Artbits-July 25, 2024

Posted on July 25, 2024 by Dick

BIG MUSIC WEEKS

The Big Music Weeks of Summer continue with Summer Sounds this week and some of our friends play multiple gigs. Read more…

SUMMER SOUNDS

Summer Sounds continues its 33rd season in Highgate with favorites Yankee Chank on the lawn at the Highgate Arena. Bob Naess, Cannon Labrie, Jim Burns, and Mark Sustic, will immerse the park in Cajun music. Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

The Haston Library presents the Art of Vera Gates with an opening reception. Corliss Blakely hosts an exclusive Art Show at her garden and home. The Artist In Residence collection spotlight is on stained glass artist Jennifer Buckner. Bryan Memorial Gallery features both T.M. Nicholas and Tom Nicholas in the 40 Years Together Show. Cold Hollow Sculpture Park welcomes Stephanie Cardon as their 2024 artist-in-residence. The Vermont Abenaki Artists Association features historian Melody Mackin. Read more…

DANCE

Island Arts opens the barn doors to the joy of community dancing to lively music with Leslie Alpert. Celebration of Expressive has dance as Alice Reighley shows how a belly dance exercise tape changed the trajectory of her life. Read more…

FESTIVALS AND SHOWS

The 2024 Church Street Festival takes over the historical street with dance, a DJ, activities, ice cream and more. The 32nd annual Jig in the Valley fills the Meeting House green with eight hours of music. Read more…

FILM

Jay Craven returns with Lost Nation, the birth of Vermont and the promise of an American Revolution, at the Welden Theater. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

St. Albans Community Arts has Creative Connections twice, Blackout Poetry, and the Open Studio Music Group. The Milton Artists’ Guild has Paint Pouring Workshop with Laurie Thompson, Social Sunday, and the Workshop for those with Dementia and their Caregivers with Tina Lesperance. Read more…

COVID NEWS

Two more Vermonters died from COVID-19 bringing the total of pandemic deaths to 1,157 as of July 1. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

Karaoke and Open Mic Night (twice), Chris & Erica (twice), Troy Millette (twice), the Harley Brown Band, Dirt Road, the Youth Opera Company with Project Serenade, Jesse Agan, 90 Proof, Whiskey and Wine, She Was Right, Auriant, the Fabulous Wrecks, Grace Potter, Dennis Fox & Friends, the Eclectica String Quartet, Next Stop Comedy, the Chris Lyon Trio, the Shane Murley Trio, John Gratton, the Maplegrove Band, Mad Mojo, Dan Parks, Spencer Lewis, the CombustOmatics, Ryan Hanson, Roger Giroux, Tom Bisson, Jerborn, Nighthawk, Mark Shelton, SPHERE: A Full 360 live, the Vermont Academy of Choral Music, , Yankee Chank, Jeh Kulu Dance & Drum Theater, Alice Reighley, Minced Oats, Bob Gagnon and Tony Petricola, the Enosburg Town Band, Hard Scrabble, Bettenroo, the Smokey Newfield Project, Young Tradition-Vermont, the Buck Hollers, and the Citizens Concert Band all perform live at a venue near you. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

Bent Northrop Memorial Library hosts the Traveling Storyteller Puppet Theater. The Haston Library presents the return of Alyx Hilshey with the Magic of the Library. The Eloquent Page Mystery Book Club reads Altered Carbon by Richard K Morgan. The Swanton Free Public Library has the annual library Book and Bake Sale and an author meet & greet with Patricia Letourneau Henderson to share Captive Company. Read more…

 

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Artbits-July 18, 2024

Posted on July 18, 2024 by Dick

BIG MUSIC WEEKS

The Big Music Weeks of Summer continue around the county this week as Summer Sounds begins in Highgate and some of our friends play multiple gigs. Read more…

SUMMER SOUNDS

Summer Sounds begins its 33rd season in Highgate Center with Kaiden Prim on the lawn at the Highgate Arena. MVU’s own star guitarist studies with local rock star and Summer Sounds favorite Andre Maquera. Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

The Artist In Residence collection spotlight is on Kristina Bolduc whose work includes painting and printmaking. The Vermont Watercolor Society Exhibit, opens with a reception at Bryan Memorial Gallery. The Vermont Abenaki Artists Association features native interpreter Norm M’Sadoques. Read more…

ART YOU CREATE

Christmas in July returns to the Swanton Free Public Library with Barb and Mel to create a Christmas cards and an ornament in the Maker Space. Read more…

CALL FOR ACTORS AND VIDEOGRAPHERS

Actors and videographers are needed for Swanee 5, the Swanton Arts Council entry for Northwest Nightmares. Read more…

DANCE

Island Arts opens the barn doors to the joy of community dancing to lively music for with instructor Leslie Alpert. Read more…

HUMANITIES

The Saint Albans Museum remembers the Murder of Marietta Ball 150 Years Later with Sarah Allard and writer Avree Clark. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

St. Albans Community Arts offers Creative Connections twice, Explore the Story Wilds, an evening of Blacklight Reactive Painting with Jennifer, the Blackout Poetry series, and the Open Studio Music Group. The Milton Artists’ Guild has Social Sunday and the Workshop for those with Dementia and their Caregivers with Tina Lesperance. Read more…

COVID NEWS

A second Vermont resident has a confirmed a case of measles. Refusing vaccines drive the spread of infectious diseases from measles to polio to COVID to RSV. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

Jamie Lee Thurston, Mark Shelton, Jerborn (thrice), She Was Right (twice), the Barn Rats, Cooie’s Trio, Barbie-n-Bones, Ray’s Used Cars, IncaHoots, Jesse Agan, Sanctuary, Carol Ann Jones and Will Patton, Ryan Sweezy, Travis Cyr, the Rustics, the Fabulous Wrecks, Jacob Green, Dan and Sean Jarvis, Rustie Bus, Staircase 24, Jim Branca, Unruly Allies, Blue Heron with Ethan Sawyer and Martin Fredrick, Philip Graziano, Dave Miller, Donna Thunder, Kaiden Prim, Back to the Garden 1969: the Woodstock Experience, the Dimmer Triplets, Charlie Frazier, Al Lemery, and Gary Wade, the Enosburg Town Band, Laura Cwass, High Breaks, Mad Mojo, Mama Tried, and the Citizens Concert Band all perform live at a venue near you. And the 32nd annual Jig in the Valley is right around the corner. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

A new law allows all people ages 12-17 to have complete privacy in libraries. The St. Albans Free Library hosts Mornings, Muffins, and Mysteries. The Swanton Arts Council Writers’ Group meets in person. Read more…

 

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Artbits-July 11, 2024

Posted on July 11, 2024 by Dick

BIG MUSIC WEEKS

The Big Music Weeks of Summer continue this week as some of our friends play multiple gigs. Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

The Blue Paddle Bistro hosts Rebecca Padula for a special Art Opening and Concert. The Artist In Residence spotlight is on Donna Blatchly. Bryan Memorial Gallery features Eric Tobin. The Vermont Abenaki Artists Association features Chief Roger Longtoe Sheehan. Read more…

ART FOR SALE

The Downtown Sidewalk and Art Sales fill St. Albans with artists set up on the sidewalks to share their works with you. Where’s Waldo month is underway. Read more…

DANCE

Island Arts continues community dancing to lively music for Community Folk Dancing with instructor Leslie Alpert. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

St. Albans Community Arts offers Creative Connections twice, the Blackout Poetry series, and the Open Studio Music Group. Island Arts presents a Handcrafted Greeting Card Workshop with Pat Brennan. The Bryan Memorial Gallery has Key Elements in Plein Air Painting, a two-day workshop with George Van Hook. Social Sunday continues at the Milton Artists’ Guild. The River Arts Mindful Art Series offers Summer Blooms, Mixed Media Painting with Jen Volansky. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

The Cooie Trio (twice), Lewis Franco and the Missing Cats (twice) with Will Patton, Dono Schabner, and Susannah Blachly, the Old Man Garage Band, George Murtie, B-Town, the Lloyd Tyler Band, the Dimmer Triplets, the Hitmen, Mark Abair and his All Star Band, the Rough Suspects, Troy Millette, Jerborn, the Missisquoi River Band, Jesse Agan and Brad Ohlson, the Seth Yacovone Band, Mad Mojo, Double Shot, the Black Roots, Laura Fedele-Rasco, the John Daly Trio, the Duncan MacLeod Trio, Rockin’ Ron Gagnon, Acoustic Mayhem, Aftermath, Detour, the Wormdogs, Rebecca Padula, Bella Voca, Cooper, the Enosburg Town Band, Rockin’ Ron the Friendly Pirate, Good Gravy, the Nobby Reed Project, and the Smokey Newfield Project all perform live at a venue near you. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

The Eloquent Page writer extravaganza has AY Berthiaume, Catherine Bodnar, Charlie Brooks, Rebecca Cummins, Jackson Ellis, Pat Esden, Kent Gramm, Bill Holliday, Beth Ann Hooper, Tamara Mathieu, DonnaRae Menard, Laura Napoli, Dawn Densmore-Parent, Dr. Stephen Payne, and Sara Stewart. The monthly SPL Book Club discusses the Hidden History of Lake Champlain by Jason Barney and Christine Eldred. But I Progress takes up Hidden Figures by Margo Lee Shetterly. And Waldo is hidden somewhere. Read more…

 

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Artbits-July 4, 2024

Posted on July 3, 2024 by Dick

BIG MUSIC WEEKS

The Big Music Weeks of Summer begin with Bay Day as some of our friends play multiple gigs. Read more…

BAY DAY

The 43rd Bay Day Festival kicks off a day with lots more than fireworks in St. Albans Town Bay Park. The legendary Great Race, afternoon activities, games, food, and the live music of Rushmore and Soulshine Revival capped by the fireworks at dusk. Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

There is a day of plein air painting with Cynthia Rosen, George Van Hook, Liane Whittum, Mary Anne Heinzen, and Fiona Cooper Fenwick in downtown Stowe with a wet paint sale. The Artist In Residence features Jennifer Buckner, Terry Buehner, Tess Follensbee, and Wayne Tarr with a live reception on a special night. Bryan Memorial Gallery has Jane Neroni’s The Bridge at Shelburne Boat Ramp. The Vermont Abenaki Artists Association features Wampum Woman Linda Longtoe Sheehan. Read more…

ART FOR SALE

Plan ahead for the Downtown Sidewalk and Art Sales with artists set up on the sidewalks to share their works. Read more…

DANCE

Island Arts opens the barn doors to the joy of community dancing to lively music with instructor Leslie Alpert. Read more…

HUMANITIES

The Montgomery Center for the Arts hosts a Front Porch Forum. Virginia Holiman will tell traditional animal tales and Kurt Valenta will share his collection of artifacts. Ellen “LN” Bethea offers Words in the Woods. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

St. Albans Community Arts has Creative Connections, Explore the Story Wilds, the Blackout Poetry series. and the Open Studio Music Group, all this week. The Milton Artists’ Guild has Social Sunday and a workshop to Learn Zentangle with Julia Davenport. The River Arts Mindful Art Series offers Summer Blooms, Mixed Media Painting with Jen Volansky. The Swanton Free Public Library hosts “Lights Camera Impact” cinematography workshop with J.R. Cox. Read more…

IN THE ARTS COUNCILS

Get to Know Your SACA on the Saint Albans Community Arts photo page. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

Nobby Reed (thrice), Carol Ann Jones with Will Patton (twice) and with Gary Spaulding, the Smokey Newfield Project (twice), Shane Murley (twice), the Phil Abair Band with Keeghan Nolan, the Dale & Darcy Quartet with special guests Will Patton and Neil Rossi, Rockin’ Ron Gagnon, the Dimmer Triplets, Josh Worman and His Support Band, Mitch and Devon, the McMaple Band, Kyle Stevens, Nickel & Dime, Creatio, Slightly Used, Nate Michaud, Bob Gagnon, Sister Speak, Kippincoe, Tom Pearo, the Butterfields, the Enosburg Town Band, Satyrdagg, the Duo, Still Kickin’, Sugar in the Pan, the Citizens Concert Band all appear live at a venue near you. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

The Eloquent Page Fantasy Book Club reads Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere and plan ahead for AY Berthiaume, Catherine Bodnar, Charlie Brooks, Rebecca Cummins, Jackson Ellis, Pat Esden, Kent Gramm, Bill Holliday, Beth Ann Hooper, DonnaRae Menard, Laura Napoli, Dawn Densmore-Parent, Stephen Payne, and Sara Stewart to talk mysteries, romances, children’s books, autobiographies, and more during the Downtown Sidewalk and Art Sales. Read more…

 

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Artbits-June 27, 2024

Posted on June 27, 2024 by Dick

ART ON THE WALLS

The Jeffersonville Art Jam continues with music and art everywhere you look including Mary McGinniss & the Selkies with Will Patton, the 93rd June Juried Show, the sidewalk art fest, and the Cambridge Car Show. The Artist In Residence collection spotlight is on Colleen Blatchly. The Abenaki Heritage Weekend includes the Native Arts Market with storytelling, craft demonstrations, drumming, singing, and more. Read more…

FESTIVALS AND SHOWS

The Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival offers the Emerging Artists Series, the Artist Faculty Series with Romantic Twilight and Fantasy World, a Mansfield Solo Concert, the Classical Encounters program, master classes and other lectures and presentations. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

The St. Albans Community Arts Creative Connections ups the ante with two workshops each week, The new Blackout Poetry series is an all ages, free event. Social Sunday continues at the Milton Artists’ Guild. The Bryan Memorial Gallery hosts Palette Knife Painting en Plein Air led by Melanie Barash Levitt. Read more…

SUMMER OF SICK?

A comeback in cases are on the rise, fueled by new FLiRT variants. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

Karaoke and Open Mic Night, the Blue Rock Boys (twice), Bad Horsey, IncaHoots, Matty and Me, the WD-40s, the Dirty Looks Band, Cooie DeFrancesco, Jeff Shelley, the Buck Hollers, Fantastic Cat, Troy Millette & the Fire Below, Ryan Hanson, Jerborn and Axe, Barbie-N-Bones, Kippincoe, Jesse Agan, Coane, Rowell & Schabner, the Phillip Hyjek Trio, Dan Parks, Ryan Hanson, Connor Young, Mark Shelton, the Nobby Reed Project, Will Patton, Aaron Marcus, Anna Patton, Edward Mason, Marc Edwards, Merritt David Janes, Broadway, the Enosburg Town Band, Raised by Hippies, Ryan Sweezey and the Midnight Walkers, and the Citizens Concert Band all appear live at a venue near you. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

Swanton Library hosts a Meet and Greet plus Book Signing with Tamara Mathieu for All Who Believed, her Memoir of Life in the Twelve Tribes. Read more…

 

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Artbits-June 20, 2024

Posted on June 20, 2024 by Dick

NATIONAL MAKE MUSIC DAY

Make Music Day is an annual, global celebration of music. The free, public event welcomes musicians of all levels and genres to perform in various outdoor spaces, turning cities, towns, and front yards into live music stages. It is a festival for all Vermonters on what is often the longest day of the year. Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

The 2024 Jeffersonville Art Jam continues with music and art including the NVAA 93rd June Juried Show, works by Emile Gruppe, Aldo T. Hibbard, Thomas Curtin, Robert Blair, Karen Winslow, Eric Tobin, Karen Winslow, and more, a sidewalk art fest, plus Mango Jam under the mini circus tent. There are spotlights on Chris Bessette, Dawn DiCecco, Claudette Eaton, John Edebohlts, Carolyn Kittell, Joanie McMahon, Kelli Shepherd, Liane Spaulding, Sarah Weber, and Lina Longtoe. Read more…

ART CENTER NEWS

Montgomery Center for the Arts and Catamount Film and Arts both celebrate homecomings. Read more…

ART YOU CREATE

There is a Paint Your Own Pet Paint n Sip with Linda Oakes Carvalho. Read more…

DANCE

The Ballet School of Vermont & Northern Vermont Ballet concludes the daily Pop up Advanced Ballet Classes. Read more…

FESTIVALS AND SHOWS

The third annual Rail City Fan Fest brings arts, robot demos, cosplay contests, trivia, Fortnite tournaments with SACA on hand to do fantasy themed arts. Read more…

HUMANITIES

The Saint Albans Museum offers Foraging 101, a two-day Presentation and Field Trip. The Franklin Historical Society presents historian Howard Coffin with Vermont, 1800 and Froze to Death: The Cold Year of 1816, a perfect antidote to the heat wave. Read more…

IT’S THE LAW

It against the law to whistle underwater in Vermont. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

The Swanton Arts Council Writers’ Group meets. Social Sunday continues. The St. Albans Community Arts Creative Connections meets twice a week now. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

She Was Right (thrice), Cooper (twice), the Young Tradition Touring Group, Dan and Sean Jarvis, Rushmore, the Hitmen, Bob and Val, the Pet Project, Jesse Agan, Mitch & Devon, the Lloyd Tyler Band, Ryan Sweezy and the Midnight Walkers, Mark Shelton, Carol Ann Jones with Will Patton, Nottingham Drive, Mark Abair & the Good Luck Band, Ryan Hanson, the Rustics, Canyon Dreams, Phil Graziano, Roger Giroux, Mango Jam, Evan Alsop, David Karl Roberts, Cooie Sings, the Enosburg Town Band, Danny & the Parts, the Citizens Concert Band, Blue Heron all play live at a venue near you. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

Enjoy a Book Sale and the Mystery Book Club read Naked in Death by J.D. Robb. Read more…

 

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