The SweetBeats
New Hampshire String Quartet & Ensemble
Bring live strings to your New Hampshire wedding, from a lakeside gathering to a mountain lodge celebration with family and friends.
Live Strings for Your New Hampshire Gathering
Looking for a New Hampshire string quartet for your wedding? Our SweetBeats String Ensemble brings together musicians from the New England Conservatory and the Boston Conservatory. We are based in Boston and travel throughout New Hampshire, with music for wedding ceremonies, cocktail hours and other celebrations.
Our line-ups include solo violin, a violin and cello duo, a trio of two violins and cello, and a quartet of two violins, viola and cello. Whether you picture a small ceremony at a country inn or a larger gathering at a lakeside resort, we can talk through the options with you.
Strings’ Packages for Ceremony and Cocktail
Think About the Hour, Not Just the Season
A New Hampshire wedding date tells only part of the outdoor story. A summer ceremony site may be in direct sun by afternoon, and an autumn cocktail hour can turn chilly as daylight fades. Ask your venue what conditions are usually like at the actual hours you plan to have music.
Outdoor strings need a shaded, covered spot and an indoor backup plan. Direct sun, rain, damp air and cold can affect the instruments, so an open view alone is not enough to make a suitable playing area. Include both the ceremony and cocktail-hour locations in that conversation, especially if the musicians will move between them.
Keep the Celebration Going With The SweetBeats
You can book The SweetBeats String Ensemble together with The SweetBeats Band for your reception. Ask us about combining ceremony strings, cocktail-hour music and the reception band for your New Hampshire wedding.
A Wedding Weekend in the Mountains or Lakes
New Hampshire lends itself to weddings where the setting becomes part of the gathering. Think of a lodge in the White Mountains, an inn near Lake Winnipesaukee or a resort overlooking the Lakes Region. These are examples of the places couples might choose, each with a different sense of scale and atmosphere.
Strings bring a shared musical thread to those surroundings. A violin melody can welcome guests into an intimate inn ceremony, while the layered parts of a quartet can give a mountain resort celebration a fuller sound. As you compare spaces, consider where guests will gather and where the musicians can sit within easy hearing distance.
New Hampshire String Ensemble Song List
Canon in D (Pachelbel)
Air on G-String (Bach)
Water Music Suites (Handel)
Arioso (Bach)
Sheep May Safely Graze (Bach)
Ode to Joy (Beethoven)
“Air” from Water Music Suite (Handel)
Xerxes.Largo (Handel)
St. Anthony Chorale (Haydn)
“One Hand, One Heart” (Bernstein)
“Nocturne” from Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mendelssohn)
Wachet Auf (Bach)
“Winter” from Four Seasons (Vivaldi)
Ave Maria ( Schubert)
“Waltz” (Tchaikovsky)
“Pavane”( Faure)
Messiah. Hallelujah Chorus (Handel)
Over The Rainbow (Harburg)
You Raise Me Up (Lovland)
What a Wonderful World (Weiss)
Ave Maria (Schubert)
Ave Verum Corpus (Mozart)
Andante from String Quartet in A minor (Schubert)
Largo in D (Handel)
Amazing Grace (Traditional)
The Heavens Are Telling (Haydn)
Be Thou My Vision (Traditional Irish Melody)
Children’s Prayer ( Humperdinck)
Deep River ( Spiritual)
Go Tell it on the Mountain ( Spiritual)
He’s Got the Whole World ( Spiritual)
Meditation from Thais (Massenet)
My Heart Ever Faithful (Bach)
On Wings of Song (Mendelssohn)
Te Deum (Charpentier)
Bridal Chorus “Here Comes the Bride” (Wagner)
Trumpet Tune (Purcell)
Canon in D (Pachelbel)
Ave Verum Corpus ( Mozart)
Flower Duet (Delibes)
Panis Angelicus (Franck)
Ave Maria ( Bach)
I can’t stop falling in love (Presley)
All you need is Love ( McCartney)
Tenderly ( Gross)
Only You (The Platters)
Erev Shel Shoshanim (Processional)
Simon Tov and Chosen Kalle Mazel Tov (Recessional)
Od Yeshoma
“Sunrise, Sunset”
Oif’n Pripetshok
Hatikva ( The Hope)
Bashana (Traditional Jewish)
Yedid Nefesh ( Wedding Processional)
Have Nagila
Tsena Tsena
Jerusalem of Gold ( Traditional Jewish)
Wedding March (Mendelssohn)
La Rejouissance from Royal Fireworks Music (Handel)
Brandenburg Concerto #3 (Bach)
“Spring” from Four Seasons (Vivaldi)
Entrance of Queen of Sheba (Handel)
I can’t stop falling in love (Presley)
All you need is Love (McCartney)
Tenderly (Gross)
Only You (The Platters)
Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You
Yellow (Coldplay)
Palladio (Jenkins)
Rocky Top (Osborne Brothers)
“Rondeau”-Theme from Masterpiece Theatre (Mouret)
Meditation from “Thais” (Massenet)
All I Ask of You (Webber)
Ashokan Farewell (Ungar)
Brandenburg Concerto #3 (Bach)
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (Mozart)
Minuet in G (Beethoven)
Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni)
Divertimenti (Mozart)
Shaker Melody “Simple Gifts” (Copland)
Ave Maria (Gounod-Bach)
Humoresque (Dvorak)
Salut d’ Amore (Elgar)
The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (Debussy)
Nocturne in E flat Major (Chopin)
Finale from Sonatina in g (Dvorak)
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Handel)
Greensleeves (Traditional)
Pierre a Notre-Dame (Boellman)
Vivaldi. Concerti from L’Estro Armonico
Booking Made Simple: 4 Steps to a Flawless Event
Reach out to see if your date is open.
We’ll respond quickly to confirm and answer any initial questions.
Talk directly with our team — no middlemen.
We’ll help you choose the right band and provide honest advice tailored to your event.
Once you're ready, we’ll finalize the booking with a simple contract and deposit to lock in your date.
Once booked, you’ll receive a personalized planning form.
This covers your timeline, music preferences, names, and any special requests — making sure everything is perfectly customized.
On the big day, we arrive early, fully prepared, and ready to perform.
Every song, cue, and moment is handled so you can relax and enjoy.
Bring Your Special Request Into the Conversation
If one particular song is central to your plans, mention it when you first get in touch. Our repertoire includes baroque, classical, jazz, rock and pop arrangements, and our musicians can learn most songs on request. Sharing the artist and the version you love gives us a useful starting point.
A recording may rely on a singer, a guitar riff or a strong beat, so it helps to tell us what draws you to it. We can discuss how that musical idea might translate to strings and which line-up makes sense. That is especially helpful for a meaningful entrance song or a piece you want guests to recognize during cocktail hour.
Yes. We are based in Boston and perform throughout New Hampshire, as well as the rest of New England and New York. Send us your venue location, date and planned music times so we can discuss your event.
Outdoor performances need a shaded, covered playing area and a backup plan. String instruments are sensitive to direct sun, rain, damp air and cold, so discuss both the outdoor space and indoor alternative with your venue.
We offer solo violin, violin and cello duo, a trio of two violins and cello, and a quartet of two violins, viola and cello. Tell us about the room, guest count and music you have in mind so we can discuss a suitable line-up.
Yes. Strings can cover the prelude as guests are seated, the processional, the bride's entrance and the recessional, then continue into cocktail hour. Let us know if those parts of your New Hampshire celebration will take place in different spaces.
Yes. Our repertoire includes pop and rock arrangements alongside baroque, classical and jazz music, and the musicians can learn most songs on request. Share your preferred song and version early so we can discuss it with you.
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