Music Section
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Dr. Mark Lomax II returns to Yellow Springs with “Unity Suite”
The nine-movement “Unity Suite,” organized in three sets of three pieces, draws on Lomax’s experiences in the Black church and his long-standing belief that music can bring people into deeper communion with one another.
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‘The Outside Presents’ experimental sounds in new space
This weekend, those who love or are curious about experimental music will get the chance to hear some new sounds in a very new space: “The Outside Presents,” the experimental music series curated by WYSO 91.3 FM host Evan Miller, will be the first public event held in the community space at WYSO’s new Union Schoolhouse studio.
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Women’s History Month Songwriters’ Round returns
Four local musicians spanning generations in age will take the stage at Little Art Theatre for the second annual Women’s History Month Songwriters’ Round.
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Cello quartet to perform
Galvin Cello Quartet will perform Sunday, March 22, for the last regular concert of the Chamber Music in Yellow Springs 2025–26 season. The 4 p.m. performance will take place in the sanctuary of First Presbyterian Church, 314 Xenia Avenue.
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Avant-garde musicians MacKay, Neutrals to play at Herdon
On Saturday, Feb. 28, two acts — Chicago-based guitarist, songwriter and composer Bill MacKay and area experimental percussion duo Neutrals — will take the stage in Herndon Gallery at Antioch College for an avant-garde double bill that promises approaches to sound and structure that, at turns, overlap and diverge.
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Friends Music Camp to return
Long before it became a summer destination for young musicians from across the country, Friends Music Camp was established as a music program grounded in community life, shaped by Quaker values and designed to support young people both musically and socially.
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Concert to offer warmth in ‘midwinter’
“In the Bleak Midwinter” with Marna Street, violin, and Barbara Leeds, piano, will be performed Saturday, Jan. 10, beginning at 3 p.m., in Herndon Gallery at Antioch College. Admission is free.
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Duke Ellington’s ‘Nutcracker Suite,’ string-style, at the Foundry
String super-group Mr Sun will bring their reimagined version of the suite to the Foundry Theater on Thursday, Dec. 11: A string-band take on the suite based, in part, on Tchaikovsky’s original, but mostly on the 1960 big-band-inflected reworking by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn — a reinterpretation of a reinterpretation.
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‘No Visas’ for Foundry artists
“NO VISAS: A Hip-Hop Journey from Jaffa to Jerusalem to Yellow Springs,” will take place Saturday, Nov. 22, at 7 p.m., at the Foundry Theater.
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Move and sing at the Foundry’s Trad Romp Wknd
When the foot-stomping starts at the Foundry Theater next weekend, it won’t be just another weekend of concerts. Trad Romp Wknd, set for Oct. 24–26, is shaping up to be a full-bodied celebration of traditional music, movement and community.
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