🎵Kid's Music: Commonplay with Common Tone

Wednesday, 4/9 at 9:45am

🎨5-Week Thursday AM Pottery Class with Teresa Stecher (April 10 - May 15)

Thursday, 4/10 at 9am

🎵Of Good Nature with opening performance by Eli Lev

Thursday, 4/10 at 7:30pm

ALTERNATIVE, SOUL, ROCK

🎵Sound Scientists with Messy Happy Music Lab

Friday, 4/11 at 10am

🎨Quilt 101 with Casey Cunningham

Friday, 4/11 at 2pm

🎨Weave a Bird Nesting Banner

Saturday, 4/12 at 10am

🎨Easter Nest Centerpiece with Claire Jones

Saturday, 4/12 at 1pm

🎵Brotherhood of Trees and Mike Errico

4/12 at 7:30pm

AMERICANA, COUNTRY

🔨Assemble a Bat House with Tom Parmelee

Sunday, 4/13 at 11:30am

🎵Spring in Your Step: Comedy in Song

Sunday, 4/13 at 3pm

OPERA, COMEDY

🌟Readings from Award-Winning Writer Patrick Smithwick's Trilogy of Memoirs

Monday, 4/14 at 6pm

🔨Woodworking 101 with Tom Parmelee

Monday, 4/14 at 6pm

Kid's Music: Commonplay with Common Tone

Wednesday, April 9

9:45 am - 10:30 am

Commonplay provides interactive moments for caregivers to sing, play instruments, dance, and connect with their child. . In every class, you will experience live music that is dynamic and imaginative and will encourage everyone to move, sing, and create together.

5-Week Thursday AM Pottery Class with Teresa Stecher (April 10 - May 15)

Thursday, April 10

9:00 am - 12:00 pm

In this 5-week ceramics course, students will be introduced to skills including throwing, trimming, and glazing. Basic forms on the wheel include cups, bowls, small plates and vases. As students progress, more complex forms and techniques will be introduced.

1 spot left!

Sound Scientists with Messy Happy Music Lab

Friday, April 11

10:00 am - 11:15 am

Put on your lab coats and join musical speech-language pathologist Corinne Zmoos, MS, CCC-SLP for messy, melodic experiments and singalong. Children 9 months – 4 years will explore rhythm, melody, timbre, and pitch through sensory experiments and a singalong bursting with language science.

NEW!

Quilt 101 with Casey Cunningham

Friday, April 11

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Learn about the art of quilting, basic skills and techniques while assembling a 16″ square “Potato Chip” block in seasonal fabrics. Once assembled, the block can be quilted and made into a pillow cover or combined with other blocks to make a quilt.

Weave a Bird Nesting Banner

Saturday, April 12

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Yes, spring is coming! In this class, we will weave (on a pre-warped loom) a banner and insert various natural supplies that birds use for building their nests. Materials are included but feel free to bring any natural grasses or small twigs from your yard! No experience necessary. 2 spots left!

Easter Nest Centerpiece with Claire Jones

Saturday, April 12

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Learn how to work with pliable curly and pussy willow to create a natural looking bird’s nest as a spring centerpiece for Easter. Incorporating succulents, fresh and dried florals, and Easter accessories for a personal touch, this 12” – 15” diameter arrangement using

all natural materials will last for months.

Assemble a Bat House with Tom Parmelee

Sunday, April 13

11:30 am - 1:30 pm

Join us for a fun and easy class assembling your own bat house. You will be assembling pre-cut pieces that make up your new neighbor’s home. You may build a box as an individual or as a partner project.

Woodworking 101 with Tom Parmelee

Monday, April 14

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

In this class you will learn the ins and outs of a modern woodworking shop. By the end of the class you should have all the knowledge needed to purchase and take a raw piece of lumber and turn it into whatever your imagination can come up with. You will leave this class with your very own finished item be it a serving tray or your very own custom clipboard!

Readings from Award-Winning Writer Patrick Smithwick's Trilogy of Memoirs

Monday, April 14

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Fully into the steeplechase season, Manor Mill welcomes you to hear award-winning writer Patrick Smithwick read exhilarating and passionate passages of racing, fox-hunting and the racetrack life from his trilogy of memoirs—Racing My Father, Flying Change, and Racing Time—while surrounded by an extraordinary exhibit, Horses & Hounds, celebrating Maryland’s rich equine legacy.

Of Good Nature with opening performance by Eli Lev

ALTERNATIVE, SOUL, ROCK

Thursday, April 10

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

On the outskirts of Charlotte, North Carolina, in a secluded studio surrounded by towering trees, Of Good Nature crafts vibrant, soul-affirming music designed to bring joy to listeners. Their genre-blending sound fuses alternative, soul, folk, world, and rock into a refreshingly innovative whole, highlighted by powerful vocals, intricate drumming, and brass harmonies.

Global citizen and singer songwriter Eli Lev is making the world a smaller place, one song at a time. Eli pens hymns for everyday enlightenment—songs that resonate because they’re heartfelt, earthy, and offer wisdom culled from self-discovery and adventure.

Brotherhood of Trees and Mike Errico Chorale in Concert and Conversation

AMERICANA, COUNTRY

Saturday, April 12

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Songwriting duo Jay Livingston and Danny-O planted the Brotherhood of Trees in 2014 on a cold winter night in a rural Maryland studio under the watchful gaze of a giant pine grove.

The following years harvested a catalog of music rooted firmly in Americana, Country, Rock, and Folk. On a lark, Jay and Danny connected with R.E.M. and Widespread Panic producer John Keane. Over the next four years the lyrics and melodies of the Brotherhood germinated into a fresh new Americana Roots sound.

Spring in Your Step: Comedy in Song

OPERA, COMEDY

Saturday, April 5

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Annie Gill, Katherine Merryman and Andrew Stewart return to Manor Mill with a broad array of comical songs and scenes that will leave you laughing for more. Come enjoy Spring in Your Step: Comedy in Song

We had an amazing performance weekend for Manor Mill Playhouse: Shorts! Thank you to everyone who came out to see the show. Stay tuned for our next production!