Events

Around Hear Family Concert

Around Hear enriches our local communities with their innovative, fun, and uplifting chamber music concerts, bringing joy and excitement to families and music lovers of all ages!

Saturday, March 22, 2:00 pm

Purchase Tickets in advance or payable at the door for this event. ($10 General Admission and free for students 18 and under)

Explore music with all your senses. Families are invited to listen to chamber music, see images, and create their own floor art at this energetic concert adventure! The Somerville based chamber ensemble Around Hear will perform works by J.S. Bach, Dvořák, and local composers Mike Kelley and Dan Sedgwick, whose musical subjects range from exoplanets to pigeons!

Around Hear founders and core members violinist Marji Gere and pianist Dan Sedgwick are joined by singer Will Green. The program will open with a special feature of one of CCM’s own student performers.

Southern Rail, A Bluegrass Concert

Southern Rail’s performances are high-energy exuberant fun, with riveting harmonies, irrepressible humor and sparkling banjo, mandolin, and guitar solo work.

Saturday, April 26, 2025 at 7:00 pm

Purchase Tickets in advance or payable at the door for this event. ($25 General Admission and free for students 18 and under)

Southern Rail celebrates more than four decades of performing together. CCM faculty member Rich Stillman (banjo and harmony vocals, Jim Muller (guitar and lead vocals), Sharon Horovitch (acoustic bass and harmony vocals), and John Tibert (mandolin and harmony vocals) give us rich vocals on beautiful and creative bluegrass arrangements.

Southern Rail brims with contemporary energy, harmonies and nuance while featuring lots of original material…A bluegrass band with the total package of style, material, vocals and picking. They stand ready for an international breakout.

– Bluegrass Canada Magazine