Arts News for Keene, Jaffrey, Peterborough, Hillsborough, and surrounding small towns, sponsored by Arts Alive!
The Monadnock Center for History and Culture presents a concert featuring pianist Matt Savage on Sunday, May 22, at 3 p.m. At age 24, Matt has already had a fourteen-year professional career as a jazz musician, bandleader and composer. He’s played with some of the biggest names in jazz since first labeled a “jazz prodigy”
When Grammy-award winning cellist and composer Eugene Friesen visited the Mariposa Museum in Peterborough, N.H., last March, he found artist Rich Entel and a Mariposa team putting the final touches on the installation of Rich Entel’s Cardboard Menagerie, an exhibit of nine very large animals sculpted from corrugated cardboard, broken musical instruments, and hand printed
The New York Times has called David Ives “wizardly, magical, and funny, a master of language.” The Edge Ensemble presents six of his funniest and most original plays! The performance will be comprised of six of David Ives’ witty, surreal, and hilarious comedies. Directors Kim Dupuis and Carrie Kidd bring Ives’ sometimes surreal, always hilarious universe
I’ve always loved reading. Almost every day during summer vacation, I’d gaze longingly out the window as my mom drove the minivan past the local public library on our way to the beach. “You have books in your bag, just read those at the beach,” she’d say, ignoring my complaints about the wind flipping my
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
Trumpet, the fine arts and idea gallery in Peterborough, is featuring the works of painter Jan Dolan. Jan Dolan who was born in Peterborough, NH studied at the University of New Hampshire and was mentored in the tradition of the French Academy and American Impressionists in the studio of Boston and New Hampshire painter, Sidney
The Jaffrey Civic Center will be holding its annual Founder’s Day Celebration at The Jaffrey Civic Center on Thursday, May 12th at 7 pm in The Auditorium Gallery. The event is held annually to honor Marion Mack Johnson, Founder of The Jaffrey Civic Center and includes musical and drama performances from students in the Jaffrey-Rindge
The Monadnock Folklore Society presents the last in its series of English Country Dances with the theme “Dance Around Monadnock.” On May 15th from 2:00 to 5:00 PM, the dance will be held at the Nelson Town Hall in Nelson, NH, with Brad Foster teaching dances that will appeal to all, from novice to experienced
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.
