Park Theatre Announces Final List of St. Pat's Parade Participants
2nd largest St. Pat's parade in NH happens Sunday, March 17 in Jaffrey.
JAFFREY, New Hampshire (March 12, 2024) The Park Theatre announced today the final list of groups and/or individuals marching in the 5th Annual Jaffrey St. Patrick's Day Parade. The parade has become the second largest St. Pat's parade in New Hampshire and fans come from all over New England to the small town annual event.
The event is held on Sunday, March 17 at 2:00 p.m. and begins at St Patrick Parish Church located at 87 Main Street in Jaffrey and heads east on Main Street past The Park Theatre. The parade is the culmination of Shamrock Fest in Jaffrey that began on March 1.
Here is the list of the parade participants:
1. Jaffrey Police Dept Cruiser
2. Jaffrey Fire Chief David Chamberlain
3. Grand Marshall, Jimmy Quinn
4. Master Bagpiper Mark Polifrone from Marlborough, NH
5. Parade Sign Team with Rachel Kennedy & Tina LeBlanc
6. King of Swag. Mr. Logan Hampsey
7. Keene America legion Band
8. The Statue of St. Patrick
9. The Parade Producers - Kevin Hampsey also co-founder) and Kelly Bergeron
10. The Flag Team - Laura Harding & Jackie Donovan
11. Pinnacle CreteworX Float presenting Conant Boys Basketball Team
12. 1st NH Revolutionary War Regiment
13. Gauthier Auto Service Float presenting Monadnock Kitty Rescue & Adoption
14. BSA Boy & Girl Scouts #33
15. WKNE Media Sponsor Car
16. Jaffrey Girl Scouts Troop #64092
17. The 6th New Hampshire Infantry Company E
18. St Patrick's School Alumni
19. Flying Irish Dancers - Ashby, MA
20. Red's of Jaffrey
21. Conant High School Concert Band
22. Belletetes
23. Jaffrey Grade School Irish Step Dancers
24. Jaffrey Rindge Memorial Ambulance
25. Mascenic High School Marching Band
26. Community Transportation
27. 1958 Mack B95 Fire Truck (John Holman) with Project Shakespeare
28. Park Theatre Float
29. Jaffrey Fire Department Equipment
30. Jaffrey DPW
31. Jaffrey Police Department
The announcers of the parade are Diana Griffin, an Ireland native & Park Theatre volunteer, and Steve Jackson, the Park Theatre CEO and Managing Director.
The Grateful Dads band will be playing in the theatre's Lounge before and after the parade. Food will be sold outside the theatre as well as inside. Plenty of Guinness, Murphy's Stout and a selection of Irish whiskeys will be sold. All liquor must be consumed inside the theatre and ID is required.
Also on Sunday, March 17, The Shamrock Fest Craft and Food Fair will be taking place from 12 noon to 4:00 p.m. in the King Auditorium on the 2nd floor of the theatre.
Any questions about the parade can be answered by calling the theatre's box office at (603) 532-8888. Information can also be found at shamrockfest.org or theparktheatre.org
The Park Theatre performing arts center is located at 19 Main Street in downtown Jaffrey, New Hampshire, just 90 minutes from Boston.
Rock Concert with James Montgomery & Jon Butcher To Benefit Veterans
Jaffrey's Park Theatre hosts event to raise monies for Easter Seals' Veterans Count
JAFFREY, New Hampshire (March 13, 2024) “Rockin' 4 Vets” brings a Rock n' Roll Circus to the Park Theatre in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, for a benefit event to raise monies for the nonprofit, Veterans Count.
On Friday March 22, 2024, Rockin'4 Vets will be bringing in New England Blues Legend James Montgomery (James Montgomery Band, Johnny Winter Band) along with Boston guitar great Jon Butcher (Jon Butcher Axis, Experience Hendrix) as part of a classic rock All-Star line-up of top New England performers.
Proceeds from this event will benefit Veterans Count a division of NH Easter Seals that does great work in assisting Veterans with critical needs resulting from their military service.
The concert event will feature an evening of classic rock and original songs by the artists, from their solo careers and the bands they toured and recorded with.The band, Dyer, Goodwin, Chakour consists of a lineup of performers with an incredible pedigree of touring and recording. Deric Dyer (Tina Turner, Joe Cocker), Cliff Goodwin (Joe Cocker, Robert Palmer), Mitch Chakour (Joe Coker, J. Geils Band), Marty Richards (former J. GeilsBand, Joe Perry Project), and Wolf Ginades Shaboo All-Stars). Also joining in the show will be Blues vocalist/harpist Brian Templeton (Delta Generators, the Radio Kings) The final addition to the line-up is local performers Frankie Boy & the Blues Express, who recently represented New Hampshire at the 2023 International Blues Challenge Finals in Memphis, TN.
Rockin' 4 Vets is a long-established New England organization, presenting events to raise funds for local organizations who support Vets in dealing with issues related to PTSD, addiction, and homelessness.
Tickets for The Rock n' Roll Circus Concert are: $34, $39, $44, VIP $89. Purchase by going to theparktheatre.org or by calling the box office (603) 532-8888. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. Doors to the theatre open at 6:00 p.m. with free live music by Bob Jordan in the theatre's Lounge bar.
The Park Theatre performing arts center is located at 19 Main Street in downtown Jaffrey, New Hampshire, just 90 minutes from Boston.
Coming Up at Nova Arts in Keene
Horse Lords and Ka Baird!
Join us at Nova Arts in Keene this week for another exciting show!
Sunday, March 17
Horse Lords return with Comradely Objects, an alloy of erudite influences and approaches given frenetic gravity in pursuit of a united musical and political vision. The band's fifth album doesn't document a new utopia, so much as limn a thrilling portrait of revolution underway.
Comradely Objects adheres to the essential instrumental sound documented on the previous four albums and four mixtapes by the quartet of Andrew Bernstein (saxophone, percussion, electronics), Max Eilbacher (bass, electronics), Owen Gardner (guitar, electronics), and Sam Haberman (drums). But the album refocuses that sound, pulling the disparate strands of the band's restless musical purview tightly around propulsive, rhythmic grids. Comradely Objects ripples, drones, chugs, and soars with a new abandon and steely control.
This transformation came, in part, due to circumstance. Sidelined from touring their early 2020 album The Common Task in a world turned upside down, Horse Lords promptly returned to their Baltimore practice space and began piecing together the music that became Comradely Objects (Bernstein, Eilbacher, and Gardner have since relocated to Germany). Removed from their tried and true method of refining new music on the road, the quartet invested less energy ensuring live playability and more rehearsing and recording. The deliberate writing and tracking process, a rarity since the band's earliest days, led to a collection of pieces that signal a new peak of creativity and musical heft without devolving into studio sprawl or frippery. Comradely Objects reflects familiar elements of Horse Lords' established palette—the mantra-like repetition of minimalism and global traditional musics, complex counterpoint, the subtleties of microtonality, a breadth of timbres and textures drawn from all across the avant-garde—with some standout stylistic innovations. At different moments, the album veers closer to free jazz than anything else in the band's catalog, channels spectral electroacoustic tones, and throbs with unexpected yet felicitous synth. While these new elements are evidence of additional studio time and care, Comradely Objects retains the dizzying obsessive rhythmic energy that galvanizes the best moments of the band.
It's vital that the Horse Lords' instrumentals speak for themselves, and for the quartet's shared musical and sociopolitical vision. The title derives from Imagine No Possessions, art historian Christina Kaier's 2008 book on Russian Constructivist design. Constructivists shunned the artistic egoism and precious artifacts of capitalist art in favor of utilitarian objects for the masses. “The comradely object should promote collective, egalitarian ideals,” the band notes. They tended toward simple, unadorned forms that emphasized utility and foregrounded the material.
Comradely Objects works through what this means for the material of sound, for music, for the album, and for artistic production in the 21st century. Not only does Comradely Objects redefine the possibilities for Horse Lords' shopworn format, it adds a new contour of confidence and finesse to the band's reliefs mounted in both sticker-spattered indie hovels and the white-walled world of composition. It also solidifies their position among the foremost smugglers of radical musical and political ideas into contemporary music that happens to also, after a fashion, rock. Comradely Objects presents the most sublime document yet of the band's ongoing interrogation of aesthetic and social form, purpose, and intent, alongside note, beat, and raw sound.
Ka Baird is an American recording artist, multi-instrumentalist, producer and performer based in New York City. Baird is known and heralded for her raw, ecstatic, and boundary pushing live solo performances which often involve energetic and experimental body movements, vocal and mic techniques and flute playing.
Respires, the second solo album by Ka Baird, and first on RVNG, blurs the line between word and action, definition and possibility. Spirited yet restrained, bearing its wildly thrummed heart strings and inner calm alike, Respires ventures toward the unknown, charting the shifting ground of experimental music and the rewards born of risk.
Baird followed Respires with Bespires (2020), a collection of outtakes and covers, and Vivification Exercises I (2021), a live performance captured at Roulette's Brooklyn theater in May of 2018, releases part of the Commend THERE tape series.
In Fall 2021, RVNG shared a new FRKWYS collaboration between Ka Baird and the late Pekka Airaksinen. Hungry Shells was recorded as part of a residency in 2018 at Le Guess Who? (Utrecht, NL), produced and mixed by Ka Baird in 2020 after she took time to process Pekka's passing in 2019.
Ka is a road warrior who tours the world often/when possible; her live performances are not to be missed.
Know Your Program is a solo musical art project created and performed by Jeff Kolter. Know Your Program is Jeff's perpetual endeavor into digging deeper and deeper into why his psychology does what it does while utilizing sonic surrealism veiled as slightly unhinged pop songs as an expressive form of excavation.
Doors are at 7:00 p.m., and music will start promptly at 7:30. The show is all ages and seating is first come first served.
Tickets are available at novaarts.org/events, at Brewbakers / Terra Nova Coffee, or at the door.