Join us every Tuesday for Salastina’s Happy Hour: bringing you free, live musical performance, spirited conversation, and interaction with musicians and fellow music lovers.

In advance of coming to LA to perform with us live in-person, Charles is our first Return Happy Hour guest. For this Happy Hour, he performs live and offers a sneak peak of the following weekend’s live concerts.

Time & Location

Nov 04, 2021, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Le Mondo, 406 N Howard St, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA

About The Event

Flip Side Baltimore is a new arts project focusing on our neighborhood surrounding the Lexington Market area! The project celebrates life in a single neighborhood, its  people, and the music behind the stories they tell.

This kick-off event is free! Doors to Le Mondo and the Yellow Barn Music Haul truck will be open for a Radio Hour at 5PM. Performances will begin at 6PM inside Le Mondo.

Featuring

Paige Hernandez, hip-hop and spoken word artist

Travis Laplante, saxophone

Charles Overton, harp

Yiliang Jiang, violin

Seth Knopp, Artistic Director of Yellow Barn 

WHEN: OCTOBER 16, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

WHERE: 650 DUDLEY STREET, BOSTON, MA

AGES ALLOWED: ALL AGES

COST: FREE

WEBSITE: HTTPS://WWW.CELEBRITYSERIES.ORG/LIVE-PERFORMANCES/NEIGHBORHOOD-ARTS/CHARLES-OVERTON-GROUP/

This concert is the second of five performances in the Neighborhood Arts Jazz & Contemporary Music series. All concerts will be available for on-demand viewing the following Thursday at 8:00 pm. 

Harpist Charles Overton makes his in-person Neighborhood Arts debut with his four-piece group in this program entitled "Once More," after his most recent album release. Count on some sophisticated and smooth atmospheric music encompassing jazz, original works from "Once More" and more recent compositions, and pop covers. Charles Overton shows off the surprising versatility of the harp: you'll be amazed at his creativity in taking it to new and unexpected places! 

Coming up this Sunday, June 27 at 4pm in the Eliot Schoolyard Concert Series:

Charles Overton and Brian Friedland (jazz harp & piano)

Charles Overton has broken ground by bringing harp to jazz. He’s played at Tanglewood, the Berlin Philharmonic and Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, and was the first harpist at Berklee’s Global Jazz Institute, where he studied with Terri-Lynn Carrington and Danilo Perez. He’s joined by composer Brian Friedland on piano. Brian is a prolific composer and performer and dynamic performer.

In the yard at the Eliot School of Fine & Applied Arts, 24 Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain. Admission free, donations gratefully accepted, reservations appreciated. Bring your own seating, no dogs please. Details and reservations: https://eliotschool.org/eliotschoolyardconcerts

The series continues every Sunday, 4pm (except holiday weekends) through September.

Toward the Sea | Wednesday, June 16th, 7:30 PM

STREAMING on YouTube and www.CapeCodChamberOrchestra.org. Premiere June 16th at 7:30 PM, video available until July 12.

Join us virtually from the Cultural Center of Cape Cod as we explore art from the Cape and music of Takemitsu, Vaughan Williams, Rautavaara & Debussy. Featuring artists Jackie Reeves, Richard Neal, and Lauren Wolk.

Toru Takemitsu’s Toward the Sea (1981) was commissioned by Green Peace for the Save the Whales campaign, a piece of music that is an homage to the sea which “creates all things” according to the composer. Flautist Zach Sheets and harpist Charles Overton are featured on this program. The CCCO will also perform Vaughan Williams tone poem The Death of Tintagiles, the Andantino from the Debussy string quartet, and Rautavaara’s thrilling “Fiddlers”.

PROGRAM:

Debussy | Andantino

Vaughan Williams | Death of Tintagiles

Takemitsu | Toward the Sea

Zach Sheets, alto flute | Charles Overton, harp

Rautavaara | The Fiddlers

Created by violinist Lucia Lin, “In Tandem” is a non-profit initiative dedicated to bringing new voices to classical music through co-commissions of ten emerging composers with the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music. "Lyric" for Violin and Harp by Kerwin Young Charles Overton - harp Lucia Lin - violin

While this event is FREE, please RSVP either through the "Online Event" link above or through our website (https://www.salastina.org/.../happy-hour-no-50-charles...) and remember to create a Zoom account before the event to prevent the dreaded Zoom-bombings!

Charles Overton is a Boston-based harpist and performer of classical, jazz and world music. Recent engagements include an appearance at Scullers Jazz Club with his jazz ensemble: the Charles Overton Group, regular performances with the Boston Philharmonic, an appearance as a featured artist at the Dutch Harp Festival, as well as a tour of Spain performing Ginastera's Harp Concerto.

It's an unlikely pairing of instruments -- a harp and a vibraphone -- but the extraordinary duo of Charles Overton and Julian Loida make it work so well. The two are frequent collaborators, and they weave their ethereal sounds together in music that crosses and combines styles: ambient, jazz, world, classical, and much more. The streaming concert takes place from Futura Productions in Roslindale. This concert is produced using studio-quality production elements such as HD cameras, multiple viewing angles, and lighting in the partner venues.

HANGIN' WITH THE HARP FEST:

MARCH 20TH, 2021 9:30am - 3:30pm EST

Live on Zoom!

*This event has reached capacity! BUT Video Access is available! PURCHASE HERE!

Due to the overwhelming demand for this amazing event, we are now offering a limited time video access!

Click here for more information about video access.

Julian Loida & Charles Overton presented by Club Passim

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Donate at passim.org/stream

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Suggested donation: $18

PROGRAM

JOHANNES BRAHMS  –  5 Songs, Op. 105 for two violins
arr. Eric Lyon
1. Wie Melodien Zieht es mir
2. Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer
3. Klage
4. Auf dem Kirchhofe
5. Verrat
(Soon to be available on the forthcoming album Giga Concerto on New Focus Recordings.
Release date: Friday, March 26, 2021).

JESSIE COX  –  Alien Stories
LESTER ST. LOUIS  –  ARCHIVE01 [Absolute Recoil]  
ANAÏS MAVIEL  –   La Púyala Muntá
CHARLES OVERTON  –   Only Time Will Tell
JONATHAN FINLAYSON  –  Yet To Be
Co-commissioned by Carnegie Hill Concerts and String Noise for CHC Midday Music Festival 2020.
(Forthcoming album, Alien Stories on Infrrequent Seams. Release date: Friday, March 26, 2021).

Selections of covers by Prince, Black Flag, Stevie Wonder, Bad Brains, Deerhoof, X, The Germs, Radiohead, Dead Kennedys, Ween, Violent Femmes, Minute Men, Half Japanese and Flipper.

MUSICAL STOREFRONTS

January 21-April 28, 2021

Kaufman Music Center brought live music back to NYC’s Upper West Side with a pop-up concert series with 107 performances featuring 202 of our city’s finest performers, including chamber musicians, soloists, Broadway stars from Hamilton, Tootsie and Company, and artists from the Merkin Hall stage. More than 30K passers-by enjoyed the performances. Presented in partnership with the Alphadyne Foundation, Musical Storefronts provided work to artists severely impacted by the cancellation of live performances in a format that took into account all necessary health and safety measures for both artists and audiences.