Happenings
Firefly Bistro’s downtown Manchester location makes for the perfect place to gather, celebrate, and enjoy art in all forms. Check back regularly to see our upcoming events!
Seasonal
Granite United Way Joins us for our September Community Partnership Series
Granite United Way is a nonprofit organization that makes strategic investments to improve the quality of people’s lives by bringing together the caring power of communities. Granite United Way is New Hampshire’s largest United Way, covering more than 85% of New Hampshire and all of Windsor County, Vermont, helping over 400,000 people each year.
Dine at Firefly on Wednesday, September 25 to help the Granite United Way’s mission supporting over 600 nonprofits who help people Learn, Earn, and Be Healthy. Firefly will donate 10% of food and non-alcoholic beverage sales (alcoholic beverages excluded) for the entire day to support the Granite United Way.
If you would like to learn more about Granite United Way and everything they do (or make a donation!), please check out graniteuw.org
Encourage your friends, family, and co-workers to join us at Firefly on Wednesday, September 25, and together we can help make a difference. Reserve your spot now!
Artists in Residence
Bruce Jones
Bruce Jones is a local artist from seacoast NH. His loose, bold, and unique paintings are on display in Firefly’s dining room known as the Art Room.
He learned the nuts and bolts of design and composition while attending the New England School of Art and Design in Boston, but he believes that his real education came from working with other professional artists. He was fortunate to travel and learn the art of plein air painting, which generates a lot of abstract qualities, lending itself to his natural expressive style.
He is a lifelong New Englander, and currently lives in Exeter, NH with his artist wife, Tracy, whose artwork is also on display in Firefly’s foyer.
Tracy R. Jones
Tracy was trained as an Art Educator at the Massachusetts College of Art where she had an emphasis in painting, and was influenced to examine, experience, and enjoy the process of creating while finding one’s own aesthetic.
Her large-scale assemblages and paintings explore the relationships between color and shapes while salvaging and utilizing oft-discarded materials and bold forms.
Live Music on our Patio
Firefly Restaurant Summer 2024 Booking
Weather Permitting
Wednesday – Saturday 5pm-8pm
Chuck Alaimo Residency every Sunday 11am-2pm
Chuck Alaimo
Residency – performing each Sunday from 11am – 2pm
Clint Lapointe
Chris Perkins
Joanie Cicatelli
Chris Cavanaugh
Matt Fuller
Community Partners
The Firefly community extends far beyond the walls of our downtown Manchester bistro. Here are some of the neighbors, near and far, that we support throughout the years:
March of Dimes
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
NH Food Bank/Share Our Strength
Concord Hospital
YMCA
Easterseals
Palace Theater
Webster House
Girls, Inc.
Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester
Animal Rescue League
Nashua Center
Goffstown Mother’s Club
Rights + Democracy Education Fund
Granite United Way
Dismas Home
CASA
NSquared Dance
Manchester True
Waypoint
