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NH native Seth Meyers heads home for Friday show

Firas Zreik is a Palestine-born, Brooklyn-based composer and kanun player at MacDowell for his first residency to work on an instrumental suite featuring the kanun – a multi-stringed instrument common to the Arabic world.Zreik, a Berklee College of...

“If you havent learned the meaning of friendship, you really havent learned anything.” – Muhammad AliCan a friendship be the most central relationship in our lives? That is the question at the heart of first-time MacDowell fellow Aaron Edwards’ new...

The merchants of Depot Square and downtown Peterborough will be open late for the first in-person First Friday of the year Friday, April 7, from 5 to 7 p.m. or later.Merchants include The Apothecary at its new location in Depot Square, where people...

Nora Stanley has been busy.At MacDowell for her first residency, the multi-instrumentalist and composer is taking time out from nonstop session work, gigging and touring in one of MacDowell’s composition studios. She’s composing some arrangements of...

On Friday, Feb. 3, at 5 p.m., the Jaffrey Civic Center will present its next installment of “Stories to Share.”David Macy, MacDowell interim executive director, will be the season’s fifth speaker. Macy will share anecdotes illustrating the...

Last modified: 11/5/2014 7:07:04 PM From polka to post-modern, and John Williams to John Zorn, accordionist Guy Klucevsek has expanded the repertoire of his versatile instrument for more than 40 years. He’ll bring his squeeze box to the Monadnock Center for History and Culture Friday, at 7:30 p.m. at the beginning of his first residency at The MacDowell Colony. Klucevsek, busy with composing, performing in his own groups, or recording for others, hasn’t found time for an artist’s res...