Sing along to Celtic Favorites with harpist Debbie Vinick!

Join us for a night of Celtic music and song with Connecticut harpist Debbie Vinick! Debbie received her masters from Yale School of Music and has performed with orchestras throughout the United States and Europe. Debbie has an extensive repertoire of classical, Irish, popular, and Broadway music. She frequently hears, “I didn’t know you could play that on the harp!”

This concert is the final performance of the library’s 2017 Roode Memorial Concert Series.

Longtime Mystic Resident Agnes Driscoll Roode passed away in December 2014. She was born in Massachusetts where, in her late teens, she was an active volunteer at musical events for the USO during WWII. Agnes moved to Connecticut at the end of the war where she met and married Carl Roode Sr., also a supporter of the Mystic & Noank Library. Agnes became a stay at home mother to their five children and lovingly cared for her family and their home –a home often filled with the music of that era and the Irish ballads with which Agnes was familiar from her Irish heritage.

Even in the last years of her life, Agnes still clearly recalled the tune and lyrics of many of those beloved songs and enjoyed singing along with her family and friends. In her memory, family members requested donations be made to the Mystic & Noank Library to fund a musical event.

Thanks to generous donations from both family and friends, the Roode Memorial Concert Series was created to celebrate Agnes and her love of music. With their support, these concerts are free and open to the public.

All concerts are free and held in the Spicer Reading Room on the second floor of the Library.

The Mystic & Noank Library is located at 40 Library Street in Mystic, CT and has an extensive collection of books and media for children, teens and adults. Library hours are from 10:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, and 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. Parking and entrance on Elm Street.