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Friday, September 26:
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Sunday, September 28 – Ongoing from 1:00 to 5:30 PM:
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Traditional Music Session at the Press Room For over 25 years, the Press Room, at 77 Daniel St, has been the home of a traditional music and song open session on Friday nights. From 4-9 PM, local singers and musicians gather in this popular pub to join in with Irish, English, Scottish and American folk music. Listeners and participants welcome! Bring your instrument and your voice, and prepare to sing a lot of choruses. The session tonight will have a strong emphasis on sea music. Sea Songs Old and New A quiet bookshop isn’t a place you’d expect to hear sea music, but RiverRun Bookstore, 20 Congress Street, sees things a bit differently. For the second year, a special Saturday afternoon concert here will feature two area groups, members of which have played and sung with each other regularly around the Seacoast and beyond. Great Bay Sailor is comprised of Steve Carrigan, Bruce MacIntyre, and Kevin Scanlon. Area musicians Alan Eaton, Peter Hale, Dave Hallowell and Mike Jeanneau have teamed up to form Mudhook. There will be plenty of harmonies in both groups’ songs, both traditional and contemporary, and they may even toss in a sea shanty or two. “Both Sides of the Pond” Once again, we are pleased to present a maritime program in the garden of the Warner House, at 150 Daniel Street. Bring a chair or blanket for lawn seating, and join us at 12:30 PM for a fascinating triple bill. The first part of the program will be a grand concertina jam, featuring all the concertina players involved in the festival this year, with Anglo, English, MacCann duet, and Crane duet concertinas represented. We’ll probably be heard all the way to the Market Square! The second part of the program features Andrew McKay and Carole Etherton of Gower, Wales, showcasing some of their own songs, traditional tunes, and strong English harmonies. Andrew and Carole particularly enjoy writing songs that focus on true stories and real people from the south Welsh coast. The show will wind up with the salty sounds of New Englanders Finn & Haddie. These two will blow you down with their gutsy delivery and inviting chorus songs. Maritime Open Sing Tom Hall and Linn Schulz have hosted a monthly shanty and forebitter session at the Press Room, 77 Daniel St, for the past five and a half years. This special second monthly session will run from 2:30-5:00 PM. This is a strongly vocal session, with sea shanties and easy choruses heavily featured. Also heard are many of the seamen’s off-duty, non-work songs, known as forebitters. As always, listeners and participants welcome! “Ports of Call” Saturday Evening Concert Featured artists John Roberts and Jerry Bryant, along with special guests, Mudhook, perform songs of sailors and their lives. We are pleased to announce that this program will be held at an interesting new venue this year, in Haymarket Square at 85 Middle Street on the corner of State St. This historic brick building was constructed by local beer baron, Frank Jones, as the Granite State Insurance Co. Built in 1924, it was touted as the first fireproof building in New Hampshire. It has since been a church and various offices. We are especially grateful to the owners of the building in allowing us an unusual opportunity to spend an evening in this space. Doors open at 6:30PM; entrance up the granite steps at the front of the building. Parking will be by kind permission of the Middle Street Baptist Church, in their lot to the rear of the church; driveway to the left of the building at 18 Court St. Cameo Concerts at Oppenheimer & Co. Added as a new venue this year, Oppenheimer is located on a side street in back of the Market Square Shanty Blast location. In addition to doubling the opportunities to hear festival performers in half-hour mini-concerts, the opening program will be an informative sing-along on the subject of the Sailors’ Bethel. From Hong Kong to Hawaii, the Great Lakes to Glasgow, these institutions offered sailors safe sleeping quarters while in port, hot meals, clean clothing, and – most importantly to 19th-century reformers – religion. Brief comments on the history of the bethels will punctuate an energetic hymn sing. The entire congregation is urged to join in! Sing-Around at the Rusty Hammer Hosted by Linn Schulz and Tom Hall, the Sunday Maritime Sing will feature various festival performers, coming and going throughout the afternoon, as well as audience participants. This is the third year the Rusty Hammer restaurant has been a sponsor. Drop in for a pint and a few choruses – 49 Pleasant Street, on the corner of State Street, near the Market Square. Shanty Blast Finale A giant, roaring final sing ends the weekend with a blast. All the performers gather on the sidewalk in Market Square across from the east side of North Church and each one takes a turn leading a shanty. The whole crew, and audience, too, belts out chorus after chorus – a rousing sight and sound, indeed! |
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last updated 26 September 2008
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