Voice will Empower the World

Most adults stop singing sometime in elementary school. As a voice teacher, singer, and conductor of choirs, I want to reassure you that everyone can sing. EVERYONE. In over thirty years of teaching, I have heard many people tell me that they couldn’t sing, but in all that time, only one of them actually couldn’t sing.

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Peggo Hortsmann Hodes
Letter: A Win for the Arts in New Hampshire

While it may feel like politicians from each side of the aisle do not agree on much these days, look again. It did not generate headlines, but New Hampshire’s political leaders recently agreed to significantly increase funding for the arts in the Granite State. 

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Mary McLaughlin
New Hampshire State Council on the Arts Update

Photo: Abbigail Saffian

The New Hampshire State Council on the Arts had a very busy fall! In addition to closing out the grant year and all of our ongoing work in arts education, arts in health, creative communities and traditional arts, we organized and hosted two large events: the Governor’s Arts Awards and Culturally Responsive Leadership

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Peggo Hortsmann Hodes