Community Events

Bring a friend, and enjoy an evening of acoustic folk, Celtic, swing and bluegrass music provided by Gypsy Wind.
This is the second in a series of concerts sponsored by Wicomico Presbyterian Church's concert series.

$10 donation suggested.

Fifty years ago, The Chorus of Dorchester began performing in celebration of our nation’s 200th anniversary. Still going strong, the Chorus will celebrate America’s semiquincentennial (say that three times fast!) with a summer concert that will feature many of the best-loved patriotic songs and spirituals that have dazzled audiences over five decades..

No auditions are required, but the ability to read music is helpful to be part of this group that has provided over 300 free concerts since its beginning. For more information or to join, please email Cookie Brohawn at cookiebrohawn@comcast.net or call her at 410-463-1778. You may also contact the membership chair, Dr. Betty Malkus, at bettymalkus@gmail.com or 410-463-3306.

The annual spring concert presented by the Pine Tones Chorus (PTC) will take place on Friday, June 5, at 7:30 p.m. at Community Church at Ocean Pines.
This year’s theme, Pine Tones Goes to the Movies, features standards, favorites, and hidden gems from films spanning nearly seven decades. Selections include “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” “As Time Goes By,” “Hakuna Matata,” “Singin’ in the Rain,” and “When You Wish Upon a Star.” As always, audience members will be invited to join in during a sing-along portion of the evening.
General admission tickets are $20. This year, PTC is also offering discounted tickets for young music lovers ages 10 and under for $10. In an effort to keep costs down and make concerts more accessible, payment at the door on the day of the concert will be accepted by cash or check only.
In the weeks leading up to the performance, PTC members will visit local senior centers to present shortened versions of the concert. These outreach performances allow residents who may not be able to attend the main event to enjoy the music, while also giving the chorus valuable rehearsal experience before live audiences.
Funding for this event is in part provided by the Worcester County Arts Council, the Maryland State Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts, organizations dedicated to cultivating vibrant cultural communities where the arts thrive.
Follow PTC on Facebook or @pinetoneschorus for updates and additional information.

Fifty years ago, The Chorus of Dorchester began performing in celebration of our nation’s 200th anniversary. Still going strong, the Chorus will celebrate America’s semiquincentennial (say that three times fast!) with a summer concert that will feature many of the best-loved patriotic songs and spirituals that have dazzled audiences over five decades..

No auditions are required, but the ability to read music is helpful to be part of this group that has provided over 300 free concerts since its beginning. For more information or to join, please email Cookie Brohawn at cookiebrohawn@comcast.net or call her at 410-463-1778. You may also contact the membership chair, Dr. Betty Malkus, at bettymalkus@gmail.com or 410-463-3306.

Live Musical Performances on the Arboretum's Trails in Partnership with the National Music Festival

Once a year, something extraordinary happens in the forest at Adkins Arboretum. Music begins under the tall trees and echoes through the woods, luring visitors to come closer.

Born of a partnership between the Arboretum and the National Music Festival, Forest Music is a unique performance art event. It offers the musicians a unique opportunity to experience the beautiful and surprising acoustics of the towering forest, and interact one-on-one with the visitors who pause along the trails to hear them play.

Positioned individually or in small ensembles along the wooded trails, these musicians send their music into the air to mingle with birdsong and the rustle of leaves in the high branches.

Forest Music is a celebration of musical diversity. Over the years, the forest has come alive with the sounds of violins, clarinets, horns, bassoons, flutes, double basses, and even steel drums. The repertoire is equally diverse, ranging from classical masterpieces by Bach to timeless hits by the Beatles and even original compositions crafted specifically for the Arboretum’s forest.

Light refreshments will be served, and wine will be available for purchase.

Advance registration is strongly encouraged.

Sponsored by Morgan Stanley- Catherine Joyce Financial Advisor, Maryland State Art Council, and the National Music Festival

Chesapeake Music presents its 41st Annual Chamber Music Festival!

Enjoy the lyricism of Schubert’s String Quartet No. 8, composed when he was 17. Discover the fun and wild, some would say unhinged, virtuosic score of Kate Soper’s Only the Words Themselves Mean What they Say for soprano, flute, bass flute and piccolo. And be moved by Dvořák’s highly romantic Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major, a masterwork notable for its use of melodies he composed in a Slavic folk-music style.

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
String Quartet No. 8 in B-flat Major, D. 112
Daniel Phillips, Catherine Cho, Todd Phillips, Marcy Rosen

Kate Soper (b. 1981)
Only the Words Themselves Mean What They Say
Lucy Fitz Gibbon, Tara Helen O’Connor

INTERMISSION

Antonin Dvořák (1841-1904)
Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 81
Robert McDonald, Catherine Cho, Daniel Phillips, Todd Phillips, Marcy Rosen

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Based in Easton, Maryland, Chesapeake Music is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that brings renowned musicians to delight, engage, and surprise today's audiences, and educate, inspire, and develop tomorrow's. For tickets and more information, visit ChesapeakeMusic.org.

Chesapeake Music presents its 41st Annual Chamber Music Festival!

Enjoy Mozart’s Violin Sonata in E Minor, universally regarded as one of his finest chamber music works. Delight in Villa-Lobos’ Jet Whistle, a piece combining the diverse influences of Brazilian folk music, his immersion in Parisian modern music and even New York City! Experience the deeply personal, reflective, poignant and even dramatic Seven Romances on Poems by Alexander Blok, composed by Shostakovich for his friends, cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and his wife, opera singer Galina Vishnevskaya. This is followed by Schumann’s highly romantic and cheerful Piano Trio No. 2 in F Major, a work filled with allusions to his love for his wife Clara.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Violin Sonata in E Minor, K. 304
Stella Chen, Lydia Brown

Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
Assobio a Játo (“The Jet Whistle”)
Tara Helen O’Connor, Julia Yang

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Seven Romances on Poems of Alexander Blok, Op. 127
Lucy Fitz Gibbon, Stella Chen, Julia Yang, Lydia Brown

INTERMISSION

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Piano Trio No. 2 in F Major, Op. 80
Robert McDonald, Catherine Cho, Marcy Rosen

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Based in Easton, Maryland, Chesapeake Music is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that brings renowned musicians to delight, engage, and surprise today's audiences, and educate, inspire, and develop tomorrow's. For tickets and more information, visit ChesapeakeMusic.org.

Chesapeake Music presents its 41st Annual Chamber Music Festival!

Enjoy both Marcy Rosen’s bravura performance of Beethoven’s fifth cello sonata as well as Tara Helen O’Connor’s highly virtuosic reading of Gabriel Fauré’s competition piece, Fantasie for Flute and Piano. Experience Kian Ravaei’s 2023 composition Gulistan (“Flower Garden”), a work that interweaves songs that represent his “hyphenated identity:” American by birth and Iranian by heritage. Finally, delight in the warm and immensely appealing Brahms’s String Sextet No. 1, written at age 17.

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Cello Sonata No. 5 in D Major, Op. 102, No. 2
Marcy Rosen, Robert McDonald

Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Fantasie for Flute and Piano, Op. 79
Tara Helen O’Connor, Lydia Brown

Kian Ravaei (b. 1999)
Gulistan (“Flower Garden”) for Soprano, Violoncello and Piano
Lucy Fitz Gibbon, Julia Yang, Lydia Brown

INTERMISSION

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat Major, Op. 18
Catherine Cho, Stella Chen, Daniel Phillips, Todd Phillips, Marcy Rosen, Julia Yang

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Based in Easton, Maryland, Chesapeake Music is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that brings renowned musicians to delight, engage, and surprise today's audiences, and educate, inspire, and develop tomorrow's. For tickets and more information, visit ChesapeakeMusic.org.

Charlie Paparella comes to Cafe Night with his light-hearted humor as he shares the gift of storytelling. You will feel uplifted. Afte rall,. " A joyful heart is like good medicine". Add his ability to make you smile with his comfortable guitar sounds and you have a lively time of fellowship with touched hearts as he sings the well-known and well-loved songs of the church.

When does this happen? Sunday night June 14. The music with Charlie begins at 6PM. but come a bit earlier as there will be desserts served. There is no charge to attend. Connection Church is located at 28714 Seaford Rd in Laurel DE. Should you not be able to attend, the event will be streamed live on Facebook, Connection Church DE. For further information on this or the July 19 Cafe Night with Ashley Smith and the worship team from The Tabernacle of The Living God, call 302-875-4646.