Two Old Friends Free Concert

Please join us for a memorable afternoon filled with lively music and the company of “Two Old Friends!”

Reservations are not required. The concert is free and open to the public, sponsored by the Hunt Building Board of Trustees and made possible with a grant from the NH Charitable Foundation.

Multi-talented traditional musicians "Mac" McHale and Emery "Hutch" Hutchins, "Two old Friends," return to the Hunt Building to once again delight the audience. Mac and Hutch were the founders and original long-time members of Northeast Winds.

Mac, who lives in Kennebunk, Maine, heads up Mac McHale and the Old Time Radio Gang, and Hutch, of York, Maine, has been a key member of the world famous Irish group, the Angel Band. There's something to enjoy for everyone in a Two Old Friends concert – plaintive Irish ballads, foot- stomping shout tunes, soaring mandolin solos, gospel sign-a-longs, and storytelling. Mac and Hutch entertain with a combination of traditional Irish music and American country music playing the banjo, guitar, mandolin, concertina, bodran and octave mandolin. With their instrumental pieces and their heartwarming vocal harmonies, they tell a story in music of how immigrants from Ireland, Scotland and Great Britain brought their rich musical traditions to America, and how this music was the inspiration for the wonderful tunes coming out of Appalachia.