Although Great Britain and the United States made the slave trade illegal in 1807-1808, other countries carried on the trade as did many illegal British and American traders. After 1818 the British and American navies sent vessels called interceptors to police the Middle Passage, sometimes impounding vessels, arresting crews, and returning captives to the African (more…)

Although Great Britain and the United States made the slave trade illegal in 1807-1808, other countries carried on the trade as did many illegal British and American traders. After 1818 the British and American navies sent vessels called interceptors to police the Middle Passage, sometimes impounding vessels, arresting crews, and returning captives to the African (more…)

A new recording on MSR Classics by Nina Stern & Glen Velez A musical landscape – a personal collection of some of Nina Stern’s favorite pieces of music. The range is wide–from the Medieval to the baroque, from instrumental to vocal, from music originally written for recorder to arrangements and adaptations. Sirt im Sasani, Bloubli (more…)

September 28, 2015 Showtime @ 8pm Doors Open @ 7pm Strawberry Fields is a look-a-like, sound-a-like Beatles tribute, dedicated to bringing you as close to a real Beatles concert as you can get. The tribute takes you on a Magical Mystery Tour beginning in 1964, complete with mop top hair, black suits with thin ties, (more…)

Sacred works by Domenico Zipoli and Johann Sebastian Bach. Crescendo received the Alfred Nash Patterson Award given by Choral Arts New England for this program, presented in New England in November of 2014. Crescendo was recipient of a national award, the Chorus America/ASCAP Alice Parker Award in 2014. Jesuit musician and missionary in South America, (more…)