2024-2025 AGAR MUSIC & THEATER SERIES ARCHIEVES

Amherst Glebe Arts Response, Inc. (AGAR)
with assistance from Second Stage | Amherst
presents
7 pm Friday, July 26, 2024
Second Stage | Amherst
(194 2nd Street, Amherst)
Featuring popular singer/songwriter, guitarist,
and keyboard player Paddy Dougherty;
with Glenn Buck on keyboards, sax and flute;
Larry Scott, percussion; and Robin Tolley on bass.
Photos (l-r): Glenn Buck, Robin Tolley, Paddy Dougherty, Larry Scott

AGAR congratulatesSecond Stage | Amherst
​on 10 years of operation.
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the quartet. The concert will showcase Paddy’s original songs as well as celebrate familiar covers from her award winning band Mainstreet Rhythm & Blues. The show Winds of Change is about the inevitable transitions in life and the songs that marked those changes.
This show is expected to sell out; reservations are strongly recommended.
The World Premiere of
EARLY MUSIC ACCESS PROJECT
​
“Lafayette’s Fiddlers”
​
3-5 pm Saturday, Nov. 9, 2024

PRESENTED AT:
Sydnor Performance Hall,
University of Lynchburg
Schewel Hall

PRESENTED BY:
AGAR in collaboration with
Early Music Access Project Charlottesville,
and the Lynchburg Arts Consortium of the
​University of Lynchburg.

FOLLOWING THE PERFORMANCE:
There. will be a short meet-and-greet between the performers and the audience.

In November 1824, the Marquis de Lafayette visited his dear friend Thomas Jefferson in Charlottesville, VA. His visit was heralded with great fanfare, including a grand banquet at the Rotunda on the grounds of the University of Virginia. The Scott family fiddlers, of Black and Indigenous heritage, provided the musical entertainment for this event.

Early Music Access Project (EMAP) commemorates the 200th anniversary of Lafayette’s visit to Virginia with this concert. Based on his research as a fellow of the International Center for Jefferson Studies, EMAP artistic director David McCormick has curated a program that includes music that may have been played for the occasion and French songs that Lafayette and Jefferson admired. Actor Brandon Lee will portray three Black historical figures who left written accounts of Lafayette’s visit.
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The musicians, all experts in 18th- and 19th-Century American Music, taking the stage are:
  • Dominic Giardino, historical clarinets
  • Benjamin Hunter, baroque fiddle, voice, banjo, and percussion
  • Carmen Johnson-Pájaro, baroque fiddle
  • Brandon Lee, actor and percussion
  • David McCormick, artistic director and baroque fiddle
  • Rebecca Scout Nelson, baroque fiddle, guitar, and voice
  • Sam Suggs, baroque double bass
TICKETS:
(Ticket price includes one free cup of coffee, water, or soda, with food for purchase from Baine’s Books & Coffee.) To Purchase:
  • Pay at door: cash or checks only; doors open at 3:30 pm.​
  • Pay Online: Reserve a ticket with credit card via Eventbrite by using the button below.

​7-9 pm Friday, April 11, 2025

Second Stage | Amherst
(194 2nd Street, Amherst)

​​Paddy Dougherty, singer/songwriter, guitarist, and keyboard player
Glenn Buck, keyboards and saxophone 
Larry Scott, drums
Robin Tolley, bass
“Life takes turns, things change, priorities shift, and people move. Sometimes it’s just time to honor what once was, celebrate it, and then embrace and make room for the new. Sharing music with these guys has been life changing. They are not only consummate musicians; they are dear friends. While keeping the band together on a regular basis is not sustainable or feasible given our current life circumstances, I sure know who to call when I need a drummer, bass player, keyboardist or sax player for something special!”​Virginia based singer-songwriter, Paddy Dougherty, returns to Second Stage with her bandmates of thirty years to present the last of three farewell concerts. With a mix of emotions and a blend of genres “Movin’ On” will commemorate the quartet’s many years of soulful blues, jazzy ballads, and commanding originals.
 
Paddy, well known regionally as the voice of the award winning band, Mainstreet Rhythm & Blues, spent time on the road as a backup singer for national bluesman, David Bromberg. She had several of her songs fully orchestrated by legendary arranger, Charles Callelo and performed in concert with the Lynchburg Symphony Orchestra and Rita ​Coolidge. For five years, she toured as a songwriter with Kid Pan Alley writing hundreds of songs with thousands of children and after nearly thirty years of teaching music, Paddy retired from the classroom to return to the stage with consummate musicians Larry Scott/drums, Glenn Buck/keyboards and saxophone, and Robin Tolley/bass.

“Life takes turns, things change, priorities shift, and people move. Sometimes it’s just time to honor what once was, celebrate it, and then embrace and make room for the new. Sharing music with these guys has been life changing. They are not only consummate musicians; they are dear friends. While keeping the band together on a regular basis is not sustainable or feasible given our current life circumstances, I sure know who to call when I need a drummer, bass player, keyboardist or sax player for something special!”

​This show is expected to sell out; reservations are strongly recommended.
TICKETS: To Purchase:
  • Pay at door: cash or checks only; doors open at 6:30pm.​
  • Pay Online: Reserve a ticket with credit card via Eventbrite by using the button below.