Presented by PAMFEST, Kingdom County Productions and Catamount Arts

Opening Act: Bob and Sarah Amos

Saturday, August 14th, 7:00 pm

Location:
Peacham Congregational Church
56 Church Street
Peacham, VT

General admission tickets: Adults - $30, Students - $15
Ticket prices do not include any applicable fees or sales taxes.

Vaccinations, please. Wear a mask if you’d like. If you’re not vaccinated, masks are mandatory - and please notify Frank Miller (frank.miller@charter.net) to arrange distanced seating.

In her first 25 years alone, singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Sierra Hull has hit more milestones than many musicians accomplish in a lifetime. After making her Grand Ole Opry debut at the age of 10, the Tennessee-bred virtuoso mandolinist played Carnegie Hall at age 12, then landed a deal with Rounder Records just a year later. Now 28-years-old, Hull is set to deliver her fourth full-length for Rounder: an elegantly inventive and endlessly captivating album called 25 Trips.

Revealing her profound warmth as a storyteller, 25 Trips finds Hull shedding light on the beauty and chaos and sometimes sorrow of growing up and getting older. To that end, the album’s title nods to a particularly momentous year of her life, including her marriage to fellow bluegrass musician Justin Moses and the release of her widely acclaimed album Weighted Mind—a Béla Fleck- produced effort nominated for Best Folk Album at the 2017 Grammy Awards.

Justin Moses is an award winning multi-instrumentalist celebrated as one of the most versatile musicians in all of acoustic music. A prominent Nashville session musician, he has appeared on stage or in the studio with artists including Alison Krauss, Del McCoury, Garth Brooks, Emmylou Harris, Brad Paisley, Vince Gill, Bruce Hornsby, Béla Fleck, Peter Frampton, Rosanne Cash, Marty Stuart and Barry Gibb among many others. In 2018 and 2020 he was named Dobro Player of the Year by the International Bluegrass Music Association.

“Sierra Hull plays the mandolin with a degree of refined elegance and freedom that few have achieved.” -Bela Fleck

“I think she’s endless. I don’t see any boundaries. Talent like hers is so rare.” - Alison Krauss

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Sierra Hull and Justin Moses - Dueling Mandolin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dBGJOuEbq8

September 24, 2021 through April 23, 2022

Location:
Various venues. See the list below for details.

Tickets: Season Pass—$600;Season Pass + Peking Acrobats—$630
Ticket prices do not include any applicable fees or sales taxes.

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Purchase your 2021-22 SEASON PASS for KCP Presents to:

• Save on your tickets!
• Get prime seats to all the season's shows
• Avoid disappointment on sold-out shows
• Help us save marketing dollars
• Give unused tickets to friends and family
• Support the KCP Presents series

Please note that your season pass entitles you to a ticket to see Paula Poundstone at the Dibden Center in Johnson, VT -OR- at Fuller Hall in St. Johnsbury, not to both performances.

Also be aware that to receive a ticket for the Peking Acrobats performance you will need to select the Season Pass + Peking Acrobats pricing option when selecting your tickets.

The 2021-2022 KCP Presents Series includes:

• 9/24/21 Aoife O'Donovan with special guests Hawktail - Lyndon Institute Auditorium
• 10/5/21 Dorrance Dance - Lyndon Institute Auditorium
• 10/23/21 Amythyst Kiah - Lyndon Institute Auditorium
• 11/2/21 Shake and Holla - Fuller Hall
• 12/4/21 PAMFest presents Boston Brass for the Holidays - Peacham Congregational Church
• 12/5/21 Viva MOMIX Forever - Lyndon Institute Auditorium
• 1/28/22 Paula Poundstone - Dibden Center for the Arts
  —OR—
  1/29/22 Paula Poundstone - Fuller Hall
• 2/15/22 Polish Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra - Lyndon Institute Auditorium
• 2/21/22 A Tribute to Aretha Franklin – Queen of Soul - Fuller Hall
• 3/2/22 Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy - Fuller Hall
• 3/9/22 Peking Acrobats - Dibden Center for the Arts (This is an optional event.)
• 3/17/22 Mardi Gras Mambo - Fuller Hall
• 4/13/22 The Queen's Cartoonists - Lyndon Institute Auditorium
• 4/23/22 Stile Antico - Highland Center for the Arts - Main Stage

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Friday, September 24, 7:00 pm

Location:
Lyndon Institute Auditorium
168 Institute Circle
Lyndon Center, VT

Tickets: $52, $42, $32, $15. Students are free.
Ticket prices do not include any applicable fees or sales taxes.

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Grammy award-winning songwriter and musician Aoife O'Donovan is one of the most sought-after singers and songwriters of her generation. She has released three critically-acclaimed solo albums, is co-founder of the bands I’m With Her and Crooked Still, is the featured vocalist on The Goat Rodeo Sessions with Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, and Chris Thile, and spent a decade contributing to the radio variety shows Live From Here and A Prairie Home Companion.

Hawktail is a rising Americana “supergroup" and includes members of Crooked Still, Punch Brothers and the I’m with Her house band. Expect Aoife to sit in with them – and vice-versa.

“The star of the show for me is always O’ Donovan’s voice. She has a chill-inducing vocal that shines, haunting you with each word and phrase she spins within the loom of her storied songs. Evocative and siren-like, smoke-tinged but tender and inviting. There is a curiosity and tempting nature to her honeyed voice. It dances elegantly above simple, but fitting arrangements. A romance seeps into the cracks of each strum of the acoustic guitar or fiddle cry and while O’Donovan has a range that is enviable to most, she elevates and opens it only at moments when it is most needed for full impact. Beauty embodied and realized, simple as that.” - Brian Carroll, Red Line Roots

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuXb4She_sU

https://youtu.be/2XALNhwPsg4

Tuesday, October 5, 7:00 pm

Location:
Lyndon Institute Auditorium
168 Institute Circle
Lyndon Center, VT

Tickets: $58, $46, $34, $15. Students are free.
Ticket prices do not include any applicable fees or sales taxes.

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Dorrance Dance explores what is most thrilling, brilliant, and beautiful about tap dancing — that it is, at once, movement and music. Founded in 2011 by Artistic Director and 2015 MacArthur Fellow, Michelle Dorrance, the company shares the incredibly dynamic range that tap dance has to offer. Their goal is to engage with audiences on a musical and emotional level, and to share the complex history and powerful legacy of this American art form throughout the country and the world.

“A sonic distillation of a blistering American past and its perilous present, with a transcendent strength of spirit woven through.” — The Washington Post

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMyCiB_YRA4

Saturday, October 23, 7:00 pm

Location:
Alexander Twilight Theatre
NVU-Lyndon
1001 College Road
Lyndonville, VT

Tickets: $38, $28, $18, $15. Students are free
Ticket prices do not include any applicable fees or sales taxes.

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Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Amythyst Kiah, represents a glorious collision of two vastly different worlds: the iconoclastic alt-rock that first sparked her musical passion, and the roots/old-time/country music scene where she’s found breakout success in recent years, including recognition from Rolling Stone as “one of Americana’s great up-and-coming secrets.”

Amythyst Kiah endlessly redefines the limits of roots music in its inventive rhythms and textures. With an unforgettable voice that’s both unfettered and exquisitely controlled, Kiah gracefully interlaces social commentary and personal revelation, ultimately offering a raw yet poetic and nuanced examination of grief, alienation, and the hard-won triumph of total self-acceptance.

The Chattanooga-bred singer/songwriter is also a member of Our Native Daughters—a women-of-color supergroup that includes Rhiannon Giddens, Allison Russell and Leyla McCalla. Their performance of Kiah’s Black Myself, earned a Grammy nomination for Best American Roots Song and won Song of the Year at the Folk Alliance International Awards.

“A deep-hued voice that can change on a dime from brushed steel to melted toffee.” - New York Times

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjd9zlSiHZM

Tuesday, November 2, 7:00 pm

Location:
Fuller Hall
St. Johnsbury Academy
1000 Main St.
St. Johnsbury, VT

Tickets: $52, $42, $32, $15. Students free.
Ticket prices do not include any applicable fees or sales taxes.

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Shake & Holla will feature foot-stomping Mississippi "hill country" blues and the funky, syncopated sounds of New Orleans brass. Touring together for the first time, the Grammy-nominated and Blues Music Award-winning North Mississippi All-Stars will be joined by the legendary Rebirth Brass Band in a musical celebration of two great southern musical traditions. Steeped deeply in their own traditions, both artists also are part of the vanguard of blues and soul music.

Grammy-nominated blues guitarist, vocalist, and drummer Cedric Burnside, provides the icing to the cake for this collaboration. Grandson of legendary Fat Possum recording artist RL Burnside, he will weave in and out of this special evening as these artists play their own favorite selections and collaborate on a grab bag of songs that explore the musical connection between the Mississippi Delta and Bourbon Street...right down Highway 61.

“New Orleans horns, raw and funky… exhilarating and full throttle.” - New York Times.

“Cedric Burnside's set at Lizotte's was like opening Pandora's box on the blues; out flew some music so rare, so soulful, so close to the bones it would make you shiver if you first heard back where it came from, the hill country of north Mississippi.” – New Castle Herald

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlPGyVmFGvw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E1VBCcA76E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KBFUWQY8MA

Presented in a partnership with Peacham Acoustic Music Festival

Saturday, December 4, 7:00 pm

Location:
Peacham Congregational Church
56 Church Street
Peacham, VT

General admission tickets: Adults - $40, Students - $20
Ticket prices do not include any applicable fees or sales taxes.

Comfortably set in this Peacham village setting, the Boston Brass offer a sound for this holiday season that will be long remembered. This ensemble of all brass instruments (trumpets, French horns, trombones, and tuba) will perform holiday classics like The Carol of the Bells, White Christmas and Three Dances from The Nutcracker Suite alongside Astor Piazzolla’s Verana Porteno and Duke Ellington’s Caravan. This ensemble of virtuoso musicians will light up the stage with an energy that will have audiences ensconced in the holiday spirit - and asking for an encore.

The Boston Brass have performed in 49 states and 30 countries and have conducted master classes around the world including sessions and residencies at the Eastman School of Music, The Julliard School, Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, Peabody Conservatory of Music, University of North Texas, Royal Academy of Music in London, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory at the National University of Singapore, Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts and Mahidol University in Bangkok.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDn3K8ujRog

40th Anniversary Show

Sunday, December 5, 7:00 pm

Location:
Lyndon Institute Auditorium
168 Institute Circle
Lyndon Center, VT

Tickets: $52, $42, $32, $15. Students are free.
Ticket prices do not include any applicable fees or sales taxes.

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Transporting audiences from their everyday lives to a fantasy world through its trademark use of magical lighting and imagery, MOMIX has thrilled fans in over 22 countries and has been featured on stage, screen and television. In an endless search for another gravity, Artistic Director Moses Pendleton combines athletic dance, riveting music, outrageous costumes, inventive props and pure talent to create an entertaining multimedia experience that will surprise, enchant and astonish.

In celebration of their 40th anniversary, Viva MOMIX Forever is a mix-and-match variety of sections from their hugely popular shows, Botanica, Alchemia, Remix, Opus Cactus, and Lunar Sea. Additionally, four new pieces were created especially for the birthday celebration in June 2020 at Teatro Nazionale in Milan, Italy – the site of the first-ever Momix show.

Moses Pendleton grew up in Lyndonville, graduated from Lyndon Institute, co-founded Pilobolus and created internationally acclaimed Momix as his crowning achievement. We are pleased to welcome him back to his hometown as part of this 40th anniversary celebration.

“MOMIX creates a tension between illusion and reality, apprehension and excitement.” – New York Times

“I’d love to be able to see into Pendleton’s dreams just one night, but dreams alone don’t make theater like this.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejjx7S6YdgY

Friday, January 28, 7:00 pm

Location:
Dibden Center for the Arts
NVU-Johnson
S Pond Road
Johnson, VT

Reserved seats: $50, $40, $30. Students are free.
Ticket prices do not include any applicable fees or sales taxes.

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Saturday, January 29, 7:00 pm

Location:
Fuller Hall
St. Johnsbury Academy
1000 Main St.
St. Johnsbury, VT

Reserved seats: $52, $42, $32, $15. Students are free.
Ticket prices do not include any applicable fees or sales taxes.

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Emmy-winning comedian Paula Poundstone is famous for her razor-sharp wit and spontaneity, drawing from her own complex life: three kids, 13 cats, motherhood, demanding job, crazy travel schedule, her frustration at getting older, and a bag of neuroses, including her famous inability to ever shut up. Then, add a year in quarantine and imagine the outcome.

In other words: she’s just like many of us.

One of Comedy Central’s “Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time,” Paula Poundstone was a frequent guest on Leno, Letterman and A Prairie Home Companion. And she remains a leading staple of NPR’s show, Wait Wait! Don’t Tell Me! Poundstone is so quick that audience members often leave complaining that their cheeks hurt from laughter.

“Poundstone improvises with a crowd like a jazz musician, swinging in unexpected directions without a net.” – Boston Globe

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwI5b_UR4NE

Obie-winning Elevator Repair Service Theater Company

A virtual presentation available 8am Sunday, February 13 through 5pm, Thursday, February 17th.
Plus live online interactive discussion with the show’s director and actors: 7pm, Thursday, February 17th

Location:
Online. A link for viewing the event will be provided to ticket buyers prior to the start date.

Tickets: Free. You need to "buy" the free ticket to receive the link to view the event.

In 1965 writer/activist James Baldwin and conservative arbiter William F. Buckley, Jr. were invited to the UK’s Cambridge University Union to debate the resolution “The American Dream is at the Expense of The American Negro.” The groundbreaking Obie-winning NYC theater troupe, Elevator Repair Service, re-creates Baldwin and Buckley's profoundly relevant confrontation in Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge.

The rapt audience at the Cambridge debate match voted Baldwin the winner by a vote of 544-164. Despite the victory, Baldwin felt stung by the encounter, calling Buckley “the intellectuals' James Bond.” Buckley, never one to admit defeat, called the night at Cambridge, "the most satisfying debate I ever had.”

Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge had its first work-in-progress showings in January of 2020 at Abrons Art Center’s Underground Theater. Our staging will be a virtual presentation recorded at Montclair State College - followed by a live interactive virtual conversation/Q & A with the show’s director, John Collins and actors, including April Matthis, Gavin Price, Greig Sargeant, Christopher Rashee Stevenson and Ben Williams.

Founded in 1991 by Artistic Director John Collins, Elevator Repair Service (ERS) creates original works with an ongoing ensemble. ERS’s theater pieces are built round a broad range of subject matter and literary forms; they combine elements of slapstick comedy, hi-tech and lo-tech design, both literary and found text, and the group’s own highly developed style of choreography.

ERS creates its performances through extended periods of collaboration. A typical development cycle includes 4-6 intensive work periods within a 2-year period, which conclude with work-in-progress showings. Time off between development is filled with touring and presentations of finished works. Following completion, the piece is presented in NYC for an extended run and is toured throughout the US and abroad.

ERS creations include their critically-acclaimed 2010 production of Gatz, adapted from the Great Gatsby. Lead NY Times theater critic, Ben Brantley called it “The most remarkable achievement in theater not only of this year but also of this decade.”

"The famous Baldwin-Buckley debate still matters today. In 1965, two American titans faced off on the subject of the country’s racial divides. Nearly 55 years later, the event has lost none of its relevance.”—The Atlantic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRzkHgMaPL4

Tuesday, February 15, 7:00 pm

Location:
Lyndon Institute Auditorium
168 Institute Circle
Lyndon Center, VT

Tickets: $52, $42, $32, $15. Students are free.
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Founded in 1945 on the heels of postwar Polish independence in Gdańsk, the Polish Baltic Philharmonic is the largest music institution in northern Poland. One might think that long periods of political turbulence may have weakened the arts in Gdańsk, yet the reality is quite the opposite. The Polish Baltic Philharmonic, as it exists and thrives today, represents an amalgamation of international and historical influences, while still capturing the pride and artistry of contemporary Poland and the larger Baltic Sea coast.

This feast of orchestra music will include Rossini’s Overture to La Gazza Ladra (The Silken Ladder); Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35; and Beethoven’s Symphony no 5.

“It’s been a long time since I’ve seen and heard such clarity. The common idea was upheld by the exceptionally beautiful sound of the orchestra adjusted by the conductor to the musical poetry of the soloist”. — Gazeta Wyborcza

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IF4eZniepo

Monday, February 21, 7:00 pm

Location:
Fuller Hall
St. Johnsbury Academy
1000 Main St.
St. Johnsbury, VT

Reserved seats: $56, $46, $36, $15. Students are free.
Ticket prices do not include any applicable fees or sales taxes.

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Aretha Franklin’s legendary career spanned several generations and a multitude of genres. “The Queen of Soul” grew up in the Baptist congregations of Detroit, where she first developed her talent for expressive and powerful vocals that propelled her to international stardom. Beloved by musicians and listeners alike, Aretha is recognized as the most successful female recording artist in history with 112 charted singles on Billboard, 18 Grammy Awards, and more than 75 million records sold.

Musician, vocalist, and composer Damien Sneed toured with Aretha during her later years, developing a strong relationship with the soul legend. In this special tribute, Sneed pays homage to the monarch herself with fresh renditions of her most cherished hits including Respect, Knew You Were Waiting, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Precious Memories, Think, Until You Come Back To Me, Daydreaming, Freeway, Natural Woman, and others. Backed by a stellar cast of jazz, gospel, and soul musicians and vocalists, Damien Sneed’s multi-media tribute offers a tender and spiritual reflection upon the life of an iconic music titan.

Four-time Grammy Award-winner Karen Clark Sheard will sing Franklin’s iconic songs, showing a deep reverence to Franklin’s talent while endowing them with her own power. A gospel music legend, Sheard is renowned for her signature, one-of-a-kind multi-octave vocal range and ability. Her musical style, as a solo artist and with the acclaimed Clark Sisters, has inspired today’s brightest pop divas, among them Beyoncé, Mariah Carey, Missy Elliott, and Faith Evans. Like Sneed, Clark also collaborated and performed with Aretha Franklin, who became her cherished mentor.

“A soprano of great range in pitch and tone, from elegant to guttural, Karen Clark Sheard brings depth and flexibility, with constant invention, singing about destiny and power, sometimes sliding into testifying…there are extended sequences, not just moments when a listener can start to worry: Do I deserve such riches?” — Ben Ratliff, New York Times

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https://vimeo.com/558611657

Wednesday, March 2, 7:00 pm

Location:
Fuller Hall
St. Johnsbury Academy
1000 Main St.
St. Johnsbury, VT

Reserved seats: $52, $42, $32, $15. Students are free.
Ticket prices do not include any applicable fees or sales taxes.

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Since marrying in 2002, two of Canada’s brightest stars have been captivating audiences all over North America with their exceptional musical skills and obvious joy at playing the fiddle together. Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy have received both industry-acclaim and a loyal fan base by combining their magnificent individual talents, giving audiences an unforgettable musical experience every performance.

Being part of musical families, Natalie and Donnell were born into their musical careers. Hailing from Cape Breton Island, Natalie received her first fiddle at the age of nine, launching a career that has lasted for more than 30 years. Her first recording was released when she was only 16 and she has never looked back. MacMaster's many projects include collaborations with Alison Krauss, Carlos Santana, the Chieftains, Paul Simon, Pavarotti, and Yo-Yo Ma. Her live performances are a testament to her incandescent musicianship and boundless energy, featuring foot-tapping rave-ups, heart-rending ballads, and world-class step dancing.

Perfecting his astonishing talent since the age of three, Donnell has literally spent his entire life with a fiddle in his hand. His parents, a fiddle-playing father from Ontario and a step-dancing mother from Cape Breton, were his source of inspiration and guidance. His mesmerizingly exultant and high-energy performances have become Donnell Leahy’s musical signature.

“Flying notes, fast-paced jigs, reels and polkas, paint can percussion and Gaelic lyrics, original music and tunes from Scotland, Ireland, the Maritimes, and elsewhere, piano, bagpipes, guitar, accordion, and of course fiddles: all those, in the hands and spirits of these gifted musicians.” — Music Road

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qDKEQhZA8E

Wednesday, March 9, 7:00 pm

Location:
Dibden Center for the Arts
NVU-Johnson
S Pond Road
Johnson, VT

Reserved seats: $46, $36, $15. Students are free.
Ticket prices do not include any applicable fees or sales taxes.

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For the last thirty-two years, The Peking Acrobats have redefined audience perceptions of Chinese acrobatics. They perform daring maneuvers atop a precarious pagoda of chairs and display their technical prowess at such arts as trick-cycling, precision tumbling, juggling, somersaulting, and gymnastics. They push the limits of human ability, defying gravity with amazing displays of contortion, flexibility, and

The Peking Acrobats are part of a time-honored Chinese tradition, rooted in centuries of Chinese history and folk art. Tradition demands that each generation of acrobats add its own improvements and embellishments; because of this, high honor is conferred upon those skilled enough to become acrobats. The Peking Acrobats seek to uphold this rich and ancient folk art tradition, bringing it to new technical heights while integrating twenty-first century technology.

The Peking Acrobats have been featured on television shows including Nickelodeon’s Unfabulous, Ellen’s Really Big Show (hosted by Ellen DeGeneres), The Wayne Brady Show, That’s Incredible, ABC’s Wide World of Sports, and NBC’s Ring In The New Year Holiday Special. They set the world record for the Human Chair Stack on FOX Network’s Guinness Book Primetime television show in 1999: they balanced six people precariously atop six chairs twenty-one feet up in the air without safety lines, astounding audiences with their bravery and dexterity. They were featured in Steven Soderbergh’s hit film Ocean’s Eleven playing alongside Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt and George Clooney. Peking Acrobats’ alumnus Shaobo Qin also appeared in that film’s two sequels, Ocean’s Twelve and Ocean’s Thirteen.

“The Peking Acrobats are pushing the envelope of human possibility, combining agility and grace in remarkable feats of pure artistry.” —Clive Davis, New York Post.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EG2PVRTJYo

featuring The Dirty Dozen Brass Band and Nathan and the Zydeco Cha Chas

Thursday, March 17, 7:00 pm

Location:
Fuller Hall
St. Johnsbury Academy
1000 Main St.
St. Johnsbury, VT

Reserved seats: $52, $42, $32, $15. Students are free.
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A Creole Zydeco – Brass Band Showdown!

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band are the pioneers of the modern New Orleans brass band movement, recognized worldwide as an unstoppable musical machine. Formed in 1977, they are the pioneers of the modern New Orleans brass band movement, recognized worldwide as an unstoppable musical machine whose name is synonymous with genre bending romps and high-octane performances.

They have been featured guests both in the studio and on stage with artists including Elvis Costello, Dr. John, Widespread Panic, Modest Mouse, Dave Matthews Band, The Black Crowes and many others. Their immediate plans include fifty shows where they will support and then join the Doobie Brothers onstage for their 50th Anniversary tour.

Nathan Williams delivers a direct connection to Zydeco’s storied pioneers including Clifton Chenier and Boozoo Chavis. Together, this sizzling show provides a non-stop master class in blues, cajun, New Orleans soul, zydeco and R&B from two of Louisiana’s best!

“Nathan Williams and his Zydeco Cha Chas – makes it all count.”—Offbeat Magazine

"The Dirty Dozen Brass Band is arguably the most influential ensemble to emerge in New Orleans over the last 25 years. Its sway on the brass band scene has been staggering, spawning bands like the ReBirth, New Birth, Hot 8, Li’l Rascals, Soul Rebels and just about every other young brass ensemble presently performing."—Offbeat Magazine

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Wednesday, April 13, 7:00 pm

Location:
Lyndon Institute Auditorium
168 Institute Circle
Lyndon Center, VT

Reserved seats: $52, $42, $32, $15. Students are free.
Ticket prices do not include any applicable fees or sales taxes.

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The Queen’s Cartoonists are 6 world-class jazz players who perform fabulous and often funny music for classic cartoons and contemporary animation. The stars are the musicians – along with Betty Boop, Elmer Fudd, Bugs Bunny, Popeye the Sailor and more. The performances are synchronized to video projections of the original films, and the band leads the audience through a world of virtuosic musicianship, multi-instrumental mayhem, and comedy.

Behind the project is a single question: Is it possible to create jazz and classical music in the 21st century that appeals to everyone? Even people who normally wouldn’t go to concerts? The Queen’s Cartoonists present a concert for everybody – regardless of age, gender, or anything else.

Tying this diverse concert together are comedic anecdotes involving the cartoons and their composers. This band is on a musical mission of equal parts performance, preservation, and education. Expect the unexpected from a repertoire that includes the Golden Age of animation, cult cartoon classics, modern animation, and elements of a musical circus. Then add a special focus on cartoons and music that celebrate the holidays!

Since their inception in 2015, The Queen’s Cartoonists have brought their unique sound to performing arts centers in more than 20 states and have opened for the New York Philharmonic and others. The 6 members, all currently living in Queens, New York, are world-class professional musicians. The band has been featured in numerous major publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, Mashable, and on NPR.

“As I watched The Queen’s Cartoonists slip and slide through decades of cartoon music, I followed a captivated crowd of young and old – the pleasure of the perfect synchrony of sound and pictures was instantly recognizable.” - Mashable

“Who needs another Broadway show when you can hire a jazz combo playing music from Bugs Bunny cartoons?” - The Wall Street Journal

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSEX7bvFYFQ

Saturday, April 23, 7:00 pm

Location:
Main Stage
Highland Center for the Arts
2875 Hardwick St.
Greensboro, VT

Tickets: $42 general admission
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Stile Antico is firmly established as one of the world’s most accomplished and innovative vocal ensembles. Working without a conductor, its twelve members have thrilled audiences on four continents with their fresh, vibrant and moving performances of Renaissance polyphony. Its bestselling recordings have earned accolades including the Gramophone Award for Early Music, Diapason d’or de l’année, Edison Klassiek Award, and Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik. The group has received three Grammy nominations, and performed live at the 60th Grammy Awards at Madison Square Garden. Based in London, Stile Antico has also appeared at many of the world’s most prestigious venues and festivals. The group enjoys a particularly close association with Wigmore Hall, and has performed at the BBC Proms, Buckingham Palace, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Cité de la Musique, Luxembourg Philharmonie, and Leipzig Gewandhaus.

Stile Antico’s performances are often praised for their immediacy, expressive commitment, and their sensitive and imaginative response to text. These qualities arise from the group’s collaborative working style: members rehearse and perform as chamber musicians, each contributing artistically to the musical results. The group is also noted for its compelling programming, which seeks to draw out thematic connections between works to shine new light on Renaissance music.

“Perfectly exquisite.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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https://www.grammy.com/grammys/videos/stile-antico-ave-maria-gaudete-domino-performance-2018-grammys