Sol y Canto
/ Doozy Jane
Saturday 10/17 · Doors 7
This month at
Cooperative Action Monadnock: The Fall Elections, Our Community & You
Thursday 10/22
Circuits in the Woods
Saturday 10/24
Mutual Aid Open Mic
Thursday 10/29
Dub Apocalypse
+ The Evocatives
Friday 10/30 · Doors 7
48 Emerald
Street
What’s on
The full calendar ›10/17Saturday
Sol y Canto / Doozy Jane
Pan-Latin duo Sol y Canto and Vermont Americana trio Doozy Jane, sharing a stage. Exactly the sort of pairing this room exists to make happen.
10/22Thursday
Four-part series
Details ›Cooperative Action Monadnock: The Fall Elections, Our Community & You
A public discussion series about the fall elections and what they mean for the people around here. Four Thursdays: October 8 and 22, November 5 and 19.
10/24Saturday
Festival
Tickets ›Circuits in the Woods
Join us in Brattleboro VT to celebrate electronic music in many forms at the now annual Circuits in the Woods!
10/29Thursday
Open mic
Details ›Mutual Aid Open Mic
10/30Friday
Dub Apocalypse + The Evocatives
This one has something for the dancers and the head nodders! Boston's Dub heroes return!
11/5Thursday
Four-part series
Details ›Cooperative Action Monadnock: The Fall Elections, Our Community & You
A public discussion series about the fall elections and what they mean for the people around here. Four Thursdays: October 8 and 22, November 5 and 19.
11/7Saturday
Slob Drop + Young Other / Deadweight
Great skate punk from Vermont plus Young Other and Dead Weight.
11/12Thursday
Lafayette Gilchrist + Hearing Things
Absolutely insane piano ambassador and a prodigal son returns! Intrigued?
11/13Friday
Echoes of Floyd
The music of Pink Floyd; a very special, intimate performance from this legendary tribute band!
11/19Thursday
Four-part series
Details ›Cooperative Action Monadnock: The Fall Elections, Our Community & You
A public discussion series about the fall elections and what they mean for the people around here. Four Thursdays: October 8 and 22, November 5 and 19.
11/28Saturday
Mr. Bill + Josiah Sterling
A serious night of bluegrass that doesn't take itself too seriously!
Our ticket policy · Every show, no exceptions
accessforall
We ask folks to pay full price if you are able to, but every ticketed night at Nova also has a name-your-price option, aka Access for All, supported by Savings Bank of Walpole.
We want to break down the economic barriers around music, art, and culture. Your support helps us do that.
Choose Access For All on the show page and put in what you can pay, then buy for everyone you are bringing in one go.
Made possible by
Who pays for this
Nova is a nonprofit, and ticket sales cover a fraction of what a night costs. The rest comes from the funders and the neighbors below. The name-your-price ticket on every show exists thanks to support from Savings Bank of Walpole.
The Putnam FoundationSupports the season as a whole, which keeps the room open between the nights that sell out.
The Osier FundGeneral support for the season. The least glamorous money there is, and the most useful.
Savings Bank of WalpoleUnderwrites Access For All, the name-your-price ticket on every show.
Arts AliveOur fiscal sponsor, which is how a donation to Nova becomes tax deductible.
BrewbakersThe cafe and bar.
Terra Nova CoffeeRoasting in the same building.
Underwriting a show, a season, or the name-your-price ticket is something we would genuinely like to talk about. How underwriting works
What is Nova
A roomfrom here
Nova is a nonprofit arts space at 48 Emerald Street in downtown Keene. We book touring and local artists on the same bill, we host residencies that make art with the community instead of for it, and we keep the door open to people who can’t pay full price.
We’re interested in the combinations nobody else would try, which is how the Sun Ra Arkestra ended up on a bill with an experimental cellist, and how Yo La Tengo ended up here on a weeknight in September. Bands from away, in a room from here.
The room
The room feels great with 20 people seated or 200 people standing. Seating is limited and first come, first served.
Ages
Every show is all ages.
Tickets
Usually $20, general admission, with a name-your-price option on every night.
Artists
Paid fairly, and told what they’re getting before they load in.
Also here
Coffee, tea, beer, wine, and treats courtesy Brewbakers. Records, flowers, and an art space too.
Residencies
SPAR(K) runs with no fixed outcome. It evolves through dialogue and participation, which is the point.
48 Emerald Street
It’s a whole building
Nova shares the building with a cafe, a coffee roastery, a record store, a record label, a flower shop, and an open art studio. Feeding Tube Records is here, which is a sentence that means a lot to some of you. Come early and make an afternoon of it.
Cafe and bar
Brewbakers
Coffee, beer, and food, in the same room as the stage. Open before doors.
RoasteryTerra Nova Coffee
Roasting in the building. The smell on a Saturday morning is genuinely something.
Label and shopFeeding Tube Records
Two decades of eclectic and exciting albums, filed twenty feet from the stage.
Flowersbillies + tilli
Flowers, gifts, cards, and more.
Open studiowakadoodles
Art classes, summer camps, open studio.
Plan itMake a day of it
Where to park, where to eat, and what’s open before a 7pm door.
Support Nova
Here’s the work
Nova is a nonprofit. Ticket sales do not cover a room like this, and they are not supposed to. Here is what we've done so far.
492
Shows presented
2212
Artists paid
$453,650
Paid out to artists
624
Name-your-price tickets used
The one that helps most
season pass
$500 / year
This gets you into every show, all year long.
- Includes a Weekend Pass to The Thing in the Spring
- We'll buy you a drink at the Thing Lineup Announce Party
- Free tee-shirt!
- You are paying artists every month without having to think about it.
Or give once
$200
Covers a sound engineer for one show.
$100
Underwrites five name-your-price tickets.
$1,000
Pays a touring band, which is the whole reason they can afford to route through Keene.
Any
Goes to the same three things: paying artists fairly, keeping tickets accessible, and helping Nova Arts continue to do our work being the Monadnock region's Creative Livingroom.
Tax deductible. Nova Arts is fiscally sponsored by Arts Alive, so your receipt will come from them.
The email
What’s on at Nova
One email every week or two. Who’s playing, what it costs, and why we booked it. Written by the same people who write the show pages, which is either a recommendation or a warning depending on how you feel about the show pages.
You’re on the list. The next one comes to your inbox.
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