For nearly a decade now, TURNmusic has been Vermont’s contemporary classical chamber music ensemble sharpening the state’s cutting edge. And while that important role will continue, TURNmusic is making a turn.
In Cara Armstrong’s digital drawings, objects of daily life — plates on kitchen shelves, a coffee mug serving as a pencil holder, luggage packed for a trip or perhaps headed to the storage closet — come together in quietly eloquent interior moments.
Sure, most of us are probably still broke from the holidays. But it’s never too early to start planning for some hot music events this winter. Here’s a look at nine acts that are sure to liven up Vermont this month.
Rutland’s Paramount Theatre and Town Hall Theater in Middlebury continue to offer the grand opera experience with the Met Opera Live in HD series from New York’s Metropolitan Opera.
The coming week in Vermont arts and entertainment.
Public art exhibits, galleries and museums throughout the region.
Last winter, four feet of snow fell in one day, completely enveloping Jen Violette’s 19th century barn from the ground up over the windows and covering the doors. But that’s where she mines gold: The snowstorm inspired a unique series of glass sculptures, one titled “Drift.”
To sum up my 18 years writing about music for The Times Argus and Rutland Herald, I’d say Vermont is a very nurturing and giving state for musicians of all stripes, but, in my case, this is especially true for acoustic traditional music.
Rural Vermont village life at its best will be on display at the fourth annual Cabot Village 12th Night Celebration, presented by Cabot Arts, Friday and Saturday, Jan. 5 and 6. The festival features a wide array of performing arts and activities for all ages in a family friendly atmosphere.
Amid the plethora of best-album lists, we like to take a slightly different tack in looking back on the year in pop music. What follows is our highly biased list of 10 noteworthy, most obsessed-over albums by artists who graced our fair little state with a live performance during 2023, in or…
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Barn Opera Barn Opera presents “From Venice to Vermont,” its annual New Year’s Eve gala, 6:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 31 at the Brandon Inn, 20 Park St. in Brandon. The Venetian-style masquerade ball features dinner and a concert of opera arias followed by dancing and partying at Club Br…
Live music has long been a popular pick for ringing in the New Year, and this year’s offerings deliver a plethora of compelling events. Here’s a look at some noteworthy options happening around the state.
Abstract landscape with brilliant tropical colors and shapes by Arista Alanis; a pair of mokuhanga collage prints by Patty Hudak; a mirror, chair and audio interactive installation by janet e. dandridge — with these and other artworks, the exhibition at Vermont Studio Center in Johnson brill…
With a new album and a new chapter in his career as a solo artist, Mihali (Savoulidis) is ringing in the New Year in Middlebury at Town Hall Theater beginning at 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 31 with a family friendly show and a message of hope and happiness.
“Bach & My Bicycle” (2023), Annemieke Spoelstra McLane’s third solo album, following “Toccare” in 2009 and “Birds and Beethoven” in 2016, opens with the French Suite No. 2, BWV 813 by J.S. Bach (1685-1750), serving as a reminder that McLane is a very fine pianist.
The coming week in Vermont arts and entertainment.
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‘Amahl and the Night Visitors,’ Gian Carlo Menotti’s timeless Christmas opera, for tenor Joshua Collier, artistic director of Barn Opera, delivers a message that goes straight to the heart, regardless of any religious affiliation — or none.
North Branch Café North Branch Café presents “Beyond the Portrait,” paintings by Middlesex artist August Burns, through December at 41 State St. in Montpelier. Hours are: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday; noon to 5 p.m. Saturday; for information, call 802-454-3245 or go online to
There was no shortage of noteworthy Vermont releases this year — everything from folk, rock and pop to hip-hop, blues and jazz.
If you are tired of hearing “White Christmas,” “All I want for Christmas is You,” “Blue Christmas,” “Jingle Bells,” and the rest of the panoply of holiday music that invades the airwaves this month, but still enjoy the holiday and the spectacle that accompanies it, then The Wizards of Winter…
The coming week in Vermont arts and entertainment.
Public art exhibits, galleries and museums throughout the region.
The Vermont Symphony Orchestra spent this past weekend spreading holiday cheer, taking its annual VSO Holiday Pops programs to pretty much sold-out audiences at the Barre Opera House, The Flynn in Burlington and Rutland’s Paramount Theatre. But it also served another purpose, introducing its…
Shepherds and a stolen sheep, loggers and a stolen chainsaw, and a well-known miser with his retinue of uninvited ghosts, the spirit of Christmas comes in many voices. In the next two weeks, two plays with timeless holiday stories are coming to the stage at Lost Nation Theater.
It’s been more than 40 years since Marianne Lust created “Night Fires,” and after a five-year hiatus the highly anticipated original production is back again this year.
Great composers like Bach, Mozart, Mendelssohn and Brahms are best known for their mature masterpieces. But they all were composing in their youth — and that music reveals their early genius.
Compelling concerts are a sure cure for chilly December nights. Here’s a look at three bright spots on the live music horizon, with artists who all have new albums in tow.
Can tiny Northfield be home to professional theater? Dirt Road Theater, with a number of successful productions under its belt, thinks it’s time and has made its move.
The coming week in Vermont arts and entertainment.
Public art exhibits, galleries and museums throughout the region.
Can tiny Northfield be home to professional theater? Dirt Road Theater, with a number of successful productions under its belt, thinks it’s time and has made its move.
As several members of the audience mentioned, Friday’s Vermont Philharmonic performance of Handel’s “Messiah” didn’t enjoy quite the “atmosphere” of its usual location, Montpelier’s very gothic St. Augustine’s Roman Catholic Church. (The church hasn’t entirely recovered from this summer’s flooding.) Still, the spirited and uplifting performance of George Frederic Handel’s masterpiece resonated throughout the Barre Opera House (and the seats were a lot more comfortable).
Andrew Crust, who made his debut as music director of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra at Burlington’s Flynn in October, now takes the helm for one of the orchestra’s two most popular series, the VSO Holiday Pops. And he has his own ideas.
Now a couple of years ago, Dina Janis left her position of 13 years as artistic director of the Dorset Theatre Festival, in which she resurrected the moribund company into one of the state’s top professional theaters. As she remains on the faculty of Bennington College, it seemed unlikely he…
One of the more intriguing artists on the independent music landscape, Mikaela Davis is a classically trained harpist who makes compelling music that blurs genres and defies preconceptions.
The late John Denver could have certainly claimed a strong musical involvement with the Christmas season. Throughout his 30-year career he recorded eight albums that had a Christmas theme. Perhaps the most acclaimed John Denver tribute performer is Chris Collins.
Bob Stannard and Those Dangerous Bluesmen return to the stage to support Weston Theater Company with a fundraising concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 9 at Walker Farm.
The coming week in Vermont arts and entertainment.
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Northern Stage’s new production of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” is all about one person — Ebenezer Scrooge.
Northern Stage’s new production of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” is all about one person — Ebenezer Scrooge.
George Frederic Handel’s “Messiah” has been a Christmas tradition throughout the world as long as most can remember, despite originally an Easter work. And Vermont is no exception, with longtime annual performances in Montpelier and Barre and Rutland.
Beginning Friday, the T.W. Wood Gallery presents “Ruins — Poems and Paintings of a Vanishing America.” The exhibition’s opening coincides with the gallery’s gala celebration of Thomas Waterman Wood’s 200th birthday.
Middlebury Acting Company’s “A Christmas Carol” will be presented Dec. 1-3 and 7-9 at Town Hall Theater in Middlebury, and it’s still the fun, heartwarming and a little scary ghost story that people have loved for more than 100 years.
Karina Rykman is a fun-loving, fast-rising force to be reckoned with. The New York City native brings her talented power trio – Adam November (guitar/looper/effects) and Chris Corsico (drums) — to Nectar’s for a two-night stand Dec. 1 and 2, almost one year to the day after making her sold-out Nectar’s debut.
The coming week in Vermont arts and entertainment.
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