poems that combine rich descriptions of the natural scene with fanciful and ironic tales and poignant love-songs. Those sea poems in turn have inspired much of this concert’s music, which consists of seven solo songs with piano, a suite for piano four-hands, and five pieces for one or two voices and various combinations of instruments. Pianist Brenda Moore Miller will accompany Peter on the solo songs, and will collaborate with Clifton J. Noble on the piano four-hands suite. Noble will also accompany the pieces with additional musicians. Mezzo-soprano Justina Golden will join in two vocal duets, and five wind and string players, including hornist Jean Jeffries and flutist Nina Wurgaft, will each play in two songs.