With several of their biggest events just around the corner, Pro Portsmouth is taking a different tact for a new concert event on April 17. According to Executive Director, Barbara Massar, the event is revolutionary. Why? "Well, we don’t close a single street, the concert event is completely indoors and it will only last for about 2.5 hours!"

For an organization that has become synonymous with large-scale events' production, this concert (unplugged: a Pro Portsmouth concert) at South Church takes a left turn. It is a much smaller, more intimate happening that will focus on some of the area's new talent in one the artistic community’s most beloved Downtown venues, South Church.

Who said that Pro Portsmouth only knows how to close streets?

The event, sponsored by The Green Monkey, Brazo, The Sheraton Harborside and The River WXRV, features a bounty of local music: NSI and Nickie Farr & The Country Rats with The Alexanders, Regina and Dave Leshinski.  

According to Massar, the evening will have an unplugged sensibility to it, but as far as categorizing the music you’ll hear – she won’t go there. "Everyone on the program for "unplugged" is truly talented and it’s difficult to put a label on their music. I’d have to say that everyone should come on out to enjoy an evening of acoustic rock/folk/pop/Americana…a veritable cornucopia of sound."  

Tickets are $9 (Students & Seniors), $12 (General Admission) and can be purchased online.

Proceeds benefit the year-round programming of Pro Portsmouth. Pro Portsmouth, Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to celebrating and sustaining the vitality of Portsmouth's arts, culture and history through events and community collaboration. Pro Portsmouth, Inc. is a Non-profit classified as a 501c (3) by the Internal Revenue Service. All sponsorships and donations directly benefit the efforts of Pro Portsmouth and its Mission to promote the Arts, Culture, History and Community of Portsmouth and the Seacoast.

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