Wheeling it to the net
This weekend, more than 200 community members and business leaders will gather on the courts for Granite State Independent Living’s 9th annual wheelchair basketball tournament, Hoops on Wheels 2020. At this event, people with and people without disabilities compete in wheelchairs for the championship title. As players maneuver around the court, they get a small taste of what it’s like to use a wheelchair and the importance of...
Parks and Rec posts schedule for open gym
Concord Parks and Rec has planned out another season of activities and has recently release their spring program guide and March drop-in gym schedule. Concord Parks & Rec’s Spring Brochure is available at esuite.concordnh. gov/recreation/flipbook/index.html. Some programs have already started, so sign up soon if you wish to participate. On the gym schedule, pickleball is held at the City-wide Community Center, 14 Canterbury...
Sounds of the season
While there’s no bad time to listen to Celtic music, people’s interest seems to peak in March as St. Patrick’s Day approaches. Probably something to do with St. Patrick being the patron saint of Ireland or something. The Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki Trio will be among those Celtic music groups getting into the action with a show at the Bank of New Hampshire Stage on March 14 at 8 p.m. The group has been performing in the Concord area for...
Entertainment: Month starts strong with nightly shows
Live music Today Dave Gerard at Hermanos at 6:30 p.m. Irish Music After Work with David Levine, Roger Duhaime and friends at Area 23 at 5:32 p.m. Thursday Brian Booth at Hermanos at 6:30 p.m. Llava Llama with Sonny Jim Clifford at Penuche’s at 9 p.m. Friday Classic Invasion Band at Makris Lobster and Steak House at 7 p.m. RosesFromRuins & B. Snair at True Brew Barista and Cafe at 8 p.m. Rev. Todd Seely at Area 23 at 8:30 p.m....
Bach lectures head to New Orleans
Concord Community Music School faculty member and multi-instrumentalist Eric Klaxton will present the next Bach Lunch Lecture on an exploration of how three musical mavericks made a lasting impact on American culture, in “Pioneers of New Orleans Music: Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, and Fats Waller,” The sessions will be held Thursday, March 5, at 12:10 p.m. Trumpeter Louis Armstrong, a New Orleans native, championed New Orleans...
Children meet ‘The Violin Family’
On Feb. 29, cellist Melissa Perley and her husband, Paul, a luthier, visited Gibson’s Bookstore to share their new book, The Violin Family. They also brought instruments for young readers to examine. The picture book for children is an introduction to the family of stringed instruments with a delightful pairing of fact and fiction. With the instruments personified, readers learn the anatomy, as well as the personality, of each...
Fiddle Ensemble dates this spring
Next month, the New Hampshire Fiddle Ensemble will begin their tour performing for charitable causes, including several shows in the wider Concord area. The group is made up of musicians ranging in age from 5 to 95 playing a variety of stringed instruments, such as fiddle, guitar, banjo, mandolin, bass, harp, cello and more. A 75-year old woman rips up a bluegrass fiddle solo and a 50-year old teetotaler belts out a great Irish...
‘Yellow Bird Sings’ author to visit
Jennifer Rosner will visit Gibson’s Bookstore on March 10 at 6 p.m. to present The Yellow Bird Sings. In Poland, as World War II rages, a mother hides with her young daughter, a musical prodigy whose slightest sound may cost them their lives. As Nazi soldiers round up the Jews in their town, Róza and her 5-year-old daughter, Shira, flee, seeking shelter in a neighbor’s barn. Hidden in the hayloft day and night, Shira struggles to stay...
March Mandolin Festival concerts, workshops return
The 18th annual March Mandolin Festival Concerts will be held March 6 and 7 at two venues for live acoustic music. The festival opens Friday with a 7 p.m. show at The Dance Hall in Kittery, Maine. Saturday’s concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the Concord Community Music School, the host venue for the entire festival, which runs Saturday and Sunday, March 7 and 8. The March Mandolin Festival has been bringing the cream of the crop of...
City newsletter: Skating extended til March 19
The city manager’s office sent out the City Manager’s Newsletter last Friday. The full newsletter can be found by going to concordnh.gov and clicking the “Newsletter” button. Here are some highlights: Ice skating Ice skating at the Everett Arena has been extended to continue through March 19. Skating hours are Monday through Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. There will be no more weekend sessions. Admission is only $5 (kids...
This week in history
March 4, 1861: New Hampshireman Benjamin Brown French is the chief marshal for the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln. The event goes off without a hitch, and French rewards himself with a good seat for the speech. “I got a position where I could hear every word and was delighted,” he writes in his diary. March 4, 1777: Concord’s town meeting votes to “break off all dealings” with attorney Peter Green, Dr. Phillip Carrigain and merchants...
Book can help you organize
Hack Your Journaling: Stay Organized & Record Everything that Matters with One Notebook By Lark Crafts (176 pages, 2018, nonfiction) Journaling has become a way of not just keeping track of things, but expressing oneself and de-stressing. It has been proven that having your goals visible makes you more likely to accomplish them. Making, planning and tracking your goals fun, and is another great way to get you to the...
Poetry: Old Fiddle
I have an old fiddle, the tune still very sweet to me, belonged to my great grandfather, from Ireland across the sea. He came to this country, to escape sorrow and much more, loved his family dearly, sung often of his family lore. His old calloused hands, played the fiddle to many a lad, his memories kept alive, the tales were often sad. I listen to the old tunes, in my memories they now roam,...
Chamber to host forum with state commissioners
N.H. commissioners to present at forum The Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce invites members and the public to its annual Lunch with N.H.’s Commissioners forum on Thursday, March 12, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. at Holiday Inn, 172 N. Main St., Concord. Several of the commissioners will join the chamber for an important panel discussion covering timely topics, including plans to redevelop Interstate 93 through Concord and Bow, and...
