THE SWEET TASTE OF SPRING
The 59th Vermont Maple Festival brings a bucketful of events for the first (and sweetest) outdoor festival of the year. From pancake breakfasts to live shows, it all happens in downtown St. Albans starting with the annual Maple Toast. On the stage, in the park, and on the street, look for the BFA Marching Band, the Fiddler’s Variety Show, the Youth Talent Show, Mary Cenci, Izzy, Music with Dave, the Bleeding Hearts Family Band, O’hAnleigh Cindy Hill & Tom Hanley, Pipsqueak the Clown, Creative Chainsaw Art by John, Rockin’ Ron the Friendly Pirate, Jason Tardy, Aim High Canines, Maddi Ryan, the Conniption Fits, the Electric Youth Dance Company, Lexi James, the Redneck Castaway Band , and Isaac French. Read more…
ART ON THE WALLS
The Champlain Valley Quilt Guild hosts its bi-annual Quilt Show. The Artist In Residence spotlight is on Patrick Murphy. Bryan Gallery features Gabe Benzur. Read more…
ART YOU CREATE
The Milton Artists’ Guild has Cindi LaFayette to guide the Resin Ocean Wave Charcuterie Board project, gallery director Shea Harvie to lead Let it Flow, an Abstract Paint and Sip, and Yarn & Yak with Kelli Shepherd. 14th Star and Once Upon a Rock host a Pebble Art Workshop. Hearthside Handcrafts meet at Bent Northrop Memorial Library. Maple Glazed Pottery has a Paint-Your-Own Pottery Pop-Up. River Arts hosts the April “Sip n’ Slurry: Pinch Pot Mug” with Chiara No. Coffee and Crafts meets at the Highgate Library. Sip, Stitch, & Share meets at the Enosburgh Public Library. Read more…
CALL FOR SINGERS and MUSICIANS
The Franklin Community Chorus seeks singers to rehearse for Memorial Day. The St. Albans All Male a Capella Group practices at the Masonic Lodge. Read more…
DANCE
The Electric Youth Dance Company dances on Main Street. Read more…
GATHERINGS
Sarah Barnes leads Sketchbook Club at the Fairfax Community Library. The Georgia Public Library Crafting Club meets at the library. Read more…
HUMANITIES
The Saint Albans Museum has a busy week stating with a Centennials Outdoor Pop-Up of the Gilded Age & The Disco Era. SAM Talks presents Christine Hadsel for Vermont’s Historic Painted Curtains. The SAM Americana Sampler hosts songwriter Henry Jamison. The Museum holds an Open House for the Maple Festival. Stone’s Throw Pizza hosts a Coffee Hour. Read more…
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
River Arts has Chiara No to lead the free Creative Art Series for 60+, Sashiko Mending and Callie Hastings leads Beginner Acrylic Painting. 60 Main Arts has Community Drawing Night as well as Creativi-Tea Tuesdays with Karen Winslow. The Milton Artists’ Guild hosts Becky Chappell for a Whimsical Mixed Media Flowers workshop. Social Sunday continues. Read more…
IN THE SAC
The free Junk Journaling Group meets at the Swanton Free Public Library. Read more…
ON STAGE LIVE
The Brew & Boogie Bash Kids Dance Party, Duncan Macleod (twice), Troy Millette, Bob Cotton, IncaHoots, Moonbird, Michael Perry, Abby and Ian, Steep Creek Frenzy, Seth Yacovone, Madigan Linane, the Oleo Romeos, Henry Jamison, Nathan Michaud, the Devon McGarry Band, Bill Valliere, McMaple, the Reid Parsons Band, She Was Right, Ryan Hanson, Dan Parks, Mary McGinniss and the Selkies, Good Gravy, and the Ken Clark Duo all appear live at a venue near you. Read more…
FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF
Saturday is Independent Bookstore Day. National Library Week continues Saturday. The Fairfax Book Club takes up The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl. Franklin County Photogs hosts a virtual Zoom group at Bent Northrop Memorial Library. The Haston Library Book Discussion Group reads The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue. Muffin Monday continues. The Eloquent Page Mystery Book Club meets for A Sticky Inheritance by Emily James. Two Heroes hosts a poetry reading and book signing for Love, Friendship & Family by Lady Madeline Rose. Read more…
PASSAGES
Island Arts mourns the loss of Ann Rose Ratner Porter. Read more…
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