Virtual performing art series, includes performances by artists from past Madison Chamber Music Festivals, Do Tell! Storytelling Festivals, and more! Find all performances in this series here, or sign up for our newsletter and get a virtual performance delivered each week to your inbox. Please enjoy these gifts of performance, we hope it provides comfort, connection, and inspiration.
Gaelynn Lea’s work won NPR Music's 2016 Tiny Desk Contest, a competition drawing submissions of original songs from more than 6000 musicians across the country. She uses her music as a platform to advocate for disabled people and to promote positive social change.
Since winning the First Prize in the 1986 Naumburg International Cello Competition, Andrés Diaz has exhilarated both critics and audiences with his intense and charismatic performances.
"Celebrated as a leading interpreter of great classic and contemporary works, her performances combine her innate gift for emotional communication and her scholarly fascination with historical research. She plays with passion and conviction
"With a wide and varied repertoire developed and seasoned over time, the ensemble constantly seeks new ways to connect with audiences through succinct commentary focusing on the human stories behind the music that they perform."
Multiple Grammy Award-winner and MacArthur Fellow Chris Thile, a member of Punch Brothers, is a mandolin virtuoso, composer, and vocalist.
Their cutting-edge modern bluegrass is delivered with a deep knowledge of, and admiration for, the work of the music’s founding fathers. It’s a unique sound that has earned three Grammy® nominations and two Entertainer of the Year awards from the International Bluegrass Music Association.
Masterfully blending American musical genres like gospel, jazz, blues, and country, Rhiannon Giddens showcases her extraordinary emotional range and dazzling vocal prowess. Giddens is the co-founder of the GRAMMY award-winning string band Carolina Chocolate Drops, in which she also plays banjo and fiddle. Rhiannon Giddens is a 2017 recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant.
The Fisk Jubilee Singers are vocal artists and students at Fisk University in Nashville, TN., who sing and travel worldwide. The original Fisk Jubilee Singers introduced ‘slave songs’ to the world in 1871 and were instrumental in preserving this unique American musical tradition known today as Negro spirituals.
On Friday, May 8, 2015 Madison-Morgan Cultural Center presented a Madison Chamber Music Festival performance by The Krüger Brothers: Strummin’ & Pluckin’ Like No One Else. Jens and Uwe Krüger, European-born brothers, joined with New Yorker Joel Landsberg
On Friday, May 1, 2015 Madison-Morgan Cultural Center presented a Madison Chamber Music Festival performance by Trumpet Invasion (Virtuoso trumpeter, Brandon Ridenour and his father, Rich - pianist and international Steinway artist) in MMCC's Theatre.
On Friday, May 5, 2017 Madison-Morgan Cultural Center presented a Madison Chamber Music Festival performance by Jelly, Rags & Monk in MMCC's Theatre. Today, we share a video featuring Jelly, Rags & Monk performing Thelonius Monk's classic composition, "Ruby My Dear" featuring pianist, Cyrus Chestnut.
On Wednesday, October 10, 2018 Madison-Morgan Cultural Center presented a Main Stage performance by The Devon Allman Project in MMCC's Theatre. Today, we share a video featuring The Devon Allman Project Performing "Midnight Rider" featuring Duane Betts.
On Sunday, March 30, 2019 Madison-Morgan Cultural Center presented a Madison Chamber Music Festival performance by I'm With Her in MMCC's Auditorium. Today, we share a video featuring I'm With Her Performing "Call My Name" at the 62nd GRAMMY Premiere Ceremony.
On Saturday, March 4, 2017 Madison-Morgan Cultural Center presented a Madison Chamber Music Festival performance by Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn in MMCC's Auditorium. Today, we share a video featuring Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn performing an NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert on May 11, 2018.
On May 11, 2014 Madison-Morgan Cultural Center presented a Mother's Day concert featuring Brooklyn Rider at Town 220. Today, we share a video featuring Brooklyn Rider performing live at WGBH’s Fraser Performance Studio in Boston in May of 2019.
On March 7, 2020 Madison-Morgan Cultural Center welcomed Grammy winning, Ranky Tanky, who performed an uplifting and energetic concert for a sold out crowd in the Madison-Morgan Cultural Center's historic auditorium.
Hand-crafted stories by nationally-know tellers. 2020 Madison-Morgan Cultural Center’s 8th Annual Do Tell! Storytelling Festival.
Please enjoy these gifts of performance, we hope it provides comfort, connection, and inspiration.
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Jay and Molly are musicians of enormous talent who draw their repertoire and inspiration from a wide range of American musical styles-19th-century classics, lively Appalachian, Cajun, and Celtic Fiddle tunes, and favorites from the golden age of country and swing…