Thursday, December 8th Events

Know Your Nature Nights

Time: 7:00 PM-8:30 PM
Place: Fremont Field, Peterborough, NH (about 19 miles from Keene)
Price: $5 per family
Ages: All

Come take a walk into a full moon night with a Harris Center naturalist as your guide. Discover the seasons as you walk through these Peterborough special places. Turn off the TV and open your family’s door to the wonders of the night. Connect with nature and your family. Call the Peterborough Recreation Department (cosponsor) to register at 924-8080.

KSC Ensemble Percussion Concert

Time: 7:30 PM
Place: Keene State College, Alumni Recital Hall, Redferns Art Center
Price: $5 and $10
Ages: All

Let the Keene State College Percussion Ensemble take you on a chronological tour of early American percussion ensemble music from 1929-1941. Works to be performed in order of composition are Amadeo Roldán's Ritmicas No. 5 & 6, Edgard Varèse's Ionisation, Henry Cowell's Ostinato Pianissimo, John Cage's Living Room Music, and Lou Harrison's Labyrinth No. 3. These works represent a select group of 20th-Century composers who scored original works for percussion ensemble in search of new sounds. In this search for new sound, they created the foundation for the modern percussion ensemble. The pieces are scored from 4 to 13 players and take advantage of a wide array of instruments from the standard drums, cymbals, and gongs to the not so standard rice bowls, glasses, bottles, handsaws, playing cards and magazines. Please join us for this rare opportunity to hear this classic literature performed consecutively. 
Box Office - 603-358-2168 - boxoffice@keene.edu 

Open Mic

Time: 7:00 PM-10:00 PM
Place: Marina Restaurant, Brattleboro, VT (about 19 miles from Keene)
Price: Free
Ages: Older crowd

Kevin Parry hosts Open Mic every Thursday at the Marina Restaurant, Brattleboro, VT. from 7-10:00 p.m. Free. Musicians can sign up in advance by calling 802-257-7563. 

Thomasville's Victorian Christmas

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: Downtown Dummerston, VT (about 19 miles from Keene)
Price: Free
Ages: All

Outdoor event on historic brick-paved Broad Street. Victorian costumed carolers and shop keepers, carriage rides, and much more! 30,000 attendees expected. 

What's special about today?

Eli Whitney's birthday, 1765
National brownie day
Congress declares war on Japan and US entered WWII
John Lennon was shot and killed in New York City, 1980
Sinead O' Connor birthday, 1966