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UPDATED Aug. 19: An interactive performance was held from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, Aug. 18, by the local jazz band TNT at the Roasted Granola Cafe, 1346 Mass. Ave.
The band was to play two sets of instrumental music, inviting the audience to participate. The setlist was posted to TNT's website for those interested in learning the lyrics and singing along.
Previous to Aug. 11, when the band was also at the cafe, the quartet's first public performance in Arlington was at the Spring Fling in Arlington Heights earlier this year.
“We encourage people to sing with the band as we play the music. Music brings people together, and we hope the singalong can help with that as well,” the band’s tenor saxophone player Jeff Robinson wrote in an email to YourArlington.
According to Robinson, an Arlington resident, TNT has been performing as a group for three years. They primarily play instrumental versions of 1960s and '70s classics -- soul and R&B hits.
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Art Links Arlington is hosting open-mic nights for the town's poetry fans this summer. On Friday, Aug. 25, from 7 to 9 p.m., residents can expect to hear -- and to read aloud -- poetry at the Roasted Granola Café, 1346 Mass. Ave. A similar previous session took place July 28.
The open mic is open to all — first-time performers, seasoned readers or anybody looking to support local artists.
Doors are to open at 6:30 p.m. for signups; the first 20 poets are to each get five minutes behind the mic.
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ArtsArlington has announced that work begun during Chanel Thervil's artist residency to celebrate and build black community in Arlington continues as the Black Joy Project.
Activities are being organized in collaboration with Arlington's Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and the Arlington Human Rights Commission.
Organizers have enlisted Stephanie McKay, a recording artist, educator and arts advocate whose artistic practice connects community, education and social justice. She joins a team that includes Jill Harvey, Crystal Haynes, Cecily Miller and Teresa Marzilli.
Arlington resident Daniel Fridley is scheduled to perform in "The Prodigal Son" by Benjamin Britten at 7 p.m. Oct. 21 and 22 at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, 138 Tremont St. in downtown Boston.
The opera, presented by Boston- and UK-based Enigma Chamber Opera and directed by Kirsten Cairns, retells the biblical parable about two brothers — one loyal to the family business and the other tempted into squandering his inheritance — and their forgiving father.
First presented in 1968 as a "parable for church performance," it has a libretto by William Plomer.
"The Prodigal Son” features seven male singers portraying the gathered men who bookend the main story and characters in that story. Fridley, a bass, performs as a chorus member, portraying various characters throughout the production.
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Read more: Arlington resident was in Benjamin Britten opera Oct. 21-22
UPDATED Oct. 1: The Arlington Center for the Arts' Great Northeast Jug Band Festival returned for its second year and is was held Saturday, Oct. 1.
It was to be at the Jason Russell House lawn, but, because of inclement weather forecast, the event took place indoors and at 27 Maple St. in the main hall of the Arlington Community Center.
Touted as New England’s only jug-band festival, it highlighted song traditions from the 1920s and 1930s as well as the modern evolution of this good-time music.
This event is free and open to the public.
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After a three-year hiatus because of the pandemic, the Dallin Art Museum’s "Art on the Green" returned to Town Day.
Its jubilant event took place Saturday, Sept. 17, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., in Whittemore Park, in front of the museum in Arlington Center, at Mass. Ave. and Mystic. The event showcases local artists and music, and offers free museum tours.
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The following artists offered painting, prints, textiles, jewelry and more:
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Sheryl Davis
A new children's book from the Arlington-based Pierce Press – Ocean's Alive! by Sheryl Davis – has caught the eye of Dr. Sylvia Earle, a renowned oceanographer.
"I'm thrilled,” wrote Charlotte Pierce, the publisher.
Known as “Her Deepness” in the ocean conservation community, Earle writes in the introduction: “This book can show you, your family and friends ways to learn about and help protect our seas. No one can do everything, but everyone can do something to safeguard the ocean, Earth’s blue heart.”
Davis's first book, The Mystical Magical Abracadabracal Daniel McDougal McDouglas McFly, won two awards in 2019 from Story Monsters' Purple Dragonfly Awards.Ocean's Alive! continues the McFly series.
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Arlington artist Laurie Bogdan brings her mixed-media collages to three locales this summer, and she asks the public to visit and see her bird art:
- Saturday, July 16, from 11 to 5, at ArtBeat in Davis Square – a street fair with more than 65 artists, plus music and food;
- From Aug. 1 through 30, at the Weston Public Library Gallery; and
- Saturday, Sept. 17, from 10 to 4, at Town Day, during Art on the Green at Whittemore Park.
Bogdan told YourArlington that her collages are created from vintage maps, books, paper and games in combination with a variety of reused materials and objects.
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Maureen Callahan Smith
How do we move on when we lose the people we love the most?
Medford author and therapist Maureen Callahan Smith addresses this question in her new book Grace Street: A Sister’s Memoir of Grief and Gratitude, which is about her sister Kathy’s cancer diagnosis and their extremely difficult, complex, and emotional journey during the treatment process.
Smith read from her book at the Roasted Granola Café in Arlington on June 16. About 25 people attended, and Smith's editor and publisher, Patricia Crotty, introduced the author.
Smith read the foreword from Grace Street, talking about how death is an unavoidable part of life and how, although “we are so afraid of death in our culture,” we are actually meant to experience its impact and that “we have hearts made for [it.]” She read in a confident, serene tone that captured the audience’s attention.
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UPDATED May 8: 2022 A-Town Film Festival presented by Arlington Community Media, Inc (ACMi)
Screening May 22 the Regent Theatre.
Blue Jean Ball held; Play Time honored
Blue Jean Ball, Arlington's favorite party is to return in person to celebrate connection and community on Saturday, April 30, from 7:30 to 10:30.
The party and fund-raiser includes live music by Mike Duke & the SoulTwisters, dancing, awards, socializing and an irresistible silent auction at the newly renovated Arlington Community Center at 27 Maple St., ACA's home.
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