Bluegrass Nights
The Granite Church 5 N. Main Street, Redding, CT, United StatesJoin us for a monthly celebration of bluegrass music. House band at 8 PM with open jamming through the night. Come to listen, come to play, come to learn.
Join us for a monthly celebration of bluegrass music. House band at 8 PM with open jamming through the night. Come to listen, come to play, come to learn.
This program will delve into groundbreaking Piano Quartets - one from each Century. They will start with the Mozart Piano Quartet in Gm, move on to the Romanticism of the Dvorak Piano Quartet in Eb, and then perform a 21st C Classical Rock n' Roll Piano Quartet written for Beryl and the Orion Piano Quartet by composer Joe Gianono.
A five-week songwriting series guided by Carrie Linsky. This new workshop series is centered on exploring authentic creative expression through songwriting. Spring is a season of new beginnings and possibility. Whether you’re an experienced songwriter or just beginning, this series meets you where you are. All you need to bring is curiosity, openness, and the desire to create something you love.
Fresh off a first-place win at the 2025 Telluride Bluegrass Festival band competition, Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light have been captivating audiences throughout the northeast. With songs as sweet and biting as the nectar and venom in her voice, Sumner's lyric-forward writing and penchant for snaking chord progressions demand something far beyond folk conventions, highlighting the acrobatic range of her brilliant bandmates Kat Wallace (fiddle) and Mike Siegel (upright bass).
She Sings Dylan delivers a unique, female-fronted take on Bob Dylan's vast catalog with fresh arrangements of beloved classics and rare gems. The band features lead vocalist Kate Hubbard and supporting vocalist, mandolinist, and clarinetist Sophia Coppola, alongside a top-tier lineup of Northeast musicians: Jeff Martinson (guitar), Bill Carbone (drums), Sean Elkind (keys), and Marty Moroney (bass), all seasoned players known from bands like Max Creek and Mystic Dead.
Lindsay Foote's music captures a raw, honest, and powerfully groovy sound that blends elements from folk & pop with a gritty rock Americana edge. A night at a Lindsay Foote show is one you won’t forget—the lyrical candor and infectious grooves just stay with you.
Calling all fiddles, banjos, and guitars! Come on out to play or sit back and listen to Appalachian music with us. All are welcome!
Melding unparalleled virtuosity with an introspective sensibility, Nic Gareiss and Alexis Chartrand trace, with disarming spontaneity, their path across French Canadian, Appalachian, and Irish traditions. Propelled by melodies inherited from Québécois folklore, the duo explores, with palpable pleasure, the sharing of sounds and gestures, blurring the lines between music and dance, melody and movement.
Play folk music with your feet! Flatfooting is a solo form of improvised percussive dance originating in the Appalachian Mountains, with sonic and gestural connections to West African, Indigenous, and Western European dance. Using the toe, heel, and ball of the foot to strike and slide across the floor, flatfooting articulates the rhythms of old-time fiddle and banjo tunes. For movers of all experience and backgrounds.
Join Rock Hearts at The Granite for an intimate evening of live bluegrass music. Formed in 2013, Rock Hearts brings together five seasoned musicians from southern New England who love to sing and pick bluegrass and old country tunes, and seek out tunes from other genres to "Bluegrass-ify." Doors at 6:30 PM.
Come enjoy the beauty of English Baroque song this May. Soprano Sarah Hawkey and lutenist Kevin Payne present Love’s Arc: Desire and Heartbreak in English Baroque Song, an intimate afternoon of music by beloved English Baroque composers Henry Purcell, John Dowland, and their contemporaries. Tracing love, passion, heartbreak, and grief, these centuries-old songs feel vividly alive today—inviting listeners to time-travel and experience the enduring emotional resonance of love across centuries.
Calling all fiddles, banjos, and guitars! Come on out to play or sit back and listen to Appalachian music with us. All are welcome!