The Music Hall Hosts 25th Anniversary Kitchen Tour Today

Tour the kitchens we all dream of -- sleek and contemporary, cozy and traditional, packed with innovation and imagination -- as The Music Hall presents its popular Annual Kitchen Tour. Celebrating its 25th anniversary, this benefit for The Music Hall will take you from refurbished retro to high-style urban; dream kitchens in a dream location! The 25th Anniversary Kitchen Tour comes home to Portsmouth today, May 7 from 10am to 4pm.

The Music Hall Kitchen Tour is self-guided. An easy-to-follow map is provided, and tour-goers can start and finish the tour anywhere they like. For visitors looking to turn their own dreams into reality, the craftsmen, artisans, designers and architects involved in the kitchens are noted in the tour's guidebook along with detailed descriptions of the kitchens.

1,000+ visitors attend The Music Hall's Kitchen Tour each year to get a peek inside the contemporary or traditional homes of a historic seacoast town, and to gain ideas for their own kitchens. Proceeds from the popular tour - celebrating its 25th anniversary - are used toward operating costs to support The Music Hall. The tour highlights the work of local companies including architects, builders, carpenters, as well as lighting, landscape and sound designers. In addition, local retail shops and restaurants support the tour through ticket sales and special promotions.

Kitchen Tour tickets are $25 for Music Hall members, $27 for non-members, and $30 if purchased the day of the event. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased by phone at 603.436.2400 or online at www.themusichall.org.

The Music Hall is a performing arts center featuring curated entertainment from around the world in two theaters in its downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire campus - one, a landmark 1878 Victorian theater, designated an American Treasure for the Arts by the National Park Service's Save America's Treasures Program, the other the intimate Music Hall Loft around the corner, recently named "best performing arts venue" by Yankee Magazine and the recipient of the NH AIA award for design excellence.