Come to Concord Community Music School for our Family Music Festival on Saturday, August 29 from 12- 4 pm. This afternoon will be jam-packed with musical fun for all ages – no experience necessary!
<ul><li>Our popular Instrument “Petting Zoo” will be open from 12 – 3 pm throughout the building</li><li>Demo Classes, Jams and Activities will include: music and movement, intro to Suzuki violin, drum circle, folk jam, open rock/jazz jam, chamber music reading party, and a pop-up chorus singalong</li><li>Live entertainment from the <a href="https://krimsonkrewe.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Krimson Krewe</a> on the Fletcher Murphy Park Stage at 3 pm. Krimson Krewe is a funky Mardi Gras New Orleans second line jazz band! They dive deep into the NOLA non-traditional songbook searching for those lost and forgotten musical nuggets. Come see this Krimson Krewe concert and your soul will shake, and you will leave loving the world more than you did when you entered!</li><li>Food Trucks will be on-site, courtesy of Sunfox Farm and Savvy Sweets</li><li>Face Painting, instrument making, giveaways and more!</li></ul>This event is sponsored in part by the City of Concord.

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Family Music Festival

Come to Concord Community Music School for our Family Music Festival on Saturday, August 29 from 12- 4 pm. This afternoon will...

Concord Community Music School

October 1 @ 12:10 pm - 1:00 pmConcord Community Music School, Concord NHFree and open to the public.The Folk Music revival of the 1960s set guitarist and music producer Jim Prendergast on a fifty year journey that took him from busking on the Left Bank of Paris to the recording studios and orchestra pits of Nashville. Come hear songs and anecdotes from this “60s folksinger who got in way too deep.”

Local Event: Bach's Lunch: Jim Prendergast

Bach's Lunch: Jim Prendergast

October 1 @ 12:10 pm - 1:00 pmConcord Community Music School, Concord NHFree and open to the public.The Folk Music revival of...

Saturday, October 3, 2026 Concord Community Music School, Concord NH Festival 10am-3:30pm, Concert 4:30pm Workshops + Concert: $120 (includes lunch) |&nbsp;You must register for the workshops in advance. A concert ticket will be included in your workshop registration.
Workshops&nbsp;open to all novice to advanced fiddlers and violinists, ages teen to adult. All fiddlers, including novice level, should have a basic familiarity with their instrument and some playing experience!
Concert&nbsp;open to the public! Tickets required.
Fiddlers from the Celtic and New England fiddling traditions will join forces in Concord for the eighth Fall Fiddle Festival, a day packed with workshops and group playing for fiddlers (and violinists who are interested in learning to fiddle!). The Festival, open to teens and adults, will include workshops on a variety of topics at the novice, intermediate, and advanced levels. In the late afternoon, all three fiddle faculty members will present a toe-tapping concert of fiddle music open to the public.&nbsp;

Local Event: Fall Fiddle Festival: Workshop Registration

Fall Fiddle Festival: Workshop Registration

Saturday, October 3, 2026 Concord Community Music School, Concord NH Festival 10am-3:30pm, Concert 4:30pm   Workshops +...

Fiddlers from the Celtic and New England fiddling traditions will join forces in Concord for the eighth Fall Fiddle Festival Concert, to present a toe-tapping afternoon concert of fiddle music open to the public.&nbsp;
The Festival concert will feature guest fiddle faculty member Alden Robinson, alongside two of New Hampshire’s own fiddling favorites, Audrey Budington and Liz Faiella. They’ll be joined for the afternoon concert by guitarist Dan Faiella.
Guest faculty member Alden Robinson has toured and recorded with Irish trad band The Press Gang and plays for dances with the contra dance band Riptide, along with many other beloved collaborators and side projects. In 2017 he participated in the Arts Envoy program with the U.S. State Department in Lithuania.
Fiddle faculty member Audrey Budington, who teaches at the Concord Community Music School, studied extensively with the likes of Darol Anger, Maeve Gilchrist, and Eugene Friesen, and is fluent in various fiddling styles. In July 2024, Audrey became a member of The Recording Academy, an organization that hosts the Grammy Awards, and she is the fiddler for The Rebel Collective, a Concord-based Irish/Rock band.
Fiddle faculty and festival director Liz Faiella, chair of the Folk Department at the Music School, has taken the stage at premier folk venues throughout New England, and has shared the traditional Celtic and New England folk music she loves with fiddle students at a variety of camps, festivals, and community music schools. She is now active as a YouTube and Patreon creator, sharing her fiddle teaching worldwide.
In the afternoon concert, the fiddlers will share the stage with guitarist Dan Faiella. Trained as an accompanist through years of playing for New England contra dances and alongside Irish fiddlers, Dan has performed at venues and festivals around the country with numerous traditional music groups.

Local Event: Fall Fiddle Festival Concert

Fall Fiddle Festival Concert

Fiddlers from the Celtic and New England fiddling traditions will join forces in Concord for the eighth Fall Fiddle Festival...

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