A Good ol' Barn Dance
Last weekend was the Ossipee Valley Music Festival in South Hiram,Maine. The festival is a weekend long event with four stages of Americana, Bluegrass, and Rockabilly music from bands all over the...
View ArticleWhatever Floats Your Flag
In most downtowns across America, there are a handful of staple successful businesses: the pizza place, the hardware store, the movie theater. Then there are the niche stores that never seem to last...
View ArticleDoing Whatever It Takes...
The unsteady path of an artist is never an easy one. Especially in today’s ambiguous economy, the choice to reject a steady paycheck or conventional job is all the more difficult to justify. One...
View ArticleUnicorns, Nessie, Big Foot...Oh My!
A replica of Bigfoot, a display case dedicated to lake monsters, and the “mystery cat corner” are a few of the sights to see at Portland, Maine’s International Cryptozoology Museum. A little bit...
View ArticlePoe Was Totally Steampunk
One of the events that took place earlier this week at the Bosacwen Public Library was the Edgar Allan Poe Steampunk Workshop which linked Poe’s artistry to the “steam-punk” subculture that is quickly...
View ArticleThe Audio Orchard for December
The Audio Orchard explores music being made right here in New England, and introduces you to artists that find their way here while on tour. Each month, we hand pick a variety of songs to sample. Click...
View Article3 Gift Ideas for the Adrenaline Junkie
Today's segment about experiential gifts got me wondering what I'd get for someone with more thrill-fueled interests...
View ArticleThe Case of the Missing Santa Claus
It’s a sad sign of holiday desperation that in many towns, burglaries and thefts spike around the holidays. Two years ago a landmark seasonal statue was stolen from a small New Hampshire town…now a...
View ArticleThe Audio Orchard Podcast for January
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View ArticleThis Weekend's Arts Scene
We start off the weekend with a critically acclaimed documentary that has no dialogue, narrative, or text. The film is Samsara, filmed over five years in twenty five different countries; it’s a...
View ArticleThis Week's New Hampshire Arts Scene
Opening this weekend is the exhibition Lethal Beauty: Samurai Weapons and Armor. It features the work of over 30 different master craftsmen from as far back as the 1200s.
View ArticleCanzoniere Grecanico Salentino Warms Up New Hampshire
It’s not often you get to hear authentic world music in New Hampshire, especially in the dead of winter. But on February 6th at the Spaulding Auditorium in Hanover, the southern Italian band Canzoniere...
View ArticleNew Hampshire Native Skates With Disney
Earlier this month, “Disney on Ice” glided into Manchester’s Verizon Wireless Arena with a parade of princesses, Peter Pans, and talking mice on skates. We sent Word of Mouth producer Zach Nugent to...
View ArticleThis Weekend's Arts Scene
Violin virtuosoJoshua Bell performs at The Music Hall in Portsmouth Friday night, accompanied by pianistSam Haywood. If you’re feeling Shakespearean, the Keene State College Theatre Department...
View ArticleAnd The Dartmouth Idol Is...
Last week, we spoke to two contestants and the producer of Dartmouth's annual singing competition, Dartmouth Idol. One of our guests, Nathaniel Graves, was victorious, so we tracked him down on his...
View ArticleWe're On A Break
Word of Mouth is on break this week, but fret not, there's still plenty of compelling stories to enjoy. We've lined up some of our favorite shows to entertain you in our absence.Monday, March 25th: A...
View ArticleThe Audio Orchard Podcast for April
1.Generationals, Ten-Twenty-TenApril 24, State Theatre, Portland, ME2. Alice Smith, Fool For YouApril 9, Brighton Music Hall, Allston, MA
View ArticleHeather Maloney
Heather Maloney's music has been described as “adventurous folk", pushing the boundaries of the folk genre with lush, full-band arrangements and playful vocal runs. Heather visited the NHPR studios...
View ArticleDarlingside
VIDEO: The New England based band Darlingside has long been a favorite here at Word of Mouth, so on their recent visit to a song writing and music business summit at the Concord Community Music School,...
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