BIG MUSIC WEEKS
The Big Music Weeks of Summer continue with Mark Shelton in Summer Sounds headlining a week of live shows in a dozen towns. Read more…
SOUNDS OF SUMMER
The 31st year of Summer Sounds concerts at home in Highgate continue with Mark Shelton on the Highgate Arena lawn. We may see Captain Radical, Flower Power, and Elvis singing gospel. Read more…
SCULPTURE, POETRY & TECHNOLOGY
Dan Rockmore will explore What Happens When Machines Learn to Write Poetry? in Poetry by Machine at Cold Hollow Sculpture Park. Read more…
PANDEMIC NEWS
Lots of changes ahead for reporting on and managing the pandemic. Vermont shut down its COVID-19 testing sites after reporting most of the 3.6 million results recorded by the state Department of Health. It is more difficult for Vermonters to discover–and abate–their personal risk level. Read more…
ART ON THE WALLS
The Montgomery Center for the Arts continues A Stitch in Time…, a series of stitched and appliqued quilts by Beth Burgess. Read more…
CALL FOR ARTISTS
The Art Nook and Gathering of the Realms Renfaire have both issued local calls. Read more…
BIG DEAL FUNDRAISER
Celebrate the arts and help keep them solvent with a raffle to help Artist in Residence, the MAC Center for the Arts, Milton Artist Guild, Swanton Arts Council, Vermont Dance Alliance, and Vermont Stage. Read more…
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
The Swanton Arts Council hosts the free Junk Journal Workshop with instructor Faith Dubois and the free Flower Fairies and Mermaids with instructor Janet Dimick Soavi at the library. Island Arts offers a Songwriting Workshop with instructor Mike Lewis. Social Sundays continue at the Milton Artists’ Guild Art Center. Read more…
ON STAGE LIVE
Mark Shelton, She Was Right (twice), Soulshine Revival, Dirt Road, Dave Miller, John Gratton, the Robin Gottfried Band, Lazar Dad, Mitch and Jeff, the Rough Suspects, Madeleine with Jeff Anderson, Sohyun Ahn, Eun Hee Park, Ryan Hanson, the Duo, Terry Fiske and Wayne Laroche, the Old Man Garage Band, Carol Ann Jones and Will Patton, Mad Mojo, 90 Proof, Bettenroo Duo, the Twangtown Paramours, Bon/Fire VT, Cooie and Adlai, Troy Millette & the Fire Down Below, BlackWolf, the Enosburg Town Band, Laura Fedele-Rasco, IncaHOOTS, Bare Bones, and the Citizens Concert Band all perform live on a stage near you. Read more…
YOUNG TRADITION NEWS
Young Tradition Vermont has joined the Vermont Folklife Center to become a VFC program. Each group has had complimentary missions and shared initiatives that amplify and sustain living musical and dance traditions in communities throughout Vermont and beyond. Read more…
FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF
The Eloquent Page hosts a Meet and Greet with writer Lynda Bouchard, author of The Witches Three Count on Me. The Swanton Library book club But I Progress meets. The Library of Congress named Ada Limón poet laureate. Read more…
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