BIG MUSIC WEEKS
The Big Music Weeks of Summer continue this week as some of our friends play multiple gigs, Summer Sounds plays Highgate and there are also live shows in a dozen Towns. Read more…
SOUNDS OF SUMMER
The 32nd year of Summer Sounds concerts at home in Highgate concludes with Sean Jarvis singing songs and playing guitar live on the Highgate Arena lawn. Read more…
ART ON THE WALLS
A Chair Affair Celebration Party has live music and desserts and a silent auction in City Hall to benefit Historic Church Street. The custom-painted Adirondack chairs have spent the summer in front of downtown businesses. Read more…
ART YOU CREATE
The Milton Artists’ Guild offers Paint Your Own Pet with artist Laurie Thompson. No furry friends will be coated. Read more…
CALL FOR ARTISTS and MUSICIANS
Auditions are now open for the 2023-2024 Young Tradition Touring Group season. Montgomery Center for the Arts hosts the People’s Art Show, a free, uncensored, exhibit to celebrate all forms of creativity, diversity, and imagination. Read more…
DANCE
Island Arts continues community dancing to lively music in Easy Folk Dancing for All Ages with dances from Armenia, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Israel, Serbia, Turkey and more with instructor Leslie Alpert. Read more…
HUMANITIES
Island Arts continues the three part series on the Art of Conscious Communications with Kim and Bob Muncil. The Saint Albans Museum presents Marty Podskoch with a History of the Vermont Civilian Conservation Corps Camps in the Bliss Room or on Zoom. Cold Hollow Sculpture Park welcomes Aaron York for Perspectives 2023: Amazing Makers and a conversation on Wabenaki arts and culture. Read more…
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
The Milton Artists’ Guild offers two free workshops. Artist, writer, TED Speaker (and MAG Executive Director) Corrina Thurston leads Confidence as an Artist. Social Sundays continue with free weekly art classes for families. Island Arts hosts a Handcrafted Greeting Card Workshop with Pat Brennan. Read more…
COVID NEWS
COVID is still here: Franklin County had six new hospitalizations last week. The numbers seem small but not to our six neighbors in the hospital. Read more…
ON STAGE LIVE
The Nobby Reed Project (twice), Carol Ann Jones and the Superchargers, the Lloyd Tyler Band, Sticks and Stones, Third Shift, Mark Abair Unplugged, the Rough Suspects, Cozy, Chameleon, Kyle Stevens, Mama Tried, Beg, Steal or Borrow, 90 Proof, the Mullets of Rock, Kyle Stevens, Jorge Garcia Herranz, the Vermont Jazz Ensemble, the Soulo Davis Duo, Tournesol, Chris & Erica, Stephen Conrady, 8084, the Chad Hollister Band, Rusty Dewees, Jamie Lee Thurston, Sean Jarvis, the Enosburg Town Band, Coop, Bob Recupero, the Ryan Sweezey Band, the Blue Rock Boys, Cliff Crosby, Eric Bushey, Sabina Perkins, George Murtie all appear live at a venue near you. Read more…
FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF
The Eloquent Page’s first Mystery Book Club meeting takes on the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections by Eva Jurczyk. The Swanton Arts Council Writers’ Group meets in person at the library. Read more…
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