Venues
Wolfeboro Friends of Music is thankful to be able to offer excellent performing arts entertainment in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire through the use of beautiful local venues in the Wolfeboro area.
Anderson Hall inside the Grayson Performing Arts Center
Brewster Academy Campus, Wolfeboro NH
On the campus of Brewster Academy, in the center of the Town of Wolfeboro, is the newly renovated Anderson Hall/ Grayson Performing Arts Center. Brewster Academy designed and renovated a former church, St. Cecilia’s Catholic parish, to create a new Performing Arts Center that provides a performance space with excellent acoustics and the tools for the presentation of the broad spectrum of performing arts disciplines.
The 332- seat theater includes a thrust procenium stage with wide wing spaces, wing lofts, catwalks and fly space. The existing church ceiling was removed to expose a beautiful timber frame structure, providing more acoustical volume and a more dramatic interior space for the audience.
The new 20-foot high light-filled entrance lobby brings everyone into a central circulation and reception space and provides access to all levels of the building. Visible from the main campus approach and the street, there are views out to Lake Winnipesaukee.
The renovation and new addition have transformed the former church/auditorium into an open, joyful performance space on the southeast end of Brewster’s campus.
PARKING:
Anderson Hall has a parking lot directly adjacent to the building on its east side. Additional parking is available close by at various Brewster Academy parking lots, just a short walk away.
WHEELCHAIR AND AMBULATORY ASSISTED ACCESS:
Vehicles can deliver patrons to a semi-circular drop off location with a ramp and level sidewalk access several feet from the main entrance. On the same level, the entrance way leads to an elevator that accesses the main orchestra seating area. Staff will reserve an excellent seating location with advance correspondence. The elevator also accesses rest rooms designed with wheelchair amenities.
First Congregational Church
Wolfeboro NH
Located across from Pickering House in the center of Wolfeboro, this beautifully appointed, newly renovated and rebuilt facility (2013) offers the Sanctuary as a Wolfeboro Friends of Music concert Hall. Often used for chamber music and non-amplified concert events, the main chamber is intimate yet spacious and possesses excellent acoustics, expansive natural lighting, and wonderfully atmospheric contemporary electric lighting that creates an elegant setting for professional music especially classical and acoustic music.
Concert seating allows for 250 patrons to attend comfortably. It offers a reception area behind the sanctuary and a modest sized balcony.
PARKING:
FCC has a parking lot directly adjacent to the building on its west side. Additional parking is available close by on the campus of Brewster Academy and the Town Hall parking lots, Ample parking is also available on South Main Street.
WHEELCHAIR AND AMBULATORY ASSISTED ACCESS:
Vehicles can deliver patrons to the entrance on the West side of the building. There is a drop off location with a level walkway several feet from the entrance. On the same level, the entrance way leads to an elevator that accesses the primary sanctuary/ concert hall seating area. Staff will reserve an excellent seating location with advance correspondence. The elevator also accesses rest rooms designed with wheelchair amenities.