Upcoming House concerts

  This is at Brenda Adam's house in South Landaff


A $15 donation is requested.
Saturday February 11th:   David Surette

  Saturday March 17th: fiery fiddler Mariel Vandersteel & friends

 Sunday, April 15th: the Boston area's defining folk musician Catie Curtis

Please remember that we are asking all concert guests to bring donations of nonperishable food items or personal care items for the local food pantry. Thanks to Garnet Rogers for this suggestion and to all of you for remembering this worthwhile contribution!

Lost & Found  (These items were left behind at recent concerts)

  1 pair of gold flats

  1 pair of black & green slippers (these have been here for quite awhile)

  1 navy zippered jacket

 David Surette

"New Hampshire guitarist extraordinaire...he plays with a rare combination of exuberance and articulation."  Scott Alarik, folk music critic, Boston Globe

 House Concert & Potluck

Saturday February 11, 2012

(potluck begins at 6:00 p.m. and the music starts at 7:00 p.m.)

at the home of Bill & Brenda Shannon Adam

351 Easton Valley Road

Easton, New Hampshire

Reservations required by return email or by calling 603-823-7061

Additionally, David will be conducting a workshop earlier that same afternoon: Guitar Workshop American Roots Fingerpicking: folk, blues, and beyond  Northern Lights Music, 57 Main Street Littleton NH  603-444-7776  info@northernlightsmusic.com

Listen to a sampling of David's music: www.myspace.com/BurkeSurette

  Widely acclaimed as one of New England’s premiere instrumentalists, David Surette is highly regarded for his work on the guitar, mandolin, and cittern. As a soloist, he is nationally known as a top player of Celtic fingerstyle guitar. Yet his diverse repertoire also includes original compositions, blues and ragtime, traditional American roots music, and folk music from a variety of traditions, all played with finesse, taste, and virtuosity. As part of a duo with his wife, singer Susie Burke, they have performed regularly together for 20 years, recording several albums and building a reputation as one of New England’s top folk duos. Surette was a founding member of the Airdance band with fiddler Rodney Miller, with whom he recorded four albums and toured nationally. He is also a highly sought-after accompanist.

  Surette is an accomplished and gifted teacher who has taught at workshops and camps throughout the US, as well as in the UK. He is folk music co-ordinator at the Concord (NH) Community Music School, and artistic director of their March Mandolin Festival. He has authored a book of Celtic fingerstyle guitar arrangements for Mel Bay Publications, and is a regular contributor to Acoustic Guitar and Strings Magazine. In 1994, Surette was awarded a travel grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to study the traditional music of Brittany, and has published a collection of  Breton folk tunes. He has been the recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship award from the NH State Arts Council, and in the fall of 2008 was designated a Traditional Arts Master by the Maine Arts Comission.

  Surette has released five solo recordings, as well as three duo albums with Susie Burke and a number of other collaborative recordings. His most recent solo CD release, Sun Dog, was one of the top 10 local releases for 2010 (“a stunning piece of work from a gifted guitarist”, Portsmouth Herald).