What can be better than a crisp, colorful, New England autumn after a hot, humid sultry summer? Some might be thinking pumpkin spice; but for us, it's the prospect of a new fall series of Music at the Meeting House that really perks us up!

With that in mind, we wish to invite you to this Fall's MUSIC AT THE MEETING HOUSE concert series of three programs which will take place at the Chepachet Meeting House, home to the Chepachet Baptist Church, 1213 Putnam Pike, (Route 44), Chepachet, RI, just west of the village rotary.

Sunday, September 29, 2024 at 2:30 PM
The Twenties Roar and Echo
 A centennial celebration of the music of the 1920s, focusing on the composers Cole Porter and Jerome Kerns, with some other famous composers sprinkled in. Soloists Amanda Santo, Arielle Rogers Wilkey, Glenn Zienowitz, and Jason Shealy will be supplemented and accompanied by Klancy Martin, Tom Kane, and Colin Kane on brass. Pianist Marie Kane will accompany the audience and the soloists. Featured will be such favorites as I Love Paris in the Spring, In the Still of the Night, Look for the Silver Lining, Ol' Man River, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, Happy Days are Here Again, The Charleston, The St. Louis Blues, and Alexander's Ragtime Band.

Sunday, November 3, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Listen!
We will welcome back the famous Aurea String Ensemble (who last visited us five years ago). Awakening our sense of sound in words and music, Listen! embraces the relationship of sound, language, music and poetry. This very popular program includes poetry of Wendell Berry, Mandelstam and Federico Garcia Lorca; harmonica improvisations of Chris Turner; and music of Bach, Piazzolla Martinu, and others. The performers are: Sarah Whitney, violin; Consuelo Sherba, viola; Emmanuel Feldman, cello; Chris Turner, harmonica; and Nigel Gore, spoken word.

Sunday, December 1, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Holy is the Night: Christmas Carols from Southern Europe
This inspiring program will feature familiar and less familiar Christmas hymns and carols from Southern Europe – France, Spain, Austria, and Italy. It will be the fourth in a series of Christmas programs which in previous years presented carols from Old England, America, and Northern Europe. This year's concert will feature soloists Grace Norton, Arielle Rogers Wilkey, Amanda Santo, and Jason Shealy. The singers will be supplemented or accompanied by brass.

We hope to have bell ringers from the Greenville Baptist Church. Pastor Ethel Corbin will read the Christmas Story from scripture. Organist Marilyn Knight and pianist Marie Kane will accompany the audience and the soloists.