CELEBRATE 125 YEARS WITH US This Friday marks 125 years of the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, and we're celebrating with a jazz party worthy of the milestone. Join us! Indestructible featuring Roger Humphries Friday, May 1 at 7:00 PM 125 years of the Carnegie Carnegie calls for a proper celebration. Friday night in the Music Hall, we've got one. Legendary Pittsburgh drummer Roger Humphries leads the sextet Indestructible , featuring Carnegie's own Reggie Watkins on trombone, Michael Tomaro on sax, James Moore on trumpet, Michael Bernabe on piano, and Jordan McBride on bass. The setlist is a tribute to the era of The Jazz Messengers, with compositions by Wayne Shorter, Lee Morgan, Curtis Fuller, Cedar Walton, and other greats. Roger's connection to this music is personal: he was mentored by his godfather, Art Blakey, the drummer and bandleader at the heart of the Messengers themselves. And because 125 years only comes around once, stick around afte...
An exhibition documenting the history and career of one of Pennsylvania’s preeminent glass artists and Pittsburgh Glass Center (PGC) co-founder, Kathleen Mulcahy opens on May 1 as part of Pittsburgh Glass Center’s 25th anniversary. A Fine Intoxication: Gathering Glass will include Mulcahy’s work from 2001 to the present. Works from Ron Desmett will also be included in the exhibition. Though Ron is deceased he was a significant partner in the development of Pittsburgh Glass Center. Kathleen Mulcahy is a Pittsburgh-based glass artist and co-founder of Pittsburgh Glass Center whose work captures fleeting, emotional moments in nature, especially water, through luminous, sculptural glass. Inspired by her early connection to the sea and a transformative encounter with molten glass, she creates pieces that balance beauty with urgency, reflecting on environmental fragility, human connection, and global tensions. Guided by a belief in art’s power to build community, Mulcahy helped rea...