Worcester Festival of Lights ready to shine on City Common
Nov 21, 2024 · Music. Arts markets. And lights. Lots and lots of lights. This year's Festival of Lights promises its traditional offering of entertainment, with headliner reggae artist Clatta Bumboo, youth and community groups, skating in the Worcester Common Oval, the ceremonial tree-lighting and a seasonal celebration of a multifaceted city.. It all happens Dec. 6 on the Common, with a concert by Clatta ...
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Opinion/Worcesteria: A closer look at the Downtown Worcester BID
Oct 7, 2024 · The organization first caught the public eye when it partnered with the city to put on the Out to Lunch concerts and Movies on the Common (the last of which for this year will be Disney’s “Haunted Mansion” Oct. 17).
Chuck & Mud to strum into 45th anniversary with show at John …
Oct 10, 2024 · That influence lasts a lifetime, as Rocheleau-Demers recalled. Some of the fans who were children in the audience at Chuck & Mud’s 1990s and early 2000s shows are now adults in the audience at today’s shows, old enough to bring along children of their own.
'Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience' to bring art to heart of …
Nov 12, 2024 · "Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience," running from Nov. 14 to Jan. 31 at the Mercantile Center, is "exactly what it sounds like," said John Zaller, the producer overseeing the exhibition. "From the minute you enter to the time you leave you are immersed in the world of Vincent van Gogh like never before," Zaller said. That includes using 360-degree projections and virtual reality where you are ...
Mfoniso Udofia's nine-play 'Ufot Family Cycle' begins performances
Nov 7, 2024 · It's a story of family, spanning generations, cultures and continents, and a production bringing together many partners, including greater Boston theater companies and the Prior Performance Arts Center at the College of the Holy Cross.. And it begins with the pen and life experience of Mfoniso Udofia, award-winning playwright, first-generation Nigerian-American raised in the Worcester area.
Get your Irish up at Irish Cultural Festival at Polar Park
Oct 9, 2024 · (This story was updated to correct the spelling of a name)At the beginning of Worcester’s first Irish Cultural Festival last October, organizer Caitlin Sargent watched one memorable moment unfold as two Gaelic football teams lined up on the grass at Polar Park. “Right before the opening ceremonies, we had a lineup with the Irish flag, the American flag, and one line was the American-born ...
Fractal Tribe art collective set to bring light to holiday festival
Nov 21, 2024 · Years ago, during the days when the Fractal Tribe art collective ran its own music venue in Worcester, fans would come to see their favorite artists, but stay for the glowing hieroglyphs that lit up the walls. “We made our own font and wrote a bunch of important values we thought people should live by, and we never translated them.
Denholm's windows display work from designers for 'Heart of …
Nov 20, 2024 · Denholm's 'glory days' The displays will be lit up alongside the entire area surrounding the Worcester Common for the Festival Of Lights Dec. 6, and Mattson said like many Worcesterites, she heard tales of Denholm's glory days growing up. “My dad would go there to see Santa Claus every year, and they turned one of the floors into a huge Christmas village with toys,” Mattson said.
Gary Sohmers crafts out-of-this world 'Beasties: A Sci-Fi Rock Opera'
Oct 2, 2024 · Rock 'n' roll fantasy. Ageless hippie Gary Sohmers is the writer, lyricist, creator and producer of “Beasties: A Sci-Fi Rock Opera.” Turns out, Sohmers — an appraisal expert of pop culture, collectibles and toys for 13 years on “The Antique Roadshow” and entrepreneur of the legendary Wex Rex, formerly in Hudson (where he lives) — is also a frustrated rock star.