While the traditional ways to hear live music and see theater has been put on hold for the time being, musicians and organizations continue to keep the music playing with livestreamed concerts that music fans can enjoy from the comforts on their own house.
The new Monadnock Music At Home series will be showcasing live stream performances via Facebook Live and Zoom. This series is free and available to all at monadnockmusic.org. Music in the Time of Quarantine will feature musicians in solo, duo and trios from their own homes.
The first concert features Peterborough’s Tara Novak and Ciaran Nagle on Sunday, April 5 at 3 p.m. Nagle (Irish Tenor) and Novak (vocals, violin/fiddle) have been performing together since they met in 2005 on a bus at the beginning of a Christmas tour with Nagle’s show, the Three Irish Tenors. Sharing both a passion for Irish music and for the art of entertainment, they soon after decided to develop their group Ishna – a project which would allow for more in-depth exploration of Irish and folk repertoire, as well as providing an opportunity to showcase their vocal harmonies, Novak’s up-beat arrangements of Irish instrumental music, and new compositions written by the pair.
Visit https://www.facebook.com/monadnockmusic for live stream link.
Electric Earth Concerts’s first videocast, featuring Bosnian-Dutch accordionist-composer Merima Kljuco and singer JelenaMilušić, premiered on March 28 and will be available online throughout April at www.electricearthconcerts.org.
The next videocast will feature Jesse Mills, violin, and Rieko Aizawa, of the Horszowski Trio. The date is to be announced with more announcements on other performances in the coming weeks.
This week the Peterborough Players began promoting Bright Spots through its eblasts and social media accounts. Inspired by Hunter Michael Minor, a member of the Second Company last year, the Players will bring Bright Spots from the Peterborough Players to your home – whether it’s a hello and a fond memory, a recap of an onstage “oops” or a brief story and performance.
At www.facebook.com/peterboroughplayers, they have other links to performances and concerts, like the National Theatre at Home stream of “One Man, Two Guvnors”, available April 2 at 7 p.m. through April 9.
The Park Theatre will continue its “Virtual Movie Theatre” with new titles available on Friday including “Sorry We Missed You”, “L’Innocente”, and “Dona Flor & Her Two Husbands”. For most films, the ticket price is $12 per screening, and you get up to three days to view the film. Tickets are purchased online.
As for new free daily movies, the Park Theatre will show “The Young Lions” on Thursday and “The House On Haunted Hill” Friday. For more, visit theparktheatre.org.
Check out Peterborough Concert Series on Facebook for videos from previous performances, links to shows from upcoming performers and a Spotify playlist of artists the series has hosted in the past and will in the future.
Every Saturday and Wednesday nights, Louisa Stonehill and Nick Burns of Ashuelot Concerts will broadcast from their home studio.
Each broadcast begins at 8 p.m. with a complete performance, before the Ashuelot Concerts founders explore the music and composers in detail. At the end, the performance is repeated offering the audience the chance to transform the listening experience. They will host Q&As through live-chat via YouTube.
Upcoming performances include, Suk Four Pieces, Saturday, April 4; Brahms Sonata No.3 in D minor (part 1), Wednesday, April 8,; and Brahms Sonata No.3 in D minor (part 2) on April 11.
For more information or links to the broadcasts, visit http://ashuelotconcerts.org.
Pam Bernard, an author of four books and adjunct professor at Franklin Pierce University, will host spring session of her memoir writing workshops on Zoom.
A session is comprised of eight, three-hour workshops. The spring sessions will begin at different times in April.
Participants learn how to be better writers by studying those aspects of writing that shape a successful manuscript.
Email pambernardwriter@gmail.com, visit www.pambernard.com or call (603) 756-4177 for more information, including days and times.