Musician Naomi Westwater brings spirituality to the forefront with ‘Cycle and Change’
The folk and jazz record is inspired by the Wheel of the Yea.
Music & Culture Events
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In Person
May 2025 Outspoken Saturdays
The GBH BPL studio will host Outspoken Saturdays, a spoken word poetry event for emerging artists. Every first Saturday of the month, the series will be created in collaboration with spoken word artist Amanda Shea. Join us!
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Virtual
Explorers: A New History with Matthew Lockwood
Prize-winning historian Matthew Lockwood looks at the impulse to explore, the travels of Pocahontas, Columbus, Sacagawea, and Captain Cook alongside others who rightfully deserve the title of “explorers” including immigrants and fugitive slaves.
According to Lockwood, people of every background imagine new worlds. The impulse to seek new places is universal to humanity. In his new book, “Explorers,” he unfurls a tapestry of surprising and historically overlooked travelers spanning forty centuries and six continents. His illustrated talk will share the stories of such seekers as David Dorr, born into slavery in New Orleans who embarked on a Grand Tour or Europe and Egypt, and the Viking female voyager Gudrid Far-Traveler, who sailed to North America in 1000 AD; among other pioneers.Partner:American Ancestors -
In Person
The Ulysses Quartet at The Boston Public Library (May 2025)
Join GBH Music's quartet in residence, the Ulysses Quartet, for a performance at the Boston Public Library!
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Culture in the News
Hilken Mancini celebrates ‘New and Notable’ album with all-star indie lineup
Hilken Mancini releases her new vinyl, out now on Girlsville Records, named New and Notable on Bandcamp, with an all-star lineup of indie rock performers at Sonia in Cambridge May 10.
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‘Make Way for Ducklings: The Musical’ celebrates its world premiere
Boston jokes about — what else? — Dunkin’ and parking find their way into the stage adaptation of the classic children’s book. -
'Make Way for Ducklings the Musical' brings a beloved family classic to the stage
Robert McCloskey's classic book waddles into the spotlight in a high-energy, vaudevillian production. -
Why one cartoonist argues comics are an untapped channel for storytelling
We explore Joel Christian Gill's exhibit, "Comics Is a Medium, Not A Genre."
GBH Music
More Culture Programs
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What was Beethoven's Favorite Key?
Scott Yoo and his fellow musicians discuss what they think was Beethoven's favorite key.| 1:47 -
Beethoven Interrupts His "Kreutzer" Sonata
Scott Yoo and Anna Polonsky Play Beethoven's "Kreutzer" Sonata.| 1:20 -
Episode 15, Season 10<br> Frank Lloyd Wright Homes, Artist Whitney White, and more
Frank Lloyd Wright Homes, Artist Whitney White, and more| 26:46 -
Episode 25, Season 2<br> What We Don’t Know About The Father of Sci-Fi
There's more to H.G. Wells than we know or think.| 17:12