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This weekend: Myra Flynn – Claremont HopStop: Mariachi! – and More

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We hope that you’ll join us for some great music in Claremont this weekend!

Myra Flynn

Myra Flynn

Friday, October 25, 2024 @ 7:00 PM — 8:30 PM
Claremont Creative Center
56 Opera House Square, Claremont NH

Tickets

Please join us for an evening concert, presented by West Claremont Center for Music and the Arts.

Tickets by Donation. Students FREE.

Songwriting Workshop with Myra Flynn 4:00 PM more info >>>

This program is supported in part by the New England States Touring program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program and the six New England state arts agencies.

Singer/songwriter Myra Flynn spends her career embracing dichotomy. Half Irish and half African American, her original indie/soul songs blend soulful vocals with a lyrical delivery that doesn’t let one get too comfortable. As the New England Deli Magazine puts it, “Her vocal influences have as much in common with Ani Difranco and Shawn Colvin as they do with Rihanna and Jill Scott.”

More info here >

HopStop Family Show – Dia De Los Muertos Celebration

Saturday, October 26, 2024 @ 2:00 — 3:00 PM
Claremont Savings Bank Community Center 
152 South Street, Claremont NH

Day of the Dead is a holiday celebrated by many people of Mexican heritage. People make shrines to honor the deceased relatives featuring the person’s favorite food and drink, and gifts. This holiday is a joyful celebration which pays respect and honors deceased relatives. 

Mirna P. Lopez Acosta ’27 and Javier E. Lopez Jr. ’27, who are members of the Dartmouth Mexican Student Association (MexSA), will guide participants to create tissue paper flowers as ofrenda or offerings for our shrine. Ofrenda commemorate and celebrate the lives of deceased relatives. 

Another member of MexSA, Cesar Almeida Jr. ’27, will help us celebrate the holiday with a traditional mariachi performance. Learn to clap, stomp, sing and dance to traditional Mexican mariachi music.

All are welcome to this free family celebration.

More info >>>

Music with our friends, at Claremont Opera House:

Hope to see you at another amazing concert this weekend:

Baroque Celebrations is a program of inspiring Baroque choral music from France, Italy, and England, performed by Upper Valley Baroque. FREE tickets available for students and accompanying adult.

     Te Deum by Marc-Antoine Charpentier

     Gloria by Antonio Vivaldi 

     Coronation Anthems by Georg Frideric Handel

There will be two performances:

October 26, 2024 at 3pm at the Chandler Center for the Arts, 71 North Main Street, Randolph, VT

October 27, 2024 at 3pm at the Claremont Opera House, 58 Opera House Square, Claremont, NH

Tickets are available online at: https://www.uppervalleybaroque.org/concerts

Or you can call 203-240-1164

SAVE THE DATE for upcoming events

11/9 SAT 2 PM — Masking Making Workshop and Music with the Villalobos Brothers @ Union Church

11/9 SAT 6:30 PM — Autumnal Traditions and Dia de Muertos Performance with the Villalobos Brothers

Have you missed previous concerts? Watch them on our YouTube Channel!

Thank you for your continued support!
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Reminder—Taiko Performance Tomorrow 10/12 Saturday @ 3 PM at Broad Street Park

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Just a quick reminder for tomorrow’s performance by the Burlington Taiko.

We hope that you’ll join us tomorrow!

Stay well, be happy, keep being creative, and see you at our next event!

Burlington Taiko Performance

Burlington Taiko Group

Saturday, October 12, 2024 @ 3:00 PM — 4:30 PM
Broad Street Park
Broad Street, Claremont NH

Tickets

Join us as our friends the Burlington Taiko Group returns to Claremont for an afternoon outdoor performance.

In case of inclement weather, the event location will be at the Claremont Creative Center, 56 Opera House Square, right across the street from Broad Street Park.

Since its inception in 1987, Burlington Taiko Group has been involved in hundreds of performances, including feature performances at the 100th running of the Boston Marathon, annual performances at Burlington’s First Night, the Joseph Campbell – Keepers of the Lore festival, the Black Ships Festival in Newport, Rhode Island, and over 200 corporate, collegiate and public performances.

Taiko (太鼓) are a broad range of Japanese percussion instruments. In Japanese, the term taiko refers to any kind of drum, but outside Japan, it is used specifically to refer to any of the various Japanese drums called wadaiko (和太鼓, lit. ‘Japanese drums’) and to the form of ensemble taiko drumming more specifically called kumi-daiko (組太鼓, lit. ‘set of drums’). The process of constructing taiko varies between manufacturers, and the preparation of both the drum body and skin can take several years depending on the method.

Funded in part by the New England States Touring program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program and the six New England state arts agencies.

More info here >

SAVE THE DATE for more events in October

10/19 SAT 11AM — Food Comics for Beginners with Wayne Carter @ CCC

10/25 FRI 4PM — Songwriting Workshop with Myra Flynn @ CCC

10/25 FRI 7PM — Myra Flynn concert @ CCC

Have you missed previous concerts? Watch them on our YouTube Channel!

Thank you for your continued support!
We look forward to sharing a great summer with you in 2024.

See you at our next event!
Support the WCCMA

Japanese Taiko drumming returns! Burlington Taiko Group Workshops and an outdoor performance!

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Wow, it went from hot to cool really fast, didn’t it? The fall is upon us and you know what that means—Taiko drums!

Please check the location for each of the events!
Concert tickets by Sliding Scale donation (pay what you can). Students FREE.

Stay well, be happy, keep being creative, and see you at our next event!

Alexander Hawkins & Taylor Ho Bynum Duo at the Claremont Creative Center, 9/25/24

Claremont Taiko Club (+Introduction to Taiko)

Stuart Paton of Burlington Taiko

Thursday, October 3 & 10th, 2024 @ 6:30 — 8:45 PM
Intro Taiko 10/3 @ 6:30—7:15 PM
Claremont Creative Center
56 Opera House Square Claremont, NH

Tickets

Come drum with us! Have you played Taiko before? Or do you want to try Taiko drumming?

Join us for the Claremont Taiko Club (+Introduction to Taiko,) with Stuart Paton from the Burlington Taiko, where we share drumming and stories about Japanese culture and history.

No experience is required.

This program is supported in part by the New England States Touring program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program and the six New England state arts agencies.

More info here >

Burlington Taiko Performance

Burlington Taiko Group

Saturday, October 12, 2024 @ 3:00 — 4:30PM
Broad Street Park
Broad Street, Claremont NH

Tickets

Join us as our friends the Burlington Taiko Group returns to Claremont for an afternoon outdoor performance.

In case of inclement weather, the event location will be at the Claremont Creative Center, 56 Opera House Square, right across the street from Broad Street Park.

Since its inception in 1987, Burlington Taiko Group has been involved in hundreds of performances, including feature performances at the 100th running of the Boston Marathon, annual performances at Burlington’s First Night, the Joseph Campbell – Keepers of the Lore festival, the Black Ships Festival in Newport, Rhode Island, and over 200 corporate, collegiate and public performances.

Taiko (太鼓) are a broad range of Japanese percussion instruments. In Japanese, the term taiko refers to any kind of drum, but outside Japan, it is used specifically to refer to any of the various Japanese drums called wadaiko (和太鼓, lit. ‘Japanese drums’) and to the form of ensemble taiko drumming more specifically called kumi-daiko (組太鼓, lit. ‘set of drums’). The process of constructing taiko varies between manufacturers, and the preparation of both the drum body and skin can take several years depending on the method.

Funded in part by the New England States Touring program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program and the six New England state arts agencies.

More info here >

SAVE THE DATE for more events in October

10/19 SAT 11AM — Food Comics for Beginners with Wayne Carter @ CCC

10/25 FRI 4PM — Songwriting Workshop with Myra Flynn @ CCC

10/25 FRI 7PM — Myra Flynn concert @ CCC

Have you missed previous concerts? Watch them on our YouTube Channel!

Thank you for your continued support!
We look forward to sharing a great summer with you in 2024.

See you at our next event!
Support the WCCMA