About Us
The New Moon is an all-volunteer nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting and enjoying the creative talents of established and up-and-coming acoustic performers. We strive to bring you the best performers in a relaxing, safe, friendly environment, where you can enjoy a great show, delicious fair trade coffee and awesome desserts!
We are a volunteer-run, nonprofit organization established in 1988 as a community outreach of the Universalist Unitarian Church of Haverhill, located at 16 Ashland Street, Haverhill, MA 01830. An independent, community-based nonprofit corporation, we are entirely volunteer-run. The costs of producing our concert series are covered by admission to concerts, sale of refreshments, and in-kind contributions such as our website hosting. In some years we receive grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
This year’s season kicks off with two shows in September. Thereafter, live folk music concerts are held on the third Saturday of the month from October through May, skipping some months in winter and early Spring.
Tickets may be reserved in advance and are available for purchase at the door starting at 6:30 p.m., cash only, on the evening of the show. Doors open at 7:00 p.m. and music begins at 7:30 p.m.
All Are Welcome
Enjoy a great show, fair trade coffee, and delicious desserts.
Our venue is accessible and we will arrange seating to accommodate any number of wheelchairs, with prior notice not required but very much appreciated so that we can set up the optimal seating arrangement.
Venue Information for Performers
Booking Info
The New Moon volunteer organizing team schedules concerts one season at a time; usually the schedule of Fall and Spring concerts is set by the start of Summer, and the process of scheduling begins about 12 to 18 months in advance. If you are a musical performer interested in appearing at the New Moon Coffeehouse, you are invited to contact us via email. Before inquiring, please become familiar with our organization by reading this website, reviewing our list of past performers over the past decades, and if you are in our area, consider attending one or more of our volunteer-run monthly concerts. We appreciate inquiries that are tailored to our concert series and our audience. Complete email inquiries will include links to online video or audio portfolio as well as the performer’s website and social media links. We respond to these inquiries as soon as we can. We do not respond to mass mailings or boilerplate inquiries, and unfortunately we are not able to be flexible with dates nor to make changes at short notice.
Venue Description
Performances are held in the (main) Murray Room of the
Universalist Unitarian Church of Haverhill.
This room is rectangular (42′ x 50′) with a high ceiling and plenty of wood. The resulting acoustics are pleasant and warm. We use a raised stage (~12″) that consists of up to four sections (8′ x 4′) expandable
to a maximum area of 16′ x 8′.
General seating is provided for the audience in folding chairs and with some side tables. A target capacity of this room is about 60, and maximum comfortable capacity of this room is about 90. We will arrange seating to accommodate wheelchairs (with advance notification not required but very much appreciated).
The Sound System
- Allen & Heath PA12 – 8 XLR (plus 4 TRS) channel mixer with FX Bus
- Pair of Crown XLS 402 Stereo Power Amplifiers
- Carver PM-300 Stereo Backup Amplifier
- Behringer 2-channel Feedback Destroyer Pro
- 2 RAMSA WS-A200 2-way bass reflex Main Speakers
- 2 Fender 1272A 12″ Monitor Wedges
- 1 Cerwin-Vega SM-12 Monitor Speaker
- 4 Shure SM58 Vocal Mikes
- 2 Shure SM57 Instrument Mikes
- 2 AKG D-321 Vocal Mikes
- 4 Passive Direct Interfaces
- 1 ULTRA-DI20 Active Dual Channel DI
- 7 Boom Microphone Stands
- 2 USS T-30 Tripods (House Spkrs)
- 50′ 8 channel snake
