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SWANZEY, N.H. — Northlands Music and Arts Festival is returning for a second year, bigger and better.
PUTNEY — In a program that started in the 1950s as an after-school club and later expanded into full class offerings, students from The Putney School get in touch with a simpler time when peop…
GUILFORD — As musicians set up for a set at the first-ever Field Day festival, children — two in fleece dinosaur suits — played on the grass in front of the stage.
BRATTLEBORO — Peter and Mary Alice Amidon, local performers and teachers of traditional music, dance and storytelling, are the 2023 recipients of the Brattleboro Unsung Hero Award from Compass…
BRATTLEBORO — When Kach Hayrapetyan of Armenia applied to be an exchange student, she wrote about how much she liked art and wanted to make it while here.
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SWANZEY, N.H. — Northlands Music and Arts Festival is returning for a second year, bigger and better.
WILLIAMSVILLE — The plays might be one act but the characters and stories are multidimensional and captivating.
BENNINGTON — The Saakumu Dance Troupe, from Ghana, is touring the U.S., and lead students of the Village School in North Bennington in traditi…
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Taylor Swift brought her 20-city Eras Tour to “foxy Foxborough” and she, along with a mass scale production and the Swifti…
WINHALL — There’s no party like a Bondville Concert Series party.
PUTNEY — Yellow Barn welcomes audiences back to the Big Barn for a special double bill featuring violinist Alexi Kenney and six world-premiere performances of works by Young Artists Program composers at 8 p.m. on June 17.
BRATTLEBORO — An artist reception for Karen Becker’s “Bearing Witness” retrospective exhibit will take place from 3 to 5 p.m. on June 10, at All Souls Church, West Village Meeting House, 29 South St., in West Brattleboro.
BRATTLEBORO — The youth rock festival, BRATTROCK, is performing at 6 p.m. on Friday at Brattleboro Gallery Walk in the Harmony Lot on Elliot Street with a dynamic lineup of four youth bands, with music appropriate for all ages.
PUTNEY — "Bearing Witness," an art exhibit by Karen Becker, is currently on view at the All Souls Church in the West Village Meeting House. The public is invited to an artist's reception from 3 to 5 p.m. on June 10.
BRATTLEBORO — “Creative Relations,” a multimedia group exhibit where 10 artists explore how family history, significant relationships and social and cultural contexts influence the making of art, will open Friday, at 118 Elliot.
GUILFORD — A well-established Brattleboro music venue is bringing a new festival to Southern Vermont.
DORSET — I’ll say it up front: It’s impossible to do justice to what the Dorset Players have accomplished in their season-concluding extravaganza of the classic musical “Kiss Me Kate,” from the book by Sam and Bella Spewack, with music and lyrics by the immortal Cole Porter. The show is dire…
BENNINGTON — A benefit concert at Little City Cider Co. — starring Manchester resident Lila Jones, 5 — sold out and raised $10,000 and counting for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
BRATTLEBORO — Second-graders from Green Street Elementary participate in the Boston-based Play for Change program on Monday.
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BENNINGTON — The coronation of King Charles III provides the backdrop for author Dianne Sunda’s newest book for children, “The Call of the Bells.”
BRATTLEBORO — Gallery in the Woods is honored to host an ongoing exhibit of William Hays’ meticulous and richly colorful works. His linocut and woodblock prints are featured in the month of June, with an opening reception from 5 to 8 p.m. on Friday during downtown Brattleboro’s Gallery Walk.
BRATTLEBORO — There will be a Mocktail Happy Hour Dance Party featuring a local duo at The Good Spot Friday night.
WILLIAMSVILLE — Rock River Players present Another Evening of One Act Plays at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Williamsville Hall, Main Street, in Williamsville.
TURNERS FALLS, Mass. — Many artists will honor the music and life of Kate Lorenz Saturday night at a sold-out show at the Shea Theater.
BRATTLEBORO — In “Misconceptions,” a new play by Emmy-nominated playwright Steve Wangh, the main character, Harriet, is an artist and single mother. When she finds herself unexpectedly pregnant by her daughter’s estranged father, she does what she knows how to do best: turns her struggle into art.
The first time my daughter made bread with my mother-in-law, I casually walked by the counter to peruse the expiration dates on their ingredients. The flour was older than my daughter, having expired before she was born five years earlier. My in-laws are notorious for using every last drop o…
MANCHESTER — Internationally renowned singer and concert artist — and local celebrity — Maxine Linehan will be a special guest at the free “concert for a cooler climate” at the Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester on May 28 at 2 p.m.
BRATTLEBORO — New England Center for Circus Arts will host a retro 1980s Neon Flying Trapeze Student and Staff Showcase and Flight Night trapeze class for audience members at 7 p.m. May 26.
BRATTLEBORO — 118 Elliot and Everyone’s Books welcome “Bernie’s Mitten Maker” author Jen Ellis who will read from and discuss her hot-off-the-press debut memoir "Bernie’s Mitten Maker" (Green Writers Press) on Friday at 118 Elliot.
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