Fall 2025

All shows are free, with no tickets or reservations required. Performances begin at 7:30 PM at the Concord City Auditorium, 2 Prince Street, except for Messiah at St. Paul’s Church.

Wednesday, September 10, 2024, at 7:30 PM

Extreme Survival: Lessons From Those Who Have Triumphed Against All Odds with Mike Tougias

Author Michael Tougias will share the mindsets and techniques survivors used to channel their energy into decisions that saved their lives. He demonstrates that the same techniques can help all of us be more resilient when feeling overwhelmed or facing a seemingly insurmountable challenge in our personal or professional lives.

Some of the survivors from history include John McCain, Mary Rowlandson (captive during King Philip’s Indian War), Howard Blackburn, Captain Bligh, Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl, mountain man Hugh Glass, Admiral Byrd, WWII pilot James Whittaker, Teddy Roosevelt, JFK (PT109), and USS Indianapolis survivors.

Wednesday September 17, 2025 at 7:30

Halfway to St. Paddy’s with the Jordan Tirrell Wysocki Trio and a guest vocalist

Putting a fresh spin on traditional Celtic music, the Jordan Tirrell Wysocki Trio delivers a dynamic show full of lively fiddle tunes, haunting airs, and classic sing-alongs. For more than a decade, fiddler and songwriter Jordan Tirrell Wysocki, guitarist Matthew Jensen, and bassist Chris Noyes have blended the music of Ireland and Scotland with their own original material, drawing on multiple genres to produce music that the Boston Irish Reporter called “brisk, lean, and exceedingly lovely.”

Sunday, September 21, 2025

6:00 to 6:45 pm Arts Fair and Ice Cream Social, 7:00 pm Performance

Friends of the City Auditorium Arts Gala

Join fellow lovers of the performing arts to mingle, enjoy ice cream, and see previews of upcoming performances. This is not a Walker event, but we will be there and we hope to see you.

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

“Of Musik and Astronomy:” The Life and Times of Sir William and Karoline Herschel with R.P. Hale

This multi-media program features the life of Sir William Herschel, a harpsichordist, linguist, optician, astronomer, and telescope maker who lived during the times of Kings George II and George III of England.  Born in Germany in 1738, he was first trained as an oboist in a Hanover military band before immigrating to England at the age of 19, where he quickly had to learn to make ends meet.   He was a dance musician, then part of several orchestras, then a cathedral organist.  He also learned advanced mathematics and optics during this time, while composing symphonies and harpsichord sonatas that were admired by Mozart and F.J. Haydn.  In the 1770s, he took up practical astronomy and built some of the finest telescopes of the era, and at this time he was joined by his younger sister Karoline, who was training as a musician and telescope maker.  The two made many discoveries in astronomy and built ever larger telescopes.  He discovered a planet in 1783, now known as Uranus, and proposed that the Milky Way was a galaxy, "one of many."  In 1785, the two procured a royal grant to build what was to be the world's largest telescope for the next 75 years, and made many "deep sky" discoveries with it, and in the same period, Karoline discovered six comets.  In 1800, Herschel and Karoline were named as "The King's Astronomers" and given stipends, and remained active in music and astronomy until William's death in 1822 and Karoline's passing in 1848.

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

The Grand Ole Opry Through the Years with Rob Azevedo

Some of the best musicians in New Hampshire will pay tribute some of the greatest country music stars from past and present.   Will Hatch will take on Hank.  Sixteen-year-old Olivia Conway plays Carrie Underwood.  Dusty Gray will be the Man in Black, Johnny Cash, and Concord resident, Jasmine Rivera, will sing Dolly.  These musicians will gather on stage, backed by the John Zevos and Friends band, to sing medleys of songs by legendary country artists like the Everly Brothers, Patsy Cline, Ricky Skaggs and Emmylou Harris.

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Ghosts and Legends with Jeff Belanger

This ghostly multi-media program will take you on a journey through the haunts in your backyard and around the world, pulling from Jeff's 25 years of research for his books, podcasts, adventures, and the various television shows.  Join one of the nation's premiere storytellers for a trip through the unusual and the unexplained. 

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Classical Piano with Mark Valenti

Selections will include an eclectic mix of classical piano pieces, giving an overview of the evolution of piano styles from the elegant gracefulness of Classicism to the passionate lyricism of Romanticism through the atmospheric Impressionism of Debussy to the rhythmic percussiveness of Modernism.

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Seasonal Bell Music with the Granite State Ringers

New Hampshire's elite handbell ensemble joins us to ring in the holidays.  Since its founding in 2007, Granite State Ringers has expanded its impact, offering programs for children and adults and using its talents to support communities in need, from the NH Food Bank to the Ukrainian Red Cross.   Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Saturday, November 29, 2025  10:00 AM   open rehearsal Sunday, November 30, 2025, 7:00 PM  concert

Handel’s Messiah

A musical rite of the holiday season, this Baroque-era oratorio still awes listeners more than 250 years after the composer’s death. Concord’s performance, conducted by Benjamin Greene, will include professional soloists and a community chorus.

Messiah will be performed at St. Paul’s Church, 22 Centre Street, Concord, NH. The main entrance is the set of red doors on Park Street across from the NH State House. The elevator is on the Main Street side of the building.

Frederick Moyer Holiday piano concert

Broadcast on Concord TV during the holiday season (not a live event)

Pianist Frederick Moyer celebrates the holiday season and Beethoven's birthday.  (December 16, 1770.)  Joining Moyer will be bassist Peter Tillotson and drummer Jim Gwin. 

The winter concert will include:

Bach (arranged by Myra Hess): “Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"

Beethoven: "Waldstein” Sonata (complete)

Bartok: Rumanian Christmas Carols

Jazz arrangements of "Let It Snow", “The Christmas Song", "Borukh Ate, Zingt Der Tate" (Hannukah song), "Christmas is Coming" and others.

We look forward to seeing you in the spring.