Music and Nightlife

Join us in the Serkin Dance Studio to experience new works in development from NYC’s MasterZ at Work Dance Family and New Chamber Ballet. The Guggenheim’s Works & Process LaunchPad residencies return to the Marlboro campus in January. Among the groups that will be developing new work here are: Ballroom icon Courtney “Balenciaga” Washington and […] ...

A great night of blues, rock, r&b, and alternative, with ample opportunity for dancing! Always a killer night with Jim Murphy & company! Murphy’s Blues was the house band of the legendary Rynborn Blues club starting in 2004. The band continued as a regional favorite until the pandemic hit. Jim built the new band three […] ...

Keene Mutual Aid is hosting an open mic! Sign up in advance via the link in this event page, and make a donation to support all they do! The open mic will be from 7-9 pm on Jan 15th, right here at Nova Arts (48 Emerald St, Keene, NH 03431). Performances of music, poetry, writing, […] ...

Incredible percussionist here on tour from Germany, Keene State alumnus and composer, plus Q’s poems?? A magical evening awaits you! Whether combining the rhythmic timbres of wood, metal and audience claps or duetting with the atmospheric and elegiac echoed sounds of water dripping into a metal basin, Bex Burch is a composer, percussionist, producer and […] ...

Vermont Jazz CenterIn-person & live streamed Zaccai Curtis is a pianist, composer, & producer known for fusing the essential elements of Latin jazz & bebop languages. Most recently, his album Cubop Lives!, released under his own, collective label (Truth Revolution), won the 2025 Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album. Curtis leads a powerhouse Latin […] ...

Featuring Marlboro artists David Bernat & Deborah Pae, this outstanding quartet presents an informal concert during their winter residency. Now in its second season, Marlboro Music’s artist residency program brings exceptional emerging chamber music ensembles to the Marlboro campus throughout the year for deep creative work and concert offerings. Each group is in residence for […] ...

Legendary western Mass chamber pop / folk / indie rock band is back with a new album! Eli Dworkin opens! Going to be a lot feelings! The critically acclaimed Massachusetts quintet Winterpills returns with their first album in nine years. “This Is How We Dance” deepens their catalog of elegant chamber pop that’s “haunting…downright glorious […] ...

Join us for an early show with the inspiring folks from Apple Hill! Eclectic classical music and an unmatchable community vibe! An eclectic concert of music by Hildegard von Bingen, W.A. Mozart, Dana Lyn, and Kareem Roustom. With special musical guests: clarinetist Rane Moore and Kareem Roustom, oud. Apple Hill exists to perform, teach, and […] ...

An extraordinary night of jazz! NYC stalwarts land in town with Keene native JP Schlegelmilch in tow! We believe that jazz is liberation music, a means of connecting us to our humanity, our communities and to nature. As an expression of radical love, free music empowers us to fight fascism, racism, militarism, and economic exploitation. […] ...

On Saturday, February 7, 2027, Marigold Brattleboro welcome back  The Bottom Dollars, a dynamic New England string band known for their tight harmonies, driving banjo, and soaring fiddle. From overlooked bluegrass gems to original compositions, this trio delivers a sound that’s both timeless and immediate. Featuring Betsy Green (fiddle, vocals), Dave Shaw (banjo, mandolin, vocals), and Tim […] ...

Two of our favorite party bands from NH & VT! Warm up and get your body moving this Valentines Day Mardi Gras superholiday! American music and New Orleans Mardi Gras culture have been inextricably linked for 200 years, ever since the imported, enslaved African people, mixing with a similarly oppressed native American culture, found free […] ...

Brattleboro Bal Folk Broad Brook Community Center, 3940 Guilford Center Rd, Guilford, VT 05301 (just outside Brattleboro) Sunday, Feb 15, 6:30-9 pm Fun, accessible French and European traditional dances.  No experience or partner necessary. Live music and dance instruction by Eloise & Co.   Dance: Suggested donation sliding scale $12-$25 ———————————————————– Bal folk is a […] ...

Wolfman Jack return for their Winter Concert! Wolfman Jack is a live music project of musicians from the New England area performing the psychedelic and electrifying Live Dead to Europe 72′ era of The Grateful Dead. A true dance band in the style of such legendary venues as The Fillmores’, Carousel Ballroom, Avalon Ballroom, Winterland […] ...

Featuring Marlboro cellist Macintyre Taback, this emerging quartet presents a free concert on April 17 as part of its spring residency. Now in its second season, Marlboro Music’s artist residency program brings exceptional emerging chamber music ensembles to the Marlboro campus throughout the year for deep creative work and concert offerings. Each group is in […] ...