Bring a picnic, bring a chair, and enjoy a concert on the green.This concert features Hot Skillet Club, comprised of Liza Constable, Val Blachly, and Ellen Carlson. Each brings their own unique talents to play many genres including vintage jazz, New England fiddle tunes,Cajun, and Delta Blues.Donations encouraged and appreciated. For more information, please call […]
If you’ve ever thought it would be fun to make your own Shaker chair, this is the workshop for you!
Part of our Music on the Green series, this concert features Peabody's Coal Train. Peabody’s Cole Train (PCT) is a unique local NH acoustic Americana band featuring strings and shared vocal harmonies. Through their music, the six-piece ensemble tells stories celebrating the triumphs and tragedies of the human condition. Bring a picnic (and a chair) […]
Master stone artisan and mason, Kevin Fife, leads a hands-on workshop that will expose participants to the engineering and aesthetics of the Shakers’ stone wall-building skill through the actual restoration of a wall section at Canterbury Shaker Village. The $250 fee for this popular workshop includes materials, gourmet lunch, and drinks each day. CLICK HERE […]
Bring a picnic, bring a chair, and enjoy a concert on the green.The second concert of the series features Dudley Laufman + The Canterbury Country Dance Orchestra, who continue to be fully engaged in a 70-year career as a dance caller for local country dances throughout New England. Dudley has the rare ability to both […]
If you’ve ever thought it would be fun to tape or re-tape your own Shaker chair – this is the workshop for you!
Part of our Music on the Green series, this concert features Jan Fuller & Harel Gietheim. Fuller has played at New York’s Carnegie Hall and Symphony Hall in Boston. Gietheim, an important mentor for Fuller, has impressed audiences and critics alike with his fresh interpretations and dramatic presentation style. The Music on the Green series […]
*UPDATE 9/15* The Artisan Market will take place inside the Horse Barn and Hubbard Gallery!The scenic Village grounds are the perfect backdrop for this festive late summer event, which features handcrafted arts with music, family activities, food trucks, and a mobile cocktail bar. Enjoy a beautiful late-summer day browsing unique textile, ceramic, wood, glass, jewelry, […]
Part of our Music on the Green series, this concert features The Canterbury Singers, one of the very few non-auditioned, high quality professionally-directed choral groups for mixed voices (men and women/teens and adults blended ensemble), in New Hampshire. The Canterbury Singers present authentic Shaker music, expanded by arrangements of American folk songs, music of early […]
Part of our Music on the Green series, this concert features Liz & Dan Faiella. Liz & Dan Faiella celebrate their Irish musical roots of fiddling with a distinctive modern twist in our beautiful Meeting House. An intuitive sibling duo, the musicians sense their audiences keenly and move off playlist to channel their audiences’ mood […]
A historic Shaker woodworking shop is the perfect location to create the quintessential Shaker oval box. Learn to carve, bend and assemble a #3 cherry oval box.
At this event, Ellen will describe her experiences here at the Village this summer and fall. Based in Los Angeles, CA, Ellen uses a variety of in-camera and post processing techniques to reveal the unpredictable, idiosyncratic, inscrutable nature of the human condition.
