May 2022
Oshima Brothers- Peterborough Folk Music Society
Maine-based indie duo, Oshima Brothers’ have been creating music together since childhood. The brothers blend songs from the heart with blood harmonies to produce a "roots-based pop sound that is infectious." (NPR) To learn more and purchase tickets, visit the PFMS website HERE. The Monadnock Center is pleased to be the host venue for this concert produced by the Peterborough Folk Music Society. Monadnock Center COVID Policy: Low/Moderate community transmission ( Click here to see the current level as reported…
Find out more »June 2022
Howard Mansfield and Ben Cosgrove: A Journey to the White Mountains
The Monadnock Center is thrilled to welcome writer Howard Mansfield and composer Ben Cosgrove for A Journey to the White Mountains in Words and Music. For hundreds of years people have traveled to the White Mountains seeking something special in this elemental, powerful place – grandeur, meaning, or transcendence. The show, based on a chapter in Mansfield’s latest book, Chasing Eden, is about how the discovery of the White Mountains affects us to this day. Pioneering artists in the 19th Century taught Americans…
Find out more »Ellis Paul- Peterborough Folk Music Society
Though some may refer to Ellis Paul as a folksinger, he is more, for lack of a better word, a singular storyteller, a musician whose words reach out from inside and yet also express the feelings, thoughts and sensibilities that most people can relate to in one way or another, regardless of age or upbringing. The exhilaration of the open road. A celebration of heroes. The hope for redemption. Descriptions of those things that are both near and dear. To…
Find out more »Steve Poltz- Peterborough Folk Music Society
In 20 years since his full-length solo debut, One Left Shoe, Steve Poltz blessed the world’s ears with thirteen solo records, spanning the acclaimed 2010 Dreamhouse and most recently, Shine On in 2019. NPR summed it up best, “Critics and fans alike now regard Poltz as a talented and prolific songwriter.” To learn more and purchase tickets visit the PFMS website HERE. The Monadnock Center is pleased to be the host venue for this concert produced by the Peterborough Folk Music Society.…
Find out more »July 2022
Deep Water- Book Signing and Talk
Deep Water- Murder, Scandal, and Intrigue in a New England Town Author Kenneth Sheldon will read from his newest book, Deep Water—Murder, Scandal, and Intrigue in a New England Town published in June by Down East Books. Deep Water explores the unsolved murder of William K. Dean in 1918. In the waning days of World War I, William K. Dean was brutally murdered, his body hog-tied and dumped in a rainwater cistern on his farm in Jaffrey, New Hampshire. Suspicion quickly…
Find out more »August 2022
Hiroya Tsukamoto: Music in Bass Hall
Music in Bass Hall welcomes back guitarist Hiroya Tsukamoto on Saturday, August 6! Hiroya Tsukamoto is an innovative guitarist and composer who fuses folk, jazz, and world music. Tsukamoto’s instrumental abilities are breathtaking and astounding, but his performances are so much more than that. He has the unique capability of engaging an audience through a personable and genuine approach that transfixes his audience and almost transcends his capabilities as a guitarist. Tsukamoto plays with an effortless skill on the guitar…
Find out more »November 2022
New Hampshire Fiddle Madness- Music in Bass Hall
How delightful to be at a Celtic music session, listening to enchanting tunes from Ireland, Scotland, Shetland, Cape Breton, and of course our own Celtic-influenced New England music. Part of the magic of such a session is the intuitive interaction between musicians, a spontaneity that can only come from years of familiarity with the repertoire. That’s what you’ll experience at this Music in Bass Hall concert as some of the region's finest performers come together for an evening of fabulous fiddle…
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