EAST HARDWICK – Singer, songwriter, band leader and third generation Hardwick Academy graduate Rick Norcross is retiring from the music business after 60 years as a performing artist. His retirement was announced simultaneously with the release of “The Bestest Songs I Ever Wrote,” on the Billy Bowles “Swinging Country” radio[Read More…]
Entertainment
“Footworks” Plays Celtic Music Aug. 20
CABOT – The Cabot Arts Free Summer Music Series presents “Footworks” on Tuesday, Aug. 20, at 6 p.m. on the Cabot Village Common. Inspired by the Gaelic music of Cape Breton Island, “Footworks” is a Vermont-based instrumental band. With Jacob Brillhart on fiddle, Jon Brillhart on whistle and Tory Heft[Read More…]
New Exhibits at Gallery Through Sept. 23
MONTPELIER — The T.W. Wood Gallery has two new exhibits opening that celebrate the work of local Vermont artists as well as a North Carolina artist.The third annual “Printmaking Invitational 2024,” curated by Phillip Robertson and Jeremy Vaughn, features the work of Vermont artists Beth Russell Campo, John R. Killacky,[Read More…]
Paintings of Fiona Cooper Fenwick, through September 27
ST. JOHNSBURY – The Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild’s Backroom Gallery will feature Fiona Cooper Fenwick’s landscape paintings from August 23 through September 27. The opening reception will be August 30, during St. Johnsbury’s Final Friday Celebration from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., with a 15% discount off her work throughout[Read More…]
“Illuminated Worlds” Opens as Art at the Kent’s 2024 Exhibition, through October 6
CALAIS – Art at the Kent’s 2024 exhibition, “Illuminated Worlds,” presents the curated creations of two dozen Vermont artists, in a show that runs every Friday, Saturday and Sunday, September 6 through Sunday, October 6. Visitors can view these works inside the rambling historic structures of the Kents’ Corner State[Read More…]
Vermont Female Farmer Photos on Exhibit through October 30
MONTPELIER – The Vermont State Curator’s Office presents “Vermont Female Farners,” photographs by Juan Carlos González on exhibit at the Vermont State House Card Room and Cafeteria Gallery from August 19 through October 30 with an artist reception and Montpelier Art Walk, October 4, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Originally from Maunabo, Puerto Rico and currently[Read More…]
Holocaust Remembrance Lectures Result of Polish Study Trip
Holocaust Remembrance Lectures Result of Polish Study Trip GREENSBORO – This past June, Rev. Ed Sunday-Winters of the Greensboro United Church of Christ and Jeff Pierpont of Walden went to Poland on a Holocaust study trip under the auspices of the Brunswick Theological Seminary in New Jersey, the Simon Wiesnthal[Read More…]
Grace’s “Outside the Lines” until August 28
Feurzieg Concert Inspired by Wolcott Chapel
WOLCOTT – Pianist David Feurzieg has an admirable goal: to play a concert in every town in Vermont (253 total) and generously donate the proceeds to local environmental organizations. Already he has visited 60 towns, and the contributions of the concert he gave on Saturday afternoon, July 20, in Wolcott,[Read More…]
Chamber Players Concert Resonates with Sophisticated Audience
GREENSBORO – The second concert of the Summer Music from Greensboro series saw a return from last year’s season of the very popular Manhattan Chamber Players, with a program of three relatively short pieces by Mozart spanning his life and then a monumental “String Quartet in C Major” by Schubert,[Read More…]
Circus Smirkus to Host Annual Community SmirkFest, August 10
GREENSBORO – Circus Smirkus will host its second annual SmirkFest on Saturday, Aug. 10, at Circus Smirkus Camp, 41 Clown Alley. This community-wide event will take place from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and include performances, food and music and workshops. SmirkFest will be headlined by the Smirkus Camp Road[Read More…]
Bookshop Hosts Book Signing Aug. 2
HARDWICK – Author Angela Kehler will be at the Galaxy Bookshop on Friday, Aug. 2, at 5:30 p.m., to sign copies of her two books, “Brush Strokes: Poems” and “Can’t You Just Get Over It: A Memoir.” After 18 years as a mother and the wife of an entrepreneur, Kehler[Read More…]
