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Folk singer John McCutcheon, who will be in town for an April 15 concert, remembers Windham County from the good old times when he used to play at the Chelsea Cafe House, as it was then called, in the barn of the Old Locke Farm in West Brattleboro.
“That was back in Brattleboro's hippie era,” he says. “The town was quite a center for folk music.”
As Alan Lewis puts it, “The Chelsea House, with its concerts, contra dances, song swaps, workshops, and more, certainly made an effort to offer diversified activities to the people of Southern Vermont, Southwestern New Hampshire, and Western Massachusetts.”
“Later came the Brattleboro Folk Festival, and the barn was used as a space for both concert and studio recordings,” Lewis added.
Almost 200 people gathered at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center April 3 to financially support a movie about Vermont. Addressing the boosters of the film Northern Borders, director and Marlboro film professor Jay Craven compared the event to an old-fashioned Vermont barn raising. The film's community liaison Dede...
Did you ever wonder what the movies were like before they learned how to talk? You can find out on April 20 at the climax of Next Stage's series, “Shhh! Friday Night at the (Silent) Movies!” when Rob Mermin presents the lecture “Silents Are Golden: A Celebration of Silent...
When is a bench not merely something you sit on? When is a musical instrument not something you merely listen to? When is a park not merely a space you play in? Such weighty metaphysical questions can be answered in the dream of Gary Jones and Erik Newquist to put the installation of their “Steel, Wood, Melody” musical bench seats into Brattleboro's parks and public spaces. If a musical bench seems hard to wrap your mind around, that might be...
When jazz vocalist Sheila Jordan was informed that she was the 2012 recipient of the nation's highest honor in jazz, the National Endowment of the Arts' Jazz Masters Award, her initial response was, “Are you kidding?” She really meant it. When the 83-year-old singer answered the phone, she believed the caller was trying to sell her something. “You know how those guys sound,” she says. “So when he asked if I was Sheila Jordan, I answered, 'Yeah,' a little exasperated.”
According to one of its organizers, Jacob Stradling, The No Film Film Festival (NFFF) is not a fully reflective name for the event. “Actually, it is both a contest and a film festival,” he says. Unlike traditional film festivals, contestants at the NFFF do more than present their work and perhaps even win a “best film” award, although they can do that, too. Participants literally make their films during the festival - or rather, they make their “no films,” since...
The Brattleboro Retreat had its Oscar moment on Feb. 26, when two of its own were honored for their work in two film festivals whose subjects deal with mental illness and addiction. Dr. Robert E. Simpson, executive director and CEO and Konstantin von Krusenstiern, senior development director were presented with Producer's Circle Awards at Rhode Island's annual Oscar Night America party in Providence. The award is presented to community and business leaders who have helped to nurture and build what...
This Friday, people will be literally dancing in the aisles to support Brattleboro's homeless. That's when Buddy Folly and the Experiments will return for their annual concert to help the area's Overflow Shelter. For well over a decade, “The Buddies” have kept audiences of all ages dancing to songs from the 1960s and 70s, plus a few sparkling originals written by every member of the band: Bill Conley on guitar, John Ungerleider on bass and Mike Nieckoski on the drums.
