My View of Life on the Dock
Would like to thank all who helped clean up last Saturday on Main and Rogers.
This week’s clean up
When: Saturday March 26, 2022
Time: 09:00 – 10:00
Where: Nautilus Rd at the Good Harbor Footbridge
I love these sculptures. The artist is so talented and uses only recycled materials.
GLOUCESTER MEETINGHOUSE AUDIENCE RAISES OVER $4,500 FOR UKRAINE RELIEF
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE—PHOTO ATTACHED Tuesday, March 22, 2022
An audience that applauded the return of live concerts to the Gloucester Meetinghouse on Sunday also brought compassion as they
gave more than $4,500 to support war relief efforts in the Ukraine by the International Rescue Committee.
The concert, a “Bach Birthday Bash” to mark the 337th birthday of famed composer Johann Sebastian Bach, attracted close to
200 listeners to the Meetinghouse, the oldest standing church edifice in Gloucester and home to the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church.
The concert featured harpsichord, violin, organ and vocal selections from Bach’s diverse repertoire and was presented by the
Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation, an independent nonprofit 501(c)(3) dedicated to preserving the historic building and
increasing its use for public functions. The performance ended with the Ukrainian National Anthem, whose words include,
“Our enemies shall vanish like dew in the sun; soul and body shall we lay down for our freedom.”
This was the first of three spring concerts scheduled after two years of coronavirus pandemic conditions brought the suspension
of nearly all open public events at the Meetinghouse. The next concert, scheduled for Sunday, May 1, will be a Holocaust memorial
performance featuring a specially commissioned orchestral work to be presented jointly by Temple Ahavat Achim and the
Meetinghouse Foundation. The final concert on Sunday, May 22, will present the Appleton Consort, performing Bach on
period instruments including the Brandenburg Concerto No. 5.
The large response for Ukrainian war relief through a free-will offering surprised Meetinghouse Foundation president Charles Nazarian.
“We were greatly encouraged by this outpouring,” he said. “It far exceeded all our expectations, showing the concern and great generosity
of our community concerning the struggle for freedom in Ukraine.” Admission to the concert itself was free, underwritten by the
Foundation’s annual concert sponsors.
The Meetinghouse Foundation provides a permanent base for secular support to preserve one of Gloucester’s most revered historic buildings,
built in 1806 as the home of the first Universalist church in America. The Foundation is modeled on a nonprofit that supports Boston’s famed Old North Church.
Information about upcoming concerts and events, the Foundation, and an internet link to a YouTube recording of Sunday’s Bach birthday concert,
is available at www.gloucestermeetinghouse.org.
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Photo: Violinist Emily Hale playing a Bach sonata at the Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation
“Bach Birthday Bash” Sunday, March 20, 2022, where more than $4,500 was raised for Ukrainian war relief.
$4,500 Raised at Concert for War Relief. PRESS FINAL 03.22.22
The Cave on Main Street, Gloucester, MA is having a fundraiser for Ukraine.
All local artists are showing their great work. When visiting the show, the museum is terrific and worth the time to take a tour.
Thank you
Friday afternoon was so nice outside everyone was enjoying themselves. Love the joy of children
This buoy I saw on the beach yesterday looks like it has a story to tell.
Lisa Dunne 
Taking a walk in the woods you never know what you will see.
Hi all:
Hope everyone is doing ok. It has been a while since we have been out there. We need to start up our little gang to clean the city. Since having heart surgery late last spring kept me from doing much last year, we need to get back.
Rain or Shine
Walking down Main and Rogers Street it could use some tender loving care.
When: Saturday, March 19, 2022
Time: 09:00 – 10:00
Where: St. Peters Square
Please bring gloves, pickers and I will pick up the yellow bags.
Look forward to hearing from all.
Thank you and take good care
Donna Ardizzoni
Business Manager
Circle Consulting Group
PO Box 5506
Gloucester, MA 01930
978-526-9222
339-234-0776
Beautiful Gloucester Harbor on a sparkle day.
From our friend Jerry Ackerman
GLOUCESTER SPRING CLASSICAL
CONCERT SERIES RESUMES,
LIVE IN THE MEETINGHOUSE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, MARCH 10, 2022
The Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation is pleased to announce its Spring 2022 series of three classical concerts, beginning and ending with musical celebrations of Johann Sebastian Bach and featuring, in the middle, a Holocaust Memorial Concert that will premiere a specially commissioned work, “The Grip of Evil: The Endurance of Hope,” written and conducted by American composer Leslie Steinweiss.
The series marks the resumption of live, in-person concerts at the Gloucester Meetinghouse, at the corner of Middle and Church Streets in downtown Gloucester, as COVID-19 pandemic conditions have begun to ease. The season will begin Sunday, March 20, at 4:30 p.m., marking the J.S. Bach’s 337th birthday with harpsichord works performed by Mary Jodice and Charles Nazarian, violin works by Emily Hale, and voic solos by soprano Caroline Teague and counter-tenor Cameron Dobson.
The event is free, with a collection to be taken to support Ukranian war relief work by the International Rescue Committee. It also will be simulcast for home viewing via the Meetinghouse Foundation’s YouTube.channel and available there afterwards.
The opening concert’s visual centerpiece is a Flemish double harpsichord made by celebrated keyboard-instrument builder David Jacques Way. Nazarian, its owner will discuss the instrument’s workings and demonstrate its varied sounds, followed by Ms. Jodice on the harpsichord and Ms. Hale on baroque violin playing the Bach Violin Sonata in C-minor; a Bach violin solo by Ms. Hale; Bach’s “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” sung by soprano Caroline Teague; and selections from Bach’s Mass in B-Minor sung by counter-tenor Cameron Dobson accompanied by Ms. Jodice The concert will end with Ms. Jodice’s performance of Bach’s Passacaglia and Fugue in C-minor, on the Meetinghouse’s 1893 Hutchings/Fisk pipe organ.
The series continues Sunday, May 1, at 3 p.m. with Steinweiss’s Holocaust Memorial Concert featuring the world premiere of his “The Grip of Evil: The Endurance of Hope. Presented jointly with Gloucester’s Temple Ahavat Achim, this concert was organized by Stephen Bates, of Manchester, who will perform on clarinet and flute. Bates was a clarinetist and bass-clarinet chair for 36 years with the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra in Washington, D.C.
This program will include individual Holocaust remembrances plus narration by storyteller Judith Black. The ensemble includes Janine Solheim, soprano; Wes Hunter, tenor; Abigale Reisman, violin; Rebecca Hallowell, viola; Anna Seda, cello; and Kathleen Forgac, piano.
The final concert in the series, Sunday, May 22, at 3 p.m., will return to Bach, featuring some of his most beloved orchestral works played by a Baroque ensemble, The Appleton Consort, on period instruments and directed by Mark Dupere.
This program includes the Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major (BWV 1068) for two oboes, bassoon, strings, and continuo; the Sinfonia from Cantata Non sa che sia dolore (BWV 209) for flute, strings, continuo; the Violin Concerto in A minor (BWV 1041) for solo violin, strings, continuo; the Sinfonia from Cantata Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbatas (BWV 42) for two oboes, bassoon, strings, continuo; and the Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major (BWV 1050) for solo flute, solo violin, solo harpsichord, and strings. This concert is sponsored by H. Woody Brock and Scobie Ward.
Tickets for the two May concerts are $45 for preferred seating, $30 for general seating and $10 for students. They will be available at the door or ordered online at www.gloucestermeetinghouse.org.
The Meetinghouse is the home of the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church and is handicapped-accessible via a side entrance at 10 Church Street. Limited parking is available on the Green in front. Publlic health rules, including social distancing and possible use of masks, may be in effect and may vary among performances.
The Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization established in 2015 is to restore this architectural masterpiece that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a concert venue, civic hub and community gathering center.
More information is available online at www.gloucestermeetinghouse.org.
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On Sunday was windy but such a pretty day to go and take a walk. Good Harbor as usual was very pretty. Loved how the sand blows.
With spring and Easter are just around the corner. Come on down to Arts Abound, 21 C Lexington Avenue, Magnolia, Gloucester, MA, shop local thank you
Right after sunset on Friday at Magnolia Beach.
Even though we all want spring, it was beautiful in the morning.
Good Morning Gloucester 