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News of the Arts for the week of
July 25-31, 2024
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BIG MUSIC WEEKS
The Big Music Weeks of Summer continue with Summer Sounds this week and some of our friends play multiple gigs. Read more...
SUMMER SOUNDS
Summer Sounds continues its 33rd season in Highgate with favorites Yankee Chank on the lawn at the Highgate Arena. Bob Naess, Cannon Labrie, Jim Burns, and Mark Sustic, will immerse the park in Cajun music. Read more...
ART ON THE WALLS
The Haston Library presents the Art of Vera Gates with an opening reception. Corliss Blakely hosts an exclusive Art Show at her garden and home. The Artist In Residence collection spotlight is on stained glass artist Jennifer Buckner. Bryan Memorial Gallery features both T.M. Nicholas and Tom Nicholas in the 40 Years Together Show. Cold Hollow Sculpture Park welcomes Stephanie Cardon as their 2024 artist-in-residence. The Vermont Abenaki Artists Association features historian Melody Mackin. Read more...
DANCE
Island Arts opens the barn doors to the joy of community dancing to lively music with Leslie Alpert. Celebration of Expressive has dance as Alice Reighley shows how a belly dance exercise tape changed the trajectory of her life. Read more...
FESTIVALS AND SHOWS
The 2024 Church Street Festival takes over the historical street with dance, a DJ, activities, ice cream and more. The 32nd annual Jig in the Valley fills the Meeting House green with eight hours of music Read more...
FILM
Jay Craven returns with Lost Nation, the birth of Vermont and the promise of an American Revolution, at the Welden Theater. Read more...
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
St. Albans Community Arts has Creative Connections twice, Blackout Poetry, and the Open Studio Music Group. The Milton Artists' Guild has Paint Pouring Workshop with Laurie Thompson, Social Sunday, and the Workshop for those with Dementia and their Caregivers with Tina Lesperance. Read more...
COVID NEWS
Two more Vermonters died from COVID-19 bringing the total of pandemic deaths to 1,157 as of July 1. Read more...
ON STAGE LIVE
Karaoke and Open Mic Night (twice), Chris & Erica (twice), Troy Millette (twice), the Harley Brown Band, Dirt Road, the Youth Opera Company with Project Serenade, Jesse Agan, 90 Proof, Whiskey and Wine, She Was Right, Auriant, the Fabulous Wrecks, Grace Potter, Dennis Fox & Friends, the Eclectica String Quartet, Next Stop Comedy, the Chris Lyon Trio, the Shane Murley Trio, John Gratton, the Maplegrove Band, Mad Mojo, Dan Parks, Spencer Lewis, the CombustOmatics, Ryan Hanson, Roger Giroux, Tom Bisson, Jerborn, Nighthawk, Mark Shelton, SPHERE: A Full 360 live, the Vermont Academy of Choral Music, , Yankee Chank, Jeh Kulu Dance & Drum Theater, Alice Reighley, Minced Oats, Bob Gagnon and Tony Petricola, the Enosburg Town Band, Hard Scrabble, Bettenroo, the Smokey Newfield Project, Young Tradition-Vermont, the Buck Hollers, and the Citizens Concert Band all perform live at a venue near you. Read more...
FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF
Bent Northrop Memorial Library hosts the Traveling Storyteller Puppet Theater. The Haston Library presents the return of Alyx Hilshey with the Magic of the Library. The Eloquent Page Mystery Book Club reads Altered Carbon by Richard K Morgan. The Swanton Free Public Library has the annual library Book and Bake Sale and an author meet & greet with Patricia Letourneau Henderson to share Captive Company. Read more...
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