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…]
Entertainment
Living Room Concert, August 15
HARDWICK – Franklin and Ray will be at the Civic Standard living room for an evening of tunes that span traditions from Kentucky to Quebec and Maritime fiddling, to traditional and contemporary folk songs. Franklin Heyburn is a self described French-speaking Yankee Vermonter from Kentucky. He started out playing harmonica,[Read More…]
“Taming of Shrew” Aug. 21-30
PLAINFIELD –The Green Mountain Shakespeare Festival will present the final production of its inaugural season, ‘The Taming of the Shrew,” by William Shakespeare, August 21, 22, 23, 28, 29, and 30, at 7 p.m, and August 24, at 2 p.m., at the Haybarn Theatre on The Creative Campus at Goddard[Read More…]
“Mementos Kept, Memories Kindled” Through Oct. 12
CALAIS – Art at the Kent’s once-a-year exhibition runs every Friday through Sunday, October 12, “Holding: Mementos Kept, Memories Kindled,” includes the curated creations of 22 Vermont artists. Visitors can view these works inside the historic structures of the Kents’ Corner State Historic Site. The exhibition looks at memory, lost and found, vivid and fleeting,[Read More…]
Granddaughters Tell of Craftsbury Couple’s Creative Works
CRAFTSBURY – “The Creative Works of Francis Colburn and Gladys LaFlamme: was the title of a fascinating talk by granddaughters Adriane Colburn and Celine Colburn given at the Craftsbury Public Library late Friday afternoon, August 1. For some 50 years, the family were regular summer residents at their log cabin[Read More…]
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…]
Book Release, Craftsbury Celebration, Aug 8.
CRAFTSBURY – Friday, August 8th, at 6 p.m., all are welcome to join at the Craftsbury Public Library for the release party of Craftsbury Celebration. Long-time Craftsbury residents Thomas Twetten (author) and Harry Miller (photographer) will do some short presentations, take questions and conversation about their lovingly rendered book, “Craftsbury[Read More…]
Shakespeare Camp Performances, Aug. 8-9
GREENSBORO – Peter Gould’s youth Shakespeare camp, Get Thee to the Funnery, is back for its 28th summer, and will finish with two live public performances on Friday, Aug. 8 and Saturday, Aug. 9. This year’s camp is happening again under the big white tent and in the theater at[Read More…]
Francis Colburn Show Available until August 9
CRAFTSBURY – A show “Painter & Poet — The Colburns of Craftsbury” is on view until August 9 at the Craftsbury Historical Society (CHS), located at Common Loop Road. Poet Gladys LaFlamme and artist Francis Colburn spent over 50 summers at their camp on the shore of Little Hosmer Pond[Read More…]
Oehry’s Humorous Art at Town House, to August 14
HARDWICK – Isa Oehry is the second artist to exhibit in the NEKArts Gallery Series at the Hardwick Town House. Her show, “See the Farm Through Barn Windows,” opened last Thursday, July 31, with Oehry’s primitive folk art paintings lining the rear of the theatre and lobby walls. The show[Read More…]
