Park Theatre Hosts Viewing Party of Oscar Telecast This Sunday
Special event in Jaffrey with Oscar® awards shown on The Park's giant screen
JAFFREY, New Hampshire (March 5, 2024) The 96th Annual Academy Awards are coming to Jaffrey, New Hampshire. The ABC telecast and pre-show will be shown on the giant 27' wide screen with 17-speaker surround sound. The event starts at 6:00 p.m. on Sunday March 10. Admission is free (a donation to the theatre is suggested).
There will be special food and drink for sale including hot & cold appetizers, soup, sweets as well as champagne. This is in addition to the theatre's regular concession and bar offerings.
A red carpet entrance with paparazzi photographers will get patrons in the Oscar® mood. ParkTV with be interviewing guests live on Facebook. Bernie & Louise Watson will be playing classic movie tunes on the Steinway piano in the theatre's Lounge.
Raffles will be conducted with a variety of prizes including official Oscar® merchandise and movie posters.
No tickets are required. Any questions about the event can be answered by calling the box office (603) 532-8888.
The Park Theatre performing arts center is located at 19 Main Street in downtown Jaffrey, New Hampshire, just 90 minutes from Boston.
Exhibition on Screen & The Park Theatre Present Documentary Film "Easter in Art"
Award winning series presents the story of Christianity through art in a compelling documentary
JAFFREY, New Hampshire (March 4, 2024). It has been called the "greatest story ever painted." The award-winning art film documentary series, Exhibition on Screen presents Easter in Art at The Park Theatre in Jaffrey, New Hampshire on Wednesday, March 13 at 1:30 p.m.
Noted British art historian and critic Rachel Campbell-Johnston has said, "Anyone who has any interest in art...anyone who has any interest in visual culture...has to be interested in the Christian story."
The story of Christ's death and resurrection has dominated western culture for the past 2000 years. It is perhaps the most significant historical event of all time, as recounted by the gospels but, equally, as depicted by the greatest artists in history. From the triumphant to the savage, the ethereal to the tactile, some of western civilization's greatest artworks focus on this pivotal moment.
This beautifully crafted film, Easter in Art, explores the Easter story as depicted in art, from the time of the early Christians to the present day. Shot on location in Jerusalem, United States and throughout Europe, the film explores the different ways artists have depicted the Easter story through the ages and thus depicts the history of us all.
Artists in the documentary include: DA VINCI | REMBRANDT | CARAVAGGIO | MICHELANGELO | RUBENS | TITIAN | DALI. The documentary is directed by Phil Grabsky (Frida Kahlo, Young Picasso, I Claude Monet).
Easter in Art will play in The Park's acclaimed 333-seat cinema with a 27-foot wide screen and 17-speaker surround sound. Lunch at The Park, a light lunch catered by Carolyn Edwards, begins at 12 noon. You can pre-order your lunch at parklunch.org.
Tickets are $15. You can purchase in advance at theparktheatre.org. Any questions about the series can be answered by calling the theatre's box office at (603) 532-8888.
The Park Theatre performing arts center is located at 19 Main Street in downtown Jaffrey, New Hampshire, just 90 minutes from Boston.
Celtic Rock Band Waking Finnegan Comes To Park Theatre's Shamrock Fest
Acclaimed Celtic rock band set for March 14 concert in Jaffrey
JAFFREY, New Hampshire (March 4, 2024) New Hampshire's renowned Celtic rock band, Waking Finnegan, returns to The Park Theatre's Shamrock Fest on Thursday, March 14 at 7:30 pm.
Waking Finnegan's fresh take on Celtic rock combines the edge and drive of electric guitar with the soul and depth of the upright bass, topped with haunting accordion, fiery fiddle, and powerful vocals. All of this is tied together with rockin' drums designed to get you moving. Expect to hear a few old favorites done in a new way, from fast and furious fiddle and whistle tunes to theatrical vocal tunes, guaranteed to entertain young and old alike!
Waking Finnegan is Eve Pierce on vocals, Will Brewer on guitar, Patrick Lacroix on bass, Matt LaCroix on Irish whistle, accordion, mandolin, and electric bagpipes, Bill Brown on drums and Corey Walden on electric violin.
The event will get your feet on the floor, and a pint in the air!
Waking Finnegan will be playing in the acoustically acclaimed 333-seat Eppes Auditorium at The Park. The theatre bar will be offering a variety of Irish whiskeys for sale as single shots and flights of three sampling. ID is required.
Tickets (all $20) for Waking Finnegan and all Shamrock Fest events can be found by going to shamrockfest.org. Any questions about the festival can be answered by calling the theatre's box office at (603) 532-8888.
The Park Theatre performing arts center is located at 19 Main Street in downtown Jaffrey, New Hampshire, just 90 minutes from Boston. There is a bar lounge, and the facility is fully accessible.
Dueling Pianos Live Returns To Park Theatre and Joins Shamrock Fest
Audience interactive 2 piano show returns to Jaffrey theatre on March 15 with an Irish twist for Shamrock Fest
JAFFREY, New Hampshire (March 4, 2024) New England's favorite dueling pianos show returns to The Park Theatre in Jaffrey with an Irish edition as part of the theatre's 2024 Shamrock Festival. Dueling Pianos Live will be presented at The Park on Friday, March 15 at 7:30pm. All tickets are $25. This show is a multi "Best of Boston" winner.
What are dueling pianos? It has been said that a dueling piano show is quite literally "the most fun one can have with one's clothes on!" We think you will agree. It is a massive "to the top of your lungs" sing-along with all your friends! Two grand pianos are center-stage with a team of outrageously talented pianists who seem to know every song ever written, including spirited Irish tunes. Each show is different because it's all request and you or your friends might even get called up on stage for a bit of good-humored fun and some unforgettable TikTok moments.
Dueling piano shows are request-oriented, interactive sing-a-long shows wherein two piano players sit across from each other and trade songs. The dueling piano audience is used for the dueling aspect of the show. Audience members are pitted on one side against the other. Examples of rivalries include country vs. rock, men against women, etc.
This dueling piano interactive concept has grown rapidly over the past few years and shows no sign of letting up. Why? One very simple reason: people love to interact and have fun.
Dueling Pianos Live will play in The Park's acoustically acclaimed 333-seat Eppes Auditorium. The theatre bar will offer a variety of Irish whiskeys for sale as single shots and flights of three sample shot. ID is required.
Doors open at 6:00 p.m., and Walden Whitham will be playing in The Lounge Bar until 8:00 p.m. Walden id describes as: "Renaissance Man." Multi-faceted musician: vocalist, folk harp, guitar, sax, flute, clarinet, keys. Storyteller. Actor. Writer. Visual Artist. Creating soundscapes of original and classic music and painted landscapes inspired by nature and soul.
Tickets (all $25) for Dueling Pianos Live and all Shamrock Fest events can be found by going to shamrockfest.org. Any questions about the festival can be answered by calling the theatre's box office at (603) 532-8888.
The Park Theatre performing arts center is located at 19 Main Street in downtown Jaffrey, New Hampshire, just 90 minutes from Boston. There is a bar lounge, and the facility is fully accessible.
Las Vegas Casino Murder Mystery Dinner & Fundraiser
Keene, NH: You get to be a detective and solve the crime set in a Las Vegas casino! Montessori Schoolhouse of Cheshire County invites all crime solvers to unravel the mystery on Saturday, March 23. Actors from the Vermont Theatre Company will provide clues during a three course Elvis-inspired dinner. It will be held at the Keene Country Club at 755 West Hill Road in Keene.
"This is our second Murder Mystery. Last year guests had so much fun figuring out who the culprit was," explains Deb Ganley, Development Coordinator at Montessori Schoolhouse. The evening includes the meal, interactive theater, a 50/50 Raffle, photo booth and Silent Auction.
"The Silent Auction will be all digital this year," says Kyle Hebert, Montessori parent and member of the Fundraising Committee. "This will allow people who can't attend the event to bid on some of the Silent Auction items. There are sports, Eagles and Beatles memorabilia and adventure trips that include Cuba, Wrigley Field, Family Glamping at the Grand Canyon and NASA. And that's just the online items. We will have many more items at the Country Club on the 23rd." Online items can be found at https://givebutter.com/c/DR8bU7/auction
"This will raise funds for scholarships and help with increasing operating costs," adds Ganley. Tickets are available at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/las-vegas-casino-murder-mystery-dinner-tickets-779379905277?aff=ebdshpsearchautocomplete
The Montessori Schoolhouse has provided a safe and peaceful early childhood education for 34 years. It is located at 28 Hurricane Road in Keene. For more information call 603 352-3301 or email at d.ganley.mshocc@gmail.com
Coming Up at Nova Arts in Keene
Robert Clark Miller and Oneida!
Join us at Nova Arts in Keene this week for another exciting show!
Friday, March 8
Roger Clark Miller is a guitarist, pianist, bassist, composer, singer, percussionist and occasional cornet player. He has been a band leader since 1967. His recordings have appeared on Matador, Fire, Ace of Hearts, SST, New Alliance, Forced Exposure, Cuneiform, Atavistic, Feeding Tube, World in Sound, and others. He has toured nationally since 1979 and internationally since 1998. His career officially began in 1979 when he co-founded the influential post-punk band Mission of Burma on guitar and vocals. He has performed in too many ensembles since then, and made too many wildly diverse records to mention here. As well, he has scored soundtracks that appeared at the Sundance and the Telluride Film Festivals, and his art installation "Transmuting the Prosaic", has been at two different art museums.
For this concert, Miller will be performing compositions from his newest album on Cuneiform Records "Eight Dream Interpretations for Solo Electric Guitar Ensemble."
He currently uses a customized stratocaster 6-string electric guitar and three lap-steel guitars on stands, two of them loaded with alligator clips or bolts, the other tuned to a post-Glenn Branca unison E. Using bass and tenor guitar strings, this melts his previous prepared piano ideas into more portable guitars, resulting in percussive grooves and bass-lines. Combining advanced looping technology with new stomp-boxes, many in stereo, he truly creates a "solo ensemble" sound.
To organize the compositions, he turned to his "Dream Interpretation" technique. By tightly following and translating a specific dream into music, a new type of structure was available: organic and personal, yet universal. Realizing the essentially surrealistic/psychedelic nature of dreams, the type of guitar sounds he was interested in now had an appropriate context.
Hiroya Tsukamoto is an innovative guitarist and composer who fuses folk,jazz, and world music. Born and raised in Japan, in 2000 he received a scholarship to Berklee College of music and came to the U.S.
Tsukamoto's instrumental abilities are indeed breathtaking and astounding, but his performances are so much more than that. He has the unique capability of engaging an audience thru a personable and genuine approach that transfixes his audience and almost transcends his capabilities as a guitarist. Audience members will be mesmerized; Tsukamoto plays with an effortless skill on the guitar and a repertoire that will have you traveling the world, not to mention experiencing new sounds with his own compositions.
Tsukamoto headlines concerts throughout the U.S. as well as internationally including Blue Note in NYC, United Nations and Japanese National Television (NHK). Most recently Hiroya won 2nd place in International Finger Style Guitar Championship in 2022.
Doors open at 7:00 p.m. and music will begin at 8:00!
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Saturday March 9
Sometimes even the longest journey ends close to where you started. Throughout the teens, Oneida pushed further and further into abstract, atmospheric sounds, recording long haunting compositions that couldn't have been more different than the pulsing, hammering anthems of their past. But now they return with Success, their most guitar-centric, rock album in decades. It kicks off with "Beat Me to the Punch," a song that is minimal like the best Ramones songs are minimal, pared back to beat and melody and a limited number of guitar chords. It's an uncomplicated pleasure from the get-go, and if it's ripped in half later by a corrosive guitar solo, well, what did you expect? This is Oneida.
Oneida has long straddled gray-area boundaries between the NYC punk/psych/rock world and the art/experimental world, playing at gritty rock clubs and elevated cultural institutions, including the Guggenheim, MoMA PS1, ICA London, MassMOCA and the Knoxville Museum of Art. The band has been known for extended live improvisational performances, collaborating onstage with Mike Watt, members of Flaming Lips, Portishead, Boredoms, Yo La Tengo, Dead C, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and many others. Oneida's members juggle a wide variety of other music projects. Drummer Kid Millions has played with Spiritualized, Royal Trux and Boredoms and releases solo compositions under his own name and as Man Forever. Shahin Motia founded noise-punk's Ex Models and currently plays in Knyfe Hyts. Kid and Fat Bobby perform and release music as People of the North, and Bobby has a band called New Pope (postpunk/minimalist duo/trio) releasing a second full-length this year (Shinkoyo).
No band is an island, so of course there are influences—the fuzzy clangor of the Velvet Underground, the keyboard-stabbing exhilaration of the Clean, the paranoiac lyricism of Suicide, the giddy wallop of the Modern Lovers' "Roadrunner," the time-bending open-ended-ness of Can. Still, the main factor in Oneida's sound is Oneida, specifically the band's willingness to go where the music takes them, without too much calculation or premeditation.
Denny Kemps (Danny Kamps) has been performing and recording music in and out of the region for 15 years in various bands and projects. Danny plays in local bands Kendra and Omoo Omoo, but his solo material covers a lot of musical ground. Denny Kemps has, until recently, been a recording project. Denny Kemps albums are musical collages rooted in kosmische/krautrock/psychrock/jazz/folk/american primitive/ambient...Fuzz guitar and analog synthesizers for people who like listening to music in dimly lit rooms.
Creative Writing is a new project from some of the minds and fingers that brought you Luxor Rentals, Jeanines, and Huevos II (among other great western Mass NOW sounds). Fashioning tightly composed melodic pop nuggs delivered over waves of fuzz in a deadpan drawl like Alex Chilton is alive and well and living in New Zealand is the vibe of the day. Arpeggiation and on and on.
Doors are at 7:00 p.m. and music will begin at 7:30. Seating is limited and first come first served; this show is ALL AGES!
Tickets are available at novaarts.org/events, at Brewbakers / Terra Nova Coffee, or at the door.