04/28/2025
AFTERSCHOOL OF HONK!
Looking for something fun, free, and musical to do this spring? Come learn to play the street band way, with the School of Honk, Somerville's beloved brass band and music school!
★ Free!
★ Ages 9 and up welcome, including adults!
★ No musical experience needed!
We have trumpets, trombones, and percussion to loan you and simple songs you can play on your very first day! Each week we'll spend a little time practicing and then head out for a short parade and performance around the Mystic.
TUESDAYS, 4:15-5:15pm
April 29, May 6, May 13, May 20
Outside the front entrance of the:
Mystic Activity Center
530 Mystic Ave
Somerville, MA 02145
More info at www.aroundhear.org
04/16/2025
Come join us for a concert of music so uplifting, you might find yourself flying around the room. Between musical flights of joy by Telemann and Beethoven, we will be sharing a set of songs from our evolving "Superdoves!" project: a combination adventure novel+song cycle. And exciting news: besides having two incredible human guest musicians joining us for this program, Flappy the Pigeon will be on hand (literally) to teach us all about her magnificent but often misunderstood species.
PROGRAM
Prelude by the Around Hear All-Ages Violin & Piano Classes
Georg Philipp Telemann – Fantasia No. 7 in E-flat Major for Solo Violin
Selections from "Superdoves!" a song cycle for voice & piano, with lyrics by Marji Gere & music by Dan Sedgwick, accompanied by cantastoria and Flappy the pigeon
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 97, "Archduke"
PERFORMERS
Will Green, tenor
Marji Gere, violin, cantastoria & puppetry
Adrienne Taylor, cello
Dan Sedgwick, piano
Performances will also be shared with Somerville Housing Authority residents at Brady Towers and Bryant Manor.
More event info here:
https://www.facebook.com/share/18gPnK9EgS/
02/02/2025
Coming up next Saturday! Sublime sonatas plus down home puppetry and disco. AND PIZZA!
https://www.facebook.com/share/15tGQeB5aV/
09/11/2024
We've got a TON of news to share, but we wanted to let you know to save the date for our first public concert of the fall:
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2-3:30pm
Mystic Activity Center
530 Mystic Ave. Somerville, MA 02145
PROGRAM
Prelude by the Around Hear All-Ages Violin & Piano Classes
Louis "Moondog" Hardin - a selection of rounds
Béla Bartók – Rhapsody No.2, for violin & piano
Jon Deak – "Eeyore Has a Birthday," for viola, double bass, & piano
Abdullah Ibrahim - a selection of tunes
Marji Gere, violin; Zoe Kemmerling, viola & Eeyore; Eric Rory Farnan, double bass & Pooh; Dan Sedgwick, piano & Piglet
The performers will also take turns playing percussion.
★ Free
★ Open to the public
★ Listeners of all ages are welcome
★ Refreshments served
★ Write, draw, move while you listen
★ Come for music, stay for PIZZA!
Our 2024-2025 concert season is generously supported by the Free for All Endowment Fund of The Boston Foundation.
The place to go for all breaking Around Hear news is our website: www.aroundhear.org. Sign up for our newsletter there too!
05/28/2024
Around Hear is putting together an eclectic and fun program to bring in the summer! Come join us for new music for violin & electronics, depicting the personal lives of planets beyond our galaxy; a hilarious tabletop puppet show with a Scrooge-like character and a flying cow; and music for piano and strings by Johannes Brahms to inspire dreaming, drawing, writing, and dancing.
June 1, 2-3:30pm
Mystic Activity Center, 530 Mystic Ave. Somerville, MA 02145
★ Free
★ Open to the public
★ Listeners of all ages are welcome
★ Refreshments served
★ Write, draw, move while you listen
PROGRAM
Prelude performances by our all-ages violin/viola class and creative keyboard ensemble
Sonata No. 1 "X/O" for violin & electronic sounds by Kelley Polar
"Lyzer the Miser," a tabletop puppet show based on a story by Isaac Bashevis singer
Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25, by Johannes Brahms
Marji Gere, violin; Gillian Gallagher, viola; Adrienne Taylor, cello; Dan Sedgwick, piano; Trudi Cohen & John Bell, puppetry
This project is supported in part by the Somerville Arts Council, an agency of the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Selections from this concert will also be shared with the youth from the Healey School and at Brady Towers and Properzi Manor, Somerville Housing Authority residence for seniors and people with disabilities.
Image taken from the Exoplanet Travel Bureau at www.nasa.gov
Event info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1175371776716746/
05/20/2024
Around Hear is putting together an eclectic and fun program to bring in the summer! Come join us for new music for violin & electronics, depicting the personal lives and dating profiles of planets beyond our galaxy; a hilarious tabletop puppet show with a Scrooge-like character and a flying cow; and music for piano and strings by Johannes Brahms to inspire dreaming, drawing, writing, and dancing.
June 1, 2-3:30pm
Mystic Activity Center, 530 Mystic Ave. Somerville, MA 02145
★ Free
★ Open to the public
★ Listeners of all ages are welcome
★ Refreshments served
★ Write, draw, move while you listen
PROGRAM
Prelude performances by our all-ages violin/viola class and creative keyboard ensemble
Sonata No. 1 "X/O" for violin & electronic sounds by Kelley Polar
"Lyzer the Miser," a tabletop puppet show based on a story by Isaac Bashevis singer
Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25, by Johannes Brahms
Marji Gere, violin; Gillian Gallagher, viola; Adrienne Taylor, cello; Dan Sedgwick, piano; Trudi Cohen & John Bell, puppetry
This project is supported in part by the Somerville Arts Council, an agency of the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Selections from this concert will also be shared with the youth from the Healey School and at Brady Towers and Properzi Manor, Somerville Housing Authority residence for seniors and people with disabilities.
05/20/2024