By Chris Curtis
I recently had the pleasure of attending a songwriting workshop with the amazing singer-songwriter Melissa Ferrick and 11 students and three teachers from Portsmouth Music and Arts Center (PMAC), the Music Hall’s Explore + Learn partner of the year.Read More
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Hearing music at The Loft is so groovy. The performers are up close and personal in a way that makes you feel as if they’re playing just for you. Live @ The Loft shows have become an intoxicating way for me to discover new talent—and also to reconnect with seasoned artists I haven’t heard for a while.Read More
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If you already have your tickets to see Gladys Knight at the Music Hall this Sunday, you’re in for a fabulous, upbeat evening with the great “empress of soul” and her amazing sidemen. If you’ve been on the fence, don’t wait until the show is sold out: visit http://www.themusichall.org to snag an incredible offer of $75 for all remaining seats.Read More
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The New Hampshire Film Festival is far more than just films, the weekend is filled to the brim with excitement from constant press and check-ins at Headquarters, to educational workshops, to extravagant parties. Take a look at what the weekend has to offer beyond the extraordinary cinema.Read More
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When Salman Rushdie takes the stage at The Historic Theater this Wednesday October 10 at 7:30, I’ll be sitting at the edge of my seat waiting to get a glimpse into the mind of this extraordinary man. One of the most celebrated writers of our time, Rushdie catapulted to worldwide fame in 1989 when the Ayatollah Khomeini declared his novel The Satanic Verses” offensive to Islam and issued a “fatwa” that sentenced him to death. For the next 10 years, Rushdie lived in hiding under the pseudonym Joseph Anton. And even now, although the Iranian government renounced the fatwah in 1998, Rushdie continues to receive death threats.Read More
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Chris Thile’s newest creation- Punch Brothers, a five-person band founded in 2006, was most recently nominated by the Americana Music Awards for best band. Thile, the former mandolinist in the critically acclaimed band Nickel Creek, was also nominated as best instrumentalist along with Dave Rawlings and Buddy Miller. Thile released his first five solo albums when he was just 13, and by the time he was twenty he was attracting a following among pop, country, and alternative-rock audiences.Read More
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There’s so much new and exciting to experience this weekend at Telluride by the Sea that I don’t know where to begin! Our lovely Seacoast city is always transformed into a buzzing film-lovers Mecca for this very special weekend, with cinephiles from all over the East Coast visiting for the chance to see six films fresh from their debut at the esteemed Telluride Film Festival in Colorado. What makes this a one-of-a-kind weekend is the privilege of experiencing the selections of an unsurpassed curating team from The Telluride Film Festival. Read More
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Thing is, I’m lucky. I’m lucky and I’m ever so appreciative. My friends are awesome and generous and wildly talented. I make a lot of songs and am always enlisting folks to help realize them. For my last album, North for the Winter 30 different musicians accompanied me and all brought their own unique sensibility.
If you come and stay with us and there’s a spare 15 minutes before heading off to swim at a swimming hole, I might ask you to sing a little backing vocal up in the attic where I record. Sorry, I’m presumptuous that way. Sorry, as well, but I might ask you to sing about some unseemly topics. Thing is, you smash it. You make it so nice in a way I didn’t know it could be and take it on as though it were your own.Read More
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