Residents Event Calendar

Dan Gabel and The Abletones is an authentic 18-piece Big Band, specializing in the music of the 1930s and 40s. The band features New England’s best musical talent all of whom encapsulate the look and sound of the big band era, dazzling audiences with their instrumental and vocal precision and pizazz. A long-time Southgate favorite to open up our summer season!

Our speaker this morning is James Welu, Director Emeritus of the Worcester Art Museum. The title of his presentation is “Lady Warwick: From an English Castle to an American Museum.” Considered one of the great beauties of the Edwardian era, Frances “Daisy” Greville, Countess of Warwick, lived a charmed and controversial life. Both a socialite and socialist, this celebrated wife, mother, and mistress had all the right connections, including a nine-year affair with the Prince of Wales. This lecture recounts the colorful story of Lady Warwick’s portrait of her and her son, Maynard, painted by John Singer Sargent. Learn how this larger-than-life likeness of the indomitable countess left Warwick Castle less than a decade after it was painted to become one of the Worcester Art Museum’s most dramatic acquisitions. All are welcome to the presentation.

Ernest Shackleton Loves Me is a wildly inventive musical adventure that tells the story of a sleep-deprived single mom who struggles to balance her family and career as a video game music composer. Late one night, while posting a dating video, she receives an unexpected response from the polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton one of the most iconic leaders of the 20th century.