SMC Participates in a great celebration

June Program: Rehearsal, 1-3, Tea, Review of Alan’s Tunes

Ed Pearlman and Laura Scott will demonstrate and teach the different tempos for playing for dance.

Come join us for a free concert as we play new and old Scottish favorites at the Portsmouth, NH, Public Library.

Join us as we play some old favorites and some exciting new material added to this year’s repertoire.

Final rehearsal of the season

Rehearsal to build the most excellent concert program.

A Workshop with Keith Murphy

Advancing the quality of our spring concerts with continued rehearsal. Beneficial to all, regardless of concert participation.

Rehearsing for our spring concerts. But open to all, regardless of concert participation.

Mari Black makes a welcome return to lead a workshop with new tunes and new ideas.

How to make a march march.

Music director Annelise Papinsick will coach the orchestra on working with a conductor.

Read-through concert sets and September’s new tunes.

Exploring the tunes that tune-master Alan has presented over the last few months.

Come join us for a free concert as we play new and old Scottish favorites at the Portsmouth, NH, Public Library.

Paul and Sally Wells bring us a jig and a hornpipe that have travelled widely.

Always a joyful time in Bass Hall

A rehearsal of our concert program, followed by playing tunes written by our members.

The March gathering, dedicated to hearing and playing tunes written by our members, is cancelled. So we will hear the work from the composers next month.

NOTE: 2:00 pm start

A multi-instrumentalist and brilliant fiddler in various Celtic traditions, Skip will share some ideas about how instruments, even fiddles, in an ensemble, can contribute to backing up the tunes.

For our December gathering we will play through the concert sets as we begin to prepare for a pair of spring concerts.

One of New England's finest fiddlers!

Our founding music director, Barbara McOwen, will lead our October workshop.

In addition to playing through our monthly tunes we’ll begin an in-depth exploration of the concert sets presented by your music committee.

Our June gathering will be a recap of the music from the 2023/24 program year. After playing through the June tunes presented by our Tune Master, we’ll play through all the tunes we learned throughout the year, discussing which ones we’d like to include in our concerts for the coming year.

Dominique has a passion for melody-driven dance music and responsive, rhythmic accompaniment, as well as for Gaelic songs, airs, and 18th century harp tunes.

Harpist Dominique Dodge will lead our May workshop, offering a set of Scottish tunes, drawing on Gaelic and West Highland repertoire from the 18th and 19th centuries. Note that this gathering is a departure from our usual 2nd Sunday to avoid meeting on Mother’s Day.

How to Bring a Strathspey to Life

Come join us for a free concert as we play new and old Scottish favorites at the Portsmouth, NH, Public Library.