On Wednesday, November 22, Mamadou Dembele, a PMAC board member and a Vice President at Bangor Savings Bank, was assaulted while out in downtown Portsmouth. In a recent statement to the press, Mamadou shared that “the words used by my attacker leave no doubt that this...
We are excited to announce that PMAC has partnered with Exeter’s award-winning Enna Chocolate on an original new chocolate bar celebrating PMAC's 20th Anniversary! Called Play Me A Crunch, the bar features single origin 75% dark chocolate, cornflakes,...
When Portsmouth Music and Arts Center (PMAC) was founded in 2003, we embarked on a mission to build community through the arts. Our very first initiative was the New Horizons Band, an ensemble for adult beginners, as well as people who played instruments in their...
We are excited to announce Mark Anderson, Bill Durling, and Joe Keefe as new members of the PMAC Board of Directors. Anderson is a retired software engineer and architect from Liberty Mutual, Durling became Vice President of Corporate Communications at Blue Cross Blue...
We are so proud of our PMAC students who graduated this spring! Congratulations to everyone on their accomplishments and best wishes for great success and happiness on their journey into the future! Adam P. What did you study at PMAC? Bass and guitar with Nick...
by Darlene Furbush Ouellett, 2018 I receive a newsletter, “The Painter’s Keys”, in my inbox twice weekly. The newsletter was originally written by Robert Genn, a Canadian artist and genuine human with incredible insight and intuition as well as humor. He was a gifted...
by Russ Grazier When Music Hall Executive Director Tina Sawtelle reached out to me a while back, excited to share that Brandi would be coming to play a one-night solo benefit show for TMH, my immediate thought was “this is amazing, how can we get some aspiring...
by Nick Phaneuf There are lots of different environments in which music students and teachers interact: School band programs are amazing places where many students gain their first access and exposure to music. In a public school, students try out instruments along...
It's no secret that 2022 is a big year for us at Portsmouth Music and Arts Center: our 20th anniversary year! 20 years ago last month, the Seacoast's hub for music and art education was born. Over the past 20 years, we have seen countless students of all ages...
By Russ Grazier PMAC (Portsmouth Music and Arts Center) has been awarded a grant from the Foundation for Seacoast Health to expand access to PMAC’s music ensemble programs for older adults in our community. The goal of the project is to combat the all-too-common...