Those wishing there were more live music in Market Square will be pleased to find out the folks at Breaking New Grounds have stepped up to the plate and have begun presenting an informal acoustic music series. Every other Tuesday evening between 6 and 8 p.m., free live music will be on the menu, accompanying the usual coffees, teas and desserts. The next shows will be March 15 and March 29.

Durham's Gamaliel Theatre Company is looking for Seacoast composers of theater music to submit works for an upcoming concert to showcase local talent in the field. The concert is scheduled for Friday, May 6 at the Three Chimneys Inn in Durham and the deadline for submissions is Friday, March 18. Call 603-868-1088 or visit www.gamalieltheatre.com for more information and guidelines.

Lousy weather makes for great songwriting. So say The Lemon Fresh Kids, anyway, who report that the winter months have seen the band unleash a veritable blizzard of new songs. So many, in fact, that they've decided to scrap or rework most of the tunes they'd previously written for their upcoming album in order to accommodate this most recent flurry of material. The preproduction tracks for their second record will be put to tape in the coming weeks.

Similarly, veteran rockers Almost Now check in to say they're busy "jammin" and working on a new album. One of the songs that will be on it, "Linger," can be found on the band's Web site, www.almostnow.com.

So too has the winter been busy for singer-songwriter Laurel Brauns. For starters, she's quite successfully resurrected the Hush Hush Sweet Harlot series at The Red Door, and according to her Web site she'll be teaming up with Unbunny's Jarid del Deo to record her song "North 93," which will play over the opening credits of the N.H.-made film Dangerous Crosswinds, showing around the state this summer. She's also started a new collaboration with David of The Texas Governor and is getting set to tour the Pacific Northwest in April.