Sundays in the Garden Concert Series returns for its 31st year in the gardens of Historic New England’s Hamilton House, overlooking the Salmon Falls River, Sundays in July, 5:00-6:30 p.m.
This year’s line-up includes artists new to the series and concert-goer favorites: music legend Harvey Reid, New York City jazz group Alex Minasian Trio, vintage country Marjorie Senet and the Broken-Home Boys, Red Roots Americana artist Thea Hopkins, and modern jazz septet SoJoy.
Bring a blanket, chairs, and picnic basket for your comfort and enjoyment.
Tickets will be available online at www.historicnewengland.org or at the gate. Historic New England members receive free admission to all 2022 Sundays in the Garden performances. Historic New England memberships may be purchased at Hamilton House or at www.historicnewengland.org. General admission is $10 adults, $9 seniors, and $7 youth.
In the event of inclement weather, Sundays in the Garden concerts will be held at Berwick Academy’s Patricia Baldwin Whipple Arts Center Theater. The decision to move the concert to the rain location will be made the morning of the day prior to the concert and posted on the Historic New England website, www.historicnewengland.org. Those who have purchased advanced tickets online will be notified by email.
The Sundays in the Garden concert series is sponsored in part by Kennebunk Savings Bank.
Harvey Reid opens the series July 3, with his 31st annual appearance in the series. Reid has performed extensively, garnering national recognition as one of the true treasures of American acoustic music. Reid has honed his craft since the 1970’s in countless clubs, festivals, street corners, cafes, schools, and concert halls across the nation, absorbing a vast repertoire of American contemporary and roots music and weaving it into his own distinctive style.
Alex Minasian Trio will perform Sunday, July 10. Minasian has studied with some of the greate st pianists in jazz history, including Hank Jones, Don Friedman, Jean-Michel Pilc, and James Williams, and has performed in most of the country’s most famous jazz rooms, such as Birdland, the Blue Note, Cafe Carlyle, Yoshi’s, Bohemian Caverns, Herb Alpert’s Vibrato, Iridium, Jazz @ Lincoln Center, and the Apollo Theater. Minasian’s trio has a weekly residency at the Iconic New York Restaurant Tavern on the Green.
On July 17, Marjorie Senet and the Broken-Home Boys return to the series with classic honky-tonk/country/American roots music. Folk New Hampshire said of Senet, “Her down-home voice and sweet songs of heartbreak might as well have come straight from the Ryman Auditorium days of the Grand Ole Opry.”
Sunday, July 24, Thea Hopkins takes the stage. A member of Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe of Martha’s Vineyard MA, singer-songwriter Thea Hopkins calls her music Red Roots Americana. Hopkins first came to wider public notice when Peter, Paul & Mary recorded her song “Jesus Is On The Wire” in 2004 and again in 2010 with the Prague Symphony Orchestra. A former Bob Dylan tour manager described Thea Hopkins as “k.d. lang meets Leonard Cohen.”
SoJoy will perform Sunday, July 31. The little big band modern jazz septet led by drummer and composer-arranger-collaborator Jonny Peiffer, SoJoy is packed with some of the most talented players and improvisors on the Seacoast scene, including members of the Soggy Po Boys.
Hamilton House is one of thirty-eight sites owned and operated by Historic New England. Historic New England is the largest and most comprehensive independent preservation organization in the U.S. and welcomes the public to thirty-eight exceptional museums and landscapes, including several coastal farms. The organization operates a major collections and archives center in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and has the world’s largest collection of New England artifacts, comprising more than 123,000 decorative arts and objects, and 1.5 million archival documents including photographs, architectural drawings, manuscripts, and ephemera. Engaging education programs for youth, adults, and preservation professionals, and award-winning exhibitions and publications are offered in person and virtually.