Spring Song Swap
May 2 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Gloucester singer-songwriters Miranda Aisling, Charlee Bianchini, and Renee Dupuis are coming together at MAGMA to trade songs and stories and welcome Spring. Join them on Friday, May 2, 2025 at 7:00 pm.
Tickets are available on a sliding scale from $10 – 30 both online and at the door, ensuring everyone has access to this community event. All ticket holders receive equal entry, guests are encouraged to support as they are able.
MIRANDA AISLING
Miranda Aisling (ash-lean)’s mission is to reconnect art to daily life, a purpose you can see through her work as an interdisciplinary artist, community organizer, and creative entrepreneur. Using an art degree from Mary Baldwin University focusing on painting, pottery, and piano and an education degree from Lesley University focusing on community art, Miranda is a professional artist and community arts consultant. Her original folk songs blend frank vulnerability with insightful social commentary. A classically trained pianist who shifted from Bach to the Indigo Girls, she brings the lively spirit of a folk festival to her performances, engaging audiences with a mix of sung and spoken storytelling.
RENEE DUPUIS
Renée Dupuis is an active professional vocalist, songwriter, and private music teacher. With a degree in vocal performance from the University of Hartford’s Hartt School of Music, Renée enjoys a diverse career as a freelance musician, writing and performing with her acoustic duo Renee & Joe and as a part of What Time is it, Mr. Fox?. She is also a soloist with the Cape Ann Big Band. She is currently the choral director for Waring School.
CHARLEE BIANCHINI
There are three things that drive my life-momentum: art, music and travel. I could say that travel is the food, the nourishment of the former two passions. I travel with purpose, to see the endless ways that people live their lives, to find warmth and smiles in the poorest corners, to cultivate endless understanding and compassion so that I might be a better citizen in a world that is fast growing smaller. Art, in all its forms, is the processing of all the information I acquire on the road. Done for both my readers and myself, I hope that the wonder I find in my journeys does not affect me alone. Music is the voice of joy, concern, and empathy with which I am left.