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Dates:Friday, March 24, 2023 - Friday, March 24, 2023
Hours:7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Ages:Toddlers, Kids, Teens, Adults
In/Outdoor:Indoor
Cost:$ see below
Category:Music & Concerts

From the soundtracks of Ken Burns’ Grammy award-winning Civil War, Baseball, Mark Twain and many other PBS documentaries to the White House to the (recent) PBS American Roots special with the American Pops Orchestra, pianist Jacqueline Schwab is known for evoking the American musical past, but in a fresh, personal way.

Her playing infuses the oft-aired soundtracks of Ken Burns’ films, including his Grammy-winning Civil War, Baseball, Lewis and Clark, Mark Twain, The War and The National Parks, as well as the PBS documentary The Irish in America and others.

She has performed at the White House for President Clinton, and she has accompanied Scottish singer Jean Redpath on public radio’s A Prairie Home Companion and on CBS’ Late Show with David Letterman.

She has performed vintage American music on the solo concert stage in almost every state of the Union.

In concert, Jacqueline often performs familiar old tunes, what Mark Twain would have called “remembrancers,” but with her own stamp, and she speaks about the power of music to transport us into our own past and on to new horizons.

Jacqueline’s recently released recording I lift My Lamp—Illuminations from Immigrant America celebrates vintage songs and dances from American immigrants from the British Isles and Ireland, western and eastern Europe, the Caribbean and South America, as well as American spirituals, and Tin Pan Alley favorites.

CCB Fridays is a FREE concert series, hosted by The Community Church of Boston.

The links to Zoom and YouTube are listed below.

But we hope you will donate generously to THE PERFORMERS.

You can buy a ticket from this Eventbrite page, or make a sliding scale donation.

Or you can feed the Paypal Tipjar on the night of the show”….ALL PROCEEDS GO TO THE PERFORMERS.

Join us In Person in the Lothrop Auditorium, on Zoom or YouTube:

Small elevator, wheelchair accessible.

CCB is located near the Orange line-Back Bay or the Green line-Copley T Stops.

Limited on Street Parking or at Back Bay Parking Garage, 199 Clarendon Street.

Discount Vouchers available for parking in the garage.

Masking is recommended but not mandatory.

Youtube

Zoom

Meeting ID: 895 5257 5898

Password: 246499

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$20

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www.eventbrite.com/e/i-lift-my-lamp-illuminations-from-immigrant-america-tickets-577644368857?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

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Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston Street, Boston, MA, 02116 map

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