UPCOMING EVENTS
TYPE OF EVENT
A Nova Scotia Christmas w/Cassie & Maggie
Held in the Orchard Chapel, Hampton Falls (immediately next to Applecrest Orchards), this quintessential New England holiday setting (complete with oil lanterns, candles, and old wooden pews with plush cushions) provides the perfect home for our 12 Nights of Christmas series that promises to fill you with the festive spirit and happiness!
Nova Scotian sisters, Cassie & Maggie have been touring their unique blend of traditional and contemporary Celtic instrumentals and vocals.
Their holiday show features lively fiddle, piano, guitar with stunning vocal harmonies (in English and Gaelic), accompanied by their intricate and percussive step dancing style.
Ben Garnett’s Holiday Show
Held in the Orchard Chapel, Hampton Falls (immediately next to Applecrest Orchards), this quintessential New England holiday setting (complete with oil lanterns, candles, and old wooden pews with plush red velvet cushions) provides the perfect home for our 12 Nights of Christmas series that promises to fill you with the festive spirit and happiness!
Studying guitar with Julian Lage before moving to Nashville, Ben Garnett is quickly becoming known as one of the best instrumental guitarists around - and comes to The Orchard Chapel with a special duo Holiday show.
Scottish Fish Holiday Show
The Scottish Fish have been touring a seasonal version of their standard show for five years, which features creative arrangements of familiar carols woven in among traditional, contemporary, and original Celtic tunes.
Come and enjoy their debut 12 Nights of Christmas performance!
A Celtic Christmas with Lunasa - SOLD OUT
Held in the Orchard Chapel, Hampton Falls (immediately next to Applecrest Orchards), this quintessential New England holiday setting (complete with oil lanterns, candles, and old wooden pews with plush red velvet cushions) provides the perfect home for our 12 Nights of Christmas series that promises to fill you with the festive spirit and happiness!
Join us as the beloved Irish band, Lunasa, brings their joyous holiday show on December 16!
A Celtic Christmas with Lunasa
Held in the Orchard Chapel, Hampton Falls (immediately next to Applecrest Orchards), this quintessential New England holiday setting (complete with oil lanterns, candles, and old wooden pews with plush red velvet cushions) provides the perfect home for our 12 Nights of Christmas series that promises to fill you with the festive spirit and happiness!
Join us as the beloved Irish band, Lunasa, brings their joyous holiday show on December 16!
Kat & Brett Holiday Show with Tyler Bolles & Will Seeders
Held in the Orchard Chapel, Hampton Falls (immediately next to Applecrest Orchards), this quintessential New England holiday setting (complete with oil lanterns, candles, and old wooden pews with plush cushions) provides the perfect home for our 12 Nights of Christmas series that promises to fill you with the festive spirit and happiness!
Kat Wright & Brett Hughes, two of Vermont’s most beloved songbirds, join forces once again this December for their annual holiday tour!
The show — a true Christmas gift — featuring Tyler Bolles (Swale, Rough Francis) on upright bass and multi-instrumentalist Will Seeders (Carling & Will, Caitlin Canty), offers songs of holiday heartbreak & holiday cheer. It is bejeweled with storytelling, originals, and beloved classics alike.
It’s guaranteed to warm your heart, peak your nostalgia and create a loving container for those good ole’ holiday blues that we all know so well.
Jordan TW Trio Celtic Christmas
Held in the Orchard Chapel, Hampton Falls (immediately next to Applecrest Orchards), this quintessential New England holiday setting (complete with oil lanterns, candles, and old wooden pews with plush red velvet cushions) provides the perfect home for our 12 Nights of Christmas series that promises to fill you with the festive spirit and happiness!
Putting a fresh spin on traditional Celtic music, the NH-based Jordan TW Trio delivers a dynamic show full of lively fiddle tunes, haunting airs and their own spin on yuletide classics.
A Winter Solstice Celebration with Low Lily
Held in the Orchard Chapel, Hampton Falls (immediately next to Applecrest Orchards), this quintessential New England holiday setting (complete with oil lanterns, candles, and old wooden pews with plush cushions) provides the perfect home for our 12 Nights of Christmas series that promises to fill you with the festive spirit and happiness!
American Roots band Low Lily celebrates the Winter Solstice!
This high energy show will feature instrumentals alongside impeccably arranged songs to honor the season. Between them, the musicians play mandolins, guitars, fiddle, banjo, and sing in three part vocal harmonies.
A Charlie Brown Christmas with Heather Pierson Trio
The 12 Nights of Christmas returns to the Orchard Chapel this holiday season with The Heather Pierson Jazz Trio (Heather Pierson, piano and vocals; Shawn Nadeau, bass; Craig Bryan, drums) and their take on Vince Guaraldi’s A Charlie Brown Christmas.
The Orchard Chapel Candlelight Carol Sing
Join us for the annual community candlelight caroling event that will quickly become your favorite holiday tradition.
Fun for the whole family, this evening offers the chance to come together and sing the most beautiful and festive music of the season - all in the quintessential New England setting of the Orchard Chapel, complete with oil lanterns and candles.
The Orchard Chapel Candlelight Carol Sing
Join us for the annual community candlelight caroling event that will quickly become your favorite holiday tradition.
Fun for the whole family, this evening offers the chance to come together and sing the most beautiful and festive music of the season - all in the quintessential New England setting of the Orchard Chapel, complete with oil lanterns and candles.
A Holiday Family Story Hour
Come get in the holiday spirit for an hour of stories & puppets at The Word Barn on December 23!
Enjoy delicious cookies, hot cocoa, eggnog and rum (for us adults), chocolate treats & an assortment of favorite holiday stories read by John Herman, Andrew Periale & Bonnie Meier Periale, and Ariana Anderson & Willa Furbush, and special guest Aengus Anderson.
Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem
For 25 years and counting, Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem has been uplifting audiences with a deeply-brewed blend of wit, camaraderie, and musicality.
Their sound is “tight, with stylish, unexpected choices” (Acoustic Guitar), mixing New Orleans grooves, rafter-shaking harmonies, fiddle, electric and acoustic guitar, and junk percussion on incisive original songs and wild card covers.
“Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem dig deep into their collective souls, finding joy in the moment, peace in the harmonies, and rapture in the rhythmic drive.” (The Hartford Courant).
Gnarly Darling | The Mountain
Join us for this phenomenal double bill featuring Gnarly Darling and old-time and folk outfit The Mountain.
Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light w/s/g Kat Wallace
2025 Telluride Bluegrass Band Contest Winners, Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light are a Boston-based string band making music that blends folk tradition with feminist storytelling, poetic detail, and just enough grit.
At the center is Sumner’s songwriting—rooted in history, myth, and personal reckoning—carried by close harmonies, upright bass, acoustic guitar, and fiddle.
Jake Swamp & The Pine with Kali Stoddard Imari
Join us for a special night with Jake Swamp & The Pine with special guest Kali Stoddard Imari.
Damn Tall Buildings
"...The Carter Family for the millennial generation..." - The Boston Globe.
Damn Tall Buildings radiate wild energy that is anchored in their instrumental chops, strong songwriting, and varied influences and blended elements of bluegrass, blues, roots-rock and vintage swing.
Zachariah Hickman’s Power Outage Party Night I
The Power Outage Party is simple - imagine you are cozy at home and the power goes out, and you happened to have had invited more than a dozen of the finest musicians over for the night - so you gather together in your living room for a fully acoustic night of music, stories, theatre and more. All completely in the dark with only lanterns to light the way.
No mics, no sound system, no stage lights - just a bunch of your favorite musicians together in the room with you, playing unamplified, with just candles and lanterns to light the way.
It's a uniquely intimate experience.
Zachariah Hickman’s Power Outage Party Night II
The Power Outage Party is simple - imagine you are cozy at home and the power goes out, and you happened to have had invited more than a dozen of the finest musicians over for the night - so you gather together in your living room for a fully acoustic night of music, stories, theatre and more. All completely in the dark with only lanterns to light the way.
No mics, no sound system, no stage lights - just a bunch of your favorite musicians together in the room with you, playing unamplified, with just candles and lanterns to light the way.
It's a uniquely intimate experience.
Zachariah Hickman’s Power Outage Party Night III
The Power Outage Party is simple - imagine you are cozy at home and the power goes out, and you happened to have had invited more than a dozen of the finest musicians over for the night - so you gather together in your living room for a fully acoustic night of music, stories, theatre and more. All completely in the dark with only lanterns to light the way.
No mics, no sound system, no stage lights - just a bunch of your favorite musicians together in the room with you, playing unamplified, with just candles and lanterns to light the way.
It's a uniquely intimate experience.
Tano Jones Revelry
Cradling a trusty six-string in-hand, looking out from under the brim of a dusty hat, and accompanied by a big red Labrador riding shotgun, Tano Jones makes music for the people, and he brings it right to them.
Stephen Kellogg (Early Show)
A Stephen Kellogg performance is like watching Ted Lasso live. Whether he’s playing music or doing stand-up, his shows leave people inspired and restored. For more than two decades, this wordsmith, Tedx speaker, stand-up comic, author and troubadour, has delighted audiences around the world.
Stephen Kellogg
A Stephen Kellogg performance is like watching Ted Lasso live. Whether he’s playing music or doing stand-up, his shows leave people inspired and restored. For more than two decades, this wordsmith, Tedx speaker, stand-up comic, author and troubadour, has delighted audiences around the world.
Richard Shindell
Whether you fell in love with his solo work, or as part of Cry, Cry, Cry with Dar Williams and Lucy Kaplansky, or both - Richard Shindell is one of a kind and heads to The Word Barn for a very special evening.
A Cape Breton Christmas with Còig
Held in the Orchard Chapel, Hampton Falls (immediately next to Applecrest Orchards), this quintessential New England holiday setting (complete with oil lanterns, candles, and old wooden pews with plush cushions) provides the perfect home for our 12 Nights of Christmas series that promises to fill you with the festive spirit and happiness!
Canadian Folk Music Award winners, East Coast Music Award winners, Music Nova Scotia winner, Juno nominees – the 4 members of Cóig bring the absolute best of Atlantic Canada music to our stage this winter.
Imagine Cape Breton classics, reels and jigs, world music, Irish themes all wrapped up in the spirit of the season for a joyful holiday program.
Harrison Goodell (full band)
Hailing from the New Hampshire seacoast, singer/songwriter Harrison Goodell brings his full band to our 12 Nights of Christmas series for a special, not-to-be-missed Home for the Holidays show.
Hannah Juanita & The Hardliners - Cancelled
Held in the Orchard Chapel, Hampton Falls (immediately next to Applecrest Orchards), this quintessential New England holiday setting (complete with oil lanterns, candles, and old wooden pews with plush red velvet cushions) provides the perfect home for our 12 Nights of Christmas series that promises to fill you with the festive spirit and happiness!
Join us for some Country Outlaw Christmas music with Tennessee’s Hannah Juanita & The Hardliners!
A Winter’s Evening with Ryanhood
Join us for a special holiday show with Ryanhood.
International Acoustic Music Awards winners for ‘Best Group/Duo’, Ryanhood’s tight vocal harmonies and big acoustic riffs have made them favorites on the touring circuit for over 20 years.
An Irish Christmas with John Doyle and Cathie Ryan
Cathie Ryan joins John Doyle for a rare US tour this Christmas, and make a stop at the Orchard Chapel for our 12 Nights of Christmas series!
Old-Time Jam Session w/Betsy Green
Come be part of The Word Barn's monthly jam session that is welcome and open to all levels and all instruments. Fiddler Betsy Green will led the session through a variety of folk and traditional tunes, and give you the chance to share some of your own (if you want).
Mr Sun Plays Duke Ellington’s Nutcracker
Mr. Sun records and performs a new interpretation of Ellington’s legendary Nutcracker Suite. Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite contains some of the most beloved and familiar melodies in the Western world.
Mr. Sun has seized upon the inspiration of Duke Ellington’s brilliant, sly, & urbane re-interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s Suite as an opportunity to salute and re-invent this wildly multi-faceted work anew through the lens of the American String Band, a musical form which contains myriad styles and is presently engaged in a marathon upheaval of innovation and expansion.
Halley Neal and Sam Robbins
Halley Neal and Sam Robbins are each solo singer-songwriters in their own right. Together, the two have released a collaborative Christmas album called “You and Me on Christmas Eve” - recorded at Skinny Elephant Recording in Nashville, TN with producer Dylan Alldredge (Amy Speace, Mary Gauthier, Jesse Terry, Ordinary Elephant.)
Featuring 5 original Christmas songs and 10 classic Holiday covers, “You and Me on Christmas Eve” is a duet-filled Americana celebration of the holiday season.
Join Halley Neal and Sam Robbins as they perform the album live!
Hayley Jane Band
Get ready for the explosive energy and movement of Hayley Jane’s full band show - a Word Barn favorite!
The Wolff Sisters
The Wolff Sisters - the gritty and raw folk-rock outfit and two-time Boston Music Award winners (Americana Artist of the Year) - bring their electrifying live performance and unique sound to The Word Barn Meadow.
Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas
Get ready for the virtuosic playing of Alasdair Fraser (Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame inductee), and one of the most sought after cellist in traditional music, Natalie Haas - and enjoy their near-telepathic understanding and the joyful spontaneity and sheer physcal presence of their music.
Dave Hause - SOLD OUT
Coming from a place where punk and classic rock collide, Dave Hause takes a break to head to The Word barn for a special and one-of-a-kind songbook-esque show.
Todd Hearon and Liz Frame & The Kickers
Join us for this phenomenal double bill featuring the two incredible singer/songwriters Todd Hearon and Liz Frame & The Kickers
David Wilcox
More than three decades into his career, singer/songwriter David Wilcox continues to push himself, just as he always has. Wilcox, by so many measures, is a quintessential folk singer, telling stories full of heart, humor, and hope, substance, searching, and style.
David Francey - SOLD OUT
Four-time JUNO (Canada’s Grammy) Award winner, David Francey is a Scottish-born Canadian carpenter-turned-songwriter, who has become known as “one of Canada’s most revered folk poets and singers” (Toronto Star).
David Francey
Four-time JUNO (Canada’s Grammy) Award winner, David Francey is a Scottish-born Canadian carpenter-turned-songwriter, who has become known as “one of Canada’s most revered folk poets and singers” (Toronto Star).
David Lowery
David Lowery (Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven) heads to The Word Barn for a special evening in celebration of his recent released series of loosely autobiographical albums.
Matt Shore Does Songs at You: A Musical Comedy Show
oin Portsmouth native Matt Shore for an evening of hilarious, high-energy pop tunes crafted from the mundane things in life.
Cheryl Wheeler - CANCELED
Don’t miss the return of Cheryl Wheeler to the stage - all in the special, intimate setting of The Word Barn for two shows!
Session Americana with Eleanor Buckland
Come catch the return of this freewheelin’ modern hootenanny who are headed back to the Word Barn for a super fun night - special guest Eleanor Buckland sits in with them!
Joshua Burnside
Hailing from County Down, Northern Ireland, Joshua Burnside is an award-winning singer/songwriter whose music incorporates elements of Irish folk, Scottish folk rock, Americana, world music, sound collage and electronia.
Old-Time Jam
Come be part of The Word Barn's monthly jam session that is welcome and open to all levels and all instruments. Fiddler Betsy Green will led the session through a variety of folk and traditional tunes, and give you the chance to share some of your own (if you want).
Vance Gilbert
Can something be wry, aching, hysterical, evocative, provocative, fun, beautifully sung and consummately played all at once? That would be Vance Gilbert. While he has released 13 albums thus far, Vance truly happens live.
Reed Foehl w/Jake McKelvie
Join us as Grammy Award Nominated musician and songwriter Reed Foehl returns to The Word Barn with special guest Jake McKelvie.
All Hallows' Eve: Spooky tunes, songs and tales from Scotland
All Hallows' Eve: Spooky tunes, songs and tales from Scotland
Rasa String Quartet: Soundtrack to a Nightmare
This special Halloween-inspired performance follows the arc of a classic horror movie – from eerie atmospheres and unsettling beauty to blood-chilling terror and otherworldly transformation. Featuring Schubert’s feverish Death and the Maiden, Mozart’s ominous Dissonance Quartet, haunting tracks from Radiohead, and iconic Halloween hits, this spine-tingling journey blends classical drama, cinematic suspense, and supernatural flair!
Jake Davis & The Whiskey Stones with The Mountain
A special release show for the much anticipated new album from Jake Davis & The Whiskey Stones. Old-time and folk outfit The Mountain joins as special guest.
Richard Shindell
Whether you fell in love with his solo work, or as part of Cry, Cry, Cry with Dar Williams and Lucy Kaplansky, or both - Richard Shindell is one of a kind and heads to The Word Barn for a very special evening.
Orchard Concert Series: Apple Hill String Quartet
The Chapel Concert Series continues with a special October concert with the award-winning Apple Hill String Quartet.
Called “dashing and extraordinary” by The Strad Magazine, the Apple Hill StringQuartet are the Artistic Directors and resident musicians at the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, winner of the CMAcclaim award from Chamber Music America.
Adam Ezra Group - SOLD OUT
One of the most requested groups at The Word Barn, Adam Ezra and his bandmates have built a community of fans around their fusion of folk intimacy and rock energy with soul power and pop charm. Don’t miss this night.