Medical professional and musician Joel Begin PT, DPT, CPRCS, MES (Creative Pathways PT, PLLC; Henniker, NH) will lecture on the relationship between music, movement, and healing from stress / trauma. He will also teach attendees how to use a Neurogenic Tremoring Technique to help them listen to -- and leverage -- the unique and natural ... Read more
"Carry the Light" The Canterbury Singers will share a warm, witty, and heartening selection of holiday music and more, including our traditional carol singing with audience participation. All Bach's Lunch performances are free and open to the public. They are presented in part through the generosity of the Walker Fund. About the Canterbury Singers: ... Read more
Grace Schust & Lindsey Schust will give a talk on West African drumming traditions and the use of drumming as a cross-cultural bridge and community builder. Grace and Lindsey are long-time CCMS percussion faculty and co-directors of the Songweaver Drummers. They will perform some traditional rhythms and talk about the journey of the drum in ... Read more
Come join CCMS music therapist Tony Varga and dance movement therapist Heather Bigelow Hearne for an interactive experience introducing the benefits of expressive arts therapies. Attendees can enjoy an easily digestible menu of therapeutic exploration by singing, playing instruments and moving right from the comfort of their own seats. All Bach's Lunch events are free ... Read more
This show is now sold out! Join us for an evening of works by hometown Concord, NH composer William Fletcher! A selection of vocal and chamber music will range from his earliest to his most recent pieces. Many of the pieces were written for long-term friends and colleagues, often at their request and with their ... Read more
4:10 - 4:55 PM - Fledglings (Grades K-2) 5:00 - 5:55 PM - Fliers (Grades 3-5) 6:00 - 7:15 PM - Finches Select (Grades 6-8) Calling all prospective Purple Finches! Ever wonder what it'd be like to participate in a community-wide musical group and make new musical friends? Try it and see for yourself! The ... Read more
Singers: 9:30 - 11 AM and 6:30 - 8 PM Drummers: 5:00 - 6:15 PM Calling all prospective Songweavers and Songweaver Drummers! Ever wonder what it'd be like to participate in a community-wide musical group and make new musical friends? Try it and see for yourself! Songweavers, led by Jennie O'Brien, is New Hampshire’s original ... Read more
Calling all prospective Canterbury Singers! This ensemble, led by Kathy Southworth, presents authentic Shaker music, arrangements of American folk songs, music of early America, and inspired arrangements by a variety of composers, often in partnership with Canterbury Shaker Village. It’s one of the very few non-auditioned, high quality professionally directed choral experiences for mixed voices ... Read more
Travel back in time with flutist Erin Dubois, clarinetist Stephanie Ratté Jenkins, and bassoonist Maria Isaak to the World Wars through the sounds and experiences of four different composers. The program includes music from Rosy Wertheim, a Dutch Jewish composer who lived and hid in Amsterdam during World War II; Walter Piston, an American Composer ... Read more
Peggo and Paul Hodes met to play music when Peggo advertised in the Boston Phoenix for a husband under the guise of looking for a guitar player to round out her folk duo. Two kids, seven albums and forty-five years later, they’re still making music together. He plays by ear. She is a classically trained ... Read more
The Songweavers Women's Chorus with Director Jennie O'Brien present a concert, Mother Earth, Our Home on Saturday, April 20 at 5:00 PM at the South Congregational Church at 27 Pleasant Street in Concord, NH. Joining the singers will be the Songweaver drummers performing West African style rhythms, co-directed by Grace and Lindsey Schust presenting music from ... Read more
Come cheer our students on! Student concerts build performance skills and are an integral part of our training. This event is part of our 40th Anniversary Year celebration and will be held on our outdoor stage adjacent to Fletcher-Murphy Park. It is free and open to the public.