Electric Earth Concerts

Great Music All Year Round for the Monadnock Region

Jonathan Bagg & Laura Gilbert, Artistic Directors

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EEC receives NH State Arts Council Grant

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We’ve just been notified that our “Open Doors” project will receive funding from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, in their General Projects category.  This is the third year that Open Doors has been honored by this support, which goes toward free concerts at community learning spaces that are targeted specifically to family audiences. These concerts are for families to experience together and are meant to evoke in new listeners the excitement, appreciation, and even reverence, that can accompany hearing powerful music-making in a concert setting. We believe that early experiences such as these can be crucial to developing a young person’s desire to seek out live music as a form of artistic engagement later in life.

2019: new Grants, Sponsors, and Old Friends

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In November 2018, EEC was awarded a second New Hampshire State Council on the Arts “General Project” grant, for which we are immensely thankful. “Open Doors” is our name for a new initiative, a series of concerts in community spaces such as Libraries, where we will present concerts designed for the entire family to enjoy. These concerts will be designed for families (parents & children) to experience together. They are meant to evoke in new listeners the excitement, appreciation and even reverence that can accompany the experience of hearing powerful music-making in a concert setting.

We are delighted to again receive business sponsorship in 2019 from Grove St. Fiduciary in Peterborough, also from Petersons Real Estate in Peterborough, and from Belletetes building product specialists in Jaffrey. Also sponsoring a concert in 2019 is People’s United Bank of Peterborough.

And a big thank you to all of our many supporters in the community, who again showed their appreciation in 2018 for what we bring to the Monadnock Region.

A romantic visit to Scott-Farrar community

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On April 28, the Diderot Quartet and baritone Jesse Blumberg performed songs and quartet selections from the romantic era for about 30 residents of Scott-Farrar Retirement Community in Peterborough.

On April 7, EEC Artistic Directors Jonathan Bagg and Laura Gilbert were joined by piano virtuoso Molly Morkoski for a preview of “A Timeless Place”, performed for the community at Plowshare Farm. This concert included a brand new work titled “Peacocks” by composer Jonathan Elliott.

The Verona Quartet also performed for Plowshare residents on March 8, thrilling the audience with works by Mozart, Brahms, and Janacek.

New Hampshire State Council on the Arts

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Electric Earth has been awarded a grant from the State Arts Council! We are thrilled to have this generous support from our home state. A General Projects grant will help us to reach hundreds of schoolchildren in their classes, as well as residents of several life-sharing and special needs communities in our area. The State grant supplements an award from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) that we received earlier this year.

NEA Grant!

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We are delighted to receive our first award from the National Endowment for the Arts. The $10,000 grant will support 12 free on-site musical encounters in 2017. These range from classical to folk music, by musicians that our fans in the area know well: the Horszowski Trio, the Borromeo Quartet, Indra jazz trio, singer Jennifer Johnson Cano, to name a few. Our musicians love doing these concerts; they love bringing their music more deeply into the community, to people who can’t easily attend public events. The NEA grant allows us to better acknowledge their tremendous enthusiasm for this kind of work and their contributions to this part of our mission, by giving them adequate compensation.

Supported by

The Putnam Foundation  |  The Gilbert Verney Foundation  |  The National Endowment for the Arts  |  The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation  |  The JWK Trust  |  Terra Nova Trust