Blue Profundity: Contemporary Artists Revisit a Color

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery - 1 College St, Worcester, MA, United States

This exhibition features contemporary artists Adam Chau, Ifé Franklin, Michelle Samour, Heather Evans Smith, and Andrea Pettway Williams, who incorporate blue in their work to highlight the symbolic and historic meanings of the color.

Traditional Irish Music at Family Weekend

DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC - Luth Concert Hall - 1 College St, Worcester, MA, United States

Boston based Uilleann piper Joey Abarta and fiddler Nathan Gourley will perform traditional Irish music as part of Family Weekend at Holy Cross.

Jazz and Blues with an Irish Interlude at Family Weekend

DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC - Luth Concert Hall - 1 College St, Worcester, MA, United States

This performance of jazz, blues, and traditional Irish music will feature student musicians from a variety of academic departments on campus during Family Weekend at Holy Cross.

Holy Cross Chapel Artist Series: Dexter Kennedy, organ

DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC - St. Joseph Memorial Chapel - 1 College St, Worcester, MA, United States

Organist Dexter Kennedy is the winner of the Grand Prix d’Interprétation at the 24th Concours International d’Orgue de Chartres.

Lunchtime Concert Series | Feelin’ Good – The Music of Nina Simone

DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC - The Beehive - 1 College St, Worcester, MA, United States

This lunchtime concert features the music of American icon and innovative jazz vocalist, pianist, and songwriter Nina Simone. Performers include vocalist Rhiannon Hurst (Brooks Fenwick Scholar), pianist Matthew Jaskot, and other music department students.

David E. Sanger: A World On Fire

HOLY CROSS COMMUNITY - Luth Concert Hall - 1 College St, Worcester, MA, United States

Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author David E. Sanger will deliver a talk and Q&A on China, Russia, and the challenges for the next President moderated by World Languages Department Chair Amy Singleton Adams, followed by a book signing in the Beehive at The Prior.

Johnny Gandelsman, violin | This Is America

PRIOR PRESENTS - Luth Concert Hall - 1 College St, Worcester, MA, United States

A commissioning and recording project from Grammy Award-winning violinist and producer Johnny Gandelsman, This is America celebrates our country’s rich cultural imaginary, offering a vivid counterpoint to the idea that this land can be understood through any singular, dominant point of view.

Irish Traditional Music Hour in Worcester

DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC - Brooks Concert Hall - 1 College St, Worcester, MA, United States

Traditional Irish musicians Diarmuid Ó Meachair and Sorcha Costello will deliver a very special afternoon performance at Brooks Concert Hall.

Lunchtime Concert Series | Blue Sonority

DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC - Cantor Art Gallery - 1 College St, Worcester, MA, United States

What does blue sound like? The Department of Music presents a Lunchtime Concert Series program of works inspired by this question in the ideal setting of the Blue Profundity exhibition in the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery.

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

PRIOR PRESENTS - Luth Concert Hall - 1 College St, Worcester, MA, United States

Aimee Nezhukumatathil is a New York Times-bestselling essayist and poet. Her environmentally attuned work explores how we live in a world she finds rich with wonder.