Sunday Baroque featuring "Passiones Animae"!
Enjoy food, drink, good company and lively baroque music at Penny Joe's! Admission is free!
April, 20, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Penny Joe's: 3898 Broadway, New York, NY
In Nomine Ensemble: Old Notes New Echoes
May, 20, 2025 | 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Dear Mama Cafe: 611 W 129th St, New York, NY 10027
Silentwoods Collective at History Alive and More! | May 30, 2025 - June 1, 2025
“Musical Journeys” Join SWC for a stirring musical narrative featuring virtuosic solos, explosive concerti, and dramatic arias performed by 10 extraordinary musicians of Silentwoods Collective. Discover enlightenment era composers Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Ignatius Sancho, Isabella Leonarda, Henry Purcell, Vivaldi, and Handel. Stick around after the show to share your impressions, for refreshments, and to meet the musicians!
Time: May 30, 2025 | 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Location: Washington Elementary School, 62 Wolf Way (aka 337 Millen Pond Rd)
"Country Dance!" In colonial New England, the single most popular book was the Bible. Second most popular was John Playford’s “English Dancing Master,” first published in 1651. This rich and unbroken tradition of country dancing has indeed been alive and well in New Hampshire since the 1600’s, hear the musicians of Silentwoods perform selections of country dance music at Old Hillsboro Center!
Location: History Alive Festival, 590 North Road, Hillsboro NH
Time: May 31, 2025 | 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
“Reflections: Early American Music” - featuring three internationally renowned musicians: Baritone, Emery Kerekes, violinist, Alyssa Campbell and organist, Nicola Canzano perform selections from “The Songster’s Companion” (published 1805, Exeter, New Hampshire) and “New England Psalm Singer” (published 1770, Boston, MA)
Location: History Alive Festival, Congregational Church, 614 Center Road, Hillsboro NH
Time: May 31, 2025 | 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
“Songs and Ballads of the Revolution" - As you venture through Old Hillsborough Center, find your way to the old cemetery by the stables for haunting musical tales of generations past with soprano, Raha Mirzadegan, violinist, Ela Kodzas, and SWC Founder and cellist, Andrew Koutroubas. This 25 minute program will be repeated three times.
Location: History Alive Festival, Cemetery opposite Congregational Church, Hillsboro NH
Time: May 31, 2025 | 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
”Echoes across the Pond” - Wrap up the day at History Alive Festival by joining all the musicians of Silentwoods for a short 25 minute program of music by Ignatius Sancho, Henry Purcell, and our very own Nicola Canzano.
Location: History Alive Festival, Hillsboro Center Club, 27 East Washington Road, Hillsborough NH
Time: May 31, 2025 | 4:00 - 4:30 PM
“Musical Journeys” at ANTRIM TOWN HALL
Join Silentwoods Collective for “Journeys,” a revelatory period instrument performance! This tour of musicians of the age of enlightenment features Elisabeth Jaquet de la Guerre, Ignatius Sancho, Isabella Leonarda, Henry Purcell, explosive concerti of Vivaldi and dramatic arias by Handel.
Location: Antrim Town Hall, 66 Main Street, Antrim NH
Time: May 31, 2025 | 7:30 - 9:00 PM
“Mondry's Selfie Cantata” at Village Art Cafe - An eclectic variety of music spanning the Renaissance period to today. Hear works by Castaldi, Cazzati, J.S. Bach and a newly composed work, Nathan Mondry’s “Selfie Cantata”. This parody on J.S. Bach’s “Coffee Cantata” (composed in 1735) tells the tale of a young woman’s addiction to taking selfies with her phone. Explore and handle facsimile manuscripts and first editions at this event and meet the composer, Mr. Mondry following the performance!
Location: 17 West Main Street, Hillsborough, NH
Time: June 1, 2025 | 12:30 - 1:30 PM
“From Heavenly Harmony!”
Our Spring event series ends on a high note at Deering Community Church (DCC). In a performance showcasing the glory of harmony in the baroque period, Silentwoods Collective joins forces with choir members of DCC, Henniker Congregational Church and Community Choir, Smith Memorial Church, Antrim Songsters and community volunteer singers under the directorship of DCC Music Director, Lucinda Ellert. Participate in a special sing along at the end and enjoy refreshments and fellowship following the performance!
Location: Deering Community Church, 763 Deering Center Road, Deering NH
Time: June 1, 2025 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Silentwoods Collective: Freedom's Fiddle!
Join Jimmy Drancsak and friends for an outdoor performance of fiddle music and country dances from the porch of the oldest surviving Dutch farmhouse in Manhattan built in 1764!
June, 26, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Dyckman Farmhouse Museum: 4881 Broadway @, W 204th St, New York, NY 10034
Silentwoods Collective: Sicilian Fables and Legends from the South
Three performances hosted by Boston's "Society for Historically Informed Performance"
Silentwoods Collective takes a deep dive into the evolutions of Pagan and Christian ritual music in Southern Italy
1) July, 8, 2025 | 7:30 PM - 8:45 PM | St. Anne's in-the-Fields: 147 Concord Road, Lincoln, MA
2) July 9, 2025 | 7:30 - 8:45 PM | The Chapel at West Parish Cemetery 210 Lowell St. Andover, MA
3) July 10, 2025 | 7:30 - 8:45 PM | Lindsey Chapel, Emmanuel Church15 Newbury St. Boston, MA