The Red Skies Music Ensemble ​combines music, theater and scholarship, 
making archives and special collections come alive through research and performance
Trudy Williams, Artistic Director/Curator 
George Boziwick, Curator/Music Director 

​Corn Stalk Fiddles:
Soundscape and Place in 19th Century Hadley
A tour of the entwined musical and
social geography ​of 19th century rural Hadley
 Trudy Williams: Author   

​Presented at the Hadley Public Library June 2024 by the
Hadley Historical Society in partnership with
Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum 

2024-2025: See below for upcoming performances and those in development

Performances Pre-Pandemic
2019  Library of Congress 
"Take Me Out to the Ball Game": The Story of Katie Casey, Suffrage and Our National Pastime
Co-Authors: George Boziwick, Trudy Williams

2019 Long Island Museum of American Art and History 
Walt Whitman, William Sidney Mount and the Sounds of the 19th Century Author: Trudy Williams
Walt Whitman, Williams Sidney Mount ​and the
Sounds of the 19th Century  
​Trudy Williams, Author
Music and the Artistry of
​William Sidney Mount
Trudy Williams, Author​

Emily Dickinson in her Elements:
​Accomplished Musician,
Emerging Poet​
​George Boziwick & Trudy Williams,
​Co-Authors

Take Me Out to the 
Ball Game​
​George Boziwick & Trudy Williams,
​Co-Authors

About the Shows
Trudy Williams (Artistic Director/Curator) and George  Boziwick (Curator/Musical Director) create and produce research-based shows that are entertaining and educational for general audiences.

Through the Red Skies Music Ensemble's Public History/Public Musicology performance model, each show uses a humanities approach to bring research to the stage through the lens of music in an engaging, research-based narrative, musical and theatrical performances, and large screen images of archival documents and artifacts. These elements are combined in a single ninety-minute setting to bring general audiences on journey that contextualizes historical and cultural facts, insights and interpretations, many of which have been hidden in plain sight, omitted or dimmed in cultural memory. Programs are free to the public and include opportunities for audience participation, end with a Q&A

The Red Skies Tent
We welcome collaborative engagement with public and private institutions related to their mission, archives and special collections, as well as with affiliated and independent scholars, historians, musicologists, researchers and curators. Programs are designed to accommodate formal and informal performance settings.
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Irish Traditions 
Hidden and Revealed
George Boziwick & Trudy Williams,
​Co-Authors

Performances 2010-2019 
The Library of Congress; Lincoln Center Public Program Series at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts; The Oberon, American Repertory Theater: sponsored by the Harvard Houghton Library and A.R.T. Special Programs; Yale University Institute of Sacred Music; The Emily Dickinson Museum; The Long Island Museum of Art; Amherst College: International Emily Dickinson Society; and others.
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2024  Performances  
June 28 and 29 Hadley Public Library 
Cornstalk Fiddles: Soundscape and Place
in 19th Century Hadley
Trudy Williams, Author/Director  Jerry Bryant, Music Director
Special appearance: Corn Stalk Fiddle Choir,
directed byCindy Naughton
Presented by Hadley Historical Society in partnership with
Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum
In Development for 2025 
​In partnership with Historic Northampton
Rhythm & Rails
NE railroads: A Musical and Social History
Trudy Williams, Author

Complex Harmony: Music, Walt Whitman and the Railroads  (About...)
Trudy Williams, Author
The Red Skies Music Ensemble co-founders commit to producing programs, and seeking places
​for performance, that share our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility and indigenous land acknowledgement in their values, practices and staffing.
Images: Amherst College Library, Special Collections; Long Island Museum; The New York Library for the Performing Arts.
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Copyright 2024 George Boziwick and Trudy Williams                                                                                          The Red Skies Music Ensemble: Co-founded in 2010 by George Boziwick and Trudy Williams