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James Cotton

CELEBRATED SOUNDS: James Cotton has earned multiple awards for his booming harmonica notes, recorded nearly 30 solo albums and been inducted in both the Smithsonian Institution and the Blues Hall of Fame.

James 'Superharp' Cotton bring blues to Tupelo

Growing up in the deep South, James Cotton never missed his favorite Saturday morning radio show, tuning into 'King Biscuit Time' to hear blues tunes of the legendary Sonny Boy Williamson II.

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HOLIDAY HAPPENINGS: Strawbery Bank Museum, which will welcome visitors throughout the Memorial Day weekend, features 16 buildings and gardens, with role-players and working craftspeople helping to chronicle the evolution of Portsmouth from the early Colonial period of maritime trade through the 1950s neighborhood of Puddle Dock.

Strawbery Banke Museum pays tribute to military past and present

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As the Granite State commemorates those who died in service to the country, Strawbery Banke Museum, a 10-acre campus representing several hundred years of history in Portsmouth, pays tribute to...

SOUND THE HORN: Newmont Military Band, which draws members from New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Vermont, will perform music that recalls fare once performed on town greens in the 18th century as part of Memorial Day weekend festivities in Henniker.

Newmont Military Band conjures sights, sounds of earlier century

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Newmont Military Band, featuring nearly two dozen members from New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Vermont, will play at the Town Hall on Depot Hill Road, in Henniker, following a Memorial Day parade...

Bach's Lunch Series Concludes in June with Music of Night and Nature

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CONCORD, NH – The 2012-13 Bach's Lunch Series comes to a close for the season with a lecture by Peggy Senter entitled “Music of Night and Nature in the Romantic Era” on Thursday,...

'Here comes the sun' – Summer Season at the Casino Ballroom

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Summer's just around the corner and in the grand tradition of Hampton Beach, the Casino Ballroom will be rocking and rolling non-stop; but what used to be exclusively a summer venue has...

MAKE SURE IT'S ME Opens at West End Studio Theatre

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Artists' Collaborative Theatre Of New England (ACT ONE) presents the world premiere production of Kate Wenner's MAKE SURE IT'S ME, opening June 1 at the West End Studio Theatre in Portsmouth, NH.

Maryse Searls McConnell, Enlightenment, 2011, intaglio, 12” x 17”

Fine Art Fundraising Auction at Museum of Art, UNH

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DURHAM, NH – Original drawings, prints and paintings by selected well-known northern New England artists will be up for bid and outright sale at Rose Moon, a fundraiser for the Museum of Art,...

Prescott Park Arts Festival Announces 2013 Season Line-Up

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Portsmouth NH – The much anticipated reveal of Prescott Park Arts Festival's 2013 season line-up was announced to the public after a week-long sneak preview at the concert series' sponsor, the...

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Links to news and happenings around the world with a Granite State connection updated daily.

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Music and Nightlife

'Dance Me a Story,' an original show by New Hampshire Dance Institute's artistic director Kristen Leach, is set for stage this weekend at the Redfern Arts Center on Brickyard Pond in Keene.

Hundreds of Monadnock Region students team with professional musicians

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More than 300 dancers from Monadnock Region schools will join professional vocalists and an orchestra directed by Boston conducter and composer Peter Mansfield in a 7:30 p.m. production this weekend...

Dartmouth Symphony Orchestras presents Gustav Mahler's challenging Fifth Symphony in the Hopkins Center for the Arts' Spaulding Auditorium, Hanover, at 8 p.m. Saturday, May 25.

Dartmouth musicians tackle 'Mahler boot camp'

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Some Dartmouth College students went home, some went to the beach, and some spent their 2013 spring break on the Hanover campus in'“Mahler boot camp.'

Bedford High School graduate Mackenzie Robert organized a benefit concert in Nashville for One Fund Boston.

Bedford native keeps Boston close to her heart

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Bedford High School graduate Mackenzie "Teddy" Robert was a long way from home when the bombs at the Boston Marathon ripped through the heart of the city she loves.

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Central musicians meet the 'Beatles'

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Friday's show paired the Beatlemania Stage Show with students from the high school's bands and chorus to raise money for the school's music programs.

HERE THEY COME: Peter Tork, the late Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz and Mike Nesmith forever will be tied to the TV show that propelled the Monkees into the spotlight in the late 1960s — and made the show's theme song a piece of pop-culture history.

Peter Tork shares tales and tunes

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Peter Tork is on the road with a retrospective solo show, "Peter Tork in this Generation: My Life in the Monkees and So Much More," which is set to play at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord...

Boston-based soul singer/songwriter/guitarist Jesse Dee

Soul singer/songwriter/guitarist Jesse Dee celebrates new release in Londonderry

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Boston-based soul singer/songwriter/guitarist Jesse Dee will celebrate the release of his Alligator Records debut CD, ON MY MIND/IN MY HEART, with a live performance at Tupelo Music Hall in...

Sully Erna / Godsmack

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Sully Erna, lead singer for the band Godsmack, hangs his hat in southern New Hampshire. The multi-talented musician can also play guitar and drums.

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LISTEN UP: Andrew Codispoti performs in a previous ShakesBEERience performance, which centered on another royal leader, “King Lear.”

It's a bard-worthy ShakesBEERience

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With the news back in February of the discovery of King Richard III bones under a parking lot in England, Seven Stages Shakespeare Company saw a golden opportunity — an encore, site-specific...

Robin Hood tale gets modern twist in Nashua musical

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NASHUA — Putting a rock 'n' roll spin on the Robin Hood legend, Nashua Catholic Wildcat Theatre presents “Nottingham, A Totally Teen Musical” at 7...

Docudrama in Bedford shows perils of police work

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The New Hampshire premiere of “Heroes Behind the Badge” will be shown Saturday at 7 p.m. in the Bedford High School auditorium, Bedford police officer Christopher Storti said.

Actors Sally Nutt and C.R. Marchi rehearse for ACT ONE's June production of MAKE SURE IT'S ME

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Tickets are now on sale for ACT ONE's world premiere production of Kate Wenner's MAKE SURE IT'S ME, a powerful drama about Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) in the military, coming this June to the West...