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First Parish in Lexington will present a concert of Gospel, Broadway, Jazz and inspirational music on Sunday, November 12, at 3:30 PM. The concert, directed by Rip Jackson, will feature the First Parish sanctuary and youth choirs, vocal soloists, and an 11-piece Jazz band (piano, drums, electric guitar, electric bass, saxophones, woodwinds and brass) performing […]
On Friday, December 22, 2023, First Parish in Lexington will present a Winter Solstice Experience at 7:30 pm. With music, ritual, candles, dancing, and darkness, we will experience the quiet of the longest night, and welcome the sun as we wait for her return. Led by Rev. Anne Mason, with Minister of Music Rip Jackson, […]
Come and center inward, touching your deepest, truest self, as you are enfolded in the peaceful, healing, transcendent music of sacred chant—mystical music ancient and modern from Western, Eastern, and African traditions—performed by the First Parish Festival Choir and guest soloists, and directed by Rip Jackson. The evening’s candlelit program will include Gregorian chant, antiphons […]
First Parish in Lexington presents A Bel Canto Soirée: Songs, duets and instrumental compositions by Maria Malibran and Pauline Viardot, sisters-extraordinaires of the Romantic Era. Sunday, June 9, 2024 at 7:00 PM 7 Harrington Road, Lexington, MA 02421 This June, you are invited to an elegant soirée where you will be able to experience firsthand […]
Voices on the Green presents "Breaking Away," an evening of storytelling with music focused on the ways in which people broke away from the life they had known and discovered new ways of living and being. Six storytellers will appear along with live musical presentations. Regie O'Hare Gibson hosts.
Join us on Sunday, February 8, at 3pm for an uplifting afternoon of poetry and music celebrating Black and women poets and composers. The First Parish Sanctuary Choir and guest artists offer a radiant program spanning the Renaissance to today, weaving together choral works with solo and instrumental performances. Songs reflecting winter, darkness, and the […]