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…]
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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…]
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…]
High-energy Youth Choir Presents Dynamic Concert
GREENBORO – Some 600 students from the schools in the Orleans Southwest Supervisory Union, as well as home schoolers, were treated to a high-energy, dynamic concert by the Ndlovu Youth Choir from South Africa last Wednesday at the Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro in morning and early afternoon[Read More…]
Norcross CD Contains Fans’ Favorite Works
EAST CRAFTSBURY – Rick Norcross grew up in East Hardwick and beginning in 1963 went on to a 61 year career as a singer, song writer and band leader of Rick and the All Star Ramblers, achieving national and international popularity with some 13 albums and over 1,000 shows. This[Read More…]
Hinojosa Concert Featured Dynamic Ensemble, Experienced Artists
GREENSBORO – Legendary singer-songwriter Tish Hinojosa brought the richness of Southwestern American musical traditions to Greensboro all the way from Tuscon, Ariz., and Austin, Texas, last Sunday evening at the Highland Center for the Arts. She was accompanied by her long-time fellow musician Chip Dolan on piano and accordion, the[Read More…]
Performance with Consummate Discipline, Coordination
GREENSBORO – The Vermont Philharmonic came to the Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro last Saturday evening and gave an engaging concert of varied orchestral and vocal works, under the skilled baton of music director and conductor Lou Kosma. The composers chosen for the program ranged from Gottschalk to[Read More…]
Connelly Exhibit of Protest Photographs Speak to Present
MONTPELIER – An exhibition of 52 photographs by Ross Connelly of Hardwick, entitled “PROTEST,” can be seen currently at the T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier through November. Divided into three sections, all photgraphic subjects take place in Washington, D.C.. They document the Pentagon March of October 1967, the student demonstrations[Read More…]
Latest Hazen Road Dispatch Full of Historical Topics
GREENSBORO — This summer’s annual issue of the “Hazen Road Dispatch” published by the Greensboro Historical Society is immediately attractive by its colorful cover, designed by Samuel Rheaune, showing the beautiful mural at one end of the barn at Jasper Hill Farm, painted by Tara Goreau. Inside, the 16 articles[Read More…]
A Retrospective through a Long Eye: Paintings by Viiu Niiler
GREENSBORO – A table of elegant food, a crowd and the vibrant watercolors of Viiu Niiler greeted visitors to the opening reception of “A Short Retrospective through a Long Eye – The Paintings of Viiu Niiler,” Sunday afternoon, Sept. 22, in the Gallery at the Highland Center for the Arts.[Read More…]
Film, “Building Sacred Space” Documents Creating of Steve’s Chapel
WOLCOTT – There is a pattern, in some forms of human creativity, where one single person has a vision of a project. Then, with remarkable perseverance, this single person is able to begin making it happen and simultaneously inspire others to come together to see it through to completion. A[Read More…]
Talk on Hitchcock Movie Reveals Local Connections
CRAFTSBURY – This year marks the 70th anniversary of the making of “The Trouble With Harry,” the delightful Alfred Hitchcock film that was shot mostly around Craftsbury in September of 1954. The Craftsbury Historical Society celebrated this event by showing the movie on Sunday, Sept. 8, at the Craftsbury Public[Read More…]
