What can be more joyful than a beautiful Spring after a cold, icy, and cloudy Winter! Time to pick the pussy willows, count the crocuses, enjoy the daffodils, look for the cowslips – and come to Music at the Meeting House!

We invite you to this spring'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, Chepachet, RI, just west of the village rotary. 

Sunday, April 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The Music of Holy Week
"The Music of Holy Week" is a new program based on two well-received previous programs presented two and six years ago. It is a musical celebration of the major events of the seven days from Jesus' entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday through the Resurrection on Easter Sunday. It will take place on the afternoon of Palm Sunday, the week before Easter.

Joining us will be the Choir of the Greenville Baptist Church under the direction of Dianne Du ; organist Donald Dame, accompanied by Bruce Hopkins on trumpet and corno de caccia; soprano Amanda Santo and baritone Glenn Zienowitz, accompanied by Donald Dame; the Hornithology Ensemble, a French Horn quartet under the direction of Elizabeth Gates; our own marvelous church organist, Marilyn Knight , and Pastor Ethel Corbin.

The choir throughout the program will present a selection of eight pieces from the Easter Cantata by Pepper Choplin, a widely acclaimed contemporary American composer of sacred music. Donald Dame, accompanied by Bruce Hopkins, will play passion music from Bach, Mozart, and Bedard. Our vocalists will sing J.B. Faure's "The Palms," and other famous Holy Week selections, such as "Go to Dark Gethsemane," "Were you There," "Let Us Break Bread Together," and "He Lives." The horn quartet will play compositions by Bruckner, G. Faure, and Handel. Marilyn Knight on the church's century-and-a-quarter tracker pipe organ will play while the congregation sings familiar hymns, such as "The Old Rugged Cross" and "Christ the Lord is Risen Today." Pastor Ethel Corbin will read the story of Holy Week from Luke, Mark, and John.

Sunday, May 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Country Americana
"Country Americana" will feature the "To Be Continued Band," a South Kingstown, South County trio playing country and other Americana music, from originals, to traditional, to covers. The group includes Guitarist Keith Olson, Bass Rick McKinney, and fiddler Kevin Vidmar. They will play such selections as "Wagon Wheel," "Thank God I'm a Country Boy," "Battle of New Orleans," "Rhode Island is Famous For You," and "Route 66."

Sunday, June 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Songs of New England
The third of our series of songs that feature or mention the names of American states and cities or constitute genuine regional music. Our previous concerts featured songs of the South and songs of the mid-west Heartland. This concert featured the songs of New England! We will be joined by Dan Gabel and the Abletones, a seven-piece band with vocalists who performed here to wide acclaim in 2023, and who have been riding in our carriage during the Fourth of July Parade for several years. Songs will include such favorites as "Moonlight in Vermont," "Old Cape Cod," "Charlie on the MTA"," Everybody Loves Rhode Island," "Spring in Maine," "Connecticut," "My Old New Hampshire Home," and, of course, "Yankee Doodle"!