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Welcome!
Picture in Victorian costume takes you to "Historical Programs"
 Picture by sea takes you to Seasonal and General Concerts photo credits: Lang Photography, Hartford, Ct.(both). Thanks to Harriet Beecher Stowe House/Stowe-Day Foundation (bottom) |
Singing String Music
Performance/Production
Publishing/Studio
Concerts, Workshops & Residencies
Understanding History Thru Music ™
Specialists in 19th- & Early 20th-Century Music
From Parlor and Stage
American & Celtic Traditions
Period Instruments *** Historically-Informed Performance
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HIGHLIGHT PROGRAMS:
And to be program and performance providers in the World-Wide Elderhostel Family!
Clik on the picture to go to the registration page!
WHAT A WEAPON IS THE BALLOT! PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SONGS FROM WASHINGTON TO NIXON Boston Conservatory, Boston, Mass. (OR DOWNLOAD THE BROCHURE HERE)
CHESHIRE PUBLIC LIBRARY SPRINGTIME CONCERT -- AND BOOKSIGNING FOR JIM AND MAGGI'S NEW BOOK!
AUTHOR'S FORUM IN HYANNIS, MASS.-- A FEAST OF MUSIC AND WORDS IN A GORGEOUS SETTING! Go to the website for registration; and you can DOWNLOAD THE BROCHURE here
# -- WE GO INTO THE RECORDING STUDIO TO BEGIN WORK ON TWO NEW ALBUMS!
# --Jim plays in the orchestra for a Paul Whiteman tribute concert in Littlefield
(more info on this coming up)
# -We give a concert of American music in Boston, and a really special program of international exchange with folks from Japan for Elderhostel (and more to come!)
# --Jim plays in the orchestra for a show in Gloucester
# --COME CELEBRATE SPRINGTIME AND ALL THINGS BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL IN CHESHIRE, CONNECTICUT!
complete with a booksigning afterwards for our "Measure of the Year" book,
in Chesire, Connecticut.
Cheshire Public Library, May 18, 2008, 4 p.m.
Looking forward to seeing all our friends...and making new ones!
(THIS CONCERT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! we'll send folks on our mailing list
an email when it gets closer)
Summer will see us
performing our "What a Weapon is the Ballot,"
"Some of These Days: Roaring Tunefully Through the 1920s"
programs
and teaching summer courses
at the Boston Conservatory.
NEFA roster We were recently accepted onto the
*New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA)
New England States Touring program!
This program will aid our out-of-state sponsors in funding our programs and tours. Email us for more info.
Fall:
HEY! It's Our 25th wedding anniversary!
Big plans to celebrate the "Silver." ________________________________
COME AND JOIN US IN A GORGEOUS PLACE IN MASS.
And in Fall, we're honored to take part in a really wonderful Author's Forum. Come to beautiful Hyannis, Mass. in the fall, and enjoy a feast of words and music.
Cape Cod Mandolin Camp
September 26-28, 2008
East Sandwich Beach, Massachusetts
Jim and Maggi will be providing Workshops at the Northampton Community Music Center, AND a public concert performance, in collaboration with Mando Mucho, at The Pioneer Arts Center, in East Hampton, Mass. in November. More info to come as we get closer....
Over a long career, we have had cycles of public performance balanced by services provided to educational centers or performances for private organizations.
Sometimes the cycle sees us doing more one type of service than the other --then it cycles back again... but, no matter what we are doing, we love the variety of experiences which result!
Keeps us (happily!) on our toes! Variety and constant new challenges are among the "perks" of our career.
Right now we seem to be in a "private organization" cycle. Here's just a few recent performances:
# --We perform and teach at a day-long residency in the Norwood Public Schools;
workshops on Celtic music performance practice with music students,
and then gave a full-length concert for an assembly of the music department --
"Celtic Roots and Branches"
# --We perform an all-Gershwin concert for an Elderhostel seminar in Boston.
"THANK YOU" TO ALL OF YOU WHO CAME TO OUR "CELTIC WINTER EVENING" PROGRAMS IN SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS!--We had so much fun!
You're invited to come back often to this Website for more info,
or join our email mailing list, The Singing String News Online, to keep up with developments!
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Other Links of Interest
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Salem History Society, Salem, Massachusetts Jim Dalton and Maggi Smith-Dalton Cultural Resources/ Other Sites of Interest | Back issues of The Singing String News |
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