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NYE Dance Party with BlacKat Productions
A follow-up event to this year's Arts & Music Festival, Purgatorium I, featuring some of the country's best musical talent!

Previously at The Press Room, he place was packed full of sweaty, soulful, party-animals, dancing to the sounds of members of Percy Hill, Sarah Blacker and  Aaron Z. Kat. Coming back this year: 
    The Original Vitamin C: The Chewable Groove. 
    This time we will be bringing along more friends like Qwill, 
    Tim Martin & more special guests TBA!

Come ring in the new year with BlacKat Productions sweat out 2016, and shine with us into the new year!

Sarah Blacker and Aaron Z. Kat
Just recently named, Female Performer of the Year in the New England Music Awards, 2012 Boston Music Award nominee for Singer/Songwriter of the year, Sarah Blacker, was recently called "one of the brighter artists to grab our attention recently," by national Roots publication, No Depression. She is a full-time singer/songwriter on the verge of releasing her 3rd album, which has already begun receiving airtime on local NPR station, WUMB. Last year, Blacker was also nominated as New England Music Awards 'Female Performer of the Year,' and her music video for her single, 'Knocked the Winds' won runner up in the Limelight Magazine's Video of the Year, wherein she was nominated as Singer/Songwriter of the year in 2012. She was the winner of the Radio 92.9 / Boch Subaru contest and became the face and voice of their New England ad campaign for "ooh ooh it's love," NE Subaru, and was also named 'Artist of the Year' by My Rural Radio in 2011. Her song, 'Smell of Caramel,' was recently featured on the MTV show, Jersey Shore, and she was an emerging artist at the historical Falcon Ridge Folk Festival this past summer. In just under 3 years, she has garnered these accolades, performed at SXSW, CMJ and a sold-out tour of Germany, and has shared the stage with America, Rusted Root, Paula Cole, The Wood Brothers, Sara Bareilles, Jason Isbell, Carbon Leaf, Rusted Root, and Anais Mitchell to name just a few. Her entrancing voice, poignant and emotionally charged lyrics, and mature songwriting has this artist on pace to go nowhere but up.

Vitamin C
The UNH party/funk band, Vitamin C, featuring all original members has reunited. Beginning in 1995, Vitamin C erupted onto the seacoast NH music scene, hosting high-energy dance parties everywhere from dorm basements to festival stages. Vitamin C "Live" recorded at The Stone Church in Newmarket NH and Libbys in Durham NH in the fall of 1996 embodies the youth, passion and positivity burning in the mid-late 90's UNH centered music clubs and bars. Now two decades later the groove comes home.