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Jo Radner, noted storyteller, will perform “Stories of Strong Women in America’s History.” She will give voice to stories that are mostly left untold by popular culture, includin tales about historical women, both English and Abenaki. Each tale will showcase the ingenuity of these strong women and how they bent the social and cultural expectations placed upon them. Funded by NH Humanities.
Free and open to the public.
Shakespeare’s timeless tale is arguably the most loved and well-known love story and tragedy of all time. Love and hate turn on a dime as these young adults struggle to balance the intensity of their emotions: lust, love, anger, loyalty, joy, hatred, hope, the list goes on and these ancient characters are just as real in our lives today. The cast has been training with fight master Ric Alpers and you won’t want to miss the clash of their swords in some exciting fight sequences.
Romeo and Juliet is directed by Upstage Artistic Director, Andrew Lidestri with fight choreography by Ric Alpers and Madalyn Sheehy. The cast will consist of some wonderful local talent including Connor MacDonald, Madalyn Sheehy, David Weddington, Deborah Osborne, Owen Fogg, Alyssa Comeau, and Rosa VanWie. There is also a wonderful ensemble of local talent helping bring this play to life
Join Mark Dannenhaur for Feeding Mountains — 100 Years with the AMC Trail Crew, a presentation on the history and lore of the legendary AMC crews.
The evening programs are free and open to the public. Call to find out more or to be added to the monthly email list: (603) 466-2721 or outdoors.org/pinkhamhappenings.
Dr. Douglas Arion, Director of the Carthage Institute of Astronomy, will give a presentation on the intricate and fascinating connections between life on Earth and the history and phenomena of the Universe around us. Learn about the amazing sequence of events that led to the formation of the solar system and the Earth, and how we have come to understand what we are and why we are here. Following the presentation, weather permitting, there will be observing through telescopes.
Highland Happenings Featured Evening Programs are FREE and OPEN to the public. For more information, please call (603) 278-4453.
Shakespeare’s timeless tale is arguably the most loved and well-known love story and tragedy of all time. Love and hate turn on a dime as these young adults struggle to balance the intensity of their emotions: lust, love, anger, loyalty, joy, hatred, hope, the list goes on and these ancient characters are just as real in our lives today. The cast has been training with fight master Ric Alpers and you won’t want to miss the clash of their swords in some exciting fight sequences.
Romeo and Juliet is directed by Upstage Artistic Director, Andrew Lidestri with fight choreography by Ric Alpers and Madalyn Sheehy. The cast will consist of some wonderful local talent including Connor MacDonald, Madalyn Sheehy, David Weddington, Deborah Osborne, Owen Fogg, Alyssa Comeau, and Rosa VanWie. There is also a wonderful ensemble of local talent helping bring this play to life
Benjamin Sears & Bradford Conner will present the songs of World War I in a delightful concert at St. Kieran Arts Center.
They have been performing together since 1989. They are among those rare performers who combine entertaining performances with outstanding historical research and who can claim Irving Berlin and George & Ira Gershwin premieres. In 1997 they made music history with Oh Kay, Oh George, a first-time concert pairing of songs and music by romantic and musical colleagues Kay Swift and George Gershwin, featuring many rarely heard Swift songs along with premieres of two unpublished George & Ira Gershwin songs. Their reputation as Gershwin performers was honored by the selection of their recordings to be part of the Interactive Kiosk at the new George & Ira Gershwin Room at the Library of Congress.
Sears and Conner are the first cabaret act to be featured at Boston’s Emerson Majestic Theatre, and at Boston’s Wang Centre for the Performing Arts they revived a show-biz tradition by presenting a pre-show concert of Irving Berlin songs for a showing of Berlin’s classic film, White Christmas.
Sears and Conner are Producing Directors of American Classics and are founding members of the Boston Association of Cabaret Artists (BACA), an organization promoting awareness and performance of cabaret in the Boston area. They are known for their research in the music and lyrics of Tin Pan Alley, Broadway and Hollywood. In 1996 they rediscovered a long-lost Irving Berlin song from 1916, “Santa Claus: A Syncopated Christmas Song,” which they subsequently gave its modern premiere and first recording.
Romeo and Juliet is directed by Upstage Artistic Director, Andrew Lidestri with fight choreography by Ric Alpers and Madalyn Sheehy. The cast will consist of some wonderful local talent including Connor MacDonald, Madalyn Sheehy, David Weddington, Deborah Osborne, Owen Fogg, Alyssa Comeau, and Rosa VanWie. There is also a wonderful ensemble of local talent helping bring this play to life.
The Tracy Grammer/Jim Henry duo is synonymous with impeccable musicianship, tight harmonies, a diverse repertoire, and the kind of musical chemistry and humorous banter you’d expect from musicians who have been touring together for more than a decade.
Tracy Grammer rose to acclaim as half of the “postmodern, mythic American folk” duo, Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer. From 1998-2001, the duo released three internationally celebrated, folk chart-topping albums featuring Carter’s mytho-poetic Americana songcraft and, in 2002, toured with Joan Baez, both as featured artists and Baez’s band members. Called “the new voice of modern folk music,” the duo was clearly in its ascendancy when in July 2002, Carter suffered a fatal heart attack while the duo was on tour. He was 49; Grammer, 34.
Determined to honor the duo’s journey and bring Carter’s songs, and those of other favorite writers, to broader audiences, Grammer has kept to the road, releasing solo albums as well as selections from the Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer archives.
Grammer has become one of folk music’s most beloved artists. Renowned for her springwater-clear alto, perfectly intoned violin, and guitar playing that is by turns percussive and delicate, Grammer is also a masterful storyteller with an ease and charisma on stage — not to mention a riotous sense of humor — that hardly belie her modest beginnings as Carter’s reclusive accompanist. As one fan put it, “With Tracy, it’s never just about the music. It’s a soul journey.”
Tracy’s musician partner this night, Jim Henry, is an accomplished songwriter and one of folk and Americana’s go-to instrumentalists, just off the road from a three-year stint as a member of multiple Grammy-winner Mary Chapin Carpenter’s band. With an arsenal that includes acoustic/electric guitars, Dobro, and mandolin, Henry adds whatever the songs require.
Tickets are $15 each and available at Fiddleheads, 110 Main St., Colebrook, online at www.gnwca.org or at the door. Please call 603-237-9302 or 603-246-8998 for additional information.
New to the arts center — and part of the Francofest ’17 weekend celebration — is the highly acclaimed quintet, Le Vent du Nord. The group’s vast repertoire draws from both traditional sources and original compositions, while enhancing its hard-driving soulful music (rooted in the Celtic diaspora) with a broad range of global influences.
Featuring button accordion, bouzouki, guitar and fiddle, the band’s sound is defined by the hurdy-gurdy, which adds an earthy, rough-hewn flavor to even the most buoyant dance tunes.” — Boston Herald
Since its inception in August 2002, Le Vent du Nord has enjoyed meteoric success, performing well over 1,600 concerts over 5 continents and racking up several prestigious awards, including a Grand Prix du Disque Charles Cros, two Junos (Canada’s Grammys), a Félix at ADISQ, a Canadian Folk Music Award, and “Artist of the Year” at the North American Folk Alliance Annual Gala.
The group exhibits great finesse and flexibility, appearing regularly on Canadian, American, French, and UK television and radio, and participating in a wide variety of special musical projects. They’ve collaborated and performed with a diverse range of artists including: Harry Manx, Väsen, Dervish, The Chieftains, Breton musical pioneer Yann-Fañch Kemener, Québecois roots legend and master storyteller Michel Faubert, the Scottish folk band Breabach, singer Julie Fowlis, and the trans-Mediterranean ensemble Constantinople.
Not content with standard approaches to tradition, Le Vent du Nord has also created a symphonic concert that, according to Voir Montreal, “puts all traditional folk naysayers to shame.”
On stage these five friends create intense, joyful and dynamic live performances that expand the bounds of tradition in striking global directions. This is the modern sound of tradition, a music of the here and now.
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