Upcoming Events
May, 2023
Book Club: The Next Chapter (PG-13)
The highly anticipated sequel follows our four best friends as they take their book club to Italy for the fun girls trip they never had. When things go off the rails and secrets are revealed, their relaxing vacation turns into a once-in-a-lifetime cross-country adventure.
Find out more »June, 2023
Speech Thomas Documentary
The 2023 Bookstock Festival of Words features the theme: “Voices On the Village Green” and includes a three-day festival featuring free public conversations on key issues with renowned authors, poets and storytellers. Speakers include: The New Yorker Satirist Andy Borowitz; two-time GRAMMY® Award-winning recording artist Speech Thomas; National Book Award and Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Joseph J. Ellis; USA Today Washington Bureau Chief and biographer Susan Page; #1 New York Times bestselling author Bill Gifford; Garrett Award for Fiction winner and environmental journalist Megan Mayhew Bergman; Kirkus Review Best Book award winner Emily Bernard; American writer and indigenous storyteller Joseph Bruchac; Oprah Pick and Maine Book Award bestselling author Susan Conley; former Poet Laureate of Vermont Chard deNiord; New York Times columnist Thomas B. Edsall; 2021 Vermont Book Award winner Melanie Finn; poet, Los Angeles Times columnist Jacques Leslie; novelist, biographer and critic Jay Parini; bestselling author and contributing editor to Vanity Fair Jeff Sharlet; and New York Times bestselling author Ilyon Woo Speakers include three current Vermont Book Award finalists: YA author Jo Knowles; Pushcart Prize Winning fiction writer Peter Orner; and critically acclaimed poet Bianca Stone.
Find out more »Upper Valley Chamber Orchestra
Join Upper Valley Music Center’s longest-running adult ensemble for an evening of stirring and spirited 20th-century music. Soprano Chiho Kaneko joins the orchestra for Richard Strauss’s Four Last Songs, featuring poetry by Hermann Hesse and Joseph von Eichendorff. The ensemble will be joined by pianist William Ogmundson and harpist Sorana Scarlat for Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring. The Upper Valley Chamber Orchestra features more than 40 musicians from throughout the region, led by Conductor Mark Nelson.
Find out more »Barbershop Harmony Society Concert
Join us for an evening of lively music featuring two acclaimed choruses. The North Country Chordsmen and the VoxStars are two choruses singing a cappella music in the Hanover, NH Chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society. The Chordsmen are a low voice group that entertains in the barbershop style. The VoxStars are a mixed voice chorus that performs contemporary a cappella songs. Come hear songs like Sweet Caroline, Can't Stop the Feeling, and Seven Bridges Road!
Find out more »July, 2023
Prydein – Music by the River
In an effort to take music in new directions, a group of college friends at the University of Vermont started "The Experimental Music Program." They had some fun, but the group produced lack-luster results until one day a bagpiper came into their midst. What strange beastly creation was this? There was no place to plug in an amp. The piper tuned it with... electrical tape? Could this have been what they were searching for? It was.
Find out more »Empty Pockets – Music by the River
The Empty Pockets (formerly known as Josh & The Empty Pockets) is an American rock and roll band from Chicago, Illinois. Josh & The Empty Pockets released a Buddy Holly Tribute album in 2007 and Under the Bed in 2008, with Erika Brett featured on two of the songs. The band changed its name to The Empty Pockets following the addition of Erika Brett to its lineup.
Find out more »The Tricksters – Music by the River
The Tricksters shows are fun and original-filled with love, tight vocal harmonies, and contagious energy. You won’t be able to sit still once they take the stage and start rocking. Throughout the course of the band’s union, they have won over the hearts of music lovers from all walks of life. They perform at a variety of venues, making loads of public appearances, all the while recording new music.
Find out more »Bombajazzeando – Music by the River
Bombajazzeando brings Puerto Rican bomba dancing and drumming together with North American jazz - corazón y alma, heart and soul. Featuring dancer Brendalíz Cepeda (granddaughter of bomba great Don Rafael Cepeda), drummer Saúl Peñalosa “El Pulpo" and composer Julian Gerstin
Find out more »August, 2023
Wesli – Music by the River
Wesli is the stage name of Wesley Louissaint, a Haitian-Canadian musician. In 2019, Wesli received a Canadian Juno Award for World Music Album of the Year. One of eight children raised in a home where music was a big part of daily life, it became a second nature to him, a way to escape the misery that surrounded him.
Find out more »The Freese Brothers Big Band with Sabrina Brown – Music by the River
The men and women of the Freese Brothers Big Band are volunteers who live and work throughout Central and Southern New Hampshire. Band members come from diverse professional and musical backgrounds and include talented local high school students. They blend their years of experience to produce the distinctive sound of the Freese Brothers Big Band. The Band was formed in 1982 by the four Freese Brothers: Jack, Bill, George, and Courtland, who began playing music together in a family performing troupe in the 1930’s.
Find out more »Central Vermont Chamber Orchestra – Encore Performance
World class music in the heart of Vermont. This season features a program of all strings including the Brahms String Sextet in B-flat, Op. 18, last performed in 2008. The sextet artists will play string trios by Sergei Taneiev and Pedro Saens.
Find out more »Jay Nash & Friends – Music by the River
Jay Nash, East Coast native and rock troubadour, has been blessed with the kind of excruciatingly rustic voice so rarely heard on record. Coupled with that is his unnervingly candid approach to song-writing - the man is a burgeoning talent set for realisation with his latest studio release ‘The Things You Think You Need’.
Find out more »Houston Bernard – Music by the River
Houston Bernard's country roots run deep with a family tree that includes songwriters, touring musicians and an outlaw gunfighter nicknamed “Bitter Creek” who The Eagles recorded a song about on Desperado. Born in Oklahoma, raised in Alaska, he’s also an Army veteran who has now comfortably settled into life as a professional and popular independent country music recording artist, touring throughout the United States.
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