Chamber Music Concert 7 pm Friday, June 10, 2022
Second Stage I Amherst (194 Second Street, Amherst, Virginia) Tickets:
Adults $15; Students $10
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Eclectic jazz trio, The Quantum Mechanics, Ed Mikenas (center, on console steel guitar), Worth Proffitt (left on drums) and Andy Aeschbacher (right, on bass) bring you the premiere of their “Con Espressione: Solace of the Heart.”
In their unique musical style, The Quantum Mechanics will play originals by Ed Mikenas and standards played by the band. Ed will also have coffehouse trivia and stories to share. Tickets: (Includes one free cup of coffee, water, or soda, with food for purchase from Baine’s Books & Coffee)
Presented by AGAR with Second Stage | Amherst and Baine’s Books & Coffee Series Curated by Ernest Deane The Paddy D Quartet, led by songwriter, vocalist, guitarist, and pianist Paddy Dougherty-Braunstein, reunites for the finale of this year’s Amherst Java and Jazz series at Second Stage | Amherst, 194 Second Street, Amherst.
This concert will bring group members — Glenn Buck on keyboards and saxophone and Larry Scott on drums — together with Paddy D for its first full-length event in almost ten years. The fourth traditional member, Robin Tolley on bass, is unavailable and will be replaced in this concert by bassist Eric Hollandsworth to round out the quartet. The group will perform original songs by Paddy D, as well as standards by singer/songwriters including Bonnie Raitt and Carole King to name a few. Paddy graduated from Randolph Macon Woman’s College and taught school at James River Day School before taking leave to tour nationally as a back-up singer, teach songwriting at Sweet Briar College and write over 300 songs for Kid Pan Alley. She formed the Paddy D Quartet, and the group became popular in the Greater Lynchburg area. In 2012, Paddy returned to teaching (music, drama, and choral groups) at James River Day School. Paddy looks forward to introducing the group to her grandchildren. Tickets: (Includes one free cup of coffee, water, or soda, with food for purchase from Baine’s Books & Coffee)
Presented by AGAR with Second Stage | Amherst and Baine’s Books & Coffee Series Curated by Ernest Deane |
AGAR SPECIAL PROGRAMS TO WATCH ON YOUTUBE
This project celebrating the life and achievements of Karenne Wood was presented by AGAR,
The Monacan Indian Nation and the Monacan Cultural Foundation, and The Amherst County Museum and Historical Society. The Panel Discussion, “Karenne Wood, Virginia Poet, Mother, Monacan, Scholar and Historian,” was presented March 13, 2022. |
Beyond the Russian Pale: Jewish Films, Live Klezmer Music, and Eyewitness Accounts March 27, 2022
A conversation between director/choreographer Tamar Rogoff concerning her 2001 film “Summer in Ivye” in the shtetl (small Jewish village) in what is now Belarus; and two survivors Evi Blaike, hidden as a young child in Hungary, and Manfred Marko who was hidden as a teenager in Belgium during World War II. Interviewer: Lynn Kable of Amherst Glebe Arts Response, Inc. This discussion took place after a showing of “Summer in Ivye” at the Academy Center of the Arts Historic Theatre in Lynchburg, VA, presented by Amherst Glebe Arts Response, Inc. on March 27, 2022. Technical Director of the Zoom: Michael Ozment |
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Amherst Glebe Arts Response, Inc. (AGAR) arts and Humanities Projects in 2021-2022 are funded as follows:
AGAR’s concerts are made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Virginia Commission for the Arts,
and The Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation, with marketing assistance from SHARE Greater Lynchburg.
This project is supported in part by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, which receives support from the Virginia General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. AGAR’s arts programs for individuals receiving meals delivered at home are also funded in part by CENTRA and Amherst Woman’s Club.
The Digital Residency by Amherst Glebe Arts Response, Inc., organized in partnership with Cecilia Smith and
Lafayette Harris, Jr., has been made possible with support from Chamber Music America through its Residency Endowment Fund. These concerts are delivered online as a “thank you” during the COVID-19 times to medical and non-medical staff and to patients at Centra Health and CVACL, Lynchburg; Virginia Commonwealth University Health in Richmond, Tappahannock, and South Hill; and to Gifts of Art, Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
The NEA BIG READ is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.
AGAR’s Virginia History Programs are supported in part by National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
and Virginia Humanities (VH).
Funding for a VH/SHARP grant to AGAR has been provided by Virginia Humanities and the National Endowment
for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the American Rescue Plan (ARP) and the NEH Sustaining the Humanities
through the American Rescue Plan (SHARP) initiative.
AGAR’s concerts are made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Virginia Commission for the Arts,
and The Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation, with marketing assistance from SHARE Greater Lynchburg.
This project is supported in part by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, which receives support from the Virginia General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. AGAR’s arts programs for individuals receiving meals delivered at home are also funded in part by CENTRA and Amherst Woman’s Club.
The Digital Residency by Amherst Glebe Arts Response, Inc., organized in partnership with Cecilia Smith and
Lafayette Harris, Jr., has been made possible with support from Chamber Music America through its Residency Endowment Fund. These concerts are delivered online as a “thank you” during the COVID-19 times to medical and non-medical staff and to patients at Centra Health and CVACL, Lynchburg; Virginia Commonwealth University Health in Richmond, Tappahannock, and South Hill; and to Gifts of Art, Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
The NEA BIG READ is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.
AGAR’s Virginia History Programs are supported in part by National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
and Virginia Humanities (VH).
Funding for a VH/SHARP grant to AGAR has been provided by Virginia Humanities and the National Endowment
for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the American Rescue Plan (ARP) and the NEH Sustaining the Humanities
through the American Rescue Plan (SHARP) initiative.
Amherst Glebe Arts Response, Inc. (AGAR) | 156 Patrick Henry Highway, Amherst, VA 24521
US Mail: PO Box 117, Clifford, VA 24533 | (434) 989-3215
Email: AmherstGlebeArts@gmail.com | Facebook: AmherstGlebeArtsResponse
US Mail: PO Box 117, Clifford, VA 24533 | (434) 989-3215
Email: AmherstGlebeArts@gmail.com | Facebook: AmherstGlebeArtsResponse