GREENSBORO – “Abbey Road,” the last studio album recorded by The Beatles, offered a creative outlet for the many talents of the Birdhouse Band and its guests during a sold out show this past Saturday evening at Highland Center for the Arts (HCA). Birdhouse Band’s standard line-up includes Mavis MacNeil[Read More…]
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Jazz-lovers Hear Spectacular Concert
GREENSBORO – The Ellington Collective from Boston came to the United Church of Christ last week on Tuesday evening at to give a spectacular concert to a near capacity audience of some 115 jazz lovers. The group played over a dozen pieces by Duke Ellington and his famous orchestra that[Read More…]
Caspian Music Features Works by Hayden, Schumann, Chaussan
GREENSBORO – The first concert in the Caspian Music series, “Dialogues,” was given last Sunday evening at the Highland Center for the Art, having as guest artists the Callisto Quartet. The program contained works by Hayden, Schumann and Chaussan in a string quartet, cannonic exercises and a concerto for violin,[Read More…]
Concert has Interesting Combination of Strings, Vocals
HARDWICK – The fourth concert of the Craftsbury Chamber Players season at the Hardwick Town House had an interesting combination of string and vocal pieces, ranging from Danish folk music going back many centuries to a Mozart String Quartet, lieder by Brahms from the end of the Nineteenth Century and[Read More…]
Summer Concert, Aug. 3
GREENSBORO – Sunday, August 3, from 3 to 4:30 p.m., Social Band will be performing at the Green Mountain Monastery, located at 420 Hillcrest Road. The program will include songs of birds, cicadas, crickets and bees. Featured works include pieces by Sara Doncaster, Betsy Brigham, Don Jamison and Michael Kellogg (aka Clyde Powers). Social Band is a Burlington-based chorus that performs[Read More…]
Caspian Music Series Begins Aug. 3
GREENSBORO – The Caspian Music series begins August 3, with a concert that features works by Hayden, Schumann and Causson. The Caspian Festival Orchestra will continue to be a full orchestra rather than a snaller chamber orchestra, so the season will end with Mendelssohn’s “ltalian Smphony” and Beethoven’s “Violin Concerto[Read More…]
Feurzeig Plays Greensboro in Concert
GREENSBORO − Composer-pianist David Feurzeig came to the Greensboro United Church of Christ Friday evening, July 18, to give a concert and help support the Greensboro Land Trust. Feurzeig, a professor of music at the University of Vermont has been touring and giving free performances in all Vermont towns, since[Read More…]
Chamber Players Introduce Imaginative Variations
HARDWICK − The third concert of the Craftsbury Chamber Players season took place at the Hardwick Town House last Thursday evening and focused on three Eighteenth- to early Nineteenth-Century composers, namely Mozart, Boccherini and Beethoven. The “Trio in C Major, K.548 for Violin, Cello and Piano” was written in 1788[Read More…]
Neave Trio Demonstrate Genuine Passion, Deeply Moving
GREENSBORO − The Neave Trio were the guest performers at the second concert in the Summer Music from Greensboro series on Tuesday evening, July 22, at the United Church of Christ. Their name derives from a Gaelic word signifying “bright” and “radiant” and they certainly lived up to that description.[Read More…]
Dog Mountain Summer Dog Party, Aug. 2
ST. JOHNSBURY − Dog Mountain, home to the Stephen Huneck Gallery, will hold its annual Summer Dog Party on Saturday, Aug. 2, from noon to 4 p.m. The day’s festivities include live music from The Barnyard Incident, eats from Alburritos Food Truck, and Rocky’s New York Style Hotdog Cart. Dogs[Read More…]
Alice Howe, Freebo Play at Outdoor Concert, August 6
PLAINFIELD − Alice Howe and Freebo will present an outdoor concert, Wednesday, August 6, at 7 p.m., from the porch of Grace United Methodist Church. The open-air concert brings together decades of songwriting talent and stage presence as the duo offers a performance blending Howe’s vocals with Freebo’s fretless bass[Read More…]
Birdhouse Band Plays “Abbey Road” Tribute, Aug. 9
GREENSBORO − The Birdhouse Band celebrates the Beatles with a performance of the 1969 album, “Abbey Road” at the Highland Center for the Arts, Saturday, Aug. 9, at 7 p.m. Local musicians Andrew Koehler, Mavis MacNeil, Roy MacNeil, and Annie Rowell, with special guests Randy Bulpin and Andrew Palumbo, stay true to[Read More…]
