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FirstWorks Announces Summer Beats Concerts

FirstWorks Announces Summer Beats Concerts

FirstWorks Summer Beats Concerts Announced Globe-spanning Afro-Rican jazz, hip-hop, and Ukrainian roots music ...
Blind Boys of Alabama on Motif’s Roots Report Podcast

Blind Boys of Alabama on Motif’s Roots Report Podcast

John Fuzek talks with songwriter, percussionist, and vocalist Ricky McKinney of the gospel group the Blind Boys of ...
Bartholomewtown interviews Ricky McKinnie of Blind Boys of Alabama

Bartholomewtown interviews Ricky McKinnie of Blind Boys of Alabama

Bill Bartholomew welcomes Ricky McKinnie of legendary, multi-Grammy award winning gospel group Blind Boys of ...
FirstWorks Returns to The Vets with Concert from International Supergroup

FirstWorks Returns to The Vets with Concert from International Supergroup

FirstWorks Returns to The Vets with Concert from International Supergroup  A Musical Combustion with American ...
FirstWorks’ Resilience Celebrated by Sponsor National Grid Foundation

FirstWorks’ Resilience Celebrated by Sponsor National Grid Foundation

The Foundation's Q1 2022 newsletter features a spotlight on FirstWorks' rapid pivot to virtual programming to meet ...
Call It A Comeback: PVDFest to Return Downtown in Full Force June 10-12

Call It A Comeback: PVDFest to Return Downtown in Full Force June 10-12

PROVIDENCE, RI – Mayor Jorge O. Elorza, Council President John J. Igliozzi (Ward 7), the Department of Art, ...
Angélique Kidjo empowers local music students

Angélique Kidjo empowers local music students

On Valentine's Day, music students from Mount Pleasant High School and TAPA met with iconic musician and human ...
Arts Emerging From The Pandemic, and Beyond

Arts Emerging From The Pandemic, and Beyond

Bill Bartholomew welcomes FirstWorks Executive Artistic Director Kathleen Pletcher back to BTOWN for a discussion ...
FirstWorks on The Rhode Show

FirstWorks on The Rhode Show

FirstWorks Executive Artistic Director Kathleen Pletcher had a great time on The Rhode Show talking about our ...
The Seeing exhibition brings together music, social movements

The Seeing exhibition brings together music, social movements

As part of a long-standing collaboration with renowned violinist and composer Daniel Bernard Roumain, ...
Learning Library Launches February 2022

Learning Library Launches February 2022

FirstWorks is excited to announce that we are redesigning and expanding our on-demand Virtual Learning Library to ...
FirstWorks 2020-2021 Season Wrapped – Annual Report

FirstWorks 2020-2021 Season Wrapped – Annual Report

Finding unexpected ways that the arts can lift Rhode Islanders during the past year has propelled FirstWorks ...