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April 2024
Medford Jazz Festival Jam
The Medford Jazz Festival presents its third jam session of the year, rescheduled from March due to a performer's illness, at the West Medford Community Center. The house band once again features the Standard Expansion Project, which consists of Jonathan Fagan, John Dalton and Erik Van Dam. Fagan, a jazz pianist, launched the Medford Jazz Festival in October 2020 with a five-day event showcasing the cultural diversity, creativity and talent of local musicians through several virtual concerts. The final jam…
Find out more »Sarah Levecque at The Porch
Sarah Levecque, a songwriter and guitarist who moves easily between the sturdy roots of American music, returns to The Porch. Influenced in equal parts by early blues, country, folk, and rock music. Free admission for the music; table reservations recommended if you plan to have dinner.
Find out more »Tufts Spring Dance Concert
The Tufts University Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies presents the second of two performances of its Spring Dance Concert featuring senior capstone projects by Ellie Bloom, Sharika Kaul, Taylor Levin, Jessica Mann, Keira Myles, Noah Tervalon and Connie Yu. Tickets are $20 through the Tufts Drama and Dance online box office.
Find out more »Piano Recital: Anastasia Seifetdinova
First Baptist Church of Medford is delighted to host another piano recital by Anastasia Seifetdinova on the church's Baldwin D concert grand piano. The program will feature the Haydn Sonata in E minor; Debussy Estampes; Schubert Sonata in A Major, op.120; Nyzhankivsky Little Suite “Letters to Her"; and Zaderatsky Prelude and Fugue in F Sharp Minor. Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, Seifetdinova is a graduate of the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg, Germany, and holds master’s and doctorate degrees from The Hartt School…
Find out more »Thighs + 2 Bands at Deep Cuts
Thighs headlines a Record Store Day music afterparty at Deep Cuts. Also performing will the Sunglaciers and Holiday Music. Doors open at 7 p.m. with music at 8. Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 day of show through Dice. Light of Day Records will run Record Store Day at Deep Cuts from noon to 5 p.m.
Find out more »Kelly Riley Band at The Porch
Kelly Riley, well known to Medford audiences as a former member of the Porch Party Mamas, brings her band to The Porch. Now based in Nashville, Riley is an award-winning songwriter (Global Music Awards, Nashville Songwriters Association International Song Contest, Great American Songwriting Contest) and a seasoned singer, multi-instrumentalist, recording artist, and touring performer. She has opened for Willie Nelson and Lyle Lovett, and many songs from her CDs "Live and You Learn," "County Line," "The Songs of Rich Sokolow…
Find out more »Paint the Ice at LoConte Rink
The Medford Recreation Department invites you to bring the family and your creativity to LoConte Rink for Paint the Ice! Families will receive a box of paint to paint the ice with any artwork desired. Be sure to take pictures of your artwork. At the end of the event, the Zamboni will be remove the paint. For ages 3 and up. No skating experience is necessary. Cost is $5 per person. Register through the Medford Recreation website.
Find out more »Kids’ Silent Disco Brunch at The Ford
As April is Autism Awareness Month, The Ford Tavern is holding a kid-friendly Silent Disco Brunch to provide a space for kids to sing and dance without having the distractions of their surroundings. Each child will get a pair of headphones where they will be able to listen to music at their own sound level. Tickets are $15 per child and cost include a complimentary dessert. Weather permitting, the brunch will be held on the restaurant's patio. There will be…
Find out more »Exhibition Closing: Kenneth Tam – Standing in Soft Formation
Today concludes the Kenneth Tam exhibition "Standing in Soft Formation" at Tufts University Art Galleries. Through his choreographed video, photography and sculpture, Tam has long explored the myths and performative culture that uphold conventional American expectations of masculinity and identity. "Standing in Soft Formation" features the artist’s two most recent projects — "Silent Spikes" (2021) and "The Founding of the World" (2023) — in dialogue for the first time. The two installations explore historical and present-day tropes of Anglo-American masculinity…
Find out more »Exhibition Closing: Visualizing Collections
Today is the final day to view the Tufts University Art Galleries (TUAG) exhibition "Visualizing Collections: Data-Driven Approaches to Anti-Bias Curating." For decades, data has been a tool to shed light on the inequities in the visual arts — most famously utilized by the Guerrilla Girls, a masked collective of feminist artists who began using numbers and head-turning graphics in the 1980s to expose gender bias in museum collections. These efforts have since woven into the museum community with organizations…
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