Exeter Arts & Music Fest, and Vitamin C reunites: 5 things to do this weekend
This weekend is predicted to be a scorcher, with temperatures breaking 90 degrees on Saturday and Sunday. But, no worries, there are plenty of cool performances, plays and events to cool you down.
Exeter Arts & Music Fest this weekend
The 2022 Exeter Arts & Music Fest will take place at Swasey Parkway in Exeter on Saturday, May 21 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. There'll be live music, artist vendors, a dance performance, a local food court, kids' activities and cultural exhibits. Suggested donation is $10 per person, $20 for a family.
Acts playing the Main Stage will be Yoga In Action featuring Qwill at 11 a.m.; Red-tail Hawk at 12:30; The Bulkheads featuring Adrienne Mack-Davis at 2 p.m.; Groove Lounge at 3:30 p.m. and Cold Engines at 4:30 p.m. There'll also be a Singer-Songwriter Tent featuring seven performers. Visit TeamExeter.com for the full lineup and tickets.
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Portsmouth Community Garden opens
It's the Portsmouth Community Garden Opening Day on Saturday, May 21 and festivities will include ribbon-cutting, refreshments, seedlings and merchandise for sale to benefit the garden, which is located on Route 33 near the Park & Ride in Portsmouth. The fun starts at 10 a.m. All the garden beds are taken for this year. Learn more at portsmouthgarden.org.
Original Vitamin C to play memorial concert for Andrew Gallagher
The Andrew Gallagher Memorial Concert will feature the original Vitamin C band at The Stone Church in Newmarket on Thursday, May 19 from 6 to 9 p.m. Originally formed in 1995 through students of the UNH Music Department, Vitamin C soon went on to become one of the most popular funk and groove-based bands in and around the UNH and New England area.
In recent years, they had been discussing the possibility of a reunion night, but the sudden death of one of its band members and co-founders Andrew Gallagher on July 4th, 2021 has brought them together for this show. A multi-instrumentalist, teacher, singer, songwriter, and producer and engineer of countless records and individual songs, Gallagher was a dedicated father of two who split his time evenly between caring for his children, spending time with his wife Megan, and creating new music in his production studio.
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The performance will reunite the band in what is expected to be a night of remembrance and funky exuberance, which the band thinks is exactly what Andrew would have wanted in his memory. Tickets to the show are $20 and available at portsmouthnhtickets.com. Proceeds will go toward a fund for his wife and two children, Ella, 14, and Aidan, 16.
Last call for 'An Inspector Calls' at NHTP
It's the last weekend to see "An Inspector Calls" at the New Hampshire Theatre Project in Portsmouth. Shows are Friday and Saturday, May 20 and 21 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, May 22 at 2 p.m. Tickets available at nhtheatreproject.org/onstagenow.
Climate Change Storytelling Event Sunday
Robinwood Center, a New Hampshire Seacoast social justice and climate justice nonprofit, will host a storytelling event centered around climate change on Sunday, May 22 from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Saltonstall Farm in Stratham.
Emma Shapiro-Weiss and Dorn Cox will share their personal experiences battling climate change in the Maine and New Hampshire Seacoast region. The storytelling event will be followed by a facilitated discussion.
Shapiro-Weiss is the co-executive director of 350 New Hampshire. Cox serves as research director for Open Technology Ecosystem for Agricultural Management (OpenTEAM). He is also a project lead at Wolfe's Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment, a pioneer and leader in regenerative agriculture, a nonprofit research and education center, and runs a working 600-acre organic dairy diversified farm on the coast of Maine.
The event will be open to the public. Entry is free, and audience members can register to attend at robinwoodcenter.org/upcoming-events
Sharon Jones to perform at the Press Room Sunday
It'll be a special night at The Press Room on Sunday, May 22 when Portsmouth legend Sharon Jones takes the stage. She'll be paying tribute to a few of the greatest female singers of our time including Peggy Lee, Nina Simone, Shirley Horn, Dinah Washington, Anita O'Day, Sarah Vaughn among others.
Donna Byrne and Debbie Larkin will join her and her band on stage. Tickets are $25 and are available at pressroomnh.com.
This article originally appeared on Portsmouth Herald: Exeter Arts & Music Fest and more: 5 things to do this weekend
