Worcester Festival of Lights ready to shine on City Common
Nov 21, 2024 · Music. Arts markets. And lights. Lots and lots of lights. This year's Festival of Lights promises its traditional offering of entertainment, with headliner reggae artist Clatta Bumboo, youth and community groups, skating in the Worcester Common Oval, the ceremonial tree-lighting and a seasonal celebration of a multifaceted city.. It all happens Dec. 6 on the Common, with a concert by Clatta ...
Chuck & Mud to strum into 45th anniversary with show at John …
Oct 10, 2024 · That influence lasts a lifetime, as Rocheleau-Demers recalled. Some of the fans who were children in the audience at Chuck & Mud’s 1990s and early 2000s shows are now adults in the audience at today’s shows, old enough to bring along children of their own.
'Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience' to bring art to heart of …
Nov 12, 2024 · "Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience," running from Nov. 14 to Jan. 31 at the Mercantile Center, is "exactly what it sounds like," said John Zaller, the producer overseeing the exhibition. "From the minute you enter to the time you leave you are immersed in the world of Vincent van Gogh like never before," Zaller said. That includes using 360-degree projections and virtual reality where you are ...
Opinion/Worcesteria: A closer look at the Downtown Worcester BID
Oct 7, 2024 · The organization first caught the public eye when it partnered with the city to put on the Out to Lunch concerts and Movies on the Common (the last of which for this year will be Disney’s “Haunted Mansion” Oct. 17).
Five Things to Do: African Talent, 'Songs of the Season,' and more
Nov 21, 2024 · 'Songs of the Season' The Central Massachusetts Festival Chorus will perform its inaugural concert, “Songs of the Season,” on Nov. 24 at Bethel Lutheran Church in Auburn. The new community chorus of 45 singers is under the direction of Jane M. Shivick with Matt Jaskot, pianist. Shivick is an acclaimed soprano singer and teacher. "Singers are varied in levels of talent.
'Tina — The Tina Turner Musical' coming to The Hanover Theatre
Oct 8, 2024 · "Tina — The Tina Turner Musical" was just two performances into its new national tour, but the show was already putting together a notable record. "So far, two-for-two standing ovations," said cast member Steven Sawan after the musical's opening Sept. 24 and 25 at the E. J. Thomas Hall in Akron, Ohio. "You feel the audience," he said about the reaction to he show's inspiring story of Tina ...
Get your Irish up at Irish Cultural Festival at Polar Park
Oct 9, 2024 · (This story was updated to correct the spelling of a name)At the beginning of Worcester’s first Irish Cultural Festival last October, organizer Caitlin Sargent watched one memorable moment unfold as two Gaelic football teams lined up on the grass at Polar Park. “Right before the opening ceremonies, we had a lineup with the Irish flag, the American flag, and one line was the American-born ...
First Person: Remembering the fall of the Berlin Wall 35 years later
Nov 22, 2024 · On Nov. 9, 1989, the wall that separated East Germany and the Soviet Union and its satellites from the rest of the world, began to come down. Images beamed around the world, of drifting snow, bright lights and cheering crowds, including revelers attempting to scale the wall.
Fractal Tribe art collective set to bring light to holiday festival
Nov 21, 2024 · Years ago, during the days when the Fractal Tribe art collective ran its own music venue in Worcester, fans would come to see their favorite artists, but stay for the glowing hieroglyphs that lit up the walls. “We made our own font and wrote a bunch of important values we thought people should live by, and we never translated them.
Gary Sohmers crafts out-of-this world 'Beasties: A Sci-Fi Rock Opera'
Oct 2, 2024 · Rock 'n' roll fantasy. Ageless hippie Gary Sohmers is the writer, lyricist, creator and producer of “Beasties: A Sci-Fi Rock Opera.” Turns out, Sohmers — an appraisal expert of pop culture, collectibles and toys for 13 years on “The Antique Roadshow” and entrepreneur of the legendary Wex Rex, formerly in Hudson (where he lives) — is also a frustrated rock star.