Zoë Ellis and Janice Maxie Reid lead the return of the Freight’s Season’s Greetings Singalong, a community celebration built around shared voices and holiday cheer. Interfaith and nondenominational carols mix with comedy and personal stories, creating a program that welcomes many traditions without requiring anyone to arrive as a trained singer. Guests of all ages […]

Cherish the Ladies brings an Irish musical glow to the holiday season with Celtic Christmas, a festive blend of traditional tunes, expressive song and propulsive step dancing. Led by flute and whistle virtuoso Joanie Madden, the ensemble has spent four decades pairing instrumental brilliance with warmth, humor and an instinct for audience connection. The program […]

The Fretliners bring a truth-telling strain of acoustic American music from the landscape between the Colorado mountains and plains. Drawing from bluegrass, Americana, folk and rock, the band builds songs around long roads, changing seasons, lost love, stubborn hope and the places that continue to shape the people who leave them. Their sound honors older […]

Vienna Teng writes songs that stay with listeners like conversations remembered years later. Her warm mezzo and piano-centered craft have moved through string-laced intimacy, hushed jazz, ambitious folk-pop and shimmering electronica, giving each album its own world while keeping lyric and emotional detail at the center. The concert draws from a catalog whose songs have […]

The Art of the Oud offers an intimate solo evening with Cairo-born virtuoso Joseph Tawadros. Playing the fretless, pear-shaped lute central to Middle Eastern music, he draws on the Arabic modal system of maqam while opening his original compositions to Baroque, jazz and folk influences. The program moves from fast, technically dazzling passages to lyrical, […]

After nearly four decades of playing together, Olov Johansson and Mikael Marin have developed the near-telepathic interplay at the heart of Väsen. Nyckelharpa and viola move through the traditional music of Uppland with precision, humor and an intensity that can make two musicians sound like a much larger ensemble. Their program travels among old tunes, […]

Indian slide-guitar master Debashish Bhattacharya and saxophonist George Brooks make their highly anticipated duo debut at the Freight after years of friendship, writing and musical exchange. Both artists bridge Indian classical music with contemporary improvisation, bringing raga’s melodic depth and rhythmic complexity into an open conversation with jazz. They are joined by tabla player Eman […]