MRTW and The Big Family Business present 'Trad Romp Wknd' featuring Evie Ladin and The Mammals at the Foundry Theater
2025-10-24 - 2025-10-26 | Foundry Theater, 920 Corry St, Yellow Springs, OH, 45387, United States
Mad River Theater Works (MRTW) and The Big Family Business present ‘Trad Romp Wknd’ featuring Evie Ladin and The Mammals
A weekend long gathering around old-time music and dance. Join us for some or all of the Friday, Saturday and Sunday programming!
Friday – Friday evening concerts by Evie Ladin, The Family Business (Rick Good, Sharon Leahy, Linzay and Emma Young) and Bob Lucas and Chris Westhoff.
Saturday – Saturday afternoon music and dance workshops in clogging, body music, banjo and fiddle styles, harmony singing, and protest songs (see schedule w/ times below). Saturday evening square dance with The Corndrinkers. Evie Ladin and Sharon Leahy calling. Dance starts at 7PM.
Participatory Workshops in the Main Theater

1 – 2pm Clogging Basics – Sharon Leahy: Learn and practice the basics of percussive dance to old-time music
2:15 – 3:15pm Body Music/Rhythm Training: Clap, Step, Sing – Evie Ladin: Explore rhythmic music in hands, feet and body, harmonic music in the voice, moving in space. Fun and challenging, the style allows for levels of participation everyone can enjoy.
3:30 – 4:30pm Fiddle Stylings – Barb Kuhns, Linda Scutt, Linzay Young, Bob Lucas: Experience a diverse of range of American fiddle styles including Cajun, Appalachian, Old-time and Honky-tonk

Demonstration Workshops in the Experimental Theater

1-2pm Banjo Summit – Rick Good, Bob Lucas, Tom Duffee, Geoff H: Enjoy the different approaches and stylings of our regional banjo masters
2:15 – 3:15pm Protest Songs – Rick Good, Chris Westhoff, Tom Duffee: Hear original versions of new and old songs that speak truth to power
3:30 – 4:30pm Harmony Singing – Rick Good, Sharon Leahy, Emma Young: A participatory workshop to learn the structure of 3-part country harmony

Sunday – Sunday afternoon concert at 4pm with The Mammals.

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Banjo player, singer, songwriter, percussive-dancer, choreographer and square-dance caller, Evie Ladin grew up steeped in traditional folk music/dance, and brings a contemporary vision to her compositions and choreography. Evie’s performances, recordings and teaching reconnect Appalachian music/dance with other African-Diaspora traditions, and have been heard from A Prairie Home Companion to Lincoln Center, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass to Celtic Connections, Brazil to Bali. A longtime former member of Rhythm In Shoes, based in Oakland, CA, Evie tours solo, with Keith Terry and her Evie Ladin Band; and has produced numerous CDs and instructional DVDs. In the percussive dance world, she directs the moving choir MoToR/dance, co-founded the International Body Music Festival, and is an ace freestyle flatfooter. In the trad world, Evie teaches banjo at the infamous Freight in Berkeley, online at Peghead Nation and many camps. In the songwriter world, she just writes great songs. A highly entertaining performer, Evie enjoys facilitating arts learning in diverse communities.
A natural entertainer with a gift for infusing folk practices with contemporary verve – San Francisco Chronicle

“Some of the best folk-rock music you will ever hear.” – TapeOp
The Mammals – Indie-roots trailblazers, high-octane Americana from rafter-raising to hear-a-pin-drop balladry
The Mammals are an indie-roots band from New York’s Hudson Valley led by singer-songwriters Ruth Ungar and Mike Merenda. With their genre-blending mix of fiddle, banjo, guitar, organ, and drums, they’ve spent over two decades crafting socially conscious, emotionally rich folk-rock hailed as “some of the best songwriting of their generation” (LA Times). Their forthcoming release, Touch Grass Vol. 1 & 2 (2025), is a double album that rages, reflects, and rejoices—equal parts protest and balm, recorded at their own Humble Abode Music studio and mastered by Greg Calbi. Whether playing international stages or hosting their semi-annual Catskills festival, The Hoot, The Mammals bring warmth, defiance, and harmony to every performance.
“Some of the best songwriting of their generation.” — LA Times“A party band with a conscience.” — Boston Globe“A national treasure.” — Anaïs Mitchell

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Bruce Molsky and Darol Anger at the Foundry Theater
2025-10-11 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Foundry Theater, 920 Corry St, Yellow Springs, OH, 45387, United States
Bruce Molsky and Darol Anger
Darol and Bruce have been musical explorers together for years, sharing a creative universe that’s resulted in some epic collaborations, like the Grammy nominated Fiddlers Four (with Michael Doucet and Rushad Eggleston), crashing each other’s concerts and recordings, and just finding big joy in playing together. Freestyle fiddler, composer, producer and educator, Darol Anger is at home in a number of musical genres, some of which he helped to invent. Exceptional among modern fiddlers for his versatility and depth, Anger has helped drive the evolution of the contemporary string band through his involvement with numerous pathbreaking ensembles such as his Republic Of Strings, the Turtle Island String Quartet, the David Grisman Quintet, The Montreux Band, his Duo with Mike Marshall, his current touring group Mr Sun, and others. He has performed and taught all over the world with musicians such as Dr. Billy Taylor, Bela Fleck, Bill Evans, Edgar Meyer, Bill Frisell, Tony Rice, Tim O’Brien, The Anonymous 4, Marin Alsop and the Cabrillo Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony, Bruce Molsky, Mark O’Connor, and Stephane Grappelli.
Described as “an absolute master” (No Depression), Bruce’s take on tradition has landed him in collaborations with some of the world’s most highly respected players from roots to rock. He is a special guest on legend rocker Mark Knopfler’s CD, “Tracker.” His 1865 Songs of Hope & Home with Anonymous 4, was on Billboard’s top 10 for weeks. Along with Andy Irvine & Donal Lunny, Bruce is a founding member of the supergroup Mozaik, with three recordings. You can see Bruce on the BBC TV “Transatlantic Sessions” with Aly Bain and Jerry Douglas, and on “David Holt’s State of Music” on PBS. Bruce holds the title of “Visiting Scholar in the American Roots Music Program” at Berklee College of Music, where he is the go-to guy for the next generation of roots musicians.

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Hanif Abdurraqib at the Foundry Theater
2025-09-30 19:00 - 21:00 | Foundry Theater, 920 Corry St, Yellow Springs, OH, 45387, United States
Reading, Q&A and Book Signing Event
Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His poetry has been published in Muzzle, Vinyl, PEN American, and various other journals. His essays and music criticism have been published in The FADER, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. Hanif’s newest release, There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension (Random House, 2024) is a poignant, personal reflection on basketball, life, and home. The book was a #1 national bestseller, a New York Times bestseller, the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, and longlisted for both the National Book Award and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. His first full length poetry collection, The Crown Ain’t Worth Much, was released in June 2016 from Button Poetry. It was named a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Prize, and was nominated for a Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. His first collection of essays, They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, was released in winter 2017 by Two Dollar Radio and was named a book of the year by Buzzfeed, Esquire, NPR, Oprah Magazine, Paste, CBC, The Los Angeles Review, Pitchfork, and The Chicago Tribune, among others. He released Go Ahead In The Rain: Notes To A Tribe Called Quest with University of Texas press in February 2019. The book became a New York Times Bestseller, was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, and was longlisted for the National Book Award. His second collection of poems, A Fortune For Your Disaster, was released in 2019 by Tin House, and won the 2020 Lenore Marshall Prize. His book, A Little Devil In America (Random House, 2021) was a winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal and the Gordon Burn Prize, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pen/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award. In 2021, Abdurraqib was named a MacArthur Fellow, and in 2024 was named a Windham-Campbell Prize recipient. He is a graduate of Beechcroft High School.

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This program is being supported by Mad River Theater Works, generous funding from the Ohio Arts Council’s ArtsNext program, the Yellow Springs Community Foundation and the Yellow Springs Library Association.

An Evening with david matthews, hosted by the Coretta Scott King Center, at the Foundry Theater
2025-09-25 19:00 - 21:00 | Foundry Theater, 920 Corry St, Yellow Springs, OH, 45387, United States
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An Evening with david matthews

Thursday, September 25, 2025
7:00 PM
Experimental Theater at the Foundry Theater @ Antioch College
920 Corry Street, Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387

For more information about david matthews, please visit his website: https://davidmatthewsauthorpoetmusician.com/
Tickets: $10There are a limited number of free and half priced tickets thanks to a grant from the Yellow Springs Community Foundation.
This program is open to the public. All ages are welcome.Please treat yourself and a friend to this wonderful, inspiring event!

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Yeison Landero at the Foundry Theater
2025-09-24 19:00 - 21:00 | Foundry Theater, 920 Corry St, Yellow Springs, OH, 45387, United States
The Heir of Cumbia
Latin Grammy–nominated musician Yeison Landero was born in San Jacinto (Bolívar) in the very heart of the Montes de María region of the Colombian Caribbean. He carries in his soul a cumbiambero heart inherited from his grandfather Andrés Landero: a musician recognized as the king of cumbia nationally and internationally. Yeison blends the rich, folkloric sounds of the accordion with propulsive rhythms, delivering a soulful homage to his family’s cumbia legacy while infusing it with new energy for the 21st century.
Yeison Landero’s music has resonated on some of the most prestigious stages in the world: The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., The Hollywood Bowl and The Ford Theatre in Los Angeles, The Guadalajara International Book Fair, Mexico City’s Auditorio Nacional, and the Festival de Orquestas at Barranquilla’s Carnival, where he was awarded the “Congo de Oro” in 2023. In 2024 he represented Colombia at the COP16 World Environmental Summit, reaffirming Cumbia’s power as a symbol of identity and resilience. Through his traditional rural music, which sings to nature, his message raises awareness about protecting our planet and preserving our ecosystems.

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Moira Smiley and The Rhizome Quartet with Special Guests The World House Choir at the Foundry Theater
2025-09-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Foundry Theater, 920 Corry St, Yellow Springs, OH, 45387, United States
Moira Smiley and The Rhizome Quartet with special guests The World House Choir
Moira is a Grammy-nominated singer, composer, and song-collector based in Vermont, USA. With a deep respect for the cultural roles of singing, Moira blends teaching, composing, improvising and performing to empower community, and our sense of wonder and belonging. Moira has published over 150 choral works that are sung by millions of singers worldwide, and has produced 10 albums of vocal-harmony centered songwriting and traditional folk music.
Known for her dynamic voice and stage presence, Moira has collaborated with some of the most celebrated names in music, including Tune-Yards, Eric Whitacre, Chris Thile, Hilary Hahn, and Morten Lauridsen. As a member of Tune-Yards, she’s performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Conan O’Brien and the UK’s Later… with Jools Holland. Recently, she performed & recorded for Chris Thile’s project ‘Attention!’ and Laurie Anderson’s ARK and released an album and book called The Rhizome Project.

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SMALLER and WORSE Nonsense Show at the Foundry Theater
2025-08-16 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-08-15 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-08-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Foundry Theater, 920 Corry St, Yellow Springs, OH, 45387, United States
SMALLER and WORSE Nonsense Show
Do you like weird art? Then I have good news for you! From the enfeebled minds that brought you the BIGGER AND BETTER Comedy show last year comes a new production. Yes! That’s right! It’s the SMALLER AND WORSE Nonsense show!! With all new songs, gags, and sketches to make you giggle, guffaw and smile quizzically. Seating is limited in this SMALLER theater, buy your ticket now or be WORSE off!
A PG-13 Rating has been put on this show by the artists. Viewer Discretion Advised.

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GravityWorks Circus' "Feel It All" Aerial Dance Show at the Foundry Theater
2025-06-29 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-06-28 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-06-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Foundry Theater, 920 Corry St, Yellow Springs, OH, 45387, United States
GravityWorks Circus presents Aerial Dance Show “Feel It All” at the Foundry Theater at Antioch College
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Friday, June 27th at 7pm
Saturday, June 28th at 7pm
Sunday, June 29th at 2pm

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All adults: $20
Kids under 12: free

Mad River Theater Works' "Everybody Wants to Change the World" at the Foundry Theater
2025-06-13 19:00 - 21:00 | Foundry Theater, 920 Corry St, Yellow Springs, OH, 45387, United States
Mad River Theater WorksEverybody Wants to Change the WorldFriday, June 13 @ 7pm
Mad River Theater Works, with the support of the Yellow Springs Community Foundation and the Ohio Arts Council, has joyfully invited youth between the ages of 8-17 to participate in a two-week Summer Theater Workshop this June. In our time together with our 24 participants, 4 teaching artists and 2 assistant facilitators, we explore theater arts skills and create an original play with music. On this culminating evening we will put our show on its feet in front of a hometown audience. Please join us! No tickets or reservations needed.
This year’s stated theme for our camp is Everybody Wants to Change the World. Guiding questions that we have led our program with are:
What motivates you to want to change the world?
What obstacles could get in your way?
Who are the people that inspire you the most?
How can music say the things that spoken words can’t?
Who are the people that inspire you the most?
How can music say the things that spoken words can’t?

Iris Dement at the Foundry Theater
2025-05-15 19:00 - 21:00 | Foundry Theater, 920 Corry St, Yellow Springs, OH, 45387, United States
On her transcendent new record, Workin’ On A World, Iris DeMent faces the modern world — as it is right now — with its climate catastrophe, pandemic illness, and epidemic of violence and social injustice — and not only asks us how we can keep working towards a better world, but implores us to love each other, despite our very different ways of seeing. Her songs are her way of healing our broken inner and outer spaces. With an inimitable voice as John Prine described, “like you’ve heard, but not really,” and unforgettable melodies rooted in hymns, gospel, and old country music, she’s simply one of the finest singer-songwriters in America as well as one of our fiercest advocates for human rights.
Her debut record Infamous Angel, which just celebrated its 30th anniversary, was recently named one of the “greatest country albums of all time” by Rolling Stone, and the two albums that followed, My Life and The Way I Should, were both nominated for GRAMMYs. From there, DeMent released three records on her own label, Flariella Records, the most recent of which, The Trackless Woods (2015), was hailed as “a quietly powerful triumph” by The Guardian. DeMent’s songs have also been featured in film (True Grit) and television (The Leftovers) and recorded by numerous artists. Fittingly, she received the Americana Music Trailblazer Award in 2017. Workin’ On A World, her seventh album, started with the worry that woke DeMent up after the 2016 elections: how can we survive this? “Every day some new trauma was being added to the old ones that kept repeating themselves, and like everybody else, I was just trying to bear up under it all,” she recalls. She returned to a truth she had known since childhood: music is medicine. “My mom always had a way of finding the song that would prove equal to whatever situation we were facing. Throughout my life, songs have been lending me a hand. Writing songs, singing songs, putting them on records, has been a way for me to extend that hand to others.” With grace, courage, and soul, Iris shares 13 anthems — love songs, really — to and for our broken inner and outer worlds. DeMent sets the stage for the album with the title track in which she moves from a sense of despair towards a place of promise. “Now I’m workin’ on a world I may never see / Joinin’ forces with the warriors of love / Who came before and will follow you and me.” She summons various social justice warriors, both past and present, to deliver messages of optimism.
The result is a hopeful album — shimmering with brilliant flashes of poignant humor and uplifting tenderness — that speaks the truth, “in the way that truth is always hopeful,” she explains. Reflecting on the lyrics of the song “The Sacred Now” (“see these walls/ let’s bring ‘em on down / it’s not a dream; it’s the sacred now”), DeMent is reminded of Jesus saying the Kingdom of God is within you and the Buddhist activist monk Thich Nhat Hanh saying the rose is in the compost; the compost is in the rose. On Workin’ On A World, Iris DeMent demonstrates that songs are the healing and the healing arises through song.

Tuvergen Band at the Foundry Theater
2025-05-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Foundry Theater, 920 Corry St, Yellow Springs, OH, 45387, United States
An emerging act at world music festivals across the U.S., Tuvergen Band (“galloping” in Mongolian) is a Chicago-based folk-fusion trio founded by Tamir Hargana (lead vocals, folk flutes, morin khuur), Naizal Hargana (morin khuur, vocals), and Brent Roman (percussion, didgeridoo, vocals) in 2020. Hailing from Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia, Tamir and Naizal bring some of the country’s most distinctive sounds to Tuvergen Band, including the cello-like horsehead fiddle (morin khuur), various folk lutes (the Tuvan doshpuluur and West Mongolian tovshuur), and khoomii throat singing. An ethnomusicologist and Asian percussion specialist, Roman augments these sounds with a custom hybrid drum kit of twenty global percussion instruments and didgeridoo. The trio use this rich instrumental palette to perform what they call “modern nomadic music,” incorporating bluegrass, blues, rock, and more into its repertoire of Mongolian and Tuvan folk songs and originals.
Support for this project was provided by the Great Lakes Colleges Association through its Global Crossroads Initiative, made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.
Thanks to the Ohio Arts Council ARTS Rise Program, which expands representation and access in the arts, reduced-rate tickets are available for this program. We hope to create a programming series where ticket pricing is not a barrier to attendance.

Horizons: An Afternoon of Indian Classical Art at the Foundry Theater
2025-05-04 14:00 - 16:00 | Foundry Theater, 920 Corry St, Yellow Springs, OH, 45387, United States
Horizons: An Afternoon of Indian Classical ArtHorizons is a new series of Indian Classical Music and Dance programs which started in Cleveland, Ohio after the release of Sugata Chatterjee’s eponymous album. The goal of Horizons is to honor the roots of Indian Classical Art while also keeping it alive and vibrant. Indian Classical Music and Dance need to be preserved and innovated on, but have had difficulty finding a foothold in the modern globalized culture. By inviting artists from all walks of life who tirelessly work to keep their discipline alive, we hope to revitalize the audience for these artforms, while also introducing more people to the joys of Indian Classical Art.
In the December 2024 installation of this program in Dayton, we will showcase the Hindustani Vocal Music of Sugata Chatterjee, the Kathak Dance of Antara Datta, and the Hindustani Instrumental Music of Dayton-area locals, Gurupada Das and Orijeet Halder (sitar and table). As we take you through this afternoon of music and dance, we hope you come away feeling hopeful about the state of traditional arts and culture in your community. To that end, we also showcase some younger students (TBD) who demonstrate that our cultural forms have a future.
The PerformersSugata Chatterjee has been training in Hindustani music since childhood and holds a Sangeet Prabhakar diploma from Alahabad Sangeet Parsad. She has trained with Ajoy Chakraborti, Mohanlal Mishra, Falguni Mita, and Girija Devi. She has performed around the world, trained dozens of students, and released multiple solo records. She is currently developing her next project, and serves as a member of the Grammy Recording Academy.
Antara Datta has been training in Kathak dance since childhood and holds a double diploma from Bangiya Sangeet Parishad in Kolkata and Prayag Sangeet Samiti in Allahabad India. She trained with Pandit Birju Maharaj, Vidushi Saswati Sen, and Guru Parwati Dutta. She currently serves as the artistic director Anga Kala Dance Company and its associated Academy, and as the president of Arts Without Borders.
Orijeet Halder, a promising Tabla artist from Allahabad, India, residing now in Cincinnati, OH, got tutelage under Pt Vinod Mishra from Prayag Sangit Samiti for 5 years and performed on various prestigious stages like Prayag Sangit Samiti, NCZCC, Sangeet Sankalp, Rotary club accompanying top grade TV and AIR artists. Currently, he plays at various musical events around Tri-State area. He attended the BPACON 2023 in Nashville and Accompanied various artists from the Tollywood Film Industry. He considers his musical journey to be of a lifelong student and tried relentlessly to promote and serve Indian Classical Music in anyways he can!!
Guru Das was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and developed a passion for music from a young age. He took a break from music to earn a PhD in Theoretical Physics from University of Chicago in 1966. After retiring from a career as a quantum chemist in 2007, he started playing tabla, harmonium, and sitar. His repertoire now includes Indian folk and pop, as well as ghazals. He has trained with Patrik Marks, Ustad Alla Rakha, and Krishna Bhat. He now runs the Cincinnati Sangeet Kala Kendra School of Music.

Loving is the Key: A Performance Collage about Bayard Rustin and Coretta Scott King at the Foundry Theater
2025-04-27 18:30 - 20:30 | Foundry Theater, 920 Corry St, Yellow Springs, OH, 45387, United States
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Antioch College Celebrates Coretta Scott King’s Birthday and 60th Anniversary of Bayard Rustin’s Speech on Campus with a Performance Collage.
When: April 27, 2025, 6:30pmWhere: Foundry Theater, 920 Corry Street, Yellow Springs, OH 45387Tickets: By Donation
Antioch College’s Coretta Scott King Center for Cultural and Intellectual Freedom invites you to a performance collage, “Loving is the Key: A Performance Collage about Bayard Rustin and Coretta Scott King,” in celebration of Coretta Scott King’s birthday and the 60th anniversary of Bayard Rustin’s 1965 speech at the college. The performance will take place at the Foundry Theater on April 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM in the historic town of Yellow Springs, Ohio.
About the Performance Collage
“Loving is the Key: A Performance Collage about Bayard Rustin and Coretta Scott King” was created by Queen Meccasia Zabriskie, Associate Professor of Sociology and Performance Studies and Director of the Coretta Scott King Center, and Forest Bright, Associate Professor of Art and Chair of the Art Division, at Antioch College. The event, which is in collaboration with the World House Choir, will feature singing, dance, poetry, visual art, and a staged reading of an original play.
Set in a rural midwestern community in the aftermath of the vandalism of a public mural, the play reenacts excerpts from the speech that Bayard Rustin delivered at Antioch College on April 6, 1965 and Coretta Scott King’s 1982 Antioch College commencement speech in order to glean lessons from their speeches that can facilitate collective healing and positive social transformation. The play also draws on research about Coretta Scott King and Bayard Rustin as well as aspects of Bright and Zabriskie’s lived experience in Yellow Springs, Ohio, Sarasota, Florida, and Atlanta, Georgia. The performance concludes with a video collage of individuals in the Yellow Springs and Antioch Communities discussing their understanding of loving practices necessary for social transformation. The idea of a loving practice comes from the work of Black feminist cultural critic and theorist bell hooks in her book “All about Love” and includes actions that resist oppression and domination.
The idea for this collaboration developed out of a conversation between Forest Bright and Antioch College Archivist Scott Sanders. Sanders was looking at Bayard Rustin’s speech in response to Rustin’s partner, Walter Nagle, inquiring about an audio recording of the speech. After realizing that it was the 60th anniversary of Rustin’s speech, Bright reached out to Kevin Mcgruder, who plays Rustin in the performance, Sanders. and Zabriskie to begin planning a commemorative reenactment of the speech. Loving is the Key is the result of subsequent conversations between Zabriskie and Bright, and it includes an excerpt from the interview that they were able to conduct with Walter Nagle through the help of McGruder. Also in the performance is Gini Meekin, a senior at Yellow Springs High School; Muhammad Nguer, a fifth grader at Mills Lawn Elementary School; Dio Smith, a Sophomore at Antioch College; and Corretta King, Associate Dean of Admissions at Antioch College.
The community is invited to come to the Foundry theater at 6:30 pm to participate in the creation of an interactive art piece prior to the start of the performance. There will also be a small reception with desserts from Sugar Witch Magical Treats in celebration of Coretta Scott King’s birthday after the performance. King, who died on January 30, 2006, would have turned 98 on April 27th if she were still alive.
For more information about this project or the work of the Coretta Scott King Center please contact, please contact:
Queen Meccasia ZabriskieAntioch College Coretta Scott King Center DirectorEmail: qzabriskie@antiochcollege.eduPhone: 937-767-1286 Ext. 0093

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Mad River Theater Works presents Professor Louie & Friends at the Foundry Theater
2025-04-26 19:00 - 21:00 | Foundry Theater, 920 Corry St, Yellow Springs, OH, 45387, United States
Mad River Theater Works presents
Professor Louie & Friends

FREE Event with Cash Donations Accepted at the Door
Grammy Nominated Professor Louie from Woodstock, NY has been expanding theborders of the Americana, Roots & Blues genres with his stories, keyboard playing,singing, accordion and consistently performing. The show repertoire will consist ofsongs from Professor Louie & The Crowmatix 18 Albums and songs Louie learned andhelped create directly with the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame group “The Band” when hecollaborated with them for over 16 years. Co-producing & performing on The Band’s lastthree CD’s including their comeback hits Atlantic City, and Blind Willie McTell alongwith many of their 90’s repertoire and classic Band songs. Rick Danko bass playersinger of The Band gave Louie the moniker “Professor Louie”.

“…a tasty mix of rhythm and blues, and rock & roll” – Record Review
Professor Louie and Miss Marie are touring the USA promoting their 2025 releaseCrowin’ Around, their 18th recording on The Woodstock Records label by their groupProfessor Louie & The Crowmatix. Crowin’ Around has 11 songs, seven which arebiographical, creative original tunes written by Professor Louie & Miss Marie and threewith new interpretations by artists Professor Louie produced: The Band, CommanderCody, Graham Parker and one instrumental interpretation by the genius composerMoon Dog.

Professor Louie also recorded or performed with The Mighty Gospel Giants OfBrooklyn, Guy Davis, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Ireland’s Four Men and a Dog,Graham Parker, Commander Cody, Tony Trischka, Bill Keith, Happy & Artie TraumLevon Helm, Garth Hudson, Rick Danko.
Miss Marie: Composer, vocalist, keyboardist and percussionist and a member ofProfessor Louie & The Crowmatix, has appeared and recorded with such noteable actsas The Band, Mercury Rev, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Rick Danko, Sly and TheFamily Stone, Guy Davis.
Professor Louie & Miss Marie perform in the US, Canada and Europe collaboratingwith many musicians and groups.

Olde Wrestling at the Foundry Theater
2025-04-11 19:15 - 21:30 | Foundry Theater, 920 Corry St, Yellow Springs, OH, 45387, United States
Get ready to flip your wig, this wrestling event is HOT to TROT! Olde Wrestling is a vintage event celebrating the theatrics of professional wrestling during Roarin’ 20s. See the greatest wrestlers from across the country participate in action-pack exhibitions. You’ll see: world champions, wisecracking clowns, dangerous daredevils, masked maniacs, grizzled grapplers & more!
An all-ages show, Olde Wrestling brings a blend of bodyslams and belly laughs to a wide range of audience members. From 9 to 90, the whole family can enjoy our slam-bang western style of wrestling. Heck, you may even see Ohioan and former President William Howard Taft deliver a piledriver!
Olde Wrestling’s first show in Yellow Springs will certainly bring elements of drama, action, hilarity and a whole lot of hubbub! We encourage all attendees to dress in your finest roarin’ 20s attire. Fedoras, suspenders, flapper dresses and bow ties are all welcome! Live music will accompany the event from Ragtime Rick, a well-known musician and radio host in Toledo. His ragtime band will be playing the wrestlers to the ring.
If you’re new to Olde Wrestling, please point those peepers and this VIDEO to see what we’re all about.
Wrestlers scheduled to appear: EFFY, Matt Cross, Marti Belle, Marion Fontaine, Gregory Iron, Buster Buckaroo, Erica Leigh, The Cruncher, Bruce Grey, Lord Crewe, Aaron Williams, Dustin Rayz, Benjamin Kimera, Vincent Nothing & more!
Presented by: Lucky Bunny Tattoo (115 Glen St.), Off The Rope, Ameripolitan Showcase and Dingbats Design Cave.
For more information, please visit: oldewrestling.com

YAGODY at the Foundry Theater
2025-04-03 19:00 - 21:00 | Foundry Theater, 920 Corry St, Yellow Springs, OH, 45387, United States
Mystical Ukrainian Folk Group
With primal percussion, hypnotic vocal harmonies and immersive ethno-drama performances, Ukrainian folk group YAGÓDY brings their mesmerizing sound to North America for the first time this spring.
The four women of YAGÓDY are on a mission to preserve their culture by both reviving and reinterpreting folk songs while donning traditional clothing and costumes like the ornately embroidered Vyshyvanka.
Sometimes heartbreaking and often rebellious, YAGÓDY’s music is a testament to the land, and spirit of the people of Ukraine. They poetically describe their concerts as, “the songs of wild tribes. This is the voice of your ancestors. This is live energy. It is a dance with voices. This is how our nature smells. This is how our blood sounds.”
The self-titled debut album, YAGÓDY, released in 2020 introduced the world to their unique sound, featuring powerful renditions of Ukrainian, Bulgarian, and Serbian folk songs. In 2024, the group won over audiences at the Eurovision Songwriting Contest with their original song “Tsunamia” placing fifth at the national selection finals.
YAGÓDY has performed at major festivals across Europe, enchanting listeners in Poland, Germany, and beyond and are set to spread their rich history through vibrant concerts across North America. Spring 2025 marks their first North American tour.
Founded in 2016 by actress and vocalist Zoriana Dybovska, YAGÓDY emerged as a continuation of her lifelong passion for preserving and evolving Ukrainian music. Having left Donetsk in 2014 due to Russia’s military invasion, Dybovska settled in Lviv, where she gathered a group of talented musicians and fellow educators to create a project that would breathe new life into ancient Ukrainian sounds. The group organically adopted their band name when a concert announcer called them “yagody” or “berries” in English.
What began as a small collective of artists searching for their voice has since blossomed into an internationally acclaimed act, known for their intense, ritualistic performances and boundary-pushing interpretations of Eastern European folk traditions.
YAGÓDY is made up of Zoriana Dybovska – vocals, percussion instruments, Vasylyna Voloshyn – vocals, Tetiana Voitiv – vocals, Tibetan bowl, percussion instruments, drymba, Nadiia Parashchuk – vocals, accordion, Vadym Voitovych – bass guitar, Teimyraz Gogitidze – drums, Vasyl Parashchuk – cymbals.Support for this project was provided by the Great Lakes Colleges Association through its Global Crossroads Initiative, made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.
Thanks to the Ohio Arts Council ARTS Rise Program, which expands representation and access in the arts, reduced-rate tickets are available for this program. We hope to create a programming series where ticket pricing is not a barrier to attendance.

The Valerie A. Blackwell-Truitt Community Dance and Performance Arts Concert and Art Exhibition at the Foundry Theater
2025-03-29 19:30 - 21:30 | Foundry Theater, 920 Corry St, Yellow Springs, OH, 45387, United States
The Valerie A. Blackwell-Truitt Community Dance and Performance Arts Concert and Art Exhibition

Saturday, March 29, 2025. Curtain at 7:30PM.

The Valerie A. Blackwell-Truitt Community Dance and Performance Arts Concert and Art Exhibition at the Foundry Theater
2025-03-28 19:30 - 21:30 | Foundry Theater, 920 Corry St, Yellow Springs, OH, 45387, United States
The Valerie A. Blackwell-Truitt Community Dance and Performance Arts Concert and Art Exhibition

Friday, March 28, 2025. Curtain at 7:30PM.

Tomchess and The Lovedogs at the Foundry Theater
2025-03-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Foundry Theater, 920 Corry St, Yellow Springs, OH, 45387, United States
Tomchess and The LovedogsFriday, March 21, 2025 7pmLimited Seating in the Experimental Theater
Pittsburgh/NYC based Multi-instrumentalist/improviser/composer Tomchess has played and recorded with some of the most esteemed players in the improvisational and Jazz scene (Dewey Redman, Butch Morris, Pharoah Sanders, Drew Gress, Ronald Shannon Jackson), as well as Morrocan Sintarist Hassan Hakmoun. Having deeply studied the Near Eastern, and North African traditions his syncretic sound encompasses the tonal palette, rhythms, and forms of these traditional musics as well as focusing on the transcendent unity of all human culture and the importance and freedom of improvisation.
Tomchess- Oud, Ney, Morsing, Composer.
Ravi-Padmanabha – Tabla, Sarangi, Percussions
Will McEvoy – Upright Bass
The trio will be representing original compositions as well as improvisations inspired and influenced by musics of the world, more specifically West African, Middle Eastern, Andalusian, Mediterranean, India as well as American Jazz. These compositions and Improvisations will be presented towards creating stories and dialog through sound. Improvised musics promote collective and individual development, spontaneously creating common languages that alter perceptions and encourage us to imagine different alternatives in music and life towards creating a more beautiful world for all.
They have performed in Africa, Canada, Holland, France, Switzerland, Turkey, India and Italy, with notable performances at Lincoln Center, The David Rubinstein Atrium, The Turkish Embassy, The Pakastani Embassy, the Asian Society, The Natural History Museum, The Metropolitan Museum, The Himalayan Museum of Art and The United Nations among countless other venues in the United States. Tomchess has played on Grammy Nominated recordings, been awarded grants from the Turkish American Society and The Maryland Council For The Arts and nominated for an Independent Music Award.

Mad River Theater Works presents Three Rivers Young Peoples Orchestra at the Foundry Theater
2025-03-16 13:00 - 15:00 | Foundry Theater, 920 Corry St, Yellow Springs, OH, 45387, United States
Mad River Theater Works presents
Three Rivers Young Peoples Orchestra
March 16 @ 1pm
FREE Matinee

For 51 years, Three Rivers Young Peoples Orchestras has been providing musical kids in Pittsburgh with opportunities to rehearse and perform music at a high level outside of school time with other musical kids from the region who also love music. What started as one small ensemble for a few dozen kids now serves hundreds of kids each year from schools all over the greater Pittsburgh metropolitan area!

The Symphonette Orchestra of Three Rivers Young Peoples Orchestras is a string orchestra which was invited to participate in the 2025 Music For All Festival in Indianapolis, IN. They will be performing their concert program for Yellow Springs, Ohio on March 16, 2025. Thanks to generous matching funds from the Yellow Springs Community Foundation all donations collected for this event will support the Yellow Springs Youth Orchestra Association (YSYOA). A true community effort, this program stands to uplift youth playing orchestral music at a high-level and foster a life-long passion for music.

Lunasa at the Foundry Theater
2025-03-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Foundry Theater, 920 Corry St, Yellow Springs, OH, 45387, United States
Known as ‘the hottest Irish band on the planet’ for good reason, Lunasa has graced international stages for decades. Named for an ancient Celtic harvest festival in honor of the Irish god Lugh, patron of the arts, Lúnasa is indeed a gathering of some of the top musical talents in Ireland.
Bassist Trevor Hutchinson was a key member of The Waterboys, and later he, with guitarist Donogh Hennessy, would form the dynamic rhythm section of The Sharon Shannon Band; Ed Boyd (Flook, Michael McGoldrick Band) has recently replaced Hennessy; Fiddler Sean Smyth is an All-Ireland champion who has played with Donal Lunny’s Coolfin; Kevin Crawford, considered to be among the finest flutists in Ireland played with the acclaimed traditional group Moving Cloud; and, piper Cillian Vallely of the famous Vallely artistic clan has performed with Riverdance and recently recorded with Bruce Springsteen. Folk Roots magazine has rightly termed them an “Irish music dream team.”

The World House Choir's International Women's Day Performance at the Foundry Theater
2025-03-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Foundry Theater, 920 Corry St, Yellow Springs, OH, 45387, United States
Free and Open to the Public. Donations accepted at the door.
Founded in 2012 by Dr. Catherine Roma, the World House Choir is a diverse, multi-cultural, mixed-voice choir of 80-90 active citizen singers. The choir’s repertoire is drawn from the music of peace and justice struggles worldwide, representing different traditions including classical, global folk music, spirituals, and gospel.
Our name is inspired by the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, who wrote, “We have inherited a large house, a great world house in which we have to learn to live together in peace.” The name refers to the choice each person must make – to live in community or chaos, particularly in a nation where racial stereotypes remain strong and multiculturalism a work-in-progress.
The Rev. Derrick Weston and Dr. Catherine Roma met in the summer of 2012. They were encouraged to meet one another because people felt they had the same focus about creating a peace and justice choir. Rev. Weston was Director of the Coretta Scott King [CSK] Center and minister of the Presbyterian church in Yellow Springs, Ohio. In September 2012, they worked together to form an embryonic choir that sang for world peace day celebration at the Presbyterian Church.
After that successful effort, a mission statement was created: “To perform music that motivates and inspires our communities toward justice, diversity and equality as we strive for peace and to create our web of mutuality.” Rev. Weston and Dr. Roma wanted the choir to be associated with the Coretta Scott King Center at Antioch College and embarked on a collaboration.
The choir grew throughout 2013. The first major collaboration was for the CSK birthday celebration at the CSK Center at Antioch College in April 2013. This was considered the “official” launch of the choir and the beginning of the public phase of our collaboration. From the beginning, Antioch College has graciously provided practice space first in the CSK Center and, as our numbers grew, in the Foundry Theater. Today, the World House Choir is proud to be one of the Artist-in-Resident companies activating the Foundry Theater and its mission.

Coretta Scott King Remembrance Day Fireside Chat at the Foundry Theater
2025-02-15 19:00 - 21:00 | Coretta Scott King Center, 750 Livermore St, Yellow Springs, OH, 45387, United States
On Saturday, Feb. 15, which is Coretta Scott King Remembrance Day in Yellow Springs, Ohio, participants will be invited to a Fireside Chat. The chat will consist of a panel featuring the President of Antioch College, Dr. Jane Fernandes, in conversation with Shelby Chestnut, Antioch College Board of Trustees Chairperson and Executive Director of the Transgender Law Center; Dr. Kimberley Richards Executive Director of the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond; and Elba “Alicia” Pagan, Ohio State Director of the League of United Latin American Citizen about challenges in the contemporary moment and ways to move into a more just and inclusive present and future.
The Fireside Chat is part of the Global Racial and Social Justice Summit hosted by the Coretta Scott King Center for Intellectual Freedom.
Support for this project was provided by the Great Lakes Colleges Association through its Global Crossroads Initiative, made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.

Mareas/Tides at the Foundry Theater
2025-02-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Coretta Scott King Center, 750 Livermore St, Yellow Springs, OH, 45387, United States
The Global Racial and Social Justice Summit hosted by the Coretta Scott King Center for Intellectual Freedom will feature a dance performance, “Mareas/Tides,” by Denison University dance faculty, Marion Ramirez and Ojeya Cruz Banks, and music faculty, celebrating sacred celestial-ocean relationships through story-telling, song, and improvisation. It traces the storied geographies between and through Puerto Rico, Guåhan to Aotearoa to Alabama to Senegal. The performance braids the artists’ distinct island cosmologies together and embodies the gravitational power of the African diaspora flowing through the Caribbean and Indigenous Pacific worlds. The program features musicians Pete Mills, Timothy Carpenter, Matthew Dixon, and Dean Hullet. Colleges Association through its Global Crossroads Initiative, made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.
Support for this project was provided by the Great Lakes Colleges Association through its Global Crossroads Initiative, made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.

The Mark Lomax Quartet at the Foundry Theater
2025-01-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Foundry Theater, 920 Corry St, Yellow Springs, OH, 45387, United States
The Mark Lomax Quartet will perform a set of original compositions inspired by John Coltrane and the John Coltrane composition, A Love Supreme.
Lomax is the rare drummer who leaves you wanting more, leading his bandmates through a strikingly terse, brilliantly counterintuitive and ultimately joyous series of explorations.
Dr. Mark Lomax, II, is a critically acclaimed composer, recording artist, drummer, activist, and educator. In one of the timeliest and unprecedented pieces of work of our history, Lomax released 400: An Afrikan Epic in January 2019. This magnum opus consists of a 12 album cycle, a curriculum, and a documentary that ambitiously tells the story of the Afrikan diaspora. Divided into thirds, the Epic explores thousands of years of the history that is pre-colonial Afrika, the Ma’afa (400 years between 1619 and 2019), and Afro-futurism expressing a vision of what Blacks in America will heal toward in the next 400 years.A highly sought-after lecturer, Lomax specializes in the socio-political, and spiritual aspects of African-American art music, race, and using the arts to build community.
Lomax has toured with the Delfeayo Marsalis Sextet and worked with notable artists such as Clark Terry, Marlon Jordan, Azar Lawrence, Bennie Maupin, Billy Harper, Nicholas Payton, Ellis Marsalis, and Wessel Anderson, among others. He has also been a resident artist with the Cincinnati Symphony (2019), Denison University (2017), and has presented the 400 across the country at various colleges, universities, art and community organizations.
Dr. Lomax’s myriad experiences have allowed him to create a unique blend of styles in his music. Whether he’s interpreting the Negro Spiritual through jazz, arranging gospel music for a symphony orchestra, or performing his original works, his music is relevant, probing, and inspiring.

Mad River Theater Works and HUMAN present: H.U.M.A.N. Coffee House at the Foundry Theater
2024-12-15 19:00 - 21:00 | Foundry Theater, 920 Corry St, Yellow Springs, OH, 45387, United States
Mad River Theater Works and HUMAN present: H.U.M.A.N. Coffee House
Foundry TheaterDecember 15, 20247:00-9:00 pm
This event is Free of Charge.
Join us for an evening of artistic expression. We will sing, drum, rhyme, and, most importantly, connect in community to address the current social and political times. While we have amazing folks as pre-scheduled entertainment, we hope you join us for an open mic and offer your most creative vibes, songs, poetry, and commitment to humanity. Mad River Theater Works and Help Us Make a Nation (HUMAN) are committed to creating the spaces and places for us to be together, to use the arts as an anchor for thought, and to practice human solidarity
Together we will, and we can!
