Friday, Jan 31, Sat, Feb. 1 Bards, Gazelles, Squirrels & Sonatas (II) A program of music performed by the composers (and friends)

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  Bards, Gazelles, Squirrels & Sonatas (II)

• • A program of music performed by the composers (and friends) The Ninth Ear Jim Dalton Karl Henning Nancy Rexford Charles Turner Program: Unarmed Man (première) | Chas Turner Peter H. Bloom, piccolo Karl Henning, clarinet Chas Turner, contrabass Gifts of the Bard | Jim Dalton Jim Dalton, mandolin Après-mystère Zen on the Wing Swivels & Bops | Karl Henning Peter H. Bloom, piccolo & flute Karl Henning, clarinet Sweet Gazelle (première) | Turner Chas Turner, shakuhachi Jim Dalton, guitar Violin Sonata (two movements, première) | Nancy Rexford Rachael Wimmer, violin Nancy Rexford, piano [ intermission ] Clear Full Moon | Jim Dalton Maggi Smith-Dalton, voice Jim Dalton, guitar Spinning (première) | Turner Karl Henning, clarinet Jim Dalton, guitar Untempered Guitar | Dalton Jim Dalton, guitar Send Me an Angel (première) Dance With an Angel (première) | Turner Karl Henning, clarinet Chas Turner, contrabass Suma Beach (première) | Turner Naomi Gurt Lind, voice Chas Turner, shakuhachi Jazz for Nostalgic Squirrels (première) | Henning Peter H. Bloom, flute Karl Henning, clarinet Jim Dalton, guitar Chas Turner, contrabass ================= Suggested $10 - $15 Voluntary Donation Nave Music Series 155 Powderhouse Blvd., Somerville, Massachusetts 02144 View Map · Get Directions

  

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Jim & Maggi to perform and lead "Celtic Poets: A SpringSong Session" at the 2014 Massachusetts Poetry Festival!

We are thrilled to announce our application been accepted to perform and lead "Celtic Poets: A SpringSong Session" at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, in Salem, in May 2014! whoo-hoo! More to follow, details, etc. but we are really happy to be taking part in (and inviting you to take part in) this fab event!

In Feb....Author's Panel at Big Book Getaway at Mohegan Sun

Coming up for Maggi in February.... author's panel at the Big Book Getaway conference at Mohegan Sun....should be fun!

Saturday, February 22 at 4:00 p.m.

http://www.thebigbookclub.org/toil-trouble-witches-occult/

Maggie Smith-Dalton, a historian and writer, writes about the history of spiritualism and the occult in Salem, Massachusetts. She describes occult aspects earlier in the region’s history, such as mesmerism, religious sects, and Mormonism, then Salem just before the Civil War through the end of the nineteenth century. She provides the historical and social context for the city, including its link to witchcraft, and tells of key individuals, such as Emanuel Swedenborg, Franz Anton Mesmer, Andrew Jackson Davis, Charles Wentworth Upham, Charles Henry Foster, Allen Putnam, Joseph Gilbert Waters, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and other psychics, healers, and clairvoyants. (Annotation ©2013 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Join Jim and Maggi at First Night Hartford 2013-14!

Join Jim and Maggi at First Night Hartford 2013-14!

Two Shows at the Old State House, Main Street, Hartford

6:25 and 7:20 pm

"Wintertide at Year's Birth: Songs and Stories of the Season"

Drawn from a variety of styles and with historical/folklore narrative

For info: http://www.firstnighthartford.org/

Feel free to download or save this flyer:

 

http://singingstring.org

Warm Wishes to All This Happy Season!

Christmas 2013

Trimmed the tree while watching 

"Mary Poppins" and "Mr Magoo's Christmas Carol"... 

having a Baby Boomer nostalgia-fest.

Jim and Maggi's Holiday Concerts continue: "A Victorian Christmas with Dickens" Sat. Dec. 14, 1 pm, Danvers, MA

"A Victorian Christmas with Dickens,"  Jim Dalton and Maggi Smith-Dalton perform an illustrated concert of Victorian music with excerpts from the Christmas stories of Charles Dickens, 1 pm, Dec. 14, 2013, at the Peabody Institute Library of Danvers, hosted by the Dickens Fellowship North of Boston. 

You are invited to participate on Dec. 14, 2013, 1 p.m., at the Peabody Institute Library of Danvers, 15 Sylvan St., Danvers, Mass., (http://www.danverslibrary.org) when the Dickens Fellowship North of Boston will host a special, family-friendly musical/historical program,  "A Victorian Christmas with Dickens," presented by musicians and historians Jim Dalton and Maggi Smith-Dalton.

This illustrated Victorian Christmas music program, featuring excerpts from Dickens' various Christmas stories, will use period American and British music. Songs and instrumentals will be performed live by the husband-and-wife team, in costume, and with period-appropriate instruments and style.

Members of the Dickens fellowship will also lead games and dances at special points in the program. Families are encouraged to attend in Victorian costume. 

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Previous audiences found the Daltons to be "engaging, scholarly, delightful, warm, intelligent, flexible, humorous, talented, versatile, enthusiastic, personable, joyful".."Simply put, Jim and Maggi Dalton are a national treasure." The couple specializes in American 19th- and 20th-century music, history, and culture from parlor and stage, performed in historically-informed style. Their programs feature period and period-appropriate instruments. 

The Daltons have toured nationwide and have been featured often on commercial and NPR public radio, on television and in major-market newspapers and magazines.

Praised as "extraordinarily versatile," their performances feature repertoire drawn from the Middle Ages to contemporary music; and popular traditions including blues, jazz and Tin Pan Alley/Great American Songbook programs.

Honored by several state arts agencies, the Daltons have released four recordings and compose and perform original material. They designed a full spectrum of programs which they have performed throughout the United States, appearing at nationally-known historic sites such as Colonial Williamsburg; at colleges, in concert series, at festivals, at historical societies, for organizations of every description. More information may be found on their Website: singingstring.org.

As artists-in-residence at various community and educational centers, they have presented series which address American history and various other topics in the humanities, using music as the core of each session. Jim Dalton is on the faculty of the Boston Conservatory. Maggi Smith-Dalton has published two books of regional history, and wrote a weekly column on Salem history for the Boston Globe from 2010-2012.

Jim Dalton and Maggi Smith-Dalton are founders and directors of the American History and Music Project, and the Salem History Society, both  of which are administered by the Institute for Music, History, and Cultural Traditions, a 501c3 Nonprofit Cultural, Educational, & Scholarly Organization.

Upcoming Concert in Danvers, MA