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Jazz Sanctuary This Sunday, March 20, at 1 p.m., Jazz Sanctuary presents “Turning the Tables – The Jazz of Righteous Anger” at Concord’s First Congregational Church, UCC (177 N. Main St.). This event, originally scheduled in January but postponed due to COVID, features vocalist and Pastor Emilia Halstead with the seven-piece jazz worship ensemble, The Prodigals, under the direction of jazz arranger and trumpeter, Bob “Dr. Cool”...
This week in Concord history
March 17, 1681: The Governor’s Council proclaims this a day of public fasting and prayer for John Cutt, New Hampshire’s first colonial governor, who has fallen ill. Cutt soon dies, but New Hampshire will observe Fast Day for more than three centuries. March 18, 1852: George G. Fogg, Concord editor, Free Soil leader and temperance man, puts the best face on his party’s election loss to the Democrats. “The men who have carried...
