LACONIA — As a Father's Day treat thirteen year old piano prodigy Valentine Schelkin of Manchester, will be performing on Sunday, June 16 at 1:30 p.m. with his mother and renowned piano teacher Alla Nikitskaya at Tavern 27 on Parade Road.
Concert Pianist Alla Nikitskaya relocated to the US from Russia in 1999. Alla started playing piano at the age of five with her first piano teacher, her mother Lada Nikitskaya. She is a graduate of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory Music College and Moscow GnesinInstitute, and represents Heinrich Neuhaus piano school. Alla made a name for herself in Russian and performed solo and duet concerts. Soon after arriving to the US, Alla started playing piano recitals in New England.
She also teaches piano and some of her students are composing under her instruction. She arranges student recitals regularly and they play different repertoire and their original compositions.
Since age two Valentine showed signs of musical abilities and started playing piano at the ripe young age of five. Valentine participates regularly in piano recitals as a soloist and duet piano player and has lots of piano pieces in progress. He is currently in the 7th grade.
Valentine took first place in Crescendo International Music Competition (Little Mozarts Competition) held in Carnegie Hall, New York, on April 7
For more information or to make a reservation call 528-3057 or visit tavern27.com.

BRISTOL — Academy Award-winning writer of "On Golden Pond" Ernest Thompson and local legend Ray Porcell return to the Lakes Region's best-kept secret venue, The Back Room at The Mill Fudge Factory on Saturday, June 15 at 7:30 p.m.
Special guests include saxophonist extraordinaire Marc "Sparky" Elbaum and, filling in for the hobbled Randy Roos, local guitar phenom and Berklee grad Jarrod Taylor.
A lot has happened since last year's sold-out engagement at The Mill: "The Journey Goes On," a CD of Thompson/Porcell songs, has been released on iTunes and Amazon; Time and Charges, Ernest Thompson's shot-in-the-Lakes Region movie, has been invited to the Maine Film Festival and features "Wishes," one of Thompson and Porcell's earliest collaborations; a video of their first, "Bronte Brook," will soon be airing online; and the songwriters have created another album's worth of songs, many of which they'll introduce Saturday night, along with favorites from their 2012 show.
Thompson, whose iconic On Golden Pond has been embraced the world over, nowhere more enthusiastically than in the Lakes Region, and who has written for and directed and acted with some of Hollywood's biggest stars, Robert Downey, Jr., Julie Andrews, Shirley MacLaine and Liza Minnelli among them, is an accomplished lyricist as well, collaborating with Carly Simon and Joan Osborne, Natalie MacMaster and another New Hampshire native, Joe Deleault, composer of the scores to both Time And Charges and Thompson's newest film, Heavenly Angle, also festival-bound this summer (Woods Hole).
Ray Porcell, former owner of Meredith's EnergySavers and a highly regarded musician, has performed with Tim Buckley, Bruce Springsteen and many others, including, for more than 40 years, the late, great Joe Droukas, of The Bombers.
One of Thompson and Porcell's new songs, "No Ordinary Joe," a tribute to Droukas, will be on their set list this Saturday. Thompson, who also collaborated with Droukas on their seasonal standard, "Christmas Is A State Of Mind," wrote the words to the deeply moving "No Ordinary Joe" the night of Droukas's death.
Tickets for ''More Words, More Music'' can be purchased at 744-0405 or go to www.themillfudgefactory.com and click on The Back Room.

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Ray Porcell and Ernest Thompson (Courtesy photo)

WOLFEBORO — The New Hampshire Boat Museum's popular Boat Building Program is offering two sessions of intensive boat building classes geared for novices who want to make either a canoe, kayak, Bevin's Skiff, or Passagemaker. And this year there is a new option for the Adult class: the opportunity to build your own paddleboard.
Thanks to grants from a number of donors, scholarships are still available for students in the Youth Program and families with children who participate in the Adult/Family Program. The scholarships are for youth or families who might not otherwise be able to participate due to financial considerations. To learn more about the classes, costs, or the scholarships, visit the Museum's website at www.nhbm.org. Or call the Museum at 569-4554.
The boats, which Museum volunteers start for the students over the winter, are from kits. You have their choice of building a:
— One-person canoe
— One-person kayak
— 12-foot Bevin's Skiff
— 12'6" paddleboard
— 12' Passagemaker Skiff
Costs vary, depending on the boat you chose. Current Museum members get a discount. The Boat Building classes give you a great value because you create your own boat at a low coast and learn about boats and boat building from excellent teachers.
The two sessions available this summer are:
— Adult/Family Boat Building will be held from July 13 - 21. This session is open to adults or families with an adult and child team. Depending on the type of boat selected, you might finish your boat before the 21st. At the end of the session a special launching will be held on Lake Wentworth. The class runs daily from 8:30am-3:30pm.
— Youth Boat Building will be held from August 5-16. This session is open to girls and boys ages 12 and up. In this course, you can choose to build a canoe, kayak or Bevin's Skiff. At the end of the session a special picnic and launching will be held on Lake Wentworth. The class runs from 9am-3pm Monday - Friday.
In each class you are taught the safe use of hand tools and small power tools by expert instructors, with plenty of individual assistance by volunteers. All materials and tools are supplied. You don't have to be a "woodworker." Through hard work and the help of our volunteers you will create your own beautiful finished boat you will be proud to take out on the lakes and rivers when you finish the class.
Thanks to generous donors, a large number of area youth have been able to take the course over the past eight years. The following donors have generously contributed to the Boat Building Scholarship Fund: the Captain Thombs Fund, the New England Lyman Group, the Wolfeboro Lions Club, the New England Chapter- Antique & Classic Boat Society, Jamestown Distributors, the Peter R. and Cynthia K. Kellogg Foundation, an anonymous foundation, Dr. and Mrs. Peter Rosanelli, Jr., Lois Warner, Mark and Janet Boyce, Charles and Patricia Clement, Pat and Dan Charlton, Charlie and Ilona Train and Jim and Nancy Shildneck.
If you have any questions or want to receive a sign-up form in the mail, please call the Museum at 569-4554. Applications are available online for downloading at www.nhbm.org.
The New Hampshire Boat Museum is a not-for-profit focusing on New Hampshire's fresh water boating heritage and life. It is located at 399 Center Street, Wolfeboro Falls, 2 miles from downtown Wolfeboro in the former Allen "A" Resort dance hall/theater building, For further information on any of these programs contact the Museum at 603-569-4554, via email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , via the web at www.nhbm.org or via Facebook.

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Boat building classes are being offered at the NH Boat Museum. (Courtesy photo)