Andover Community Coffeehouse

12/15/2023

Live music @ The Andover Coffeehouse, TONIGHT (Friday) at 7 pm

It's time for the Andover Community Coffeehouse! TONIGHT, Friday, Dec. 15
featuring singer/songwriter Mary Maquire... Doors open at 6:00 for food & open mic sign-ups! Music starts at 7:00! Highland Lake Grange Hall, East Andover

Tonight's featured performer is longtime New Hampshire singer-songwriter Mary Maguire, looking forward to sharing warm songs of the season with the Coffeehouse crowd. Long-time lead singer of The Mary Maguire Band, and co-founder of Sweet, Hot & Sassy!, Mary has taught many workshops at music festivals and been a guest artist on other musicians' recordings. More recently returning to her academic roots, Maguire is currently teaching Spanish and French, and yes, her guitar comes out in the classroom as well!

The Highland Lake Grange Hall is on the corner of Rt. 11 and Chase Hill Road in East Andover. Doors open at 6 pm for Open Mic sign-ups on a first-come/first-served basis, as well as sound checks and light supper food items available for purchase, provided by Donna and her crew from the Andover Community Church -- hot dogs, wraps, soups, desserts and beverages. The evening is free, although we "pass the hat" and generous donations are gratefully accepted to be shared with the featured performer.

To learn more about the Andover Coffeehouse, go to http://andovercoffeehouse.org/

For more information about The Andover Community Hub, sponsor of the Coffeehouse,
check out https://www.andoverhub.org/

03/18/2023

Another great night at the Andover Community Coffeehouse in the books! Thank you to Andy and Monique of Crowes Pasture for their beautiful music, and for our talented open mic performers! Wow!

03/15/2023

CROWES PASTURE: Guitar and Banjo Duo THIS FRIDAY, March 17th at 7:00 PM Highland Lake Grange Hall.

Headlining the Andover Community Coffeehouse this month is Crowes Pasture, a Massachusetts-based folk duo comprised of Monique Byrne and Andy Rogovin. According to Folk Wales Online Magazine, the pair's recent album, Edge of America, is “peppered with fabulous harmonies and beautiful instrumentation, and their sensitive songwriting weaves around the material of Dylan, Donovan and Cohen; it’s pure American.” They're a recent "Roots Act of the Year" nominee, New England Music Awards, 2022.

The event is open to the public at no charge but generous donations are welcome when we "pass the hat" to be shared with the featured performer. There will also be a handful of "open mic" performers doing a song or two each.

Doors open at 6 p.m. for food and beverage purchases -- hot dogs, wraps, soups, desserts -- as well as sound checks and Open Mic sign-ups on a first come, first served basis. Music begins at 7:00.

The sponsor of this month’s coffeehouse is the Andover Energy Group, an organization of volunteers working to improve energy efficiency at the local level. For more information about the featured act and the Andover Coffeehouse, check out www.andovercoffeehouse.org. The Coffeehouse operates under the umbrella of The Andover Community Hub; more information about The Hub can be found at www.andoverhub.org.

12/15/2022

The December Coffeehouse is CANCELLED for Friday night due to the incoming storm. Mink Hills Band will be rescheduled. Stay safe, everyone!!

12/07/2022

Our local coffeehouse is your venue for live music! Every third Friday at 7 at the East Andover Grange Hall by the church on the hill... Mark your calendars! We've got a great line-up of featured performers!

December -- Mink Hills Band
January -- Holly Furlone
February -- Hiroya Tsukamoto
March -- Crowes Pasture
April -- Cozy Sheridan
May -- Tom Pirozzoli
June -- Kala Farnham

Check out our website for more info:

The Mink Hills Band is a New Hampshire based acoustic band whose selection of music includes Bluegrass, Swing, Folk, and Original compositions. The stylistic range of material provides for an interesting and varied musical experience.

10/22/2022

A full house enjoyed the music of Skip Gorman last night at the Grange Hall in East Andover...

09/16/2022

The Andover Community Coffeehouse is BACK!!
Friday, Sept. 16, 7 p.m.
Highland Lake Grange Hall, East Andover
Featuring "Decatur Creek"

Decatur Creek -- Sept. Coffeehouse.jpg
After a two-year break during the pandemic -- with only sporadic Zoom or outdoor performances -- the Andover Community Coffeehouse will be back in its usual space at the Highland Lake Grange Hall in East Andover, on the corner of Rt. 11 and Chase Hill Road, on Friday, September 16 -- the usual 3rd Friday of the month!

The featured performers will be "Decatur Creek," made up of Doug Farrell, Beth Eldridge and Jack Henry, all accomplished NH-based musicians and singer/songwriters who keep up a busy schedule playing around New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts. There will also be a handful of "open mic" performers doing a song or two each. It should be great!

Doors open at 6 pm for Open Mic sign-ups on a first-come/first-served basis, as well as sound checks and light supper food items available for purchase, provided by Donna and her crew from the Andover Community Church -- hot dogs, wraps, soups, desserts and beverages. The evening is free, although we "pass the hat" -- and donations are gratefully accepted to be split with the featured performers.

Music starts at 7 pm. "Decatur Creek" will lead off with a 35-minute set and then come back on stage around 8:30 pm to close out the evening. In between, up to a half-dozen open mic performers of various sorts will do a song or two or up to ten minutes each.

To learn more about the Coffeehouse, as well as "Decatur Creek" and past featured performers, check out the Coffeehouse Website at http://andovercoffeehouse.org/ The schedule for the current season is still being filled in -- check back soon!

Doug Farrell, Jack Henry, and Beth Eldridge are each accomplished NH-based musicians, singer/songwriters, and performers who together are - Decatur Creek. They each sing and play multiple instruments in their engaging frequent live performances in NH, VT, and MA. Their diverse styles complement one....

08/16/2022

12/01/2021

This is going to be a great program Thursday evening! Please share and spread the word!

"Moose Man" Wildlife Photographer
Thursday, Dec. 2, 6:30 p.m.
Andover Community Hub

Andover residents Rick and Libby Libbey, wildlife photographers and filmmakers, will show their photos and talk about their experiences photographing moose, loons and other wildlife in northern Maine and Alaska, as well as locally.

Audience limited to 50; doors will open at 6:15 p.m. Free of charge; masks are requested.

Information: [email protected]. The Hub is located at 157 Main St., Andover

Check out his amazing photography here: https://www.moosemannaturephotos.com

09/30/2021

Film Screening Wednesday October 6th at 7:00 pm in person at the Andover Hub. If you are interested in creating thriving communities where the next generation and our elders can afford to live, come see this film and participate in a town wide discussion afterwards. Sponsored by the Andover Hub and the Kearsarge Housing Coalition. The film and resources can be found here: https://nhpbs.org/communitiesandconsequences/

Communities and Consequences II: Rebalancing New Hampshire’s Human Ecology is a sequel project to 2008’s

04/14/2021

This Friday!! Want to join us? Contact us at [email protected] and we'll send you the Zoom link.

04/14/2021

It's the 3rd Friday, must be the Andover Coffeehouse!

The Andover Community Coffeehouse
featuring "Green Heron"
Friday, April 16, starting at 7 p.m.

We're delighted to have the husband-and-wife duo "Green Hero" as our featured performers, and you're in for a real treat! As New Hampshire Magazine wrote, "If there was ever a recipe for treating the 'pandemic blues,' it's listening to the music of Green Heron," when it featured Green Heron among the "Editor's Choice" picks for its "Best of 2020" issue.

Featuring Betsy Heron (formerly Green) on fiddle, banjo and vocals, and Scott Heron on guitar, banjo and vocals, the duo has been sharing New England stages together since 2016. You can find out more about Green Heron on their website -- https://www.greenheronmusic.com/

The evening is free although we'll "pass the hat" virtually so you can add something to the Green Heron's tip jar.

And following the featured performers, there'll be a couple of Open Mic performers performing a song or two. Lots of variety, always fun!

Want to join us? Contact us at [email protected] and we'll send you the Zoom link.

New Hampshire Americana, roots, folk, and bluegrass duo

03/16/2021

Yahoo! The Andover Community Coffeehouse returns this Friday via Zoom!