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Artbits-August 3, 2023

Posted on August 3, 2023 by Dick

Fairs, Festivals. Vaccination, booster, registration. Big Music Weeks of Summer. Franklin County Field Days. Neon Spoon, Friction, Bad Horsey, Old Man Garage Band, Chris Erica, Julia Parent, Missisquoi River Band, Darcy Cahill, Johnnie Bubar. Lindsay DiDio, Barbara Flack, Meta Strick, El Towle. Atlas Obscura, Cold Hollow Sculpture Park, Unexpected Delights of Vermont. Aida Whedon. Tina Logan and Todd Logan. Stampin’ Up! Cardmaking with Barb. Nebizun Water is Life. Historical American Women FUNdraiser, Sally Ride, Wilma Mankiller, Anna May Wong, Bessie Coleman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Maria Tallchief, Terry Buehner. Becky Rupp, Soup to Nuts Eccentric History of Food. Abenaki Word of the Week. Adam Wilber, Ryan Bliss, Kozmo. James and the Giant Peach Jr. Drawing 101, Robert Waldo Brunelle Jr., Social Sunday, Learn Zentangle, Julia Davenport. Board Meeting. Northwestern Medical Center, NMC, Green Mountain Care Board. Carol Ann Jones, Will Patton, Rockin’ Ron Gagnon, Nathan Michaud, Blues for Breakfast, Shane Murley, Duel, Phil Abair, Keeghan Nolan, Sibling Reverie, Smokin’ Gun, Medicine Tribe, Nobby Reed, Champlain Consort, Jacob Green, Dan Sean Jarvis, Free Range Band, Jolly Roger, Tim Brick, Cooie DeFrancesco, Enosburg Town Band, Back Porch Revival, Sister Speak, Kat Wright, Brett Hughes. 8084, Chad Hollister, Rusty Dewees, Jamie Lee Thurston. DonnaRae Menard. Continue reading →

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Artbits-July 27, 2023

Posted on July 27, 2023 by Dick

Festivals. COVID, Vaccination, booster, registration. Big Music Weeks. Summer Sounds, Highgate, Tyler Mast. Perspectives 2023 Amazing Makers, Olaniyi Akindiya. Paint Sip, Amber Rae Harvey. Floodstock, 8084, Chad Hollister, Rusty Dewees, Jamie Lee Thurston, Vermont Strong. Bryan Gallery, Cambridge Cares. Art For Vermont Flood Relief. Tax deadlines. Abenaki Word of the Week. Social Sunday continues at the Milton Artists’ Guild Art Center with free weekly art classes for families. Bare Bones, Still Kickin’, Nick Carter, Nobby Reed, Ryan Sweezey, King Me, IncaHoots, Jerborn, Axe, Milton Busker. Grim Work, Heliland, Mark Abair, Duo, Eclectica String Quartet, Green Mountain Brass Band, Dead Sessions, Peacheaters, Caldonia Mission, Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers, The Band, Creatio, Fever Dolls, Troy Millette, Fire Below, Neil Shepard, Jack Arthur Tremblay, Psylas, Enosburg Town Band, the Avery Cooper Quartet, John Geno, incahoots, Dave Miller, Citizens Concert Band. Cheryl Marita, Touching the Veil: End of Life Stories through the Eyes of a Nurse. Continue reading →

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Artbits-July 20, 2023

Posted on July 20, 2023 by Dick

Festivals. Vaccination, booster, registration. Big Music Weeks of Summer. Summer Sounds. Major disaster declaration. FEMA, CERF+, Main Street Flood Recovery Fund, SBA. Jessica Fligg, Creative Process. License Vermont-Made Music. Tyler Mast, Bad Smell, Mitchell Bergeron, Richard Berry, Daniel Bishop & Kevin Bloom, A Box of Stars, David Chief, Andriana Chobot, COTE, Michael Crain, Danny, Parts, Dead Shakers, Amelia Devoid, Guthrie Galileo, Cam Gilmour, Jacob Green, Phil Henry, Marcie Hernandez, JSP, Will Keeper, Kingdom All Stars, Jeremy Kizina, KP Me, Leatherbound Books, Maple Run Band, Xen Miles, moonwake, Oak Honest Records, Obi Voicegod, Ryan Oswald, Reid Parsons, Tom Pearo, Zach Pollakoff, Quiltro, Ian Steinburg, Seattle Stomp, Tiny Lines, Towner, Dylan Patrick Ward, Wet Heave, Willverine. Christmas in July, Gnome, Abbey. Glowing Jellyfish, Sylvia Oblak. Fall Artist Retreat. Easy Folk Dancing, Leslie Alpert. Church Street Street Festival. Abenaki Word Week. Learn Colored Pencil, Corrina Thurston, Social Sunday, Paint Pouring, Laurie Thompson. Introduction to Palette Knife Painting en Plein Air, Melanie Levitt. Handcrafted Greeting Card, Pat Brennan. Bad MOJO, Mama Tried, Rebecca Padula, Linda Kallinger, Ukulele Clare Innes, Kathy Mulligan, Quadra, Jerborn and Axe, Dan Parks and Mark Steffenhagen, Staircase 24, Buck Hollers, Nathan Michaud, Haiduck Heckendorn, Art DeQuasie, Metalwerx Tuba Euphonium Quartet, Nobby Reed Project, Honey Soul, Hannah Hausman, Cleo Flemming, Danica Cunningham, Zach Santarsiero, Braden Lalancette, Carol Ann Jones, CDBB, Adlai Waxman, Jeff Salisbury, Tom Caswell, Tom Buckley, Enosburg Town Band, Andriana Bananas, Mad Mojo, Citizens Concert Band. Writers’ Group. Gail Marlene Schwartz, Hotch Potch. Continue reading →

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Artbits-July 13, 2023

Posted on July 13, 2023 by Dick

Festivals. Vaccination, booster, registration. Big Music Weeks of Summer. Summer Sounds, Tenderbellies, Highgate Arena. Creative Process, Cynthia Rosen. Christmas in July, Christmas Craft, Barb Switzer. Easy Folk Dancing, Leslie Alpert. Abenaki Word of the Week. Rosemary. Social Sunday. Art for Those with Dementia (Caregivers), with Tina Lesperance. Pandemic changes. Vermont theater companies. Chris Erica, Dirt Road, Eric Hutchinson, Troy Millette, Whiskey Wine, Duncan Macleod, Nickel Dime, Mitch Devon, Dogcatchers, Nobby Reed Project, She Was Right, Jamie Lee Thurston, Bad Horsey, Soul Project NOLA, Bella’s Bartok, Rod Tuffcurls, Bench Press, Sohyun Ahn, Eun Hee Park, Bella Voca, Village Harmony, Ryan Hanson, Breanna Elaine, Enosburg Town Band, Full Cleveland, Roger Giroux, Rushmore, Bettenroo, Citizens Concert Band. Library Book Club, But I Progress. Continue reading →

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Artbits-July 6, 2023

Posted on July 6, 2023 by Dick

Festivals. Vaccination, booster, registration. Big Music Weeks of Summer. Barry Genzlinger, Maureen Genzlinger, Martha McGinn, Cat McKeen, Nathaniel Williams. Retrospective Landscape, Michael Domina. Art Sidewalk Sale. Milkweed Monarch Paint and Sip, Linda Oakes Carvalho. Stampin’ Up! Cardmaking, Christmas in July, Barb Switzer. International Community Folk Dancing, Leslie Alpert. Social Sunday. Board Meeting. COVID cash, library, libraries, maintenance, upgrades. Cooie Adlai, Shane Murley, B-Town, Cooper, Third Shift, Dan Parks, Mark Steffenhagen, Mark Abair, All Star Band, Kyle Stevens, Soul Soda, Jonny Mop, Dennis Fox, Melvin Seals, JGB, Smokin Gun, Breanna Elaine, Mango Jam, the Nobby Reed Project, Joe Moore, Burlington Taiko Drummers, Lake Sorbet, Kathy Fisher, Juliana Just Costa. A Cappella Lollapalooza, Root 7, Green Mountain Chorus, Chordination, Enosburg Town Band, Raised by Hippies, Carol Ann Jones, Will Patton, Julia Parent, Prydein, Lloyd Tyler, Citizens Concert Band, Nobby Reed. Summer Sounds, Tenderbellies. Chamber Music Northwest, Poetry in Music, Gloria Chien, Soovin Kim. Mark Shelton, Captain Radical. Author Open House. Continue reading →

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Artbits-June 15, 2023

Posted on June 15, 2023 by Dick

Festival, Vaccination, booster, registration. Summer Art Extravaganza, Michael Domina, Missisquoi River Band. Picnic for Potluck. Katie Shephard. Susan Bull Riley. Sunset Hammock Paint and Charcuterie. Mural on Hutchins Street. Social Sunday. Wild animals, lockdown, face mask requirements. Pocock Rocks. Cooie, Nobby Reed, IncaHoots, Mark Abair, Robin Gottfried, Rough Suspects, Fabulous Wrecks, Mullets of Rock, Carol Ann Jones, Will Patton, Drifting Unplugged, Jimmy McCartney, Morgan Myles, 90 Proof, Nerbak Brothers, Dan Parks, Mark Steffenhagen, Soulstice, Jamie Lee Thurston, Old Man Garage Band, Back Roots, EagleMania, Enosburg Town Band, John Gratton, Citizens Concert Band, All Night Boogie Band. Farewell Reunion Concert, Pascal Gemme, Young Tradition Vermont Youth Commission. Island Arts Book Sale, Stephen Russell Payne. Wandering in Vermont Woods, Walt McLaughlin. Summer Reading. Continue reading →

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