Music and More at Lily Pads: Fine arts in the heart of Peace Dale
Saturday, September 29, 2018, doors 7, music 7:30p
Atwater-Donnelly Trio
with Cathy Clasper-Torch
The return of one of our favorite ensembles! Aubrey Atwater, Elwood Donnelly and Cathy Clasper-Torch!
About Cathy
Cathy Clasper-Torch has played and performed on piano, violin, viola, and er-hu (Chinese violin) since childhood. A resident of Rhode Island, she teaches piano and violin, and performs/records with several bands and musicians in the area. With a background in classical violin and jazz piano, Cathy adeptly weaves a love of harmonies and improvisation into the music.
Based in Warren, Rhode Island, Aubrey Atwater and Elwood Donnelly have traveled extensively for thirty years in the United States, with occasional trips to Ireland, England, and Canada, to perform as well as find their songs and dances one by one. They have produced seven books, thirteen recordings that receive international airplay, and were featured in a documentary by son, Uriah Donnelly.
Cathy is in great demand in the Southern New England folk circuit for her easy stage presence, virtuosity, and improvisational skills. Since 2003, Cathy has absorbed much of the Atwater~Donnelly repertoire and is now a staple in Atwater~Donnelly regional concerts, contributing a deeply rich third dimension and mastery, knowing just where to add an exquisite cello line, an exuberant burst of old-time fiddle, and a third and utterly unique voice.
The Atwater~Donnelly Trio is not to be missed! See you there!
Saturday, May 12, 7pm
Cajun Dance Party with Magnolia Cajun Band!
For something different this Mother’s Day weekend, how about
a whirl around the dance floor with your mom or your grandmom or
your child or grandchild? ALL are welcome at the dance to be held
May 12, 7-9, at Music & More at Lily Pads, Peace Dale, with the
Magnolia Cajun Band.
The evening begins with dance lessons by Michelle Kaminsky
for a two-step and a waltz. But the rhythms of this south Louisiana
music and the soulful blend of twin fiddles, accordion, bass and
vocals are so captivating that you can dance to the music in any way
that moves you or that your feet take you.
One of the best things about a Magnolia dance is the
intergenerational aspect, where, indeed, people from 4 – 94 step lively
to the beat, twirling to the right or the left, under their partner’s arms,
in and out, always smiling or laughing.
So give someone you know the best Mother’s Day present
ever: a dance with Magnolia Cajun band. Novelist Pat Conroy puts it
this way: “Let yourselves go. Don’t think. Just dance. Just let your
bodies go. Dancing is just the body loving itself.”
Saturday, November 4, 2017, 7:30pm
Rose Weaver in
Menopause Mama
Witty. Sassy. Inspirational. Menopause Mama is an entertaining one-woman show, full of songs, stories and skits, created to celebrate positive, can-do attitudes associated with mid-life changes.
For the very first time, Rose Weaver is bringing Menopause Mama to southern Rhode Island, with a one-night performance at Music at Lily Pads, 27 North Rd., Peace Dale, RI., in the sanctuary hall of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of South County.
“Menopause Mama is a wonderful theatrical experience, regardless of whether or not you have any interest in menopause and whether or not you’re female,” says author Dr. Christiane Northrup (The Wisdom of Menopause). “I was moved to tears watching Rose make art and music out of the essence of my life’s work about women’s wisdom and women’s bodies.
When she first wrote Menopause Mama, Rose Weaver noticed the lack of artistic representation in today’s media that depicts what people experience as they go through life, physically and mentally. Through story and song, Weaver aims to generate conversation about aging; how it affects everyone, regardless of age or gender, and depicts the struggles and triumphs, the tears and the laughter of menopause.
“Even today most people choose not to speak about the change of life, and sweep their questions and concerns under the rug,” says Weaver, 68. “Menopause Mama is here to tell them we’re not buying into society’s negative images about growing older. We’re wiser, sexier and more fulfilled. And we’re not nearly done!”
Saturday, October 7, 2017
Music at Lily Pads Lilypalooza Part 1 with two of our favorite bands!
Genticorum (Quebec) and The Julie Rhodes Band
A Benefit for Hurricane Relief, with profits going to disaster aid
Great music, food and a raffle of a rare 1922 Gibson L1 acoustic guitar
Join us for a great night as we reflect on past musical highlights, and partake of the best of trad and roots music (and good food too!) We appreciate all the support we’ve had from the community these seven years, and hope you’ll come out to share these MLP musical experiences with us (and a group photo!). A rare guitar will find a new home, we’ll send some $$ to help with hurricane cleanup/rebuild, balloons will fall, mics will drop!
About the guitar:
An anonymous donor has offered a beautiful old Gibson guitar, model L1, to raffle off at our concert. It is in beautiful shape, with no cracks or neck issues. In playable condition, and set up, with original case, too. All proceeds from raffle will go to disaster relief. Only 45 tickets will be sold. They can be obtained at the BrownPaperTickets link, either with a concert ticket purchase or without. You do not have to be present to win. Email lilypadsmusic@gmail.com with questions. Good luck!
Sunday, October 15, 2017
The Providence Mandolin Orchestra
under the direction of Mark M. Davis
The Providence Mandolin Orchestra, under the direction of Mark M. Davis, returns to Lily Pads for another very special Sunday afternoon concert. This is part 2 of a pair of concerts celebrating seven years of Music at Lily Pads events. We could not be more pleased that PMO is joining us again for this milestone. As previously, the concert will be performed with no amplification, using only the natural acoustics of our space.
As best as can be determined the Providence Mandolin Orchestra (PMO) was first founded in 1914, marking 2014 as the group’s centenary. Newspaper articles and programs tell us of performances from the early era with Giuseppe Pettine and William Place Jr., both premier mandolin virtuosos in the United States during the instrument’s “Golden Age”. The modern version of the PMO dates from 1971, when it was revived by Hibbard Perry, who had been a student of Pettine’s. Over the past four decades the PMO has become the leading American mandolin ensemble with regular performances throughout the eastern United States and Western Europe.
Below is the program, lovingly crafted for Oct. 15 by PMO:
I.
Suite Espanola Gaspar Sanz
History of a Texas Wildflower Owen Hartford
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Samba
Le Cygne (“The Swan”) Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921),
Taka Kanaya, soloist Arr. M. Davis
Memories of the Future Joel Hobbs
II.
Heavens on Earth John Goodin
Prelude No. 2 Hidenori Yoshimizu
Suite Espanola Enrique de Ulierte (1904-1984)
We hope to see you there!
Sunday, April 30, 2017,
The Greg Abate Quartet
at Pump House Music Works, 1464 Kingstown Road, South Kingstown,RI
doors 7p, music 7:30p
A Celebration of International Jazz Day!
Greg Abate jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer continues as an International Jazz/Recording Artist with 225 days a year touring the globe.
In the mid 70’s after finishing a four year program at Berklee College Of Music, Greg played lead alto for the Ray Charles Orchestra for 2 years.
In 1978 Greg formed his group Channel One which was a favorite in the New England area and from there had the opportunity to play tenor sax with the revived Artie Shaw Orchestra under leadership of Dick Johnson from 1986 to ’87.
Following this experience Greg ventured out as post hard bop soloist playing Jazz Festivals, Jazz Societies and Jazz Clubs throughout the U.S. Canada and abroad, including most of Europe, UK, and Moscow and Georgia Russia.
Greg’s newest release is Kindred Spirits by Greg Abate and Phil Woods with The Tim Ray Trio.
Greg recorded his first CD Live At Birdland NYC in 1991 on the Candid Jazz Label with the trio of James Williams, Rufus Reid and Kenny Washington.
To date, Greg has recorded 17 other recordings as leader.
Greg is also an adjunct professor of Jazz Studies at Rhode Island College and is also a very active jazz clinician with co. sponsorship from the Conn -Selmer Instrument Co., conducting workshops and master classes through the U.S and abroad.
Greg has been inducted into the RI MUSIC HALL OF FAME 2016
Abate is not content to rely on stock bebop riffs and standard chord progressions. Rather, the sharp angularity of his phrases and the often startling pauses in his fast-moving lines give his work a feeling of constant invention and creativity.”
–Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune
“Greg Abate is an absolute powerhouse who will absolutely not let hard driving bebop die.
One of the most exciting players around today, Greg’s commitment to the music is total…”
–W. Pickowitz, Jr., The Jazz Messenger
Saturday, May 6, 2017
doors 7pm, music 7:30pm
A Pete Seeger Celebration
featuring Joyce Katzberg, Julio Amaro, Ed McGuirl, Sylvia Ann Soares and more
Lily Pads, 27 North Road, Peace Dale
Music at Lily Pads is pleased to present A Celebration of Pete Seeger, featuring artists from New England performing music and spoken word; tunes of Pete Seeger and songs inspired by him, words in the spirit of peace and justice. This is a much-needed ongoing tribute to songwriter/activist/
About the artists:
Joyce Katzberg has been singing with and for people on the right side of most important social causes for most of her life. In 2018, Joyce will be celebrating her fiftieth anniversary as a professional musician and the journey she has taken to build a diverse repertoire of topical, traditional, historic and hysterical songs and stories along the way.
Joyce is a founding mother of Stone Soup Coffeehouse (begun in 1980 and still running) and of the R.I. Labor and Ethnic Heritage Festival that ran for several years at the historic Slater Mill. Joyce has been nominated “best female vocalist” by both the Providence Phoenix and R.I. Motif Magazine. In 2003, the Phoenix included Joyce in their list of “most influential” Rhode Islanders. In 2007, Joyce was honored by the University of Rhode Island Honors Colloquium for “career contributions using music as a tool of peace, non-violence and social justice – changing the world one song at a time”.
Ed McGuirl is a multi-instrumental musician and award-winning songwriter. He believes very strongly in the power of music to promote social causes. One of his most memorable gigs was in Beacon, NY on the Hudson River where the sloop Clearwater ties up on a bill with Pete Seeger. His most prized possession is a copy of “Where Have All The Flowers Gone” that Pete signed and sent after a long engaging conversation in the boathouse that sits on the river. Ed would be a rich and famous folk musician if it wasn’t an oxymoron.
Sylvia Ann Soares, 75. CCRI ’93; Brown ’95, SAG-AFTRA, AEA; actor/writer/historian/
Julio Amaro
Born in Barquisimeto, Venezuela in 1961, the seventh of nine children, Julio had a very early interest in music. At the age of ten he taught himself to play the cuatro, and by twelve he learned to play the guitar. By then he was very familiar with Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Peter, Paul and Mary, and more. When he moved to Margarita Island for college, he immediately joined the band “Voz Libre” (Free Voice) playing Latin American Folk and Protest Music, from the Cuban New Trove, (Silvio, Rodriguez, Pablo Milanes, Victor Jara).
Julio is also a painter. In 1988 he moved to New York City, where he was successful showing his artwork, to later found and co lead the group A.R.T.I.S.T. (Artist Response To Illegal State Tactics). Amaro struggled and was arrested three times for civil disobedience and targeted by the NYPD for constant harassment between 1993 and 1996. He moved to Providence, and is represented by several galleries in New England.
Amaro came back to music in 2007, performing music of the world on classical guitar and later incorporating singing in 5 languages, foot percussion, and diatonic harmonica.
He still draws great inspiration for his own compositions from the likes of Seeger, Dylan and Joan Baez, always adding a Latin twist.
We welcome these area artists to celebrate Pete! If you remember our birthday celebration for the man in 2014, you know how good this will be. Come join us!
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