WESTFIELD – The Board ofTrustees of New Jersey Festival Orchestra cordially invites the community to support the Arts at the NJFO Gala 2024 Viva Flamenco. The event, featuring renowned guest tango dancers and musicians, as well as musicians from NJ Festival Orchestra, will take place on Thursday,Apr...

WESTFIELD — Mostly Music will present a chamber music concert this Sunday, March 17, at 3:30 p.m. Violist Paul Neubauer, cellist Dmitri Atapine and pianist Hyeyeon Park will perform works by Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, Volkmann and Drigo.This event will take place at Temple Emanu-El, located at 7...

SUMMIT – Stories from real life can be just as engaging as those from a playwright's imagination. Vivid Stage in Summit proved that with their latest production of “Gone Missing,” a collaborative piece of vignettes assembled by Steve Cosson from verbatim interviews by an ensemble theatre group, The ...

WESTFIELD – It is that time of year when the Westfield Public Schools community looks forward to Spring musicals and celebrating the considerable talents of the cast, crew, and theater directors at Edison and Roosevelt Intermediate Schools and Westfield High School (WHS).“Our intermediate and high s...

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WESTFIELD – Steeple Concerts at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Westfield is pleased to announce the fourth concert in its 2023-2024 series. On Sunday, March 10, Steeple invites the general public to hear the celebrated Aizuri String Quartet at 5 p.m.Formed in 2012, Aizuri is comprised of four distin...

PLAINFIELD – “Just Strings” is the theme for the Plainfield Symphony Orchestra concert on March 16 concert at 7 p.m. Maestro Charles Prince will lead the PSO string ensemble in a rich and varied representation of strings-only orchestral literature.Juan Bautista Plaza (1898-1965) is considered to be ...

AREA— Congressman Tom Kean, Jr. (NJ-07) recently announced the launch of the 2024 Congressional Art Competition. All high school students (grades 9-12) in New Jersey’s Seventh Congressional District are invited to participate. The deadline for submissions will be 5 p.m. on Friday, April 5.“I am exci...

COUNTY — The Union County Board of County Commissioners is pleased to announce a new series of acrylic painting workshops for adults will take place this spring on Saturdays from 10 a.m. until noon at the Trailside Nature and Science Center, located at 452 New Providence Road in Mountainside.“We are...

FANWOOD — The Fanwood Performance Series presents an evening of jazz with the Ted Brancato Trio andAlejandroAtaucusi onApril 13 at the newly refurbished Kuran Cultural Arts Center (a.k.a. the Carriage House), next to Fanwood Borough Hall.Brancato is a pianist with four decades of experience composin...