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Zon Eastes, former conductor of the Windham Orchestra, turned 60 this summer. And, like many reaching this milestone, he decided to throw a party.
The rarity here is that this party is also a concert.
“I am fulfilling a promise I made to my parents some years back to conduct a special concert of music I love,” says Eastes, “with an orchestra made up of friends I have known and loved over the years.”
The Brattleboro Music Center's 2014-15 concert season kicks off Saturday, Sept. 13, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at Centre Congregational Church with this special performance.
After having just climbed his eighth mountain of the summer, Mount Moosilauke in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, 78-year-old William McKim is ready to take on another monumental endeavor: performing the organ music of the Baroque. McKim says he believes that the late 17th and early 18th centuries...
Based on an historical event that occurred in 1941 in Denmark, Michael Frayn's “Copenhagen” keenly explores moral responsibility and patriotism when two fellow physicists, Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr, who once worked in collaboration, are now placed on opposite sides of World War II. “Copenhagen” opens at Actors Theatre...
International Bluegrass Music Association Banjo Player of the Year Tony Trischka will be bringing his banjo playing to Vermont when Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present an evening of banjo music. On Friday, Aug. 22, at 7:30 p.m. at Next Stage, Trischka will be performing with his band which includes Grant Gordy on guitar, who has played with David Grisman; Mike Barnett on fiddle, recently of the Deadly Gentlemen; and Ethan Jodziewicz on bass, the sought-after session musician...
Marlboro College is breaking ground in early September on a new building for the arts on its undergraduate campus here. The Snyder Center for the Visual Arts was made possible through a $2.6 million anonymous donation, part of a total $3.5 million gift. The donor is described in a press release as “a loyal, longtime supporter.” Marlboro College said it named the center in honor of the Snyder family's long commitment to the arts at Marlboro and in southern Vermont.
African Dance Vermont and the Arts Council of Windham County present the 10th Annual Abene African Dance and Drum Festival from Aug. 21-24 at the Stone Church, 210 Main St. This festival presents world-renowned performers and teachers of African dance and drumming. It is an opportunity for Brattleboro African Dance to showcase its teachers who give weekly classes at the Stone Church throughout the year, as well as some of its visiting guest teachers. The festival includes dance and drumming...
“I just like playing my songs, which are written to tell stories, no matter if it be the Christian or secular music I play,” Will McFarlane says. Former lead guitarist for Bonnie Raitt, McFarlane also was a member of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, also known as The Swampers. This acclaimed group of session musicians crafted the “Muscle Shoals sound,” with such hits as Aretha Franklin's “Respect” and Bob Seger's “Night Moves.” Although he wasn't with The Swampers from its...
For the third consecutive year, Jamaica is opening its doors to musicians, composers, and visual artists from all over the country for the Pikes Falls Chamber Music Festival (PFCM). Founded by its artistic director, Susanna Loewy, who wanted to present a free festival of chamber music for the town where she had spent so many summers in her youth, PFCM has been growing each year, adding more concerts, visual arts, and other community events. This year, PFCM will include 10...
