Now more than ever, our food insecure community members need support. The Empty Bowls Project is an international grassroots effort to raise both money and awareness in the fight to end hunger.

Join us on Sunday, March 23rd from 3:00pm - 7:00pm at the Roslindale Substation (4228 Washington Street) and choose a handmade ceramic bowl by Create: Art in Community and fill it with delicious soup from local restaurants—before taking it home to keep! There is also a take-out option for those who cannot stay for the event.

BPQ and musiConnects are joining forces to for a “Classical Jam Session” from 6-7 PM

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Proceeds benefit the mutual aid member organizations of the Neighborhood Food Action Collaborative (NFAC): The Hyde Park Food Pop-Up & Food Access Volunteers of Roslindale (FAVOR).

NFAC aims to continue to build, facilitate & coordinate a network of community members & organizations focused on increasing access, choice, & affordability to healthy food to improve overall community health.

Funds raised will go directly towards providing fresh culturally appropriate fruit & vegetables to our community members through our food distribution programs!

To learn more about NFAC please contact our community leaders:

Ric Henry rhenry@healthleadsusa.org Rebecca Greene rebecca@vitalcxns.org

Source Code at the Flutistry

BPQ, sponsored by MPTF, presents Source Code, a program celebrating the music of five landmark women composers to celebrate the beginning of Woman’s History Month. Jessie Montgomery’s quartet of the same name channels Alvin Ailey, Langston Hughes, and Ella Fitzgerald in a pensive dirge which showcases the core of her musical vernacular. Each following composer captures the essence of their voice within the sounds and rhythms of their piece, and the listener in turn is taken on a journey to decode the sources that are embedded within the experience. We explore French composer Melanie Bonis (who used the pen name “Mel” in order to be published), Boston’s own Amy Beach, Peruvian-American composer Gabriella Lena Frank, Jamaican-British composer Eleanor Alberga OBE and Grammy winner and close friend to the group, Jessie Montgomery. 

Free to the public!

"The instrumental music for this occasion is made possible in part by funds supplied by the Recording Companies of the United States and Canada through the Music Performance Trust Funds, a public service organization created under agreements with the American Federation of Musicians. The grant for this performance was obtained with the cooperation of AFM Local No.___, “ plus appropriate local co-sponsor(s).

Join Boston Public Quartet at our biggest event of the year on April 19th at 7:30 Pm at the Strand Theater!

A Radical Welcome will be a multi-sensory experience that will include choreography, visual projections, West African Drumming featuring students from the rose conservatory, and much more. 

Featuring pieces by:

Lavell Blackwell

Jessie Montgomery 

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

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One of BPQ's missions is to create attainable and accessible performances to engage audiences of all backgrounds. Music should be open to all and shared among communities.

This concert is a "Pay What You Want" style event. PWYW means the purchaser can set the desired price of their ticket, meaning you can spend as little as $0 if needed. Please consider contributing to the cost of the production. The recommended ticket price is $20. 

Please use our PayPal link to purchase the tickets for this event: https://paypal.me/BostonPublicQuartet?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US

The Boston Public Quartet celebrates the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Junior and the American Civil Rights Movement by performing Classical works by Black composers who span the American music landscape, and who were on a similar journey to, inspired by, and benefited from the work of Dr. King. 

Featuring music by:

Harry Thacher Burleigh (1866 - 1949) 

Carlos Simon Jr. (b. 1986)

William Grant Still (1895 - 1978)

Coleridge Taylor Perkinson (1932 - 2004)

Jessie Montgomery (b. 1980)

A Roland Hayes Tribute, honoring the first African American man to win international acclaim as a concert artist. A tenor, who made his groundbreaking debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in November 1923, Hayes was the first Black performer to perform with a major American orchestra as a soloist, and continued to appear regularly with the BSO for the next 21 years, as well as living in Brookline for more than 50 years.

Acclaimed vocalists, tenor Fred VanNess and baritone LaMarcus Miller will perform art songs, arias and spirituals that honor Hayes, alongside the Boston Public Quartet: Betsy Hinkle, violin; Jason Amos, viola; Nicholas Johnson, cello; and Joy Cline Phinney, piano.

In keeping with Classical with a Twist tradition the audience will enjoy light bites and a chance to mix with the artists at intermission.

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Florence Beatrice Price, the first noted African American female composer to gain national status, was a powerhouse composer, pianist, and music teacher. In this tribute concert, BPQ will bring their favorite and most impactful piece by Price to the stage.

This event is sponsored by the ABCL, Association of Black Citizens of Lexington.

Join the BPQ for a free event at one of Boston’s best kept secrets - the beautiful auditorium at the Rafael Hernandez school in Roxbury! Made possible by the Massachussetts Cultural Council, this concert features music by Joseph Bologne, H.T. Burleigh, Arthur Foote, Jessie Montgomery, Johannes Brahms and Florence Price! With guest violinist Karl Orvik

The BPQ is excited to perform for the first time in the beautiful historic Richardson Building at the Thomas Crane Public Library in Quincy! Music of Bologne, Foote, Price and Brahms.

Thanks to support from the American Music Project, the Boston Public Quartet is proud to perform works by Arthur Foote, Jeraldine Saunders Herbison and Florence Price in the beautiful setting of All Saints Parish in Brookline.

It’s always great to be back on North Haven performing at Waterman’s! This concert will feature works by Arthur Foote, Johannes Brahms, and some surprises!

Lev, Jason and Betsy explore pairing beer flavors with musical selections in this #notaconcert event.