The 2013 Winter Concert Season
Parlor Concert Series 2013
The Hillsborough Arts Council organizes and sponsors three concerts in private historic homes in Hillsborough each year. This is our 13th annual Parlor Concert series.
Sunday March 24, 2013 at 4:00 pm
107 West Orange Street, Hillsborough
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Concert starts at 4:00 pm
There will be two sets and a reception will follow.
104 W Queen Street, Hillsborough
We are very excited to host Montana Skies at this very special limited seating event.Read more about Montana Skies
See videos and get ticket information here.
This is a very limited seating event
Doors Open at 3:30 pm
Concert starts at 4:00 pm
There will be two sets and a reception will follow.
Ciompi Quartet
Saturday, January 26, 7:00 to 9:00 pm
 We are honored to announce that the internationally recognized Ciompi Quartet will be performing a very special concert to benefit the Hillsborough Arts Council this January at historic St. Mathews Church in Hillsborough. There will be a catered reception with the musicians after the concert with wine and an array of hors d'oeurves and dessert. This is a rare opportunity to see this world class string quartet in an intimate setting. Seating is limited... purchase your tickets today! Recently returning from a tour in Germany the quartet has also toured internationally including concerts in China and Europe as well as Israel Belgrade and Prague. Ciompi has performed at prestigious venues such as New York’s Merkin and Weill Halls and Lincoln Center. Other venues of note include Boston’s Jordan Hall, the National Gallery and the Phllips Gallery in Washington, DC. Concerts by the Ciompi Quartet are known for their intelligence and musical sophistication, and for a warm, unified sound that is enhanced by the players’ strong individual voices. With a rare maturity and insight born of wide experience on the concert stage, the Ciompi Quartet projects the heart and soul of the music, in a repertoire that ranges from well-known masterpieces to works by today's most communicative composers.
LA SICILIA, Italy This is a very limited seating event. We hope you will join us at this extraordinary concert while supporting the Hillsborough Arts Council! Advance tickets are $25.00 and may be purchased at Eno Gallery 100 South Churton St. Hillsborough, NC. please note that tickets are non-refundable. In the event that there is a cancellation the concert will be re-scheduled and your tickets will be valid for the re-scheduled concert. ________ ______ Ciompi Quartet in Concert Saturday, January 26, 2013 7:00 to 9:00 pm St. Matthews Church 210 St. Mary's Road, Hillsborough, NC |
The Hillsborough Arts Council organizes and sponsors three concerts in private historic homes in Hillsborough each year. This is our 13th annual Parlor Concert series.
Past Concerts
2012 Parlor Concert Season
The Hillsborough Arts Council organizes and sponsors three concerts in private historic homes in Hillsborough each year. This is our 13th annual Parlor Concert series.
Chuck Brodsky - Singer Songwriter
Sunday, April 22 at 4:00 pm
The Ashe House (144 North Wake Street, Hillsborough)
Purchase tickets online here
The Ryan Hanseler Quartet
Sunday February 26th at 4:00 pm
Burnside (201 South Cameron Street, Hillsborough)
This is a very limited seating event
Doors Open at 3:30 pm
Concert starts at 4:00 pm
There will be two sets and a reception will follow.
Hosted by the Hillsborough Arts Council, the concert will take place at a very special venue… Historic 'Burnside' a beautiful 1835 Victorian style historic Hillsborough home.
Burnside is the home of Maureen Quilligan and Michael Malone.
Ryan Hanseler has performed at numerous prestigious events including the Newport Jazz Festival, Detroit International Jazz Festival, Syracuse Jazz Festival, Johannesburg Jazz Festival and the Notre Dame Jazz Festival. Mr. Hanseler has had the pleasure of sharing the stage with notable recording artists including Jon brown, Antonio Hart, Renee Marie, Nina Freelon, Branford Marsalis and more.
with vocalist Lenora Zenzalai Helm
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat is a Charles Mingus composition set to lyrics by Joni Mitchell.
Hansler has been performing since the age of twelve, and has studied with some of the world’s top musicians and educators, including New England Conservatory’s Charlie Banacos, pianist Joey Calderazzo, saxophonist Branford Marsalis and pianist Josh Rieger.
Ryan Hanseler currently resides in Durham North Carolina and is a faculty member for the Jazz Department at East Carolina University, and St. Augustine College in Raleigh. Currently, Mr. Hanseler is the pianist for jazz group with Branford Marsalis. He also works closely with vocalist Lenora Helm, as he is featured on her latest album release. Mr. Hanseler's own groups include a quartet and duo which perform mainly in the North Carolina region. Recent studio recordings Hanseler has partaken in include sessions with Lenora Helm, The North Carolina Central Jazz Ensemble, Vocalist Adia Ledbetter, and his own duo featuring trumpeter Lynn Grissett.
This is a very limited seating event.
Advance tickets are $18.00 and may be purchased at the Hillsborough Arts Council, 220 South Churton St. and at Eno Gallery, 100 South Churton St. Hillsborough, NC.
Purchase tickets online here
This concert is sponsored in part through the much-appreciated generosity of Callaway Jewelry. Delicious gourmet chocolates are provided with the generosity of Matthews Chocolates.
Thank you!
Jeanne Jolly in Concert
with special guest Allyn Love on Pedal Steel guitar
Sunday January 29th at 4:00pm
This very special parlor concert, hosted by the Hillsborough Arts Council will take place at a very special venue… The Nash-Hooper House at 118 West Tryon Street in Historic Hillsborough, built in 1772 it is one of the finest and most historic homes in the Historic District.
This is a very limited seating event
Doors Open at 3:30 pm
Concert starts at 4:00 pm
There will be two sets and a reception will follow.
It’s said that Singer/songwriter Jeanne Jolly broke onto the music scene as the featured vocalist for Grammy Award nominated jazz trumpeter Chris Botti. However, Jolly is in fact a formally trained vocalist… she was a Fletcher Music Scholar at Western Carolina University before going on to earn a Masters in Vocal Performance from The New England Conservatory.
She made a home in LA and paid her dues doing studio and commercial work for movies and television. It was this work that led to Grammy nominated Chris Botti hearing her on a demo and asking her to be his featured touring vocalist. This gave Jolly the opportunity to tour and perform with Botti and his Quintet throughout North America and to sing with world renowned symphonies, performing at venues like the Monterey Jazz Festival and playing to a sold out crowd at Carnegie Hall.
How do you top that? Jolly chose to leave the limelight to follow her heart and her muse to pursue a solo career as a singer songwriter. In her Bio she states that she felt herself "being pulled back to her Southern roots".
She subsequently co-wrote, co-produced, and recorded her first country/Americana EP in January, 2008 and started a band in Los Angeles.
In 2009, Jolly moved back to North Carolina where she began to focus on developing her guitar skills, sharpening her solo performance, and focusing on writing more of her own songs.
It wasn’t long until she once again found herself in the company of Grammy nominated artists, opening up for Sam Bush, Maura O’Connell, Chuck Mead, and many more.
| In October 2010 Jolly released her acclaimed new EP, 'Falling In Carolina'. You can Listen to Jolly's beautiful original composition 'Falling in Carolina' here: | |
In the song 'Falling in Carolina she writes:
as the wind shook the truth from the trees
with the leaves we fell in Carolina
and time stood still
We watched them fall one by one
Home in Carolina..."
If you listen to this rendition of Hallelujah recorded at the Southland Ballroom I trust you'll agree that we're fortunate indeed to have this very talented artist "Home in Carolina". - Mark Donley, 2012
“Succinctly, her vocals are a knockout. Wrap all of her talents together and she attains one of the most challenging goals of a performing artist: to have the public actually care about the singer. It’s a beautiful marriage and everybody wins; the audience entrusting the artist to take them on a journey that is emotionally fulfilling. That comes with responsibility and Miss Jolly seems more than capable of accepting and nurturing it.”
John Fonvielle - The Beat Magazine
This is a very limited seating event.
Advance tickets are $18.00 and may be purchased at the Hillsborough Arts Council, 220 South Churton St. and at Eno Gallery, 100 South Churton St. Hillsborough, NC.
Purchase tickets online here
This concert is sponsored in part through the much-appreciated generosity of Churton Street Realty and Eno Gallery.
2011 Parlor Concerts
Jonathan Byrd Concert
Sunday October 23rd at 4:00pm
Thanks to all that made this concert a stunning sucess!
This very special parlor concert, hosted by the Hillsborough Arts Council will take place at The Davis Home, 107 West Orange St in the Hillsborough Historic District.
Doors Open at 3:30 pm
Concert starts at 4:00 pm
There will be two sets and a reception will follow.
Jonathan Byrd is best known for his narrative tales of love, life, and death in America. In 2003, he was among the winners of the prestigious New Folk competition at the Kerrville Folk Festival. Seven years later, with a bunch of records in between, Jonathan has just released Cackalack . His song, “The Ballad of Larry” has been listed a “Top Rated Song” by Americana-UK.
He primarily performs solo and accompanies himself in a variety of traditional acoustic guitar styles. His recordings typically include one or more instrumental tracks that feature Byrd’s skillful flat-picking technique.
He displays John Prine's gift for stark little songs that tell big, complex stories, Guy Clark's lean melodicism, Lyle Lovett's wry mischief, and Bill Morrissey's knack for the revealing image.”
| This is dark, funny, moody songwriting. His music is born of the road, rife with characters . . . You can feel the dust shake off the tops of old Martin guitars, fiddles, and the big dog-house bass. Overall, the feeling you get is of rummaging through the attic and rediscovering something very old and beautiful. “One of the top 50 songwriters of the last 50 years. ” Rich Warren of WFMT in the Chicago Tribune |  |
Advance tickets are $18.00 and may be purchased at the Hillsborough Arts Council, starting on Wednesday, October 5 (220 South Churton St. Hillsborough, NC)
The reception is sponsored in part through the thoughtful and much-appreciated generosity of Antonia's Restaurant in Hillsborough NC.
Chris Reynolds “Swing N Jazz” Quartet
 "best in the triangle" Five awards - Independent Weekly | Sunday, March 20th at 4:00 pm At the historic Ashe house 144 North Wake St, Hillsborough, NC The Chris Reynolds quartet will bring a swinging mix of Jazz and Broadway tunes that the Durham Herald Sun describes as " Captivating ! " The Jazz quartet will include Chris Reynolds on piano/vocals Ben Palmer on bass Tony Greco on drums and special guest on brass.. Howard Smither A reception will follow the concert Tickets Advance tickets are $18.00 and may be purchased at the Hillsborough Arts Council, starting on Wednesday, March 9, (220 South Churton St.) This is a very limited seating event |
This concert is sponsored in part through the thoughtful and much-appreciated generosity of PHE Inc, with wine generously donated by one of Hillsborough's favorite restaurants, Saratoga Grill. And finally, Matthew from Matthews Chocolates has genrously offered to sweeten the afternoon with a plate of his most excellent chocolates!
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Billy Stewart in concert
Billy Stewart will perform Sunday February 20th in the lovely, historic home of Elizabeth Woodman and Eric Hallman, 'Pilgrims Rest' 116 West Queen St at 4:00 pm. There is very limited seating for this event.| Stewart is a guitar players guitar player... an accomplished musician and teacher, Billy Stewart has performed many notable venues including The North Carolina Museum of Art, The Biltmore House and the Governor's Mansion in Raleigh. | |
Billy is a native North Carolinian. He began playing guitar at 8 years old and was a self-taught musician until entering the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1971 to study guitar and composition. He has been teaching guitar at UNC-CH as a faculty member of the Music Department since his graduation in 1975.
He has studied both classic guitar technique with Jesus Silva, Pepe Romero, Elliot Fisk, and Manuel Barreuco, and improvisation with Ralph Towner and John Abercrombie.
He studied composition with Roger Hannay as well as attending composition seminars with John Duarte and Leo Brouwer. Although primarily thought of as a classical guitarist, Billy has spent the last 10 years developing his own style of composition and improvisation in venues ranging from solo concerts as well as various Jazz and Nuevo Flamenco ensembles. Several of his pieces have been used to accompany documentaries and film.
 | "You will be won over with Stewarts beautiful compositions and deft fretwork... this is a unique opportunity to share an intimate venue with a very talented musician." |
Where: 116 West Queen St. Hillsborough, NC
When: Sunday, February 20th, at 4:00pm Doors Open at 3:30 pm
TicketsAdvance tickets are $18.00 and may be purchased at the Hillsborough Arts Council, 220 South Churton St., or purchase online.
This concert is sponsored in part through the thoughtful and much-appreciated generosity of Leland Little Action & Estate Sales, with award winning NC wine generously donated by Iron Gate Winery, sponsors of 'Art on the Vine 2011'.
Sally Spring in Concert
"Thick, quivering guitar conveys both warmth and spookiness, forming the perfect knotty-pine frame for Spring's voice, an instrument rich with experience." Sally Spring will perform Sunday evening at 4:00 pm January 23rd at the Whitmore home 125 West Queen St. Hillsborough.
Before she embarks on a tour including Memphis, Nashville, and Austin we are fortunate indeed to have the opportunity to share an intimate space in concert with this talented recording artist.
There is very limited seating for this event.
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Her version of Johnny Cash’s “I Still Miss Someone” is extraordinary, with its quivering guitar, straight out of a David Lynch project; she slows it down Cat Power style, and can proudly stand up to any other artist who has recorded this song, including greats like Joan Baez and Dolly Parton.
The stunning “Mercy” gives me chills with its jittery singing and primal urgency. It’s an electrifying vocal, on a song dripping with regret and well-deserved self-pity... “I need some mercy from these shadows tonight.”
“Summer’s End” reaches deep, down low. It's a defiant, hopeful rumbling in the soul as she chronicles a town in jeopardy during a drought... “Today our church is full of tears, everyone from town is here, praying for a good rain, with God’s help, we will sustain”.
| "First-rate musicians, top-notch songs, impeccable production... Spring‘s album is made of stars, but the one who shines like a supernova is Sally Spring." album review by Robbie Woliver, The Examiner |  |
We hope you will support this generous and talented artist... her critically acclaimed album "Made of Stars" is available at Amazon, CDBaby and at Sally' Springs website that also has numerous reviews, news and links. CD's will be available at the concert and can be signed by the artist.
A Reception will follow the concert, with thanks to Weaver Street Market, The Hillsborough Wine Co. , Gates Realty and Matthews Chocolates.
Seating is very limited.
Where: the Whitmore home, 125 West Queen St. Hillsborough, NC
When: Sunday, January 23rd, at 4:00pm Doors Open at 3:30 pm
Tickets
THIS CONCERT IS SOLD OUT -- Thank you!Advance tickets are $18.00 and may be purchased at the Hillsborough Arts Council, 220 South Churton St., or online.
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Parlor Concerts 2010Corinne West & Kelly Joe Phelps in concert
"Corinne’s music doesn’t really fit in any genre box... It’s elegant new sexy acoustic jazz-rock-folk. It’s west coast acoustic-soul music. By any name, her music is absolutely compelling both in the strength of her writing and the expressive power of her voice."
Corinne West and Kelly Joe Phelps will perform Friday evening at 8:00 pm April 23rd at the Whitmore home 125 West Queen St. Hillsborough.
Currently touring the US, Holland and the UK we are very fortunate to be able to offer this opportunity to see these talented recording artists in an intimate venue.
There is limited seating for this event.
| Corinne West, a fourth generation Californian and musician who performs upwards of 200 shows each year, has a voice that simply soars. Using her powerfully eloquent voice, coupled with beautifully crafted songs - memorable both lyrically and melodically - she has fashioned a unique identity within American music’s acoustic/roots scene. Her latest record, 'The Promise', confirms West’s place among the finest young singer-songwriters |  |
 | Kelly Joe Phelps has, over the course of eight CD’s and fifteen years of touring the world, established himself as a guitarist, singer, and songwriter with singular vision and fearless purpose. His mix of folk, blues, and jazz has won him praise from the likes of Bill Frisell, Steve Earl, and Cameron Crowe. Kelly Joe has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered’ and ‘Prairie Home Companion’ as well as numerous BBC and other national radio shows throughout Europe, Australia and Japan. Steve Earle: "Kelly Joe Phelps plays, sings, and writes the blues. HOLD UP before you lock that in - forget about songs in a twelve bar three chord progression with a two line repeat and answer rhyme structure - though he can certainly do that when he wants to. I'm talking about a feeling, a smoky, lonesome, painful - yet somehow comforting groove that lets you know that you are not alone - even when you're blue. Play on brother." |
...musically, Phelps combines his love of Piedmont style picking, early 20th century Texas, Louisiana, and deep Delta blues with his love of decidedly Western notions of folk song and Rocky Mountain Mountain music.
Western Bell is among the most unique acoustic guitar recordings out there today...
...Cryptic, hushed, confoundingly beautiful, this is a brilliant, deeply moving work by an artist who has created a new language on the acoustic guitar, culled from the discontinued speech fragments of American music's own mysterious past. "
"Just three records in and The Promise, confirms Corinne West’s place among America’s finest... Coupling a voice to die for with beautifully crafted songs that are memorable both lyrically and melodically West has fashioned a unique identity within the acoustic/roots scene. This time out, by conjuring more spacious, atmospheric arrangements that place West’s sublime vocals way out at the front of the mix.... West has not deserted her roots but rather honed her production skills to cut her most ambitious and enduring record to date... "
Review by Colin Hall ~ R2 ~ RocknReel ~ The UK’s best selling eclectic music magazine.
"It’s a stirring body of work, by turns haunting, gripping and moving – and all wrapped around Corinne’s distinctive smoky vocals."
Tim Hughes, Oxford Mail, UK
In concert, Corinne brings a special grace and fire to the stage. The strength of her songwriting, the power of her voice and her magnetic stage presence create a captivating performance, winning rave reviews at home and abroad. People who hear Corinne perform once want to be there again. Some have taken to traveling major distances for the opportunity. If you get the chance to hear her live, take it… Lady Luck’s a music lover, and there’s no telling where this all might go.
Reception will follow the concert, with thanks to Weaver Street Market, The Hillsborough Wine Co. and Matthews Chocolates
Seating is limited.
Where: the Whitmore home, 125 West Queen St. Hillsborough, NC
When: Friday, April 23rd, 8:00 to 10:00 pm Doors Open at 7:30 pm
Advance tickets are $18.00 and may be purchased at the Hillsborough Arts Council's new location, 220 South Churton St., or through Etix below:
Sunday March 28, 2010
Cafe Music
A classical trio will perform Cafe Music for the third Parlor Concert, at the Burnside House, 201 South Cameron Street.
Cafe Music, featuring works of Paul Schoenfield, Antonin Dvorak and others, will be performed by the classical trio: Dr. Karen Allred, pianist, of the music faculty at Meredith College in Raleigh; Dr. Edith Gettes, violin; and Dr. Jason Thomas, cello.
Tickets: $17.50. Seating is limited. Advance tickets may be purchased at the Hillsborough Arts Council's new location, 220 South Churton St., or online.
Reception wine Sponsored by Weaver Street Market
Sunday February 28, 2010
Andrew Paolantonio Quartet
The Andrew Paolantonio Quartet, four young musicians will play a variety of jazz numbers, at 4 pm at the Ashe House, 144 North Wake St. Reception sponsored by The Saratoga Grill.
Tickets: $17.50, includes a reception. Seating is limited. Advance tickets may be purchased at the Hillsborough Arts Council's new location, 220 South Churton St., or online.
Sunday January 17, 2010
The Shamrockers
The Shamrockers will perform the first concert in the Hillsborough Arts Council's 2010 Parlor Concert Series. Come enjoy the Shamrocker's traditional and modern Celtic music at 4 pm on Sunday January 17, 2010, at 104 West Queen Street.
The Shamrockers are Clay Buckner (fiddle), Jack Herrick (whistles, mandolin, bouzouki) and Chris Frank (accordion, guitar), playing their own renditions of traditional and modern tunes, original compositions and tunes drawn from European and American sources. The lads are best known as members of the Red Clay Ramblers, and have been Shamrocking in one form or another since about 1980, when they first jammed as the "Irish Babies" at the legendary He's Not Here in Chapel Hill. http://shamrockers.org/
Tickets: $17.50, includes a reception. Seating is limited. Advance tickets may be purchased at the Hillsborough Arts Council's new location, 220 South Churton St., or online.
Regulators Traditional Music Series
The Regulators Traditional Music Series presents performances of folk, gospel, Cajun, Celtic, Latin and contemporary music.Jim Watson Christmas Concert
December 20, 2009
Jim Watson will present his fifth annual Christmas Concert in Hillsborough this year. The concert, that has become a tradition for Hillsborough, includes some special Watson holiday favorites and a sing- along set complete with lyrics so the audience won’t falter on those second and third Christmas Carol verses. The performance will take place at the Masonic Lodge 142 W King St on December 20 at 4pm. By tickets online, at the Visitor's Center (150 E. King St.), or at the Hillsborough Arts Council office (220 B South Churton Street). Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 at the door. (There is a convenience fee for online sales.)