Michael Vincent Band Wraps Up July in Cate Park

As the month of July wraps up, another act graces the Wolfeboro Community Bandstand in Cate Park.

The Michael Vincent Band will be making its Friends of the Wolfeboro Community Bandstand return on Saturday, July 29.

The Michael Vincent Band was born more than a decade ago in central New Hampshire. The band members were all students at the same school and stayed busy working as a trio and eventually

• Whipple continued from page 6 tel that had been removed from a downstairs fireplace. They found it in a shed.

“I figured out which fireplace was missing it because when I took the wallpaper down, you could see the shadow of where it was,” Sandra said.

One of their early tasks was stabilizing the porch, which had rotted underneath, and they hired a carpenter to extend it, replacing the floorboard and the overhead ceiling. They also replaced the original railings to make them higher, and put in new bases for the columns.

The work also included completely redoing the widow’s walk, rebuilding a bay window on the second floor, and “over the past 20 years [we] scraped every bit of paint off the house and got it back down to the original wood.”

Another tedious job was replacing the sashes and reputtying the home’s 72 windows.

“That only took 10 years,” Sandra said.

She noted that the home’s one-over- picked up a fan base as word spread around the state.

A road trip in 2009 landed the band in Mississippi, where the band members received a college education’s worth of blues schooling over the course of a few years.

From there, the band began hitting the road more often, playing from San Antonio, Texas to Key West, Fla. to Boston and everywhere in between.

The thousands of miles of road and one windows were another way of demonstrating wealth, because the larger panes of glass were more expensive to replace.

“These windows were a lot more expensive than the six-over-six [standard windows],” Sandra said. “I was wondering why the windows were so plain, but back then, that was desirable.”

Those were just some of the projects they have done since acquiring the Whipple Home, but now they say most of the large tasks have been completed and they will just need to do the ongoing maintenance.

The Whipple House now has five rooms to rent, with three suites in the Carriage House.

“It’s a lovely house, whoever gets it after us,” Sandra said. “They’re gonna have an absolute gem because we think this house will be around for hundreds of years. These nice old houses will always stand.” hundreds of honky-tonks serve as the backdrop for what the Michael Vincent Band does, which is play the blues.

For more information on the Henry Whipple House, see https://www.thewhipplehouse.com.

The band has been playing around the state of New Hampshire this summer, along the way playing a lot and refining new covers and originals to add to the set.

The Michael Vincent Band includes Michael Vincent on guitar and vocals, Dan Mack on bass and vocals and Dan Hewitt on drums and mandolin.

The Friends of the Wolfeboro Community Bandstand are excited to welcome The Michael Vincent Band to the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee this summer as the band brings a taste of what is to come on the blues front.

The Friends of the Wolfeboro Community Bandstand summer concert series takes place each Saturday night throughout the months of July and

August. The Wolfeboro Community Bandstand is located in Cate Park on the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee in downtown Wolfeboro. The concerts start at 7 p.m. and run for two hours with a short intermission.

The concerts are free to the public, though a pass-the-bucket offering is taken during intermission to help the Friends of the Wolfeboro Community Bandstand offset the cost of the summer concert series.

In the event of inclement weather, there will be signs posted at the entrances to the park announcing the concert’s cancellation. There will also be a post on the Friends of the Wolfeboro Community Bandstand Facebook page.

The Michael Vincent Band will perform on Saturday, July 29, at 7 p.m.