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This free community art studio is a welcoming place to talk, make art and build community.

Inviting all instrumentalists and vocalists to come share some songs with a top rhythm section. We invite all to join! Weather you do: Straight ahead Jazz, Blues, Funk.........Let's blend it all together.

AN EXPERIMENT IN CONFINED SPACE, TEN TINY DANCES IS A PERFORMANCE SERIES DEDICATED TO FOSTERING INVENTIVE DANCE/PERFORMANCE ART AND PROVIDING AN ACCESSIBLE PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE FOR A DIVERSE AUDIENCE…ALL ON A 4 BY 4 FOOT STAGE. IT INTERRUPTS THE USUAL EXPECTATIONS FOR DANCE VOCABULARY, PERFORMANCE, AND VIEWING, AND AFFECTS THE WAY PEOPLE MOVE AND ARE PERCEIVED IN SPACE. THE EVENT ALSO OFFERS AN EXPERIENCE OF TENSION & DELIGHT FOR THE AUDIENCE AS THEY PONDER AND WITNESS HOW EACH PERFORMER MEETS AND DEALS WITH THE CHALLENGE OF THE SPACE.

Clare Byrne & The Celestials coalesced in 2018, during several days of starry-night recording sessions in Burlington, Vermont. This collaborative band of dancers and musicians brings passion and theatricality to its mix of original folk-blues-gospel, with songwriting by Clare Byrne and soaring vocal harmonies and arrangements by collaborators Amy Larimer, Nicholas Leichter, and Rob Jost. The group has performed throughout New England, at The Bitter End, Rockwood Music Hall, and Governors Island in New York City, and in Ireland.