Upcoming Concerts and Special Events

We welcome announcements for all choral events in our community. If you know the dates, even tentative ones, for future concerts, send details using THIS FORM to catherine@conmx.net

2026 Winter Music

The Seven Last Words of Christ – Franz Joseph Haydn

  • Palm Sunday, March 29 at 4pm – Norwich Congregational Church, Norwich, VT
  • Good Friday, April 3 at 7 pm – Stowe Community Church, Main Street, Stowe, VT
  • Martha Peck, soprano; Cara Hill, alto; Brian Clancy, tenor; Jose Schmidt, bass
  • Susan Janes, violin; Ann Kowalski, violin; Bill Pierson, viola; Melissa Perley, cello

A Holy Week musical tradition in Vermont for over three decades! First organized in 1991 by the late violinist Bert Francke (1940-2025), an octet has performed this sublime piece in two different Vermont towns every Holy Week since then, except during the pandemic. One need not be Christian to appreciate the narrative power of Haydn’s poignant, bracingly dramatic portrayal of Christ’s final hours on the cross.

Free-will donations to benefit local community outreach.

All are welcome.

2026 Spring Music

Bach Marathon

The Hanover-based Bach Study Group is back with our annual Bach Marathon. All ages, instruments, and voices are welcome. Sign up for one or more 15-minute time slots to perform Bach’s music using this link: bit.ly/2026-bach

Time slots from 11:30 am to 3:15 are full. Slots from 10:00 to 11:30 and from 3:15 to 5:00 are still available.

Blue Streak Quartet

  • Friday, April 17 – 3:30 pm
  • New Books area, on the Main Floor – Howe Library, Hanover, NH
  • a cappella Barbershop Harmony sung by an established quartet – fun singing, jokes, and stories.

Ticket information: Open to the public. Donations to the library are acceptable.
Contact information: BillCorson59@gmail.com

Harmony Night Community Chorus

  • Saturday, April 18 at 7 pm – First Congregational Church, Lebanon, NH
  • Sunday, April 19 at 3 pm – Lyme Congregational Church, Lyme, NH

Program: Music by Pete Seeger, Morton Lauridsen, Peter Maxwell Davies, Dan Forrest; Traditional music of West Africa and the American South

Tickets: free-will offering

Contact: Mark Nelson – markdnelson1@gmail.com

Website: http://www.harmonynightchoir.com/dbpage.php?pg=home

Counterpoint Chorus – directed by Nathaniel Lew

  • Saturday, April 18, 1:00 pm – Manchester (VT) Community Library
  • Tuesday, April 21, 6:30 pm – Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, VT
  • Sunday, April 26, 3:00 pm – Barre (VT) Universalist Church
  • Tuesday, April 28, 6:00 pm – Norman Williams Library, Woodstock, VT

A series of free concerts reflecting on the Covid-19 pandemic. The eclectic musical program features choral elegies from various faith traditions, including Gustav Holst’s Funeral Hymn, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Elegiac Song, Felix Mendelssohn’s setting of an Ancient Greek invocation, and Pete Seeger’s meditation on the approach of death. In addition, the concert will feature works directly inspired by the pandemic by Argentine composer Ana Leira Carnero, Brian Banks, as well as a specially commissioned piece by Burlington composer Don Jamison and Vermont poet Abigail Carroll. The music will be interspersed with poetry readings chosen by local poets in collaboration with the host institutions.

All events are free. At the Barre performance, a collection will be taken for the Free Breakfast Program.

Please see www.counterpointchorus.org for more information.

Upper Valley Baroque

Tickets at www.uppervalleybaroque.org/concerts

Chamber Concert: Italian Madrigals

  • Friday, Apr 24 at 7pm – St. Thomas Church, Hanover, NH
  • Saturday, Apr 25 at 2pm – North Chapel, Woodstock, VT

Handel Society & Dartmouth College Glee Club

Bel Canto Chamber Singers

Songs of Love, Loss and Longing

  • ​Saturday, May 2 at 7:30pm – First Congregational Church, Lebanon, NH
  • Sunday, May 3 at 4:00pm – First Congregational Church, Lebanon, NH

Further information to follow.

Website: https://www.belcantosingers.org/spring-concert-may-2026.html

Randolph Singers

  • Sunday, May 3 at 4:00 pm – Chandler Center, Randolph, VT
  • The theme for the concert is Nature in Song. The repertoire is a mixture of both classical and pop rock tunes, and it will be a world premiere of director Christopher McWilliams’ latest choral work, Three Nature Songs.
  • Tickets by donation

Email: randolphsingers@gmail.com

Website: https://www.randolphsingers.org

Upper Valley Voices

For the Light of BALANCE: Songs of Justice, Hope and Peace

  • Friday, May 8 at 7:00 pm – United Church of Strafford, Strafford, VT
  • Saturday, May 9 at 7:00 pm – First Congregational Church, Lebanon, NH
  • Sunday, May 10 at 4:00 pm – Norwich Congregational Church, Norwich, VT

Tickets: $15 pre-pay, $20 at the door, Students $10, Children under 13 are free

Website: https://uppervalleyvoices.org/

North Country Chordsmen

  • Sunday, May 17 at 4:30 pm – St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Hanover, NH

A whirlwind of both Barbershop and Pop style a cappella entertainment—no intermission, just pure harmony and hilarity. You’ll enjoy the North Country Chordsmen, the VoxStars, and our quartets—Blue Streak, 91 North, and Girls Night Out—who’ll bring not just incredible vocals, but also some wonderfully awful puns and stories to keep things lively. It’s music that’s all voice, all heart, and guaranteed to make you and your whole family smile. 

Suggested donations are $15 at the door.

Cantabile

  • Saturday, June 6 at 4pm – Norwich Congregational Church, Norwich, VT
  • Sunday, June 7 at 4 pm – Lebanon Congregational Church, Lebanon, NH

Program: Folk, gospel, classical, and contemporary

Tickets by donation at the door.

More information: mmccollom284R@gmail.com

Website: cantabilewomen.org

Wrensong

Sing with Joy: Songs of Love, Devotion, and the Return of Spring

  • Sunday, June 14 at 3:00 pm
  • Beaver Meadow Union Chapel,  Beaver Meadow Road, Norwich, VT

Program: This concert will offer classic Wrensong fare of a cappella Renaissance music on the themes of love, both human and divine, and songs on themes of birds and springtime.  We will also sing some arrangements of contemporary songs on these themes, as we share both older and newer music in the acoustically vibrant Beaver Meadow Union Chapel.  

Ticket information: Admission is free; no tickets are required. 

Parking at the venue is limited, but there is additional parking available a short distance up the hill from the chapel at the schoolhouse at the intersection of Chapel Road and Beaver Meadow Road. Car pooling is advised due to limited parking.

Restroom facilities are available at the schoolhouse, but not at the chapel.

Contact information: WrensongVermont@gmail.com 

Website: https://www.facebook.com/wrensongVT

2026 Summer Music

Join us for the CAFUV’s annual Summer Sings in August. Details will be posted under the Summer Sings! 2026 heading at the top of the page.

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