Every day. Every single day, which means some days are better and some much worse. Every day, on average, twenty-two veterans commit suicide. Each year seventy-four hundred current and former members of the United States Armed Services take their own lives. Every day. That number does not include drug overdoses or car wrecks or any of the more inventive ways somebody might less obviously choose to die. It seems trivial to suggest those lives might be saved — healed, even — by a song. By the process of writing a song. And yet. And yet there is nothing trivial about Mary Gauthier’s tenth album, Rifles and Rosary Beads (Thirty Tigers), all eleven songs co-written with and for wounded veterans. Eleven of the nearly four hundred songs that highly accomplished songwriters have co-written as part of Darden Smith’s five-year-old SongwritingWith:Soldiers program. None of the soldiers who have participated in the program have taken their own lives, and there’s nothing trivial about that. Something about writing that song — telling that story — is healing. What Smith calls post-traumatic-growth. Gauthier’s first nine albums presented extraordinary confessional songs, deeply personal, profoundly emotional pieces ranging from “I Drink,” a blunt accounting of addiction, to…

For over 50 years Black Uhuru has remained one of the most popular recognized prolific reggae band from Jamaica. The living legends have earned several achievements in the music industry including winning the first ever Grammy Award for reggae music. They’re long success along with having the highest reggae record sales after Bob Marley & the most songs sampled by other artist over the years has allowed them to become Ambassadors of reggae. COVID-19 POLICY: Masks highly recommended.  Tickets for ALL events* are available for purchase by phone (via CC payment), in person at the box office, or at the door** *Unless H&R is not ticketing the event. **Only if there are tickets available – please call or email ahead of time.

Swing Caravan and the GCC Music Revue Swing Caravan is back! Since bandleader Matthew Shippee took a five year hiatus from concerts to focus on raising kiddos, the band has been returning to area stages in varied configurations with Kirk Sanger on bass, new original songs, and an assortment of guitar pedals for interpreting Gypsy Jazz and vocal jazz standards. This regular gig also features fabulous guest musicians associated with the GCC Music Department where Matthew is faculty and chair of the Contemporary Music Studies program. COVID-19 POLICY: Masks highly recommended. Tickets for ALL events* are available for purchase by phone (via CC payment), in person at the box office, or at the door** *Unless H&R is not ticketing the event. **Only if there are tickets available – please call or email ahead of time.