2022 Events
Legend: Worship Services Musical Events
October 9, 2022 4:00 – 5:30pm
Fall brings us a Classical Strings Concert featuring the Artful Noise String Quartet playing violins, viola, and cello at the church sanctuary.
Fall brings us a Classical Strings Concert featuring the Artful Noise String Quartet playing violins, viola, and cello at the church sanctuary.
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Artful Noise was established in 1997 as a performing group for concerts and events. Since then, we have provided music for thousands of guests at weddings and parties, private ceremonies and in concert halls. In recent years, we have enjoyed accompanying Portsmouth ProMusica, the Seacoast Community Chorus, Amare Cantare, the Community Chorus of South Berwick, the Granite State Choral Society, the Rockingham Choral Society, Women Singing Out, and Voices from the Heart.In August 2014, Artful Noise gave the world premier performance of Kevin Siegfried’s string quartet, “Land of Pure Delight,” at the Canterbury Shaker Museum’s Village Rising Festival, which we then reprised for concerts with Amare Cantare in 2015 and Portsmouth ProMusica in 2016. In 2003, we were selected to work with the UNH Symphony on Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro for String Quartet and Orchestra, rehearsing as the featured quartet with the orchestra in preparation for their performance with the world-renowned Shanghai String Quartet. During this time, we were honored to perform for a masterclass with the Shangai String quartet.
Although we are all trained in traditional classical repertoire, we enjoy playing in other styles, and frequently join pit orchestras for musical theater productions. With our extensive collection of string quartet arrangements, we also entertain audiences with Celtic and American fiddle, jazzy showtunes and contemporary pop tunes. To learn more about The Quartet, and for a list of upcoming public concerts, visit https://artfulnoise.com |
November 5, 2022 7:00 – 9:00pm
This will be a real treat… a Silent Movie Night featuring The Gold Rush, one of the greatest movies ever made. This classic silent comedy, which stars the legendary Charlie Chaplin, will be accompanied live on the church’s magnificent pipe organ by virtuoso Robert Humphreville.
This will be a real treat… a Silent Movie Night featuring The Gold Rush, one of the greatest movies ever made. This classic silent comedy, which stars the legendary Charlie Chaplin, will be accompanied live on the church’s magnificent pipe organ by virtuoso Robert Humphreville.
December 18, 2022 2:00- 3:30pm
Join us for the Voices of Christmas, a seasonal delight featuring area choral groups singing your favorite Christmas hymns and songs accompanied by church organist and choir director Nancy Narducci.
Join us for the Voices of Christmas, a seasonal delight featuring area choral groups singing your favorite Christmas hymns and songs accompanied by church organist and choir director Nancy Narducci.
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A graduate of University of Lowell (currently UMASS Lowell), Nancy was an elementary music specialist for 15 years with the Natick, MA school system, until her family moved to the Lakes Region in 1996. Nancy and her husband, Bob did extensive work in liturgical music at various area churches. She is still actively singing and playing keyboard wherever she is needed. She is currently the Music Director here at FCCM, and she is also a cantor at St. Charles Borromeo Church in Meredith.
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First Congregational Church, UCC
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Meredith, NH 03253
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