Performance Calendar

A six-piece band led by Malian percussionist Balla Kouyaté and cellist Mike Block comes together to create a program of joyous, effervescent music that blends West African beats and vocals with bluegrass, funk, and rock.

Saxophonist Tim Hall and percussionist and public artist Maria Finkelmeier team up for Finding HOME, a program of self-composed music and improvisations for saxophone and marimba – as well as other percussion, electronics, and poetry – that explores the routes that we take to find home and cultivate community.

Boston String Academy players perform Aristides Rivas’ Suite Boricua, orchestrated for strings and percussion.  Cellist Rivas also performs in a trio alongside Venezuelan cuatro innovator Carlos Capacho and harpist Eduardo Betancourt. A Stringfest performance.

Don’t miss BeatSong, a soprano and percussion duo founded in 2015 by Sonja Tengblad and Jonathan Hess that creates and performs works that celebrate an unlikely pairing: soprano and percussion.

Cuban flutist, composer, conductor, and bandleader Sheila del Bosque Fuentes appears with her quartet at Arlington Street Church, in partnership with Ágora Cultural Architects.

Chilean tenor saxophonist Patricia Zárate Pérez and her quintet will perform selections from their debut album, "Violetas," a vibrant record that evokes Zárate Pérez’ travels around the world and the colorful characters she has encountered.