As Peterborough Folk Music wraps up its 20th year, we are excited to bring to you three concerts with some of our longest and most beloved musicians who played the wonderful coffee house, The Folkway, our legacy and part of the reason the reason Folk Society exists today. These musicians played to a room of
Historic Harrisville, Inc. presents a Family Dance at St. Denis Church, Harrisville, NH 03450. The music and dances will be in the tradition of the New England barn dance. On Sunday, August 14, from 6:00-8:00 pm, Allison Aldrich Smith of Nelson will teach and call delightful dances for all levels of experience. Her accordion playing,
The Monadnock Folklore Society presents the Peterborough, NH First Saturday Contra Dance on August 6th, featuring Tod Whittemore calling with the Sugar River Band. Caller Tod Whittemore has been calling dances for forty years, having been lucky enough to begin his career at the time when famous callers Ralph Page and Duke Miller were
Music in Depot Park is Peterborough’s FREE celebration of Friday summer evenings, sponsored by Bellows-Nichols Insurance, Twelve Pine, and Depot Square. Come and enjoy music at the confluence of the Contoocook and Nubanusit Rivers (rain location inside Twelve Pine). Bring your picnic, lawn chair, friends and family, and enjoy open air entertainment from 6 – 7:30 pm July 8 LOS SUGAR KINGS Boston-based quartet known for their dynamic
Harmonia Concerts is caught in a fiscal crunch. Hoping for a cash transfusion, two trustees recruit a local business mogul to join the board. They get more than they bargained for. Not For Profit is a musical about money, power, relationships, and — yes — music. PJ Cooke, Tara Potter, and Michael Duffin make up the
Guitarist and KSC Music Professor Jose Lezcano, with a little help from his friends, is offering a benefit concert June 24, 8 pm, at the First Baptist Church of Keene, to help Ecuador Earthquake Victims in the coastal city of Manta, still recovering from one of the worst natural disasters in that nation’s history.
MacDowell Violinist to Perform Bach Sonata, Partita at Mariposa On June 18th at 3 p.m., violinist, filmmaker, writer, and MacDowell fellow Paul Festa and will give an afternoon concert at the Mariposa Museum in Peterborough, N.H. This short concert, a special edition of the MacDowell Colony’s MacDowell Downtown series, is free and open to the
The New Hampshire Institute of Art Announces the Grand Opening of Remodeled Gallery Space Peterborough, NH (April 12, 2016) – The New Hampshire Institute of Art (NHIA) is pleased to announce the grand opening of their remodeled Sharon Arts Center Gallery in Peterborough, NH. A reception will be held May 13, 2016, 4-7pm, 30
Join Apple Hill’s Summer Sing! Challenge yourself to make great music as part of a small chamber choir. In-depth coaching for an hour and half daily under the direction of Esther Rhoades for a week creates a uniquely personal learning experience. As part of the chamber ensemble, you will learn and rehearse a short program, concluding
Music in Bass Hall presents the father-son duo of Ken and Brad Kolodner playing a concert of Appalachian folk music at Monadnock Center for History and Culture in Peterborough, NH, on Friday, May 13, at 7:30 p.m. Long established as one of the masters of the hammered dulcimer, Ken Kolodner is also an accomplished fiddler.
