Fall 2024
All shows are free, with no tickets or reservations required. Performances begin at 7:30 PM at the Concord City Auditorium, 2 Prince Street, except for Messiah at St. Paul’s Church.
Wednesday, September 11, 2024, at 7:30 PM
The Scott Kirby Trio, Ashley Bathgate, and Gabriel Donohue
Concord native Scott Kirby is joined by special guests, nationally acclaimed cellist and Avaloch Farm Music Institute Executive Director Ashley Bathgate and Gabriel Donohue. former member of the Irish folk band The Chieftains.
Sunday, September 15, 2024
6:00 to 6:45 pm Arts Fair and Ice Cream Social, 7:00 pm Performance
Friends of the City Auditorium Arts Gala with the Jordan Tirrell Wysocki Trio
Join fellow lovers of the performing arts to mingle and enjoy ice cream. Then enter the Audi for a performance by Jordan Tirrell Wysocki, a New Hampshire-based fiddler/singer who has performed across Ireland.
Wednesday, September 18, 2023, at 7:30 PM
A Tribute to the Man in Black with Counterfeit Cash
When Rodney Brunelle heard the lyrics, the voice, and the stories of the man in black, he decided to keep the legend of Johnny Cash going through his tribute band, Counterfeit Cash. With songs like “Ring of Fire,” “Folsom Prison Blues,” and “Hurt,” you will swear that Cash is in the house.
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
A Feast of Words with Richard Lederer
After more than sixty years of loving labors in the language vineyards, Richard Lederer will serve up a veritable banquet of words, from a hymn of praise to English to rib-tickling bloopers and puns.
Lederer is a former Concord Monitor language columnist and the author of 60 books about language, history, and humor, including his best-selling Anguished English series and his current title, A Feast of Words. He is a founding co-host of “A Way with Words,” broadcast on public radio.
Lederer has been named International Punster of the Year and is a Toastmasters International Golden Gavel winner.
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Lori Diamond and Fred Abatelli with special guest Anelise
Bostonian Lori Diamond and New Yorker Fred Abatelli have been creating and performing music together since their “destined” meeting on MySpace in 2007. Lori, an award-winning songwriter, brings soulful vocals and seasoned piano playing to Fred’s solid finger work and clever phrasing on bass and guitar.
Fans of Norah Jones, Sarah McLachlan, and Joni Mitchell become fans of Lori and Fred as they explore jazz, acoustic, folk, pop, gospel and blues influences. Passionate advocates of inclusion, Lori and Fred also perform a set supporting their daughter, Anelise.
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Great Cities of Europe with Marlin Darrah
Join Marlin Darrah as he journeys through Northern Europe. Sample fjords, fish markets, art museums, cathedrals, canals, bridges, palaces, and parks from Norway to France. Marlin will be with us in the City Auditorium for questions and conversation.
October 30, 2024
Faith in the Seed with The Thoreau Piano Trio
Drawn together by a shared spirit, violinist Susan Jensen, cellist Darry Dolezal and pianist Paul Jacobs created the Thoreau Piano Trio with a mission to cut through tradition, engage with audiences, reveal unexpected connections in music of different styles and periods, transform conventional viewpoints, and explore links between music, art, literature and philosophy.
“Faith in the Seed” is inspired by Henry David Thoreau’s essay, “The Dispersion of Seeds” and features music composed by Leonard Bernstein, Dietrich Buxtehude, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Felix Mendelssohn.
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
A Visit to New Zealand with Paul Doscher
For the nature-oriented traveler, there is much to see in New Zealand. From pristine beaches to glacier-filled mountains, active volcanoes, fjords, mangrove swamps, and unique plants and animal species, you can experience a range of landscapes from tropical to frozen in a country the size of Colorado. This program will cover the major natural and cultural attractions, as well as many of the lesser known but fascinating destinations around both the North and South Island.
Paul and Deb Doscher have traveled to New Zealand more than a dozen times and visited nearly every part of the country.
Saturday, November 30, 2024 10:00 AM open rehearsal Sunday, December 1, 2024, 7:00 PM concert
Handel’s Messiah
A musical rite of the holiday season, this Baroque-era oratorio still awes listeners more than 250 years after the composer’s death. Concord’s performance, conducted by Benjamin Greene, will include professional soloists and a community chorus.
The Messiah will be performed at St, Paul’s Church, 22 Centre Street, Concord, NH. The main entrance is the set of red doors on Park Street across from the NH State House. The elevator is on the Main Street side of the building.
Frederick Moyer Holiday piano concert
Broadcast on Concord TV during the holiday season (not a live event)
Pianist Frederick Moyer celebrates the holiday season and Beethoven's birthday. (December 16, 1770.) Joining Moyer will be bassist Peter Tillotson and drummer Jim Gwin.
The winter concert will include:
Bach (arranged by Myra Hess): “Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"
Beethoven: "Waldstein” Sonata (complete)
Bartok: Rumanian Christmas Carols
Jazz arrangements of "Let It Snow", “The Christmas Song", "Borukh Ate, Zingt Der Tate" (Hannukah song), "Christmas is Coming" and others.
We look forward to seeing you in the spring.