A Note from our Board President
It is an exhilarating time to be part of the Great Waters Music Festival and I invite you to join our very special GWMF family as we build an exciting future for the arts in the Lakes Region!
Over the years, GWMF has offered a wide range of musical choices with the goal of enhancing your summer entertainment experience and enriching the culture of performing arts in Wolfeboro and surrounding communities. As we look to the years ahead, we hope to embrace new ideas and continue to draw inspiration from your stories and creativity.
At this time, I would like to extend our gratitude to you – our Patrons, Sponsors and Volunteers – for your generous contributions through ticket sales and gifts supporting musical education, our scholarship program and the Street Piano Project. We have some very talented students among us, working hard to build careers in the arts. Through your support, we are coming together to build a solid, sustainable future for cultural arts in and around our community.
Looking ahead, we hope to collaborate with other community organizations to bring even more unique and memorable experiences to our guests. If you have an idea, we want to hear it. Please send it to us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The more we know, the better we can serve you.
Enjoy the 2018 season!
Sincerely,
Claudia Shilo
Chopsticks to Chopin
Great Waters Music Festival proudly announces their acquisition of the Wolfeboro Piano Project. For the last three summers, piano music has been flowing through Wolfeboro's downtown streets, whether from the joyful noise of a toddler banging away at the keys, an inspired improvisational artist, or an accomplished musician, people of all ages have enjoyed playing and/or listening. This project, using four bright and whimisically painted pianos, was started in 2013 by Peter Cole of Wolfeboro and Jim Friedrichs of Mirror Lake.
Welcome to Great Waters 2018!
We have launched the season!
New season passes and individual performance tickets are available for purchase!
If you wish to reserve your seats from last year and haven't yet, please contact us at your earliest convenience.
Summer is fun in the Lakes Region, and Great Waters Music Festival wants to be part of your summer activities.
We look forward to hearing from you!
June 7 - Bill Staines
Join Bill for an intimate concert at the Barn at the Inn on Main, Wolfeboro. Singing mostly his own songs, he has become one of the most popular and durable singers on the folk music scene today, performing nearly 200 concerts a year and driving over 65,000 miles annually. He weaves a blend of gentle wit and humor into his performances and one reviewer wrote, "He has a sense of timing to match the best standup comic.”
Bill's music is a slice of Americana, reflecting with the same ease his feelings about the prairie people of the Midwest or the adventurers of the Yukon, the on-the-road truckers, or the everyday workers that make up this land.
Many of Bill's songs have appeared in grade school music books, church hymnals, and scouting campfire songbooks. He is one of only a few songwriters to have eight songs published in the classic song collection, Rise up Singing. Composer David Amram recently described Bill as "a modern day Stephen Foster…his songs will be around 100 years from now."
"One of the best songwriters in folk music today."
Associated Press