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 ... Read more

Hari Maya Adhikari,  Prem Sagar Khatiwada, David Nugent, William Fletcher, and Sushil Gautam perform a variety of traditional Indian and Nepalese tunes. Hari Maya Adhikari is originally from Nepal, holds a Master’s in Music from the Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, India, and taught music at a university in Nepal. She performs for Indian, Bhutanese, ... Read more

Hari Maya Adhikari  and David Nugent will present a lecture on traditional Indian string instruments and their use in the creation and performance of Raga music. A raga  is a melodic framework for improvisation in, and is central to, Indian and Nepalese classical music. Each raga consists of an array of melodic structures with musical motifs; and, ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

With St. Patrick's Day just around the corner, join the Concord Community Music School's folk faculty as they share some of our favorite songs and fiddle tunes from the Celtic tradition. A trio of fiddlers - Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki, Liz Faiella, and Audrey Budington - will join forces with guitarist Dan Faiella to present toe-tapping fiddle ... Read more

A beloved song of the Anglo-Celtic folk song tradition, “John Barleycorn” parodies the traditional murder ballad style as it traces the life cycle of barley as it grows, is harvested, and turned into beer. Guitarist and CCMS faculty Dan Faiella, in turn, will trace the cycles of rebirth of the song itself as it winds ... Read more

Photo by Daniel B. Friedman   RESCHEDULED! Pianist Jacqueline Schwab spins musical stories out of the myriad strands in the American quilt and with the spirit of community music making at their heart. Her signature playing features in over a dozen of Ken Burns’ documentaries, including his Grammy-winning Civil War, Baseball, Lewis and Clark, Mark ... Read more

Yes, we're having a Bach's Lunch on a Friday! The Family Hodes returns for their annual Valentine's Day Bach's Lunch, with Kent Allyn. Peggo and Paul Hodes have been musical partners with Kent Allyn for going on three decades…YIKES! As a trio, they have been performing, recording multiple albums and sharing beach bonfires for years. ... Read more

Emily Adams and Cody Switzer will perform songs from the English Renaissance and pair them with selections from the Beatles catalogue. Together, we’ll take a trip across time from the 1560s to 1960s! With my love, my life was nestled (Thomas Morley; 1557-1602) Yesterday (Paul McCartney; 1942-) It was a Lover and his Lass (Thomas ... Read more