Local, award winning classical guitarist Andrew Oswinkle, will be presenting a dynamic set of classical guitar favorites along with some lesser-known modern gems at the Cabaret. Andrew is currently finishing his Masters degree at Peabody Conservatory in Classical Guitar Performance under scholarship and recently placed as a finalist in the Philadelphia classical guitar competition in his first year trying his hand at competing.

Moonshine Hafla: Mardi Gras Edition

Note: This event takes place in the Opera House’s Black Box

Laissez les bon temps rouler!! Bellydance with a jazzy twist, in honor of the coming Mardi Gras! A evening of talented and fun bellydance performances in many styles. Our dancers will bring their best shimmies to the black box theatre for your entertainment and delight!

Now in its 20th year, enjoy the acoustic guitar sounds of luminaries: Mike Dawes from England (host), Turkey’s Cenk Erdogan, Finland’s Olli Soikkeli and Hawaiian Jim Kimo West.

$5 per ticket fee online and at the box office, JCC members and Seniors get 10% off ticket prices.

A modern transgender Hawaiian (mahu wahine), Kaumakaiwa Kanaka‘ole is a vibrant keeper of culture, an authentic innovator, and fun, as she engages indigenous thought to address today’s issues through music, chant, and sharing of spirit. With plenty of humor, she provides wry commentary and stories to give context to her songs. Award-winning musician and producer Shawn Pimental accompanies on guitar and backup vocals.

Join Baltimore historian and educator Wayne R. Schaumburg as we look at Baltimore’s role in the American Revolution. Discover our town’s unique response to the Stamp Act crisis. Learn about a group of soldiers called the Maryland 400, many of whom were from Baltimore, that saved Washington’s army at the Battle of Long Island. Did you know that Baltimore was the capital of the United States for three months? Learn about Mary Katherine Goddard’s contribution to American independence, and the construction of the first American frigate built in Fell’s Point.

See this premiere performance of The Snow Queen, based on the Hans Christian Anderson fairytale, the inspiration for Disney’s Frozen.

There is a $2 per ticket fee online and at the box office. JCC members and Seniors get 10% off ticket prices.

February 3, 2020 at 7pm $6

The Havre de Grace Arts Collective presents: Where’d You Go Bernadette?

Cate Blanchett stars in Richard Linklater’s adaptation of the 2012 comic novel about a Seattle architect who goes missing. Bernadette Fox seems to have it all, so when she suddenly disappears without a trace, her concerned family sets off on an exciting adventure to solve the mystery of where she might have gone.

Tuesday, February 4, 2020 at 8pm $10

Amici delle Muse Piano Trio (Made possible by The Peggy and Yale Gordon Trust)

The Amici delle Muse Piano Trio will treat us to an evening of classical music.

Pianist Ernest Baretta will accompany cellist Aneta Otręba-Kuznik and violinist Swiatoslaw Kuznik. All three members of the trio have earned their doctorates in performance (Peabody Conservatory and University of Maryland) and have performed extensively as soloists, both in America and overseas.

Youth under 18 are FREE!

Indie-folk songwriter Annette Wasilik has been writing songs ever since she found a Sears Silvertone abandoned in a tin wardrobe in the family basement. She was 14 at the time and very shy but eventually starting performing in with friends in local venues, bars and festivals. Later when her daughter was born, Annette turned her focus to her massage practice and caring for the family. When she was again able to turn her full attention to her music, she dug in with all she had.

The enslaved community at George Washington’s Mount Vernon developed over many years, starting with 10 people when Washington was 11 years old, and growing to over 300 at the end of his life. This lecture, presented by Mary Thompson, a Research Historian with The Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington, explores the large number of individuals who were forced into slavery through inheritance, marriage, acquisition, estate sales’ purchase, rented from neighbors, born at Mount Vernon and purchased from slave ships.

The Havre de Grace Arts Collective presents: Best of the Eagles (Thursday Night Live)

The Most Authentic Eagles Tribute Anywhere!

Award-winning vocalist, Marianne Matheny-Katz, presents her ongoing and evolving Joni Mitchell project with the select band that she has been collaborating with since its inception. Some of the arrangements have been developed by pianist Alan Blackman and others have been created by the entire ensemble over the years. The band expects to record the material in 2020.

February 7, 2020 – Join the Fun at 7pm $10

The Havre de Grace Arts Collective presents: Grease Sing-a-Long (Film at 7:30pm) RECOMMENDED FOR AGES 12+

Sing along with John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John and experience the friendships, romances and adventures of a group of high school kids in the 1950s. Welcome to the singing and dancing world of “Grease,” the most successful movie musical of all time. Can a summer romance survive the rituals of high school cliques?

EMCEE’D BY “Hans T!”