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This week’s round-up of live entertainment in and around Southern NH is brought to you by A. Robert Dionne of Ted Herbert Music School & Rentals – where the music happens.
Jason’s Joy, a newly opened thrift store on Manchester Street, answers the question: “What if everything in my grandma’s house was up for sale?”
This program outlines the successful collaboration between Opportunity Networks and Positive Street Art (PSA) to empower adults with developmental and physical disabilities through creative workforce development.
On August 16, 2025 from 12-4 p.m., this coterie of creatives will welcome the city to join them at their pop up gallery and mural unveiling; an exhibition dubbed “Thoughts Projected” within Sheehan-Basquil Park.
She’s got the cred for sure: a third-generation newspaper veteran with more than three decades of her own daily newspaper reporting and editing (including some 25 years at the New Hampshire Union Leader and regular contributions to Manchester Ink Link) Milliken always wanted to write fiction drawn from her journalism days, and she hit her stride in 2015 when her series starring Bernadine “Bernie” O’Dea took flight. With wry humor, twisty mystery plots, a bit of engaging romance, and a cast of utterly engaging human (and canine) characters, Milliken creates a world of delightful escapist fare.
A weekend music celebration on August 8 and 9 featuring a Jazz and Music Festival with educational workshops.
Meet Keith Howard, Manchester resident and community leader, and the author of Unclaimed, But Loud: The Memoir of a Shy and Retiring Boy Who Was Neither. Howard is a New Hampshire native and former director of Hope for New Hampshire Recovery and Liberty House for homeless and struggling veterans in Manchester, and happens to be a veteran and recovered addict himself.
This week’s round-up of live entertainment in and around Southern NH is brought to you by A. Robert Dionne of Ted Herbert Music School & Rentals.
On Saturday, August 23, 2025, the Monster Hunt returns to Downtown Manchester. This is the 13th year of the family-friendly outdoor art hunt, where Studio 550 makes 100 red clay monsters and hides them downtown.
It is an idyllic summer evening at the outdoor tiki bar at KC’s Ribshack in Manchester. The sun is starting to set, and a light breeze cuts through the packed crowd on a Tuesday evening as Nate Comp and Paul Costley take the stage, as they do every Tuesday evening—with rare exceptions—and as they’ve done on Tuesday evenings in various locations for the past 15 years.
During a musical presentation last week, Jacyn Tremblay, representing the Music Drives Us foundation, said the delivery of the instruments helps fulfill the organization’s mission to “spread the love” by keeping music in schools and local communities throughout New England.
I’m not originally from Manchester, but I’ve lived here long enough to know that speaking ill of the Queen City’s native son Adam Sandler can teeter on blasphemy, so I’ll try to tread lightly here.
Many of us crank up the party music when the weather gets warm and we can open the car windows to blast our favorite music out to the world. As a Boomer, I especially love having “my” music play as I pull up to a stop light where the car next to me is blaring something from the 21st century that I never heard of.
The steep rise in ownership of smartphones aligns closely with the rise in pedestrian & cyclist deaths. Coincidence? Highly unlikely.
When school’s out in the summer, you might struggle to find things to do. Don’t worry! If you’re a teen, the Manchester City Library has just the thing for you! I recently interviewed Dori Eisenstat, a librarian and the woman who runs the teen program at Manchester City Library.
As part of their tour in support of the full-length, the Dickinson brothers, bassist Rayfield “Ray Ray” Hollman and guitarist Joey Williams are going to be bringing their down home sound to Jimmy’s Jazz & Blues Club in Portsmouth on July 27. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. and it’s an excellent way to close out a summer weekend in The Granite State.
Ever wonder what you might actually find at the end of a rainbow? While you may never know the answer to that, we now know what you can find on the dark side of one – an impressive amount of genius, creativity, and twistedly-cool handmade goods worth their weight in gold.
Daytime Emmy Award-winning actor William Devane, best known for his roles in “Knotts Landing”, “24-Live Another Day” & “Marathon Man” will make an appearance on July 25 at the 4th Annual Manchester International Film Festival.
One of the many examples of this is the “Summer Cooker,” which is going down at The Stone Church in Newmarket on July 26. Presented by both singer-songwriter John Nolan and the venue, the second edition of this event will be starting outdoors at 6 p.m., then moving indoors after 9 p.m. with a bunch of acts performing while bringing a family-friendly vibe.
The past 10 years have been very fruitful for both dobro player Rob Ickes and guitarist Trey Hensley. Together, they’ve won a bunch of awards, put out a few albums and collaborated with some bonafide legends in the bluegrass, folk, blues and country genres. Musical collaboration can be a special thing when everything comes together seamlessly, and this duo is one of the many examples of this fact. On July 26, Ickes and Hensley are going to be performing at The Rex Theatre in Manchester. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. and it promises to be an ideal experience for anyone who enjoys acoustic and string-based music.