This Saturday, we’ll be celebrating the 25th Anniversary of our annual Kitchen Tour! While I’m sure many of you are tour veterans, I thought I’d share some helpful tips for navigating this year’s tour.Read More
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There’s nothing like upbeat choral music and rousing Broadway tunes to mark a celebratory occasion. This year on Mother’s Day, The Music Hall welcomes choral director Priscilla French, with local youth choirs and musicians, for a family concert.Read More
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Hollywood will soon be flooding America’s theaters with disaster movies of every imaginable type, from epidemics and alien invasions to battling superheroes and cranky supernatural forces. (Was our planet inadvertently built on top of some kind of intergalactic graveyard? That would explain a lot.Read More
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One of the very cool things to like about this year’s Kitchen Tour is that it’s a walking tour in downtown Portsmouth, it showcases the city’s great history even as it shows off its sense of contemporary style, and it includes 10 homes that are each quite special. Okay, that’s three very cool things. But it’s hard to be shy about this year’s Kitchen Tour. It’s going to be a winner.Read More
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We can’t wait to welcome the unique singer-songwriter Valerie June to the historic theater as part of our Intimately Yours series on June 7. A small town girl who grew up in Humboldt, Tennessee (population 8,000), Valerie has become a highly regarded rising star, captivating audiences and critics alike with her strikingly individual voice and heartfelt stories. In 2013 Rolling Stone named her album Pushin’ Against A Stone one of the year’s top 50, and in 2014 she was nominated by the Americana Music Awards as Emerging Act of the Year. She’ll be debuting her “organic moonshine roots music” at The Music Hall. Valerie recently shared some insights with The Music Hall’s Deputy Programming Director, Thérèse LaGamma.Read More
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Once again this year we are celebrating Membership Month this May! For the entire month if you become a new member or upgrade your membership, you’ll automatically be entered into our Membership Month Raffle!Read More
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We have a pretty great team here at The Music Hall, and I’m excited to introduce them to you through a new blog series “The Music Hall Staff Desk Tours”. Seeing as the inspiration for this came from our beloved Kitchen Tour, that happens to be celebrating its 25th Anniversary this year, I thought it was only fitting to start with the force behind the Kitchen Tour, Ashleigh Tucker Pollock. Check out my interview with Ashleigh and find out what her favorite things on her desk are, what she thinks her desk says about her, and what her favorite aspect of the Kitchen Tour is. Enjoy!Read More
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