Come be part of The Word Barn's monthly jam session that is welcome and open to all levels and all instruments. Fiddler Betsy Green will led the session through a variety of folk and traditional tunes, and give you the chance to share some of your own (if you want).

We are excited to introduce a painting workshop for your creative wellness!

This workshop is for those of you who are ready to connect to your inner peace, while discovering your inner artist. Yes! You have an inner artist and this workshop will help you connect to them.

Come get in the holiday spirit for an hour of stories & puppets at The Word Barn on December 23!

Enjoy delicious cookies, hot cocoa, eggnog and rum (for us adults), chocolate treats & an assortment of favorite holiday stories read by John Herman, Andrew Periale & Bonnie Meier Periale, and Ariana Anderson & Willa Furbush, and special guest Aengus Anderson.

Join us for the annual community candlelight caroling event that will quickly become your favorite holiday tradition.

Fun for the whole family, this evening offers the chance to come together and sing the most beautiful and festive music of the season - all in the quintessential New England setting of the Orchard Chapel, complete with oil lanterns and candles.

Join us for the annual community candlelight caroling event that will quickly become your favorite holiday tradition.

Fun for the whole family, this evening offers the chance to come together and sing the most beautiful and festive music of the season - all in the quintessential New England setting of the Orchard Chapel, complete with oil lanterns and candles.

The 12 Nights of Christmas returns to the Orchard Chapel this holiday season with The Heather Pierson Jazz Trio (Heather Pierson, piano and vocals; Shawn Nadeau, bass; Craig Bryan, drums) and their take on Vince Guaraldi’s A Charlie Brown Christmas.

Held in the Orchard Chapel, Hampton Falls (immediately next to Applecrest Orchards), this quintessential New England holiday setting (complete with oil lanterns, candles, and old wooden pews with plush cushions) provides the perfect home for our 12 Nights of Christmas series that promises to fill you with the festive spirit and happiness!

American Roots band Low Lily celebrates the Winter Solstice!

This high energy show will feature instrumentals alongside impeccably arranged songs to honor the season. Between them, the musicians play mandolins, guitars, fiddle, banjo, and sing in three part vocal harmonies.

Held in the Orchard Chapel, Hampton Falls (immediately next to Applecrest Orchards), this quintessential New England holiday setting (complete with oil lanterns, candles, and old wooden pews with plush red velvet cushions) provides the perfect home for our 12 Nights of Christmas series that promises to fill you with the festive spirit and happiness!

Putting a fresh spin on traditional Celtic music, the NH-based Jordan TW Trio delivers a dynamic show full of lively fiddle tunes, haunting airs and their own spin on yuletide classics.

Held in the Orchard Chapel, Hampton Falls (immediately next to Applecrest Orchards), this quintessential New England holiday setting (complete with oil lanterns, candles, and old wooden pews with plush cushions) provides the perfect home for our 12 Nights of Christmas series that promises to fill you with the festive spirit and happiness!

Kat Wright & Brett Hughes, two of Vermont’s most beloved songbirds, join forces once again this December for their annual holiday tour!

The show — a true Christmas gift — featuring Tyler Bolles (Swale, Rough Francis) on upright bass and multi-instrumentalist Will Seeders (Carling & Will, Caitlin Canty), offers songs of holiday heartbreak & holiday cheer. It is bejeweled with storytelling, originals, and beloved classics alike.

It’s guaranteed to warm your heart, peak your nostalgia and create a loving container for those good ole’ holiday blues that we all know so well.

Held in the Orchard Chapel, Hampton Falls (immediately next to Applecrest Orchards), this quintessential New England holiday setting (complete with oil lanterns, candles, and old wooden pews with plush red velvet cushions) provides the perfect home for our 12 Nights of Christmas series that promises to fill you with the festive spirit and happiness!

Join us as the beloved Irish band, Lunasa, brings their joyous holiday show on December 16!

Held in the Orchard Chapel, Hampton Falls (immediately next to Applecrest Orchards), this quintessential New England holiday setting (complete with oil lanterns, candles, and old wooden pews with plush red velvet cushions) provides the perfect home for our 12 Nights of Christmas series that promises to fill you with the festive spirit and happiness!

Join us as the beloved Irish band, Lunasa, brings their joyous holiday show on December 16!

The Scottish Fish have been touring a seasonal version of their standard show for five years, which features creative arrangements of familiar carols woven in among traditional, contemporary, and original Celtic tunes.

Come and enjoy their debut 12 Nights of Christmas performance!

Held in the Orchard Chapel, Hampton Falls (immediately next to Applecrest Orchards), this quintessential New England holiday setting (complete with oil lanterns, candles, and old wooden pews with plush red velvet cushions) provides the perfect home for our 12 Nights of Christmas series that promises to fill you with the festive spirit and happiness!

Studying guitar with Julian Lage before moving to Nashville, Ben Garnett is quickly becoming known as one of the best instrumental guitarists around - and comes to The Orchard Chapel with a special duo Holiday show.

Held in the Orchard Chapel, Hampton Falls (immediately next to Applecrest Orchards), this quintessential New England holiday setting (complete with oil lanterns, candles, and old wooden pews with plush cushions) provides the perfect home for our 12 Nights of Christmas series that promises to fill you with the festive spirit and happiness!

Nova Scotian sisters, Cassie & Maggie have been touring their unique blend of traditional and contemporary Celtic instrumentals and vocals.

Their holiday show features lively fiddle, piano, guitar with stunning vocal harmonies (in English and Gaelic), accompanied by their intricate and percussive step dancing style.

Held in the Orchard Chapel, Hampton Falls (immediately next to Applecrest Orchards), this quintessential New England holiday setting (complete with oil lanterns, candles, and old wooden pews with plush cushions) provides the perfect home for our 12 Nights of Christmas series that promises to fill you with the festive spirit and happiness!

Canadian Folk Music Award winners, East Coast Music Award winners, Music Nova Scotia winner, Juno nominees – the 4 members of Cóig bring the absolute best of Atlantic Canada music to our stage this winter.

Imagine Cape Breton classics, reels and jigs, world music, Irish themes all wrapped up in the spirit of the season for a joyful holiday program.

Hailing from the New Hampshire seacoast, singer/songwriter Harrison Goodell brings his full band to our 12 Nights of Christmas series for a special, not-to-be-missed Home for the Holidays show.

Held in the Orchard Chapel, Hampton Falls (immediately next to Applecrest Orchards), this quintessential New England holiday setting (complete with oil lanterns, candles, and old wooden pews with plush red velvet cushions) provides the perfect home for our 12 Nights of Christmas series that promises to fill you with the festive spirit and happiness!

Join us for some Country Outlaw Christmas music with Tennessee’s Hannah Juanita & The Hardliners!

Join us for a special holiday show with Ryanhood.

International Acoustic Music Awards winners for ‘Best Group/Duo’, Ryanhood’s tight vocal harmonies and big acoustic riffs have made them favorites on the touring circuit for over 20 years.

Cathie Ryan joins John Doyle for a rare US tour this Christmas, and make a stop at the Orchard Chapel for our 12 Nights of Christmas series!

Come be part of The Word Barn's monthly jam session that is welcome and open to all levels and all instruments. Fiddler Betsy Green will led the session through a variety of folk and traditional tunes, and give you the chance to share some of your own (if you want).

Mr. Sun records and performs a new interpretation of Ellington’s legendary Nutcracker Suite. Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite contains some of the most beloved and familiar melodies in the Western world.

Mr. Sun has seized upon the inspiration of Duke Ellington’s brilliant, sly, & urbane re-interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s Suite as an opportunity to salute and re-invent this wildly multi-faceted work anew through the lens of the American String Band, a musical form which contains myriad styles and is presently engaged in a marathon upheaval of innovation and expansion.

Halley Neal and Sam Robbins are each solo singer-songwriters in their own right. Together, the two have released a collaborative Christmas album called “You and Me on Christmas Eve” - recorded at Skinny Elephant Recording in Nashville, TN with producer Dylan Alldredge (Amy Speace, Mary Gauthier, Jesse Terry, Ordinary Elephant.)

Featuring 5 original Christmas songs and 10 classic Holiday covers, “You and Me on Christmas Eve” is a duet-filled Americana celebration of the holiday season.

Join Halley Neal and Sam Robbins as they perform the album live!

Because it's a lovely time to get in the holiday spirit...

learn how to create your own sustainable wrapping paper and gift tags, just in time for the holiday season!

Block Printing is one of the oldest styles of printmaking, used for thousands of years on paper and fabric alike. 

During this workshop you will design & carve your very own "block" for printing on Kraft paper and gift tags.

You'll learn how to transfer images, design your own, and gain an introduction to the different kinds of supplies and tools that can be used in this exciting process. 

Participants can expect to create & carve at least one unique block and leave with original prints on various paper sheets & gift tags and take their stamp home to use over and over!

Get ready for the explosive energy and movement of Hayley Jane’s full band show - a Word Barn favorite!

The Wolff Sisters - the gritty and raw folk-rock outfit and two-time Boston Music Award winners (Americana Artist of the Year) - bring their electrifying live performance and unique sound to The Word Barn Meadow.

Get ready for the virtuosic playing of Alasdair Fraser (Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame inductee), and one of the most sought after cellist in traditional music, Natalie Haas - and enjoy their near-telepathic understanding and the joyful spontaneity and sheer physcal presence of their music.

Coming from a place where punk and classic rock collide, Dave Hause takes a break to head to The Word barn for a special and one-of-a-kind songbook-esque show.

Join us for this phenomenal double bill featuring the two incredible singer/songwriters Todd Hearon and Liz Frame & The Kickers

More than three decades into his career, singer/songwriter David Wilcox continues to push himself, just as he always has. Wilcox, by so many measures, is a quintessential folk singer, telling stories full of heart, humor, and hope, substance, searching, and style.

Four-time JUNO (Canada’s Grammy) Award winner, David Francey is a Scottish-born Canadian carpenter-turned-songwriter, who has become known as “one of Canada’s most revered folk poets and singers” (Toronto Star).