Join us for an evening of music outdoors! Feel free to bring dinner and the family for a memorable experience. All concerts take place at the Gazebo at the playground end of Town Field behind the library. Arrive early as parking is at a premium! 

The Nissitissit String Quartet is four colleagues and friends who are committed to serving Northwest Middlesex County communities, offering multi-generational concerts that are fun and engaging for a wide audience.

Among the many cultural contributions of coastal European countries, music from Italy, Spain, France, the British Isles, and Scandinavia has enriched not just locally, but worldwide, inspiring each nation’s diaspora as well as the broader society. Please join the Nissitissit String Quartet for our European Cruise concert as we touch on the music of each nationality, often contrasting a beloved classical work from centuries ago with something contemporary and iconic. The French set, for example, pairs The Swan, the soaring cello solo from Carnival of the Animals by Saint-Saëns with our arrangement of the Ragtime movement from Claude Bolling’s Suite for Violin and Jazz Piano. The British set begins with a classical gem on a Welsh theme by Vaughan Williams and ends with Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody via an Irish medley, the Scottish Air “Loch Lomand,” The Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square, and a Beatles tune in between. Up north, Grieg’s Wedding Day at Troldhaugen starts the Scandinavian tour in Norway, setting the stage for a Swedish finale of Abba’s Dancing Queen. 

All library concerts made possible by a grant from the Town of Groton Trust Funds' Lecture Fund. This concert is also made possible, in part, by a grant from the Groton Cultural Council.