The Department of Music and Theatre invites you to an Open House and Ice Cream Social, Friday, August 26 at 5pm! Come meet the professors and students and learn about what we have planned for the year! Everyone is welcome!
The Blackburn Music Showcase kicks off Music's performance calendar for the year. It features highlights from each concert of the season. This year's theme "We're Not in Kansas Anymore" celebrates the new direction Blackburn's Music program is taking and the upcoming College Choir performance at Carnegie Hall in New York City! Register now to […]
Interested in collaborating with our fall production? Please join us for auditions on Monday, September 26, in Bothwell Auditorium starting at 6:00PM. Our play - Almost, Maine - will rehearse weekday evenings through October (off for Fall Break) and perform the first weekend of November. We ask that you sign up for a 30-minute audition […]
A guest artist will be participating in a talk and there will be a number of games, and other exciting activities. For additional information: collin.vorbeck@blackburn.edu
A string quartet from the Illinois Symphony Orchestra performing a chamber music concert in Bothwell Auditorium. This event is part of the Department of Music & Theatre’s Guest Artist Series and is free for students and the public to attend. It is funded by the Student Experience Fund and presented in cooperation with the Office […]
The Blackburn College Department of Music & Theatre will perform an operatic production for children, “The Billy Goats Gruff'' on Friday, November 18. This free performance is open to the public and will take place in Bothwell Auditorium at 7:00 pm. Read the press release. Blackburn College’s production of "The Billy Goats Gruff opera is […]
Blackburn College will celebrate the holiday season with its annual Christmas at Blackburn event on Sunday, December 5, 2022, at 7:00 pm in Clegg Chapel. The performance will be free and open to the public. A Lessons and Carols service, the celebration will include the Blackburn College Choir, student instrumental performances by Jordan Watts (flute) […]
A Jazz Concert featuring the Adaron (Pops) Jackson Trio will help kick off the new year on Friday, January 13, 2023 at 7:00 pm in Bothwell Auditorium. An educator, musician and clinician, Adaron “Pops” Jackson serves as Assistant Professor and Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Missouri St. Louis. Originally from East St. […]
Join us in Bothwell Auditorium to share and celebrate the plays created during the 24-Hour Play Festival experience. Free and open to the public! We would love for you to come to experience these short but likely hilarious and moving pieces fresh from the minds of our eager students!
