Upcoming Events

Hot off a major international tour – with stops in Mexico, India, Chicago (Lollapalooza), Boston, Washington, DC, New York City, Nashville, and Seattle – Local Hero Mister G returns to the Academy of Music Theatre to host his 7th Annual Halloween Fiesta on Sunday, October 28th at 11:00am.

In September, the Latin GRAMMY-winning children’s musician and local hero released his new album, Fireflies. The Fiesta will double as the local Fireflies CD release party and serve as the debut of Mister G’s Musical Postcard Project connecting Valley kids to children around the world through shared rhythm and song.

As part of the Halloween Fiesta, youth from the Community Music School of Springfield along with audience members will take part in an initial recording which will be shared with children in Haiti, who will then contribute by adding their voices to complete the recording. The finished piece will be shared in both countries. The event will also highlight the work of the Haitian Orphanage Sponsorship Trust, a grassroots non-profit based in Vermont which supports earthquake orphans at Foyer Evangelique Universel Orphanage in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti.

The show will feature a parade of exciting musical guests including Glen David Andrews, Khalif Neville, Nadine Remy of Lakou Mizik, and more! Come in your finest Halloween attire and have your picture taken with family or friends on our red carpet as you enter the theater.

When Daniel Kahn swings through Western Mass on his US tour this Fall, you may try but you will probably fail to put him in a box that doesn’t let air through somewhere. But since we have to: Klezmer punk folk with crooked clever songwriting, like Waits or Cohen. Kahn is an agitator, both moralist and anarchist. His show is shtetl, punk, cabaret, and protest march. His band takes the stage with accordions, clarinets, electric guitars, trombones, megaphones. Self-titled: “radical Yiddish borderland bandistas with punk attitude.” 

When has music from another age sounded so keenly relevant? Hundred year old Yiddish songs are turned on their head to reflect on the 1%, on unemployment. Absolutely a must for lovers of unusual, intelligent, and challenging folk music. Kahn’s band will get you dancing like any other klezmer band, but your mind will be reeling as well. 

Local Soul Jazz favorites The Boogalistics supporting.

$12 adv/$15 door. Kids under 12 free. New City Brewery. 6pm.  Handicapped accessible.

This show is part of our Klezmer in the Brewery cycle. We’re taking klezmer out of the recital hall and into the working-class, proletarian establishments where it truly belongs. This is dancing music. This is drinking music. Come party with us.

With solid klezmer roots, spectacular technical virtuosity, and a wry sense of humor, Ilene Stahl and an all-star line-up of Boston’s best musicians re-groove traditional klezmer and Mediterranean melodies, rip up Romanian surf tunes, cover cop show themes and cumbias, slay a few standards, and burnish it all to a funky finish. Ilene is our local klezmer all-star; she is often found playing with Itzhak Perlman and the Klezmer Conservatory Band. With Klezperanto, she takes the genre entirely out of the box and into the dance hall, so make sure you’re dressed to boogie. Limited seating available.

Tickets are $15 adv / $20 door. Limited seating available Kids under 12 free.

This show is part of our Klezmer in the Brewery cycle. We’re taking klezmer out of the recital hall and into the working-class, proletarian establishments where it truly belongs. This is dancing music. This is drinking music. Come party with us.