Lakes Region Big Band
An evening of music and dancing with casual appetizers
(Limited table seating; advance ticket purchase recommended)

The Lakes Region Big Band is a full 20 piece Big Band based in Central NH. Started by a group of local musicians looking for an opportunity to play this great style, they have since been joined by past members of professional touring Bands and other professional NH musicians who love the vibe that this group puts out. Their high level of performance and energy has catapulted them into regular performances in the region and strong demand at events around the state. With a repertoire ranging from the swinging standards by bands like Glen Miller and Tommy Dorsey to the hard driving styles of Basie and Buddy Rich, to contemporary charts by Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, the Lakes Region Big Band truly embraces everything you'd expect from a real, big, band. Hear the sounds of the Lakes Region Big Band here.

Sunday, January 7, 2012, 7:00 PM
Admission: $15.00 at the door; $12.00 advance
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Spousal Deafness…and Other Bones of Contention
Musical Comedy Review

Whose house is this anyway? Real life husband and wife Carlisle and Poulin combine original songs, sketch comedy, and 2D painted props to explore the wacky world of relationships. Watch Gordon and Susan tackle the really big issues: romance, underwear, vacation negotiation, and spousal deafness, to name a few. Sound familiar? You’ll feel like someone’s been eavesdropping on your home!

Saturday, February 11, 2012, 7:00 PM
Admission: $15.00 at the door; $12.00 advance
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Bearded Wonders Variety Show
10th Anniversary Benefit for VNA Hospice

The Wakefield Opera House Performing Arts Committee hosts The Tenth Annual Bearded Wonders Variety Show. The show, organized as an old time variety show, is produced as a benefit for the VNA Hospice of Southern Carroll County. The program for the show will feature a variety of acts by the local talent of the bearded sort and non-bearded as well. Come join the festivities and do your bit to help the VNA Hospice of Southern Carroll County!

Sunday, February 19, 2012, 2:00 PM
Admission: Individual $15.00; Family $30.00 [2 adults & their children under 18]
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The Holy Mackerels Cabaret

Mark and Arthur are from Boothbay, Maine, and have been playing music together forever. Paul is from Palermo, Maine, a fiddler extraodinaire, also playing with contra and reggae bands and heads the Cuban band, "Primo Cubano". Steve hails from Hallowell and also performs as a solo, with the "Boneheads" and with many other musicians, live and in the studio. Together these four lads play their favorite songs with the unique musical influences that each one brings to the Holy Mackerels. The result for the audience is listenable and danceable songs of artists such as Van Morrison, James Taylor, Mark Knofler and Guy Clark interpreted with an acoustic flair guaranteed to please.

Note: Casual Appetizers will be served. As table seating is limited, we recommend advance ticket purchase.

Saturday, March 3, 2012 4:00 PM
Admission: $15.00 at the door; $12.00 advance
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Return of S. C. A. M. P.

SCAMP — the First 35 Years
Favorite Memories, Musical and Otherwise, of the Survivors

April 13, 2012, 7:30 PM
April 14, 2012, 1:30 PM and 7:30 PM
April 15, 2012, 4:30 PM

Admission: TBD
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Taylor's Grove

Veteran country music performer Mac McHale and old-time gospel singer Carolyn Hutton bring a bit of the North and South together in a duo called "Taylor's Grove." Taking the name from the little North Carolina church where Carolyn grew up singing with her family, Mac and Carolyn perform together simple old-fashioned American music that reaches across barriers of place and generation.  With guitar, mandolin, banjo and harmony singing, they bring together songs Mac learned from country radio in the 30's and 40's  and songs Carolyn heard in the North Carolina Piedmont.  Come spend an evening with Mac and Carolyn. Listen to an audio clip here.

Saturday, May 5, 2012, 7:00 PM
Admission: $15.00 at the door; $12.00 advance
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Rebecca Rule
New Hampshire Humorist

Rebecca has collected stories about what’s special about this rocky old state of New Hampshire for years, and includes many of them in her new book Live Free and Eat Pie: A Storyteller’s Guide to New Hampshire. She’ll tell some of them — her favorites are the funny ones — and invite audience members to contribute a few of their own. Come enjoy the fun and give Rebecca a rousin’ Wakefield, New Hampshah welcome! (Did I tell you the one about…?)

Sunday, May 20, 2012, 2:00 PM
Admission: $15.00 at the door; $12.00 advance
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Bill Staines—Folk Guitarist

For more than forty years, Bill has traveled back and forth across North America, singing his songs and delighting audiences at festivals, folksong societies, colleges, concerts, clubs, and coffeehouses. Singing mostly his own songs, he has become one of the most popular and durable singers on the folk music scene today, performing nearly 200 concerts a year and driving over 65,000 miles annually. He has made numerous radio and television appearances and has hosted local programs on PBS and network television. Now, well into his fifth decade as a folk performer, he has gained an international reputation as a gifted songwriter and performer.

Saturday, June 16, 2012, [Time TBD]
Admission: $15.00 at the door; $12.00 advance
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Tuckermans at 9 — a cappella band

Tuckermans at 9 performs well-known pop, rock, blues, and light jazz favorites from as far back as the 1920s, but mostly music of the 1960s to today. “Audiences of all ages enjoy our shows …,” explains Miller. “But because we choose songs that are just plain good, well-written songs, people really get into things they might not necessarily know, at least at first. We also have a lot of fun on stage, and it’s contagious for the audience!” Tuckermans at 9's original, high-octane arrangement of the Temptations' classic Motown anthem, "I Can't Get Next to You", received praise from judges at the 2009 Harmony Sweeps a cappella competition at Tufts University in Massachusetts.

Saturday, July 14, 2012, 8:00 PM
Admission: $15.00 at the door; $12.00 advance
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August Event To Be Determined

Guitarist Ed Gerhard

From Tokyo to Rome and venues across the U.S., GRAMMY® Award-winning Guitarist Ed Gerhard’s music has touched audiences all over the world. Performing on 6-string, slide guitar or Acoustic Hawaiian Lap Slide, Gerhard’s virtuosity, generosity and sly humor shine through.  His distinctive touch is unmistakable. Whether performing a lush, sensual ballad or a haunting, bitter lap steel melody Gerhard will mesmerize. Scott Alarik of the Boston Globe said it best when he wrote “Gerhard does not write instrumentals.  He writes songs only a guitar can sing.” You can view video samples of Ed's guitar work here and here.

Saturday, September 22, 2012, 7:00 PM
Admission: $20.00
Tickets:   • Locally     • From Ed Gerhard's Website

Moose Mountain Dixieland Jazz Band

Come listen to the Moose Mountain Jazz Band! Their music is happy, foot-tapping, rambunctious party jazz. It is music for everyone who feels his blood running faster when listening to a great Dixie beat. It is music for everyone who loves the sound and rhythms born in New Orleans that people the world over have come to love and call Dixieland!

Saturday, October 20, 2012, 7:00 PM
Admission: $15.00 at the door; $12.00 advance
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Ars et Amici
Maîtres de musique: Music at the court of Louis XIV

Enjoy a concert of French vocal and instrumental music that entertained the celebrated Sun King and his courtiers. Featured work is Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Midnight Mass for Christmas. Ars et Amici , and Barry Lockard (guest harpsichordist) perform the magnificent music of 17th century France. Watch a video clip from a previous concert here.

Sunday, November 11, 2012, 4:00 PM
Admission: $15.00 at the door; $12.00 advance
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Hampstead Stage Company

The mission of The Hampstead Stage Company is to educate youth audiences throughout the country by bringing classic literature to life through live theatre, thus sparking an interest in reading the classics, instilling a love and appreciation of the arts, and preserving theatre for future generations.  Join us for a holiday program at the Wakefield Opera House.  This interactive performance is perfect for all ages.

[Date and Time TBD]
Admission: $15.00 at the door; $12.00 advance
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