Stoddard Hall Performance Series
Welcome to our Premier Season
The Stoddard Hall Performance Series is an ecclectic live music mix with concerts every month or so in the intimate auditorium at Stoddard Hall, on the campus of Andover Newton Theological School, 230 Herrick Rd., Newton Centre, MA.
On for Fall 2010 are concerts by singer-songwriter Amy Speace (Sep 11) with Joe Cleveland; critically acclaimed solo performer and legendary lead singer Jesse Colin Young (Oct 17); and Dick Solberg, the Sun Mountain Fiddler (Nov 19).
All concerts start at 8 pm. Doors open at 7 pm. Reserved seating.
Open to all so come on up and see us!
Speace | Young | Solberg | Box Office | Tickets On-line | Directions
Box Office
Dabney Hall Box Office
Andover Newton Theological School
210 Herrick Road
Newton Centre, MA 02459 617-831-2430
Box Office Open: Monday – Thursday, 8:30 am – 4:30 pm, Friday 8:30 am – 1:00 pm
and one hour in advance of performances in Stoddard Hall.
Or order on-line 24/7.
Tickets go on sale 60 days before the concert date. Reserved seating.
September 11, 2010, 8 pm:
Amy Speace
with Joe Cleveland
Tickets: $18
“I kind of spilled blood all over this project,” Amy Speace says of her new album The Killer In Me, which marks a quantum creative leap from the artist’s 2006 breakthrough effort Songs For Bright Street.
While the earlier release won her widespread critical acclaim and a loyal international fan base, The Killer In Me finds the New York-based singer/songwriter forging into deeper, darker lyrical and musical terrain, borne largely out of relationships gone wrong, then right and wrong again.
“This August, Speace released her second album on the label, Killer in Me, its message a resolutely hopeful take on heartache and loss, her beautiful lyrics spun with a soulful, husky voice that lilts like a country sweetheart but mourns like Leonard Cohen.” – Paste Magazine
“After a lifetime in music, some of my biggest thrills come from a loud 'n' twisted or softly mesmerizing remake — [like Amy Speace's cover of Blondie’s “Dreaming”].“ – John James, Esquire Magazine
More: http://www.myspace.com/amyspeace
Andover Newton Master of Divinity student Joe Cleveland is a co-founder and former artistic director of non-profit group sponsoring folk and acoustic music concerts and workshops. A lover of poetry who sings and plays guitar and banjo, Joe has been teaching college courses in literature and academic writing for almost twenty years. He did his graduate work in literature and literary theory at Syracuse University.
The welcome his interest and efforts in music received from a local Unitarian congregation, especially as represented to him by the woman he soon married, brought him to Unitarian Universalism and, ultimately, Andover Newton.
October 17, 2010, 8 pm:
Jesse Colin Young
Tickets: $40
Jesse Colin Young, critically acclaimed solo artist and lead singer of the legendary classic rock band, The Youngbloods, took the nation by storm when The Youngbloods single Get Together became a worldwide Top 10 hit and a prominent soundtrack for peace.
After seven group releases, Young began the production of more than 15 acclaimed solo albums including Song for July, Light Shine, Songbird and a live album with his great touring band titled On the Road
.“His smooth, hypnotic vocals deliver a timeless energy."- World Peace Music Awards
"The main ingredients of Jesse Colin Young’s musical personality remain intact….a deep affection for the Blues, Good-Time Rock and Roll and Light Jazz;" - Rolling Stone
"versatile, self-affirming….emotionally committed music” - All Music Guide
More: http://www.myspace.com/jessecolinyoung
November 19, 2010, 8 pm:
Dick Solberg, Sun Mountain Fiddler
Born in New York City, Dick Solberg was trained classically on the piano and the violin, but when he encountered "fiddling" in styles like old-timey, bluegrass, Celtic, and Cajun, he was hooked. Solberg, whose Norwegian name means "sun mountain," has been performing for more than thirty years, playing every imaginable venue from college fraternities to public radio and television concerts, from waterfront bars to elementary schools, from burials at sea to a birthday party for six ladies over 100 years old.
The fiddler recorded four LPs in the early years, now five CDs. He lives in an old wooden Grange Hall in central New York State, and is currently working on a musical about Norwegian immigrants on the Erie Canal in 1826, the year the canal opened.
