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By CAOIMHE MARKEY

Music is made to be experienced in person. Watching performances online can be convenient, particularly after the COVID-19 pandemic shut down in-person concerts. The feeling of interconnectedness that comes from a festival, concert or backyard jam,...

By CAOIMHE MARKEY

NORWICH — In the music video for his 2022 release “All Is Well,” 22-year-old singer-songwriter Hans Williams pulls up to a cluster of battered mailboxes in a truck, wrenches out the day’s letters and trundles down a grassy track.The truck shudders to...

By ALEX HANSON

In planning this year’s Nexus Festival, Lebanon Opera House Executive Director Joe Clifford wanted to expand the roster of Upper Valley-based acts and the offerings for children and family.When the free, three-day festival kicks off on Friday,...

By ALEX HANSON

The musicians of What Doth Life, the Windsor-based recording consortium, continue to surprise.For well over a decade, a group of rockers who grew up together and still live in Windsor has been recording its own songs under multiple band names. If...

By ALEX HANSON

THETFORD — During the coronavirus pandemic, Ed Eastridge, who for the past two decades has been the Upper Valley’s most prolific guitar teacher, was forced to move his lessons online.This was a feature of the performing arts at the time. There weren’t...

By ALEX HANSON

James Graham first picked up a guitar at 14 and has played music ever since. Writing songs gives voice to his inner life.“I think (for) most people (who) come to the singer-songwriter thing is, it’s a refuge when you’re a kid,” Graham said in a recent...

By ALEX HANSON

ROYALTON — Making music on her own has been part of Alison Turner’s life since middle school. For a shy, self-described “reticent” child, music was an outlet.“I think I got my first Mac computer when I was in seventh grade,” Turner, a Royalton native...

By ALEX HANSON

Travis Ramsey’s two kids were still small when they inspired him to start writing a string quartet about childhood back in 2017.Ramsey, who teaches music at Marion Cross School, also had just read a book about Wagnerian childhood that guided his...

By David Corriveau

After about a decade of working for other people in the hospitality industry, brothers Josh and Joe Tuohy started an on-and-off, transcontinental phone conversation in 2001 about returning to their roots as hosts of their own family pub.Finally one...