Music Season — 06/19/2025

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10 Summer is music-lovers’ season! In addition to the regular venues for local, regional and national performances, outdoor venues like BankNH Pavilion have a slate of shows and many towns and cities have weekly (free!) shows in parks and town commons. Michael Witthaus presents a rundown of the shows you might want to save the date for and talks about the summer music season with a local venue operator. Cover photo: Martin & Kelly, photo by DB Kelly Photography. (Martin & Kelly have several area shows on the schedule for this summer including at the Londonderry Town Common on Aug. 6; see martinkellymusic.com.)

Also on the cover Michael Witthaus takes a look at two big shows with a discussion with Dionne Warwick (who plays the Cap Center on Saturday) and a look at the PhanArt show accompanying Phish and their June 20 to June 22 shows at the SNHU Arena in Manchester. Also this weekend, John Fladd looks at the weekend eats at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Manchester — Saturday is their annual Lamb BBQ and Sunday is a new addition, Gyro Day (page 16).

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