St. Patrick’s Day will come a week early this year, when Jim Barnes, Balladeer and The None Of Us Is Irish Irish Band visit Franklin Opera House on Saturday, March 9. The show begins at 7:30 PM. Jim Barnes is known throughout New Hampshire as a fine singer/songwriter of what he terms “New Hampshire-flavored music” […]
Our two librarians, Michelle Bengivengo and Priscilla Poulin, are gearing up for another round of the ABC’s this spring. That’s right, the Andover Book Club will take off again soon, and we hope you will join us. See Priscilla and Michelle for details and to pass along reading suggestions. Time for ABC 2013! The Andover […]
Adult Titles The Round House, Louise Erdrich TheTwelve Tribes of Hattie, Ayana Mathis Sullivans Island, Dorothea Benton Frank Return to Sullivans Island, Dorothea Benton Frank Unfinished Business, James Van Praagh Little Earthquakes, Jennifer Weiner Two Graves, Preston & Child The Last Runaway, Tracy Chevalier Play Dead, […]
Kilted chaos invades Colby-Sawyer College with the return of the Tartan Terrors. The masters of Celtic mayhem delighted a sold-out Sawyer Center audience in 2010 with their unique blend of humor, folklore, dance, and music. Returning in March for their second campus performance, the Tartan Terrors bring their St. Patrick’s Day spirit to central New […]
The nesting dolls are coming – ring the bells! Matryoshka dolls, those wonderful and brightly painted roly-poly Russian works of art, are arriving in Andover on Friday evening, March 22, at 7 PM in the AE/MS gym. Marina Forbes, under the auspices of the New Hampshire Council for the Humanities, will present an informative program […]
On Saturday evening, April 20, at AE/MS, the Andover Service Club will sponsor a performance of Fred Marple of Frost Heaves, New Hampshire. Time and ticket prices will be announced in the March issue of The Andover Beacon. Fred Marple is the unofficial spokesman for the mythical town of Frost Heaves, the most under-appreciated town […]
At 7:30 PM on Saturday, January 12, The Flying Monkey is excited to present an evening of Blues Rock with Johnny Winter and his blues band. Johnny is a perennial favorite in New England, known for his scorching live shows and constantly shifting between simple country blues in the vein of Robert Johnson, to all-out […]
The Flying Monkey in Plymouth is excited to announce its January film schedule. It starts off with Marley, a documentary on reggae’s most beloved icon on Saturday, January 4. Also coming soon are a silent classic, an indie music documentary, a ski film premiere, and a cult fantasy flick. The screenings are offered on the […]
Saturday, January 19 will be a hot time at Franklin Opera House when the Lakes Region Big Band takes the stage. The Lakes Region Big Band is a group of fine individual musicians who, when they come together, produce an extraordinary, exciting brand of music for listening and dancing. There will be standards from the […]