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Artist Evie Lovett and poet Diana Whitney have each drawn inspiration from the Connecticut River in their work in a multimedia exhibition entitled Thaw: A Conversation in Words and Imagery.
Lovett's encaustic paintings and several of Whitney's poems will be on display in the gallery at Next Stage Arts Project in Putney from Feb. 17 until May 15. The opening reception is Saturday, Feb. 17, from 4 to 6 p.m., which includes a poetry reading by Whitney at 5 p.m.
Violinist Brigid Coleridge and pianist Lee Dionne have conceived of a whole new way to present a classical music recital. Yellow Barn in Putney is welcoming the two alumni for a week-long residency weaving free-verse poetry from British modernist poet Christopher Logue's War Music together with physical theater and...
Northern Roots is in its 11th year, and “it's hard to believe that we're entering our second decade of music, dance, and celebration,” says the event's director, Keith Murphy. On Saturday, Jan. 27, and Sunday, Jan. 28, in the Brattleboro Music Center, Northern Roots will bring together local and...
For her last few public performances with the Brattleboro Music Center's Concert Choir at the Latchis Theatre, Music Director Susan Dedell will showcase a new work and a familiar favorite. On Jan. 20 and 21, BMC presents Having Seen the Moon, which includes Karl Jenkins' Requiem and Morten Lauridsen's Lux Aeterna. In selecting these works, Dedell continues to explore new music and contemporary composers at the same time as she revisits works that she has found particularly profound in the...
When Brendan Taaffe first saw one, he thought it was magical. When he saw one for the second time, he still found it wondrous, but also figured that he could make one. Thus began Taaffe's love affair with crankies. “A crankie is an old storytelling art form,” writes Sue Truman at her website dedicated to the art of crankies: www.thecrankiefactory.com. “It's a long, illustrated scroll that is wound onto two spools. The spools are loaded into a box which has...
The Tenores de Aterúe is a quartet of four American singers, each with a background in folk polyphony and early music, who perform from the island of Sardinia in Italy “cantu a tenore,” a form of polyphonic singing. On Jan. 19, Tenores de Aterúe will appear for the first time in Brattleboro, when the group performs a concert of cantu a tenòre at 118 Elliot at 7 p.m. “Sardinian cantu a tenòre is a unique style of music which uses...
After a series of tragedies that threatened to derail the long-established Northampton, Mass.-based band, The Alchemystics are now back on track with a new tour, including a concert on Dec. 22 at 8 p.m. at The Stone Church. The Alchemystics fuse reggae and hip-hop “to form a beat-laden mold of world conscious groove music,” as the band says on its website www.alchemystics.com. Rooted in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts, this dynamic band combines “diverse individual styles, backgrounds, and experiences into...
Director Jay Craven is taking time out from his busy schedule teaching and filmmaking to remember his friend and collaborator, author Howard Frank Mosher, who died in January at 74. Craven directed five films based on Mosher's works. On Sunday, Dec. 3, at 1 p.m. at the Latchis Theatre in Brattleboro, and at 6:30 p.m. at the Whittemore Theater at Marlboro College, Kingdom County Productions will present a Howard Frank Mosher tribute. Each event will include 20 minutes of reflections...
