Performance Calendar

Powerhouse vocalist Nadia Washington and her longstanding Quartet share an afternoon of jazzy holiday favorites. Warm up your December as they lend their well-honed partnership to reimagined Christmas classics and other wintery tunes. 

A musician, dancer, and cultural historian, Jorge Santiago Arce has celebrated the African roots of Puerto Rican traditions and shared them with audiences of all backgrounds. In this Stringfest performance, Arce teams with young strings players from across Boston to perform Puerto Rican and Latin American folk songs, arranged for strings and percussion. Don't miss this joyful day of discovery, connection, and cultural exchange. 

From Havana's conservatories to stages across the Americas, Ahmed Alom is a rising force with a rousing vision. Transforming the piano into a crucible where Cuban rhythm, jazz intuition, and improvisational fire collide in real time, he's a must-hear artist.

When spoken word and jazz unite, when voice and saxophone speak in dialogue and as one: what happens? An afternoon of alchemical artistry. Amanda Shea—an artist at the intersection of poetry, music, social justice, and culture—brings a dynamic creative voice that blends spoken word with a wide range of musical styles. Tim Hall is a saxophonist (and spoken word artist), an educator, a session musician, and a bandleader: he's a cultural connector who, in his many roles, lifts others up in support and celebration. 

Singer/songwriter Débo Ray creates contemporary R&B music that takes inspiration from soul, jazz, gospel, Latin, and hip hop. This versatile vocalist infuses covers and originals with storytelling, nuance, and fearless originality.

In a Vivo Performing Arts debut not to be missed, Boston-based pianist Yoko Miwa arrives at Neighborhood Arts with her celebrated trio bringing their signature clarity, strength, and poetry. From luminous joy to notes that fall and shimmer like rain or teardrops, Miwa is renowned around the world for giving each piece its own indelible landscape of emotion. 

Boston's Modern Connections Collective presents excerpts from four powerful works by choreographer and founder Jenny Oliver. Rooted in moments of empowerment and guided by themes of connection, these pieces invite audiences to come together as stories of relationship and resilience unfold through the language of movement. 

Refresh the spirit and feel the brisk, gleeful embrace of Celtic and American folk music with fiddler Maura Shawn Scanlon and guitarist Conor Hearn, as the duo Rakish, and Rasa String Quartet. Scanlon, a virtuoso fiddler as well as an acclaimed classical violinist, is a member of both ensembles, and all the musicians on stage play everything—programs often include chamber music, pop covers, originals, and traditional music—with elegance, spontaneity, and style. 

Experience the alchemy that unfolds when traditional and contemporary Brazilian music styles meet jazz in this must-see performance by the Fernando Brandão Quartet. Choros, bossas, sambas, and more are the canvas for Brandão and his quartet's vibrant improvisations in this exhilarating afternoon of global connections. 

Gregory Groover's music is rooted in the idea of community, connectedness, and, as he put it in an interview, "the idea that sound could move people closer to something greater than themselves." Groover, whose previous work includes reimagining African American spirituals and an album of love songs and songs of people he loves, brings the personal and the historical together in his newest program. In North to Boston, he's inspired by the stories of members of his home church—people he's known for years—who migrated to Boston between World War II and the 1980s.