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By ALEX HANSON

CANAAN — A few summers ago, during the pandemic, Martin Decato and Peter Dionne got together to play music. Decato is a longtime pro, Dionne an avid amateur.They looked around for a good place to make music videos, and didn’t have to look far. They...

By CAOIMHE MARKEY

Music is made to be experienced in person. Watching performances online can be convenient, particularly after the COVID-19 pandemic shut down in-person concerts. The feeling of interconnectedness that comes from a festival, concert or backyard jam,...

By CAOIMHE MARKEY

NORWICH — In the music video for his 2022 release “All Is Well,” 22-year-old singer-songwriter Hans Williams pulls up to a cluster of battered mailboxes in a truck, wrenches out the day’s letters and trundles down a grassy track.The truck shudders to...

By ALEX HANSON

In planning this year’s Nexus Festival, Lebanon Opera House Executive Director Joe Clifford wanted to expand the roster of Upper Valley-based acts and the offerings for children and family.When the free, three-day festival kicks off on Friday,...

By ALEX HANSON

The musicians of What Doth Life, the Windsor-based recording consortium, continue to surprise.For well over a decade, a group of rockers who grew up together and still live in Windsor has been recording its own songs under multiple band names. If...

By ALEX HANSON

THETFORD — During the coronavirus pandemic, Ed Eastridge, who for the past two decades has been the Upper Valley’s most prolific guitar teacher, was forced to move his lessons online.This was a feature of the performing arts at the time. There weren’t...

By ALEX HANSON

James Graham first picked up a guitar at 14 and has played music ever since. Writing songs gives voice to his inner life.“I think (for) most people (who) come to the singer-songwriter thing is, it’s a refuge when you’re a kid,” Graham said in a recent...

By ALEX HANSON

ROYALTON — Making music on her own has been part of Alison Turner’s life since middle school. For a shy, self-described “reticent” child, music was an outlet.“I think I got my first Mac computer when I was in seventh grade,” Turner, a Royalton native...

By ALEX HANSON

Travis Ramsey’s two kids were still small when they inspired him to start writing a string quartet about childhood back in 2017.Ramsey, who teaches music at Marion Cross School, also had just read a book about Wagnerian childhood that guided his...

By David Corriveau

After about a decade of working for other people in the hospitality industry, brothers Josh and Joe Tuohy started an on-and-off, transcontinental phone conversation in 2001 about returning to their roots as hosts of their own family pub.Finally one...