FESTIVALS AND SHOWS
The Stowe Balloon Festival fills the skies with color and the grounds with music from Franklin County. They have Blue Blazes, the Shane Murley Band, David Karl Roberts, Rockin’ Ron Gagnon, Cooie’s Trio, Jaded Ravins, Soulshine Revival, Chris & Erica, the Stragglers, Earthbound Spirits, and Blues for Breakfast. Read more…
ART ON THE WALLS
The Artist In Residence spotlight is on Anne Standish. Bryan Memorial Gallery features Vermont landscape painter Jan Fowler. Read more…
ART YOU CREATE
Jordan Bushey will lead a free Family Art Class in Acrylic Painting at the Dick Wright Pub. Coffee and Crafts meets at the Highgate Library and Community Center. Sip, Stitch, & Share meets at the Enosburgh Public Library. The Milton Artists’ Guild hosts Yarn & Yak with Kelli Shepherd. Read more…
DANCE
Between the Lines Line Dancing offers Beginner Line Dancing at the American Legion Post. Read more…
GATHERINGS
The Highgate Library and Community Center continues Muffin Monday. The Georgia Public Library Crafting Club meets to craft together and give back to the community. Read more…
HUMANITIES
The North Hero Historical Society presents Ron Fierstein’s Historical Post Cards from the Champlain Islands. The Saint Albans Museum hosts an Opening Reception for the 250th exhibition CENTENNIALS: The Gilded Age & The Disco Era in Vermont’s Rail City. Kill Kare State Park welcomes poet Neil Shepard for Words in the Woods. Vermont Reads continues with a book discussion of The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton’s at the Haston Library. Read more…
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Lynne Gavin will lead the Botanical Printing on Paper Workshop at ReMarketVT. Community Drawing Night has a live model. Social Sunday continues at the Milton Artists’ Guild. Becky Chappell leads the short Canvas Conversations workshop for painters working in any 2D medium. Pat Brennan leads the Handcrafted Greeting Card Quilling Workshop at Island Arts. Read more…
IN THE SAC
The Swanton Arts Council Artist of the Week is Missy Burbo. Read more…
SWANTON ACADEMY
The Swanton Academy fills the Swanton Free Public Library with community for a weekend of classes and workshops with neighbors teaching neighbors. Read more…
ON STAGE LIVE
The Seth Yacavone Band (thrice), the Stragglers (twice), Nobby Reed Project (twice), Bad Horsey, the Cobras, Just Us, Sibling Reverie, Sticks and Stones, Mitch & Devon, Michael Perry, Beg Steal or Borrow, Lesley Grant, Young Tradition Vermont’s Sugar in the Pan, the Buck Hollers, Nathan Michaud, Quadra, Big Dog DJ, Plattsburgh Punks, Robbery Punks, Lake City All Stars, Champlain Shoregasm, Skidmark, Sleeveless Tease, the Harley Brown Band with Buddahh, Charlie Rice, Seventeen Strings, Barbie n Bones, Bare Bones, Jenny Red, Minced Oats, Roger Giroux, Kippincoe, Mango Jam, the Calamellus Trio, Antara and Chris Cheney, Duke Aeroplane & the Rumbirds, Collin & Chris of the Tenderbellies, the Missisquoi River Band with Will Patton, the Milkhouse Heaters, Heavy Nettles, Dave Miller, the Enosburg Town Band, Jaded Ravens, and the Citizens Concert Band all appear live at a venue near you. Read more…
ALMOST LIVE ON STAGE
Virtual music and events continue this week. DonnaRae Menard continues the weekly read of Snuffling Up Bones, Soulshine Revival played the St. Albans Bay Farmer’s Market. Read more…
FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF
The Fairfax Community Library Adult Summer Reading Program continues and the Fairfax Book Club discusses The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Botswick. Marko the Magician will kick off the Summer Reading Program at Bent Northrop Memorial Library. The Haston Library has the Light Pirate discussion and The Green Mile by Stephen King. Read more…
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