2026 Programs
Christopher Houlihan Organ Recital
Sunday, April 19, 2026, 3 p.m.
Christopher Houlihan has established an international reputation as a “passionate and intelligently virtuoso musician” (Gramophone), hailed for his “glowing, miraculously life-affirming performances” (Los Angeles Times). He will create a program for South Church’s Casavant organ that showcases its unique features and tonalities.
For reservations, call (413) 253-2977 or email office@amherstsouthchurch.org .
Suggested donation: $20
Amherst Regional High School Hurricane Singers
Tuesday, May 12, 2026, 7 p.m.
Choral Director Todd Fruth and the Amherst Regional High School Hurricane Singers will present Gospel, spiritual, folk and pop songs as well as their three-song set performed at the recent Massachusetts Instrumental and Choral Conductors Association (MICCA) festival in North Andover. Bring your family and friends for an uplifting evening!
Free-will donation shared by ARHS and South Church
Reading Frederick Douglass Together
Sunday, July 5, 2026, 3-5 p.m.
A community reading and discussion of Frederick Douglass’s influential speech, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
Sponsored in partnership with the Town of Amherst Department of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
This program is funded by a grant from Mass Humanities, which receives support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
On Instagram: @masshumanities @masscultural #RFDT26
Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing – Book Group Discussion
Homegoing tells the stories of two Ghanaian half-sisters and their progeny from the 1700s to the present day. One sister married a British colonizer; the other was enslaved. The novel traces the impacts of slavery and the power of memory on both sides of the Atlantic.
Wednesday, September 30, 7 p.m.
Reservations: 413-253-2977 or office@amherstsouthchurch.org
The Visitor – Pizza & Movie Night
The Visitor explores the issue of immigration and the theme of connection. When a bored professor goes to New York to present a paper, he finds undocumented immigrants living in his apartment. He befriends them, and when one gets detained by ICE, he tries to help.
Wednesday, November 4, 5 p.m.
Suggested donation: $5 per person, $15 maximum per family
Reservations: 413-253-2977 or office@amherstsouthchurch.org