Artbits-August 9, 2018

Posted on August 9, 2018 by Dick

We Have Moved
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BIG MUSIC WEEKS

The Big Music Weeks of Summer continue as some of our friends play multiple gigs. Read more…

NO CHAINSAWS WILL BE DAMAGED

O.C. McCuin and Sons, the All Arts Council, and the Town of Highgate continue 28 years of Summer Sounds concerts at home in Highgate with the return of the Hokum Bros. Band in the free Summer Sounds concert. It could be an evening of chainsaw juggling and other music. Read more…

ART FOR THE WALLS

Twiggs hosts Paint Nite: Dragonflies at Dusk with artist Emily Lindberg. Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

The Cambridge Arts Council’s 10th annual Festival of the Arts showcases local art galleries, artists, and musicians. Read more…

IN THE ARTS CENTERS

Montgomery Center for the Arts hosts its quarterly meeting and St. Albans Community Arts has its monthly Community Arts MeetUp. Read more…

DANCING!

Electric Youth Dance Company will hold an Open House and Fall Dance Registration. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

Django Soulo, the Tony Whedon Trio, Jeff & Gina, the Owl Stars, Ryan Sweezey, Cozy O’Donnell, the Growlers, the Girls Rock Vermont Showcase, Carol Ann Jones (twice), Justice, the Vermont Jazz Ensemble, the Hokum Brothers, the Enosburg Town Band, Jim Charonko, Starline Rhythm Boys, Sean Jarvis, and the Citizens Concert Band take to different stages. Read more…

CALL FOR ARTISTS

Labels for Libations is Magic Hat’s call for Vermont artists for label designs. Read more…

CALL FOR THESPIANS

The Opera House will hold auditions for Neil Simon’s Rumors. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

ArtBits features weekly links to library events in and around Franklin County. Read more…

 

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Artbits-August 2, 2018

Posted on August 2, 2018 by Dick

We Have Moved
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BIG MUSIC WEEKS

Summer Sounds takes the weekend off for Field Days but the Big Music Weeks of Summer continue. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY FIELD DAYS

Vermont’s finest country fair takes to the fields of Highgate as the 43rd annual Franklin County Field Days brings a lineup of the best music, arts and crafts, and of course weeds that Franklin County has to offer. The musical lineup includes great music every day. And it all begins today at noon. Read more…

SPECIAL SUMMER MUSIC

Summer Music at Grace presents a very special concert of Music for Organ, Violin, and Viola featuring Grace Church’s 1833 Erben Organ. Read more…

ART FOR THE WALLS

Free Studio Fridays continue in the Claire Payne Studio. The studio is open to artists to get together and work at a studio in the company of other artists. Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

The Artist In Residence Gallery features Patricia Rugg, Meta Strick, and Deborah Travis. The NMC Gallery hosts Richard B. Harper in a solo show. The visiting exhibition, Everywhere a Sign, is drawing to a close in the St. Albans Museum. Read more…

FILM

The St. Albans Museum will screen Rooted: Cultivating Community in the Vermont Grange. the film explores the social, economic, and political impacts of the National Grange on Vermont. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

The Nobby Reed Project (twice), Boom City Improv, Tim Brick (twice), the Shane Murley Band, the Buck Hollers (twice), Gypsy Wind, Justice, Chasing 440, Carol Ann Jones, the Enosburg Town Band, the New Orleans Soul Project, the Lamoille Dance Academy, Sean Jarvis, IncaHoots, and the Citizens Concert Band play different venues on different nights. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

The Bent Northrop Memorial Library hosts the Unexpected President, a new biography of a local lad made good. The Montgomery Center for the Arts hosts the Montgomery Writers Workshop. Read more…

 

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Artbits-July 26, 2018

Posted on July 26, 2018 by Dick

We Have Moved
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BIG MUSIC WEEKS

The Big Music Weeks of Summer continue as some of our friends play multiple gigs. Read more…

JAZZING UP HIGHGATE

Chevalier Drilling Company, Inc., the All Arts Council, and the Town of Highgate continue 28 years of Summer Sounds concerts at home in Highgate with Doctor Jazz and the Dixie Six. The sextet delivers jazz wrapped with the with the labels of Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, and Fats Waller. Their recipe is Dixieland jazz and it’s cooking in Highgate. Read more…

IT’S MORE THAN OK!

Oklahoma! begins a four day run the Opera House at Enosburg Falls. Tickets are available in Enosburg or online. Read more…

IN JIG TIME

The 26th annual Jig in the Valley kicks off rain or shine on the Green with eight hours of music, dancing, and fun. Read more…

ART FOR THE WALLS

Michael Domina and Red Barn Studio host Fun with Watercolor for three days with a step by step process for creating with watercolors. Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

The Northwestern Medical Center Gallery hosts Richard B. Harper in a solo show of the sights and waterscapes of Franklin County and the Florida Keys. Read more…

IN THE SAC

The Swanton Arts Council hosts the Artisan Jewelry Show on the Swanton Green and in the Swanton Methodist Church. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

Doctor Jazz, Greenbush, AmerikanaBlue, Waves of Adrenaline, Carol Ann Jones (three times) with Will Patton (twice), the Blue Rock Boys, the Nobby Reed Project, Elisa Toro Franky and Luke Tucker, John Nicholls, Two Old Broads Who Take Pictures, and Adam Hall, Chordination, Root 7, and the Green Mountain Chorus, the Enosburg Town Band, the Will Patton Ensemble, Cozy O’Donnell, the Michele Fay Band and Ballet Wolcott, the Starline Rhythm Boys, Sean Jarvis, the Citizens Concert Band, and the 14th Star Home Grown Music Festival all take to different stages. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

ArtBits features weekly links to library events in and around Franklin County. Read more…

 

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Artbits-July 19, 2018

Posted on July 19, 2018 by Dick

We Have Moved
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ALL THE FOLK OF SUMMER

Drummac Septic Service, the All Arts Council, and the Town of Highgate continue 28 years of Summer Sounds concerts at home in Highgate with Anderson-Gram. The duo plays an easy-going blend of folk, country, and bluegrass, often originals that paint pictures of everyday life. Read more…

QUESTIONS OF ART

Cold Hollow Sculpture Park hosts Mind Play to explore the where art, the scientific method, and engineering-design meet. Read more…

ART FOR THE WALLS

Michael Domina and Red Barn Studio host Fun with Watercolor for three days. It’s a step by step process for creating a project using watercolors. No drawing skills are needed. Read more…

IN THE SAC

Saturday is Sidewalk Chalk Day in Swanton. The SAC will hold a Swanton Arts Spectacular planning meeting. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

Anderson-Gram, Stefani Capizzi, the Citizens Concert Band, the Enosburg Town Band, Dennis Fox & Friends, Jon Gailmor, the Grift, High Def, Arthur James, Sean Jarvis, Joe’s Big Band, Jenni Johnson and the Jazz Junketeers, Carol Ann Jones (twice) with Will Patton, Justice, Sarah Montgomery, Nico & the Bodacious Supreme, Don Pedigo, Predawn, Pitz Quattrone and the Freelancers, Tawnya Reynolds, Roy and the Wrecks, Rumblecat, Shake the Band (twice), the Starline Rhythm Boys, the TNT Comedy Showcase, and Village Harmony all perform on different nights. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

Local novelist Lori McLaughlin signs books at the Eloquent Page. Read more…

 

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Artbits-July 12, 2018

Posted on July 12, 2018 by Dick

We Have Moved
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ONCE IN A BLUEGRASS MOON

Ray’s Extrusion Dies and Tubing, the All Arts Council, and the Town of Highgate continue 28 years of Summer Sounds concerts at home in Highgate with Northern Flyer in their first appearance here. The four veteran Vermont bluegrass musicians bring exquisite harmonies and instrumental artistry. Read more…

POWER TO THE STAGE

Fairfax Community Theater Company presents Beehive the 60s Musical in the B.F.A. Fairfax Middle School Gym. The musical recalls the days of miniskirts, transistor radios and flower power. Read more…

ART TO SELL

The Milton Artists Guild holds Social Media Marketing for Artists as a workshop. Read more…

ART FOR THE WALLS

Collopy Family Farm hosts Nature’s Art with Gramma and Grandsons at the St. Albans Bay Park Farmer’s Market. Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

The inaugural Mayor’s Photo Competition opens with a reception in City Hall. The Northern Vermont Artists’ Association begins a one-month exhibit at the Village Frame Shoppe Gallery. Read more…

IN THE SAC

The Swanton Arts Council Writer’s Group meets. The SAC Board Meeting has been rescheduled and the Art Journaling Group meets the same night. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

The Big Music Weeks of Summer continue! Chris and Erica, Mark LeGrand, the Resonators, the Christine Malcolm Trio, Kyle Stevens, Justice, the Growlers, Jolly Roger, the Blue Rock Boys (twice), the Stockwell Brothers Band, Northern Flyer, Carol Ann Jones, the Enosburg Town Band, Leslie Grant, Sean Jarvis, Still Kickin’, the Citizens Concert Band perform in different venues on different nights. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

Supper & Stories and so much more. Read more…

 

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Artbits-July 5, 2018

Posted on July 5, 2018 by Dick

We Have Moved
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SUMMER!

Desorcie’s Market, the All Arts Council, and the Town of Highgate begin the 28th year of Summer Sounds concerts at home in Highgate with the return of Elvis in the first free Summer Sounds concert of the season. Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

The Artist In Residence Gallery features Marcia Blanco, Paule Gingras, and Martha McGinn. The Northwestern Medical Center Gallery hosts El Towle in a solo show. Read more…

ART FOR THE WALLS

Twiggs offers Paint Nite: Peaceful Beach Afternoon. Read more…

IN THE ARTS COUNCILS

St. Albans Community Arts hosts a Community Arts MeetUp in air conditioned City Hall. The Swanton Arts Council plans meeting the Swanton Arts Spectacular. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

The Big Music Weeks of Summer begin now. Mark Shelton (America’s premiere Elvis impersonator), Robin Sunquiet, the Nobby Reed Project, Carol Ann Jones and Will Patton, Ryan Sweezey, the Smokey Newfield Project, Rushmore, Gypsy Wind, No Son Of Mine, Bootlicker and or Mushroom Teeth, Untapped, Graziano Schofield & Slim, the Enosburg Town Band, Northern Flyer, Sean Jarvis, Rushmore, and the Citizens Concert Band all have gigs in different venues. Read more…

CAMP!

The Montgomery Center for the Arts holds Classical Ballet with Classical Art. St. Albans Community Arts and St. Albans Rec host Kids’ Theater Camp. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

ArtBits features weekly links to library events in and around Franklin County. Read more…

 

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