Saturdays, July 14, 21 and 28, August 4, 11 and 18, 9:00am-1:00pm

Location:
St. Johnsbury Farmer's Market
behind Anthony's Restaurant in downtown St. Johnsbury

Admission: FREE!

In partnership with The Family Place at St. Johnsbury School and St. Johnsbury Chamber of Commerce, Catamount Arts will offer family make-and-take art activities with local teaching artists each Saturday at the Farmer’s Market. Teaching artists include Sharon Kenney Biddle, Heidi Lague, and Thea Storz. Activities are geared toward children aged 6 and under, but all are welcome to participate.

Saturday, August 18, 10:00 am

Location:
Peformance Studio
Highland Center for the Arts
2875 Hardwick St.
Greensboro, VT

Tickets: $30 all seats ($5.00 early registration discount if purchased before August 3)

Explore Cameron McKinney’s NAGARE technique – which activates oppositional forces and contrasting sensations to achieve fluid transitions – in this two-hour workshop that combines the grace of modern dance with the speed and fluidity of streetdance, capoeira, and house dance. Focus on how to move smoothly from high to low to high again through dance phrases that involve every part of the body while rediscovering “the down” through floorwork from contemporary dance forms. By shifting the focus from an internal dialogue to creating movement that tells a story, the class will delve deeper into the cathartic potential of sweat and exhaustion, while offering a new and active method of expression. This workshop introduces a unique approach to contemporary floorwork, while also exploring the rawness of underground streetdance.

Open to dancers of all levels, 16 years old and up

USA, Rated PG, 97 Minutes

Directors: Julie Cohen & Betsy West

Cast: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Gloria Steinheim, Nina Totenberg

Showtimes:
Friday - 5:30 & 7:30
Saturday - 5:30 & 7:30
Sunday - 1:30, 5:30 & 7:30
Monday - 5:30 & 7:30
Tuesday - 7:30
Wednesday - 1:30 & 7:30
Thursday - 7:30

Tickets: $9 adults, $7 seniors, $6 members/students
Matinees and Bargain Nights (Monday & Tuesday): $7 adults, $5 seniors, $4 members/students

At the age of 84, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has developed a breathtaking legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon. But without a definitive Ginsburg biography, the unique personal journey of this diminutive, quiet warrior's rise to the nation's highest court has been largely unknown, even to some of her biggest fans - until now. RBG is a revelatory documentary exploring Ginsburg 's exceptional life and career.

USA, Not Rated, 94 Minutes
Director: Christopher Dillon Quinn
Cast: Natalie Portman

Showtimes:
Friday - 5:30 & 7:30
Saturday - 5:30 & 7:30
Sunday - 1:30, 5:30 & 7:30
Monday - 5:30 & 7:30
Tuesday - 5:30
Wednesday - 1:30 & 5:30
Thursday - 5:30

Tickets: $9 adults, $7 seniors, $6 members/students
Matinees and Bargain Nights (Monday & Tuesday): $7 adults, $5 seniors, $4 members/students

How much do you know about the food that's on your plate? Eating Animals is an urgent, eye-opening look at the environmental, economic, and public health consequences of factory farming. Tracing the history of food production in the United States, the film charts how farming has gone from local and sustainable to a corporate Frankenstein monster that offers cheap eggs, meat, and dairy at a steep cost: the exploitation of animals; the risky use of antibiotics and hormones; and the pollution of our air, soil, and water. Eating Animals offers attainable, commonsense solutions to a growing crisis while making the case that ethical farming is not only an animal rights issue but one that affects every aspect of our lives.

by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman

Friday, August 10th at 7:30,
Saturday, August 11th at 7:30,
Sunday, August 12th at 2:00,
Friday, August 17th at 7:30,
Saturday, August 18th at 7:30 and
Sunday, August 19th at 2:00

Location:
Haskell Opera House
93 Caswell Ave/1 Church Street
Derby Line, VT/Stanstead, QC

Tickets: $15 adults, $12 students and seniors

Little Shop of Horrors is a delectable sci-fi horror musical with an electrifying 1960s pop/rock score by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman.

Seymour Krelborn is a meek and dejected assistant at a floral shop who happens upon a strange plant, which he affectionately names “Audrey II” after his crush at the shop. Little does he know that this strange and unusual plant will develop a soulful R&B voice, a potty mouth, and an unquenchable thirst...

Friday, August 17, 7:30 pm
Saturday, August 18, 7:30 pm

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

Admission: Adults $35, $30, $25, $15 - Students $10
Seniors save 20% off the adult price

Join Kizuna Dance for a cross-cultural production that blends Japanese culture, streetdance, and contemporary dance; featuring works that span the company’s history, including a brand-new work that pushes the boundaries of contemporary floorwork. Follow three businessmen as they struggle to balance an insatiable drive to succeed with a desperate desire to rediscover intimacy in “Koibito”; discover the three sins in Buddhism through comedic tidbits of pop culture in “Three Poisons,” and explore Manabu Ikeda’s complex visual artwork through flowing, hyper-physical movement in “Foretoken.”

Monday, August 20 - Friday, August 24, 9am-noon

Location: Catamount Outback Artspace

Early Bird registration: $85 per student by July 9
Camp fee after July 9: $95.
 
This camp always sells out, so register early! Claymation Camp is limited to 9 students.
Please call Anne Campbell at 802-748-2600 x108 for information on scholarships or payment plans.

After paying the class fee, please register here: http://www.catamountarts.org/education/enrollment

Instructor: Meredith Holch

Learn how to use a video camera to shoot animation one frame at a time. Campers will write original scripts, sculpt their own characters, and create soundtracks with music, narration, dialogue and live sound effects. No previous experience is required. Non-violent, gender-neutral themes will be explored.

Meredith Holch is an award-winning Vermont filmmaker and teaching artist whose work has been broadcast on PBS and screened at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, the National Art Gallery in Washington, DC, and at international film festivals, art galleries, and community spaces. She has taught filmmaking and animation to children and adults for over a decade.

Monday, August 13, 7:30 pm
Monday, August 20, 7:30 pm

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

Admission: Adults $20 - Seniors $18 - Student $10 - Under 18 Free

Join Caspian Monday Music, led by artistic director Sir Thomas Zajkowski, for two special concerts in August at Highland Center for the Arts. These gifted chamber musicians will sweep you away with music from Bach, Elgar, Mozart, and Tchaikovsky.

US, Rated G, 94 minutes
Director: Frank Oz
Cast: Jim Henson, Frank Oz, David Goetz

Showtime:
Tuesday, August 21, 1:30 pm & 7:00 pm

Jim Henson's Muppets find themselves in Manhattan yearning to get a musical on Broadway in this charming film that also chides show business and its foibles. Kermit the Frog has just put together a successful variety show at Danhurst college (probably somewhere between Amherst and Dartmouth), and although he would like to mount it on Broadway so he would have a hit and be able to marry Miss Piggy, he cannot find backers. The Muppets are then forced to take jobs to support themselves, and it is while working as a waiter that Kermit meets the friendly Jennie (Juliana Donald). Jennie is the daughter of the owner of the restaurant and a source of great jealousy for Miss Piggy, who does not like competition. With stunning musical numbers involving a hundred or so Muppets and on-scene locations in New York City, the film is impressive in its merging of technical achievements and acting.

US, Rated G, 99 minutes
Director: Brian Henson
Cast: Tim Curry, Steve Whitmire, Frank Oz, Dave Goetz

Showtime:
Wednesday, August 22, 7:00 pm

Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of a young orphan who becomes involved with pirate Long John Silver is given the Muppet treatment in this vibrant children's musical. As in The Muppet Christmas Carol, the film stays loyal to the original storyline but casts the well-known puppets in many of the supporting roles. Young Jim Hawkins remains human, as does Long John Silver, played by an amusingly exaggerated Tim Curry. However, Captain Smollet is played by the evergreen Kermit the Frog; Miss Piggy, Gonzo, and Rizzo the Rat serve as roving narrators; and numerous other Muppets assume smaller roles. The familiar adventure plot is enlivened by the Muppets' good-natured, winking sense of humor, and a number of anarchic musical numbers are reminiscent of the original Muppet Show. Long-time followers of the Muppets may find the film less fresh than Jim Henson's original creations, but the combination of old-fashioned storytelling, intriguing design, and clever humor will undoubtedly amuse younger audiences.

USA, Rated PG, 88 Minutes

Directors: Geeta Patel, Ravi Patel.

Cast: Champa V. Patel, Geeta Patel, Ravi Patel

Showtimes:
Thursday, August 23, 7:00 pm

Tickets: Free

Meet the Patels is a laugh-out-loud real life romantic comedy about Ravi Patel, an almost-30-year-old Indian-American who enters a love triangle with the woman of his dreams… and his parents. This hilarious heartwarming film reveals how love is a family affair.

Friday, August 24, 5:00 pm

Location:
Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation
39 Strawberry Hill Rd.
Bethlehem, NH 03574

Tickets: $20 general admission, $17 BHC Members

Program:

• Scarlatti - Four sonatas
• Debussy - Masks; D'un cahier d'esquisses (1903-4)
• Bernstein - An excerpt from Symphony no. 2
• Liszt - Paraphrase after Verdi's Il Trovatore

USA, Rated R, 98 Minutes
Director: Ben Lewis
Cast: Paul Rudd, Mark Strange, Connie Nielson

Showtimes:
Friday - 5:30 & 7:30
Saturday - 5:30 & 7:30
Sunday - 1:30, 5:30 & 7:30
Monday - 5:30 & 7:30
Tuesday - 7:30 (7:45 on 9/4
Wednesday - 1:30 & 7:30 (7:45 on 9/5)
Thursday - 7:30 (7:45 on 9/6)

Tickets: $9 adults, $7 seniors, $6 members/students
Matinees and Bargain Nights (Monday & Tuesday): $7 adults, $5 seniors, $4 members/students

In the midst of World War II, major league catcher Moe Berg is drafted to join a new team: the Office of Strategic Services (the precursor to the CIA). No ordinary ballplayer, the erudite, Jewish Ivy League graduate speaks nine languages and is a regular guest on a popular radio quiz show. Despite his celebrity, Berg is an enigma - a closeted gay man with a knack for keeping secrets. The novice spy is quickly trained and sent into the field to stop German scientist Werner Heisenberg before he can build an atomic bomb for the Nazis.

USA, Rated R, 104 Minutes
Director: Shana Feste
Cast: Vera Farmiga, Christopher Plummer, Lewis MacDougall

Showtimes:
Friday - 5:30 & 7:30
Saturday - 5:30 & 7:30
Sunday - 1:30, 5:30 & 7:30
Monday - 5:30 & 7:30
Tuesday - 5:30
Wednesday - 1:30 & 5:30
Thursday - 5:30

Tickets: $9 adults, $7 seniors, $6 members/students
Matinees and Bargain Nights (Monday & Tuesday): $7 adults, $5 seniors, $4 members/students

Laura is a single mother living in Seattle, who has a constant need to put others and animals before her. When her estranged, criminally-minded father Jaack is kicked out of his retirement home, Laura agrees to drive him down the coast to live with her sister JoJo in Los Angeles. Along for the ride is her bright but troubled son Henry, and an assortment of animal charity cases. Without telling Laura, Jack convinces Henry to help him sell off his copious supply of marijuana at every stop of their journey, resulting in unexpected reunions with old friends and family.

Saturday, August 25, 7:00 pm

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

Admission: Adults $40, $35, $30, $20 - Students $10
Seniors save 20% off the adult price

“If you’ve seen them before, you already know. And if you’ve never seen them, words won’t do them justice. Le Vent du Nord is one of the best bands touring today, no matter your musical taste” (Syracuse News Time). Since its inception in August 2002, Le Vent du Nord has enjoyed meteoric success, performing well over 1,800 concerts over five continents and racking up several prestigious awards, including a Grand Prix du Disque Charles Cros, two Junos (Canada’s Grammys), a Félix at ADISQ, a Canadian Folk Music Award, and “Artist of the Year” at the North American Folk Alliance Annual Gala. On stage these friends create intense, joyful, and dynamic live performances that expand the bounds of tradition in striking global directions. This is the modern sound of tradition, a music of the here and now.

Saturday, August 25, 8 pm

Location:
St. Kieran Community Center for the Arts
155 Emery Street
Berlin, NH

Tickets: $16.00 (adults) and $12.00 (minors)

Tribute band, Chicago Total Access will be performing at the Arts Center at St. Kieran’s on Saturday, August 25th starting at 8:00 pm. Tickets for the show are $16.00 for adults and $12.00 for those under 18 and are available on line until 3 days prior (www.stkieranarts.org) for a small additional fee, at the arts center office and at the door on the day of the show.

Chicago Total Access is a hi-energy, explosive show band dedicated to covering the band's catalog that spans over 45 years. The audience will have "total access" to the music of Chicago. With 10 accomplished musicians, including a horn section, Chicago Total Access faithfully recreates the timeless music of Chicago in a way that no one else can! “25 or 6 to 4,” “You’re The Inspiration,” “Hard To Say I’m Sorry,” “Saturday In The Park,” “If You Leave Me Now”... the hits go on and on! There is no other American rock n roll band with horns that has influenced more musicians, is loved by millions of people worldwide, and has become such a deep part of Americana as the band Chicago. Since 1967, 46 years of sold out concerts, millions of record sales and legions of cheering fans worldwide, Chicago is still going strong.

Sponsors: Bank of NH and the Madelaine G von Weber Trust

Sunday, August 26, 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Location:
Dog Mountain
143 Parks Road
St. Johnsbury, VT 05819

Admission: FREE!

Website: http://jackievenson.com

Described by the Austin American Statesman as an “astonishing mix of raw soul, superb musicianship and laid back grace,” rising blues star Jackie Venson’s electrifying live shows bring the house down and leave audiences wanting more. The 28-year-old thoughtfully blends blues, R&B, indie, soul and rock ‘n’ roll with scorching guitar riffs, precise fretwork and smooth, smoky vocals. Venson first became captivated by music at the age of eight and went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts in composition and studio production from the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she studied classical piano. During her senior year at the college, she discovered her passion for the guitar and fell in love with the raw and gritty sound of the blues. Compared by fans and critics to the likes of Joss Stone, Amy Winehouse and Gary Clark Jr., Venson’s impassioned musicianship, emotionally reticent lyrics and love of performance come together in dynamic live-shows that leave audiences spellbound.

Opening Band: The Dave Keller Band

Presented by the Great North Woods Committee for the Arts

Sunday, August 26, 7:00 pm

Location:
Colebrook Country Club
15 Abenaki Lane
Colebrook, NH

Tickets: $15

Join the GNWCA as Hallie Day and Kyle Haley serve up a show of acoustic Soul and Rhythm & Blues at the Colebrook Country Club on Sunday, August 26th. Hallie, who lives in Pittsburg, has been wowing local audiences with her soulful interpretations of classic R&B songs, as well as original compositions.

In 2012, Hallie appeared in Season 11 of the national TV program “American Idol.” She and Kyle have been performing together for a number of years now. Kyle lends a guitar accompaniment that captures the soulful and whimsical intonations of Hallie’s vocals. The combination of the two promises an evening of engaging and memorable music!

In addition to following the GNWCA on FaceBook, please visit our website at www.gnwca.org for event information. For information on memberships, co-sponsorships and donations, call 237-9302 or 246-8998.

Tuesday, August 14, 7:00 pm
Encore: Tuesday, August 28, 7:00 pm

Location:
Catamount Arts Center
115 Eastern Ave.
St. Johnsbury, VT

Tickets: $15 adults, $12 Catamount Arts members, $6 students

Set in a world very like our own, this Romeo and Juliet is about a generation of young people born into violence and ripped apart by the bitter divisions of their parents. The most famous story of love at first sight explodes with intense passion and an irresistible desire for change, but leads all too quickly to heartbreaking consequences.

This is an on-screen event.

US, Rated PG, 101 minutes
Director: John Huston
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre

Showtimes:
Wednesday, August 29, 7:00 pm

Spade and Archer is the name of a San Francisco detective agency. That's for Sam Spade and Miles Archer. The two men are partners, but Sam doesn't like Miles much. A knockout, who goes by the name of Miss Wonderly, walks into their office; and by that night everything's changed. Miles is dead. And so is a man named Floyd Thursby. It seems Miss Wonderly is surrounded by dangerous men. There's Joel Cairo, who uses gardenia-scented calling cards. There's Kasper Gutman, with his enormous girth and feigned civility. Her only hope of protection comes from Sam, who is suspected by the police of one or the other murder. More murders are yet to come, and it will all be because of these dangerous men -- and their lust for a statuette of a bird: the Maltese Falcon.

2018 WHITE MOUNTAIN JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL

Thursday, August 30
Patio Reception - 6:00 pm
Film - 7:00 pm

Location:
Colonial Theatre
2050 Main St.
Bethlehem, NH

Tickets: $10 adults, $9 BHC Members

“Be it dip-pen on paper writing in Yiddish from Minsk in the 1940s or sheets of paper in a manual typewriter in NYC in 2006 or a Spanish-language volume from Chile being translated via computer, the importance of fashioning and transmitting words runs through the story with a brand of cinematic heft no text message is likely to equal.” - LISA NESSELSON, Screen Daily

Director:Radu Milhaileanu
Writers:Radu Milhaileanu, Marcia Romano
Based on the novel by Nicole Krauss
Stars:Gemma Arterton, Derek Jacobi, Eliot Gould, Sophie Nelisse, Mark Rendall
Genre:Drama
Languages:English, Yiddish
Length:2 hrs. 15 min
Rating:NR

Synopsis
The story of a long-lost book that mysteriously reappears and connects an old man searching for his son with a girl seeking a cure for her mother's loneliness.The scope of this multi-layered story spans decades and continents. It is filled with romance, suspense and humor, centered on the enduring power of love.

Friday, August 30 6:00 pm - It's a special end of the season party. Join us to celebrate our fifth anniversary! Open to all ticket holders.

US, Rated PG-13, 109 minutes
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan

Showtime:
Thursday, August 30, 7:00 pm

Longing to discover the identity of her true father before she exchanges her wedding vows, the daughter of a once-rebellious single mother secretly invites a trio of paternal candidates to her upcoming wedding in this feature adaptation of the beloved stage musical. Independent-minded single mother Donna (Meryl Streep) has always done her best to raise her spirited daughter, Sophie (Amanda Seyfried), while simultaneously running a successful hotel on a small Greek island, but now the time has come for this hardworking mom to finally let go. In just a few days, Sophie will be married, and Donna will stand by bittersweetly as her little girl takes flight. Of course, Donna's lifelong friends Rosie (Julie Walters) and Tanya (Christine Baranski) will both be present at the wedding, but unbeknownst to the mother, Sophie has furtively invited three very special guests of her own. When Sophie walks down the aisle on that fateful day, she wants her father to hand her off. The only problem is that Donna has never revealed the true identity of Sophie's father, leaving the resourceful future bride to narrow the list down to three potential candidates. Now, as three key figures from Donna's past return to the picturesque Mediterranean shores they all walked 20 years prior, one beautiful bride will discover the secret of her past while one lonely mother finds out that it's never too late for a little romance. Phyllida Lloyd, director of both the original London sensation as well as the hit Broadway incarnation, makes her feature directorial debut with this big-screen version of the beloved musical featuring 22 classic ABBA hits. Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, and Dominic Cooper co-star.

France, Rated R, 138 Minutes
Director: Xavier Beauvois
Cast: Natalie Baye, Laura Smet, Iris Bry

Showtimes:
Friday - 5:30 & 7:45
Saturday - 5:30 & 7:45
Sunday - 1:30, 5:30 & 7:45
Monday - 5:30 & 7:45
Tuesday - 5:30
Wednesday - 1:30 & 5:30
Thursday - 5:30

Tickets: $9 adults, $7 seniors, $6 members/students
Matinees and Bargain Nights (Monday & Tuesday): $7 adults, $5 seniors, $4 members/students

An affecting human drama of love, loss, and resilience unfolds against the backdrop of World War I. The women of the Paridier farm, under the deft hand of Hortense, the family's matriarch, must grapple with the workload while the men, including two sons, are off at war. New tools allow the women to triumph over the land, newfound independence is acquired, yet emotions are stirred especially when the men return from the front on short leaves. The film revels in the mysteries and beauties of the French countryside, unravaged by war, with painterly images bathed in natural light, yet keeps its focus on the intricate drama that plays out against the upheaval of the Great War.

In French with English Subtitles.

Back for one night only!

Saturday, September 1, 8:00 pm

Location:
Littleton Opera House
2 Union St.
Littleton, NH

Tickets: $5 advance sale, $6 at the door.

The Upstage Players invites audiences to The Actor’s Nightmare by Christopher Durang presented at the Littleton Opera House on September 1st at 8 pm. This 30-minute play was the star of an evening of shorts this past February and Upstage is breathing new life into it to compete in the New Hampshire Community Theatre Association’s One Act Festival in Concord on September 8th. Join us for this one night only experience to give this play the proper send off it deserves as Upstage competes against other theatres around the state for a place in next year’s regional festival.

The Actor’s Nightmare will be directed by Becky Cummings. Upstage Artistic Director Andrew Lidestri plays George Spelvin, a man who wakes up in his own worst nightmare. He’s starring in a play he’s never rehearsed, or in fact, even heard of, and he’s not an actor … but it’s five minutes until showtime. The play finds the cast bouncing in and out of several classic plays as George desperately tries to play a part he knows nothing about. The cast also includes local talent Meghan Bullard, Rosa Van Wie, and Owen Fogg.

This short evening is a great chance to enjoy the best Littleton has to offer. Dine out at one of our local restaurants, laugh at a hysterical short play, then head out for drinks, a stroll over the bridge, or catch a band playing at one of our other local venues. Make us part of an exciting evening. Don’t miss these laughs.

Performance will be ONE NIGHT ONLY on September 1st at 8 pm. Seating for Upstage Players shows is now reserved. Tickets are $5 in advance and $6 at the door. While tickets can be purchased at the door, choose your seats early but buying online at catamountix.com.

Sunday, September 2, 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Location:
Dog Mountain
143 Parks Road
St. Johnsbury, VT 05819

Admission: FREE!

Website: http://www.daimh.net

From fiery danceable jigs to lilting poignant ballads, Dàimh has garnered a fervid following with authentic time-honored Gaelic music rendered with a modern edge and stunning musical acumen. Pronounced “dive,” Dáimh takes their name from the Scottish Gaelic word for ‘kinship’ and they use lyrical fiddles, bright pipes, rhythmic mandolin and accordion under frontwoman Ellen Macdonald’s soaring gossamer vocals sung in Gaelic to create a visceral connection with their audiences. The five-piece band hails from across North America and the U.K. but they’re now based in Lochabar in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland; an area equally renowned for its pastoral beauty and rich cultural heritage. A favorite at folk festivals across the U.K. and Europe, Dáimh’s joyous live shows keep concertgoers coming back for more.

Opening Band: Iain MacHarg

Sunday, September 2, 8:00 pm

Location:
Colonial Theatre
2050 Main St
Bethlehem, NH

Tickets: Member general admission $34, general admission $39, reserved front & center $51

An American folk duo from Charleston, South Carolina Shovels & Rope is composed of husband and wife Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst. Combining threads from their individual solo careers, Shovels and Rope combines elements of country and punk rock to create its own brand of raw, American roots music. The duo originally came together when folk the duo collaborated for a one-off album, “Shovels and Rope” in 2008. A year later, the two artists married, and today Shovels and Rope boasts a celebrated discography, featuring releases like 2012’s “O’ Be Joyful” and “Swimmin’ Time.”

Presented and produced by Catamount Arts

Monday, September 3, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Location:
Fairlee Town Hall
75 Town Common Rd
Fairlee VT

Master Session: $50 (includes Ceilidh & Potluck from 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm)

Seasoned musicians will learn traditional tunes and songs from the Highland repertoire taught by members of the "Gaelic Super Group": Daimh. A traditional ceilidh will end the evening with tunes, drink and potluck! Beer available for purchase. No outside alcohol permitted. (The ceilidh is open to the public and is ticketed separately.) For more information please contact Molly Stone mstone@kcppresents.org

Presented by: Catamount Arts
Sponsored by: Fairlee Community Arts, Lake Morey Resort, Vermont Institute of Celtic Arts

Participants must bring their own instruments.

Instructors and students will break out into small groups:
Instructors:

• ROSS MARTIN: Guitar
• MURDO CAMERON: Mandola/Mandolin/Accordion
• ELLEN MACDONALD: Gaelic Song
• ALASDAIR WHITE: Fiddle
• ANGUS MACKENZIE: Pipes/whistle

New Album Out NOW: https://www.daimh.net/merchandise/the-rough-bounds/

About Daimh:

Daimh – Gaelic Supergroup and un-challenged champions of straight in the eye Highland music are based around West Lochaber and the Isle of Skye.

Formed around the turn of the century and taking the name from the Gaelic word for “kinship” Daimh (pronounced Dive) have taken their contemporary take of Highland and Gaelic music to over 20 countries, setting audiences alight from Moscow to San Francisco.

With a reputation as giants of the Bagpipes and Fiddle, Angus Mackenzie and Gabe McVarish lead the melodic powerhouse with fellow founder member Ross Martin underpinning the groove on the Guitar. The Band are joined by “new guy” Murdo “Yogi” Cameron on Mandola and Accordion to complete the instrumental line up.

Daimh have always had the renown and notoriety of working with some of the finest Gaelic singers in Scotland and the current line up only serves to cement that distinction with the addition of the Gaelic firmament’s most rapidly rising star, Ellen MacDonald on vocals.

Recent accolades include last year’s award for the “Best Folk Band in Europe” at the prestigious Folkherbst competition in Germany and most recently winner of “Folk Band of the Year” at the Scottish Traditional Music Awards.

Presented and produced by Catamount Arts!

Monday, September 3, 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Location:
Fairlee Town Hall
75 Town Common Rd
Fairlee VT

Tickets: $15 all seats

No outside alcohol.
Presented by: Catamount Arts
Sponsored by: Fairlee Community Arts, Lake Morey Resort, Vermont Institute of Celtic Arts

Join the folks of Gaelic Super Group, Daimh, for a traditional ceilidh at the newly renovated Fairlee Town Hall Auditorium. This is a rare opportunity to not only listen, but to play along and break bread with the “Best Folk Band in Europe”.

A ceilidh (Kay-Lee) is a social event at which there is Scottish or Irish folk music and singing, traditional dancing, and storytelling. Bring your instrument(s) and a dish to share (optional). Beer will be available on site for purchase. Come play and dance with Daimh, and don't leave without their brand new album: "The Rough Bounds".

For more information contact: Molly Stone mstone@kcppresents.org

• ROSS MARTIN: Guitar
• MURDO CAMERON: Mandola/Mandolin/Accordion
• ELLEN MACDONALD: Gaelic Song
• ALASDAIR WHITE: Fiddle
• ANGUS MACKENZIE: Pipes/whistle

New Album Out NOW: https://www.daimh.net/merchandise/the-rough-bounds/

About Daimh:

Daimh – Gaelic Supergroup and un-challenged champions of straight in the eye Highland music are based around West Lochaber and the Isle of Skye.

Formed around the turn of the century and taking the name from the Gaelic word for “kinship” Daimh (pronounced Dive) have taken their contemporary take of Highland and Gaelic music to over 20 countries, setting audiences alight from Moscow to San Francisco.

With a reputation as giants of the Bagpipes and Fiddle, Angus Mackenzie and Gabe McVarish lead the melodic powerhouse with fellow founder member Ross Martin underpinning the groove on the Guitar. The Band are joined by “new guy” Murdo “Yogi” Cameron on Mandola and Accordion to complete the instrumental line up.

Daimh have always had the renown and notoriety of working with some of the finest Gaelic singers in Scotland and the current line up only serves to cement that distinction with the addition of the Gaelic firmament’s most rapidly rising star, Ellen MacDonald on vocals.

Recent accolades include last year’s award for the “Best Folk Band in Europe” at the prestigious Folkherbst competition in Germany and most recently winner of “Folk Band of the Year” at the Scottish Traditional Music Awards.

Presented by the Great North Woods Committee for the Arts

Tuesday, September 4, 7:00 pm

Location:
Rialto Theatre
80 Main Street
Lancaster, NH

Tickets: $15 all seats

The Outside Track is one of the top Celtic acts in the world. Winner of “Best Group” in both the Live Ireland awards and the Tradition In Review awards. Live Ireland called them, “Among the top bands in the world–stunning on every cut.”

The Great North Woods Committee for the Arts will be hosting this award-winning international band on Tuesday, Sept. 4, at 7 p.m., at the Rialto Theatre in Lancaster. This will be the third appearance for this popular group in northern New Hampshire under the sponsorship of the GNWCA. This concert is co-sponsored by James Fitch.

The Outside Track’s marriage of Celtic music, song and footwork has been rapturously received around the world. Hailing from Scotland, Ireland, and Cape Breton, its five members are united by a love of traditional music and a commitment to creating new music on this as a foundation. They blend fiddle, accordion, harp, guitar, flute, whistle, step-dance and vocals with breathtaking vitality.

Please call 603-237-9302 or 603-246-8998 for additional information.

Thursday, September 6, 7:00 pm

Location:
Catamount Arts Center
115 Eastern Ave.
St. Johnsbury, VT

Tickets: $25 adult, $23 Catamount Arts member, $16 student

by Polly Stenham
after Strindberg

Vanessa Kirby (The Crown, NT Live: A Streetcar Named Desire) and Eric Kofi Abrefa (The Amen Corner) feature in the cast of this brand new production, directed by Carrie Cracknell (NT Live: The Deep Blue Sea) and broadcast live from the National Theatre to cinemas.

Wild and newly single, Julie throws a late night party. In the kitchen, Jean and Kristina clean up as the celebration heaves above them. Crossing the threshold, Julie initiates a power game with Jean – which rapidly descends into a savage fight for survival.

This new version of August Strindberg’s play Miss Julie, written by Polly Stenham, remains shocking and fiercely relevant in its new setting of contemporary London.

This is an on-screen event.

Friday, September 7, 7:00 pm

Location:
Peformance Studio
Highland Center for the Arts
2875 Hardwick St.
Greensboro, VT

Tickets: $10 all seats
Buy tickets for all four silent films and save $10! (discount will be applied automatically when you have placed tickets for all four films in your basket)

The Silent Film series spans four dates from June through September.

A re-telling of the classic Snow White from the Brothers Grimm, Blancanieves is a breathtakingly beautiful homage to the black-and-white Golden Age of European silent cinema, set in a romanticized 1920s Seville.

Runtime: 105 min.

Other Films in the Series: “The Artist”, Charlie Chaplin’s ” The Kid” with Live Piano Accompaniment, and “Our Hospitality” with Live Piano Accompaniment.

Sunday, September 9, 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Location:
Dog Mountain
143 Parks Road
St. Johnsbury, VT 05819

Admission: FREE!

Website: http://www.canzonieregrecanicosalentino.net/

Hailing from Puglia, Italy, Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino takes on Italy’s ingrained dichotomy of tradition and modernity with explosive performances full of vibrant energy, infectious rhythm and undeniable passion. The seven-piece group creates a colorful soundscape with their rich layers of propulsive frame drums, accordion, fiddles, synthesizers, harmonica, Italian bagpipes, bright classical guitar, bouzuki and soaring vocals (complemented by a fiery dancer). Regarded as Italy’s longest-standing traditional musical ensemble, Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino was founded in 1975 by acclaimed author Caterina Durante as part of a new wave of young performers re-inventing Southern Italy’s pizzica musical and dance traditions for a modern global audience. Traditionally, pizzica music was originally not only a source of entertainment but also of healing, used to sooth the physical and emotional wounds of Italian medieval workers. The power of music to heal continues to be a central theme of Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino as leadership of the ensemble was handed down to Mauro Durante by his parents in 2007. Today, the group continues to delight audiences across the world with their fresh perspective on traditional Southern Italian song and dance.

Opening Band: Aram Bedrosian

Friday, Sept. 14, 8:00 pm

Location:
Colonial Theatre
2050 Main St
Bethlehem, NH

Tickets: Reserved Front and Center $68, GA $52, Members $44

Emmy Award-Winning Comedian, Author, and Actress

With smart, observational humor and a legendary spontaneous interaction with the crowd, Paula Poundstone is one of our country’s pre-eminent comedians. She improvises with a crowd like a Jazz musician, swinging in unexpected directions without a plan, without a net. There’s a disarming ease in her craft, an immediate sense that she’s so quick on her feet you need never worry about the possibility of something going wrong.

Poundstone’s razor sharp wit and impeccable timing makes for the perfect fit as a regular panelist on NPR’s #1 show, the weekly comedy news quiz, Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me! When asked about Paula, Wait, Wait host Peter Sagal replied, “Paula Poundstone is the funniest human being I have ever known. Everything she does, thinks, or says is hilarious. If you cut her into bits, each piece would be funny. (But don’t!). Air becomes funny having been breathed by her.”

Paula is also an Author. She just released her second book, the critically acclaimed, The Totally Unscientific Study Of The Search For Human Happiness(Algonquin Books).The book landed at #1 on Amazon Best Sellers lists in humor in Hardcover, Audible and CD. The audio book, read by Poundstone, is one of five finalists for Audio Book of the Year. Paula voiced the character “Forgetter Paula” in Inside Out, winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Her commentaries appear on CBS Sunday Morning and guest appearances include Late Night with Stephen Colbert, Last Call with Carson Daly, Nerdist with Chris Hardwick, Weekend Edition and ‘Puzzle Master’ with Will Shortz! Oh, and did anyone notice that this past year she was an answer in the New York Times Crossword Puzzle?

Paula was the first woman, in its then 73rd year, to perform standup comedy at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. A star of several HBO specials – her 2nd special, Paula Poundstone Goes to Harvard marked the first time that elite university allowed its name to be used in the title of a television show. Paula also starred in her own series on HBO and ABC, The Paula Poundstone Show. Her memorable coverage of the 1992 Presidential election as a special correspondent for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, followed by behind-the-scenes coverage at the 45th Annual Prime Time Emmy Awards in 1993 set the standard for those who followed.

Paula is recognized on Comedy Central’s list of The 100 Best Standup Comics of All Time. She won an American Comedy Award for Best Female Standup Comic, and she is included in innumerable lists, documentaries and literary compendiums noting influential standup comedians of our time.

Tickets: Adults $13, Children (12 and under) $7

The train follows the tracks of the Connecticut and Passumpsic Railroad, established in 1850, and clings to the banks of the Connecticut and Passumpsic rivers, cutting through massive rock ledges and crossing many bridges.This year’s train ride will combine train cars from the historic Silver Fleet and Green Fleet, both fleets having recently been restored and renovated.

Saturday, September 15, noon to 10:00 pm

Location:
Orleans County Fairgrounds
Barton, VT

Tickets: $20 adults ($25 at the gate), Children 12 and under are free when accompanied by a paying adult.

Camping is available.

The performers include the Starline Rhythm Boys; Michael Hahn Band; Chickweed; Beg, Steal or Borrow; and Northern Flyer.

in conjunction with the Colors of the Kingdom Foliage Festival

Saturday, September 15th, 2:00 pm

Location:
Railroad Street next to the Kingdom Taproom
St. Johnsbury, VT

Admission: Free

Enjoy a fantastic afternoon of bluegrass music as part of the Colors of the Kingdom Foliage Festival.

• 2:00 pm - Berklee College of Music's MILE TWELVE
• 3:45 pm - Nashville, TN's MAYBE APRIL
• 5:30 pm - NEK's own BOB AMOS & CATAMOUNT CROSSING

Location: Catamount Outback Artspace

Admission: Free

Northern Vermont Songwriters is a new organization for songwriters to share knowledge and maximize creativity. Membership and meetings are free. We meet at 6:45 p.m. on the third Thursday of every month in the wooden octagonal building behind Catamount Arts in St. Johnsbury. Songwriters from Vermont, New Hampshire and anywhere else are invited to attend, and all genres of music are welcome. Songwriters may bring a song to share. The song may be performed live for the group, or a recording may be played (an iPhone dock will be available). Songwriters are encouraged to bring 6 copies of lyrics to share with the group. They may also bring lyrics only, or choose to simply listen and comment on the songs of others. Members might be invited to participate in public performances, including a Songwriter Round at Catamount Arts and at First Night. Another exciting benefit is occasional workshops hosted by music industry professionals, designed to help songwriters improve their craft. Please join us for our next meeting. Any questions should be sent to jakarns33@gmail.com; or phone: (802) 467-9859.

Fall 2018 - Spring 2019

Location: Various venues

Price: $350 Catamount Arts members, $437.50 non-members
* plus 6% Vermont sales tax

Purchase your 2018-19 SEASON PASS to KCP Presents to:
* Save more than $200 on your tickets!
* Get prime seats to 13 season shows
* Avoid disappointment on sold-out shows
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* Give unused tickets to friends and family
* Support the KCP Presents series

2018-19 shows include (more to be announced):

• Rodney Crowell, two-time Grammy-winning “new country” singer/ songwriter and longtime collaborator with Emmylou Harris. (September 21 at Fuller Hall, St. Johnsbury Academy)
• Neko Case – Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter known for her powerful voice, penetrating and poetic lyrics and musical worlds (September 27 at Fuller Hall)
• "Wetware" - Jay Craven’s new near-future film noir based on the novel by Craig Nova. (October 5 at Catamount Arts)
• Bettye Lavette – American blues/soul pioneer and collaborator with Otis Redding and James Brown, singing songs from Bob Dylan. With Very Special Guest James Blood Ulmer, guitar master of blues, jazz, and free funk. (October 26 at Fuller Hall).
• The New Chinese Acrobats performing award-winning acts from the Monte Carlo Circus Festival and World Circus Festivals (November 15 at LSC Alumni Gym).
• Sara Juli in her comic one-woman performance about her post-partum blues: Tense Vagina: An Actual Diagnosis. “Unforgettably hilarious” – London Independent. (November 16 at LSC Twilight Theater).
• Holiday Concert w/ The Boston Children’s Chorus w/ special guests: The Hilltones. (November 30 at United Community Church)
• Holiday Brass by 11-piece Rodney Marsalis Philadelphia Big Brass (December 21 at Fuller Hall)
• Asere! A Fiesta Cubana featuring musicians and dancers of the Havana, Cuba All-Stars (January 29 at Fuller Hall).
• The Logger and the Fiddler (February 2 at Fuller Hall)
• The Shanghai Opera Symphony Orchestra – 75 musicians onstage! (February 13 at Lyndon Institute Alumni Auditorium)
• Frankenstein – Mary Shelly’s science fiction classic performed by the acclaimed Aquila Theater. (March 27 at Fuller Hall)
• Fatoumata Diawara (March 31 at the Highland Center for the Arts)
• Choir of Clare College (April 4 at the United Community Church [formerly North Church])
• Ballet Hispanico – 15 dazzling dancers performing work by Latino choreographers from all over the world. “Fluid and personal…tender-hearted and playful.” – NY Times. (April 26 at Lyndon Institute)
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More information, tickets and season passes at KCPpresents.org

Friday, September 21, 7:00 pm

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

Tickets: $48, $38, $28, $15
Ticket prices do not include any applicable fees or sales taxes.

Save 20% when you buy by August 22. Discount is automatically reflected when you choose your seats.

Seniors and Catamount Arts members save $3.00 when ordering in person with id at the box office.

Combining careers as a country songwriter, producer and artist, two-time Grammy winner Rodney Crowell rose to fame during the 1980s as an influential figure in Nashville’s new breed of country traditionalists, along with Emmylou Harris, in whose Hot Band he worked for three years, playing rhythm guitar and singing harmony and duet vocals.

Crowell has maintained a prolific output well into the 200’s, with his most recent Grammy coming in 2014. He has performed and collaborated with his former wife, Rosanne Cash and with musicians including Ry Cooder, Jim Keltner, Willie Nelson. and fellow songwriters like Guy Clark. Crowell’s songs have been performed by Bob Seger, Waylon Jennings, George Jones, Emmylou Harris, Johnny Cash, Keith Urban, Tim McGraw, Crystal Gayle, Alan Jackson, The Oak Ridge Boys, Jewel, Kris Kristofferson, Sheryl Crow, and others. Crowell was admitted to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2003.

As he moves into elder-statesman territory, Crowell continues to extend the path carved out by the top-tier songwriters who preceded him. "All are so important," he said. "Bob Dylan would of course be an archetype, as would Neil Young, Johnny Cash, John Lennon. Every time they release work I find something in it." He would add a name to the pantheon. "Kris Kristofferson belongs in there, too. He personifies all that intelligence and emotional vulnerability and magnetism.”

Fifty years after Crowell first started playing as a teen in Houston garage bands, he still believes in the power of songs, and the responsibility of singing them. "The interesting thing about that garage band back then is that we would go from ‘I Saw Her Standing There’ by the Beatles to ‘Honky Tonkin’’ by Hank Williams. In southeast Texas those songs fit side by side.

"Recently, I think—I hope—that my study of the blues is starting to show up in my music. Those artists, whether it’s Lightnin’ Hopkins or John Lee Hooker or the acoustic Delta players, connected to something fundamental. With that in mind, I’m trying to move forward but also get back there."

“His sharpest, strongest, funniest music in years—perhaps ever. A bounty of weathered emotion and hard-won wisdom” — Slant Magazine

Saturday, September 22, 1:00 pm

Location:
Court Street Arts at Alumni Hall
Haverhill, NH

Tickets:: $10 per person, under 4 free

Hogwarts Homecoming is a celebration of magical fun and merriment for wizards and muggles alike. Offerings include Owls 101 (get up close and personal with live owls!), a performance with visiting Professor Marko the Magician, Quiddich, flying lessons, a horcrux scavenger hunt and more! Take a stroll down Diagon alley and sample treats from Honeydukes, try out new wands, experiment with potions, and hobnob with Hogwarts Professors. Don't forget to wear your house colors.

Please note, this event is a fan created festival, managed by a 501(c)3 nonprofit, run by volunteers, and supports other community activities in the region. Warner Bros. Entertainment and J.K. Rowling are not associated with or responsible for this event.

Tickets are $10 per person for both wizards and muggles. Age 4 and under can attend for free.

Legends of the 50’s & 60’s

Saturday, September 22, 7:00 pm

Location:
St. Kieran Community Center for the Arts
155 Emery Street
Berlin, NH

Tickets: $12.00 (adults) and $8.00 (minors)

Don Who? “The Man Who Can Do It All”- Don has honed his craft as a singer, songwriter, and comedian for over 40 years, and is well known in the industry as “The Man Who Can Do It All”. His latest project is a “Tribute to the Legends of the 60’s”. Don Who? continues to entertain audiences throughout the United States and Canada. Don has performed in the Vegas Production, “V, the Ultimate Variety Show”, alongside many other well-known entertainers. He has also performed in Atlantic City at the Hilton Hotel & Casino, Resorts Casino & Hotel in their Super Star Theater, the Turning Stone Casino in New York, Lily Langtry's Showplace in PA, the Mount Washington Cruise Ship, the Balsams Grand Hotel, the Mount Washington Grand Hotel in New Hampshire, and many of the well-known theaters and music halls in the Eastern United States and Canada. If you want to be thoroughly entertained, don’t miss “Tribute to the Legends of the 50’s and 60’s” as Don Who? pays tribute to Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin, Dean Martin, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Elvis, and Buddy Holly.

Sponsor: Passumpsic Savings Bank

Saturday, September 2, 7:00 PM

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

Tickets: $10 all seats, $5 for EBT card holders

“...fine music masterfully played and sung.” - Rob Resnik, Vermont Public Radio

After falling in love with HCA at their sold out show in 2017,Willa Mamet & Paul Miller return to play you their take on your best-loved classics and their searingly-worded originals.

Two voices and a guitar, like you’re all around the kitchen table. This night at HCA will also have Mamet at the grand piano. Folk, country, Americana, and grassy soul in one intimate, acoustic evening. Hear what happens when two dear friends love each other and the music — and bring you along for the ride.

With opening act Thao (of the Get Down Stay Down)

Thursday, September 27, 7:00 pm
(Doors open at 6:00 pm)

Tickets on-sale via Spotify on April 18th
General on-sale on April 20th

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

Tickets: $20, $32, $44, $62, students are free (plus $1 per ticket fee for Peer Solutions*)
Ticket prices do not include any applicable fees or sales taxes.

Save 20% when you buy by August 28. Discount is automatically reflected when you choose your seats.

Seniors and Catamount Arts members save $3.00 when ordering in person with id at the box office.

*Neko Case has partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 from every ticket will go to Peer Solutions and support their positive youth leadership and development program designed to prevent harm before it begins and engage lifetime ambassadors of positive change (www.peersolutions.org).

KCP Presents is very pleased to present three-time Grammy Award nominee Neko Case in a special concert to showcase the singer/songwriter’s newest work.

Five years have passed since Case's last solo project, The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You. In the interim, she sang on Whiteout Conditions, the 2017 release from longtime band mates the New Pornographers. The year before that, she released a vinyl box set of her solo work and joined country/pop singer/songwriter k.d. Lang and alternative/folk artist Laura Veirs on the case/lang/veirs project.

Recording that record was a revelation, from Veirs' innovative guitar tunings to Lang's skills in studio. "I learned so much experiencing the work ethic of those two," Case says. She considers Lang "probably the most natural producer I've ever seen. Watching her work was awe-inspiring."

After their national tour together, Case found similar transcendence in October 2016 sitting on a panel at the first-of-its-kind "Woman Producer" summit in Brooklyn, NY. Between discussions and performances from a diverse group of women who produce music from around the world, she wondered how it had taken such a long time to get to that moment, and why so many female pioneers had been forgotten.

"The George Martins and Quincy Joneses of the recording pantheon deserve every drop of praise and every project they have received," Case says. "But we can't keep telling the same stories over and over. We need more stories, more inspiration, more flavors."

She set to work on her next record looking for not just new stories but also new sounds. This time, she wanted to put herself in a setting far away from everything she knew. So she teamed up with Swedish producer Björn Yttling and went to Sweden to record during the fall of 2017. Case had already written songs with longtime collaborator Paul Rigby, laid down vocal and guitar tracks at WaveLab Studio in Tucson, and built Carnacial Singing, her recording space here in Vermont.

But in the middle of her stint in Stockholm, with the finish line in sight, she received a surreal 3am call telling her that her Northeast Kingdom house was burning and would likely be completely destroyed. She felt panicked and helpless.

The fire had started in the barn, where she kept an assortment of belongings, from artwork to old pianos. A friend had managed to get the dogs to safety. After the flames jumped to the house, her home was engulfed, too.

A few hours later, she went into a Stockholm studio and laid down the vocals for "Bad Luck," singing the lines she had written long before she realized they would land on her.

Case is now stoic about the fire. "If somebody burned your house down on purpose, you'd feel so violated. But when nature burns your house down, you can't take it personally." The month before the blaze, Hurricane Harvey had slammed into Texas and flooded Houston. Her home burned just as Puerto Rico was plunged into a nightmare by Hurricane Maria and wildfires incinerated California. "In the big picture, my house burning was so unimportant," she says. "So many people lost so much more: lives and lives and lives."

Case’s new record, Hell-On, came out of all of this reckoning with lost stories. It delivers both familiar Neko Case and something different. Death, extinction, exploitation, tides, animals, and adoration all blend recognizably. Case's trademark narrative gaps, just large enough for listeners to enter each song, likewise remain. As with Fox Confessor Brings the Flood and Middle Cyclone, Hell-On spins away from conventions of story, slipping into real life, with its fierce mess and blind catastrophes.

"I'm writing fairy tales, and I hear my life story in them, but they're not about me," Case says. "I still can't figure out how to describe it. But I think that's why we make music or write things. You've got to invent a new language."

And as for those fairy tales she's writing and the history she's remembering: "We need them now more than ever. We need stories from all sectors. Stories without endings. Stories with multiple endings. Stories that don't end happily, cautionary tales, everything. We don't need Disneyfied stories anymore."

A force of nature, an act of a mercurial, forgotten god, Hell-On is a record sealed by fire, filled with love and rage and dangers that might lay waste to everything at any moment. So if you wake up dazed in a smoking landscape, walking through the detritus of your own lost civilization with the smell of ash in your hair, your favorite sweater gone and a new song in your head, don't say you weren't warned.

About Thao:

Thao & The Get Down Stay Down-the San Francisco-based band fronted by singer and songwriter Thao Nguyen-releases their fourth album, A Man Alive, on March 4, 2016. Following the critical success of We The Common (2013), which was largely inspired by Thao's volunteer work with the California Coalition for Women's Prisoners, A Man Alive is an evolution in both subject matter and sound. Thao says: "I wanted A Man Alive to be beat- and bass-driven-rather than guitar-based-extending and elaborating upon the hip-hop influences of the previous record. A Man Alive is more instrumental, more riff- and loop-centric, and has more manipulated sounds." The Get Down Stay Down are at their best on this record, and Thao herself experimented with programming drumbeats for several tracks, although live drums are also played on every song.

Mostly recorded at Tiny Telephone Studios in San Francisco, A Man Alive was produced by Merrill Garbus of Tune-Yards. Collaborating with Garbus, who is a close personal friend, allowed Thao to achieve the sound she had been striving for on previous releases. "Looking back," she says, "I was less sure of what I wanted. With this record I had clearer vision and aspirations. I wanted emotion. I wanted power. I wanted beats. Merrill's priority was that I take songs and ideas and run with them; she pushed us all over the place. She carved out time and space for us to experiment at will and fostered a very supportive, creative environment. Everyone was compelled to go beyond what they were comfortable doing. Musician-wise we kept it tight knit because the songs were so personal and vulnerable, and it was such an intense process, I only wanted those who know me well."

A Man Alive finds Thao exploring darker and more personal territory than in her earlier songwriting. She grew up in Northern Virginia, on the outskirts of Washington, DC. When Thao was young, her father left the family. She helped out in her mother's laundromat as a teenager, sitting at the counter with a guitar, making change for customers, working on her first songs, and playing at open mics in the evenings. Her father drifted in and out of their lives.

"The record is essentially about my relationship with my dad, its trajectory. It's a document of my life in conjunction with his, even though we've always been leading our lives away from each other. Some are optimistic and forgiving, some are the opposite. There are songs from his perspective: I imagined what it would be like to have kids and choose to exist without them, or feel like you have to save them from yourself. I realized there was this relationship that I never really talk about, realized it's defined so much of me. So it was a point of reckoning. The record wrote itself. Painstakingly, of course."

The emotional center of A Man Alive is the gorgeous, plaintive "Millionaire," a song about a wayward father. While the song could have ended up as a folk ballad, its instrumentation and atmosphere is of a piece with the rest of the album, pushed along by heavily reverbed synthesizer, a simple guitar riff, and subdued drums and bass. "That's a sad fucking song," Thao said. "I remember walking out of the vocal booth, and I saw Merrill tearing up. It's uncompromisingly sad, which I don't traffic well in. It took a lot."

Much of A Man Alive is vibrant and danceable-including standout tracks such as "Astonished Man," "Slash/Burn," "Nobody Dies," and "Meticulous Bird"-and the juxtaposition of that exuberance with the dark themes explored in the lyrics is one of the album's great achievements. The songs are often punctuated by handclaps, sing-along choruses, and ass-shaking beats. While these songs come from a deeply personal origin, they have such an accessible quality that it is easy to imagine an engaged and participatory live audience. "I suspect that's always been my motive," Thao says, "but this is the most actualized that it's ever been. I wanted to make a record that was very introspective and personal, but it would also seek to communicate. And we would have fun performing it-not just fun, but I wanted a kind of crazy, rabid, animal energy. That's my favorite thing about performing-you can tap into this frenzy. We want people to dance and feel. And I want to do that every night, too."

A Man Alive is undoubtedly a new career highlight for Thao & The Get Down Stay Down. The album presents a fiercely original group sound that is rife with experimentation and playfulness. It demonstrates Thao's development as a songwriter. And it achieves that most elusive quality in music-to create an album of songs that are dark yet buoyant, tragic yet redemptive, personal yet inclusive.

Thursday, September 27, 7:00 pm

Location:
Catamount Arts Center
115 Eastern Ave.
St. Johnsbury, VT

Tickets: $25 adult, $23 Catamount Arts member, $16 student

★★★★★ ‘Ian McKellen reigns supreme in this triumphant production.’ (Daily Telegraph)

Broadcast live from London’s West End, see Ian McKellen’s ‘extraordinarily moving portrayal’ (Independent) of King Lear in cinemas.

Chichester Festival Theatre’s production received five-star reviews for its sell-out run, and transfers to the West End for a limited season. Jonathan Munby directs this ‘nuanced and powerful’ (The Times) contemporary retelling of Shakespeare’s tender, violent, moving and shocking play.

Considered by many to be the greatest tragedy ever written, King Lear sees two ageing fathers – one a King, one his courtier – reject the children who truly love them. Their blindness unleashes a tornado of pitiless ambition and treachery, as family and state are plunged into a violent power struggle with bitter ends.

This is an on-screen event.

Interactive acoustic duo presenting #1 hits!

Friday, September 28, 7:00pm

Location:
St. Kieran Community Center for the Arts
155 Emery Street
Berlin, NH

Tickets: $12.00 (adults) and $8.00 (minors)

Shot of JD is an interactive acoustic guitar duo that has been playing together for quite some time with a unique ability to play acoustic arrangements of various genres of music from rock to country and dance to hip hop. Jon Poulin, the “J” in JD and the front man of the duo, takes care of the lead vocals. He loves to mingle with the crowd. Dave Duchesne, the “D”, musician and guitar instructor, provides the guitar track as well as the vocal harmonies. The acoustic guitar sound is the basis of what they do, but the music goes way beyond that. Using a guitar synthesizer, Dave can pull in a variety of instrumental timbres; banjo, piano, steel drum, saxophone and more.

A local favorite, Shot of JD only plays number one hits. “Every song that we do in any genre needs to have hit number one on an established music chart” claims Dave. Frequently heard in and around the Jackson and North Conway area, this duo pulls the audience in and thrives on making everyone part of the music. Requests are accepted and singing along in encouraged! Having performed close to 400 shows, Shot of JD will do their best to make sure that you have a great time.

Saturday, September 29, 7:00 pm
Doors open at 6:00 pm

Location:
Littleton Opera House
Littleton, NH

Tickets: All seats $15

Inducted into the International Elvis Tribute Artist (ETA) Hall of fame, Mark Shelton is considered one of the most dynamic performers with astounding vocal prowess that leaves audiences mesmerized in amazement. But it is his incredible voice, strong and diverse, that leaves audiences in amazement. Engaging with that "Star" quality, Mark Shelton effortlessly moves from the 1950s to the 1970s Elvis Presley songs mirroring the King of Rock n' Roll. He nails every Elvis Presley song of any era with such precision that people sometimes think they are listening to a recording and are breathless when they discover it is a live singer. It is truly impressive.

Consistently performing sellout shows in his presentation of Elvis during “THE KING RETURNS” concert tours, Mark Shelton has become internationally acclaimed as an Elvis Tribute Artist, Mark Shelton and his highly impressive live band, leave audiences stunned in amazement at the world class quality of the production. As are all his Elvis Tribute concerts, this is a benefit concert to aid the fight against cancer for his bride’s continuing battle against stage iv lung cancer. Mark Shelton’s shows have received national attention being featured on ABCnews, CBS Inside Edition, Good Morning America, and many, many more; as well as receiving global accolades including feature stories in India, Europe, Africa, Fuji Television Network in Japan, and the Daily Mail in the United Kingdom! This show is not to be missed! Come see why the world is talking about this show!

Webiste: http://www.etaliveproductions.com/mark/

Jay Craven’s new near-future film noir based on the novel by Craig Nova.
With special guests for Q & A and reception!

Sunday, September 30, 3:00 pm

Location:
Latchis Theater
50 Main St.
Brattleboro, VT

Tickets: $15 and $10
Ticket prices do not include any applicable fees or sales taxes.

ALL PROCEEDS WILL SUPPORT MARLBORO COLLEGE FILM STUDENTS’ PARTICIPATION IN THE PRODUCTION OF OUR NEXT PRODUCTION — BASED ON JACK LONDON’S AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL, MARTIN EDEN.

“Wetware” is set in a near future where people down on their luck apply for genetic modifications to take on hard jobs in slaughterhouses, toxic cleanup and deep sea mining – jobs that nobody wants to do. With business booming, programmers at Galapagos Wetware up the stakes by producing high-end prototypes, Jack and Kay, for more sensitive jobs like space travel, counterterrorism, and deep cover espionage.

Galapagos genetic programmer Hal Briggs is sharp and creative but impetuous. He’s a socially awkward romantic in a transactional world. He keeps a virtual human clock at home and improvises as he goes on what qualities to include or delete in his gene splicing for Jack and, especially, Kay, to whom he develops a dangerous attachment.

Then word gets out that Jack and Kay have escaped from the Galapagos labs, before Briggs has completed his work. Where have they gone and what do they know? Briggs scrambles to track his fugitive prototypes and, as he reexamines Jack and Kay's codes, he makes a provocative discovery that will change everything.

The "Wetware” cast includes Jerry O’Connell (“Stand By Me,” “Jerry McGuire”), Cameron Scoggins (“The Deuce,” “Nashville”), Morgan Wolk (“The Affair,” “Miles Ahead”), Nicole Shalhoub (“The Good Wife,” “Madame Secretary”), Bret Lada ("Law and Order”), Aurélia Thiérrée (“Aurelia’s Oratorio,” “Bells and Spells”), Matt Salinger (“Captain America”), Garret Lee Hicks (“The Americans”), and Emmy- winner Gordon Clapp ("NYPD Blue," "Flags of Our Fathers”). Also Vermont actors including Rusty DeWees, Ariel Zevon, Allan Nicholls, Tara O’Reilly, and Dan Leventritt.

Music was composed by Craven’s 25-year collaborators Judy Hyman and Jeff Claus, of the Ithaca-based Horse Flies. And Craven excerpted Burlington filmmaker John Douglas’ “Auto-Warming” animation in his film.

Click here for video film trailer: https://vimeo.com/178329080

Sunday, September 30, 4:00 pm - Haskell Opera House, Derby Line, VT
Sunday, October 7, 3:00 pm - Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, VT

Tickets:
$25 Adult
$10 Children (6-17)
Children 5 and under are free
Tickets will be available at the door.

JOIN US FOR A COLORFUL MUSICAL CELEBRATION OF AUTUMN!

The Made in Vermont orchestra expands to include trumpets and timpani this fall, performing rousing works by Haydn and Brahms. Internationally-renowned violinist Soovin Kim treats us to a Mozart concerto in addition to conducting the ensemble. Again this year we collaborate with the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, presenting a new film by Robin Starbuck paired with a world premiere by Matthew LaRocca.

For questions or more information, please contact Grace Spain, Box Office Manager at grace@vso.org, or call (800) VSO-9293 x 10 or locally, (802) 864-5741 x 10.

Program:

• Mozart – Violin Concerto No. 1
• Matthew LaRocca – How We See Water (World Premiere Commission)
• Intermission
• Haydn – Symphony No. 60, “Il Distratto”
• Brahms – Hungarian Dances Nos. 1 and 5

The world premiere will be presented along with the screening of a new film by Robin Starbuck, a collaboration with the Middlebury New Filmmakers’ Festival.

Jay Craven’s new near-future film noir based on the novel by Craig Nova.
With special guests for Q & A and reception!

Friday, October 5, 5:30 pm & 7:30 pm

Location:
Catamount Arts Center
115 Eastern Ave.
St. Johnsbury, VT

Tickets: $20 to benefit NEK film students working on KCP’s next film, based on jack London’s autobiographical novel, Martin Eden.
Ticket prices do not include any applicable fees or sales taxes.

“Wetware” is set in a near future where people down on their luck apply for genetic modifications to take on hard jobs in slaughterhouses, toxic cleanup and deep sea mining – jobs that nobody wants to do. With business booming, programmers at Galapagos Wetware up the stakes by producing high-end prototypes, Jack and Kay, for more sensitive jobs like space travel, counterterrorism, and deep cover espionage.

Galapagos genetic programmer Hal Briggs is sharp and creative but impetuous. He’s a socially awkward romantic in a transactional world. He keeps a virtual human clock at home and improvises as he goes on what qualities to include or delete in his gene splicing for Jack and, especially, Kay, to whom he develops a dangerous attachment.

Then word gets out that Jack and Kay have escaped from the Galapagos labs, before Briggs has completed his work. Where have they gone and what do they know? Briggs scrambles to track his fugitive prototypes and, as he reexamines Jack and Kay's codes, he makes a provocative discovery that will change everything.

The "Wetware” cast includes Jerry O’Connell (“Stand By Me,” “Jerry McGuire”), Cameron Scoggins (“The Deuce,” “Nashville”), Morgan Wolk (“The Affair,” “Miles Ahead”), Nicole Shalhoub (“The Good Wife,” “Madame Secretary”), Bret Lada ("Law and Order”), Aurélia Thiérrée (“Aurelia’s Oratorio,” “Bells and Spells”), Matt Salinger (“Captain America”), Garret Lee Hicks (“The Americans”), and Emmy- winner Gordon Clapp ("NYPD Blue," "Flags of Our Fathers”). Also Vermont actors including Rusty DeWees, Ariel Zevon, Allan Nicholls, Tara O’Reilly, and Dan Leventritt.

Music was composed by Craven’s 25-year collaborators Judy Hyman and Jeff Claus, of the Ithaca-based Horse Flies. And Craven excerpted Burlington filmmaker John Douglas’ “Auto-Warming” animation in his film.

Click here for video film trailer: https://vimeo.com/178329080

Saturday, October 6, 12:55 pm
Encore - Saturday, October 13, 12:55 pm

Location:
Catamount Arts Center
115 Eastern Ave.
St. Johnsbury, VT

Tickets: $25 adult, $23 Catamount Arts member, $16 student

Soprano Anna Netrebko sings her first Met Aida, with mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili as her formidable rival Amneris. Aleksandrs Antonenko is the warrior Radamès, and Nicola Luisotti takes the podium for the Met’s monumental production.

This is an on-screen event.

Tuesday, October 9, 7:00 pm
Encore: Tuesday, October 16, 7:00 pm

Location:
Catamount Arts Center
115 Eastern Ave.
St. Johnsbury, VT

Tickets: $15 adults, $12 Catamount Arts members, $6 students

Down on his luck in the suburbs, John Falstaff plans to hustle his way to a comfortable retirement by seducing the wives of two wealthy men. Unknown to him, it’s the women of Windsor who really pull the strings, orchestrating Falstaff’s comeuppance amidst a theatrical smorgasbord of petty rivalries, jealousies and over-inflated egos.

This is an on-screen event.

by Agatha Christie

Friday, October 12th at 7:30,
Saturday, October 13th at 7:30,
Sunday, October 14th at 2:00,
Friday, October 19th at 7:30,
Saturday, October 20th at 7:30 and
Sunday, October 21st at 2:00.

Location:
Haskell Opera House
93 Caswell Ave/1 Church Street
Derby Line, VT/Stanstead, QC

Tickets: $15 adults, $12 students and seniors

A group of strangers is stranded in a boarding house during a snow storm, one of whom is a murderer. Suspects and motives are investigated by the authorities. To get to the rationale of the murderer's pattern, the policeman probes the background of everyone present, and rattles a lot of skeletons.

FRIDAY, OCT. 12, 8 PM

Location:
Colonial Theatre
2050 Main St
Bethlehem, NH

Ticket: $52 Reserved front & center, $44 General admission, $37 Members general admission.

“A wickedly sharp observer of the human condition.” —Rolling Stone

Greg Brown was born in the Hacklebarney section of southeastern Iowa and raised by a family that made words and music a way of life. His seasoned songwriting, storytelling, and music are deeply rooted in that place. He moves audiences with warmth, humor, a thundering voice and his unpretentious musical vision. His mother played electric guitar, his grandfather was a banjo player and his father was a holy roller preacher. Brown’s songwriting has been lauded by many, and his songs have been covered by Willie Nelson, Carlos Santana, Joan Baez, Mary Chapin Carpenter and more. At the personal request of Jeff Bridges, Brown also contributed songs for Bridges’ Oscar-Winning role in the film Crazy Heart. Ultimately, Brown is a storyteller who moves his audiences with his warmth, humor and deeply human musical vision.

Saturday, October 20, 12:55 pm
Encore - Sunday, October 21, 12:55 pm

Location:
Catamount Arts Center
115 Eastern Ave.
St. Johnsbury, VT

Tickets: $25 adult, $23 Catamount Arts member, $16 student

Saint-Saëns’s biblical epic Samson et Dalila stars Elīna Garanča and Roberto Alagna in the title roles; the pair was last seen together by HD audiences in the acclaimed 2010 transmission of Bizet’s Carmen. Laurent Naouri co-stars as the High Priest, with Elchin Azizov as the Philistine King Abimélech and Dmitry Belosselskiy as the Old Hebrew. Darko Tresnjak, the Tony Award–winning director of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, makes his Met debut directing the first new Met production of the opera in 20 years. Sir Mark Elder conducts.

This is an on-screen event.

Sunday, October 21, 7:00 pm

Location:
Latchis Theatre
48 Main St.
Brattleboro, VT

Tickets: $36 all seats

George Winston grew up mainly in Montana, and also spent his later formative years in Mississippi and Florida. During this time, his favorite music was instrumental rock and instrumental R&B, including Floyd Cramer, the Ventures, Booker T & The MG’s, Jimmy Smith, and many more. Inspired by R&B, jazz, Blues and rock (especially the Doors), George began playing organ in 1967. In 1971 he switched to the acoustic piano after hearing recordings from the 1920s and the 1930s by the legendary stride pianists Thomas “Fats” Waller and the late Teddy Wilson. In addition to working on stride piano, he also at this time came up with his own style of melodic instrumental music on solo piano, called folk piano.

Since 1972 George has released thirteen solo piano albums: AUTUMN (1980), WINTER INTO SPRING (1982), DECEMBER (1982), SUMMER (1991), FOREST (1994), LINUS & LUCY-THE MUSIC OF VINCE GUARALDI (1996), PLAINS (1999), which was inspired by his Eastern Montana upbringing, NIGHT DIVIDES THE DAY - THE MUSIC OF THE DOORS (2002), MONTANA-A LOVE STORY (2004) and GULF COAST BLUES & IMPRESSIONS-A HURRICANE RELIEF BENEFIT (2006), LOVE WILL COME - THE MUSIC OF VINCE GUARALDI VOL 2 (2010), GULF COAST BLUES & IMPRESSIONS 2-A LOUISIANA WETLANDS BENEFIT (2012), and SPRING CAROUSEL-A CANCER RESEARCH BENEFIT.

In 2001 George released REMEMBRANCE - A MEMORIAL BENEFIT, a seven song EP of piano, guitar and harmonica solos, to benefit those affected by 9/11. He has also worked with the late George Levenson of Informed Democracy (www.informeddemocracy.com) on three projects: a solo guitar soundtrack for SADAKO AND THE THOUSAND PAPER CRANES, and soundtracks of piano, guitar and, harmonica solos for PUMPKIN CIRCLE, and BREAD COMES TO LIFE. In addition, he has recorded the solo piano soundtrack for the children’s story THE VELVETEEN RABBIT for Rabbit Ears Productions.

George is also working on solo guitar and is recording the masters of the Hawaiian Slack Key guitar for an extensive series of albums for Dancing Cat Records (www.dancingcat.com). Slack Key is the name for the beautiful solo fingerstyle guitar tradition, unique to Hawaii, which began in the early 1800s and predated the steel guitar by over half a century.

He is also recording his main inspirations for his harmonica playing: Sam Hinton, Rick Epping, and Curt Bouterse.

Tuesday, October 23, 7:00 pm - Benedict Cumberbatch as the monster
Wednesday, October 24, 7:00 pm - Benedict Cumberbatch as the monster
Tuesday, October 30, 7:00 pm - Johnny Lee Miller as the monster
Wednesday, October 31, 7:00 pm - Johnny Lee Miller as the monster

Location:
Catamount Arts Center
115 Eastern Ave.
St. Johnsbury, VT

Tickets: Adults - $25, Members - $23, Students - $16

For a limited time only, National Theatre Live's Encore Series brings a selection of award-winning British theatre productions to your local cinema.

Directed by Academy Award®-winner Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire), this thrilling production features Benedict Cumberbatch (BBC's Sherlock, The Imitation Game) and Jonny Lee Miller (CBS's Elementary, Trainspotting) alternating roles as Victor Frankenstein and his creation.

The production was a sell-out hit at the National Theatre in 2011, and the broadcast has since become an international sensation, experienced by over half a million people in cinemas around the world.

Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein's bewildered Creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the friendless Creature, increasingly desperate and vengeful, determines to track down his creator and strike a terrifying deal.

Urgent concerns of scientific responsibility, parental neglect, cognitive development and the nature of good and evil are embedded within this thrilling and deeply disturbing classic gothic tale.

Original broadcast date: March 17, 2011

This is an on-screen event.

Presented by the Great North Woods Committee for the Arts

Wednesday, October 24, 7:00 pm

Location:
Rialto Theatre
80 Main St.
Lancaster, NH

Tickets: $15 all seats

Identical twins Camille and Kennerly Kitt are multi-talented professional duet harpists and actresses. Known as the “Harp Twins”, Camille and Kennerly have a passion and flair for arranging and performing contemporary music for Harp Duet and perform internationally as a dynamic acoustic and electric rock/pop/contemporary Harp Duo.

The Harp Twins have achieved extraordinary success by taking Electric Harps and acoustic Concert Grand Harps to unprecedented levels and smashing boundaries between different genres of music. The duo has amassed over 625,000 fans across their social media sites and over 33 million views on their YouTube music videos, easily making Camille and Kennerly the most followed and recognizable harpists in the world. Mixing their virtuoso harp skills with their stunningly complex arrangements of rock, metal, and soundtrack hits, the Harp Twins deliver exciting performances audiences cannot forget!

Please call 603-237-9302 or 603-246-8998 for additional information.

performing songs by Bob Dylan

with special guest James Blood Ulmer

Friday, October 26, 7:00 pm

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

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

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“Soul singing doesn’t get any better.” -- New York Times

Three-time Grammy nominee Bettye LaVette is no mere singer. She is not a songwriter, nor is she a "cover" artist. She is an interpreter of the highest order. Bettye was performing during the birth of soul music in the 60s and she’s still creating vital recordings today. To quote the late, great George Jones: "Bettye is truly a 'singer's singer'."

Soul diva Bettye LaVette recorded her first hit at 15 (Let Me Down Easy) and toured with soul pioneers Otis Redding, Ben E. King and James Brown. Although the recording industry proved fickle, LaVette has performed consistently during the past half-century, gaining cult followings in Europe and across the U.S.

During the 1990’s and 2000’s, Bettye began to gain wider appeal, performing Love Reign O'er Me at The Kennedy Center Honors in a tribute to The Who. She brought the house down and suddenly found a whole new audience for her unparalleled style of blues and soul singing. In 2009 she performed a show-stopping rendition of Sam Cooke’s A Change Is Gonna Come with Jon Bon Jovi for President-elect Obama’s kick-off Inaugural concert. In April of that year she shared the stage with Paul McCartney & Ringo Starr at Radio City Music Hall.

And in late 2016, her friend, photographer Carol Friedman, pitched Bettye the idea of doing an album of all Bob Dylan songs, with Grammy Award-winning producer, Steve Jordan. The resulting Verve Records album “Things Have Changed” was born. Bettye LaVette’s interpretations of these Bob Dylan songs will be featured in our concert.

LaVette has received the Blues Music Award for Best Soul Blues Female Artist from The Blues Foundation. She has appeared on National Public Radio's World Cafe, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, and performed a Tiny Desk Concert. She has also appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with David Letterman, Late Night With Conan O'Brien, Austin City Limits, A Prairie Home Companion, and more.

With a voice that critics today compare to the early Tina Turner, Bettye LaVette continues to break new ground.

FROM ROLLING STONE:

“On the title track of this remarkable collection of Bob Dylan covers, Betty LaVette wraps her voice – full of grit, brass and soul when she started recording at 16 in 1962; worn and sharpened by experience now at 72 – around a lyric about sitting on the lap of strange man with pale skin and an assassin's eye. The way she tells it, that man could be the song's author or a villain in an epic of intrigue, or maybe there's no difference between the two. She makes the song so alive with consequence and possibility, it's able to transform into whatever she or the listener needs it to be in the moment: a spy movie, a romance novel, a Biblical parable of reckoning, a bittersweet memory of a time when caring mattered or a way of drinking away the pain of that memory.”

“This (Dylan songs) album is more hers – more personal and reflective of her wicked ways, sly humor and battle-tested wisdom – than any she's made. Consider Dylan a jumping off point for LaVette – a way of drawing power and focusing attention until she can take the time she needs to describe the world the way it feels to her: a tangle of longing, lust, struggle and hard-won satisfaction.”

WITH SPECIAL GUEST, JAMES BLOOD ULMER

Mighty jazz, blues, free funk guitarist James 'Blood' Ulmer will perform an opening set for Bettye LaVette. Ulmer is best known for his defining collaboration with jazz saxophone pioneer, Ornette Coleman. But his raucous guitar and leathery vocals take audiences back to his deep southern roots in the blues.

“With jangling, chiming chords and a strident delivery with trembling vocals, Ulmer evoked the blues of despair and desperation, the rolling blues of the itinerant, and directly, the electric blues of Muddy Waters and Howling Wolf. Powered, trippery runs drifted into harmolodic abstract with creeping riffs rising up with the force of a hot, bubbling, volcanic spring. Then a grizzled edge to the slurred vocals cut through until the guitar took on a soft, hurdy-gurdy tone for Ulmer to bow out with humble grace after a spellbinding set.” – Geoff Winston, London Jazz News (UK)

“Mr. Ulmer's guitar tone, a gasping, metallic cry, expresses everything from out-in-the-woods loneliness to nail-chewing, urban anxiety. He performed brilliantly. And by organically mixing Chuck Berry and country licks, be-bop and blues ideas, he seemed to be saying that all these things are connected, and that the music and its original makers are our common inheritance.” – Peter Watrous, NY Times.

Violin, Cello, and Piano

Saturday, October 27, 7:30 pm

Location:
South Church
1052 Main Street
St. Johnsbury, VT

Tickets: Adults - $18
Senior - $16
Student - $6
Special* - $6
*For those who find the regular price beyond their budget. We believe classical music should be available to everyone. Just request the special rate. No questions asked.

Season Passes are available by calling the box office at 802-748-2600.

"Eloquent, enthralling." — The Boston Globe

Our audience agreed with the Globe when it raved, "Be sure to have them back!" Here they are four seasons later with a sure-to-please program featuring works of Arthur Foote, Shostakovitch,and Schumann.

• Arthur Foote — Piano Trio no. 2 in B flat major, Op. 65
• Dmitri Shostakovitch — Piano Trio No. 2 in Eminor, Op. 67
• Robert Schumann — Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 63

by Alan Bennett

Thursday, November 1, 7:00 pm

Location:
Catamount Arts Center
115 Eastern Ave.
St. Johnsbury, VT

Tickets: $25 adult, $23 Catamount Arts member, $16 student

‘Leaves you bobbing on a wave of happiness’ Independent

Alan Bennett’s sharp and hilarious new play is ‘just what the doctor ordered’ (Daily Telegraph). Filmed live at London’s Bridge Theatre during its limited run, don’t miss this acclaimed production full of ‘singalongs and stinging wit’ (Guardian).

The Beth, an old fashioned cradle-to-grave hospital serving a town in Yorkshire, is threatened with closure as part of an efficiency drive. A documentary crew, eager to capture its fight for survival, follows the daily struggle to find beds on the Dusty Springfield Geriatric Ward, and the triumphs of the old people’s choir.

One of Britain’s most celebrated writers, Alan Bennett’s plays include The History Boys, The Lady in the Van and The Madness of George III, all of which were also seen on film. Allelujah! is his tenth collaboration with award-winning director Nicholas Hytner.

Letterpress graphic by Alan Kitching, art directed by Michael Mayhew

November 9, 10, 16, and 17 at 7:30 pm
Sunday matinees on November 11 and 18 at 2:00 pm

Location:
Littleton Opera House
2 Union St.
Littleton, NH

Tickets: RESERVED $10 for advance purchase or $12 at the door

Group Rate: Tickets must be purchased all at once for discount. Patrons may a contact Upstage Players about group sales and school rates at GetUpstageTickets@gmail.com

By Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman

Laugh heartily and sigh deeply at one of the funniest comedies of the ages. Kaufman and Hart’s batty reflection on the madness of sanity in a mad world remains as insightful and delightful as when it first graced the stage. Tony, attractive young son of the unhappily affluent Kirbys, falls in love with Alice Sycamore and brings his parents to dine at the joyous quirky home of the Sycamore’s, on the wrong evening. In a house where you do as you like, no questions asked - they encounter the open circle of Sycamore family and friends - novel novelist, devoted dancer, ballet master, ex-Grand Duchess waitress, amateur printer, tax evaders, society shirkers and free thinkers and the evening explodes into hysterical, and all too real, fireworks.

You Can’t Take it with You is directed for the Upstage Players by Becky Cummings.

Season Tickets now available! Get a discounted price on premium seats. A limited number of season tickets are available for each show and each performance. Buying tickets for all three season shows at the door would cost $40. For only $30, get your tickets early and in a prime location only available to season ticket holders. Call the Catamount Arts Box Office to purchase and select season tickets. See our whole season and support local arts!

Saturday, November 10, 12:55 pm
Encore - Saturday, November 17, 12:55 pm

Location:
Catamount Arts Center
115 Eastern Ave.
St. Johnsbury, VT

Tickets: $25 adult, $23 Catamount Arts member, $16 student

Nico Muhly’s Marnie, based on Winston Graham’s novel, which in turn inspired Alfred Hitchock’s suspenseful thriller, has its U.S. premiere at the Met this season. Isabel Leonard stars in the title role opposite Christopher Maltman as her blackmailing husband Mark Rutland, Iestyn Davies as his brother Terry, Janis Kelly as Mrs. Rutland, and acclaimed mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves as Marnie’s mother. Robert Spano makes his company debut conducting.

Marnie is a co-commission and co-production with English National Opera, where the production premiered in 2017

Thursday, November 15, 7:00 pm

Location:
Northern Vermont University-Lyndon Alumni Gym
1001 College Road
Lyndonville, VT

Tickets: $36 general admission, students are free
Ticket prices do not include any applicable fees or sales taxes.

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Created in association with the world-famous Cirque Eloize company, The New Chinese Acrobats represent the next step in the evolution of acrobatic companies from the East. Mixing new techniques and acts with ancient traditions, The New Chinese Acrobats present the opportunity to view the best of China’s ancient folk art, mixed with the style and virtuosity of today’s generation. With performers selected from across China for their high-level acrobatic skills and innovative staging, the show includes award-winning acts from prestigious world-class events including Monte Carlo Circus Festival and World Circus Festival of Paris.

Tense Vagina - An Actual Diagnosis

Friday, November 16, 7:00 pm

Location:
Alexandar Twilight Theater
Northern Vermont University-Lyndon
1001 College Road
Lyndonville, VT

Tickets: $22 and $15. Students are free.
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Tense Vagina: an actual diagnosis is a feminist-flavored comedy about motherhood - its beauty, challenges, isolation, comedy and influence on the human experience. This evening-length solo uses humor, movement, sounds, songs, text and audience participation to reveal “all that is awesome and all that sucks” when it comes to being a mother.

Tense Vagina focuses on the seldom-discussed and taboo aspects of motherhood, such as loss of bladder control, libido, tears, monotony, loneliness and dildos. With an original set by Pamela Moulton, lighting by Justin Moriarty, and costume by Carol Farrell.

"She had the audience laughing out loud as she lay bare her personal secrets.” — The Portland Press Herald, Portland, ME.

With special funding support from the New England Foundation for the Arts.

with special guests, The Hilltones

Friday, November 30, 7:00 pm

Location:
United Community Church (formerly North Church)
1325 Main St.
St. Johnsbury, VT

Tickets: $34, $28, $15. Students are free.
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The Boston Children’s Chorus is a world-class music troupe that unites children ages 7-18 across differences of race, religion and economic status. Their annual holiday concerts entertain all ages and help inspire the season.

Boston Children’s Chorus international cultural exchange tours include Japan, Mexico, Jordan, England, Scotland, Vietnam, Cambodia, the Czech Republic and Germany. Invited as featured performers on the National Public Radio program “From the Top,” the BCC also won the 2013 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award, distinguishing the chorus as one of the top arts and humanities-based programs in the nation. BCC accepted the award from First Lady Michelle Obama at the White House.

“A vision of artistic excellence and social diversity fulfilled.” – Boston Globe.

With special guests The Hilltones of St. Johnsbury Academy, one of northern New England’s finest youth choral ensembles.

Saturday, December 1, 12:55pm
Encore- Sunday, December 8, 12:55pm

Location:
Catamount Arts Center
115 Eastern Ave.
St. Johnsbury, VT

Tickets: $25 adults, $23 member, $16 students

The groundbreaking broadcast that launched the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series to movie theaters in 2006, The Magic Flute enchanted opera lovers from around the world with the whimsical humor and breathtaking puppetry of Julie Taymor’s hit production, presented in a shortened English-language version. Under the baton of Maestro James Levine, a winning ensemble cast—including Nathan Gunn, Ying Huang, Matthew Polenzani, Erika Miklósa, and René Pape—brings fresh life to Mozart’s timeless fairy tale.

This is an on-screen presentation.

Saturday, December 1, 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Location:
Catamount Arts Classroom
115 Eastern Ave.
St. Johnsbury, VT

Instructor: Penny Hewitt

Enjoy the simple pleasure of creating a decoration or gift from materials responsibly harvested in the Northeast Kingdom. Utilizing techniques common to the Scandinavian and Russian styles of basketry, you will craft birds and stars using strips of inner bark from the paper birch, and also learn how these materials are harvested and prepared.

Workshop fee: $45 for Catamount Arts members and high school students/$50 for non-members; in addition, please bring a $20 materials fee, payable to the instructor. Scholarship funds are available for high school students; please call Anne at 802-748-2600 ext. 108 for details.

Registration deadline: November 23

A craftsperson, teacher, homesteader, and homeschooling mom, Penny Hewitt lives with her family on a diversified farm in the Northeast Kingdom. Working with responsibly harvested and hand-processed materials from the forest surrounding her home, Penny seeks to create objects of beauty that are useful in everyday life. She is inspired by traditions of other cultures, and grateful for the opportunities of connection to people, place, nature, and self that her craft cultivates. Her experience with weaving includes teaching workshops, leading homeschool groups, and crafting for income.

Wednesday, December 5, 7:00 pm

Film screening and discussion hosted by VT CARES

Location:
Catamount Arts Center
115 Eastern Ave.
St. Johnsbury, VT

Admission: Free

HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE chronicles the activism of ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power? And TAG (Treatment Action Group), whose innovation revolutionized early HIV/AIDS activism and created access to life saving medical treatments. It is a powerful account of self-made activists demanding rights and healthcare for people living with HIV/AIDS. After the film screening VT CARES will host a panel to answer questions and provide more information about HIV awareness and AIDS advocacy work that is going on locally here in Vermont. Film run time is 2 hours.

For more information on the film check out https://surviveaplague.com/

Thursday, December 6, 7:00 pm

Location:
Catamount Arts Center
115 Eastern Ave.
St. Johnsbury, VT

Tickets: $25 adult, $23 Catamount Arts member, $16 student

Broadcast live from the National Theatre, Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeare’s famous fated couple in his great tragedy of politics, passion and power.

Caesar and his assassins are dead. General Mark Antony now rules alongside his fellow defenders of Rome. But at the fringes of a war-torn empire the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony have fallen fiercely in love. In a tragic fight between devotion and duty, obsession becomes a catalyst for war.

Director Simon Godwin returns to National Theatre Live screens with this hotly anticipated production, following broadcasts of Twelfth Night, Man and Superman and The Beaux’ Stratagem.

This is an on-screen event.

Saturday, December 15, 12:55 pm
Encore - Saturday, December 22, 12:55 pm

Location:
Catamount Arts Center
115 Eastern Ave.
St. Johnsbury, VT

Tickets: $25 adult, $23 Catamount Arts member, $16 student

Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Verdi’s timeless tragedy La Traviata. Directed by Michael Mayer, this new production features a dazzling 18th-century setting that changes with the seasons. Diana Damrau is the doomed heroine Violetta, opposite Juan Diego Flórez as her lover, Alfredo, and Quinn Kelsey as Alfredo’s protective father, Giorgio Germont.

This is an on-screen event.

with special guests, The Newark Balkan Chorus

Friday, December 21, 7:00 pm

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

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The Rodney Marsalis Philadelphia Big Brass is composed of some of America's top brass musicians who will perform an eclectic offering of holiday music, with a sprinkling of other specialized brass selections from their repertory. The 11-piece ensemble includes a player on French horn, five trumpets, three trombones, a tuba, and drums. Also a narrator for a reading of ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” with full musical accompaniment.

A recent Big Brass holiday program included work by Bach, Handel, and Tchaikovsky – along with a West Side Story medley, a couple of New Orleans jazz pieces and seasonal favorites including God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Angels We Have Heard on High, Good King Wenceslas, Sleigh Ride and Silent Night.

The Rodney Marsalis band had its beginnings on the streets of New Orleans. Taught from a young age by his cousin, Wynton Marsalis, and on the advice of his uncle, Ellis Marsalis, Rodney created a concert format that breaks barriers between genres and creates connection between the audience and performers.

A veritable "dream team," the band’s virtuoso brass players have performed with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Baltimore Symphony, the São Paolo State Symphony Orchestra, the Imani Winds, Canadian Brass, Empire Brass, Dallas Brass, and Boston Brass. Recent performances include Philadelphia's Kimmel Center, China's National Center for the Performing Arts, Tangelwood's Seiji Ozawa Hall, a residency for the Mann Center for the Performing Arts, and a special feature on the National Public Radio show, "All Things Considered."

“Impressive. So compelling nothing else really mattered.” -- Philadelphia Inquirer.

“Engaging, fun and classy.” – Eugene (Oregon) Scene

The Newark Balkan Chorus is a youth chorus based out of the Newark Street School in Newark, VT. They sing traditional music from Eastern Europe and were featured in the 2002 film, “In The Bedroom,” which was nominated for four Academy Awards.

Drawing: Monday, December 31, 8:50 pm

Location:
Catamount Arts
115 Eastern Ave.
St Johnsbury, VT

Tickets: $50 each or 3 for $100

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Saturday, January 12, 12:55 pm
Encore - Saturday, January 19, 12:55 pm

Location:
Catamount Arts Center
115 Eastern Ave.
St. Johnsbury, VT

Tickets: $25 adult, $23 Catamount Arts member, $16 student

For the first time at the Met, Anna Netrebko sings the title role of Adriana Lecouvreur, the great 18th-century actress in love with the military hero Maurizio, sung by Piotr Beczała. Gianandrea Noseda conducts Cilea’s tragedy, directed by Sir David McVicar, with the action partially set in a working replica of a Baroque theater. The cast also features Anita Rachvelishvili as the Princess of Bouillon, Adriana’s rival for Maurizio’s affections; Ambrogio Maestri as Michonnet, Adriana’s faithful friend; and Carlo Bosi as the duplicitous Abbé.

Adriana Lecouvreur is a co-production of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London; Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona; Wiener Staatsoper; San Francisco Opera; and L’Opéra National de Paris.

This is an on-screen event.

Violin, Violin, Viola, Cello

Sunday, January 27, 3:00 pm

Location:
South Church
1052 Main Street
St. Johnsbury, VT

Tickets: Adults - $18
Senior - $16
Student - $6
Special* - $6
*For those who find the regular price beyond their budget. We believe classical music should be available to everyone. Just request the special rate. No questions asked.

Season Passes are available by calling the box office at 802-748-2600.

"Chamber music of astonishing, refreshing exaltation and exhilaration." — Los Angeles Times

Originally founded with four very young siblings in the early 1990s, the Ying Quartet has become one of the world's leading ensembles. They'll brighten the depths of winter with music of Beethoven and Tchaikovsky.

• Ludwig van Beethoven — String Quartet No. 8 in E minor, Op. 59 No. 2
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — String Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 11

Tuesday, January 29, 7:00 pm

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

Tickets: $48, $38, $28, $15. Students are free.
Ticket prices do not include any applicable fees or sales taxes.

Save 20% when you buy by December 30. Discount is automatically reflected when you choose your seats.

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A joyous spectacle of music and dance from Cuba showcasing a rich culture with different rhythms and melodies from "Son Cubano" to cha cha cha and rumba.

Back by popular demand, this high-energy group performs a joyous celebration of Cuban music and dance styles. The Havana Cuba All-Stars are some of Cuba’s greatest musicians. With rhythms and melodies from the cha cha to the rumba, from “Son Cubano” style to the salsa, the All-Stars will showcase a wide variety of Cuban beats. The group is inspired by and dedicated to promoting the entire tapestry of Cuban music through a fresh, contemporary lens.

In this “Asere”—or “Friendship”—tour, the All-Stars will be backed by three of Cuba’s finest dancing couples. With the greatest dancers and musicians of Cuba working in tandem, the American encore of the Havana Cuba All-Stars’ tour will be a spirited spectacle of song and dance, exemplifying Cuba’s greatest musical traditions.

Thursday, January 31, 7:00 pm

Location:
Catamount Arts Center
115 Eastern Ave.
St. Johnsbury, VT

Tickets: $25 adult, $23 Catamount Arts member, $16 student

I’m Not Running is an explosive new play by David Hare, premiering at the National Theatre and broadcast live to cinemas.

Pauline Gibson has spent her life as a doctor, the inspiring leader of a local health campaign. When she crosses paths with her old boyfriend, a stalwart loyalist in Labour Party politics, she’s faced with an agonising decision.

What’s involved in sacrificing your private life and your piece of mind for something more than a single issue? Does she dare?

Hare was recently described by The Washington Post as ‘the premiere political dramatist writing in English’. His other work includes Pravda and Skylight, broadcast by National Theatre Live in 2014.

This is an on-screen event.

Saturday, February 2, 12:55 pm
Encore - Saturday, February 9, 12:55 pm

Location:
Catamount Arts Center
115 Eastern Ave.
St. Johnsbury, VT

Tickets: $25 adult, $23 Catamount Arts member, $16 student

Clémentine Margaine is opera’s ultimate seductress, opposite Roberto Alagna, who captivated Live in HD audiences as Don José in 2010. Louis Langrée conducts Sir Richard Eyre’s lively production, a favorite in the Met’s repertoire.

This is an on-screen event.

Rusty Dewees and Patrick Ross

Saturday, February 2, 7:00 pm

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

Tickets: $25 and $15. Students are free.
Ticket prices do not include any applicable fees or sales taxes.

Save 20% when you buy by January 3. Discount is automatically reflected when you choose your seats.

Seniors and Catamount Arts members save $3.00 when ordering in person with id at the box office.

No Added Sugar Tour

GROUNDHOG NIGHT SPECIAL

Come for the comedy and laughs and enjoy some music, too, with two of Vermont’s favorite sons— Rusty DeWees THE LOGGER and Lyndon Institute’s own Patrick Ross, THE FIDDLER. Don’t miss the COMEDY and MUSIC No Added Sugar Tour to christen the 2019 GROUNDHOG NIGHT.

Actor/Comedian DeWees is known for his beloved THE LOGGER persona—a full-on comedian and burgeoning musician. Rusty's one-man comedy shows are best described as Blue Collar Comedy meets Prairie Home Companion.

“Always loved playing Caledonia,” says Rusty. “I’ve played there dozens of times, but, not in St. J. since I had red hair. The area audiences are like family, at this point … no joke. “

The (Canaan) Vermont-born Patrick Ross is a fifth generation fiddle player who has performed at the Grand Ole Opry and shared stages with Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash and Paul McCartney. Rusty says, “Patrick Ross and I’ve been showing together for 4 years and I’m inspired by his musicianship. He’s helped me improve on my guitar and vocals. Look out, cause he’s a great all-around performer, which you’ll see through his comedy chops at this year’s show. Watching Patrick is worth the price of admission alone.”

Rusty’s been working on fresh new comedy bits for the main course of this LOGGER and FIDDLER tour is at St. J. Academy. But there are plenty of seconds and a big heaping of dessert in the show, served through Rusty and Patrick’s unique musical duo act, featuring fiddle, mandolin, guitar, cello, banjo and drums (played by two guys). Rusty has also written some “Dean (Martin) and Jerry (Lewis) / Tom and Dick” (Smothers) type comedy bits you’ll lose air laughing at.

February 8, 9, 15, and 16 at 7:30 pm
Sunday matinees on February 10 and 17 at 2:00 pm

Location:
Littleton Opera House
2 Union St.
Littleton, NH

Tickets: RESERVED $10 for advance purchase or $12 at the door

Group Rate: Tickets must be purchased all at once for discount. Patrons may a contact Upstage Players about group sales and school rates at GetUpstageTickets@gmail.com

By Edward Albee

George is a middle-aged professor of history at New Carthage and Martha, his wife, is the daughter of the college president. When Nick and Honey arrive for a nightcap after the faculty soiree, they have no idea of the games, twists and turns that the evening holds in store.

As the night goes on and the drinks keep coming, George and Martha take on their guests – and each other – as ripostes and rejoinders turn into affronts and abuse. Harrowing secrets are laid bare and innermost vulnerabilities are exposed. Which couple really has the relationship rooted in honesty and which has a marriage built upon lies? In this wickedly funny play, comedy and tragedy intertwine to create an unforgettable evening.

Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf won the 1963 Tony Award for Best Play and is considered one of the masterworks of American drama, with its dazzling language and unforgettable characters.

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? will be directed by Upstage Managing Artistic Director, Andrew Lidestri.

Season Tickets now available! Get a discounted price on premium seats. A limited number of season tickets are available for each show and each performance. Buying tickets for all three season shows at the door would cost $40. For only $30, get your tickets early and in a prime location only available to season ticket holders. Call the Catamount Arts Box Office to purchase and select season tickets. See our whole season and support local arts!

80 musicians on stage, performing Rossini, Tchaikovsky & Dvorak

Wednesday, February 13, 7:00 pm

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

Tickets: $66, $56, $46, $15. Students are free.
Ticket prices do not include any applicable fees or sales taxes.

Save 20% when you buy by January 14. Discount is automatically reflected when you choose your seats.

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The Shanghai Opera Symphony Orchestra was established in 1956 along with the construction of the famous Shanghai Opera House. The Orchestra is renowned for its interpretation of classical symphony repertoire, performing the masterpieces of the world’s most historic composers.

The Lyndonville program will include Rossini’s Il Barbiere de Siviglia – Overture, Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D Major, Opus 35, and either Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique Op. 14 or Dvorak’s New World Symphony (Symphony No. 9 in E Minor Op. 95). We will announce this final decision by the Orchestra very soon.

The Orchestra has been conducted by renowned maestros such as Daniel Oren, Lorin Maazel, John Nelson, Thomas Sanderling, Markus Stenz, Zoltan Kocsis, Maurice Peress and Jan Latham-Koenig. The Orchestra has toured to Finland, Italy, UK, Germany, Hong Kong and Macao. This 2019 USA tour will be the Shanghai Opera Symphony’s debut at the concert halls of North America.

Saturday, March 2, 12:55 pm
Encore - Saturday, March 9, 12:55 pm

Location:
Catamount Arts Center
115 Eastern Ave.
St. Johnsbury, VT

Tickets: $25 adult, $23 Catamount Arts member, $16 student

Bel canto stars Pretty Yende and Javier Camarena team up for a feast of vocal fireworks on the Met stage. Maurizio Muraro is Sergeant Sulplice, with Stephanie Blythe as the outlandish Marquise of Berkenfield. Enrique Mazzola conducts.

La Fille du Régiment is a co-production of the Metropolitan Opera; the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London; and the Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna.

This is an on-screen event.

Violin, Piano

Sunday, March 10, 3:00 pm

Location:
South Church
1052 Main Street
St. Johnsbury, VT

Tickets: Adults - $18
Senior - $16
Student - $6
Special* - $6
*For those who find the regular price beyond their budget. We believe classical music should be available to everyone. Just request the special rate. No questions asked.

Season Passes are available by calling the box office at 802-748-2600.

"Powerful technique, rich tone, and passionate approach." (Aleksey Semenenko) and "Nuanced and expressive." (Inna Firsova) — New York Times

Two Ukranian prize-winning artists, awarded Best Concert at the 2016 Dubrovnik Summer Festival, complement each other and highlight the rich, warm, incomparable sound of Mr. Semenenko's 1699 Stradivarius.

• Program to be announced

Mary Shelly's classic story brought to life on stage

Wednesday, March 27, 7:00 pm

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

Tickets: $44, $38, $28, $15
Ticket prices do not include any applicable fees or sales taxes.

Save 20% when you buy by February 25. Discount is automatically reflected when you choose your seats.

Seniors and Catamount Arts members save $3.00 when ordering in person with id at the box office.

Written two centuries ago in 1818 by Mary Shelley, FRANKENSTEIN: The Modern Prometheus, is the first true science fiction novel. Years ahead of its time, the story has since become the inspiration for countless film and stage adaptations.

Frankenstein is a living, breathing, gruesome outcome of scientific discovery. The piece raises an important universal question about the nature of innovation- just because it can be done, should it be done?

Victor Frankenstein is a Swiss scientist with a mission to create an artificial human. Without considering the consequences of such progress, he succeeds with terrifying results. After wandering the world alone, the monster eventually comes for Frankenstein’s family. Horrific events unfold until the doctor tentatively agrees to create a mate for the creature. Ultimately, the doctor refuses in an effort to spare humanity but bears the terrible and personal penalties of his decision.

Two hundred years later, Frankenstein still poses a myriad of critical ethical questions. Aquila Theatre’s production of this timeless classic will be bold and thrilling – while paying homage to the original writing of Mary Shelley.

Saturday, March 30, 12:00 pm
Encore - Saturday, April 6, 12:00 pm

Location:
Catamount Arts Center
115 Eastern Ave.
St. Johnsbury, VT

Tickets: $25 adult, $23 Catamount Arts member, $16 student

The second installment of Wagner’s Ring cycle, Die Walküre, stars heroic soprano Christine Goerke as the warrior goddess Brünnhilde, whose encounter with the mortal twins Siegmund and Sieglinde, sung by Stuart Skelton and Eva-Maria Westbroek, leads her on a journey from Valhalla to earthbound humanity. Philippe Jordan conducts.

This is an on-screen event.

Sunday, March 31, 3:00 pm

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

Tickets: $38, $33, $28, and $23. $10 students.
Ticket prices do not include any applicable fees or sales taxes.

Save 20% when you buy by March 1. Discount is automatically reflected when you choose your seats. Seniors save 20% when buying anytime.

Catamount Arts members save $3.00 when ordering in person with id at the box office.

Malian singer Fatoumata Diawara (aka Fatou) was born of Malian parents in the Ivory Coast in 1982. As a child she became a member of her father's dance troupe and was a popular performer of the wildly flailing didadi dance from Wassoulou, her ancestral home in western Mali. She was an energetic and headstrong girl and at the age of twelve her refusal to go to school finally prompted her parents to send her to live and be disciplined by an aunt in Bamako. She was not to see her parents again for more than a decade.

Off on her own, Fatou discovered acting and performed in 11 films, including “Timbuktu,” which played Cannes and was nominated for the 2014 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. The NY Times ranked it 12th on its 2017 list of “the best films of the 21st century, so far.”

Fatou also performed a variety of roles on stage, around the world, including tours in Vietnam, Mexico and throughout Europe. During rehearsals and quiet moments she took to singing backstage for her own amusement. She was overheard by a director and was soon singing solo during the company's performances. Encouraged by the audience reception, she began to sing in Parisian clubs and cafes during breaks from touring.

Audiences, critics, and producers immediately responded to her exceptional talent and before long she was touring and recording albums, including 'Seya' the GRAMMY nominated-album by Mali's star Oumou Sangaré and 'Red Earth' the GRAMMY-winning Malian project by celebrated American jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater. When each of these albums were released Fatou toured worldwide as singer and dancer with both projects.

On her return to France, Fatou took the role of Karaba in the popular touring musical 'Kirikou and Karaba'. She was encouraged to take the role by her friend Rokia Traore who also inspired her to take up the guitar: "To me it was a wonderful and daring thing: a Malian girl with an acoustic guitar. Why should the guitar be only for men?"

Fatou bought herself a guitar and started to teach herself, and at the same time began to write down her own compositions. Fatoumata’s EP ‘Kanou’ was released in May 2011, followed by her debut full length album ‘Fatou’ in September 2011, to much critical acclaim. The album was awarded No.1 album 2011 on the world music charts, where it remained for 6 months. It was also given No.1 in several end-of-year album polls including The Times of London and Mojo.

Fatoumata Diawara continues to make waves around the world for her multiple talents. In addition to performing with the legendary Dee Dee Bridgewater, Fatoumata has also performed with Herbie Hancock and Paul McCartney, among many others.

“Classy, powerful, soulful and expressive” – London Guardian

“Fatoumata Diawara's know-how, musicality, and sense of self all come together, and prove her to be one of the most dynamic voices in Afropop today.” -- Pop Matters

30 singers -- “Full-bodied, translucent, eloquent” – SF Chronicle

Thursday, April 4, 7:00 pm

Location:
United Community Church (formerly North Church)
1325 Main St.
St. Johnsbury, VT

Tickets: $40, $30, $15. Students are free.
Ticket prices do not include any applicable fees or sales taxes.

Save 20% when you buy by March 5. Discount is automatically reflected when you choose your seats.

Seniors and Catamount Arts members save $3.00 when ordering in person with id at the box office.

Since its founding as a mixed voice choir in 1971, the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge has gained an international reputation as one of the leading university choral groups in the world. In addition to its primary function of leading services three times a week in the College chapel, the choir keeps an active schedule recording, broadcasting, and performing throughout the UK and the world.

Under the direction of internationally acclaimed composer and conductor Graham Ross, the choir has toured widely, including in Europe, the United States, Japan, China, Russia, and the Middle East. In 2000 it became the first Oxbridge mixed choir to perform at the BBC Proms, singing Bach’s St John Passion.

We’ve hosted the Choir of Clare College on two previous occasions – and we’re very pleased to welcome them back, this time performing classical and contemporary choral music.

“These performances are poised, immaculate.” -- BBC Music Magazine

“Fresh and feisty choral singing.” – Times of London

“The choral singing was unstintingly sumptuous and secure.” London Guardian

“Fresh and funny…a delight. A crowd pleaser.” - NY Times

Friday, April 26, 7:00 pm

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

Tickets: $48, $38, $28, $15
Ticket prices do not include any applicable fees or sales taxes.

Save 20% when you buy by March 27. Discount is automatically reflected when you choose your seats.

Seniors and Catamount Arts members save $3.00 when ordering in person with id at the box office.

Ballet Hispánico, the nation’s premier Latino dance organization, brings its bold and eclectic brand of contemporary dance to the Northeast Kingdom. The organization’s founder, National Medal of Arts recipient Tina Ramirez, sought to give voice to the Hispanic experience and break through stereotypes. Today, Ballet Hispánico is led by Eduardo Vilaro, an acclaimed choreographer and former member of the Company, whose vision of artistic excellence, social equity, and cultural identity and high quality arts education for all drives its programs.

The Company is a group of highly trained professionals who perform the works of Latino choreographers for audiences around the world. Their repertory explores the diversity of Latino cultures and brings innovative ways of experiencing and sharing a cultural dialogue. Representing a multitude of nationalities, our artists reflect the ever-changing face of our nation.

Please note: We’ll present a Thursday, April 25th workshop of “Latin social dancing” for one and all. Contact Molly Stone (mstone@kcppresents.org) for details of time and place – and to sign up. All are welcomed.

“A gem…as strong as ever. A gorgeous flowing spectacle.” -- Village Voice

“Playfulness and passion…an explosive but whisper-soft virtuosity — but all in all it’s a party of a dance that might be happening anywhere a group of happy people are congregating.” – Boston Globe

“The most technically accomplished and musical dancers you'll find in the contemporary sphere" -- Washington Post

Piano

Saturday, April 27, 7:30 pm

Location:
South Church
1052 Main Street
St. Johnsbury, VT

Tickets: Adults - $18
Senior - $16
Student - $6
Special* - $6
*For those who find the regular price beyond their budget. We believe classical music should be available to everyone. Just request the special rate. No questions asked.

Season Passes are available by calling the box office at 802-748-2600.

"A poet...[with] an expressive edge to his playing that charms, questions, and coaxes." — Philadelphia Inquirer

At the 15th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, one of the world's most prestigious and demanding events for the piano, Daniel Hsu captured the Bronze medal, showcasing his virtuosity and style.

• Program to be announced

May 10, 11, 17, and 18 at 7:30 pm
Sunday matinees on May 12 and 19 at 2:00 pm
**** Two Additional Matinee performances have been added specially geared towards young children on the two Saturday mornings May 11 & 18 at 10 am. After these performances the kids will get a chance to “meet and greet” with the Shrek characters in costume and a professional photographer will be on site for photo opportunities on the stage right in the play’s setting.

Location:
Littleton Opera House
2 Union St.
Littleton, NH

Tickets: RESERVED $14 for advance purchase or $16 at the door

Group Rate: Tickets must be purchased all at once for discount. Patrons may a contact Upstage Players about group sales and school rates at GetUpstageTickets@gmail.com

Music by Jeanine Teasori

Book & Lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire

"Once upon a time, there was a little ogre named Shrek...." And thus begins the tale of an unlikely hero who finds himself on a life-changing journey alongside a wisecracking Donkey and a feisty princess who resists her rescue. Throw in a short-tempered bad guy, a cookie with an attitude and over a dozen other fairy tale misfits, and you've got the kind of mess that calls for a real hero. Luckily, there's one on hand... and his name is Shrek.

Based on the Oscar-winning DreamWorks Animation film, Shrek The Musical is a Tony Award-winning fairy tale adventure, featuring all new songs from Jeanine Tesori (Thoroughly Modern Millie; Caroline, or Change) and a sidesplitting book by David Lindsay-Abaire. Shrek brings all the beloved characters you know from the film to life on stage and proves there's more to the story than meets the ears.

Shrek the Musical is directed by the Upstage Managing Artistic Director, Andrew Lidestri and choreography by Lidestri & Madalyn Sheehy

Season Tickets now available! Get a discounted price on premium seats. A limited number of season tickets are available for each show and each performance. Buying tickets for all three season shows at the door would cost $40. For only $30, get your tickets early and in a prime location only available to season ticket holders. Call the Catamount Arts Box Office to purchase and select season tickets. See our whole season and support local arts!

Saturday, May 11, 12:00 pm
Encore - Saturday, May 18, 12:00 pm

Location:
Catamount Arts Center
115 Eastern Ave.
St. Johnsbury, VT

Tickets: $25 adult, $23 Catamount Arts member, $16 student

Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads an accomplished ensemble in Poulenc’s devastating modern masterpiece of faith and martyrdom. Isabel Leonard is the young Blanche de La Force, opposite Met legend Karita Mattila as the First Prioress.

This is an on-screen event.