Concerts

Bard Owl performs

WILLIAMSVILLE - T. Breeze Verdant and Annie Landenberger in their band, Bard Owl, perform Friday, December 8, 5 to 7 pm, for West Townshend Country Store’s pizza night, and Tuesday, December 12, 5 to 7 pm, for the store’s burger night. Sweet harmonies, driving rhythms, old tunes, new tunes, and...

A night of blues

BRATTLEBORO - Vermont Blues Society contest winner and singer-songwriter Jesse Lepkoff will present an evening of original and classic songs in both Brazilian bossa nova and blues styles at The Latchis Pub 6 Flat Street, on Sunday, December 10, at 7 pm. Lepkoff’s songs can have the sophistication...

Hidden musical treasures

BRATTLEBORO – The Brattleboro Camerata presents “Treasure Hidden Within,” a program exploring how composers take preexisting music and hide it within the structure of a new piece, infusing the latter with the essence of the older work.
The “hidden treasures” in the concert include a...

From left, Itamar Zorman, violin; Patrick Bessenbacher, tenor; Filippo Gorini, piano; Brannon Cho, cello; and Haesue Lee, viola.

From left, Itamar Zorman, violin; Patrick Bessenbacher, tenor; Filippo Gorini, piano; Brannon Cho, cello; and Haesue Lee, viola.

Chamber musicians take BMC stage

BRATTLEBORO- The Brattleboro Music Center Chamber Series welcomes Musicians from Marlboro Group II Saturday, December 2, at 7 pm.
This program pairs Ralph Vaughan Williams’s powerful “Blake Songs” for tenor and oboe with Scottish composer Helen Grime’s exhilarating Oboe Quartet and the...

Seraphic Fire

A cappella vocal ensemble sings

GRAFTON— Grammy-nominated vocal ensemble Seraphic Fire brings their a cappella voices to Vermont for a concert at the Grafton Brick Meeting House on Saturday, December 2, at 7 pm. The South Florida-based choir will perform festive carols from varied traditions alongside newer takes on classics...

Celtics sounds, songs of New England

BELLOWS FALLS- Castlebay weaves the history, legend, and experience of New England and the Celtic lands in story and song in a 3 pm show on Sunday, December 3, at Stage 33 Live, 33 Bridge Street.
Tickets are $10 in advance or $12 at the door. Seating is limited. All performances are...

Jazz pianist to perform

BRATTLEBORO- The Vermont Jazz Center, 2 Cotton Mill Hill, will present Cyrus Chestnut in a trio concert on Saturday, October 14, at 7:30 pm. Called “the best pianist of his generation” by Time magazine, Chestnut will appear with bassist Herman Burney and drummer Kelton Norris.
Chestnut’s...

“Dirty gospel” takes stage

PUTNEY- The Next Stage Bandwagon Summer Series presents “dirty gospel” band Reverend Vince Anderson & His Love Choir, on Saturday, October 14, at 3 pm at the Putney Inn, 57 Putney Landing Road.
After coming to New York in the ‘90s to enter the seminary, studying to be a Methodist...

Legendary drummer honored in tribute show

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA- On Saturday, October 14, the Clark Art Institute hosts a jazz concert in tribute to Art Blakey with musicians George Cables, David Schnitter, and Steve Davis. The concert takes place at 7 pm in the Clark’s auditorium, located in its Manton Research Center.
Celebrate one...

Performing the classics

MARLBORO- The Brattleboro Juno Orchestra, the region’s “home team” chamber orchestra, presents a program in October reminiscent of popular Johann Sebastian Bach programs that enthralled local audiences in the past.
The concert, set for 2:30 pm, Sunday, October 8, at Persons Auditorium,...