Please join us for one or both concerts!

Jim Dalton and Maggi Smith-Dalton
Monday, June 18, 2012 5 p.m.
"The Sigh of the Weary: The Civil War at Home"
DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum Hennage Auditorium
Colonial Williamsburg
http://www.history.org/history/museums/dewitt_gallery.cfm
(For ticket information)
A special concert of Civil War Music illuminating the impact of the war on home and hearth.
Our two most recent recordings, including our Civil War CD of the same name, will be available for sale in the Colonial Williamsburg gift shop!




Jim Dalton and Maggi Smith-Dalton
"100 Years of American Popular Music 1830-1930"
House Concert, "Neil's House of Deco" (in Maryland) Friday, June 22, 2012 8 pm

Recommended donation $20
The address and directions will be sent to anyone attending a few days before the concert; go to
https://www.facebook.com/events/344805048926049/
to be on the contact list
or contact Neil Gladd at: http://www.neilgladd.com/Contact.html
Recordings will be available for sale here too

Maggi Smith-Dalton
http://singingstring.org

New PR pix!
Headshots for new book and beyond...
Credit: Dan St. John, Lightshed Photography, here in Salem Mass.
He does great work.

https://www.facebook.com/lightshedphoto

Good news! Two concerts now confirmed, and our performance trip down south to Williamsburg and D.C. and Maryland etc etc shaping up...plans are afoot! I turn in the new book to the publisher just before we leave....it's a great life, really. Making music and writing books, heaven on earth. Maybe I can even write more of a newsletter entry soon! Meanwhile, work work work work today again...

Just this past weekend, we stood on the beach where the Pilgrims found fresh water after landing in Massachusetts....

Celebration of American Music 3 at Boston Conservatory!

We had a fabulous time and an enthusiastic turnout for our annual BoCo American Music concert Monday night!

More to come...I'll post more on the concert and some more news about upcoming events later! But wanted to get the thanks out there right now....Thanks to our amazing musical colleagues, Steve, Rebecca, and John, to the BoCo marketing team, to our sound and lights and ushers, and most of all thanks to YOU our audience...old and new friends, community members and fellow BoCo-ites, all of us making music to raise the roof!

Joy is simply the condition of life, to paraphrase a fave writer of mine...

A Celebration of American Music 3 with Jim and Maggi Dalton

Faculty Recital: A Celebration of American Music 3 with Jim and Maggi Dalton

Jim and Maggi Dalton with guest musicians from BoCo
Monday, April 23, 2012 - 8:00pm
Seully Hall
Price:
FREE

COME CELEBRATE THE RELEASE OF OUR NEW RECORDING! "THE SIGH OF THE WEARY: THE CIVIL WAR AT HOME"

Take a sometimes haunting, sometimes amusing, musical journey through America's past with A Celebration of American Music 3, featuring a performance on voice, guitar, mandolin and banjo, as well as a varied palette of styles, carving a broad path through the American past from 18th-century ballads to 20th-century blues.

This year features a special segment commemorating the Civil War. Jim and Maggi Dalton will be joined by guest musicians from The Boston Conservatory’s faculty.

A scene from the Downton Abbey Withdrawal Clinic at Chez Dalton.

Check this out! (and visit our site or blog http://www.singingstring.org/JM/ for updates...

Carson Cooman (b. 1982; Rochester, New York)
Selected Recital Engagements:

May 24, 2012 at 12:15 pm: First Church (Unitarian Universalist), Boston, Massachusetts; Craig A. Penfield: Concerto in C major (1967); Jim Dalton: Canonic Variations and Fugue on "Free At Last" (2005); Ronald Perera: Full Sun (2011); Denis Bédard: Suite du deuxième ton (2009-10)" http://www.carsoncooman.com/concert-organist/engagements.html

[Newsletter] Jim & Maggi Dalton's SSNO Volume 19 #1 January 2012

Dalton/Singing String Music/IMHCT.ORG
Date:
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:37:59 -0500

Jim and Maggi Dalton's SSNO Volume 19 #1 2011
Announcements and Updates as of: Thursday, January 19, 2012


Singing String News Online



In this Issue: Did you think we'd gone fishin'? It's been a long time between newsletters! After this email, we're unveiling a new way of sending you news...
a short email with links to our blog just to let you know about upcoming programs open to the public.

We're switching the "full" newsletter to about twice a year.
The blog will provide a way to subscribe for updates if you choose.


An Occasional Newsletter, Published Twice Per Year

Combined newsletter for:
Jim and Maggi Dalton's Singing String Music http://singingstring.org/JM
Understanding History Thru Music ™

The Institute for Music, History, and Cultural Traditions, Inc. http://imhct.org
A 501(c)(3) Cultural, Educational, and Scholarly Nonprofit Organization

including IMHCT's Main Public Programs,
The American History and Music Project ™ and The Salem History Society


TO ACCESS ALL OUR SITES AND ALL OUR NEWS VISIT US AT SINGINGSTRING.ORG




Welcome New Newsletter Subscribers!


WELL! here's a big part of what's been keeping us busy this past year....two NEW recordings! We gave live performances too, of course! but this year, after the semester was over in May, we went into the studio almost full time to produce our two new albums!

"Cold is the Nightwind" is available from ITunes and CD Baby; "The Sigh of the Weary" will be available there too soon! (Just released in January) Go to our Our Store page on our website to keep up to date, or to order! (You can also order directly from us; order form is on our website.)


COMING UP NEXT:

JOIN US!

Our Currently Featured Program
"You're Invited...."




READ OUR WEEKLY BOSTON GLOBE COLUMN!
Since November, 2010, we've had a regular weekly history column on the Boston Globe's online site, boston.com. We'll post links to all the articles on our website, Globe Articles and Around the Web
Visit the site at "Your Town Salem" for new articles every Wednesday.
Section Two: The Rest of the Story....



On The Upswing

Check out our NEWLY redesigned websites for 2012!...
SINGING STRING MUSIC AND Salem History Society

The Institute website will be redesigned, with a new focus, in 2012 as well.

Please visit our sites and keep your eye out for announcements.


COMING UP!!!!! Faculty Recital: A Celebration of American Music 3 with Jim and Maggi Dalton Monday, April 23, 2012 - 8:00pm
Location: Seully Hall, the Boston Conservatory Price: FREE

Take a sometimes haunting, sometimes amusing, musical journey through America's past
with A Celebration of American Music 3,
featuring a performance on voice, guitar, mandolin and banjo,
as well as a varied palette of styles, carving a broad path through the American past
from 18th-century ballads to 20th-century blues.

This year features a special segment commemorating the Civil War.
Jim and Maggi Dalton will be joined by guest musicians from The Boston Conservatory's faculty.






THEMES AND VARIATIONS
Visit our Upcoming Performances page

Facebook and Twitter...

Jim & Maggi Dalton's Singing String Music on Facebook
The American History and Music Project ™ on Facebook
Updates on Twitter
@SingingString

Download a brochure





BACKSTORIES

RECENT PERFORMANCES, COMINGS, GOINGS...

RECENT PERFORMANCES

Thank you to our wonderful audiences
for sharing and making music with us...


and hope to see you all again soon.


Album release signing at our elegant Phillips House Museum, here in Salem, for our brand-new Christmas album, Cold is the Nightwind, during Historic Salem's "Christmas in Salem" celebrations. Thanks to the staff and the director, Julie Arrison, for always-warm and wonderful hospitality. This mansion on Salem's historic Chestnut Street is a MUST-SEE gem in Salem, Mass.


"The Storm Before the Storm: America Heads Toward Civil War"

and

"Cold is the Nightwind: A Victorian Christmas"

Two concert programs this year given at the Shirley-Eustis Mansion, Roxbury, Mass.
An amazing historical house-museum, with a complex and interesting story to tell. Go there! it's truly beautiful.



After giving a special Salem public school group an illustrated and musical lesson,we joined with our colleagues, Seth Austen and Beverly Woods to provide music for their afternoon school program at Hamilton Hall in Salem, where the students participated in a 19th-century dance program.

Maggi not only signed a contract for a second book to be published in 2012, but was elected to a two-year term on the New England American Studies Association Council for 2012-14, her first-ever term for this great regional group.

Jim continues his full-time, sterling career at the Boston Conservatory, and has been in demand as a pit orchestra musician for musicals and operas. He has also served as a guest artist with some of our colleagues, in a variety of gigs, all year long.

Maggi took her first-ever trip to England to deliver a paper, "Music as Ritual Redemption at the Salem Peace Jubilees" at an academic conference at Brighton University. She saw London for ONE day...in the pouring rain, of course!


Maggi also presented a peek at the paper for the New England American Studies Assoc. colloquium at the Massachusetts Historical Society just before she left for the UK.

The History Press
Purchase Stories and Shadows ONLINE...NOW IN EBOOK FORMAT....ALSO AVAILABLE ON ITUNES, KINDLE, NOOK, AND ANDROID!
The History Press
Barnes & Noble
Amazon.com

The Basics

©2009-2012 Jim and Maggi Dalton/Singing String Music
All Rights Reserved.

http://pickeringhouse.org/events.html
Pickering House Website, with directions



Please join us at the Pickering House!
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Chowder Brunch At Noon
followed by:

"'The Many Vibrations You Have Made': Exploring the Pickering Family's Cultural Milieux." The Pickering House is Salem, Massachusetts' oldest House "and America's oldest Home" (home to the Pickering family for over 350 years).


The program by the Daltons, a musical illustrated performance/lecture, will illuminate the cultural context successive generations of Pickerings would have experienced from the 1600s to the 1900s. In this beautiful home, over the centuries, music sounded and celebrations of all types wove bright threads in the tapestry of time...


COMING UP!!!


A Celebration of AMERICAN MUSIC III

concert!


Monday, April 23, 2012 - 8:00pm

Location:

Seully Hall, Boston Conservatory



Release of new album:

"The Sigh of the Weary: The Civil War at Home"


Official Release Concert in April at The Boston Conservatory!

Each year, folklore says, what you do on the first day of the year will bring that energy into your life. Thus, you should do a little bit of the work you want to do in the coming year, write down what you wish & visualize for yourself, be careful of your social interactions, and make sure you have a bit of money in your pocket.

Jim & I keep this tradition every year and urge our audiences at concerts to do the same.

So, go, make your list!

New Year's Day 2012...40 degrees...and blooms and BUDS on my fairy roses!

Wishing, for you, a 2012 filled with just enough shadow to give you an appreciation of the light, just enough silence to allow you to hear the music of living, and just enough sorrow to make your joys incandescent. From our home, to yours, peace, music, and love. — with Jim Dalton.

Welcome to our newsy little blog...where we'll post upcoming programs, concerts, events, comings and goings...stuff we find interesting...all kinds of news. If you just want to find out where we'll be performing next, you can always simply go here: Upcoming Performances

"Singing String News" will be the header for new posts about our activities....other posts will simply be posted with appropriate titles.



We'll post our year-end "Letter Home" here in the next couple of weeks, thanks again for visiting!