Dan Zanes to play benefit concert Oct. 3
Dan Zanes, the Grammy-winning musician whose songs are favorites of children and adults alike, will play two benefit concerts for The Friendly Kitchen on Saturday, Oct. 3, at Concord High School.
The morning concert will be at 11 a.m., and the afternoon concert at 2 p.m.
Tickets are $10 and available online at brownpapertickets.com/event/1978560.
Proceeds will benefit The Friendly Kitchen, Concord’s only soup kitchen. Zanes’s mother, Hope Zanes Butterworth, is a longtime Friendly Kitchen board member and volunteer.
Hope Zanes Butterworth
Parenting workshop at Riverbend begins Oct. 6
Active Parenting Now is a free 10-week workshop series for parents of children ages 5-12.
The series will help improve communication with your school-age child, explore active parenting versus reactive parenting and get support from other parents.
The workshops will be held Tuesday evenings, beginning Oct. 6 at Riverbend Children’s Intervention Program, 105 Loudon Road Bldg. 3, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
For more information or to register, call Judy Stowell at 228-0547, ext. 4038.
Judy Stowell
Concord Food Coop to host Oktoberfest
The Concord Food Coop is hosting its annual Oktoberfest on Oct. 1, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
There will be free beer samples, free soup samples and free bakery samples, along with an Oktoberfest inspired hot bar.
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Walker Lecture series continues Oct. 7
The Walker Lecture series continues at the Concord City Auditorium, 2 Prince St., Oct. 7 with Mark Valenti, a world renowned pianist, at 7:30 p.m. Valenti has performed the classics world over with the likes of Gregory Hines, Frank Foster and Al Grey. This evening he brings his artistry to the Audi stage where he will feature not only the classics, but extensive breaks into jazz.
Doors open at 7 p.m. and seating is on a first-come, first-seated basis and intermission refreshments are served. For more information, call 225-6497 or visit walkerlecture.org.
Dale Harrington
Walk for Epilepsy slated for Oct. 3 at Rollins Park
Join us on Oct. 3 at Rollins Park for the Concord Walk for Epilepsy, a three-mile walk and a great day of fun and entertainment!
Registration opens at 9 a.m. with the walk to follow at 10 a.m. Lunch will be served at 11:30 a.m.
Registration is $15 per person. Registration will be $20 per person at the event. Pre-registration guarantees a t-shirt and food voucher. Online pre-registration closes Oct. 1 at 11:55 p.m.
For more info, email jziemnik@epilepsynewengland.org or call 617-506-6041, ext. 109
Judith Ziemnik
Gibson’s to host book launch party Oct. 3
There will be a launch party with bestselling author Jay Atkinson at Gibson’s Bookstore on Oct. 3 at 4 p.m.
Atkinson’s Massacre on the Merrimack is a riveting true story of murder, captivity, revenge and escape, set against the fiery backdrop of the French and Indian war. Told with narrative skill and exquisite historical detail, this nearly incredible tale examines the period in American history when French Catholicism vied for control of the frontier with English Protestantism, and the bloody deeds of Hannah Duston – who escaped her Native American captors and returned to her settlement of Haverhill, Mass., with a collection of scalps – passed into legend.
Elisabeth Jewell
Coachmen Barbershop Chorus to perform
The Concord Coachmen Barbershop Chorus present, “Up-stage a cappella!,” their 56th annual performance at the Concord City Auditorium, 2 Prince St., Oct. 4 at 2 p.m.
Songs introduced or made famous on theatre, film and entertainment stages. Featuring the Concord Coachmen Barbershop Chorus and four of its quartets, the loved-everywhere Bel Airs Doo-Wop vocal band, and Harmony Incorporated’s 2014 International Champion “Harmony Queens,” Moonstruck. Box office opens at 1 p.m. for $15 day of show tickets, or pre-purchase for $12 online at Harmonize.com/Coachmen, or at downtown outlets.
Joe Hayden
A night of poetry with Charles Simic Oct. 6
Poet Charles Simic will receive the Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Prize in American Poetry and read his poems at the 6th annual Hall-Kenyon presentation on Tuesday, Oct. 6, at 7 p.m. at the Concord City Auditorium.
A reception and book-signing will follow.
Simic, a professor emeritus at the University of New Hampshire, now adds the Hall-Kenyon Prize to honors including the MacArthur Fellowship, Pulitzer Prize and Wallace Stevens Award. He served as the United States Poet Laureate in 2007-08.
Tickets are $10 and $5 for students, available in advance at Gibson’s Bookstore and the Concord Monitor office, 1 Monitor Drive, and online at cmpoetry2015.eventbrite.com
Tickets will be available at the door.
The 2015 Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Prize event is co-sponsored by the Concord Monitor and The Friends of the Concord City Auditorium, with assistance from the Kimball-Jenkins Estate.
Friends of the Audi
Cosy Sheridan to grace music school stage
Songwriter and guitarist Cosy Sheridan will perform in concert at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 2 at the Concord Community Music School, 23 Wall St. She will be joined by music school faculty member Kent Allyn on keyboard and Charlie Koch on bass.
Sheridan, who grew up in Concord, has been touring nationally since 1992, when she released her critically acclaimed CD titled “Quietly Led.” The Boston Globe named her “one of the best new singer songwriters.” She has been performing with Allyn since 1989, at venues including Carnegie Hall and the Jerry Lewis Telethon.
Her latest CD, “Pretty Bird,” was chosen as “one of the great CDs of 2014” by Sing Out! Magazine.
Sheridan grew up in a musical family. Her father, Charles, played trombone in the Freese Brothers Band, and her sister, Amy, sings with the Concord Chorale.
For the past 20 years, she has taught classes in songwriting, performance and guitar at workshops and adult music camps across the country. In 2008, she co-founded the Moab Folk Camp in Moab, Utah.
Tickets are $15, and $12 for students and seniors. For more information and to purchase tickets, call 228-1196 or visit ccmusicschool.org.
Liz Faiella
Sign up for Sunday’s NAMIWalks N.H. event
Each year, mental illness impacts the lives of one in four adults and one in five children across the United States. On Sunday, Oct. 4, hundreds and hundreds of walkers will lace up their sneakers and participate in the 13th Annual NAMIWalks N.H. at N.H. Hospital, South Fruit Street in Concord
Registration opens at 9 a.m. with the walk following at 10:30 a.m.
They will do their part to support neighbors, coworkers, family, friends and themselves, while stomping out the stigma that prevents so many from getting help.
The 13th Annual NAMIWalks N.H. will raise both awareness and much-needed funds. Each day, NAMI N.H., a statewide, grassroots nonprofit organization, works tirelessly to improve the quality of life of individuals affected by mental illness or emotional disorders through education, support and advocacy.
Those interested in joining together to stomp out the stigma around mental illness can register online by visiting namiwalks.org/newhampshire. There’s no registration fee or minimum fundraising amount.
Congressman Frank Guinta and Congresswoman Annie Kuster are the honorary co-chairs of the 13th Annual NAMIWalks N.H.
Funds raised from last year’s NAMIWalks N.H. event enabled NAMI New Hampshire to help more than 12,000 N.H. children, adults and their families affected by mental illness.
The 13th Annual NAMIWalks N.H. is free, family-friendly, dog-friendly and fun. Highlights include a dog costume contest, Zumba, puppet shows, bubble station, face painting, free grilled lunch and more. The 5K route takes walkers on a beautiful, historic downtown stroll, with a water station provided midway. Sign up today at namiwalks.org/newhampshire.
Learn more by visiting naminh.org, calling NAMI N.H. at 1-800-242-6264, or emailing walks@naminh.org.
Kim Murdoch
Wings of Knowledge returns to NHTI Tuesday
On Tuesday, Oct. 6 at 6 p.m. in the Library Living Room, NHTI will present the first in its series of free public Wings of Knowledge lectures for the 2015-16 season: “The Mayan Sky and Calendar.”
R.P. Hale teaches us about the non-repeating Mayan calendar, which uses base-10 and base-20 mathematics. Hale will also touch on the discovery of the concept of zero, the Mayan sky and the Apocalypse.
Launched in 2001-02, Wings of Knowledge is an annual series of cultural events presented by the college. All events are free and open to the public. The series supports and expands upon NHTI’s wide variety of academic offerings, and is another element in the college’s expanding community college mission.
For further information call 230-4028 or visit nhti.edu and click on events calendar.
Doug Schwarz
Learn all about old stuff at Bow Fall Heritage Day
Bow Fall Heritage Day will be held Saturday, Oct. 3, from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
From 10 a.m. to noon head over to the 1894 Bow Center School House, 2 Woodhill Road for walking Tours of Old Bow Center with Dick Stevens every 30 minutes starting at 10:15 a.m. Meet former students of this one room school and take a ride to the Old Town Pound.
From 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Enjoy Bow Men’s Club lunch of a hotdog, burger or sausage for $3, $4 or $5, with beans, potato salad and beverage at the 1847 Old Town Hall, 91 Bow Bog Road. Visit the 1880 vault, open to the public for the first time. View some items stored there. Learn about 1880 Bow from town and school report.
And from 1 to 2:30 p.m., eat homemade pie like the old timers. Sing a long with the restored 1880 Prescott Reed Organ played by Mary Ellen Haynes. Hear stories about the Meeting House and participate in the Remembrance Bell ringing ceremony for Bow residents who have passed in the last year at the Bow Bog Meeting House.
There will be a scavenger hunt with prizes. Old Hancock suncatchers of the Meeting House will be available for purchase.
For more info, contact Faye Johnson at 228-8149 fjohnson915@myfairpoint.net.
Faye Johnson
The Lee Trio to perform at United Church
United Church of Penacook is hosting The Lee Trio for a concert on Friday, Oct. 2 at 7 p.m. It is free and open to the public. The Lee Trio, comprised of a pianist, violinist and cellist, are an award-winning group made up of three virtuosic performers, educators and sisters from San Francisco. You can learn more about them and sample their music on their website, theleetrio.com. For additional information, visit ucpnh.org.
Lynne Raleigh
Capitol Center festival continues this weekend
The Capitol Center for the Arts’s 20th anniversary festival continues this weekend with a list of great events.
On Thursday, Oct. 1, there will be a free Concord Chats film chronicling the history of 44 S. Main St. as part of the city’s 250th anniversary celebration at 6 p.m.
Local favorites the Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki Trio will be joined by David Surette and Susie Burke in the Spotlight Cafe on Oct. 1, at 7:30 p.m. for an evening of traditional folk music, Celtic reels and originals performed in a club-like atmosphere.
Seth Glier takes the stage on Friday, Oct. 2, at 8 p.m. as he celebrates the release of his fourth album “If I Could Change One Thing.” Concord-based singer-songwriters Rachel Vogelzang and John Burlock, open the show
The inaugural Met Live in HD presentation of the 2015-16 season, Il Trovatore, will be shown Saturday at 12:55 p.m.
The 20th Anniversary Festival comes to a close on Sunday, Oct. 4, at 4 p.m. with a special tribute to Glenn Miller featuring the Capital Jazz Orchestra and special guests Dave Scott, Liz Saunders, and the More Than Four vocal quartet. This tribute to the “Greatest Generation” will feature great dances from the 1940s performed by the talented dancers of The New England School of Dance.
Following this performance, a 1940s themed ‘Canteen’ reception will officially close the festival with dancing, music and light hors d’oeuvres.
For more, visit ccanh.com.
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Learn about students trip to South Africa
Lee Gutteridge, training director of Nature Gide Training, and Kersery Lawrence of Original Wisdom, will join students and staff of Hopkinton and Bow High Schools to share the Extended Learning Experience of a three-week trip to South Africa this summer.
This presentation includes photos and discussions with participants as they share what they learned and how the trip impacted their lives. If you are interested in future trips, or want to enjoy an evening with South Africa joy and adventure come out for this event.
The event will be held Oct. 1 in the Bow High School auditorium starting at 6:30 p.m.
Holly Charron
St. Paul’s thrift store open this Sunday
The St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Chapter Two Thrift Shop is open Oct. 4, from 9 a.m. to noon. Back to school and fall merchandise is featured, including apparel for men, women and children, plus small household goods.
Cash only. All proceeds support SPC food pantry, Assistance With Dignity and other efforts supporting women and children.
For more info, call 224-2523.
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