Arts Council of Greater New Haven Blog

A Quartet Finds Light In The Darkness

Arts & Culture  |  Culture & Community  |  Erector Square  |  Fair Haven  |  Music  |  Music Haven Lucy Gellman | February 16th, 2026

Strings & Steel Add New Voices To MLK Day Mix

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  |  Education & Youth  |  First and Summerfield United Methodist Church  |  Music  |  Music Haven  |  St. Luke's Steel Band Lucy Gellman | January 20th, 2026

"Dracula," With A Stringed Assist, Plays In Spooky Season

Arts & Culture  |  Best Video Film & Cultural Center  |  Culture & Community  |  Film & Video  |  Lyric Hall  |  Music  |  Music Haven Nelani Mejias | October 8th, 2025

NEA Cuts Hit New Haven Hard

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Arts For Learning CT  |  Culture & Community  |  International Festival of Arts & Ideas  |  Long Wharf Theatre  |  Music Haven  |  Yale Rep Theatre  |  Yale University  |  Yale University Art Gallery Lucy Gellman | May 7th, 2025

Top: Anne Cubberly's Giant Puppets at the 2024 International Festival of Arts & Ideas, which lost $65,000 of NEA grant funding. Bottom: Young cellist Amiel "AJ" Johnson, a sixth grader at Nathan Hale School and a student at Music Haven. Lucy Gellman File Photos.

Music Haven Closes "Untold Stories" On A High Note

Arts & Culture  |  Culture & Community  |  Erector Square  |  Fair Haven  |  Music  |  Music Haven  |  Storytelling Lucy Gellman | April 21st, 2025

Yaira Matyakubova, artistic director of the Haven String Quartet. Lucy Gellman Photos.

Note By Note, Untold Stories Stretch From Dixwell To Kinshasa

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Black History Month  |  Culture & Community  |  Dixwell  |  Dixwell Community Q House  |  Music  |  Music Haven  |  Storytelling Lucy Gellman | February 10th, 2025

Yaira Matyakubova introduces storyteller and artist Toto Kisaku. Lucy Gellman Photos.

Strings & Steel Make Sure The Day Belongs To MLK

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Downtown  |  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  |  Music Haven  |  St. Luke's Steel Band Lucy Gellman | January 20th, 2025

Our 2024 Top 10: Taking It (Back) To The Grassroots

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Black Wall Street Festival  |  Cafe Nine  |  Education & Youth  |  Faith & Spirituality  |  Gateway Community College  |  Kulturally Lit  |  Music Haven  |  New Haven Museum  |  New Haven Pride Center  |  New Haven Symphony Orchestra  |  Possible Futures  |  Semilla Collective  |  Year of Baldwin Lucy Gellman & Kapp Singer | December 31st, 2024

String Quartet Makes “Untold Stories” Sing

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Culture & Community  |  Hispanic Heritage Month  |  Music  |  Music Haven  |  New Haven Free Public Library Lucy Gellman | September 25th, 2024

On Whalley, Strings & Steel Prepare For Liftoff

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Culture & Community  |  Music Haven  |  St. Luke's Steel Band  |  Whalley/Edgewood/Beaver Hills Lucy Gellman | August 5th, 2024

Music Haven Fêtes A Year Of Growth & Transition

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Culture & Community  |  Dixwell  |  Dixwell Community Q House  |  Music  |  Music Haven Lucy Gellman | June 10th, 2024

Music Haven Fêtes Hispanic Heritage Month In Perfect Harmony

ARTE Inc.  |  Arts & Anti-racism  |  Culture & Community  |  Fair Haven  |  Hispanic Heritage Month  |  Music Haven Danielle Campbell | October 3rd, 2023

Music Haven Plays Triumphantly Into Summer

Arts & Culture  |  Culture & Community  |  Dixwell Community Q House  |  Education & Youth  |  Music  |  Music Haven Lucy Gellman | June 8th, 2023

Lucy Gellman Photos.

With Black Composers At The Helm, NHSO Raises The Standard

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Culture & Community  |  Music  |  Music Haven  |  New Haven Symphony Orchestra  |  Southern Connecticut State University Lucy Gellman | May 17th, 2023

Matt Fried Photos courtesy of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra.

Pops Performance Puts Black History In Perfect Harmony

Arts & Culture  |  Black History Month  |  Culture & Community  |  Kehler Liddell Gallery  |  Music  |  Music Haven  |  Youth Arts Journalism Initiative Makeda Murray | February 17th, 2023

Makeda Murray Photos.

Strings & Steel Take MLK Day To Church

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Culture & Community  |  Downtown  |  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  |  First and Summerfield United Methodist Church  |  Music  |  Music Haven  |  St. Luke's Steel Band Lucy Gellman | January 16th, 2023

Kenneth Joseph, who has directed the St. Luke's Steel Band since 2011. Founder Debby Teason, who is still the group's liturgical music director, was in the audience. Lucy Gellman Photos.

At Music Haven, Young Refugees Find The Right Dynamic

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Culture & Community  |  Music Haven  |  Refugees Lucy Gellman | December 19th, 2022

Strings And Steel Make Summertime Sing

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Music  |  Music Haven  |  St. Luke's Steel Band  |  Whalley/Edgewood/Beaver Hills Lucy Gellman | July 21st, 2022

Music Haven Passes The Baton

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Culture & Community  |  East Rock  |  Fair Haven  |  Music  |  Music Haven Lucy Gellman | June 28th, 2022

Strings, Piano Build A Musical Bridge To Ukraine

Arts & Culture  |  Fair Haven  |  Music  |  Music Haven  |  Ukraine Lucy Gellman | April 19th, 2022

Young Cellists Play Their Way To Live Performance

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Education  |  Education & Youth  |  Fair Haven  |  Music  |  Music Haven Lucy Gellman | November 18th, 2021

Strings Transform Problem Lot Into Concert Stage

Arts & Culture  |  Fair Haven  |  Music  |  Music Haven Lucy Gellman | September 24th, 2021

Music Haven Gets Back To Its In-Person Rhythm

COVID-19  |  Education & Youth  |  Erector Square  |  Fair Haven  |  Music Haven Liney Kindler | June 15th, 2021

Liney Kindler Photos.

Music Haven Senior Sendoff Brings Bach To The Barn

Arts & Culture  |  COVID-19  |  Hamden  |  Music  |  Music Haven Lucy Gellman | May 25th, 2021

Music Haven Rallies To Save Its State Funding, Again

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  COVID-19  |  Economic Development  |  Music Haven  |  State Legislature Lucy Gellman | February 23rd, 2021

"Playing Images" Puts Two Black Artists Center Stage

Arts & Culture  |  Music  |  Music Haven  |  Yale University Art Gallery Lucy Gellman | February 1st, 2021

"A Vaccine For The Mind And The Soul"

Arts & Culture  |  COVID-19  |  Connecticut Office of the Arts  |  Economic Development  |  Long Wharf Theatre  |  Music Haven  |  Neighborhood Music School  |  Shubert Theatre Lucy Gellman | January 19th, 2021

Music Haven Pulls Back The Curtain On A Year Of Adaptation

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  COVID-19  |  Fair Haven  |  Music  |  Music Haven Lucy Gellman | December 23rd, 2020

Haven String Quartet Hits The Virtual Stage

Arts & Culture  |  COVID-19  |  Fair Haven  |  Music  |  Music Haven Rachel Ababio | October 28th, 2020

Music Haven Strings Together A COVID-19 Tribute

Arts & Culture  |  COVID-19  |  Music  |  Music Haven Lucy Gellman | June 26th, 2020

Music Haven Plays On Through The Pandemic

Arts & Culture  |  COVID-19  |  Culture & Community  |  Music  |  Music Haven Lucy Gellman | April 27th, 2020

Arts Army Rallies To Keep Music Haven In State Budget

Arts & Culture  |  Fair Haven  |  Hartford  |  Music Haven  |  State Legislature Lucy Gellman | February 12th, 2020

On MLK Day, A Place Where Music Does The Talking

Arts & Culture  |  Arts, Culture & Community  |  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  |  First and Summerfield United Methodist Church  |  Music  |  Music Haven  |  St. Luke's Steel Band Lucy Gellman | January 21st, 2020

Music Haven Grooves With The Holidays

Arts & Culture  |  Music  |  Music Haven Jamiah Green | December 23rd, 2019

Music Haven Teams Up With ECA

Arts & Culture  |  Education & Youth  |  Educational Center for the Arts  |  Erector Square  |  Music  |  Music Haven Lucy Gellman | October 24th, 2019

Music Haven Students Twinkle Into Spring

Arts & Culture  |  Erector Square  |  Fair Haven  |  Music  |  Music Haven Lucy Gellman | March 13th, 2019

On MLK Day, Strings And Steel Play For Change

Arts, Culture & Community  |  Downtown  |  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  |  First and Summerfield United Methodist Church  |  Music  |  Music Haven  |  St. Luke's Steel Band Lucy Gellman | January 21st, 2019

At Music Haven, a Pitch-Perfect Senior Sendoff

Arts & Culture  |  Education & Youth  |  Music  |  Music Haven  |  New Haven  |  The Hill Lucy Gellman | June 1st, 2018

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The Mothership Takes Off

Alasdair Neale  |  Arts & Culture  |  Downtown  |  Music  |  Music Haven  |  New Haven  |  New Haven Symphony Orchestra Lucy Gellman | February 16th, 2018

Every Voice Lifted, And Sung

Arts & Culture  |  Downtown  |  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  |  First and Summerfield United Methodist Church  |  MLK Day  |  Music  |  Music Haven  |  New Haven  |  St. Luke's Steel Band Lucy Gellman | January 16th, 2018

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Music Haven Moves East

Arts & Culture  |  Erector Square  |  Music  |  Music Haven  |  New Haven Lucy Gellman | November 14th, 2017

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Oakley Learns From The Pros

Arts & Culture  |  Music  |  Music Haven  |  New Haven  |  New Haven Symphony Orchestra Lucy Gellman | October 2nd, 2017

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The Revolution Will Be Harmonized

Arts & Culture  |  Music  |  Music Haven Lucy Gellman | September 1st, 2017