Electric Earth Concerts
Great Music All Year Round for the Monadnock Region
Jonathan Bagg & Laura Gilbert, Artistic Directors
Jennifer Sheehan, cabaret singer and Jered Egan, bass and James Folowell, piano visit Lukas Community for a private sampling of her American Songbook concert on Saturday afternoon before their 7:30 show at Bass Hall.
Our second outreach concert is at Plowshare Community on Saturday, March 23 at 3 pm. The Borromeo Quartet performs a short concert of Beethoven Quartet selections that day prior to their concert in Keene that evening.
On Friday evenings, June 14 and June 21 Electric Earth musicians present a “mini festival” at Plowshare Farm. June 14th: Bach’s masterpiece The Goldberg Variations, arranged for string trio, with Jesse Mills, violin, Jonathan Bagg, viola and Raman Ramakrishnan, cello
Sir John Tavener’s “To a Child Dancing in the Wind” a gorgeous, dramatic setting of W.B. Yeats’ poetry that brings to music the poignance and transparency of this amazing poetry. Ilana Davidson, soprano, Laura Gilbert, flute, Jonathan Bagg, viola and Stacey Shames, harp. Donations at the door – come enjoy great music with the Plowshare […]
Electric Earth proudly presents a performance of Sir John Tavener’s mini oratorio, “To a Child Dancing in the Wind” to benefit Shelter from the Storm, a vital community organization in Jaffrey that “gives homeless families the help they need to get back on their feet, with dignity.” “To a Child Dancing in the Wind”, composed for […]
Oren Fader, virtuoso guitarist and Elizabeth Anderson, EEC resident cellist, joined Laura Gilbert and Jonathan Bagg in a performance of the Schubert/Matiegka ebullient quartet, music of Dusan Bogdanovich and some Piazzola Tangos.
Horszowski Trio returned to Lukas to play a new work by Joan Tower, “For Daniel” and Tchaikovsky’s blockbuster Trio. Jesse Mills, violinist of EEC’s resident trio said “I wish I could give near the 150% I give when I play at Lukas when I’m on a formal concert stage”. Lucky Lukas Community audience!
Trio Cleonice played Beethoven and Dvorak Piano Quartet, with EEC’s Jonathan Bagg on viola, for Lukas’s Family Day. The house was packed and it was a beautiful day!
EEC, Metropolitan Museum Mentor, Nitza Horner and Avaloch Farm Music Institute partnered to present Paint the Music, an adventure in listening and painting the music, for people of all ages. This was a free concert and part of “Peek into Peterborough” day. Bass Hall had its doors open wide to the entire community and over […]
Electric Earth Concerts is thrilled to announce the return of Jennifer Sheehan. When we introduced Jennifer to the Monadnock Region last January, she instantly won the hearts of the audience with her engaging and dynamic performance of the American Songbook. This year she will be performing a new program, I Know A Place, a musical […]
Oren Fader and Ilana Davidson joined EEC directors Gilbert and Bagg for a concert of “Music from the Heart”, including music by Franz Schubert (Arpeggione Sonata, played by Bagg and Fader), Villa Lobos’s haunting Bachianas Brasileiras no. 5, Ned Rorem’s Romeo and Juliet Suite and some solo Bach.
Electric Earth Concerts will hold its annual meeting on Tuesday, February 18th, at 12:00 p.m., at the Jaffrey Chamber of Commerce. The meeting will provide the opportunity to elect new board members, and to conduct such other business as may come before the board. For more information please call 646-522-3352.
The Putnam Foundation | The Gilbert Verney Foundation | The National Endowment for the Arts | The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation | The JWK Trust | Terra Nova Trust