Mission Hill Arts Festival

The Yard at the Tobin Community Center

1481 Tremont St, Roxbury, MA

The Mission Hill Arts Festival, an annual outdoor performance series at The Yard at the Tobin Community Center, invites audiences to share a performance and a conversation.

This summer’s theme is Exuberance, and Celebrity Series is excited to co-present three performances that offer a new way of thinking about movement, rhythm, and the musical status quo.

These community concerts are co-presented by Celebrity Series’ Neighborhood Arts Program (see page 55 for more information).

Learn more about these events and purchase tickets at celebrityseries.org/mhaf

Jalen Bunch

Finding Joy, A Celebration in Dance

Saturday | June 24 | 6pm

Dancer and Choreographer Jalen Bunch, wearing a device that translates their movements into sound in real time, depicts triumph and survival through movement and digitally rendered sound. They ask: what does exuberance look like, and what will it sound like?

Lee Fish Quintet

Sounds of a Starr

Saturday | July 22 | 6pm

Drummer Lee Fish pays tribute to his mother Lori Starr, a composer, musician, and educator. Fish arranges Starr’s compositions for his own quintet, bringing new life to her works, and continuing her legacy of joy, exuberance, life, and love.

Kevin Harris Project

P U L S E

Saturday | August 19 | 6pm

Pianist and composer Kevin Harris creates a chamber work in collaboration with Winsor Music that brings notated and improvised music together in an exuberant whole. The ensemble of oboe, clarinet, violin, cello, acoustic bass, and piano features jazz and classical musicians playing alongside each other in an energetic exchange of ideas.