Apr 24 Wednesday
Dave Fry will share the stage with Rick Weaver and Tom Druckenmiller to chat about our dual lives as folk radio programmers as well as professional folk performers, how those vocations intersect and inform each other. Dave has been doing radio since the early 70's at WSAN, WMUH, WDIY and recently on Folk Music Notebook. Tom holds down the Sing Out! Radio podcast for many years as well as Folk Sunday and In The Tradition on WDIY and Rick can be heard weekly on WDIY's Celtic Faire. All three are noted musicians as well. Audience conversation is encouraged.
Apr 26 Friday
IceHouse Punk & DIY Presents:
RA!D (LV)Post-punk, goth rock; members of Pale Fang and Fictional Name
Purple Lung (Wilkes-Barre/Scranton)Doom metal, stoner rock
Iridescents (LV)Dark psychedelia, avant-garde
Sponsored by Tape Swap Radio and WMUH
A SATORI ensemble of strings, flute, guitar and piano play chamber music of Mozart, Carulli, Molino and Turina, including Mozart's "Kegelstatt" trio and the Turina Piano Quartet Op. 6.Musicians include Nora Suggs, flute; Rebecca Brown, violin; Agnes Maurer, viola; Elizabeth Mendoza, cello; John Arnold, guitar; and Martha Schrempel, piano..
Lehigh students play movements from famous concertos and Sibelius’s glorious Symphony No. 2. Paul Salerni, director.
We’re having a “Genre Cross-Over Night,” where the spotlight shines on three exceptional performers blending three genres of music: Danielle Notaro, Brother JT, and Dave Fry. We will also be marking a CD release event for “Limn the Chord,” by Danielle Notaro, Gus Stauffer, and Ernest Knuckle.
Brother JT (John Terlesky) of The Original Sins fame will join Danielle Notaro for a new piece before treating the audience to a set of original tunes from his extensive discography. Dave Fry will accompany Danielle for a piece and then treat us to whatever he wants!
Apr 27 Saturday
Join us and the Champagne Flutes for our FREE 2024 Spring Concert. The Flutes will add sparkling and effervescent arrangements to the Band's repetoire of patriotic pieces, marches, jazz, hits from stage and screen and pop classics.
Corinne Mammana is an old soul who offers a jazz tradition fused with a pioneering reinterpretation of modern style. Praised by JazzTimes for “superb technique” and All About Jazz for her “sheer genius” arrangements, jazz singer, songwriter, arranger, recording artist, and bandleader Corinne Mammana is passionate about preserving the music of the past while placing her spin on the American Songbook and modern tunes.
Apr 28 Sunday
"Music can take us beyond language, beyond speech to the very seed of our existence." - Leonard Bernstein
Join us at 4pm on Sunday, April 28, 2024 at First Presbyterian Church of Bethlehem as we present "Echoes of Bernstein's Baton", a tribute to one of the greatest composers and conductors of the 20th century. Featuring a variety of musicians in addition to our singers.
Fifty student musicians from sixteen area high schools will join with the Allentown Band to present it's annual Side by Side Concert in Allentown's historic Miller Symphony Hall with Guest Soloist- Joseph Alessi, Principal Trombone, New York Philharmonic (has been described as the GOAT of trombone players, (Greatest of all time!) and Guest Conductor- Col. John Bourgeois, (Ret), Conductor Emeritus of the United States Marine Band, "The President's Own."