UPCOMING EVENTS
TYPE OF EVENT

The Orchard Chapel Candlelight Carol Sing
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.

A Winter Solstice Celebration with Low Lily
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.

The Orchard Chapel Candlelight Carol Sing - Family Matinee
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 Orchard Chapel Candlelight Carol Sing
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.

A Celtic Christmas with Lunasa
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 19!

A Celtic Christmas with Lunasa
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 15!

Jordan TW Trio Celtic 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 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.

A Charlie Brown Christmas with Heather Pierson Trio
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.

Ed Gerhard Christmas Concert
The 12 Nights of Christmas returns to Hampton Falls' Orchard Chapel this holiday season with Grammy Award Winning Ed Gerhard.
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 velvet cushions) provides the perfect home for our 12 Nights of Christmas series that promises to fill you with the festive spirit and happiness!

A Nova Scotia Christmas w/Cassie & Maggie
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.

Rasa’s Christmas: Folk Tunes & Holiday Cheer
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!
Rasa String Quartet explores the musical space where classical and folk traditions intersect and influence one another, and joins the 12 Nights of Christmas series this year with their special holiday show!
This Boston-based ensemble consists of violinists Emma Powell and Maura Shawn Scanlin, violist Kiyoshi Hayashi, and cellist Mina Kim, who are graduates of the New England Conservatory, the Shepherd School of Music, and Yale University.

A Cape Breton Christmas with Còig
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.

Home for the Holidays with Dustbowl Revival
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 & Brett 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!
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.

Mr Sun. Plays Duke Ellington’s Nutcracker
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.

Rock My Soul Holiday Concert
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!
Roots-based, raise-the-rafters gospel choir Rock My Soul joins our 12 Nights of Christmas concert series for some spirit lifting and holiday magic!

Halley Neal and Sam Robbins
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!

Orchard Concert Series: Apple Hill String Quartet
The Chapel Concert Series continues with a special October concert with the award-winning Apple Hill String Quartet.
Called “dashing and extraordinary” by The Strad Magazine, the Apple Hill String Quartet are the Artistic Directors and resident musicians at the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, winner of the CMAcclaim award from Chamber Music America.

Orchard Concert Series: Encore!
The Chapel Concert Series continues with a special Fall Equinox Concert to celebrate the annual astrological and spiritual marvel of the sun directly above the Equator creating an equal length day and night, and the official launch of fall.
Led by woodwind virtuoso Margaret Herlehy, the Encore ensemble features a seasoned arsenal of award-winning musicians who bring the very best to each and every music performance.

Orchard Concert Series: Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra Brass Quintet
The Chapel Concert Series continues with a special Summer Solstice Concert to celebrate the annual astrological and spiritual marvel of the sun’s highest point in our skies.
The Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra Brass Quintet will present a blend of meditative and celebratory classical music to mark the beginning of summer.

Orchard Concert Series: Dacha and Sava Thurber
Dacha and Sava Thurber will perform a youthful and energetic selection of violin duets. Dacha and Sacha are young talents from Exeter in music studies and performance at Harvard.

The Orchard Chapel Candlelight Carol Sing
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.

A Nova Scotia Christmas w/Cassie & Maggie
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.

The Orchard Chapel Candlelight Carol Sing
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.

Zachariah Hickman’s Handsome Holiday Happening!
Zachariah Hickman's Handsome Holiday Happening! featuring a slew of special guests and festive surprises!
Presented at the Orchard Chapel, come and join Zachariah Hickman - bassist, impresario and general mischief maker - for his annual Handsome Holiday Happening! This evening of music and surprises will feature magical holiday music and a number of unexpected performers.
Zachariah is no stranger to the Word Barn audience - you may have seen him with his bluegrass-adjacent behemoth Barnstar!, with Mark Erelli or Dinty Child, or leading his annual Power Outage Party. This show also promises not to disappoint. We honestly have no idea what he's cooking up, but it's going to be a special night. Not to be missed!

Home for the Holidays with Session Americana w/ Eleanor Buckland
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!
Come catch the return of this freewheelin’ modern hootenanny who are headed to our 12 Nights of Christmas series this December for a special holiday show!
Session Americana are like family, and we’ll be celebrating the chance to come together, enjoy great music and cheer in that amazing home-for-the-holidays spirit.

The Orchard Chapel Candlelight Carol Sing
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.

A Celtic Christmas with Lunasa - SOLD OUT
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 15!

A Celtic Christmas with Lunasa - SOLD OUT
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 15!

Kat & Brett 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!
Kat Wright & Brett Hughes, two of Vermont’s most beloved songbirds, join forces once again this December for their 10th annual VT 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.