HARDWICK – The United Church of Hardwick is hosting an afternoon concert with music of the winter season, Dec 1, from 2 to 3:30 p.m., at 216 South Main Street. The concert will feature several musical groups from the area. Friends, family and neighbors are welcome. Admission is free.
Entertainment
Fine Voices with Feeling, Expressiveness
GREENSBORO – Four excellent local singers and musicians came together for a concert at the Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro Saturday evening with a program of some two dozen beautiful melodies that continuously entranced the full capacity house. They were singer, dancer and choreographer Taryn Noelle, singer, songwriter,[Read More…]
“Messiah” Presented Dec. 6, Dec. 8
MONTPELIER/BARRE – Handel’s “Messiah,” conducted by Lisa Jablow with the Vermont Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus, will be presented at two performances on Friday, Dec. 6, at 7:30 p.m., in St Augustine’s Church, Montpelier and Sunday, Dec. 8, at 2 p.m., at the Barre Opera House. The “Messiah” performances are a central[Read More…]
Local Cast Brings “A Christmas Carol” to Life
GREENSBORO – The Civic Standard, in partnership with the Highland Center for the Arts (HCA), will present “A Christmas Carol” at the HCA from December 12 through December 15. The show, features a cast of 45 local actors ranging in age from 9 to 80. Far from a normal theatrical[Read More…]
Concert Celebrates Permutations of World Music
GREENSBORO – The Local Folk Orchestra returned to the Highland Center for the Arts (HCA) in Greensboro Saturday evening to give a sold out concert that celebrated the numerous permutations of world music. Under the enthusiastic direction of Roy MacNeil on violin, the group consists of 19 talented musicians, plus,[Read More…]
Norman’s New Novel a Wonderful Story
BRATTLEBORO – I don’t usually write book reviews. Novels, plays, fantasies, autobiographies, full-length Shakespearean satires: the whole lot. But I’m moved to tell my fellow Gazette readers about Howard Norman’s new novel, “Come to the Window” (W.W. Norton, 2024). It’s a wonderful story, a book to own and read over[Read More…]
Owl Photography Exhibit, Program, Nov. 22
GREENSBORO – Craftsbury photographer and naturalist Elinor Osborne exhibits her large-format giclee prints of Snowy Owls, Barred Owls, Saw-whet Owls and more, all photographed in Vermont, at the Greensboro Free Library for the month of November. She will present a program about owls on Friday, Nov. 22, 10:30 a.m., in[Read More…]
Vermont Suitcase Company Brings Family-friendly Play to Plainfield Arts, Dec.15
PLAINFIELD — Plainfield Arts will present “The Continued Adventures of King Wenceslas”, a family-friendly production by The Vermont Suitcase Company, at the Plainfield Opera House on December 15, at 4 p.m. This play by Vermont Suitcase Company delves deep between the stanzas of the Christmas carol. Tickets are available by[Read More…]
Lange Reads “Christmas Carol” Dec. 15
MONTPELIER – Yankee storyteller Willem Lange is back at Lost Nation Theater performing his reading of “A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story” by Charles Dickens at Lost Nation Theater, Sunday, Dec. 15, at 3 p.m. Lange uses the cutting of the novel Dickens himself used when performing the tale. Emmy-winner[Read More…]
Free Screening of Craven’s Latest Film, Nov. 13
ST. JOHNSBURY – Jay Craven’s newest film, “Lost Nation,” will screen at the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 13, as a part of the film’s Vermont 50 Town Tour. This Revolutionary War-era action drama set in the early upstart Republic of Vermont stars Irish actor Kevin[Read More…]
Bagpipers Play, Nov. 16
MARSHFIELD – Scottish bagpipers Iain McHarg and Ian Gauthier will present a concert to benefit children’s programs at the Jaquith Public Library, on Saturday, Nov. 16, at 4:30 p.m., at the library.
Hardwick’s Historical Figures Believably Brought to Life
HARDWICK – An intermittent rain added an air of mystery during a slow walk through the Main Street Cemetery for Hazen Union School Drama Club students’ performance of “Hardwick, 1924.” Students portrayed historical figures from Hardwick in 1924 near where they lie in the cemetery. Writer and Director Marc Considine[Read More…]
