2023-2024 Performances now up! Mark your calendars
MONTHLY ACOUSTIC MUSIC CONCERTS IN WESTERN CONNECTICUT
Come experience the music
of the people!
NEXT UP:
Sunday, October 8, 2023 - 4 pm
MUSTARD'S RETREAT
and their
DEFIANTLY HOPEFUL tour
Mustard’s Retreat is well known to area audiences through their past concerts and the air play their music has received over the years. They—along with retired former partner Michael Hough—formed in 1975 in Ann Arbor, MI, which is still their home base. They found success quickly based on their live performances and engaging original songs.
Their performances are always joyful and uplifting, as well as intelligent, thought-provoking and insightful. A reviewer early in their career described their performance as “Music to cure what ails you.” In the past few years they have described their shows as “Defiantly Hopeful,” partly in terms of their long career, but more as a statement of what the music, and the folk community, has meant to them.
“Defiantly Hopeful,” explains Tamulevich, “we feel that that is what folk music is about….Yes, it is joyful and fun, mystery and wonder, the heartbreaks and resiliency, celebrating life. Beneath all of that, it is community and finding common ground beyond the politics and differences… helping each other chart our way through our times. We celebrate all of that…and that, is Defiantly Hopeful.”
Mustard’s Retreat has traveled more than a million miles and performed more than 7,000 shows, from pool parties and pig roasts, concerts and festivals, to Lincoln Center Out of Doors, The Barns at Wolftrap, and the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage. People locally might know them also from their appearances at The Eighth Step, the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, the Great Hudson River Revival, and from airplay on WAMC , WWUH, WPKN and WYBC , among others. They have 14 highly acclaimed recordings of mostly original material.
Take a look at/listen to this interview with Mustard's Retreat's David Tamulevich:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebq6QinNp1w
tickets
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OUR SPONSORS:
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Danbury
For over 200 years, the congregation has enhanced Greater Danbury with liberal, non-dogmatic religion; social witness and action; and cultural offerings. Committed to an inclusive understanding of the human and natural community, it is a place of welcome for all.