GREENSBORO – Singer-songwriter Dave Stamey came all the way from California to give a concert of country western music at the Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro Saturday evening, performing more authentic evocations of the life of a cowboy than is usually depicted in Hollywood movies. The program was[Read More…]
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Kent exhibit illuminates mementos, memories, shared humanity
CALAIS – Almost two dozen terra cotta and stoneware clay faces emerge from the surface, top to bottom, starting small and gradually increasing to full heads, creating the illusion they are coming into the room from the past. These are the faces of struggling people. Life’s hard for so many[Read More…]
Drury paintings exhibited through September
GREENSBORO – An exhibition of paintings by Harold Arthur Drury is currently being held at the Lauredon Place Gallery on 545 Laurendon Avenue, through the end of September. Harold Arthur Drury was born in Seattle, Wash., in 1926 but spent much of his youth in Australia and New Zealand, where[Read More…]
Exhibition of painting, drawings, sculpture feature Hellers’ works, to Sept. 30
STOWE – The Front Four Gallery in Stowe is having a significant exhibition entitled Inner Landscapes: Discovering the Lifework of Peter Heller (1927-2002) which is a retrospective of over thirty of his paintings and drawings, along with intriguing sculptures by his wife Alexandra Noble Heller (1932-2024). Peter taught art at[Read More…]
Final seasonal concert features thirty-piece orchestra
GREENSBORO – The final concert of this summer’s Caspian Music season was held on Sunday evening, August 24, at the Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro. The thirty-piece Caspian Chamber Orchestra was skillfully conducted by Paul McShee, and two works featured soprano Andrea Nalywajko, an early Mendelssohn violin concerto[Read More…]
Historian tells East Craftsbury library history
EAST CRAFTSBURY – Polly Seddon Allen, a consulting architectural historian, gave a very informative talk about the history of the John Woodruff Simpson Memorial Library in East Craftsbury, entitled “From a General Store to a Community Library,” Monday evening, August 15, at the library. The library is celebrating its century[Read More…]
Cécilia, Quebec music trio, presents vibrant concert
GREENSBORO – The Canadian group, Cécilia came to Greensboro at the Highland Center for the Arts on Thursday evening, August 21, and gave a vibrant concert of music spanning the genres of traditional, Celtic, Quebequois and jazz. The trio of pianist Evin Leahy, accordion player Timi Turmel and violinist Louis[Read More…]
Summer Theater Camp presents four comedies
CABOT – The Cabot Community Theater demonstrated the fruits of its week-long summer theater camp by presenting four comedies Friday, Aug. 15, at 5 p.m., in the Cabot School Performing Arts Center. The plays were short and designed for children’s performances, giving everyone a limited number of lines to memorize[Read More…]
Birdhouse Band Comes Together for The Beatles “Abbey Road”
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…]
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…]
