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Soprano Kristen Carmichael-Bowers is a woman with a mission.
“I want to show the people in Windham County what a wonderful array of great composers are now living and working in our area,” Carmichael-Bowers says. “I do not think the average person living in southern Vermont realizes what an incredible wealth of talent we have around here, all in less than an hour's drive.”
To celebrate this array of talent, she once again has been working with the Brattleboro Music Center (BMC), where she teaches voice, to plan a daylong festival to introduce to the public prominent local musicians who write classical music.
These artists will perform their works in concerts or give master classes for BMC students. A few will do both.
Traditional Irish singing will meet the heartland of America with Mai Hernon and Celtic Font, a band that will perform for the first time in Vermont on Sunday, March 9 at the Hooker-Dunham Theater and Gallery. Hernon and musical partner, Mick McEvilley - also her husband - will present...
The New England Center for Circus Arts (NECCA) will present its Circus Spectacular 2014 for two performances on Saturday, March 8, at 7:30 p.m. and on Sunday, March 9 at 1 p.m in the Latchis Theatre. Featuring 15 NECCA professionals and special guests from top circuses from around the...
Owen Taylor grew up playing all kinds of musical instruments, but he discovered the banjo rather late. On a whim, he bought himself one for his birthday because he thought it seemed like a fun instrument. Even then, the banjo lay in the corner of his room, untouched for a long time. That changed when he was living in San Francisco and Julia Steele Allen became his roommate. She played and loved the instrument, which inspired him to begin exploring...
Marlboro alumna Cookie Harrist will be returning to her alma mater to present a dance piece performed by Hio Ridge Dance Collective, a new collaborative formed by Harrist with Delaney McDonough and Caity Richards. On Friday, March 7, at 5 p.m., in Serkin Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of Marlboro College, the collective will perform “Or Shall We,” a half-hour work that the collective has described as “an investigation focused on rock 'n' roll band dynamics, groove,
Filled with a standing-room-only crowd, the main hall of the Kahn-Mason Gallery at Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) was transformed for one night last Friday into a seedy bar, the Double Deuce Lounge. There, the audience got to see “Royal Flush,” a celebration of drag, the act of assuming the appearance of a gender with which one does not identify for the purposes of performance. The show was produced and introduced by Harral Hamilton, with live performances from local...
The hit of last fall's Brattleboro Literary Festival, when she was one of the outrageous judges of the Literary Death Match, Carmelita Tropicana is returning to Vermont for a performative talk with actor/director/writer Ain Gordon. “I had such a blast at the festival that I can honestly say that I had one of the best times I ever had in front of an audience,” says “Tropicana,” whose irrepressible spirit and irreverent humor have delighted audiences for more than three decades.
For the first time, a new drama about one of the 20th century's greatest folk artists will be performed by the author herself. In honor of February's Black History Month, Next Stage Arts Project will present on Saturday, Feb. 15, at 7:30 p.m., a staged reading of Pierce to the Soul, a one-man play about Elijah Pierce (1892-1984) written and performed by Chiquita Mullins Lee. Pierce to the Soul tells the story of the life of the son of a...
