Sol y Canto Trio with Cecilia Zabala 

(Benefit for Puerto Rico)

Sunday, February 18th at 4PM

Join us on Sunday, February 18th at 4pm for an afternoon of traditional and original Latin American Music featuring Sol y Canto and Cecilia Zabala. Cambridge-based Sol y Canto play “Latin roots music to change the world: Passionate, poetic, playful and honest.” The Sol y Canto trio featuring Rosi Amador, Brian Amador, and Paul Lieberman. They will be joined by Cecilia Zabala from Buenos Aires, Argentina, a virtuoso guitarist and singer whose original music draws on a rich mixture of Argentine folklore, jazz, tango, and Brazilian popular music. Tickets are $20 – click here to purchase. Proceeds to benefit victims of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico through the MA United for Puerto Rico Fund. Visit the Boston Foundation at www.tbf.org/puertorico

 

Sound Journey

with Nirmal Chandraratna

Saturday, February 24 at 7:30 PM

Free Will Offering

First Parish welcomes Nirmal Chandraratna, a New York City-based Kirtan artist and composer with a passion for nurturing connection – to spirit, to community, and to one’s deeper self – through music. Using the voice, the harmonium, and the cello, he creates music for Kirtan and meditation, and works for communal performance. He will collaborate with our director of music Rip Jackson. In this evening experience, set in a dynamic, meditative environment, you are invited to connect with your intentions, both for yourself and for the world, and to let them take flight using the transformative power of sound. At the beginning of the evening, we’ll come together as a community, singing together and sharing our intentions. We’ll raise the intensity, and then you’ll be invited to settle into a comfortable position to meditate in a darkened, candle-lit environment as a concert of expansive music and textures unfolds.