Daily Get Co-op’ed up Visit the Concord Cooperative Market’s big top tent on South Main Street for face painting, food, wine, hula hoops and more. Throughout the day, Thursday through Saturday, there will be food from the Celery Stick Café, a creation station with children’s art activities, face painting with Linda Weiser, the Sant Bani art show, animals from the SPCA and a doggie rest stop. There will be special events and vendors each day, too. The lineup includes: - Thursday: From 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., get those achy muscles massaged by Vicky-Ann’s Balanced Hands. Vendors joining to co-op…

New to Market Days this year is a makeover competition, in which five women and one man will be pampered and primped for a day, then model their new looks for all of Concord to see. Each contestant will be paired up with a team of downtown businesses – salons, spas and clothing retailers – and get a new hairstyle, outfit and makeup. They’ll reveal their new looks on the main stage…

Sure, the local bands that play Market Days are good at what they do: putting on a live show that makes people get down. But we wanted to know more about them – where they’re from, how they got into music and why they do what they do. Here’s a look at a few artists playing this year’s lineup. TOM MAJOR Entrain Some parents may get frustrated when their kids bang pots and pans…

Thursday, July 15 9 a.m. – 9 p.m. Festival Vendors (Bicentennial Square, North & South Main streets) Concord Arts Market (Eagle Square) 9:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. New Hampshire Historical Society Museum, free admission (Eagle Square) 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Free Family Fun. Event includes activities from the Concord Recreation Department, Home Depot, Center for Health Promotion and Concord…

Dock-tastic news Here’s a riddle for you, readers. What do fried dough and City Manger Tom Aspell’s weekly memo have in common? Answer: They are both treats we have been looking forward to all week! Because we don’t mind sharing, here are the highlights from this week’s memo. We usually like to save the best news for last, but we couldn’t contain ourselves on this one. Tom announced a gift given to the City of Concord from Concord 20/20. Oh boy, we love presents! Is it a diamond ring? A lifetime supply of burritos? Four 20-foot long boat docks? “One of the coolest things to happen during…

Lindsay Fontaine Age: 27 Hometown: Concord What’s your favorite thing about Market Days? The food, because I don’t usually eat junk food. I like coming down for a little bit of junk food and just walking around and seeing so many people in the middle of the street. It’s kind of like being in a bigger city, only it’s right here in Concord. Any sales you like to look for? I do…