Linda Plaut Newton Festival of the Arts

The 7th annual Linda Plaut Newton Festival of the Arts will span many facets of arts and culture including several genres of music from blues to baroque, classical guitar to R&B, and opera to jazz. The Festival has served as a catalyst for the cultural life in the city since 2015 and has been a showcase of Newton’s talent and Newton Cultural Council grant recipients for many arts organizations and artists over the years. Visit our website for more information.

Performance Schedule

FRIDAY, JULY 22, 2022

Hyde Playground, Newton Highlands
6:30pm  New Philharmonia Pops Concert
7:30pm  Instrument Petting Zoo
Dusk  Movie – Casablanca

SATURDAY, JULY 23, 2022

Hyde Playground, Newton Highlands

2pm Blue Train Bluegrass Band
3pm Olga Lisovskaya, From Opera to Broadway
4pm George Russell Jr. Trio, Gospel Jazz
5pm Lydia Harrell, Jazz Singer
7pm Debo Ray & Her Allstar Band, Dance Party!
Village Green, Newton Centre

12 – 5pm  Summer Craft Market
1pm Circus Comes to Town with Circus Complex
2pm Plugged In Band
3pm Newtonville Books StoryTime with author Raul The Third
4pm Rob Siegel, Folk Music

Suzuki School of Newton, Waban
2pm  Austin McMahon, Jazz
3pm Hankus Netsky, Yiddish & Jazz
4pm  Crowes Pasture, Folk
 SUNDAY, JULY 24, 2022

Hyde Playground, Newton Highlands
3pm  Thaddeus Hogarth Collectives, R&B, Soul & Funk
4pmEd Harlow & the Gringo Kings, Salsa & Latin
5pm Eli Cash Band, Rock
7pm Tema Siegel & Couch, Pop & Soul

The Allen Center for the Arts, West Newton
1pm Dance Currents, “100 years of Modern Dance”
2pm Andrus Madsen, “Improvised Fantasias”
3pm Newton Baroque: Alison Gangler and Andrus Madsen
4pm Nomadic Theatre Story Slam