Concerts

Shining bright

BELLOWS FALLS - Jon Langford returns to Bellows Falls on Friday, June 14, with his band The Bright Shiners for a show at the Ciao Popolo ballroom. The Bright Shiners just released a full album, “Where It Really Starts,” a collaboration with Tamineh Gueramy, Alice Spencer, and John Szymanski....

Espressivo!

Passionate quartet

BRATTLEBORO - The Brattleboro Music Center’s Chamber Series welcomes the return of Espressivo! Friday, June 7 at 7 pm, in the Brattleboro Music Center, and will feature Mozart’s E-flat Piano Quartet, Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Piano Quintet in C minor (1903), and Schubert’s Trout Quintet. Espressivo...

Orchestra plays

MARLBORO - The Brattleboro Music Center’s Juno Orchestra takes the stage, Sunday, June 2, with a program perfect for the coming of summer.
The concert is scheduled for 2:30 pm at Persons Auditorium in Marlboro.
The program includes J. Mark Scearce’s “Endymion’s Sleep,” commissioned...

Contemporary rock ensemble performs

PUTNEY - The Next Stage Bandwagon Summer Series presents contemporary klezmer/rock ensemble Midwood, on Saturday, June 1, at 6 pm at Cooper Field, 41 Sand Hill Road.
Led by violinist Jake Shulman-Ment, Midwood is a contemporary klezmer/rock celebration of freedom and the Jewish tradition...

Blues standards at campground

DUMMERSTON - Kevin Parry performs blues and rock standards at Kampfires Campground, 792 US Route 5, on Friday, May 31, from 6 to 8 pm. This event is free. There will be ice cream, a food truck, mini golf, cornhole, and more.
Parry has been playing music in southern Vermont for over 40...

From New Jersey, John Gorka is a world-renowned singer-songwriter who got his start at a neighborhood coffeehouse in eastern Pennsylvania.

From New Jersey, John Gorka is a world-renowned singer-songwriter who got his start at a neighborhood coffeehouse in eastern Pennsylvania.

Singer performs poetry and song

PUTNEY - Next Stage Arts and Twilight Music present singer and songwriter John Gorka at Next Stage on Sunday, June 2, at 7 pm.
Rising from a milieu of lovelorn singer-songwriters, Gorka illuminates instead with his trademark wordplay, twisting, turning, and tying words and phrases in the...

Live music

WILMINGTON - There will be live music at Hayford Field on Saturday, May 25, from 3 to 5 pm.
The show is happening rain or shine. Family-friendly local rock band Godzilla with A Gun will perform, and there will be a possible appearance of local a capella group Shoulder Narrows....

The Windham Philharmonic specializes in early classical repertory such as Bach, Handel, Mozart, and Haydn.

The Windham Philharmonic specializes in early classical repertory such as Bach, Handel, Mozart, and Haydn.

Windham Philharmonic heads to Wilmington

WILMINGTON - The Windham Philharmonic heads to Wilmington on Saturday, May 25, to participate in the Red Door Concert Series at St. Mary’s in the Mountains, located at 13 East Main Street.
The program begins at 7 pm and includes Mozart’s Symphony No. 36 in C, and Haydn’s “Surprise Symphony...

Mehrnam Rastegari is a prominent Persian musician, film score composer, singer, violinist, and master Kamancheh player

Mehrnam Rastegari is a prominent Persian musician, film score composer, singer, violinist, and master Kamancheh player

Opening of Bandwagon Summer Series

PUTNEY - The Next Stage Bandwagon Summer Series opens its season with Persian musician Mehrnam Rastegari and Mediterranean surf trio Habbina Habbina, on Saturday, May 18, at 6 pm at The Putney Inn, 57 Putney Landing Road.
Rastegari is a prominent Persian musician, film score composer,...

The Windham Philharmonic performs

BRATTLEBORO - The Windham Philharmonic, led by Music Director Hugh Keelan, performs Monday, May 20, at the Latchis Theatre. On the program are Mozart’s Symphony No. 36 in C—composed in four days during a stopover in Linz, Austria—and Maurice Ravel’s “Rapsodie espagnole.”
“Rapsodie...