Thursday, June 9, 2011
Barry Hall, a nationally recognized expert in the field, was commissioned to author the book “From Mud to Music.”
Residing in Walnut Creek, California in the 1990s, Barry Hall took an adult education class in ceramics and “thought that pottery was cool and I naturally gravitated towards making instruments out of clay.” Hall, who now lives in Westborough, met with Westborough Patch to discuss his collection of home-made clay instruments and the music he performs on them. One of his first creations was the “flower-pot-o-phone," a large instrument resembling an oversized xylophone, yet made entirely of clay flower pots. Hall and his wife, Beth, and their fifth grade daughter, Avery, eagerly performed a selection on the “flower-pot-o-phone," demonstrating the use of rubber super-ball headed mallets to strike the clay pots to produce a melodic sound. Hall …
Thursday, May 26, 2011
For the second year in a row, Sarah Hart will compete in the US Rowing Youth National Championships.
For the second consecutive year, Westborough High School graduating senior Sarah Hart has qualified to compete in the 2011 US Rowing Youth National Championships. She will be rowing for Community Rowing Inc. of Brighton. “I am really determined that we place in the top six final this year,” she said. Last year, her boat took eighth place nationally. The competition takes place June 10 through 12 on Melton Hill Lake in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The field of contenders includes 1,500 athletes from high school and junior rowing programs competing for national titles in 18 boat classes. This year, Sarah was in the club’s top women’s varsity eight boat that medaled silver at the recent two day regional qualifiers held on the Merrimack River in …
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Westborough High School
90 W Main St, Westborough, MA
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Thursday, March 31, 2011
The cast and crew are busy rehearsing every night this week in preparation for the April 1 opening night.
Spend a night traveling back to the 1930s with Cole Porter’s classic Broadway tunes of Anything Goes. Westborough Players Club is celebrating 74 seasons of community theatre and the 150th production since their start. The show, directed by John Leslie, opens Friday April 1 at 8 p.m. at the Gibbons Middle School auditorium. “This is like the good old fashion Broadway show, they’ll be humming and singing along,” said co-producer Jackie Hughes. The musical takes place aboard an ocean liner with funny plotlines and classic songs such as Anything Goes and It’s De-Lovely. The ocean liner is traveling from New York to London carrying a love struck stowaway trying to win the heart of a girl (Hope Harcourt) traveling aboard with her fiancé (Lord …
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Sarah W. Gibbons Middle School
20 Fisher St, Westborough, MA
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Local dad Kurt Ramm rocks MetroWest with popular cover band No Alibi.
“My dad played drums, my brother and one of my sisters played as well. I started playing at 17 years old,” recalled Kurt Ramm, a day before he and his band-mates in No Alibi hit the stage at JJ’s Sports Bar in Northborough, one of 30 to 40 shows the band plays locally each year. Since 2004, Ramm, along with four other talented musicians, has kept the beat steady and the dance floor hopping around central Massachusetts. The band frequently appears on the club scene in Worcester and the surrounding area. No Alibi band members include vocalist Dave Keating, guitarist Mark Strapponi, bassist David Mollica and keyboardist Mark Clement, who round out the band, which is well-known for the breadth and diversity of its set list. Their Feb. 18 show…
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Fales Elementary School
50 Eli Whitney St, Westborough, MA
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011
On April 18, 2011, Reske will run her eighth consecutive Boston Marathon. This year her goal is to raise $4,000 for Alzheimer's Research.
Not too many dull moments are found in Trish Reske’s life. This Westborough mom of four defines busy. She’s a marathon runner, humanitarian, award-winning freelance writer, business owner, and recently became a graduate student in creative writing and journalism at Harvard’s Extension School. She’s also an avid sailor who’s writing a humorous book about her adventures. Reske has run thirteen marathons and counting. On April 18th, she'll run her eighth consecutive Boston Marathon. The last three have been as a qualified runner with the Alzheimer Association’s Run for the Memory Team. This year Reske hopes to raise $6,000 for Alzheimer’s, which took her mother’s life in 2008. “I’ve also run seven marathons and raised $25,000 for the …
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Westborough's glass artist Holly Kenny and Shrewsbury's fiber and textile artist Carolann Tebbetts are featured in a new gallery show.
The Westboro Gallery’s new show, Fiber/Glass: Decorative and Wearable, is all about color. Westborough’s Holly Kenny, featured glass artist, told Westborough Patch, "Carolann and I work in different media, but we’re both focused on color. Blues, greens and earthy hues bring me a sense of harmony and peace. For Carolann, bright, bold colors help her connect with the Arts and Crafts Movement of the late 19th century.” The show, which runs through May 8, offers many affordable gift items. Holly Kenny's glasswork includes beads and sculptural pieces worked into jewelry, serving pieces, cheese knives, and more on sale from $20 to $85. Carolann Tebbetts, a fiber and textile artist from Shrewsbury who teaches art at Milford High School, presents …
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The Westboro Gallery
8 W Main St, Westborough, MA
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Westborough artist gains acclaim at local galleries.
Looking for something to cure those stir-crazy snowed in blues? Westborough artist Janine Schmitt’s gallery at Fountain Street Fine Art in Framingham might be exactly what you are looking for. “It is my hope that when people view my work, they not only experience the composition and color but, above all, have a feeling of discovery and wonderment,” she said. Janine Schmitt is a recent and talented addition to the community of Westborough. She became a resident of the town less than 2 years ago and already has made a name for herself in the central Massachusetts art community. Her vivid paintings convey her sense of individuality and freedom. “My paintings are essentially a contribution of geometric shapes combined with loose brush strokes…
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Barry and Beth Hall surprised to learn NPR promoted their medieval holiday music CD.
Barry and Beth Hall met over twenty years ago while touring Poland with a string orchestra. Beth recalls that "music brought us together." The pair became involved in medieval renaissance music when they lived in San Francisco, shortly after they were married. "The CD started as a musical Christmas card," Barry says, telling Westborough Patch that throughout the 80's the pair began an annual tradition of recording a medieval holiday song on cassette to send to friends instead of a greeting card. After years of recording individual songs, the Halls decided to make a compilation CD. They perform all of the vocals on the CD and also play various instruments including violin, viola, vielle and many others. Barry remembers sending the CD, …
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Michael Colbert’s “Misadventures in Filgersville," in print for 2 years, is now available for the Kindle e-reader.
Publishing a book might have been enough for most kids. Seeing it on the shelf at the bookstore, sharing space with Roald Dahl and Andrew Clements, may have fulfilled writing dreams. But not for enterprising Westborough High School junior Michael Colbert. At age 16, two years after the print release of his book Misadventures in Filgersville, he has pursued national and international exposure by releasing his book digitally for the Kindle e-reader. Colbert showed Westborough Patch the original notebook where he handwrote the first draft. "The idea just came to me, I'm not exactly sure how, but it's based on stereotypes in middle school." Colbert said the main characters include, "Chris the dumb jock and Melvin the tutor nerd who needs to…
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Tatnuck Bookseller
18 Lyman St, Westborough, MA
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Westborough High School
90 W Main St, Westborough, MA
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Mill Pond School
6 Olde Hickory Path, Westborough, MA
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Tanya Trainor
10:13 am on Sunday, January 30, 2011
We have been fortunate at The Unitarian Universalist Church to have Beth and Barry Hall play during our Sunday services many times this year. I have enjoyed their beautiful music! more ›