Mary Curtin Productions

14th Annual Arlington Jazz Festival: entire schedule now finalized, featuring events, most free, that highlight a wide variety of musical styles, performed by New England-based performers, as well as by those visiting from farther afield.

Arlington Jazz Festival, April 3-6, 2025, 14th Annual presented by Arlington Jazz; featuring festival headliner master guitarist Mike Stern and his Group, on April 6th at the Regent Theatre.

This month's "Third Thursdays" features the following harmolodic jazz series lineup: Matt Lavelle (flugelhorn, alto, and bass clarinet), Fred Williams (bass), James Kamal Jones (drums) with Dave Bryant (series host/keys).

"Climate Crisis Cabaret: The Warm-Up": a new cabaret fusing the arts and climate activism; directed by Debra Wise and David Keohane, with emcee John Kuntz.

"Cyrus Dallin, His Time in Charlestown": a presentation given by Nancy Blanton, Director of Outreach and Engagement at the Cyrus Dallin Art Museum; hosted by the Friends of the Charlestown Branch of the Boston Public Library.

Celebrate Mardi Gras, plus the timely Year of the Snake, with the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble, this year joined by special guests Jason Palmer and Henri Smith, in what has become an annual Boston-area bon temps rouler tradition.

"Third Thursdays" in February features the following harmolodic jazz series lineup: Gabriel Solomon (violin), Eric Hofbauer (guitar), Jacob William (bass), Brooke Sofferman (drums) with Dave Bryant (series host/keys).

"Third Thursdays" celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Trio Ex Nihilo record release, led by Jeff Song (cello), w/Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet) & Curt Newton (drums); the trio will be joined by Tom Hall (sax) & Dave Bryant (host/keys).

"Third Thursdays" in December with special guests Russ Johnson (trumpet), Eric Person (saxophone), Hill Greene (bass), James Kamal Jones (drums), and Dave Bryant (host/keys), on December 19, 2024, 8 pm.

"Third Thursdays" in November features Srinivasan Raghuraman (vocals), Upasak Mukherjee (tabla), Shivaraj Natraj (mridangam), Mike Rivard (sintir, bass), Dave Bryant (host/keys) -- Nov. 21, 2024