Concord venues and what they hold
This guide covers 7 mapped venues in Concord, New Hampshire, what each one holds, and how attendees get to them. Capitol Center for the Arts is the best-documented room in the set.
Where Concord holds a crowd
Concord has a recorded population of 44,674 (2024), inside the Concord, NH area of about 158,000 people.
It is the capital of New Hampshire, so the calendar carries government, association and university business that books early and moves slowly.
Across the city the dataset records 1 dedicated conference and function space, 1 theatre or concert hall and 5 independent event spaces.
That is roughly 16 venues per hundred thousand residents, which is a dense field for a city this size — you will usually have a second choice at the same capacity.
By type that is 5 event spaces, 1 performing-arts centre and 1 conference centre.
Conference and function space (1)
| Venue | Type | Stated capacity | From the centre |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grappone Conference Center | conference centre | not published | 1.1 km (0.7 mi) |
Theatres and concert halls (1)
| Venue | Type | Stated capacity | From the centre |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capitol Center for the Arts | performing-arts centre | not published | 0.8 km (0.5 mi) |
Independent event spaces (5)
| Venue | Type | Stated capacity | From the centre |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Livery in Sunapee Harbor | event space | not published | 48 km (30 mi) |
| William H. Long Memorial | event space | not published | 11 km (6.9 mi) |
| Bank of New Hampshire Stage | event space | not published | 0.5 km (0.3 mi) |
| The Barn at Bull Meadow | event space | not published | 6.5 km (4 mi) |
| Concord City Auditorium | event space | not published | 0.3 km (0.2 mi) |
Every venue mapped in Concord appears above. The ones with enough published detail to be worth reading have their own guide and are linked; the rest are named here, which is honest about what the record holds without giving each of them a page made of three facts.
How people reach Concord
Logan International Airport (BOS) is 103 km (64 mi) away, far enough that arrival day is genuinely a travel day and a first session before noon will lose people.
Concord keeps New York time (America/New_York), which matters most for the remote speakers you are dialling in.
Manchester, Laconia and Derry Village are close enough to draw from for a day rate, and to fall back on if Concord has nothing free on your dates.
- Nearest major airport
- BOS
- Logan International Airport, 103 km (64 mi)
- Local time
- UTC−4
- America/New_York, in September
- City population, 2024
- 44,674
- 158,000 across the Concord, NH area
What to check before you commit
No exhibition hall on record
Nothing in the Concord dataset is classified as a convention or exhibition centre, so a trade floor needs either an arena floor, a fairground, or a nearby city. Check the arena listings above before you promise exhibitors a booth plan.
No published capacities
Not one Concord venue publishes a capacity in the open sources behind this page. Every room on the list will quote you a number directly, but you cannot compare them before you call, so build a fortnight of venue calls into the plan.
Arrival is a half-day
103 km (64 mi) from BOS means most attendees lose a morning to travel. Open registration the evening before and put nothing you care about in the first slot.
The city is smaller than the market
44,674 people live in Concord itself, but about 158,000 live in the wider Concord, NH. Your local audience is far bigger than the city line suggests, and so is the commute your day-rate attendees will make.
A worked example, sized to Concord
Take 240 people through the door in Concord — a mid-sized Concord programme, since no Concord venue publishes a capacity in open data. The first 50 activated attendees are free on every event, so only the rest are billed, and the total stops moving at 1,000 however many more turn up.
- activated attendees
- 240activated attendees
- billable, after the first 50 are free
- 190billable, after the first 50 are free
- for the whole event, at $5 each
- $950for the whole event, at $5 each
You are billed for people, not for the venue, so the room you choose in Concord does not change this figure. Nothing is charged for an attendee who registers and never opens the app.
Which kind of event this suits
No capacity is published for any Concord venue, so match the format to the room on your site visit rather than to a number on a listing.
- award ceremonies
1 fixed-seat house gives you a stage, lighting and sightlines without building any of it.
- training days and workshops
1 purpose-built function space is the easiest kind of room to run a workshop in — the power and the load-in already assume it.
- leadership retreats
Smaller rooms suit a retreat better than a hall does, and Concord has them.
Where this data comes from
- GeoNames, CC BY 4.0
- US Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 estimates
- Wikidata, CC0
- Geographic data © GeoNames, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Venue data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License.
- US population figures are US Census Bureau Vintage 2024 estimates.
- Retrieved 3 September 2026. event67 has no commercial relationship with any venue listed.
Last updated
What it costs
- Free up to 50
- activated attendees, on one live event
- $5
- per activated attendee beyond 50
- $4,750
- the most one event can ever cost, whatever happens past 1,000
Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.
Questions people actually ask
Price a Concord event at 240 attendees — what is the total?
240 activated attendees means 190 billable after the free 50, so $950 for the event. The price is $5 per activated attendee beyond the first 50, and the total for one event stops at $4,750 however many more attend. Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.
How big an event can Concord hold?
No Concord venue publishes a capacity in the open sources behind this page, so there is no honest number to quote. 7 venues are mapped here and each will quote a capacity directly. Ask for the seated, theatre and reception figures separately — they differ by a factor of two or more in the same room.
Can you run a trade show in Concord?
Nothing in the Concord dataset is classified as a convention or exhibition centre. A trade floor here means an arena floor, a fairground or a venue in a nearby city such as Manchester. For a conference without an exhibition, the 7 venues on this page are the field.
Which airport do attendees fly into for Concord?
Logan International Airport (BOS), about 103 km (64 mi) from the city. It is the highest-traffic airport within reach in this dataset. Local time is America/New_York; publish every session in that zone and let attendees' phones convert it.
Can I run a small Concord event on event67 for nothing?
One live event with up to 50 activated attendees costs nothing. Beyond that it is $5 per activated attendee beyond the first 50, and the total for one event stops at $4,750 however many more attend. Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.
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