Mary Curtin Productions

The City of Boston declares the first week of October 2017, as John Coltrane Memorial Concert Week, celebrating the 40th year of the annual John Coltrane Memorial Concert, the world's oldest annual performance tribute to the legacy of John Coltrane.

HONK! Festival's 12th Annual Festival of Activist Street Bands, this year totalling 27+, and including a wide variety of musical / sociopolitical events planned in Somerville, Cambridge, & Boston. Free and open to all.

Friends of John Coltrane Memorial Concert presents "40 Years of Celebrating 'Trane": a week-long 40th anniversary celebration featuring a wide variety of music & film/visual art events, including a concert by the Pharoah Sanders Quartet.

HONK! Festival: 12th Annual Festival of Activist Street Bands. Held throughout Somerville, Cambridge and Boston.

"Dhalgren Sunrise" : a multimedia staged adaptation of sci-fi novel "Dhalgren", written by Samuel R. Delany; adapted and directed by Mitchel K. Ahern. produced and presented by Fort Point Theatre Channel.

The Friends of the Charlestown Branch of the Boston Public Library presents Billy Novick & Guy Van Duser in a musical tribute to "Friend of the Year" Edward F. Kelly. Free and open to all with a reception following.

Sixth Annual Arlington Jazz Festival with headliner, master bass player, Rufus Reid performing with pianist Tim Ray and drummer Steve Langone; also featured during fest: vibraphonist Rich Greenblatt, vocalist/pianist Marlene del Rosario and more!

Jazz Composers Alliance in partnership with the Creative Music Series presents Darrell Katz and OddSong at the Lilypad Inman in Cambridge, MA

"Dig Mine Excavate" presented by Prometheus Dance at the Walnut Hill School for the Arts, in Natick, MA.

Charlie Kolhase Quintet Reunion Concert w/ Kohlhase (alto/tenor/baritone saxophones), John Carlson (trumpet/flugelhorn), John Turner (bass), Matt Langley (tenor/soprano saxophones), & Matt Wilson (drums).