Music
Sunday, November 20, 3pm, King Avenue United Methodist Church, 299 King Ave.
Tickets: http://www.colswomenschorus.org/donate-buy-tickets
Contact: babette.cwc@gmail.com or 614-636-3541
Friday, November 4, 7-8:30pm, St. Philip Episcopal Church, 166 Woodland Ave.
Bill Cohen and Paisha Thomas will sing songs from the early civil rights movement when blacks and whites sang together, marched together, and even died together.
Plus: old film footage of the movement’s triumphs and tragedies:
• 1960 lunch counter sit-ins
• 1961 freedom rides
• 1963 Birmingham church bombing and the March on Washington
• 1964 Murder of three civil rights workers in Mississippi
• 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches
Tuesday, October 25, 8:00pm, Weigel Hall, 1866 College Rd.
Cuban-born brothers Orlando Alonso and Orlay Alonso will share the stage and the keyboard, performing four hands in their Columbus, Ohio concert.
In a nod to our Cuban and Spanish heritage, we have planned a very special program to include works by Lecuona, Cervantes, Falla and Piazzolla, in addition to Dvořák, Debussy, and Stravinsky.
Friday, September 16, 7:30pm, St. John’s Evangelical Protestant Church [UCC], 59 E. Mound St.
Well-known throughout central Ohio, the Dwight Lenox Trio returns to St. John’s “Java and Jazz” Concerts by popular demand on Friday, September 16 at 7pm.
Singer, songwriter, bandleader, Dwight Lenox has appeared with the Columbus Jazz Orchestra [CJO]; CJO Artistic Director Byron Stripling calls Dwight “one of our favorite singers.” We look forward to seeing you at St. John’s where you can sit back and enjoy Dwight Lenox’s silky smooth voice and Stauf’s coffee.
Friday, September 30, 7:30pm, King Ave. United Methodist Church, 299 King Ave.
Civil rights sit-ins. Bell-bottoms. Anti-war marches. Student Power. Afros. Mini-skirts. Hippies. Riots. Space flights. The generation gap.
Those hallmarks of the turbulent 1960s will be rekindled as Bill Cohen leads his annual candlelit musical year-by-year journey through the era, with live and familiar 1960s folksongs, “news reports” of sixties happenings, displays of anti-war buttons and posters, and far-out sixties fashions.
Saturday, August 6, 6-8pm, University Baptist Church, 50 W. Lane Ave.
Rocco Di Pietro, a local composer and a Columbus State Community College faculty member, has created a new piece entitled “Smiles and Screams: Love to Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” a concert with Taubes (an artistic rendering of how life and art interplay), that, along with community voices, will raise the vision of a world less violent and without nuclear weapons.
Saturday, August 20, 7-9pm, Maple Grove United Methodist Church, 7 W. Henderson Rd.
Join Bill Cohen as he sings some of the top early rock and roll hits made famous by Ricky Nelson, Sam Cooke, the Everly Brothers, Chubby Checker, the Drifters, Bobby Vee, and others.
Smooth three-part doo-wop vocal backup will be provided by the Harmonettes. And lead guitar wizard Brian Szuch will be there, along with electric bassist Renilda Marshall.
Sunday, July 24, 7-8:30 p.m., First Unitarian Universalist Church, 93 W. Weisheimer Rd.
With piano and guitar, Bill Cohen sings songs about many aspects of death: violence, loss, acceptance, and memories. The songs are linked to a wide variety of performers: Pete Seeger, John Prine, Sarah McLaughlin, Louis Armstrong, Phil Ochs, the New Christy Minstrels, the Kingston Trio, and others.
Friday, May 6 to Sunday, May 8, Battelle-Darby Creek Metro Park, 1775 Darby Creek Dr., Galloway, OH 43119
Festival times: Friday, 6-9:30pm [meet/greet potluck and jam]; Saturday, 8:30am-9:30pm; Sunday, 8:30am-5pm
Workshop times: Saturday, 10am-5pm; Sunday, 11am-4pm
The entire event will be held at the Indian Ridge Picnic Area except for the Friday evening meet/greet potluck and jam, which will be held at the Cedar Ridge Lodge.
Friday, May 6 to Sunday, May 8, Battelle-Darby Creek Metro Park, 1775 Darby Creek Dr., Galloway, OH 43119
Festival times: Friday, 6-9:30pm [meet/greet potluck and jam]; Saturday, 8:30am-9:30pm; Sunday, 8:30am-5pm
Workshop times: Saturday, 10am-5pm; Sunday, 11am-4pm
The entire event will be held at the Indian Ridge Picnic Area except for the Friday evening meet/greet potluck and jam, which will be held at the Cedar Ridge Lodge.