Craig Altobello has always felt a strong spiritual connection to the natural world, so when he started making art, it was no surprise that he drew his inspiration — and his medium — from the earth itself.

When it comes to creating a theater experience for children, Andy’s Summer Playhouse is always thinking of new innovative ways to make the experience unique, and they have been at it for 51 years now.

For local filmmaker Laina Barakat, what’s most important is realism — real people, real life, real moments. So, no surprise, she’s cast three sisters, her mom, dad and nephew in her first full-length feature movie due out this year.

At 85 years young, Al Brogdon’s love of music has spanned the decades, hitting a lifetime of high notes along the way. Brogdon is a 2021 Ewing Arts Award Performance Art honoree, recognized this year for his longevity and proficiency as a musician.

Ernie Hebert is 80 now, his legacy in literature and higher education consummated, his attachment to the Monadnock Region unwavering. He’s a homebody in retirement, alongside Medora, his wife of 52 years, most comfortable in his trademark, unbuttoned red-and-black plaid shirt, bucolic house …

John Hughes often listened to music as he worked in his Madison, Wisc., studio while pursuing an MFA in sculpture. But on this particular night, something new and unfamiliar floated from the radio, a riveting melody of plucked notes.

To most, the quaint town of Nelson and the bustling borough of Brooklyn would have nothing in common. But for Wendy Klemperer, the two locations are the perfect muses.

Like so many students, Jayna Leach’s education has been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. But when you study violin at the renowned Boston Conservatory at Berklee, being unable to practice and play in person before fellow students and professors, she admits, was “pretty awful.”

His impressive vocal talent was known about him from an early age much more so than it was known by him. The Keene Chorale Music Director Cailin Marcel Manson is a 2021 Ewing Arts Award honoree in the Performing Arts category. Manson is an internationally recognized Black classical vocalist …

Leonard Matczynski has thought long and hard about why he loves the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music so much.

As a hazy early summer moon rises over the grassy hill overlooking Lake Warren in East Alstead, Randy Miller tucks his fiddle under his chin and draws the bow over the strings to demonstrate different playing styles: the vigorous sawing motion common to New England, the jaunty shuffling of S…

Seeing a need to promote poetry and literacy in the local area, New Hampshire and beyond, Peterborough resident and lifelong poetry lover Bill Chatfield created the Peterborough Poetry Project in January 2019.

Wilton artist Ann Putnam is leaving her mark on the Monadnock Region. Or, at least, across it.

Benjamin Robinson was merely 12 years old growing up in Raleigh, N.C., when the Raylynmor Opera Company was born. For the next two decades, Robinson and Raylynmor took parallel paths of growth, unaware they were destined to converge.

If you've ever attended a concert or theater production in the Monadnock Region, chances are you've heard the stylings of Walt Sayre.

The arts, creativity and self-expression have always been important to Laura Lawson Tucker as an educator.