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All Welcome: Come Find Out What Paddle Tennis is All About!

Heritage Platform Tennis Club 155 Old Bedford Road, Concord, MA, United States

Bring your family, tell your friends, and join us at the Heritage Platform Tennis Club for our annual Paddle Exhibition & Open House. This fun, fast-paced and easy-to-learn game is your solution to those mid-winter cabin-fever days. Exercise and fresh air, social and competitive if you choose! Come enjoy complimentary refreshments, try out the game […]

Free
Event Series The Concord Orchestra presents “A Gothic Tale” – a concert performance of Bartók’s opera, “Bluebeard’s Castle”

The Concord Orchestra presents “A Gothic Tale” – a concert performance of Bartók’s opera, “Bluebeard’s Castle”

Performing Arts Center 51 Walden St, Concord, MA, United States

"Bluebeard’s Castle” is based on a haunting 17th century story, set in a gloomy medieval castle. Bluebeard’s new wife wants to learn more about her mysterious husband by exploring his forbidding castle. Ignoring his protests, she opens its seven locked doors, revealing dark secrets he wants to hide. Bartók’s opera, composed when he was thirty, […]

$10 – $30
Event Series 42nd Street @ The Umbrella

42nd Street @ The Umbrella

The Umbrella Community Arts Center 40 Stow St., Concord, MA, United States

The Umbrella Stage Company — Greater Boston’s newest professional theater — looks forward to sharing an expanded, six-show season of bold, daring and innovative theater with you! From high-kicking spectacle to punk rock musical to socially urgent drama, this season will be the first to be staged in The Umbrella’s brand-new, state-of-the-art, multitheater performing arts […]

$19 – $49

Get Off My Lawn

Trail's End Cafe 97 Lowell Rd, Concord, MA, United States

This power trio is made up of multi-talented multi-instrumentalists. They strive for lush and thrilling covers, faithful to the originals but with a modern vibe. The song selections are informed by the 1970s-2010s pop and chart makers. Come by for dinner and a drink and stay for a little music.

Concord Festival of Authors: The Poetic Wild Workshop

Concord Free Public Library 129 Main Street, Concord, MA, United States

With its emphasis on writing as discovery, Robert Frost’s warning “no surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader” seems to challenge the classic imperative to “write what you know.” How might writers—and especially poets—cultivate this surprise, embracing recklessness and courting uncertainty? Join BC Professor and award-winning poet Allison Adair for a poetry workshop […]

Free

Liz Awalt Open Studio with proceeds benefiting Gaining Ground

Former Gaining Ground board member, Liz Awalt, is opening her Concord studio for only the second time in twenty years. A variety of work on paper, oil paintings, and cyanotypes will be available for sale, with half of the proceeds benefiting Gaining Ground. We hope you attend and find a piece of art to take […]

The Umbrella Stage Company Presents 42nd St- Final Performance

The Umbrella Community Arts Center 40 Stow St., Concord, MA, United States

he grand opening production in our new space is a moment to celebrate, and 42nd STREET is nothing short of the greatest celebration of musical theatre and the people who make it happen. Aspiring chorus girl Peggy Sawyer comes to the big city from Allentown PA, and soon lands her first big job in the […]

Event Series 42nd Street @ The Umbrella

42nd Street @ The Umbrella

The Umbrella Community Arts Center 40 Stow St., Concord, MA, United States

The Umbrella Stage Company — Greater Boston’s newest professional theater — looks forward to sharing an expanded, six-show season of bold, daring and innovative theater with you! From high-kicking spectacle to punk rock musical to socially urgent drama, this season will be the first to be staged in The Umbrella’s brand-new, state-of-the-art, multitheater performing arts […]

$19 – $49

Concord Festival of Authors: Keynote Speaker: Sigrid Nunez

Concord Free Public Library 129 Main Street, Concord, MA, United States

Join Festival Keynote Speaker Sigrid Nunez for a discussion of her book The Friend, winner of the National Book Award. Sigrid Nunez has published seven novels, including A Feather on the Breath of God, The Last of Her Kind, Salvation City, and, most recently, The Friend. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A […]

Free

The Concord Players Birthday Bash

Performing Arts Center 51 Walden St, Concord, MA, United States

The Concord Players Birthday Bash: To kick off its 100th anniversary season, the Players are throwing a birthday party featuring writer and entertainer Trav SD, who will present a program about the early days of stage entertainment. The cast of the fall show Funny Girl will perform, and birthday cake and champagne will be served […]