BPM Music Series opens October 20

Poet Kate Rushin and the Nat Reeves Jazz Quartet will open the 2019-2020 season of the Bruce Porter Memorial Music Series at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 20 at South Congregational Church, 242 Salmon Brook St.

Fall Thoughts

Even though Fall’s great Beauty may be touched with poignancy, we must partake of it with fullness of heart.

Salmon Brook Music Series features folk/rock artist Susan Werner

Susan Werner has made a name for herself coast to coast. From her 1995 major label folk/rock debut Last of the Good Straight Girls to her 2007 collection of agnostic gospel hymns The Gospel Truth to her 2017 travelogue An American In Havana, Werner writes ambitious concept albums with subject matter and sounds to match.

My Thoughts on Finding Inner Peace

With all the violence and hatred in our world today, how does one find inner peace? I think to myself, how does one find inner peace?

Chorale invites young poets to submit entries

To celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2020, the Farmington Valley Chorale has commissioned a new musical composition by Ellen Gilson Voth. For lyrics, the composer hopes to incorporate an original poem by a local teen with poetry of Connecticut’s past Poet Laureate Rennie McQuilken.