CABOT – Brett Hughes will perform at the Willey Building auditorium on Thursday, May 9, at 7 p.m., presented by the Cabot Folk Club. The country-crooner and bluegrass picker visits Cabot for a rare solo performance. Hughes has been a mainstay in the Burlington music community for decades. He spent[Read More…]
Entertainment
Chorus with Local Singers Scores High in Area Competition
MONTPELIER – A Vermont acappella chorus, the Barre-Tones, including Janet Whitlock, Lynn McKinney and Sandy Atkins from Cabot, and Judy Dix from Plainfield, scored high and won two awards in area competition on April 11, at Framingham. Mass. The chorus, singing in the barbershop style, was one of 11 choruses[Read More…]
Crowdfunding Campaign Launched for Hardwick Shindigs
HARDWICK – A $5,000 goal to receive a 2:1 matching grant through the Vermont Department of Housing and Community Developmment’s Better Places program has been launched by the nonprofit Civic Standard. If the campaign reaches its $5,000 goal by May 10, the Hardwick Shindigs will receive a matching grant of $10,000. The[Read More…]
The Sheep Shop Café is Open for Business
SOUTH WOODBURY – I stopped at the Sheep Shop on Route 14 in South Woodbury to see how the recently opened Sheep Shop Café was coming along. I have been a faithful customer of the Sheep Shop because of their wonderful sheep milk and sugar facial scrubs, especially the lavender[Read More…]
“Just Getting By” Brings Hope for Solutions
GREENSBORO – “Just Getting By,” a documentary film by award-winning Vermont filmmaker Bess O’Brien, was shown at Greensboro’s Highland Center for the Arts on Saturday, April 10, after the original April 4 date was canceled due to a heavy spring snowstorm. The film follows Vermonters struggling with food and housing[Read More…]
Young’s Works Show Through June
HARDWICK – Mary Young’s show, “Works of Artful Joy,” is on exhibit at the Hardwick Inn Third Floor Gallery through June. A reception will be held Friday, April 19, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. The inn is located at 4 South Main Street.
Musical Auditions Held April 27-28
HYDE PARK – Lamoille County Players will hold auditions for Roald Dahl’s “Matilda, The Musical,” directed by Kenneth Greiner and Patricia Jacob. The audition dates will be April 27 and April 28, at Lamoille Union High School Auditorium. Performance dates will be July 18 to 21 and July 25 to 28. Those[Read More…]
Farmers Night Presents Springtime Serenade with Solaris Vocal Ensemble
MONTPELIER – On April 10, at 7:30 p.m., the Solaris Vocal Ensemble will present a “Springtime Serenade,” featuring an array of choral favorites including selections by Mozart and Bruckner along with spirituals and folk songs. This semi-professional ensemble was formed with the vision that choral music can energize and inspire the human spirit. [Read More…]
Vermont Philharmonic Features Trumpet Soloist
BARRE – The Vermont Philharmonic will present one of the country’s top classical trumpet players in a concert titled “Trumpeting Spring” on Sunday, April 28, at 2 p.m., the Barre Opera House, with Music Director Lou Kosma conducting. The program’s featured work is the “Trumpet Concerto” by Richard Stöhr, performed by Billy[Read More…]
Prophecy Chocolate Sweetens Hardwick’s Streets
HARDWICK – I stumbled upon Prophecy Chocolate one evening as a friend and I were heading up the street to another restaurant. A sign promising tamales and chocolate drinks was too much to resist. We opened the door to the aroma of marvelously rich chocolate wafting out. Inside the door,[Read More…]
Quebec Circus Presents “Blizzard,” April 17
LYNDON – Catamount Arts and KCP Presents will host FLIP Fabrique, world class circus arts from Quebec, at Vermont State University Lyndon, April 17. The show, “Blizzard,” starts at 7 p.m., in the Alumni Gym and promises to take the stage with an enchanting evening of wintry wonder. With “Blizzard,”[Read More…]
Paintings by Young at CVMC
BERLIN – Paintings by Ann Young will be exhibited through April 28 at The Gallery at Central Vermont Medical Center. Young paints in many styles with plenty of color. This exhibition celebrates abstracted images of magnified, natural objects, such as jellyfish, decaying plants and leaves, and other water dwellers, and[Read More…]
