ONGOING EXHIBITS at The Nave
19-21 February 2010, Lost & Found
5-28 March 2010, Tooth and Nail
10 April–2 May 2010, The Beast In Me—Johnny Cash
9–31 May 2010, Sacred Art

A Benefit Concert for Partners in Health, an organization providing medical care to earthquake victims in Haiti. The concert will feature singer/songwriters Allysen Callery, Celia Slattery, and Allyssa Jones, along with accompanist Mark Shilansky.

The Concert kicks off a larger fundraising effort which includes the release of Songs of Hope for Haiti  - a new internet compilation album featuring local artists, many of who have performed at the Nave.  All proceeds from the album will go to Partners in Health.   Each of the artists appearing at the Benefit Concert have contributed a track to the album.

Allysen Callery's debut studio album Hopey was chosen one of the "Top Local CDs of 2007" by the Providence Phoenix who wrote: "Fragile picking and a haunting delivery reverberate with the ghosts of British folk like the hybrid, conjoined spirit of Sandy Denny and Nick Drake."

Celia Slattery's latest release, Cast of Characters weaves elements of jazz, pop and folk/rock with perceptive lyrics inspired by artists like Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen and Richard Thompson, all of whose music she also covers.

Allyssa Jones has a sound like Sarah Vaughan on a Sheryl Crow kick.  Allyssa embraces her soul and songwriter roots, along with her jazz and classical training. Her new CD 35 follows the moods of a diva: playful, pissed-off powerful.

Mark Shilansky, who will be accompanying Celia and Allyssa, is an in-demand accompanist, arranger, producer and player with many groups and singers around town.  His own most recent release is the CD, Join the Club, an album of creative arrangements of jazz and popular songs.

Partners In Health (PIH) works to bring modern medical care to poor communities in twelve countries around the world, and has been working on the ground in Haiti for over twenty years. The work of PIH has three goals: to care for their patients, to alleviate the root causes of disease in their communities, and to share lessons learned around the world.  Based in Boston, PIH employs more than 11,000 people worldwide, including doctors, nurses and community health workers. The vast majority of PIH staff are local nationals based in the communities they serve.

19 FEBRUARY 2010, 6 p.m., OPENING RECEPTION, 'LOST & FOUND' at The Nave
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Energy isn't destroyed or created, it's simply lost by one and found by another. Presenting the works of 15 local artists who have come together to present their interpretation on the theme of "Lost & Found" in a variety of mediums. Selected pieces are available for sale and range from restored antique chairs to paintings to multimedia presentations.

Christine Jozitis, Jessie Pinkham, Bennett Grizzard, Barrett Thornton, Mike Fortier, Emily Zilm, Harold Flood, Brittonie Fletcher, Mike Bullock, Tova Speter, D. Heidi Hample, Chris Holmes, Melissa McDowell, Dan Ribaudo, and Pete Septoff.

5 MARCH 2010, OPENING RECEPTION, 'TOOTH AND NAIL' at The Nave
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Work by Joe Keinberger and Skunk.

20 MARCH 2010, 4 p.m., ARTIST TALK, 'TOOTH AND NAIL' at The Nave
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Joe Keinberger and Skunk discuss their work.

8 APRIL 2010, JOHNNY CASH TRIBUTE at RISD Auditorium (Providence)
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A Benefit for Prison Literacy Programs
Doors at 7:30 p.m.
$10 general public / $7 with student I.D.
All ages.

Brown Bird, Coyote Kolb, Last Good tooth, Movers & Shakers, Mr. Sister, Ben Pilgrim, Tallahassee, Nina Violet, The Wrong Reasons

9 APRIL 2010, JOHNNY CASH TRIBUTE at Elevens (Northampton)
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A Benefit for Prison Literacy Programs
Doors at 8 p.m.
$10 general public

61 Ramblers, Coyote Kolb, Evil Bill, The Lonesome Brothers, Movers & Shakers, The Salvation Alley String Band, Tony the Bookie

10 APRIL 2010, OPENING RECEPTION, ''THE BEAST IN ME—JOHNNY CASH' at The Nave

Rebel, lover, family man, adulterer, addict, believer, sinner—Johnny Cash is the epitome of struggle. And, while we all suffer the contest between our wickedness and our righteousness, perhaps what makes this man different from most is that he embraced both. Desires to destroy/create, compassion born from being in the muck, a joy that comes through when one knows sorrow so well—that is grace, that is Johnny Cash.

Bad men and bad women—we've all met them, we've all been 'em. This exhibit aims to recognize that sometimes the worst parts of humanity attend to its virtue; that the actual measure of man's vitality is the labor to accept our inherit ill will but to not be bent—too much—by it.

10 APRIL 2010, JOHNNY CASH TRIBUTE at P.A.'s Lounge (Somerville)
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A Benefit for Prison Literacy Programs
Doors at 8 p.m.
$10 general public

Autumn Hollow Band, Coyote Kolb, Indian Style, Jesse Gallagher, Tom Janovitz, Movers & Shakers, Sleepy Very Sleepy, St. Claire

9 APRIL 2010, JOHNNY CASH TRIBUTE at Space Gallery (Portland, ME)
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A Benefit for Prison Literacy Programs
More info to come.

30 APRIL 2010, 8 p.m., AUDREY RYAN and RACHEL EFRON at The Nave
Audrey Ryan • Rachel Efron
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Since releasing her debut record, “Passing Thru”, in 2004 Audrey Ryan has been on the road touring both solo and with a band. Her second full length record “Dishes & Pills” was released by Folkwit Records in 2008. Her music started out in the jazz/pop vein and has evolved into an eclectic form of singer-songwriter indie rock of some alien breed using backwards loops, finger pianos, and other unique instrumentation. Overall this music blends together her early influences of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and Bob Dylan with contemporaries such as Robert Wyatt, Radiohead, Dungen, Wilco, Steroelab, and Arcade Fire. She performs nationally and internationally and resides in Somerville.

To listen to a Rachel Efron song is to be led across an inner-landscape at once beautiful, dangerous, serene, and startling. Rachel offers that rare combination of sophisticated musicianship and commanding lyricism. There is a delicacy and astuteness to her perspective on the world, and she possesses that most precious and rare artistic quality of being able to honestly share herself with her listeners.  She is versed in classical, jazz, folk, and pop music, and travels unabashedly between the soulful and sweet, saucy and swinging, by way of her alternately sincere and comically cynical portraits of life and love.

1 MAY 2010, SOMERVILLE OPEN STUDIOS at The Nave
Somerville Open Studios

2 MAY 2010, SOMERVILLE OPEN STUDIOS at The Nave
Somerville Open Studios

9 MAY 2010, OPENING RECEPTION, 'SACRED ART' at The Nave

The Nave is an art gallery located in a church. What does having a gallery in a "sacred space" do to the art in that space? What effect does it have on art produced for that space? A place of worship is inviting artists to display their inspirations. Does the juxtaposition allow the spiritual and artistic to inform and feed off of each other? Or does it raise questions on the appropriateness of certain subjects, fear of proselytization, and concerns about censorship and interference? The show "Sacred Spaces" wishes to answer these questions, or, at least, to propose some individual reactions to them.