Park concerts

• Concord holds concerts in Eagle Square on six Thursdays at 7 p.m., and the Nevers’ Band performs at different parks throughout the summer.

• The Londonderry Arts Council plans Concerts on the Common, mostly on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. at the bandstand on the Londonderry Town Common at Mammoth and Pillsbury Roads. They also run the monthly open mic Nutfield Sessions.

• New Boston’s Recreation Department organizes summer concerts on alternate Sundays at 6 p.m. (New Boston’s Blues Association’s “Barnful of Blues Festival” Aug. 1 is at the county’s 4H Youth Center.)

• Derry uses their MacGregor Park bandstand for Tuesday and Thursday night summer concerts.

• Milford’s “Sounds on the Soughegan” concerts run Wednesdays for about 10 weeks this summer at Emerson Park.

• Merrimack holds concerts mostly Wednesdays at 7 p.m. through Aug. 26 at the Abbie Griffin Park bandstand. (The form to request use of the bandstand is here.)

• Community Events, LLC, is running outdoor family film series at Veterans Park in Manchester and Greeley Park in Nashua this summer.

• New Thalian Players produces Disney’s High School Musical at Veterans Park and Nashua Theatre Guild produces Shakespeare’s The Tempest at Greeley Park (July 17-July 26). (The application to use Veterans Park is here.)

• For information about concerts and other events at Nashua’s Greeley Park’s bandshell see Nashua’s “SummerFun” calendar and check for updates here.

• For more downtown Manchester events, also see Intown Manchester.

• Not outdoors, or in a park, but still free, the SummerSundays Concert Series is at the Hillsborough Center Congregational Church.

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V-Day still

While V-Day events are often associated with Valentine’s Day, there’s a few more opportunities to see productions of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues this week, and help support the V-Day mission to stop violence against women and girls.
Local women are producing it at the Milford Town Hall, Friday, March 6, at 7 p.m. and the Wilton Town Hall Theatre, Sunday, March 8, at 4:30 p.m. Tickets cost $10 (654-6201), and proceeds benefit Bridges, RAINN and the Village of Hope Project in the Congo.
V-Day Lowell presents The Vagina Monologues during Lowell Women’s Week, Saturday, March 7, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, March 8, at 4 and 7 p.m. at the 119 Gallery Proceeds benefit The Rape Crises Services of Greater Lowell.
Tickets cost $15 in advance, $20 at the door.

Milford tradition

The annual Keyes Art Show and Sale (the group has been around since 1957) is going on Saturday, June 7, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday, June 8, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Milford Town Hall. Artists showing include Joan Tierney, Joyce Kingman, Nancy Brown, Elizabeth Winchester-Larson and Melissa Woods. Mediums include acrylic, oil, watercolor, pastel and photography.