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Visit the North Country on Memorial Day weekend to enjoy this great festival! This year, arts & crafts vendors will be set up both in the pavilion and outside on the surrounding grounds. Food vendors will be set up on a lawn adjacent to the pavilion. The gazebo will serve as the music stage. Details & vendor registration available at www.dixvillenotchfestival.com.
Free admission. Info: 603-237-1898.
Wildlife photographer Roger Irwin will exhibit his photographs in the Gallery through June 14. Come to the reception on May 24, from 5-7 p.m., meet Roger and see his amazing wildlife photos! Refreshments will be served. Free admission.
Ben Cosgrove returns for an afternoon of “electric and exhilarating” music.
Admission: $10/students $5. Sponsored by the Tillotson North Country Foundation.
Ben Cosgrove is a traveling composer-performer whose music explores themes of landscape, place, and environment in North America. Ben has performed in every U.S. state except Delaware and Hawaii, and held artist residencies and fellowships with institutions including the National Park Service, the National Forest Service, Harvard University, Middlebury College, the Schmidt Ocean Institute, and the Sitka Center for Art & Ecology. His nonfiction has appeared in Orion, Taproot, Northern Woodlands, Appalachia, and other publications. He is based around New England.
If you enjoy retro-Rock music from the 1960s and ’70s and like to dance, the Great North Woods Committee for the Arts invites you to the Colebrook Country Club on Saturday, May 12. That night local favorites Rock On will be turning out the hits from yesterday.
The show begins at 7 p.m. and the Country Club will have the dance floor down and ready to roll. Rock On features Jules Rancourt on guitar, Katie Rancourt on drums, Bernie Walling on guitar and Tom Jordan on bass. Jules has been a veteran of the music scene for decades, starting off with rock music of the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, exploring country music in the ’90s, and returning to vintage rock with the creation of Rock On. Jules is joined by longtime collaborator Bernie Walling of Bloomfield, Vt., who brings his surf guitar licks out in full force. Tom Jordan, a member of multiple area bands, holds down the basslines, and the real fire in the group comes from the drumming of Jules’ daughter, Katie. Her aggressive performance of “Wipe Out” is always a crowd-pleaser wherever the band goes. Expect everything from The Beatles to Bryan Adams to Creedence Clearwater Revival, and everything in-between.
Tickets are $15 and available at Fiddleheads, Main St., Colebrook, online at www.gnwca.org or at the door. For more information on this and other GNWCA shows, find the Great North Woods Committee for the Arts on Facebook, visit www.gnwca.org or you can call (603) 237-9302 or (603) 246-8998.
Instructors Bob Amos, Alan Epstein, and Ellen Carlson, will teach the Wernick Method at the Bluegrass Jam Camp. The Instructors will kick off the weekend on Friday, May 4, at 7 p.m with a one hour concert. On Saturday, May 5 from 6-9 p.m. is a jam session with instructors and students. The jam session is free and open to the public.
https://www.drbanjo.com/camps-amos-epstein-carlson-colebrook-2018.php
Featuring internationally acclaimed bluegrass musician and songwriter Bob Amos, Alan Epstein, who has studied with some of the top mandolin players in the world, and Ellen Carlson, who has been performing on fiddle for over 35 years.
This trio is teaming up to offer the Bluegrass Jam Camp Weekend on Saturday and Sunday, May 5 and May 6. To kick off the weekend, the pair will offer a mini-concert on Friday, May 4, at 7 p.m. Students of the Jam Camp will receive a free ticket. Tickets $8 online / $10 at the door.
Cold Chocolate is a groovy Americana band that fuses bluegrass, folk, and rock to create a sound all their own. With tight three-part harmony and skillful musicianship, this trio from Boston is impressing audiences throughout New England and beyond. Sponsored by Northern Tire. Tickets available online and at the door. Tickets $10 /$5 students.
The sweet sound of The Heather Pierson Acoustic Trio returns to the Center. They burst onto the national folk scene in 2015 with their debut EP, Still She Will Fly. It features the multi-genre depth of Heather’s songwriting — ranging from folk ballads to blues to New Orleans traditional jazz — their intricate instrumental arrangements, and stirring three-part vocal harmonies. Tickets $10 /$5 students.
Get ready to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in grand style at the Colebrook Country Club, as the region’s largest Celtic ensemble gathers in town to celebrate the music of the Emerald Isle.
That’s the night that Islay Mist Ceilidh comes to Colebrook bringing in a host of Irish tunes — and then some — with a successive blast of jigs, reels, airs and some familiar tunes to sing along with.
Islay Mist Ceilidh is a group of musicians from all over northern New Hampshire who first started out playing Celtic music for fun. That fun has grown to include numerous gigs at various venues and events; the band plays several times a year at the Appalachian Mountain Club’s Highland Center Inn in Crawford Notch, at the Lancaster Fair, and for the past three years has been among the headliners at the annual First Night-North New Year’s Eve celebration in St. Johnsbury, Vt.
Islay Mist Ceilidh includes fiddlers, guitarists, twin bodhrans, flutes, penny whistle, and cello. The group recently recorded its first CD, which will be available for purchase at the show.
Come and join the fun and don’t forget to wear your green — and join in the singing to some old Irish favorites, including “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling,” “Danny Boy” and “Irish Lullaby.” Whether you’re of Irish heritage or just Irish for the day, you will have a great time — and that’s no blarney.
Tickets for the St. Patrick’s Day celebration are available at Fiddleheads in Colebrook or at the door on the night of the show. General admission prices are: adults, $15, students, $12, children under 12, $5. For more information on this and other GNWCA shows, visit www.gnwca.org or call 603-237-9302 or 603-246-8998.
In February of 2014 the North Country Mushers hosted the first Great North Woods Sled Dog Challenge in Colebrook, NH. Our inaugural race was a great success and in 2015 the race increased to a three day, multi-location stage race.
Stage racing, a long-time popular concept in the west, is a series of shorter races that are hosted by a different community each day. Teams and mushers rest overnight between stages in the hosting towns, bringing lucrative business to local eateries, pubs, shops and lodging establishments. The cumulative times of each stage of the race are added together to determine the final winner of the entire race.
The 2018 race includes a 10 dog class, a 6 dog class and a skijor class (1-2 dogs), all with stages between 18-30 miles.
Note: This schedule is tentative and may be changed closer to the race!
Thursday March 8:
Location TBA
6 PM – Meet the Mushers Banquet* hosted by Pittsburg Ridge Runners, Pittsburg NH – Open to public!
6-8 PM – Musher Check-in & Registration Deadline
8 PM – Musher Meeting and Bib Draw*
Friday March 9: – Pittsburg NH – Stage 1:
Events to be held at Ramblewood Cabins & Campground unless otherwise noted
Friday March 9:
5 PM – Meet the Mushers Banquet – Location TBA* – Open to public!
Saturday March 10 – Dixville Notch/Colebrook NH – Stage 2:
Events to be held at The Balsams Resort unless otherwise noted
9 AM – Mushers Report to staging area for pre-race meeting*
10 AM – Race Start
11 AM – 1 PM – Watch dogteams finish.
5 PM – Meet the Mushers Banquet @ Colebrook Country Club* – Open to public!
Saturday March 10:
5 PM – Meet the Mushers Banquet @ Colebrook Country Club – Open to public!
Sunday March 11:
Events to be held at
Coleman Estates at Coleman State Park in Stewartstown NH unless otherwise noted
8:30 AM – Stage Mushers Report to staging area (Coleman Estates) for pre-race meeting*
9:30 AM – 1 Day Ray Mushers Report to staging area (Coleman Estates) for pre-race meeting*
10 AM – Race Start (Stage racers will go out first, followed by a 30 minute break, then 1 Day Racers)
12 noon – 3 PM – Watch dogteams finish.
1 Hour after last racer finishes – Awards Ceremony @ Colebrook Country Club – Open to public!