Youth & Family Concerts

A celebration of music, movement, and storytelling! This interactive performance brings back improvisational storyteller, beatboxer, and rapper Baba Israel and multi-instrumentalist and soundscape wizard Sean Nowell to collaborate with contemporary dancer Audrey Thao Berger and hip-hop dancer B-Boy Spidey. The performance will invite young people to bring music, poetry, and stories to life through interactive dance!

Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf is a beloved musical tale that introduces young listeners to the orchestra by assigning each character a distinct instrument and theme. Performed by a cast of talented local actors and musicians from the BU Tanglewood Institute, this timeless work remains one of the most enduring gateways to classical music for audiences of all ages!

In collaboration with Boston University Tanglewood Institute.

Passamaquoddy educator and singer Chris Newell joins Vermont fiddler and teaching artist Ida Mae Specker for a new interactive children’s concert premiering this summer as part of TLI for Families. Through songs, storytelling, rhythm games, and audience participation, the program invites children to experience how music connects people to community, culture, and the natural world.

In 2025, Specker and Newell began collaborating with cellist Yo-Yo Ma and others on projects exploring connections between music, community, and nature across the Northeast.