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Nelson School Multi-purpose room

Back by Popular Demand

the first Tuesday of January, February and March; 7 to 9 PM. 

Everyone is invited. Refreshments will be served.

Last month (January) a record breaking crowd of 26 people turned out for Game Night.  We played Scrabble, Quiddler, Mexican Train Dominoes, Rummikub, and assorted other games. A good time was had by all.  We encourage you to join us this month.  Please come and bring your favorite game if you like, or get your favorite card game going.  We’ll just see what develops.

Let’s make use of the Library as a space for Nelsonites to gather during the dark of the winter. We hope to see you there!

Let’s make use of the Library as a space for Nelsonites to gather during the dark of the winter. We hope to see you there!

The Monadnock Folklore Society is excited to present home-town boy Jeff Murphy and his band, ‘Wooden Dinosaur’, to celebrate the release of their new CD ‘Spaces’ at the Nelson Town Hall Admission is $12/$9 (senior, youth, & advance internet).
Click here for more info and tickets.

“Wooden Dinosaur makes the kind of simple, stripped-down music that leaves you feeling nostalgic and longing for more.”
-NPR’s All Songs Considered

Wooden Dinosaur is an original six-piece folk ensemble with members from throughout New England. The band makes music that is deeply American, yet forward thinking. Built around the songs of Brattleboro-based guitarist Michael Roberts, Wooden Dinosaur uses a diverse array of instruments – fiddle, upright bass, drums, trumpet and euphonium – in its tasteful arrangements of original material. Though “indie-folk” is the label most often applied to this music, alt-country, blues, old time, and jazz influences are woven into the band’s signature sound.

Wooden Dinosaur’s debut album, Nearly Lost Stars (2010), garnered both regional and national attention, and cemented the band’s reputation as a fresh voice in the New England Americana scene. Since then the group has toured throughout the Northeast and shared the stage with some of the country’s most exciting new acts, including The Devil Makes Three, Brown Bird, The Low Anthem, Joe Pug, Rusty Belle and David Wax Museum.

The band spent 2011 working on their second full-length album, Spaces. Much of the recording for the new album took place at a house in Nelson, over July 4th weekend. Recorded in between family-style BBQ’s and trips to the local swimming hole, the album reflects the group’s dedication to a diverse array of American musical traditions.

Opening the show will be Dollar General, the new project from Vermont composer and guitarist Michael Chorney. This folk-jazz group features the rhythm section from Anais Mitchell’s acclaimed Hadestown Orchestra, along with pedal steel player Asa Brosius. The band plays Chorney’s original songs, which show jazz, country and folk influences, and reflect Chorney’s unique approach to the craft of songwriting.

Nelson Town Hall
Admission $8 / $6 seniors and students
Beginner’s Workshop 7:30

Sponsored by the Monadnock Folklore Society

Mega star caller Adina Gordon will move dancers effortless across the dance floor with grace and wit. The music: none other than the band that was born from the Nelson Monday Night Dance (and named after a Pete Sutherland tune): Trip to Nelson, featuring Perin Ellsworth Heller, fiddle; Richard Backes, guitar, mandolin, banjo, fiddle, and maybe more, Matt Garland, flute and whistle,Liz Backes, flute, whistle and concertina,  and Gordon Peery, piano.

Agenda to be provided closer to meeting.

Time and location to be announced.
This is the students’ performance of “The Emperor’s New Clothes”.
We are hoping to be able to use the new Keene Middle School auditorium!
(Children’s Stage Adventures Theatre Residency)

Olivia Rodham Memorial Library
We will be discussing
Tiger’s Wife
by
Tea Obreht

In a Balkan country mending from years of conflict, Natalia, a young doctor, arrives on a mission of mercy at an orphanage by the sea. By the time she and her lifelong friend Zóra begin to inoculate the children there, she feels age-old superstitions and secrets gathering everywhere around her. Secrets her outwardly cheerful hosts have chosen not to tell her. Secrets involving the strange family digging for something in the surrounding vineyards. Secrets hidden in the landscape itself.

Come to the Nelson Congregational Church’s Famous Annual Corned Beef Dinner.

Our Chef Charlie Lang and his staff cooking up the following traditional fare;

Corned Beef
Cabbage
Carrots
Turnips
Onions
Irish Soda Bread
Dessert
Beverages Hours:

$9.00 adults $6.00 children under 10 Wear your Green!

Questions;  Nelson Congregational Church 847-3280

Nelson Town Hall
Admission $8 / $6 seniors and students
Beginner’s Workshop 7:30

Sponsored by the Monadnock Folklore Society

The Nelson Second Saturday dance welcomes Luke Donev to his Nelson Town Hall calling debut. Luke recently acquired his PhD in physics, which could make for some remarkable dances!

Music is the solid “New England with an Irish edge: (or Irish with a New England edge) Celticladda, with Randy Miller on fiddle, Bill Thomas on flute and uilleann pipes, and Gordon Peery on piano.

The evening should be nothing short of splendid