Music After Hours with The Afro-Semitic Experience

Join us on the Terrace every weekend in July and August from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. for lively evenings of free music played by the region’s most talented musicians. Enjoy delicious food from the Terrace Café and Lucia’s Latin Kitchen, available for purchase. To see the menu for Lucia’s Latin Kitchen, please click here.

To see the full 2018 Music After Hours lineup, please click here.

SEATING IS LIMITED, PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN LAWN CHAIRS. 

Note: No outside food and drink, please.

The Afro-Semitic Experience is an American roots jazz band with a difference.  We are a group of Jewish-American and African-American musicians who have been performing, recording, and teaching together for 20 years.  Our friendship ignites our passion and purpose: Together, as a band, we merge our musical roots, Jewish and Afro-diasporic melodies and grooves, combining the core concepts of ase and shalom – power, action, unity, and peace.  We began in 1998 as a duo with David Chevan on the bass and Warren Byrd on piano. Our current line-up includes Will Bartlett on tenor saxophone, clarinet and flute Alvin Carter, Jr. on drum set, Saskia Laroo on trumpet, Stacy Phillips on dobro, lap-steel guitar and violin, and Jocelyn Pleasant on percussion.  We’ve recorded eight CDs and we are in the midst of composing music for our ninth.  Our music embodies the radical notion that people of different faiths, races, and beliefs can come together, and celebrate and build community.

The Mount is a Massachusetts Cultural Council UP designated organization welcoming participants of all disabilities. Please contact Nicole Williams at 413-551-5100 or by email, nwilliams@edithwharton.org, to discuss accommodations needed to participate fully in this event. 

2018 Music After Hours Lineup:

Friday, July 6                          The Benny Sharoni Quartet

Saturday, July 7                     The Wanda Houston Band

Friday, July 13                        Jon Suters w/ special guests

Saturday, July 14                   Jason Ennis/Natalia Bernal w/ special guests

Friday, July 20                       Heard

Saturday, July 21                   The Armen Donelian Trio

Friday, July 27                       Paul Green Quartet

Saturday, July 28                   The Bob Meyer Project

Friday, August 3                     Jon Suters w/ special guests

Saturday, August 4               The Benny Sharoni Quartet

Friday, August 10                   Jason Ennis/Natalia Bernal w/ special guests

Saturday, August 11               The Afro-Semitic Experience

Friday, August 17                   Jeanne Laurin and John Sauer Quartet

Saturday, August 18              Andy Wrba/Berkshire Jazz Collective

Friday, August 24                  Jon Suters w/ special guests

Saturday, August 25             The Wanda Houston Band

Music After Hours is proudly sponsored by Greylock Federal Credit Union.