Client & Celebrity List
The following is a list of organizations, businesses, or schools who have rented Mechanics Hall over the years, as well as a sampling of the many national and international celebrities, who have performed or spoken at the Hall since it opened in 1857.
COMMERCIAL CLIENTS
Abbott Bioresearch Facility
Bank of America
Bay State Savings Bank
Bose Corp.
Bowditch & Dewey
Commonwealth National Bank
Dance It Up!
Devereux Corporation
Fallon Community Health Plan
Fidelity
Fletcher Tilton & Whipple
Hanover Insurance
Harvey Industries
Harvey Robbins Promotions
Jo Ann Warren Studios
Johnson Communications
Loretta LaRoche Productions
M. Steinert & Sons
Morgan Construction
Music Circus Productions
NASCAR
Penta Communications
Premier Radio
Protector Group
Ritmos Academy
Small Business Service Bureau
Sound Mirror Recording Company
Taubl Family
TD Banknorth
Telarc Recording Company
Telegram & Gazette
The Rendon Group
Unum
Verizon
Wachusett Lumber Company
WYCM 90.1 FM Radio
Yesterday's Legends
NOT-FOR-PROFIT CLIENTS
American Heart Association
American Theater Arts for Youth
Artspower
Barton Center
Boston Baroque
Boston Modern Orchestra
City of Worcester
Colleges of the Worcester Consortium
Commonwealth of Massachusettsv Community Healthlink
Dance Prism
First Night Worcester
Genesis Club
Governor's Office
Great Brook Valley Healthcare
Greater Worcester Community Foundation
Greater Worcester Habitat for Humanity
Hartford Symphony Orchestra
Hay Foundation
India Society
Institute for Brain Potential
Jewish Healthcare Center
Joy of Music Program
Lutheran Missouri Synod
Lutheran New England Synod
Lutheran Outdoor Ministries
MA Department of Correction
MA Instrumental & Choral Conductors Association
MA Music Educators Association, Central District
Mark Thallander Foundation
Massachusetts Cultural Commission
Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra
Music Worcester, Inc.
National Endowment for the Humanities
New England Center for Children
Opera Worcester
Paper Bag Players
Pioneer Institute
Post Road Chorus
Preservation Worcester
Providence Singers
Royal Scottish Country Dance Society
Salisbury Singers
Seventh Day Adventist Church
Special Olympics Massachusetts
St. Vincent Hospital
Tara Bean Foundation
Theatreworks USA
Trust for Public Land
U.S. District Court
U.S. Marine Band
UMass Memorial Healthcare
United Way of Central Massachusetts
Visiting Nurses Association
WICN 90.5 FM Public Radio
Willis Center
Worcester Art Museum
Worcester Business Development Corp.
Worcester Collegium
Worcester County Bar Association
Worcester District Dental Society
Worcester District Medical Society
Worcester Educational Development Foundation
Worcester Kiltie Pipe Band
Worcester Men of Song
Worcester Police Department
Worcester Public Library Development Foundation
Worcester Public Schools
Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce
Worcester Regional Research Bureau
Worcester Sharks, AHL
Worcester Youth Orchestra
Worcester Youth Orchestra
WPI
YMCA of Greater Worcester
YWCA of Central Massachusetts
SCHOOL & COLLEGE CLIENTS
Abby Kelley Foster Charter School
Algonquin Regional High School
Anna Maria College
Assabet Valley High School
Auburn High School
Bartlett High School
Blackstone Millville Regional High School
Burncoat Senior High School
Calvin College
Clark University
David Prouty High School
Doherty Memorial High School
Fitchburg State College
Grafton High School
Grafton Job Corps
Groton Dunstable Regional High School
Holy Name Senior High School
Hopkinton High School
Leicester High School
Leominster High School
Marlboro High School
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences
McGill University
Millbury High School
Murdock High School
Nashoba Regional High School
Nipmuc High School
Northbridge High School
Northeastern University
Putnam High School
Quabbin Regional High School
Quaboag Regional High School
Saba University
Salter College
Shepherd Hill High School
Shrewsbury High School
South High School
Southbridge High School
St. John's High School
St. Mary's High School
St. Olaf College
St. Peter Marian High School
Sutton High School
Tantasqua Regional High School
Tourtellotte High School
UMass Medical School
Uxbridge High School
Wachusett Regional High School
Westboro High School
Woodstock Academy
Worcester Academy
Worcester Vocational High School
Y.O.U. Inc.
Presidents:
William Jefferson Clinton
Gerald Ford
Woodrow Wilson
William Howard Taft
Theodore Roosevelt
William McKinley
Sampling of notables:
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Charles Dickens
Mark Twain
Lt. Robert Peary
Kit Carson Jr.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Henry Ward Beecher
James Russell Lowell Louise Homer
Geraldine Farrar
Josef Hofmann
Fritz Kreisler
Ernestine Schumann-Heink
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
William Ellery Channing
Amelita Galli-Curci
Ossip Gabrilowitsch
Alfred Cortot
Jacques Thibaut
Horace Greeley
Charles Sumner
Horace Mann
Louis Agassiz
Linda Rondstat
Marion McPartland
Barbara Bush
Edward Everett Hale
John Gough
Wendell Phillips
Dan Quayle
Governor William Weld
Governor Paul Cellucci
Governor Jane Swift
Governor Mitt Romney
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Senator Ted Kennedy
Senator John Kerry
Frederick Douglass
William Lloyd Garrison
Susan B. Anthony
Governor A.H. Bullock
Senator Geo. F. Hoar
Burton Holmes
Enrico Caruso
Paderewski
John McCormack
Jenny Lind
General Tom Thumb
Walter Mondale
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lucy Stone
Abby Kelley Foster
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Arthur Rubenstein
Schumann
Dvorak
John Philip Sousa
Beverly Sills
Yo Yo Ma
Itzak Perlman
Seigi Ozawa
Isaac Stern
Leontyne Price
Ella Fitzgerald
Judy Collins
Mel Torme
Midori
Vienna Symphony
Berlin Philharmonic
Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra
London Philharmonic
National Orchestra of China
Spyro Gyra
Nana Miskouri
Clancy Brothers
Chieftans
Joe Williams
Nancy Wilson
Ronan Tynan
Emanuel Ax
Chick Corea
Gary Burton
Kingston Trio
Bill Cosby
Russian National Orchestra
John O'Conor
Mechanics Hall • 321 Main Street, Worcester, MA 01608 • Info: 508-752-5608 • Tickets: 508-752-0888