Friday, December 6, Whipple Hall, New London
Ring in the holidays at the Center for The Arts’ First Friday on December 6 at 6:30 PM at Whipple Hall, 429 Main Street in New London. What better way to kick off the holiday season than a wonderful concert featuring Vesilind Brass (formally the Exit 13 Tuba Quartet), followed by the sweet sounds of […]
Alex Ager, a music teacher at Andover Elementary/Middle School, will make his conducting debut with Kearsarge Chorale at its fall concert. The program will include Requiem in D Minor by Gabriel Fauré, with a chamber ensemble accompanying the Chorale. Also on the program will be works by Ola Gjeilo, Will Todd, and Eric Idle. The […]
or fun and games and animal wisdom, especially if you’re a fan of Carol Soule in the Sunday “Concord Monitor,” look up “The Secret Life of Cows,” by Rosamund Young. At Kite’s Nest Farm in Worcestershire, England, the animals roam free to make their own choices, instructing the humans on the care that befits them […]
Adult Fiction What Rose Forgot, Nevada Barr The Beach Quilt, Holly Chamberlin Thief of Hearts, Tess Gerritsen Hearts in Harmony; Listening to Love, Beth Wiseman The House on Olive Street; The View from Alameda Island, Robyn Carr This Tender Land, William Kent Krueger Killer Instinct, James Patterson and Howard Roughan The Testaments, Margaret Atwood Red […]
Presented by the Center for the Arts in October
Andover artist Edibeth Farrington and Andover photographer Jay Fitzpatrick participated in last month’s third annual Open Studio Tour organized by the Center for the Arts, Lake Sunapee Region. They shared their products and the processes that created them with about 75 area residents who visited Edibeth’s studio on Elbow Pond Road. The tour featured the […]
Sunday, November 24, at Colby-Sawyer College
The Kearsarge Chorale, under the direction of new Artistic Director, Alex Ager, will present its Fall Concert, featuring Requiem in D minor by Gabriel Fauré, as well as pieces by Ola Gjeilo, Morten Lauredsen, Eric Idle and others. The concert will be held at Wheeler Hall on the campus of Colby-Sawyer College in New London […]
Featured act at “Third Friday” concert on November 15
Coming to town “with a love for traditional music and honest songwriting presented with the spontaneity of jazz and the reckless abandon of rock music,” Baltimore-based singer-songwriter-guitarists Nick and Luke will be the featured act at the November 15 “Third Friday” concert at The Andover Community Coffeehouse. There, they’ll share the spotlight with up to […]
Adult Fiction Blue Moon, Lee Child Bomber’s Moon, Archer Mayor Contraband, Stuart Woods The Life She Wants, Robyn Carr Red at the Bone, Jacqueline Woodson The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates The World That We Knew, Alice Hoffman Adult Nonfiction Betrayal in Berlin: The True Story of the Cold War’s Most Audacious Espionage Operation, Steve Vogel […]
Highland Lake Grange Hall, Friday, October 18
Concord-based indie-folk singer-songwriter-guitarist Steven Chagnon, billed as “involved in music since the age of two or three” (he’s now 29), will headline the October 18 “Third Friday” concert at the Andover Community Coffeehouse, where he’ll be joined by up to a dozen local “open mic’ performers. Music by the featured performer begins at 7 PM […]
Wednesday, October 31
The next meeting is on Wednesday, October 23, at 7 pm at the Bachelder Library “on the corner” of Route 11 and Chase Hill Road in East Andover. Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, “The Overstory” by Richard Powers, is about trees and people’s relationships with them. What’s that old English teacher question: […]