CCMS Student Recital - November 21, 2025
2025-11-21 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | CCMS Recital Hall
Student recitals are part of the Concord Community Music School’s multi-level curriculum for private lesson students. These frequent performance opportunities help our students perform more easily, broaden their musical skills, and help them make new musical friends.
This event will be held in our historic Recital Hall. It is free of charge and open to the public. Donations are appreciated.

Northern Lights 2025 Fall Concert: Songs of Hope and Resilience
2025-11-22 19:00 - 20:30 | CCMS Recital Hall
with special guests Euphonias (CCMS teen chorus).
Prepare to be empowered and uplifted. This program is based on the poem by Emily Dickinson, “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all.”
The Northern Lights will be singing songs that answer the chaos of life with hope, light, and resilience. Song titles include: “Hope Lingers On” (written by Lissa Schneckenburger, a traditional fiddle player who used to teach at CCMS, “We Will Rise”, “Resilience”, “Light of a Clear Blue Morning”, and “Tending the Spark”.
As the Northern Lights know that singing together makes people happy, they have also planned several sing-alongs, including “If Not Now, Tell Me When?”, “The Power of Kindness”, and “Singing for our Lives”.
Instrumentation includes guitars, piano, cajon, and percussion.
The concert takes place in the Recital Hall at Concord Community Music School. Tickets are $15 by general admission, and can be purchased here, at 603-228-1196 or in person at the Music School. Learn more about the Northern Lights here and about the Euphonias here.

Bach's Lunch: Canterbury Singers 2025 Holiday Recital and Sing-Along
2025-12-04 12:10 - 13:00 | CCMS Recital Hall
The Canterbury Singers are back with “Sing We Nowell!”, another concert of fun and traditional holiday tunes as well as selections from the Shaker, Deep South, and Gospel traditions. The audience will be joining us for our traditional carol singing, too!
All Bach’s Lunch performances are free and open to the public. They are presented in part through the generosity of the Walker Fund.
About the Canterbury Singers:
The Canterbury Singers partner with the Canterbury Shaker Village to present authentic Shaker music, expanded by arrangements of American folk songs, music of early America, and inspired arrangements by a variety of composers. One of the very few non-auditioned, high quality professionally directed choral experiences for mixed voices (men and women blended ensemble) in the Capital Area.

Bach's Lunch: Good People All: A Celtic Christmas (Liz & Dan Faiella)
2025-12-11 12:10 - 12:50 | CCMS Recital Hall
As Christmastide draws near, enjoy music for the season with a Celtic spin, performed by Liz Faiella, fiddle and vocals and Dan Faiella, guitar. Liz & Dan will draw on repertoire from their new Christmas album, Good People All, to bring you everything from a fiddler’s take on medieval chant, to fingerstyle guitar arrangements of carols, to favorite Christmas folk songs. CDs and digital downloads of the album will be available for purchase at the concert, as well as winter landscape paintings by Dan Faiella for the art lover on your gift list!
Liz Faiella’s study of Celtic fiddling, training in classical violin, and love of social dancing have shaped her musical approach. Alongside her brother, guitarist Dan Faiella, she has taken the stage at premier folk venues throughout New England, including Club Passim, the Acadia Trad Festival, Maine Celtic Celebration, Little Sea Folk Festival, and the Boston Celtic Music Festival. An experienced teacher, she has shared her craft with students at camps, festivals, and community music schools. Liz is chair of the Folk Department at the Concord Community Music School in Concord, NH, where she teaches fiddle students, coaches the Celtic Fiddle Ensemble, and organizes the School’s annual Fall Fiddle Festival. She also is active as a YouTube and Patreon creator, teaching fiddle tunes and techniques far and wide.
Dan Faiella is a guitarist specializing in traditional Celtic music. Trained as an accompanist through years of playing for New England contradances and for Irish fiddlers, he has performed at venues and festivals around the country with numerous traditional music groups. In his solo playing, Dan’s fingerstyle arrangements of traditional songs and tunes draw extensively on techniques and ornamentation from traditional idioms beyond those directly related to the guitar, such as Celtic harp-playing, sean-nós singing, and uilleann piping. Over many years of playing solo and collaboratively, he has developed an ability to adapt and synthesize these sounds into the context of the unique arrangement capabilities of the guitar.
Bach’s Lunches are free and open to the public. They are made possible in part through the generosity of the Walker Fund.

CCMS Student Recital - December 12, 2025
2025-12-12 19:00 - 20:00 | CCMS Recital Hall

2025 Holiday Folk Concert
2025-12-13 19:00 - 21:00 | CCMS Recital Hall
Purchase Tickets Here

Three of New England’s finest come together for an evening of old and new Christmas classics, along with songs and tunes for the season. With guitars, vocals, piano, mandolin, fiddle, upright and electric bass, Susie Burke, Kent Allyn and Steve Roy cover a lot of ground and take audiences on a December trip through folk, bluegrass, swing and an occasional Great American Songbook gem. This annual event is one of our best-loved, and best-attended events of the year, so be sure to buy your tickets ahead of time!

Susie Burke is a singer, guitarist, educator and songwriter from southern Maine. Well-versed in a variety of contemporary and traditional folk styles, Susie is best known for her work in a duo with her husband, multi-instrumentalist and composer David Surette, with whom she recorded seven albums and performed for thirty-five years. Reviews in the Boston Globe have said of Burke’s singing, “her dark crystal voice is transporting”, and “her phrasing is unerringly devoted to the lyric”. Susie continues to perform and teach throughout New England and beyond, bringing a collaborative and joyful style to sharing music.
Kent Allyn is an in-demand accompanist and studio musician, as well as a key member of several groups, including Ben Baldwin & the Big Note, and the Renovators. His stellar bass, piano, and electric guitar work have been heard on numerous recordings, Susie and David’s among them.
Steve Roy is a multi-instrumentalist from Eliot, Maine who plays and teaches upright bass, mandolin, fiddle, guitar, and ukulele. Fluent in a vast array of musical styles from bluegrass to jazz to heavy metal, he has toured with many of the acoustic world’s top acts, and is well known locally for his work with numerous groups such as Old Hat Stringband, Jazzputin and the Jug Skunks, High Range, and Steve and Dave Play Dead, his Grateful Dead tribute duo with David Surette.

Tickets are $25 for adults and $20 for students/seniors, and can be purchased online or in person at the Music School.
For questions, please call 603-228-1196.
Please note: there are no physical tickets for this event. When you purchase tickets, your name will be put on a list and we will check you in at the door.

Purple Finches Dec 2025 Winter Concert
2025-12-15 18:30 - 19:30
Join us for a winter concert by our Purple Finches Youth Chorus. This group is led by Maria Isaak and will be accompanied tonight by pianist Kathy Southworth.
The ensemble is composed of three divisions to allow for an age-appropriate sequence of musical development. Participants learn basic music elements through high quality literature such as rhythm, solfège, ear-training, memory development, hand signs, and proper singing technique based on Kodály methods. For children also learning an instrument, it strengthens sight-reading, ear-training, and rhythmic security. For others, it’s an excellent introduction to music. And for all, it’s a rich experience of creativity and self-expression.
This event is free of charge and open to the public. Donations are appreciated.
Learn more about the Purple Finches at ccmusicschool.org/purple-finches-youth-chorus/

Adult Student Recital - December 17, 2025
2025-12-17 19:00 - 20:00 | CCMS Recital Hall
Student recitals are part of the Concord Community Music School’s multi-level curriculum for private lesson students. These frequent performance opportunities help our students perform more easily, broaden their musical skills, and help them make new musical friends. This performance features our adult students, across a variety of genres.
This event will be held in our Community Room. It is free of charge and open to the public. Donations are appreciated.

Flute Studio Recital - December 18, 2025
2025-12-18 18:00 - 19:00 | CCMS Recital Hall
Student recitals are part of the Concord Community Music School’s multi-level curriculum for private lesson students. These frequent performance opportunities help our students perform more easily, broaden their musical skills, and help them make new musical friends. This performance features the students of CCMS flute faculty members Erin Dubois and Natalie Talbot.
This event will be held in our Community Room. It is free of charge and open to the public. Donations are appreciated.

CCMS Student Recital - December 19, 2025
2025-12-19 18:00 - 20:00 | CCMS Recital Hall
Student recitals are part of the Concord Community Music School’s multi-level curriculum for private lesson students. These frequent performance opportunities help our students perform more easily, broaden their musical skills, and help them make new musical friends.
This events will be held in our historic Recital Hall. It is free of charge and open to the public. Donations are appreciated.

CCMS Piano Student Recital (Szi-Miklos)
2025-12-19 18:30 - 19:30
Student recitals are part of the Concord Community Music School’s multi-level curriculum for private lesson students. These frequent performance opportunities help our students perform more easily, broaden their musical skills, and help them make new musical friends.
This performance features piano students of Zsanett Szi-Miklos. It will be held in our Community Room. It is free of charge and open to the public. Donations are appreciated.

String Dept Student Recital (Slater)
2025-12-20 16:00 - 17:00 | CCMS Recital Hall
Student recitals are part of the Concord Community Music School’s multi-level curriculum for private lesson students. These frequent performance opportunities help our students perform more easily, broaden their musical skills, and help them make new musical friends.
This performance features students of Ariel Slater. It will be held in our historic Recital Hall. It is free of charge and open to the public. Donations are appreciated.

CCMS Strings Student Recital (Budington/Fuller/Patramanska-Bell)
2025-12-20 18:00 - 19:30
Student recitals are part of the Concord Community Music School’s multi-level curriculum for private lesson students. These frequent performance opportunities help our students perform more easily, broaden their musical skills, and help them make new musical friends.
This performance features students of Audrey Budington, Jan Fuller, and Olga Patramanska-Bell. It will be held in our historic Recital Hall. It is free of charge and open to the public. Donations are appreciated.

Bach's Lunch: West African Drumming Traditions (Grace Schust and Lindsey Schust)
2026-01-08 12:10 - 12:50 | CCMS Recital Hall
Come experience the joy of the West African drumming traditions!
Grace and Lindsey Schust, mother-daughter team and directors of the Songweaver Drummers, will give an interactive talk and demonstration to the Concord area on January , 2026 as a part of our Bach’s Lunch series.
The Schust family has a deep connection with the West African drum traditions. In the late 1990s, they opened a custom drum business, Timbre Drums, and built a large “ashiko” drum for Nigerian music icon Babatunde Olatunji, which he played around the world. Their “Baba drum” was shown in the Brookline Museum from 2023-2024 as a part of Spike Lee’s “Creative Sources” exhibit.
Anyone who heard a Songweaver’s concert will be familiar with integral role of the drums through-out. Grace Schust founded the Songweaver Drummers in 1993, joined by Lindsey in 2003. The drumming ensemble grew out of the Songweavers women’s community chorus.
Grace and Lindsey will talk about the joys of drumming as a cross-cultural pathway, wellness practice, and community builder. They will talk about the influence of Olatunji’s drum teaching method and his far reaching influence on popularizing African drums abroad.
The Schusts will demonstrate traditional West African rhythms and chants and get the audience involved with call and response singing.
Bach’s Lunches are free and open to the public. They are made possible in part through the generosity of the Walker Fund.

CCMS Student Recital - January 15, 2026
2026-01-15 19:00 - 20:00 | CCMS Recital Hall

CCMS Student Recital - January 16, 2026
2026-01-16 19:00 - 20:00 | CCMS Recital Hall

CCMS New Horizons Band 2026 Winter Concert
2026-01-22 18:30 - 19:30 | Concord High School, 170 Warren St., Concord, NH, 03301, United States
Get ready to experience the warmth of music this winter!
The New Horizons Band is a community band that welcomes adults of all ages who play woodwind, brass, or percussion instruments. No auditions, no requirements, just reasonable comfort on your instrument to get started. Under the direction of Maria Isaak, New Horizons at CCMS is a supportive group for those who have always wanted to learn an instrument, those who haven’t played in years, and even players who have kept their music making current and desire to play in a concert band setting. Learn more about the Band at ccmusicschool.org/new-horizons-band/
This concert will be held at Concord High School. It is free, open to the public, and made possible in part due to the support of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation’s Ellen Downing Waite and Edward Osgood Waite Fund.
(Snow date is Thu, Jan 29.)

CCMS Integrated Arts Recital - Feb 19, 2026
2026-02-19 19:00 - 20:00
Student recitals are part of the Music School’s multi-level curriculum for private lesson students. These frequent performance opportunities help our students perform more easily, broaden their musical skills, and help them make new musical friends.
This performance is extra-special because participants have the opportunity to display visual art they have created, using their music as inspiration. These images will be projected on screen as they perform.
This event will be held in our historic Recital Hall. It is free of charge and open to the public. Donations are appreciated.

CCMS Student Recital - March 13, 2026
2026-03-13 19:00 - 20:00 | CCMS Recital Hall

CCMS Student Recital - April 24, 2026
2026-04-24 19:00 - 20:00 | CCMS Recital Hall

Adult Student Recital - May 13, 2026
2026-05-13 19:00 - 20:00 | CCMS Recital Hall

CCMS Student Recital - May 15, 2026 (2 Recitals!)
2026-05-15 18:00 - 20:00 | CCMS Recital Hall
Student recitals are part of the Concord Community Music School’s multi-level curriculum for private lesson students. These frequent performance opportunities help our students perform more easily, broaden their musical skills, and help them make new musical friends.
Recitals to be held at 6 & 7PM. Each lasts one hour.
These events will be held in our historic Recital Hall. They are free of charge and open to the public. Donations are appreciated.

New Horizons Band 2026 Spring Concert
2026-05-21 18:30 - 19:30
The New Horizons Band is a community band that welcomes adults of all ages who play woodwind, brass, or percussion instruments. No auditions, no requirements, just reasonable comfort on your instrument to get started.
Under the direction of Maria Isaak, New Horizons at CCMS is a supportive group for those who have always wanted to learn an instrument, those who haven’t played in years, and even players who have kept their music making current and desire to play in a concert band setting.
Learn more about the Band at ccmusicschool.org/new-horizons-band/
This event is free and open to the public. It will be held at Fletcher-Murphy Park (adjacent to CCMS on Fayette St.)
(Rain date is Thu, May 28.)

Songweaver Drummers Recital - Spring 2026
2026-05-27 19:00 - 20:00
Songweaver Drummers is open to intermediate and experienced women drummers with at least one year’s experience, where they can learn African hand-drumming techniques taught in the oral tradition. Join us for their end-of-year recital.
This lively performance is free and open to the public. It will be held in our Community Room.

CCMS Student Recital - May 29, 2026 (2 Recitals!)
2026-05-29 18:00 - 20:00 | CCMS Recital Hall
