HARDWICK – Five student composers from Hazen Union School and Craftsbury Academy, Lilly Cookson, Basil Crouse, Owen Foster, Garrett Sisk, and Losada Stoddard. saw their original works brought to life in a professional performance collaboration with the Vermont Symphony Orchestra (VSO) and Music-COMP, June 5, at the Hazen Union Auditorium.[Read More…]
Music
Juneteenth commemorated with HCA concert
GREENSBORO – Last Friday afternoon and evening the Jubalo Singers from Berea College in Berea, Ky., came to the Highland Center for the Arts and gave a beautiful and inspiring concert entitled “A Journey of Freedom: Songs of Slavery and Emancipation.” The selections were based on the original research of[Read More…]
Thursday Concert Series
MARSHFIELD – Thursdays from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., at the Jaquith Public Library, hear some music, visit with neighbors, dance, try one’s luck at a 50-50 raffle and buy baked goods and books or buy dinner from the Tiny Cabin Kitchen. Performaner and dates include, July 2, Ernest James Zydeco Band; July[Read More…]
Music for hard times, June 27
EAST CRAFTSBURY – Saturday, June 27, 1 to 3 p.m., The NEK Death Care Community, together with the John Woodruff Simpson Memorial Library, will hold a free community workshop about the power of music. This workshop will include stories from community members about the power of music when a loved one[Read More…]
Make Music Day presents a participatory music-making experience
ST. JOHNSBURY – Catamount Arts and the St. Johnsbury Town Band invite musicians and music students of all ages and experience to this year’s Make Music Day, June 21, from 2 to 4 p.m., in the Catamount Arts garden lot at 115 Eastern Avenue. This year’s celebration will consist of[Read More…]
Historical society opens Chamber Players exhibit
CRAFTSBURY – Last Saturday afternoon, June 6, the Craftsbury Historical Society had an opening for its summer exhibition celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Craftsbury Chamber Players. The program began with Peter Nelson, the new co-chair of the society (along with Ned Houston), talking about current activities of the members,[Read More…]
Chamber Players begin season
CRAFTSBURY – The Craftsbury Chamber Players begins their 2026 season with a continuation of a 60-year uninterrupted run performing repertoire covering 350 years of music history. Composers featured this summer include Franz Schubert, Derrick Skye, J.S. Bach, Susan Botti, W.A. Mozart, Olivier Messiaen, Gwyneth Walker, Joseph Haydn and Antonín Dvořák.[Read More…]
Jubalo Singers perform “A Journey of Freedom,” Juneteenth, June 19
GREENSBORO – The Jubalo Singers of Kentucky will give a Juneteenth performance of “A Journey of Freedom: Songs of Slavery and Emancipation,” at Highland Center for the Arts, Friday, June 19, 7 to 8:30 p.m. A singing workshop from 4 to 5 p.m. will precede the performance so the community[Read More…]
Music for children with Katy Tessman, June 25
ST. JOHNSBURY – Wednesday, June 24, 10:15 a.m., Katy Tessman will feature music for children at the Athenaeum Hall. A mother, singer-songwriter, author, and young survivor of breast cancer, Tessman aims to help people find strength, courage and optimism. In addition to her music career, Tessman is also a children’s book[Read More…]
Events, June 10 to 30, Ongoing, Exhibits, Community Services, Libraries, Town Clerks
Wednesday, June 10 Graduation, 5:30 p.m., Woodbury sixth grade. Graduation, 6 p.m., Wolcott sixth grade. Author talk, with Jasper Craven, discussing and signing his new novel, “God Forgives, Brothers Don’t,” 7 p.m., St. Johnsbury Athenaeum. Thursday, June 11 Promotion, 5 p.m., Hazen Union eighth grade. Passage, 5:30 p.m., Cabot eighth[Read More…]
Art in Bloom at Highland Center for the Arts
Local Folk Orchestra receives standing ovation
GREENSBORO – The Local Folk Orchestra returned to the Highland Center for the Arts for their spring concert last Saturday evening with a delightfully varied program of classical, folk, ethnic and original compositions, playing to a completely packed house, which indicates how much their popularity has grown since being founded[Read More…]
