Past Events

Music Sessions @ RoCA

Chatham Rabbits

Saturday, March 23 at 7:30pm 

$25/students & seniors $25

There is something warm and instantly familiar about the beloved roots duo, Chatham Rabbits. Partners in music and life, Chatham Rabbits’ Austin and Sarah McCombie blend their personal histories through deft songwriting and a history that comes from building a life together. Leaning into each other's strengths, their songs present a congenial, collaborative spirit that has captured the pure adoration of fans along the way and earned them praise from Garden & Gun Magazine, American Songwriter, and No Depression.

Music Sessions @ RoCA: Hiroya Tsukamoto                                                                               

Saturday, January 20 at 7:30pm
Tickets: $25 / $20 students/seniors           

Hiroya Tsukamoto is a Japanese-born fingerstyle guitarist who moved to the United States in 2000 to attend the Berklee College of Music. Needless to say, he’s not only a dizzyingly agile fingerpicker, but a soulful and transcendent performer, with compositions that combine instrumental guitar work with lyrical performance and spoken stories from his life. 

Saturday, April 6 at 7:30pm
Tickets: $25/ seniors & students $20

SOLD OUT!

"Parker's pub-rock snarl has worked its magic for a generation." — Village Voice

Music Sessions @ RoCA presents

The Chapin Sisters

Saturday, November 16 at 7:30pm Tickets: $25 (seniors & students $20)

THIS PERFORMANCE IS SOLD OUT! Please call RoCA directly for information.

This concert in is conjunction with the exhibition The Land: Early Artists @ Gate Hill Co-op.

“The Chapin Sisters can harmonize like angels,” says Popmatters of siblings Abigail and Lily Chapin, whose recent singles “Bergen Street,” “All Through The Night” and “Wasting Your Time” were released on Lake Bottom Records.

Making music that The New York Times praises as “tantalizingly close to beauty”, The Chapin Sisters carry on a proud family musical legacy: Father Tom Chapin is a Grammy-winning singer/songwriter, legendary late uncle Harry Chapin was an artist and activist best known for his #1 hit “Cat’s in the Cradle”, and grandfather Jim Chapin literally wrote the book on how to play the drumkit.

Since 2005 these masters of blood harmony have garnered critical acclaim by forging a distinctive musical imprint in which they “wed lilting voices, dynamically complex vocal harmonies, and folk-influenced melodies to dark, wryly sarcastic lyrical content” notes Amazon in an editorial review. They have been featured in Rolling Stone, The New York Times, NPR’s Weekend Edition, Nylon, Spin, Paper, T Magazine, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.

Embodied Artist Talk with Alexis Elton and Bel Falleiros

November 14th, 7pm at Rockland Center For the Arts

Gate Hill Co-op, or ‘the Land’, was founded in the 50’s by Black Mountain College Faculty and Alumni for artists to live and work. Over the years, artists and their practices were deeply transformed by this place.

Alexis Elton and Bel Falleiros, current residents of Gate Hill, invite the public to an embodied artist talk, engaging with ideas behind their current show The Body Remembers, The Vessel Contains in conjunction with The Land: early artist @ Gate Hill Co-op.

Elton and Falleiros practices are informed by natural materials and the stories they carry. Together they will guide participants through a multisensory experience using natural foraged materials from ‘the Land.’

A “Performance of Poetry with Sign Language & Music Improvisation”

by August Vanderbeek & Max Vanderbeek
November 22, 2024, 8 p.m. Rockland Center for the Arts

This sister & brother lived at the Gate Hill Co-op (“The Land”) from the late 1950s to 1976. Their parents were part of the founding members, Johanna (artist) & Stan Vanderbeek (film). Their house was a Quonset hut with a large, round multimedia dome theatre and art studio in the backyard. Our performance is a visual and musical celebration of the creative energy that was present and influenced us as children. . . .

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Music Sessions @ RoCA

Adam Falcon
Saturday, December 14 at 7:30pm
Tickets: $25/ seniors & students: $20

With Carl Carter (Bass/Vocals)
Gene Lake (Drums/ Vocals)
Etienne Stadwijk (Keyboards/ Vocals)

Adam Falcon
The music of guitarist/singer-songwriter Adam Falcon has been widely considered to be absent of genre, and yet ranges from folk to rhythm and blues. In the past, as a sideman, Falcon has worked with and shared the stage with some of the brightest luminaries in music. Some of those artists were Roberta Flack, Nona Hendryx, Jim Lauderdale, Sophie B. Hawkins, Steve Jordan, Marcus Miller, Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Robert Palmer and Peter Gabriel. Stepping out on his own, he’s opened for the The Wailers, Tower of Power, Danielle Ponder, Ruthie Foster, the late great blues giants James Cotton Blues Band, and Matt “Guitar” Murphy. Writing a couple of Grammy nominated songs for jazz guitarist George Benson and having songs on national television, Falcon became noticed by The SongWriters Hall of Fame, which honored him with The Abe Olman Scholarship Award for Songwriting. For his composition “Woke Up Cryin’“ Falcon became an International Songwriters Competition semi-finalist and was also nominated for an Independent Music Award.

“If you are unfamiliar with this stellar artist, take some time to get to know Adam Falcon as his career continues to ascend.” (Living Blues Magazine)

Etienne Stadwijk (Keyboards/ Vocals)
Born in The Netherlands, Etienne Stadwijk became exposed to music at a very early age. By the time he entered kindergarten he was already performing in school and local events in his home town. Relocating to Suriname, South America in his early teens, Etienne quickly established himself as one of the premiere keyboard players, with a broad interest in styles. From high school, he went on to study contemporary arranging at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston Massachusetts. While currently living in New York, he divides his time there and abroad, both recording and producing. His large array of performing and recording credits includes: Kenny Garrett, Richard Bona, Paul Simon, Harry Belafonte, Marcus Miller, and Labelle, just to name a few.

Carl Carter (Bass/Vocals)
Carl has forged a career as diverse as his musical background, performing with an eclectic group of world-renowned R&B, jazz and rock artists that includes: Dizzy Gillespie, Joe Williams, Spin Doctors, Maxwell, Adam Lambert, Billy Ocean, Digable Planets, Clark Terry, Maysa, Joe Henderson, Aaron Neville, Chuck Loeb, Nile Rogers and CHIC, Ivan Neville, Vanessa Williams and more. His playing experiences are just as vast, performing on stages around the world, numerous television shows, and a host of Broadway credits. They include: The Tony Award hit musical, ‘COME FROM AWAY,’ The Tony nominated hit show “Disaster: The Musical,” “Holler If You Hear Me,” and Tony nominated “Bring it On: The Musical."

Gene Lake (Drums/ Vocals)
This native of St. Louis, Missouri who now resides in Montclair, New Jersey embodies the contradictions of modern music. With a variety of styles, Lake began playing at 5 years old and later studied with drummer Pheeroan akaLaff while attending The High School of Music & Art in New York City. Afterwards, graduating from Berklee College of Music, he went on to play with his father, saxophonist Oliver Lake, later joining composer Henry Threadgill's ensemble. Examining his resume reveals the extent of his versatility. Those artists include: David Sanborn, Steve Coloman, Marcus Miller, Joe Zawinul, Maxwell, and Me’Shell Ndegeocello. As a leader, he has several albums released under his name: “The Oliver Lake Quartet,” “Dedication,” and “At This Time."