Becky Tracy (fiddle) Keith Murphy (guitar, mandolin, piano and foot percussion) Becky and Keith are dynamic performers of traditional music from Newfoundland, Quebec, Ireland, France and beyond. Tracy’s fiddling pulses through tasteful arrangements of dance tunes and resonates with beauty on traditional slow airs. Keith’s gentle and expressive singing in English and French is balanced…

Renese King has been at Berklee since June 1998. By night, she is a vocalist, pianist, songwriter, arranger, and director of the New England Gospel Ensemble. Her recent projects include solo vocal contributions to soundtracks of three award-winning PBS documentaries. She has appeared the soundtrack of 2022 documentary, Harriet Tubman, Visions of Freedom, in addition…

If you can walk, you can dance.  If you can talk, you can sing. This expression from Zimbabwe is a favorite of Roberta Kirn’s because it is her deeply held belief that singing, drumming and moving with others is not only fun, but profoundly healing. After majoring in dance at Dartmouth and Sarah Lawrence colleges,…

We are delighted to welcome this season’s featured guest, Nichelle Mungo, a multiple Grammy Music Educator nominee, three-time winner of Showtime at the Apollo, recipient of multiple Best Artist (Gospel and R&B) awards from the New England Urban Music Awards, and an associate professor at the Berklee School of Music. Nichelle inspires, engages, captivates, and…

CRITICAL ACCLAIM “Billy Novick on clarinet, had he lived in the 1930’s, would be a legend.” Boston Globe “Novick is… concerned with getting to the heart of playing music.” New York Times “Billy Novick is a masterful clarinetist. Everything about his delivery is melodic, cultured and easy on the ear, and he is refreshingly economical, only…

Donnell LaRoque Patterson is chair of the Gospel Music department in New England Conservatory’s (NEC) School of Preparatory and Continuing Education.  He also directs the NEC Community Gospel Choir. Since 2006, Donnell has served as the Director of Music for both the Upper and Lower Schools at Belmont Hill School in Belmont, MA. From 2002…

From Nick Page: Jane was our guest in 1996, one our more memorable concerts.  Nick had first seen her performing with Pete Seeger in Chicago in 1983 and later had a chance to work with her at a folk festival in Wisconsin.  She arranged a Gospel style arrangement of This Land Is Your Land for…

Jim Scott’s songs are alive in their fire, their passion. Jim Scott has written songs for three
 amazing Paul Winter Consort recordings, including their Earth Mass. Since leaving the Consort, Jim has continued to be a very active composer, guitarist, singer, and activist.
  He has collaborated with Pete Seeger who called Jim “some kind of…

Update, 12-5-2021 Mystic mourns the passing of this great man and wonderful friend to the chorale. RIP, Bill. Anyone not familiar with the music of Bill Staines is in for a special treat. For more than forty years, Bill has traveled back and forth across North America, singing his songs and delighting audiences at festivals,…

Nthabi Thakadu is an old friend of the Mystic Chorale having sung many South African songs with us.  She will lead us in the beautiful South African hymn, Ukuthula. Here’s a video of Nthabi singing the beautiful South African song Azsenzeni Na? (What Have We Done) in the Mystic Chorale’s May 2018 “Selma to Soweto: Songs…