Friday, Jan 31, Sat, Feb. 1 Bards, Gazelles, Squirrels & Sonatas (II) A program of music performed by the composers (and friends)

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• • A program of music performed by the composers (and friends) The Ninth Ear Jim Dalton Karl Henning Nancy Rexford Charles Turner Program: Unarmed Man (première) | Chas Turner Peter H. Bloom, piccolo Karl Henning, clarinet Chas Turner, contrabass Gifts of the Bard | Jim Dalton Jim Dalton, mandolin Après-mystère Zen on the Wing Swivels & Bops | Karl Henning Peter H. Bloom, piccolo & flute Karl Henning, clarinet Sweet Gazelle (première) | Turner Chas Turner, shakuhachi Jim Dalton, guitar Violin Sonata (two movements, première) | Nancy Rexford Rachael Wimmer, violin Nancy Rexford, piano [ intermission ] Clear Full Moon | Jim Dalton Maggi Smith-Dalton, voice Jim Dalton, guitar Spinning (première) | Turner Karl Henning, clarinet Jim Dalton, guitar Untempered Guitar | Dalton Jim Dalton, guitar Send Me an Angel (première) Dance With an Angel (première) | Turner Karl Henning, clarinet Chas Turner, contrabass Suma Beach (première) | Turner Naomi Gurt Lind, voice Chas Turner, shakuhachi Jazz for Nostalgic Squirrels (première) | Henning Peter H. Bloom, flute Karl Henning, clarinet Jim Dalton, guitar Chas Turner, contrabass ================= Suggested $10 - $15 Voluntary Donation Nave Music Series 155 Powderhouse Blvd., Somerville, Massachusetts 02144 View Map · Get Directions

  
  

  

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Jim & Maggi to perform and lead "Celtic Poets: A SpringSong Session" at the 2014 Massachusetts Poetry Festival!

Exciting news received:
Jim & Maggi to perform and lead "Celtic Poets: A SpringSong Session" at the 2014 Massachusetts Poetry Festival!

We are thrilled to announce our application been accepted to perform and lead "Celtic Poets: A SpringSong Session" at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, in Salem, in May 2014! whoo-hoo! More to follow, details, etc. but we are really happy to be taking part in (and inviting you to take part in) this fab event!

Pleasures of small things..

           In one of those silly little hurrah! moments of life, which bestow happiness far beyond their apparent importance, I found the garden fork and a measuring spade which I lost sometime during the summer, could not find replacements for, and despaired of finding after hunting the garden for months. When the plants die back far enough and return to the earth and the snow melts, these little gifts remind us spring is around the corner!

Big Book Getaway, Mohegan Sun, sponsored by the Mark Twain House and Museum!

The fact that this event is being sponsored by the Mark Twain House and Museum is really thrilling for me. More about why later....

 you can register for the event here: http://www.thebigbookclub.org/register-here/

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http://www.thebigbookclub.org/toil-trouble-witches-occult/

Toil and Trouble ~ Witches and the Occult

Saturday, February 22 at 4:00 p.m.

I will be sharing the panel with: 
 Brunonia Barry
"the New York Times and international best selling author of The Lace Reader and The Map of True Places. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. She was the first American author to win the International Women’s Fiction Festival’s Baccante Award and was a past recipient of Ragdale Artists’ Colony’s Strand Fellowship as well as the winner of New England Book Festival’s award for Best Fiction.."

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Marybeth Reilly McGreen "Marybeth is the author of a series of books of Rhode Island history and folklore: “Witches, Wenches and Wild Women of Rhode Island (The History Press, 2010),” Revolutionaries, Rebels and Rogues of Rhode Island” (2011) and “Rhode Island Tales: Haunted Hallows and Monsters’ Lairs” (2012). She is currently at work on a new book about the history of slavery in Rhode Island."

Maggi Smith-Dalton, a historian and writer, writes about the history of spiritualism and the occult in Salem, Massachusetts. She describes occult aspects earlier in the region’s history, such as mesmerism, religious sects, and Mormonism, then Salem just before the Civil War through the end of the nineteenth century. She provides the historical and social context for the city, including its link to witchcraft, and tells of key individuals, such as Emanuel Swedenborg, Franz Anton Mesmer, Andrew Jackson Davis, Charles Wentworth Upham, Charles Henry Foster, Allen Putnam, Joseph Gilbert Waters, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and other psychics, healers, and clairvoyants. (Annotation ©2013 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

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In Feb....Author's Panel at Big Book Getaway at Mohegan Sun

Coming up for me in February....I'm on an author's panel at the Big Book Getaway conference at Mohegan Sun....should be fun!

Saturday, February 22 at 4:00 p.m.

http://www.thebigbookclub.org/toil-trouble-witches-occult/

Maggi Smith-Dalton, a historian and writer, writes about the history of spiritualism and the occult in Salem, Massachusetts. She describes occult aspects earlier in the region’s history, such as mesmerism, religious sects, and Mormonism, then Salem just before the Civil War through the end of the nineteenth century. She provides the historical and social context for the city, including its link to witchcraft, and tells of key individuals, such as Emanuel Swedenborg, Franz Anton Mesmer, Andrew Jackson Davis, Charles Wentworth Upham, Charles Henry Foster, Allen Putnam, Joseph Gilbert Waters, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and other psychics, healers, and clairvoyants. (Annotation ©2013 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)