2023-2024 Performances now up! Mark your calendars

MONTHLY ACOUSTIC MUSIC CONCERTS IN WESTERN CONNECTICUT
Come experience the music
of the people!
2023-2024 Performances now up! Mark your calendars
Come experience the music
of the people!
September 10, 2023
Jim Scott
October 8
Mustard's Retreat
November 5
Mad Agnes
December 3
Ce Songbird
January 7, 2024
Claudia Schmidt
February 11
Lui Collins
March 3
Lisa Gutkin
and
Sue Horowitz
(split bill)
April 7
The Kennedys
May 5
Joe Jencks
June 9
Reggie Harris
Our concerts will happen in the main hall of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Danbury
24 Clapboard Ridge Road
in Danbury
(just off I-84)
Comfy chairs,
warm natural views, barrier-less entry, ample free parking.
Our concert space is on the traditional land of the Paugussett.
This is a welcoming and inclusive space for LBGTQIA, diverse religious and non-religious people, members of all races and classes.
In this age of COVID concern - we'll do our part if you do yours:
Us: enforcing the masking and vaccination requirements of our performers;
You: be thoroughly vaccinated, don't come if you have symptoms, and feel free to mask-up
(note: some performers may require masks or proof of vaccination - see ticketing)
Music at the Ridge
is a non-religious,
community program of the Unitarian Universalists of Danbury.
Our Concerts will be available both as in-person and live-streamed.
All of our ticketing is through Eventbrite.
See the link on each concert page.
Simple, yummy snacks and beverages will be available for purchase.
These concerts are supported by a team of volunteers who want us all to be able to enjoy live
music
Pat Wictor, November 6, 2022
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
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.
For group ticket information or accessibility requests, send us a message.
We will get back to you as soon as we can.
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