Weekly Entertainment Report: Music and lively arts, April 16-19, for Southern NH
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Music and live entertainment – connecting to the things that matter most.
Get out and show Mother Earth some love by celebrating Earth Day early this weekend. You can take part in Hope for NH Recovery’s Earth Day Park Clean Up, attend the Earth Day Celebration with UNH at the Manchester City Library, check out the Earth Day Benefit Concert, hear from Duncan Watson, the author of Everyone’s Trash: One Man Against 1.6 Billion Pounds, build a terrarium while sipping on some eco-friendly wine at the Terrarium Workshop & Wine Tasting with Penumbra, or even just simply Make a Gnome Home. Whatever you choose, try your best to pay homage to our one and only home planet somehow.
Symphony New Hampshire music director finalist Tianhui Ng is taking the orchestra to the crossroads of music, passion, and science
Attorney General John M. Formella released the following statement on the April 15 jury verdict in New Hampshire’s multistate antitrust case against Live Nation and Ticketmaster.
Born in New Hampshire, Boynton has spent more than a decade in fundraising leadership, currently serving as Senior Vice President of Development at Lakeland Regional Health, one of Florida’s largest healthcare systems. His work has helped raise hundreds of millions of dollars, launch major healthcare initiatives, and shape campaigns that redefine access to care in communities.
It is a gritty, necessary and ultimately hopeful book that details his amazing journey from soul-crushing physical and sexual abuse to an advocate who’s addressed both Washington D.C.’s National Press Club and Georgetown University’s conference on “Children in Slavery-The 21st Century Summit.” The latter was sponsored by both the State Department and the United Nations.
Chamber Music Concert featuring Symphony NH musicians. A concert review by Nashua music student and Inkubator intern Faye Jones.
The New Hampshire Book Festival announces that #1 New York Times–bestselling author Jodi Picoult will serve as the festival’s 2026 Keynote Author. Picoult will appear at the Capitol Center for the Arts on Friday, October 2, where she will discuss her forthcoming novel, Hollow Bones, scheduled for release in late September 2026.
Harmony Within will be presented in-person. Join us for social time and refreshments after the program. Please respect everyone’s individual choice for masking.
Meredith Hall’s memoir Without a Map (Beacon Press; 2007) and novel Beneficence (David R. Godine; 2020) turn on single shattering events that leave families emotionally adrift before navigating decades-long journeys involving loss, missing puzzle pieces, redemption and ultimately forgiveness and love.
NH towns should be allowed to lower neighborhood speed limits to 20 mph. Today the State restricts that minimum to nothing below 25 mph.
Spring is in the air this weekend! With seasonal markets, poetry readings, flower stamp painting, book fairs and more, it’s abloom with an abundance of ways to get out and enjoy the fair weather.
Live music and lively arts – go out and find some!
The 23rd annual New Hampshire Indoor Scottish Festival is happening April 10-12, at Manchester Memorial High School. “It’s the largest of its kind in the USA,” said Claire MacPherson, president of Scottish Arts, a non-profit organization that relies on volunteers to organize the event.
About 12 years ago as I was taking my usual early spring walk through the Valley Cemetery to see how it survived the winter when I stumbled upon an old slate gravestone in pretty good shape that I hadn’t noticed before. It was in one of the oldest parts of the cemetery on the Auburn Street side on public grounds…
When Toubab Krewe started out in 2005, their West African influenced brand of folk-rock was very much an outlier in the American music realm. Through this approach, the quintet of multi-instrumentalists Justin Perkins and Luke Quaranta, guitarist and organist Drew Heller, bassist and keyboardist Justin Kimmel and drummer Terrence Houston garnered a dedicated following while performing with a variety of different acts.
Pizza Man of East Industrial Park Drive won Manchester Ink Link’s Pizza Madness Tournament in 2024, repeated in 2025 and now we can report that it has won yet again in 2026.
The event will feature children’s and adult activities and presentations throughout the day and all-ages concerts from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Freshly squeezed lemonade will be available for purchase from the Squeeze the Day NH lemonade truck while participants enjoy the music.
Whether you’re dreaming of fresh vegetables, eager to attract pollinators to your yard, or thinking about that extra something special to brighten your landscape, you’ll likely find what you need at the Derry Garden Club’s (DGC) annual plant sale. The sale will be held, rain or shine, on Saturday, June 6, from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. at Robert Frost Farm, 122 Rockingham Rd. in Derry.
If you missed last year’s inaugural Short Play Festival at The Rex Theatre, then you have an extra good reason to attend this year’s encore.