Peter Blanchette: Composer, Musician, Inventor of the Archguitar

As a natural follow up to last season’s selections by Edvard Grieg, Bela Bartok, and Estonian minimalist Arvo Pärt, in 2011 the Happy Valley Guitar Orchestra will play Lady Gaga’s 2009 hit Poker Face. I love Poker Face, as I love many pop… Read more

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These are the first round of Camino Concerts dates to come in, please stand by for more! 20 August – Festival de Moratinos, Iglesia San Marcos (20:30) 23 August – Carrión de Los Condes- Iglesia Santa Maria (20,30) 25 August –… Read more

This audio is from The 9 O’clock Show with Bill Newman on Northampton’s excellent local radio station WHMP 96.9f FM. Monte Belmonte of WRSI produces and chimes in. I appear on WHMP on a bi-weekly basis, talking with Bill and Monte about… Read more

I am preparing to write a Requiem for the dead. Requiem, the word itself haunts. This Requiem is to those dead from the last ten years of violence; sometimes called war, sometimes called terrorism, sometimes called other offensively obfuscating… Read more

Friday, March 11 at 7:30 p.m. Northampton Center for the Arts 17 New South Street Northampton, MA SOLD OUT. $12- Tickets still available at the door. NCFA box office opens at 6:30. Come spend this warm, early spring evening with… Read more

Here is a silly little arrangement I did a while back of the American folk tune known as “Cluck Old Hen.” I came to know it through a girlfriend of my longtime musical partner Peter Michelini. Peter and I played music together from the… Read more