Join veteran classical guitarist Dave McLellan for a delightful afternoon of musical variety, history and humor about the music of Renaissance and Modern Spain, 20th century Brazil, and the American experience with Jefferson Airplane and wide water.
Concert In Your Living Room – Spreading the joy of the classical guitar and charitable giving one living room at a time.
Concert In your Living Room was launched in 1998 with the first such concert to raise funds for a church in Sudbury, MA. Since then, concert guitarist Dave McLellan has delivered private recitals of beloved works in the solo classical guitar literature in an intimate setting such as the living room of a private home. Our clients have included Habitat for Humanity, Greater Boston Food Bank, Animal Rescue League of Boston, Leukemia Lymphoma Society of New England, Be Like Brit Foundation, Worcester Chamber Music Society, University of Hartford, Boston Children’s Museum, Charity: water, Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation, Pan Mass Challenge, many churches and humanitarian organizations.
For those too far away to come in person, but still want to support, there will be a livestream of the event here:
Dave McLellan has performed in the U.S., South America, Great Britain, and Europe since 1976, including debut and chamber appearances in Jordan Hall, Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, and Wigmore Hall (London). Beginning in 1981, he lived a double life as software engineer and concert guitarist with duo partner Neil Anderson. The Anderson-McLellan Duo gave several hundred concerts throughout the 1980’s, including two concert tours of Great Britain, and festival performances in the US and South America. Supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the D ’Addario Foundation, they gave their farewell performance in November 1989 in Merkin Hall, New York, in a program of American duo guitar music, including 3 premiers performances. Mr. McLellan’s collaborators include the late guitarist/composer Frank Wallace, the Serata Quartet, soprano Rebecca Grimes, soprano Rebekah Alexander, contralto Emily Marvosh (Handel & Haydn Society, Lorelei), flutist Tracy Kraus, violinist Judith Eissenberg, and guitarist Edward Flower resulted.
Mr. McLellan has served on the faculties of The Hartt School and the University of Connecticut, where he also performed regularly with Edward Flower. In addition to serving on the faculty of the Performing Arts Center Metrowest, he serves the Town of Harvard Artist in Residence program. He is a self-taught free-lance timpanist and mallet percussionist and has appeared with community and professional orchestras in the Metrowest Boston area. He is the timpanist, publicist, and guitar soloist of the Lincoln-Sudbury Civic Orchestra, in residence at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School.
Having been raised by a pathological philanthropist, Mr. McLellan is committed to using music to change lives and help charitable causes. In 1998, he founded and continues to perform in Concert in Your Living Room, a service dedicated to helping non-profits raise funds. In 1996, he established the David S. and Margaret McLellan Endowment for Performance Outreach at The Hartt School. While he served on the Hartt School Board of Trustees in Audience Development (2015-2021), he created and curated the first six seasons of the popular Hartt@Home program, an initiative that brought Hartt students, faculty, and alumni performers into private homes for intimate performance experiences. Hartt@Home served over 2300 listeners in its six seasons, one living room (or Zoom call) at a time. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of the Boston Classical Guitar Society and the Performing Arts Center Metrowest in Framingham.