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SUMMARY:Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light at Bedford Town Hall
DESCRIPTION:On May 16\, Bedford’s New Song Music Series welcomes Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light\, a Boston-based string band blending folk tradition\, feminist storytelling\, poetic detail\, and just enough grit. \nSumner—formerly of Twisted Pine—has earned wide recognition\, including the 2021 John Lennon Songwriting Award (Folk)\, a Kerrville New Folk Competition win\, and five original songs archived at the Library of Congress. As a group\, Traveling Light has won the 2023 Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival competition and the 2025 Telluride Bluegrass Band Contest and has been featured four consecutive years by WBUR/NPR as a top Massachusetts entry in the Tiny Desk Contest. \n🎧 Listen: https://bit.ly/rstl
URL:https://lexobserver.org/event/rachel-sumner-traveling-light-at-bedford-town-hall/
LOCATION:Bedford Town Hall\, 10 Mudge Way\, Bedford\, 01730\, United States
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SUMMARY:Around the World in Song with Lexington Pops Chorus
DESCRIPTION:Understanding that music is the universal language that connects people and cultures around the world\, Lexington Pops Chorus presents “Around the World in Song.” Musical selections include “Barso Re” from India by A.R. Rahman\, “Doluri (Drum Dance)” from the Republic of George\, “MI-YO-TA” from Japan\, “Llwyn Onn” a Welsh Folk Song arr. by D. Owens\, “Time in a Bottle by Jim Croce\, and “Shenandoah” by J. Erb from America. \nConcert tickets are $20 for adults and $5 for children 12 and under. For more information\, call 781-365-0576 or email info@LexPops.org.
URL:https://lexobserver.org/event/around-the-world-in-song-with-lexington-pops-chorus/
LOCATION:Pilgrim Church
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SUMMARY:The WBUR Festival
DESCRIPTION:The WBUR Festival\, happening on Friday\, May 29 and Saturday\, May 30\, 2026\, will feature two days of captivating conversations\, podcast tapings\, musical performances\, and a lively street scene up and down Commonwealth Avenue. \n“The WBUR Festival is serious stuff and wicked fun\, too\,” said Margaret Low\, CEO of WBUR. “Last year was such a smashing success\, we couldn’t wait to do it again. We think of the Festival as our love letter to Boston and beyond — a chance to give back to the people\, the city and the region who fuel WBUR.” \nAlong with WBUR hosts including Meghna Chakrabarti\, Tiziana Dearing\, Indira Lakshmanan\, Lisa Mullins and Robin Young\, the first wave of speakers includes: \n\nJosé Andrés\, chef\, founder of World Central Kitchen — a nonprofit that provides meals in response to global crises — and best-selling author of a new book “Spain My Way\,” coming out in May. Andrés holds two Michelin stars and has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.\nMarty Baron\, former executive editor of The Washington Post and The Boston Globe. Under his leadership\, newsrooms have won 18 Pulitzer Prizes\, including 11 at the Post.\nJohn Bolton\, former United States national security advisor to President Donald Trump\, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and author of “The Room Where It Happened.”\nKatherine Maher\, president and CEO of NPR and former chief executive of the Wikimedia Foundation.\nSamantha Power\, New York Times bestselling author\, Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.\nBryan Stevenson\, public interest lawyer\, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative — a human rights organization in Montgomery\, Ala. — and author of the bestselling memoir “Just Mercy.”\nNicholas Thompson\, CEO of The Atlantic and host of the podcast The Most Interesting Thing in AI. His 2025 memoir “The Running Ground” was recognized as a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year.\nAnd numerous public media friends including musician and host Jad Abumrad\, founder of WNYC’s Radiolab; Allison Aubrey\, NPR health and science correspondent and founding host of Life Kit; Mary Louise Kelly\, co-host of NPR’s All Things Considered and host of the Sources & Methods podcast; and Sam Sanders\, host of KCRW’s The Sam Sanders Show and one of the founding hosts of Vibe Check\, The NPR Politics Podcast and It’s Been A Minute.\nSee additional speakers confirmed so far and get tickets at wburfestival.org.\n\nIn addition to its speaker lineup\, The WBUR Festival will feature a range of community-centered activities. The free street fair open to everyone will return on Saturday\, May 30 with more space and more vendors\, including the Found Boston market with 80 vintage sellers — twice as many as last year. Families can enjoy an all-new Kids Zone and live performances\, including dance lessons with Salsa y Control and entertainment from the WBUR Makers Jake Blount and Kimaya Diggs. Attendees can also help create a massive mural — a guided\, paint-by-numbers community art project designed to bring festivalgoers together and create a shared masterpiece. \nOur Partners \nThe WBUR Festival is made possible in part by the generous support of many civic and cultural institutions. WBUR is especially thankful to our premier sponsors: Takeda\, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the Boston Symphony Orchestra; and to our supporting sponsors: The Huntington\, The Mehrotra Institute\, Vivo Performing Arts\, Hartney Greymont\, The Eliot Hotel\, The Trustees\, Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston\, Bartlett Tree Experts and Boston University Fitness & Recreation Center. As our enduring partner and home base\, Boston University helps make The WBUR Festival possible. \nAdditional support is provided by generous donors and sustaining Members who fuel our mission to produce high-quality journalism and enriching experiences that foster understanding\, connection and community. WBUR Members receive special discounts\, benefits and exclusive invitations to Festival activities. Become a Member today and discover all the possibilities while helping to sustain independent journalism. \nTo keep up to date on Festival news\, sign up for the WBUR Events newsletter. Organizations interested in sponsoring The WBUR Festival can reach out to partnerships@wbur.org to learn more. \nAbout WBUR \nWBUR\, founded in 1950\, is Boston’s NPR. An award-winning producer of high-quality journalism on air\, online\, and on stage at CitySpace. With one of the strongest local newsrooms in America\, our journalists cover the most pressing issues in our city and region. Nationally\, WBUR reaches more than seven million people each week with On Point\, Here & Now — a daily newsmagazine produced with NPR — and with a slate of acclaimed podcasts like Endless Thread\, Circle Round and Beyond All Repair.
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SUMMARY:Garden Tour with the Lexington Field & Garden Club
DESCRIPTION:Visit the inspirational gardens of Lexington. Rain or shine.
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SUMMARY:Peter Mulvey and Jenna Nicholls Present: Floyd Mercantile
DESCRIPTION:In April 2025\, Peter Mulvey and Jenna Nicholls\, along with guitarist Ross Bellenoit\, traveled to Floyd\, a small mountain town located in the Blue Ridge Highlands of Southwest Virginia\, for five uninterrupted days of recording. What emerged is Floyd Mercantile — a record that feels both intimate and timeless. \nThe makeshift studio was a decommissioned general store called (you guessed it!) Floyd Mercantile — a weathered wooden building standing across the road from an open pasture where cows wandered and grazed in the gentle early spring. (One cow even volunteered to be on the album cover.) Inside those old walls\, the trio recorded the album live — no isolation booths\, no heavy overdubbing — just three musicians in a room\, listening closely and letting the songs unfold in real time. \nThe sessions were recorded by Jeff Oehler and filmed in their entirety by partner Sue Bibeau and their associate Skylar Locke. Together\, Sue and Jeff comprise Beehive Pro\, an audio\, visual\, and design collective famed for their intimate recordings and thoughtfully considered visuals. They captured not just the sound\, but the atmosphere — the wood floors\, the daylight through the dusty windows\, and the creak of the porch boards could all be considered session players on this album. \nThe repertoire bridges eras. Mostly comprised of songs Peter and Jenna wrote separately\, there are a few gems from the Great American Songbook: “Skylark” (Hoagy Carmichael/Johnny Mercer)\, “Them There Eyes” (Maceo Pinkard/Doris Tauber/William Tracey)\, and “I’ll Be Seeing You” (Sammy Fain/Irving Kahal). \nThe visual and sonic tones of the project reflect the periods these songs evoke — even the newly composed tracks feel in conversation with another time. The goal was not nostalgia\, but continuity: to stand inside the lineage of American song and add something honest and present to it. \nFloyd Mercantile is not just an album. It’s a document of place. Of three musicians in a room. Of songs — old and new — allowed to breathe in the quiet of a Virginia afternoon.
URL:https://lexobserver.org/event/peter-mulvey-and-jenna-nicholls-present-floyd-mercantile/
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SUMMARY:Silent Spring Summer Institute
DESCRIPTION:Silent Spring Institute\, a scientific research organization based in Newton\, Massachusetts\, and one of the nation’s leading authorities on environmental risk factors for cancer and other diseases\, is excited to offer the Silent Spring Summer Institute\, now in its second year. This free virtual program is designed for high school students interested in learning about environmental health or considering a degree or career in STEM. \n  \nProgram Dates: July 6 to 10\, 2026 (daily\, from 4:00 – 5:30 PM ET) \nLocation: Online through Zoom \nRegistration for the program closes on June 5\, 2026. \n  \nStudents will learn how our everyday environments—the water we drink\, the air we breathe\, the food we eat\, and the products we use—shape our health and well-being and how science can advance solutions to reduce disease risk and create healthier communities.  \n  \nThe program is open to high school students\, grades 9 – 12 (middle school students aged 13 and up are also welcome) and participants will receive a certificate upon completion.  \n  \nQuestions? Reach out to us at info@silentspring.org
URL:https://lexobserver.org/event/silent-spring-summer-institute/
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