december 31, 2015|10:00 am-11:00 pm firstnight worcester

FIRSTNIGHT WORCESTER DECEMBER 31, 2015 | 10:00 AM-11:00 PM
Official Events Program
The Gizmo Guys
Southeast Asian
Coalition
Who are You
Mark Mandeville &
Raianne Richards
Darlin’ Cory
Sweet Wednesday
Matt Roberts
Mychael David
Fireworks will be set off from
the top of Bell Hill at 10:15 pm.
Please choose a convenient viewing location and enjoy the
spectacular fireworks display, courtesy of Polar Beverages!
Buttons on sale now! See website for details.
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ACTIVITIES
VENUE
1 ECOTARIUM – 222 Harrington Way
9:30 to 5
4 to 4:45
5 to 5:45
FREE w/ Button (10 AM to 5 PM)
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OPEN HOUSE (10 to 11:30 AM) Family-friendly
drumming circles and creative movement groups.
FREE w/ Button on New Year’s Eve
MUSEUM OF RUSSIAN ICONS
(11 AM to 3 PM) and in January, 2016.
203 Union Street, Clinton
FREE w/ Button on New Year’s Eve and New
OLD STURBRIDGE VILLAGE
1 Old Sturbridge Village Road, Sturbridge Year’s Day (9:30 AM to 4 PM)
FREE w/ Button
SALISBURY MANSION
(1 PM to 4 PM)
40 Highland Street
FREE w/ Button (11 AM to 5 PM) FEELING CRAFTY? “Make your own
WORCESTER ART MUSEUM
noisemaker” workshop (1 to 5 PM) Free with First Night button
55 Salisbury Street
($5.00 without). Sponsored by FLEXcon.
WORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM FREE w/ Button
(10 AM to 4 PM)
30 Elm Street
Free w/ Button OPEN HOUSE (1 to 3 PM)
Worcester JCC
T First Night Trolley – Free with Button Stay warm! Ride the First Night trolley between venues. (4 – 10:30pm) Gaga, basketball clinic, bounce house
633 Salisbury Street
and craft projects. Kids under 18 must be
4 to 4:45
5 to 5:45
6 to 6:45
accompanied by an adult.
Free
w/
Button
FREE
PASTA
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PLUS,
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Jillian’s Billiard Club
$10 game card! Sponsored by Jillian’s.
Grace Morrison
315 Grove Street T
Country Folk Rock/Americana
Mychael David
Nashville Recording Artist
Free w/ Button FREE ICE SKATING
Free w/ Button FREE HOT COCOA (4 PM, while supplies
Worcester Common Oval
(12 to 5 PM). Sponsored by baystateparent. last). Sponsored by Becker College.
455 Main Street (behind City Hall)
Institute Park
Canal District Horse & Wagon Tours
Corner of Salisbury & Boynton
Mayor’s Opening Remarks (6 to 6:10 PM)
TUCKERMAN HALL
10 Tuckerman Street T
The Southeast Asian Coalition “Youth Effect”.
Opening Act sponsored by Saint-Gobain.
Sanctuary
EPWORTH UNITED
Dezrah the Strange – Magician Sweet Wednesday – Roots Americana Band
METHODIST CHURCH
Lower Level
McInerney School of Irish
Jazz Trane from Joy of Music
64 Salisbury Street T
Step Dance – Irish Dancers
World Jazz
Snack Bar
Darlin’ Corey
Neptune’s Car
Chapel
Bluegrass/Old Time
Contemporary Folk Duo
Parking Lot
FREE w/ Button The Well Dressed Pony (4 to 7 PM) – Pony Rides
Hall
TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH
JOMP Youth Orchestra (JYO) Jazz Messengers from Joy
73 Lancaster Street T
Youth Orchestra
of Music – World Jazz
ARMENIAN CHURCH OF OUR SAVIOR
The Worcester Youth
Li Liu
CULTURAL CENTER – 34 Boynton St. T
Orchestras – Youth Orchestra Chinese Acrobatics
RALPH’S ROCK DINER sponsored by
Tyra Penn and Her Army of Snakes
MassLive.com – 148 Grove Street T
Jazz & Blues
Sanctuary
Pakachoag Music School with Assabet Valley
WESLEY UNITED
Greater Worcester Opera
Worcester Children’s Chorus
Chambersingers
METHODIST CHURCH
Musical Theatre
Student Musicians
Chamber Choir
114 Main Street T
Brewer Hall
Snack Bar
Cambodian Classical Dance Mark Mandeville & Raianne Richards
Classical Dancers
Folk Singers
VETERANS INC. (OLD ARMORY BLDG)
FREE w/Button Bounce Houses (4-7:30PM) Bounce house! Face Painting (4-7:30PM) Get your First Night dazzle on!
69 Grove Street (Salisbury St. Entrance)
4:00 to 9:00 – Polar Beverages – Craft project, beverage samples, photos with Orson. Visit the Polar Van!
KIDS ZONE sponsored by UniBank
Linda Peck – Meet Linda Peck as Mary Poppins!
of Music Program
2 Joy
1 Gorham Street
3
First Night
Trolley
sponsored by
Bay State Savings Bank
and SG&D Insurance
Agencies
C.M. Judge, Teaching Artist – Inflatable Sculpture – special thanks to St. Leo School.
19 COURTYARD BY MARRIOTT
72 Grove Street T
Psychic Medium Joanne Gerber
Performers
Notes: Gray shaded blocks = venue closed
ANDY CUMMINGS is a guitarist/vocalist who
specializes in American music, folk, jazz, blues,
country, and rock & roll. Worcester Music Awards Best
Solo Act (2011 and 2012).
Assabet Valley Chambersingers is a
small ensemble selected from the Assabet Valley
Mastersingers. The Chambersingers will perform
madrigals and motets from all periods, as well as
Broadway show tunes and vocal Jazz standards.
C.M. Judge, Teaching Artist is an intermedia
artist who has facilitated over 100 public art projects.
She enjoys bringing people together to create
meaningful public art for their community.
Cambodian Classical Dance Students from
around the region will perform a lovely display of
Classical Cambodian Dance.
Canal District Horse & Wagon Tours Join us
for a journey into our city’s past! Trained tour
guides from South High share extraordinary stories
of immigrants, the industrial revolution, and success
in Worcester. Some famous Worcesterites may even
make a guest appearance!
Chuck & Mud and the Hole in the Dam Band
These Worcester favorites are entering their 37th year
of performing together! (They received the Key to the
City of Worcester in 2004, but still have not figured
out how to open it!)
Crocodile River Music delivers an exuberant
African Fusion concert as it brings African and
African-influenced music and dance to the audience!
Darlin’ Corey is the most recent and exciting
new project for Matt Shipman and Erica Brown.
Accompanied by fiddle, banjo, mandolin and guitars,
they put their unique spin on an Americana mix of
bluegrass, old time, folk and original songs.
Dezrah the Strange is a magician, sideshow
performer, escape artist and general weirdo from
Central MA. He has performed everywhere from
Fortune 500 companies, and Universities to burlesque
shows and backyard BBQ’s. See him at First Night!
The Gizmo Guys are a comedy juggling act, but
they are much more! Touring worldwide since 1987,
The Gizmo Guys have appeared before more than a
million people in 2,000+ live performances, as well
as countless others on TV. Their act includes worldclass juggling skills presented in a series of original
routines that will amaze and amuse!
Grace Morrison is an amazingly talented singer/
songwriter and First Night favorite! Winner, “Grass
Roots” Award, New England Music Awards (2015).
Greater Worcester Opera is a company of
professionally trained local artists who perform
Broadway, American Songbook, operetta and opera
music in both concert and fully staged theatrical
productions. They will be presenting “The Story and
Songs of Camelot’ at First Night.
The Hip Swayers Described by the Worcester
Telegram & Gazette as “busy and popular”, the Hip
Swayers have performed in venues and on radio
from Quebec to New Orleans and on both the east
and left coasts. They have opened for Paul Rishell
& Annie Raines and were featured guests on a live
broadcast of the Blue Plate Special on Knoxville radio
station WDVX. Hypnotist/Comedian Jim Spinnato Join
Hypnotist/Comedian Jim Spinnato for a fun-filled
performance of comedy, audience participation and
hypnosis. “Sleeping” was never this funny! (Parents
please note: Jim’s show at Jillian’s is “Rated PG”.
His Tuckerman Hall show is “Rated G”).
ACTIVITIES (continued)
7 to 7:45
8 to 8:45
9 to 9:45
10:15
The Southeast
Asian Coalition
“Youth Effect”
sponsored by
T First Night Trolley – Free with Button (4 – 10:30pm) Sponsored by Bay State Savings Bank and SG&D Insurance Agencies.
Shaded Glitch – Electro Pop
8 to 8:45
The Kelly Girls – Celtic Band
9 to 9:45
Jim Spinnato
Comedy/Hypnotist
Canal District Horse & Wagon Tours
Jim Spinnato
Comedy/Hypnotist
Crocodile River Music
Global Music for Hire
WHO ARE YOU - A Tribute to
THE WHO – Classic Rock
Dezrah the Strange – Magician
Sweet Wednesday – Roots Americana Band
Chuck & Mud and the Hole in the Chuck & Mud and the Hole in the Dam
Dam Band – Family Entertainment Band – Family Entertainment
Snack Bar
Peter Griggs: 500 Years of Music for
Jan Luby – Singer/Songwriter
Guitar – Classical Guitar (& More)
Li Liu
Chinese Acrobatics
KB and the Stew
Jazz Rock
The Gizmo Guys – Comedy & Juggling
The Gizmo Guys
Comedy & Juggling
Andy Cummings – Singer/Songstylist
James Keyes – American Roots
Lara Herscovitch
Contemporary Folk
The Hip Swayers – Mountain Surf
Lori Diamond & Fred Abatelli
Soulful Acoustic Duo
Snack Bar
Ms. Marci & The Lovesick Hounds Jazzed Up featuring Mauro DePasquale
Swing Blues
– Jazz Classics & American-Songbook
continued – Craft project, beverage samples, photos with Orson. Visit the Polar Van!
Matt Roberts – Clean Comedy Magic
Matt Roberts – Clean Comedy Magic
C.M. Judge, Teaching Artist
Performers (continued)
Psychic Medium Deborah
Livingston (with Katherine Glass)
Psychic Medium Katherine Glass
(with Deborah Livingston)
James Keyes is a performer with a voice
like brewed black coffee and a set of songs
reaching all the way back to the Great
Depression that will make you clap, dance and
sing along, until long after the music is over!
Jan Luby is a singer/songwriter known
for her engaging stage-presence and voice
full of passion, range and power. Winner,
Female Vocalist, Motif Magazine (2011).
Finalist, Boston Acoustic Music Underground
competition.
Jazz Messengers from Joy of Music
Whether it’s Latin Jazz, World Fusion or Standard
Jazz, this talented high school quartet from Joy
of Music swings smooth and rocks hard!
Jazz Trane from Joy of Music World
jazz, fusion, standards - this jazz quartet of
outstanding high school players will fill the
hall with energy and joy!
Jazzed Up featuring Mauro
DePasquale ”If you like Sinatra, Bublé,
Bennett, and Connick Jr., you will LOVE
JAZZED UP.” Winner, Best Entertainers,
Worcester Living Magazine (2014).
Nominated, Best JAZZ ACT, Worcester Music
Awards (2012,2013, 2014 and 2015).
JOMP Youth Orchestra (JYO) From
Beethoven to Respighi’s Ancient Airs and
Dances to the Elgar Enigma Variations, JYO
will lift your spirits and celebrate the New Year
in grand style!
The Kelly Girls are a four piece, all-female
band, full of energy and good humor! They
sing and play Irish, Celtic, American and
Canadian folk songs, tunes, ballads and pub
songs with entertaining musicianship that
audiences love.
KB and the Stew is a trio of musicians who
play a blend of jazz, funk, rock and hip-hop
10:15
FIREWORKS sponsored by POLAR BEVERAGES!
7 to 7:45
instrumentals. The group is comprised of
Victor-Scott Sandagato on guitar, Billy Morgan
on keyboard, and Kaelan Burkett on drums.
Lara Herscovitch Lara’s music is an
original blend of modern folk with blues,
jazz, and pop influences. She’s a former
Connecticut State Troubadour, has appeared
as a guest on A Prairie Home Companion
with Garrison Keillor and tours from Maine
to Miami!
Li Liu was born in Shenyang, China and started
learning acrobatics at the age of six. She has
toured all over the world with The Liaoning
State Circus, Zirkus Knie in Switzerland, Circus
Roncali in Germany, and Ringling Brothers
Barnum & Bailey Circus in the US, where she
has resided since 2003. Winner, Gold Medal,
Cirque de Demain circus competition (Paris).
Linda Peck pops in as Mary Poppins, transforming First Night into a
London Street. Join her as she mixes magic, balloon umbrellas and a bit of
her zany psychology!
Lori Diamond & Fred Abatelli Fans of Norah Jones, Sarah McLachlan
and Joni Mitchell, quickly become fans of Lori & Fred as they explore Jazz,
Acoustic, Folk, Pop, Gospel and blues influences and gently infuse them
into their own, highly original style. Five-time Winner, Worcester Music
Awards; Pulse Magazine’s BEST CD (2015).
Mark Mandeville & Raianne Richards have resonated with the
lover of Americana, old country, and harmony singing for more than a
decade. The duo crafts commanding melodies and poignant, introspective
lyrics backed with delicate arrangements on ukulele, clarinet, guitar and
banjo. Their recent album Hard Times & Woes has won rave reviews.
Matt Roberts: Clean Comedy Magic Matt’s award-winning,
interactive live show is an original mix of laughter and amazement. It
features smart clean comedy, fun audience participation, skillful sleightof-hand and the astonishing illusions that have made Matt one of the
country’s busiest entertainers! Two-time EMMY® Nominee. Named “Great
Illusionist” by The Providence Performing Arts Center.
The McInerney School of Irish Step Dance is home to numerous regional
and national champions as well as several world qualifiers.Their dancers have
performed with world renowned Irish performers including the Chieftains, Cherish
the Ladies, Teada, Lunasa, the Clancy Brothers, and Eileen Ivers.
Ms. Marci & The Lovesick Hounds Ms. Marci has performed with
blues and Rock ‘n’ Roll legends Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Hubert Sumlin,
Bo Diddley, and Pinetop Perkins, among others. Winner, Woo-Tube “Video of
The Month” for “Boogie Woman”, performed with The Lovesick Hounds.
Mychael David An intimate night featuring Mychael’s original hits along
with some of your favorite country songs. Mychael’s hit song “Nothin” spent
34 weeks on national radio where it topped at #1 on The Indie World Charts.
Neptune’s Car is an acoustic duo from Massachusetts and New
Hampshire who play original, Contemporary Folk music. Their three
albums have appeared on many “Best of” lists and have charted in the top
5 on Folk radio twice!
Pakachoag Music School with Worcester Children’s Chorus
Come relax, be inspired. Pakachoag Music students team up with the
Worcester Children’s Chorus to sing in the New Year! Who knew musicmaking could be such fun!
Peter Griggs: 500 Years of Music for Guitar Peter is a musician and
composer from New York City who has presented more than 500 concerts
worldwide since 2002. His repertoire includes classical music of all periods, as
well as Flamenco, jazz, blues, Brazilian music and his own compositions.
Psychic Medium Deborah Livingston (with Katherine Glass)
As seen on WBZ news and TV show 6th Sense and Beyond, Deborah has
been gifted with the sacred gift of communication with the spirit world. Her
messages are delivered with love, humor and sensitivity.
Psychic Medium Joanne Gerber has appeared on national television,
including the NBC Weekend Today Show and NECN news, and has hosted
her own monthly show, “Chat with Psychic Joanne Gerber” on Boston.com
for over a decade. She also presents live on-the-air readings weekly on
WJJR 98.1 FM (Rutland, VT).
Psychic Medium Katherine Glass (with Deborah
Livingston) Katherine comes from a lineage of psychic sensitives and
Transcendentalists and is directly related to Ralph Waldo Emerson. She has
been using her gifts to bring help and healing to others since childhood,
and professionally for over 20 years.
Shaded Glitch is an up and coming Electro pop singer/songwriter from
Boston that captures listeners with strong, melodic, hard bass music and
meaningful, haunting lyrics.
The Southeast Asian Coalition “Youth Effect” Opening
Act sponsored by Saint-Gobain. The Southeast Asian Coalition “Youth
Effect” group will present an exciting and innovative Asian fusion dance
incorporating cultural performances from different regions within
Southeast Asia. This spectacular display begins with a traditional Chinese
Lion Dance, leads into a graceful traditional Thai dance and finishes with a
relaxed performance of a traditional Vietnamese dance. Not to be missed!
Sweet Wednesday performs heartfelt and beautiful harmonies backed
by guitar, mandolin, harmonica, violin, bass and drums that take you
traveling across uncharted waters, to places and people you never
dreamed of meeting, but whom you will never forget.
Tyra Penn and Her Army of Snakes present The Snakes In Winter, a
program of songs for the ice and snow, with Snakes!
WHO ARE YOU – A Tribute to THE WHO Do you like THE WHO? Then
you’re in luck! Playing venues throughout the US and Canada, WHO ARE
YOU brings their audience an exciting multimedia experience that aims to
recreate the sheer power that drove The Who to their reputation as one of
rock ‘n’ roll’s best live acts!
The Worcester Youth Orchestras Currently celebrating its 68th
Season, the Worcester Youth Orchestras provide aspiring young musicians
with opportunities to play in a full symphony orchestra. They will be
performing Music for the Holidays and Festive Season at First Night.
Events SPONSORS
Presenting sponsors:
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Gold SPONSORS:
Silver Sponsors:
Atlas Pyrovision
Productions, Inc.
baystateparent
CVS
EcoTarium
Hanover Insurance
Group Foundation
Leominster
Champion
MassLive.com
Millbury Sutton
Chronicle
Museum of
Russian Icons
EVENT SITES:
Old Sturbridge
Village
Saint-Gobain
Corporation
Salisbury Mansion
The Grafton News
The Landmark
UniBank
Worcester Art
Museum
Worcester
Historical Museum
315 Grove St. T
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Trinity Lutheran
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Tuckerman Hall
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Wegmans Food
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Wells Fargo
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Wesley United
Methodist Church
Worcester JCC
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40 Highland St.
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Epworth United
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Hilton Garden Inn
Jillian’s Billiard
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MarketKING
Millbury Federal
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National Grid
Ralph’s Rock Diner
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