First Night® 2009 - Activities and Entertainment
Lots of great music, dance and activities will be at the heart of First Night Portsmouth!
Download the FNP Program here.
Outdoor fun...
Ice Sculpture: 1pm - 5pm - Market Square/North Church - watch our crafters create fozen sculpture
Street Dance: 5pm - Midnight - Pleasant Street at Market Square - DJ'd by WSCA Portsmouth Community Radio
Fireworks: 7:30pm - South Mill Pond
Indoor Venues…
Remember...everyone must be wearing a First Night Portsmouth Button to gain entry to All Indoor Venues...
The Connie Bean Recreation Center
TJ Wheeler's Jug Jam - Everything but the kitchen sink...
5 - 5:45, 6:15 - 7
Activities ongoing from 5 - 9pm:
Bob Nilson - Caricatures galore
Headband Lady - Create your own First Night headband!
Stop by for a New Year's Edition of Face Painting
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"Late Night at the Connie Bean"
Skamasutra - Ska and rock - dance!
8:30 - 9:15, 9:45 - 10:30, 11:00 - 11:45
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Middle Street Baptist - Hall
The Yankee Clipper Chorus - Award winning harmonies
5:30 - 6, 6:30 - 7
Jeff Warner & Friends - Traditional maritime and folk music.
8:15 - 9, 9:30 - 10:15, 10:45 - 11:30
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The North Church
Martha Dana - Puppeteer & Storyteller
5:15 - 6, 6:30 - 7:15
High Range - Fine roots music...fiddle, guitar and mandolin
8:15 - 9, 9:15 - 9:45
TJ Wheeler and the Smokers - Dixieland Jazz
10:15 - 10:45, 11:15 - 11:45
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The Seacoast Repertory Theatre
Foté - West African drumming
5:00 - 5:45, 6:15 - 7:00
Wooden Eye - Roots rock...
8:30 - 9:15, 9:45 - 10:30, 11:00 - 11:45
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The South Church (The U.U.!)
Upstairs:
Salt River - Folk music at its best
5:00 - 5:45, 6:15 - 7
Two Old Friends - Celtic and American Country
8:00 - 8:45, 9:00 - 9:45
Rock My Soul - Rootsy, raise-the-rafters gospel for everyone
10:15 - 10:45, 11:15 - Midnight
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Temple Israel
Randy Armstrong - A musical feast: acoustic, world fusion, jazz
8:15 - 9, 9:30 - 10:15, 10:45 - 11:30
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United Methodist Church Hall
All Together Now - The music of The Beatles...
8:15 - 9, 9:30 - 10:15, 10:45 - 11:30
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W.E.S.T - West End Studio Theatre
Pontine Theatre - 'A Child's Christmas In Wales'
5 - 5:30, 6 - 6:30
NH Theatre Project/Genevieve Aichele - Selections from their upcoming show 'Celebrations'
8:30 - 9, 9:30 - 10
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Thanks to our friends at Foster's Daily Democrat
For more years than we can count they've published The Official Guide to First Night Portsmouth as well as The Market Square Day Guide.
The support of Foster's and our other Community Partners is appreciated.
Please take a moment and consider those folks - we know that they would appreciate it!
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