There’s so much the Chelmsford Center for the Arts offers to our community! After updating the website extensively, we’re ready to better serve you in finding quality entertainment close to home. Be sure to check out our upcoming events for the next few months- we have some exciting series, gallery exhibitions, and studio painting upcoming. Tell your friends and family, too!
Event Calendar
March 2019
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AB5 QUINTET
AB5 QUINTETStarts: 7:30 pmEnds: March 1, 2019 - 9:30 pmLocation: (Cabaret Cafe) Chelmsford Center for the Arts 1A North Rd, Chelmsford, MA 01824, USA
Description:(Cabaret Cafe) AB5 Quintet with Arthur Bakopolus opened our 2019 Jazz in the Cabaret Café season with such a great crowd, they are coming back! AB5 is a hard swinging jazz quintet playing an array of intoxicating standards and originals. Leader, Artie Bakopolus is on alto sax, Dennis Cecere on keyboards, Fred Woodard on guitar, John Doherty on bass and Jody Bregler on drums. Individually, the players have performed all over the world. Together, for the last four years, they’ll perform for you. AB5 will grab your soul and get your foot tapping. Don’t miss their next show! Come relax with friends and make new ones at the CCA Cabaret Café.
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FLYNN
FLYNNStarts: 8:00 pmEnds: March 2, 2019 - 10:00 pmLocation: (Auditorium) Chelmsford Center for the Arts 1A North Rd, Chelmsford, MA 01824, USA
Description:(Auditorium) Flynn is an amazingly talented and passionate Boston-based musician originally hailing from Greystones, County Wicklow, Ireland.
On Broadway, Flynn’s music compositions were featured in “Super-Man Live!”. This spectacle graced stages across the U.S. including Radio City Music Hall in NYC, The Kodak Theater in LA. and Boston’s “Wang Center”. His most recent album, “New Frontier” was released in December of 2018. Flynn is a musician coming into his own. He is in high demand with a steady stream of TV and film projects both as a composer and songwriter. Along with his solo and band performances, Flynn’s compelling live show has been affirmed by sharing the stage with acts ranging from The Allman Brothers and Simple Minds to The Saw Doctors and Ellis Paul. Whether it is in the recording studio, concert halls, or intimate coffeehouse settings, Flynn combines his uncanny ability to reach people through song; drawing from the wisdom and insight that comes from surviving a life-changing event.
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THE THOREAU PIANO TRIO
THE THOREAU PIANO TRIOStarts: 2:00 pmEnds: March 3, 2019 - 4:00 pmLocation: (Auditorium) Chelmsford Center for the Arts 1A North Rd, Chelmsford, MA 01824, USA
Description:(Auditorium) Powerful performances and imaginative programs are hallmarks of the Thoreau Piano Trio: Paul Jacobs, piano; Susan Jensen, violin; Darry Dolezal, cello. These three internationally acclaimed artists, with concert appearances on four continents and numerous accolades, including a Grammy nomination, present “For the Birds,” as a benefit concert for the Lowell Humane Society. The program will begin with a Mozart trio in tribute to the composer’s pet starling. This concert is appropriate for families.
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NICK GOUMAS QUARTET
NICK GOUMAS QUARTETStarts: 7:30 pmEnds: March 9, 2019 - 9:30 pmLocation: (Cabaret Cafe) Chelmsford Center for the Arts 1A North Rd, Chelmsford, MA 01824, USA
Description:(Cabaret Cafe) Cover $15 General, $12 Members
Cash Bar, FREE Parking
Tenor and soprano saxophonist Nick Goumas is a jazz musician who has developed his own mature, imaginative and identifying style. Nick performs with energy, feeling and musical integrity.
Drawing from the “American Song Book“ along with today’s Jazz Standards, The Quartet’s post Bebop, contemporary straight ahead style, along with a display of rhythmic and harmonic sense, produces some exciting jazz improvisation. The Quartet’s growing audience has a mixture of musicians and jazz aficionados alike. The Quartet will be featuring Geraldine Bergonzi on vocals & piano, Barry Smith on bass and Jack Diefendorf on drums in the CCA Cabaret Café .
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Jazz Jam hosted by Molly Flannery & Gwen Vivian
Jazz Jam hosted by Molly Flannery & Gwen VivianStarts: 4:00 pmEnds: March 10, 2019 - 7:00 pmLocation: Chelmsford Center for the Arts, 1A N Rd, Chelmsford, MA 01824, United States
Description:Cabaret Cafe
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Open Mic with Charlie Smith
Open Mic with Charlie SmithStarts: 8:00 pmEnds: March 15, 2019 - 10:00 pmLocation: (Cabaret Cafe)
Description:(Cabaret Cafe)
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CHRIS TRAPPER
CHRIS TRAPPERStarts: 8:00 pmEnds: March 22, 2019 - 10:00 pmLocation: (Auditorium) Chelmsford Center for the Arts 1A North Rd, Chelmsford, MA 01824, USA
Description:(Auditorium) Chris Trapper is a storyteller. With his soulful, honeyed tenor, sly humor and an uncanny knack for melody, Chris has traveled the world over, performing to a dedicated and ever growing fan base with nothing but his guitar and his songs. Raised on Prine and Kristofferson, Trapper’s first foray in the music industry was as frontman of the critically acclaimed alt-rock band The Push Stars (Capitol Records). Over the past decade, Chris has become a modern day acoustic troubadour, performing over 150 dates a year as a headliner and sharing the stage with the likes of Colin Hay, Martin Sexton and even John Prine himself.
Trapper’s live show is a favorite among fans of alt–acoustic music. His on–stage persona is warm and inclusive, his organic understanding of classic pop melody, infectious. Audience members seem to particularly appreciate the lighthearted moments with the ukulele.
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CTM Film Festival
CTM Film FestivalStarts: 8:00 pmEnds: March 23, 2019 - 10:00 pmLocation: (Auditorium) Chelmsford Center for the Arts, 1A North Rd, Chelmsford, MA 01824, USA
Description:(Auditorium)
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David Alan Pihl, Pianist
David Alan Pihl, PianistStarts: 2:00 pmEnds: March 24, 2019 - 4:00 pmLocation: (Auditorium) Chelmsford Center for the Arts 1A North Rd, Chelmsford, MA 01824, USA
Description:(Auditorium) This concert is generously offered by Mr. Pihl to benefit the Chelmsford Center for the Arts. Tickets $15 general, $10 Members/Seniors/Students
The concert is entitled “An Afternoon of Classical Piano Music to Stir Your Spirit”. Featured works will be Schubert’s Piano Sonata in B flat, D 960 and works by seven American composers , including John Alden Carpenter, Amy Beach, Scott Joplin, Steven Peisch, Edward MacDowell, Alan Hovhaness and Margaret Bonds. The theme for this concert will be works that display lyricism and humanity.
Mr. David Pihl has performed in Germany, the Czech Republic, Mexico and throughout the Northeastern United States, including at Carnegie Hall. He has collaborated with acclaimed clarinetist, Richard Stoltzman, in numerous recordings and concerts. Mr. Pihl has recorded chamber works, a concerto for piano and orchestra and the complete “Twenty-Four Etudes for Piano” by William Thomas McKinley. In reviewing his performances, Fanfare magazine called his playing “brilliant”. He has taught at a number of colleges in Massachusetts.
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