R.Franklin Donohue Music Studio

Very excited to have a new pencil holder courtesy of our friends at The Coffeehouse Recording Studio. The studio and our pencils go way back!

Looking forward to sharing my Revolutionary War music program in Berlin on Thursday!

Short notice but I will bringing sedition to North Stonington tomorrow afternoon at 2:00. The North Stonington Historical Society is selling tickets for this one for $10.

Looking forward to this year's student recital:

Just taught my first international lesson in the Virtuverse. Next stop: Interstellar✨

Phenomenal production of the Addams family at Cromwell high school this weekend! Do not miss. Two performances left, tonight at 7 o’clock and tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock.

250 years ago this evening, the Sons of Liberty in Lyme Connecticut burned 100 wt of tea being peddled by one William Lamson of Martha’s Vineyard believing it to be “some of the detestable tea lately landed at Cape Cod.” All of the tea was burned and its ashes buried “in testimony of their utter abhorrence of all tea subject to a duty for the purpose of raising revenue in America.” This song was written in commemoration of a similar event that took place in Boston Harbor three months earlier.

A New Song to the plaintive tune of Hosier's Ghost - R. Franklin Donohue A song written in 1774 in commemoration of the destruction of the tea at Boston. The poem was published in the Hartford Courant on February 1, 1774, 250 yea...