Sunday, May 19, 12:55 pm
Encore - Tuesday, May 28, 7:00 pm

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

Tickets: Adults - $18, Members - $15, Students - $6

Running time: 140 minutes

Carmen is as sensual and free-spirited as ever as she finds herself caught in a love triangle. The passionate one act ballet by Cuban choreographer Alberto Alonso, originally conceived for legendary Bolshoi prima ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, will captivate audiences alongside Petrushka, a new creation for the Bolshoi by contemporary choreographer Edward Clug. The double-bill event for cinemas encapsulates and showcases the soul of Russian Ballet.

This is an on-screen event.

USA, Not Rated, 95 Minutes
Director: Kent Jones
Cast: Mary Kay Place, Jake Lacy, Estelle Parsons

Showtimes:
Daily - 5:30 pm & 7:30 pm
Sunday & Wednesday matinees - 1:30 pm

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

For Diane, everyone else comes first. Generous but with little patience for self-pity, she spends her days checking in on sick friends, volunteering at her local soup kitchen, and trying valiantly to save her troubled, drug-addicted adult son from himself. But beneath her relentless routine of self-sacrifice, Diane is fighting a desperate internal battle, haunted by a past she can't forget and which threatens to tear her increasingly chaotic world apart. Built around an extraordinary, fearless performance from Mary Kay Place, the narrative debut from Kent Jones is a profound, beautifully human portrait of a woman rifling through the wreckage of her life in search of redemption.

May 10, 11, 17, 18 at 7:30 pm
May 19 at 2:00 pm

Location:
St. Johnsbury School Auditorium
257 Western Ave.
St. Johnsbury, VT

Tickets: $10 adults, $8 students and seniors

The Saint Johnsbury Players are preparing for their spring production, Night of January 16th, which will debut May 10th and run for five performances at the St. Johnsbury School Auditorium. Set in the 1930s, Night of January 16th is a courtroom drama centred around the trial of Karen Andre (Lora Schofield), a dynamic “femme fatale” accused of murdering her lover, Bjorn Faulkner— a wealthy financier of dubious repute. Representing the State is District Attorney Flint (Kate Campbell), a prosecutor who has bet their career on Andre’s guilt. The defence attorney— Stevens (Terry Klein)— is a hard-hitting, hard-living legal assassin who loves impossible cases. Judge Heath (Brian Watson), the world-weary arbiter, struggles to keep order during the sensational trial.

Orbiting the trial are Faulkner’s wife, Nancy Lee (Pam Tidyman), and her father John Whitfield (Jan Clausing). The Whitfields are old-money American royalty, and they possess a shrewdness and cunning that they prefer to mask behind patrician poise and sophistication— for reasons beyond just social convention.

Rounding out the cast are Karl Jungquist (Elizabeth Bergman), Faulkner’s (seemingly) loyal accountant; John Hutchins (Zachary Wright), the night watchman who discovered Faulkner’s mangled corpse; Magda Svenson (Ursula Malabre-Speicher), Faulkner’s pious childhood governess-cum-housekeeper; and Larry “Guts” Regan (Mike Plough), a mobster whose hopeless infatuation with Karen Andre might have motivated him to do the unthinkable.

12 members of the audience are selected each night to act as the jury and render a verdict on Karen Andre at the close of the play, and there is no bias either way in the writing, so the audience’s decision is based entirely on the attitudes and mannerisms of the actors, which adds another layer of tension to the action.

Sunday May 19th, 6:30 pm

Location:
United Community Church
1325 Main St.
St. Johnsbury, VT

Tickets: $30, $20, $15; students $12

Catamount Arts Presents the Jarlath Henderson Trio. Sponsored by United Community Church, St. Johnsbury, VT. Powerful, "otherwordly" music matched with this transcendent venue promises to be an intense experience.

BBC Young Folk Musician award winner

Jarlath Henderson is a singer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer and doctor. Jarlath Henderson is a wildly inventive multi-instrumentalist and masterful balladeer from Northern Ireland who is best known as a remarkable player of uilleann pipes and whistles. A three-time All-­­Ireland Champion piper, Henderson revives traditional songs, such as murder and love ballads, with a somber intensity through his sublime original arrangements (“new and otherworldly”—NPR Music).

“The youngest ever winner of the BBC Young Folk Award, back in 2003, Tyrone-born multi-instrumentalist and singer Jarlath Henderson has since won further acclaim in his firebrand partnership with Scottish piper and whistle player Ross Ainslie. After rapturous reviews for their debut album *Partners in Crime*, released in 2008, and 2013’s follow-up *Air-Fix*, the duo is now expandable into a thrilling six-piece band. Renowned primarily for his extraordinary prowess on uilleann pipes and whistles, while fast emerging as an equally gifted vocalist, Henderson has performed and recorded in such illustrious company as The Transatlantic Sessions, Jack Bruce, Lau, Capercaillie, Paddy Keenan, Salsa Celtica, Phil Cunningham, and Michael McGoldrick. His hotly-anticipated solo debut, *Hearts Broken, Heads Turned*, launched at Celtic Connections 2016, comprises bold yet sensitive arrangements of traditional songs, also featuring Henderson on guitar and cittern, together with his hand-picked accompanying line-up of Hamish Napier (keyboards, flute), Innes Watson (fiddle, guitar) and Duncan Lyall (double bass).”

Piper's Den
A band that bridges the gaps between traditional and contemporary, Scottish and world music. Hazen Metro, Dan Houghton and Tristan Henderson are a midnight-meeting of three composers and multi-instrumentalists, playing reeds, strings and more. Unleashing beguiling compositions and arrangements, from simple and complex, onto the world’s stage.

Special thanks to the United Community Church and the Comfort Inn in St. Johnsbury

Wednesday, May 22, 7:00 pm
Encore- Wednesday, May 29, 7:00 pm

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

Tickets: $15 adult, $12 Catamount Arts member, $6 student

Voyage through the masterpieces and obsessions of the genius and founder of Impressionism, Claude Monet. An art-world disruptor at the turn of the 20th century whose obsession with capturing light and water broke all convention, Monet revolutionized Modern Art with his timeless masterpieces.

An in-depth, exclusive tour led by Monet scholars of the museums that house the largest collections of the prolific artist's lilies paintings including the Musée Marmottan Monet, the Orsay Museum, the world-famous panels at L'Orangerie and concluding with Monet's own house and gardens at Giverny, the site where his fascination for water lilies was born.

Iceland, Not Rated, 101 Minutes
Director: Benedikt Erlingsson
Cast: Halldora Geirhardsdottir, Johann Sigurdarson, Juan Camillo Roman Etrada

Showtimes:
Daily - 5:30 pm & 7:30 pm
Sunday & Wednesday matinees - 1:30 pm

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

Halla is a fifty-year-old independent woman. But behind the scenes of a quiet routine, she leads a double life as a passionate environmental activist. Halla secretly wages a one-woman-war on the local aluminum industry. But right as she begins planning her biggest and boldest operation yet, she receives an unexpected letter that changes everything. Her application to adopt a child has finally been accepted and there is a little girl waiting for her in Ukraine. As Halla prepares to abandon her role as saboteur and savior of the Highlands to fulfill her dream of becoming a mother, she decides to plot one final attack to deal the aluminum industry a crippling blow.

In Icelandic with English Subtitles.

Friday, May 24, 6:00 pm

Location:
The Elks Club Lodge #2155
3736 US Route 5
Derby, VT

Tickets: $20 adults, $35 couples (discount applied automatically when you add 2 adult tickets to your basket), $40 family (2 adults and any number of children under 16 years of age)
Tickets available at the door: $20 all seats

Featuring ¨The Markus Daniels Band¨ with special guests ¨Mark Shelton¨ and ¨Don Davis¨. Sound and lighting provided by ¨Luke Sackett Willard¨.

To Benefit St. Mary´s Church in Newport, Vt. slate roof repair.

Sponsored by: Hayes Ford, Newport and Mark Fortin

Friday, May 24, 7:00 pm - Danville Congregational Church
Saturday, May 25, 7:00 pm - St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, St. Johnsbury

Tickets: Adults $10, students free

Featuring some of the area’s favorite musicians

• Pumpkin Hill Singers - a cappella ensemble
• Fifth Business – traditional acoustic band
• Pipe and Slippers - folk duo
• Quentin Thomas Ragtime jazz pianist

Details at http://www.nekhabitat.org

Friday, May 24, 8:00 pm

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

Tickets:$15 (adults) $10 (under 18)

Join us for an evening of energetic, fun and interactive music on Friday, May 24 starting at 8pm. These guys have an arsenal of tunes and get surely play your request - bring your dollars...not only do they play by request, they stop playing by request - bring some friends and make an evening of it. it can be loads of fun - if you've never been to a dueling pianos event - now's your time!

Alcohol is being served so please don't forget your ID :)

Sponsored by the Mt. Washington Auto Road Company

Presented by the Great North Woods Committee for the Arts

Saturday, May 25, 7:00 pm

Location:
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
113 Main St.
Lancaster, NH

Tickets: $15 all seats

Fiddle, guitar, and bass—it’s a combination as old as the hills. But follow this trio of Jason Anick, Max O’Rourke and Greg Loughman into those hills, and you’ll find yourself taking unexpected turns and discovering vistas you never knew were out there. It’s a new brand of acoustic music they make—traditional instrumentation spinning ear-catching melodies, channeling the wit and spontaneity of three irrepressible musical storytellers.

The Jason Anick Acoustic Trio, which formed in 2017, applies Jason's formidable improvisational and compositional chops to the roots/fiddle music of his youth. Virtuoso fiddler, Jason Anick, grew up listening-in on his Dad’s bluegrass rehearsals and competing in fiddle contests around his native New England. Jason went on to study jazz at the Hartt School of Music, where he was recruited by Grammy winning guitarist, John Jorgenson, to join his renowned, world-touring quintet. Through the John Jorgenson Quintet, as well as his own subsequent projects, Jason rose to the top ranks of jazz violinists, earning himself a position at Boston’s prestigious Berklee School of Music. But all along, he kept an ear out for the right opportunity to apply his formidable improvisational and compositional chops to the roots music of his youth. His long time musical collaborator, Greg Loughman, a top-call Boston bassist with an affection for both jazz and international folk music, was an obvious choice. Berklee student at the time, Max O’Rourke—a guitarist and composer with an insatiable harmonic curiosity—made an impression on Jason and Greg while playing together in the Rhythm Future Quartet. They recognized they had a chemistry well-suited to the artistic freedom afforded by the trio format, allowing them to explore and pull from multiple genres to create an exciting and sophisticated musical conversation that has been wowing audiences since 2017.

Live @ the Barrage

Saturday, May 25, 7:30 pm (doors open at 7:00 pm)

Location:
The Barrage
1423 Stearns Brook Road
Holland, VT

Tickets: $10 all seats

The first of the 3rd season of Live @ The Barrage welcomes three dangerously dynamic musical acts to get the Barrage warmed up after a long winter.

The Tsunamibots - Originally programmed for mundane tasks The Tsunamibots rebelled against their creators and decided, that the human race didn't deserve saving but were much more worthy of enslaving. The Tsunamibots are programmed to ride a perfect wave of human decimation and human-cyborg conversion, straight to the beach of Robotic Revolution. Each Tsunamibot has been programmed with a music genre pack that consists of a meld of Man or Astro-Man, Servotron, Misfits, and DEVO creating a fresh and human crushing sound.

origami ghosts - Origami Ghosts is the musical project of Seattle native John Paul Scesniak -- traveler, teacher, and musician. Since 2004 “JP” has surrounded himself with some of Seattle’s finest and most creative musicians to produce highly entertaining performances and unique recordings, all under the Origami Ghosts moniker. The group’s light, playful, and thoughtful sound draws from folk, pop, and rock, among other inspirations. Scesniak’s style drives the Origami Ghosts engine -- finger picked, jangly and angular guitar playing (often with a swinging tempo) coupled with soulful, personal and heartfelt vocal melodies and lyrical content.

Adrienne Cooper Smith - Multi-instrumentalist, audio engineer, knitter, cook, bicyclist, photographer, and videographer. Adrienne grew up a few miles south of Nashville, and moved to Vermont in her mid teens. She has performed as a solo artist since 2016, and has played accordion, mandolin, and banjo in multiple projects, including Miku Daza and Hoary Bat. In May of 2018, Adrienne became one of the founding members the experimental music collective Community of Sound. She will be performing at The Barrage along a bike tour across New England.

Live @ The Barrage is a seasonal music series located in the Northeast Kingdom’s premier Barn/Garage Music Venue. Each concert showcases a diverse collection of alternative artists who are plying their trade throughout New England and America. The Barrage is mostly exposed to our beautiful Vermont summer weather, and operates with the motto of “the show must go on”, so check the weather and plan accordingly. The Barrage is an all ages, all stars & stripes welcome venue, we do reserve the right to disinvite jerks and hot messes. The only thing served at The Barrage is live music, plan accordingly and responsibly.

Sunday, May 26, 7:00 pm

Location:
York Street Meeting House
161 York St.
Lyndon, VT

Tickets: by donation at the door (suggested sliding scale ($5 - $15))

Transcending the traditional definition of choral music, this group of Village Harmony veterans is particularly renowned for its command of varied world ethnic singing styles. The current ensemble is led by Adam Simon, Sophie Michaux and Larry Gordon. This concert program will especially feature Corsican and Balkan songs, renaissance pieces and new compositions by Simon.

USA, Rated R, 96 Minutes
Director: Laure de Clermont – Tonnerre
Cast: Matthias Schoenaerts, Jason Mitchell, Bruce Dern

Showtimes:
Daily - 5:30 pm & 7:30 pm
Sunday & Wednesday matinees - 1:30 pm

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

Roman, a convict in a rural Nevada prison who struggles to escape his violent past, is required to participate in an "outdoor maintenance" program as part of his state-mandated social rehabilitation. Spotted by a no-nonsense veteran trainer and helped by an outgoing fellow inmate and trick rider, Roman is accepted into the selective wild horse training section of the program, where he finds his own humanity in gentling an especially unbreakable mustang.

Friday, May 31, 8 PM

Location:
Colonial Theatre
2050 Main St
Bethlehem, NH

Ticket: Reserved Front & Center: $39, General Admission: $29, Members GA: $25

Traditional-leaning pickers from the Northeast, the Ghost of Paul Revere began to make waves after an appearance at the famed Newport Folk Festival. They have been classified as bluegrass, "holler roots" and "holler folk," but the Portland, Maine-based trio draws inspiration from beyond those Americana-esque realms. The trio lend their voices to their folk-y call-and-responses with a definite rocker vibe.

Saturday, June 1, 7:00 pm

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

Tickets:$15 (adults) $10 (under 18)

Details coming soon.

Sunday, June 2, 2019

Departs Western Avenue Park N Ride in St, Johnsbury, VT at 11:00 AM - Returns at approximately 7:00 PM
Departs Pleasant Street Parking Lot (behind theatre) in Littleton at 11:30 AM - Returns at approximately 6:30 PM

The Palace Theatre in Manchester, NH

Tickets: $99 all seats

Includes:
• Deluxe Round Trip Motor Coach Transportation
• Continental Breakfast (Coffee & Breakfast Goodies) on the way
• Admission to the Show
• Bottled Water & Homemade Brownies on the way home

Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story is a musical in two acts written by Alan Janes, and featuring the music of Buddy Holly. It opened at London's Victoria Palace Theatre on 12 October 1989. An early example of the jukebox musical, Buddy ran in London's West End for over 12 years, playing 5,140 performances. Janes took over the producing of the show himself in 2004, and Buddy has been on tour in the UK for 17 of the last 24 years, having played Broadway, five U.S. National Tours, Canada, Sweden, South Africa, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Germany, Holland, Singapore, Finland, Austria, Denmark and countless other productions around the world, leading to the show being named as ‘The World’s Most Successful Rock ‘n’ Roll Musical’. Janes was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Musical, and internationally Buddy has received 29 nominations and awards.

Presented by the Great North Woods Committee for the Arts

Saturday, June 8, 2:00 pm

Location:
Great North Woods Center for the Arts (outside)
1993 US Route 3
Columbia, NH

Tickets: $20 all seats

A MUST SEE! Not just another Scottish Pipes & Drums band! Albannach’s primal drumming and precise piping stirs the soul of anyone who hears them- young and old! These folks ARE Highlanders! Scottish Warriors to the Core! Lead drums, bass drums, bagpipes and didgeridoo--they wow their thousands of fans everywhere they perform! You may have seen them at the N.H. Highland Games in Lincoln every fall--where the concert tent is swarming with swaying bodies as they perform.

With 5 CDs, 1 Documentary (Scotumentary), Multiple Fan Tours to Scotland, Canada and the open sea; the Nach Army is 43,000 and growing!

These Celtic Rock Stars are as charismatic off stage as they are on. Being charming, intelligent, funny AND Scottish make all the right ingredients for a great interview. Radio, TV, Print they are comfortable with it all!

Saturday, June 8, 7:00 pm

Location:
South Church
1325 Main St.
St. Johnsbury, VT

Tickets: $15 all seats

This fun and engaging performance will feature comedians and storytellers Susanne Schmidt and Kevin Gallagher who will describe how getting older is the best thing that could ever happen to you. The band “The Brevity Thing” will also perform amazing musical accompaniment. Join us for a delightful evening as we celebrate the time in our lives when we stop caring about what others think, looks aren’t everything, and it’s perfectly acceptable to sit at concerts.

Susanne Schmidt is a standup comedienne, master storyteller and producer for “The Moth”. Her work has been featured on CBS News, The Moth and National Public Radio. Susanne has appeared in The Boston Women in Comedy Festival, The Toronto SheDot Festival and named the “Best of the Valley Voices” by The Academy of Music Theater and New England Public Radio. Susanne is a teaching artist at the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, a graduate professor of Clinical Mental Health Counseling and the mother of two amazing young men who would prefer that she stop talking about them on stage.

Kevin Gallagher is a psychotherapist by day, listening to the stories of life. But in the evenings he transforms into a storyteller, battling with the curse of the Irish: the gift of gab and the misery of insecurity. He lives in Vermont and is blessed with a cat and a partner, Michael and Blossom (you figure out who is who) and they provide much of the laundry and housework that completes his fulfilling life. When he is not in the throws of psychotherapy, he enjoys the lack of macramé he might otherwise endure. Kevin is a Moth GrandSLAM winner.

The Brevity Thing - Steve Goldman, Dave Ball and Jom Hammack, provide a level of entertainment unto itself. They are accomplished musicians who write, arrange, and perform music throughout Vermont.

For more information, visit:

http://www.sayitforwardproductions.org/sayitforward/tellers

http://www.thebrevitything.com/the-band.html

Saturday, June 8, 7:00pm

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

Tickets: $12 Adults (tax included), students (18 and under) are free
Admission is free to those who have a Catamount Arts Summer Solstice raffle ticket.

Vermont's premier bluegrass band, Bob Amos & Catamount Crossing, will present their summer kickoff concert at North Church in St. Johnsbury at 7:00 p.m. Saturday, June 8. The band's most recent CDs, Sunrise Blues and Body & Soul have both received "Vermont's Best CD of the Year" awards in the country/bluegrass category from the Times Argus.

The drawing for the Catamount Arts Summer Solstice raffle will take place during intermission.

Drawing - Saturday, June 8, 2019

Tickets: $50 each or 3 for $100 (Discount will be applied automatically once three tickets are in your basket.)
Only 2000 tickets will be sold!

Celebrate arts in the community with Catamount Arts. The sole winner will be able to choose one of three awesome prizes. (There will only be one winner and only one of the three prizes will be awarded.)

The winner does not need to be present at the drawing.

1. Yanmar 221 Tractor w/bucket loader  (MSRP $14,582)

2. $10,000 Cash!

3. 2019 Harley Davidson XL 883 IRON (MSRP $9,784)

The winning ticket will be drawn on Saturday, June 8th at 7:00 pm during the Bob Amos & Catamount Crossing Bluegrass concert at United Community Church. Raffle ticket holders get free admission to the show!

Winner is responsible for all associated fees which include, but may not be limited to, all Federal, State & local tax liability; license, title, registration and/or similar fees associated with receiving this prize. Must be 18 years or older to win. Winner must claim prize within ten (10) days of drawing.

Proceeds to benefit Catamount Film and Arts.

Sunday, June 9, 7:30 pm (doors open at 7:00 pm)

Location:
The Barrage
1423 Stearns Brook Road
Holland, VT

Tickets: $10 all seats

As the sun rounds out it's journey to the longest day of the year, let's round out the weekend with an amazing evening of tremendous music.

Aubrey Haddard - Lately Aubrey has been performing at Waking Windows, opening for the Felice Brothers and The Suitcase Junket, touring in France and more recently receiving the Boston Music Award for both Singer-Songwriter and Vocalist of the year. Aubrey has been garnering a lot of praise the past year with her music that "feels like you've been washed over with nothing but pure sunshine" (DigBoston). Her alternative soul sound will be an inspiration for fans of Van Morrison, Bonnie Raitt, Susan Tedeschi or Jeff Buckley.

Jesse Taylor - Highly introspective, Jesse Taylor pours her heart into each lyric into all her songs like. Hailing from Maine, Jesse moved to Burlington to pursue music, drawing inspiration from long days at the bakery and life with anxiety. Taking notes from artists like Ingrid Michaelson, Regina Spektor, and Courtney Barnett, Jesse writes songs that mirror their passionate vocals and unapologetic style mixing musical influences throughout her work.

Location: Catamount Arts Center

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 second Tuesday of every month in the cabaret room at 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.

Wednesday, June 12, 7:00 pm

Location:
Rialto Theatre
80 Main St.
Lancaster, NH

Tickets: $15 all seats

In the brief period of time since Port Cities unleashed their incendiary debut—a wildly self-assured collection of sparkling, rootsy pop that showcases the Nova Scotia trio’s devotion to songwriting—the band’s been hard at work bringing it to the masses. They’ve continued to explore and evolve their ambitious pop sound, melding diverse musical backgrounds to create an alchemy that’s part art, part songwriting science, and all magic: the nimble dynamism of Breagh MacKinnon’s smoky, jazz-indebted delivery, Dylan Guthro’s simmering and soulful R&B swagger, and Carleton Stone’s razor-sharp, romantic rock ‘n’ roll.

It’s a chemistry that’s been perfected during the 100+ dates they toured last year, in hotel rooms and songwriter circles, in vans rolling through foreign countries to rowdy pubs, and on the fog-bound shores of Canada’s misty east coast. It’s helped lead the band to numerous accolades, including a whopping five Nova Scotia Music Awards, a SOCAN #1 Award (for “Back to the Bottom”), and stints at #1 on CBC and Spotify charts. Port Cities has amassed over 1.5 million streams internationally, showcased at The Great Escape, Focus Wales, and the Reeperbahn Festival, and will be releasing their debut in the U.K. and Germany this year.

Beyond Port Cities’ deep devotion to their craft, their success is largely built on a simple but timeless approach: a good song is a good song is a good song. Whether it’s awash with synthesizer (“Sound of Your Voice”), pumped up with an overdriven crunch (“Where Have You Been”), or stripped down to the bare essentials with just an acoustic guitar and three voices. No matter what music the melody might call for, the best song always wins.

Friday, June 14, 8 PM

Location:
Colonial Theatre
2050 Main St
Bethlehem, NH

Ticket: $43.00 (Reserved Front & Center), $33.00 (General Admission), $28.00 (Members General Admission)

The master of North African desert blues returns to The Colonial. For centuries, the desert town of Agadez has served as a converging point for the great camel caravans driven by the Tuareg that link West Africa with North Africa and the Mediterranean. Born in 1980 at a nomadic camp near this dusty outpost, the young guitarist and songwriter Omara “Bombino” Moctar was raised during an era of armed struggles for Tuareg independence and violent suppression by government forces. Bombino’s electrifying jams capture the spirit of resistance and rebellion while echoing with guitar riffs reminiscent of fellow Africans Tinariwen and Ali Farka Touré not to mention rock and blues icons such as Jimi Hendrix, John Lee Hooker and Jimmy Page.

Week 1: Monday-Friday, June 17-21, 8:30-11:30am
Week 2: Monday-Friday, June 24-28, 8:30-11:30am

Location:
St. Johnsbury School
257 Western Ave.
St. Johnsbury, VT

Catamount Arts will offer its third EPIC Music Camp this summer at the St. Johnsbury School, for students entering grades 2-7. Camp is June 17-21 and June 24-28, from 8:30-11:30am; current, former, and new students are welcome to come to one or both weeks. Violin experience is not necessary. The camp, led by EPIC Music Artistic Director Jason Bergman, will focus on high quality music instruction, both in large groups and semi-private lessons, plus games and performance opportunities. Instruments, instruction, and snacks are free. Donations to help cover costs are greatly appreciated (suggested donation: $25-100 per week).

Please register HERE.

Volunteers are at the heart of EPIC Music. Adults or high school students, with or without musical training, are invited to help with the camp this summer. Please contact Volunteer Coordinator Robin Bergman at rjbergman@myfairpoint.net or call 802-633-2871.

For more information, call 802-748-2600, ext. 109 or visit the EPIC Music page on the Catamount Arts website

from the 2016-2017 season

Wednesday, June 19, 7:00 pm

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

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

A pair of charismatic artists, tenor Vittorio Grigolo and soprano Diana Damrau, are the star-crossed lovers of Gounod’s dreamy adaptation of Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy. Gianandrea Noseda conducts.

Saturday, June 22, 7:00 pm
Doors open at 6:00 pm

Location:
Haskell Opera House
93 Caswell Ave.
Derby Line, VT

Tickets: $18 advance, $20 at the door

The Beatles return to the Haskell Opera House with award-winning Beatles tribute band Studio Two!

THE MOST FAMOUS THING THAT NEVER HAPPENED

The Haskell Free Library and Opera House, Derby Line, Vermont, which straddles the border of Canada and the Unites States, is the rumored setting for “the most famous thing that never happened.”

In the early 1970s, there was a rumor that the Haskell may serve as the venue for a much-anticipated Beatles reunion. At the time, John Lennon lived in New York City and was “line bound,” meaning that if he exited the U.S., reentry would have been problematic. George Harrison was prohibited from entering the U.S. altogether. The Haskell’s unique border location could eliminate these sticky immigration issues to open the door for a Beatles reunion in its 400-seat opera house. Unfortunately, law enforcement feared the crowds would reach unmanageable proportions, so it was not to be.

A Little Help from Studio Two:

Almost 50 years later, the spirit of The Beatles live in concert is recreated by the group Studio Two: The Beatles Tribute . Hailed as one of the top five tribute bands by The Boston Globe, Studio Two plans to finally bring Beatlemania to The Haskell Opera House.

About Studio Two:

Studio Two is a headlining Beatles tribute band, comprised of Berklee Alumni who focus on the most exciting, energetic period of The Beatles -- the early years (1962 - 1966). Choosing from a catalog of songs from their club and touring performances, Studio Two captures all of the excitement and danceable 50's and 60's Rock 'n' Roll songs The Beatles helped popularize. All of this is done in period correct attire and equipment. You will be transported in time!

"Best Tribute Band in New Hampshire" ~ Editors of NH Magazine

"Studio Two The Beatles tribute is a lively, upbeat concert that transcends all generations. Our audience loved the show!" ~ New Year Gorham, ME

Tuesday, June 25, 7:30 pm

Location:
Latchis Theater
50 Main St.
Brattleboro, VT

Tickets: $100, $60, $40, $25
(You can view other seating areas by clicking on the See More Areas button on the seat selection page.)

New York Times bestselling author Cheryl Strayed will speak at the Latchis Theater on Tuesday, June 25 at 7:30 pm in celebration of Brattleboro Area Hospice’s 40th anniversary. A Wild Life: Growing Through Life’s Challenges is an evening of inspiration, wisdom and storytelling with Strayed, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Wild, a book that inspired Oprah Winfrey to revive the tremendously popular Oprah’s Book Club and Reese Witherspoon to bring Wild to the big screen in 2014.

Using her own story of vulnerability and resilience, Strayed inspires people to find unexpected inner strength in the face of obstacles. She is an inspiring, warm, and down-to-earth speaker whose unforgettable stories of personal struggle and perseverance will motivate you to focus and take action on what gives your life meaning.

At twenty-six, grieving the death of her mother, Strayed hiked more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State alone. Told with suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her. Strayed will discuss her revelations from the trail, including how we bear the unbearable, how we move from grief and anger to acceptance, and how we keep walking even when it seems impossible to stand.

In addition to Wild, Strayed is the author of New York Times bestsellers Tiny Beautiful Things and Brave Enough, and the novel Torch. Strayed's books have been translated into nearly forty languages around the world and have been adapted for both the screen and the stage. Strayed co-authored, along with Steve Almond, The Sweet Spot advice column in the New York Times Thursday Styles section. Strayed holds an MFA in fiction writing from Syracuse University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

The event is a fundraiser for Brattleboro Area Hospice, which provides a broad range of volunteer-based services for living and dying well, focusing on end-of-life, bereavement and advance care planning. Their programs reflect our community’s values of kindness, decency, and dignity. Founded in 1979 on the belief that no one should die alone, they are dedicated to offering all services free of charge.

Call Brattleboro Area Hospice directly for wheelchair accessible seating. After the event there will be a book signing in the lobby of the Latchis. For more information on this Speaker please visit www.prhspeakers.com

from the 2013-2014 season

Wednesday, June 26, 7:00 pm

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

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

Franco Zeffirelli’s picturesque staging, an audience favorite for more than 30 years, features a winning young cast, including soprano Kristine Opolais and tenor Vittorio Grigolo as the lovers Mimì and Rodolfo. Stefano Ranzani conducts.

Thursday, June 27, 7:00 pm
Encore - Tuesday, July 2, 7:00 pm

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

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

Adapted by Helen Edmundson
Based on the novel by Andrea Levy

Andrea Levy’s Orange Prize-winning novel Small Island comes to life in an epic new theatre adaptation. Experience the play in cinemas, filmed live on stage as part of National Theatre Live’s 10th birthday.

Small Island embarks on a journey from Jamaica to Britain, through the Second World War to 1948 – the year the HMT Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury, England.

The play follows three intricately connected stories. Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. Hope and humanity meet stubborn reality as the play traces the tangled history of Jamaica and the UK.

A company of 40 actors take to the stage of the National Theatre in London in this timely and moving story.

Friday, June 28 through Sunday, June 30

Location:
Harvest Moon Orchard
5449 Main St
Newbury, VT

Tickets:
3-Day non-RV Camping Pass - $80
3-Day RV Camping NO HOOKUP Pass - $100

Gates open at 3pm on Fri. June 28 and close at 1pm on Sun. June 30.

For complete line up and event details please visit patrickrossmusic.com

***Please Note***

• Camping is optional
• 15 & under - FREE with accompanying paid adult
• If you would like camp (even for one night) you must purchase a 3 Day Pass
• No Dogs allowed
• The event is rain or shine with rain protection in place on site.

ADMISSION POLICY

Due to the nature of the performing arts, programs are subject to changewithout notice.

Refunds are given only in the case of event cancellation. All sales are final.

Limitation of Liability:

You voluntarily assume all risks and danger incidental to Patrick Ross's Camping and Music Festival, for which the ticket is issued, whether occurring before, during or after Patrick Ross's Camping and Music Festival , and you waive any claims for personal injury or death against Rock Farmer Records LLC, its management, facilities, artists, other participants, and all of our affiliated entities, agents, officers, directors, owners and employees on behalf of yourself and any accompanying minor. You bear all risks of inclement weather.

License; Ejection and Cancellation; No Redemption Value

Event Providers reserve the right, without refund of any amount paid, to refuse admission to, or eject, any person whose conduct management deems disorderly, who uses vulgar or abusive language or who fails to comply with Patrick Ross's Camping & Music Festival rules and Vermont State Law. Breach of terms or rules will terminate your license to attend Patrick Ross's Camping & Music Festival without refund. A ticket is a revocable license and admission may be refused upon refunding the ticket's face value upon discretion of the organizers. A ticket is not redeemable for cash.

Friday, June 28 through Sunday, June 30

Location:
Harvest Moon Orchard
5449 Main St
Newbury, VT

Tickets:
Friday, June 28 - $20 (camping NOT included)
Saturday, June 29 - $30 (camping NOT included)
Sunday, June 30 - $15 (camping NOT included)

If you need camping, you will need to buy a 3-day pass found HERE.

Gates open at 3pm on Fri. June 28 and close at 1pm on Sun. June 30.

For complete line up and event details please visit patrickrossmusic.com

***Please Note***

• Camping is optional
• 15 & under - FREE with accompanying paid adult
• If you would like camp (even for one night) you must purchase a 3 Day Pass
• No Dogs allowed
• The event is rain or shine with rain protection in place on site.

ADMISSION POLICY

Due to the nature of the performing arts, programs are subject to changewithout notice.

Refunds are given only in the case of event cancellation. All sales are final.

Limitation of Liability:

You voluntarily assume all risks and danger incidental to Patrick Ross's Camping and Music Festival, for which the ticket is issued, whether occurring before, during or after Patrick Ross's Camping and Music Festival , and you waive any claims for personal injury or death against Rock Farmer Records LLC, its management, facilities, artists, other participants, and all of our affiliated entities, agents, officers, directors, owners and employees on behalf of yourself and any accompanying minor. You bear all risks of inclement weather.

License; Ejection and Cancellation; No Redemption Value

Event Providers reserve the right, without refund of any amount paid, to refuse admission to, or eject, any person whose conduct management deems disorderly, who uses vulgar or abusive language or who fails to comply with Patrick Ross's Camping & Music Festival rules and Vermont State Law. Breach of terms or rules will terminate your license to attend Patrick Ross's Camping & Music Festival without refund. A ticket is a revocable license and admission may be refused upon refunding the ticket's face value upon discretion of the organizers. A ticket is not redeemable for cash.

An oasis of good-natured ribbing in a fiercely partisan world” —The Washington Post

Location:
Colonial Theatre
2050 Main St
Bethlehem, NH

Ticket: $79 Reserved front & center, $64 General admission, $54 Members general admission.

The Capitol Steps are a troupe of Congressional staffers-turned-comedians who travel the States satirizing the very people and places that once employed them. The Steps perform over 500 shows a year all over the country.

The Capitol Steps were born December, 1981 when three staffers for Senator Charles Percy were planning entertainment for a Christmas party. Their first idea was to stage a nativity play, but in the whole Congress they couldn’t find three wise men or a virgin! So, they decided to dig into the headlines of the day, and created song parodies & skits which conveyed a special brand of satirical humor that was as popular in Peoria as it was on Pennsylvania Avenue.

Ronald Reagan was President when the Steps began, so co-founders Elaina Newport, Bill Strauss and Jim Aidala figured that if entertainers could become politicians, then politicians could become entertainers! Most cast members have worked on Capitol Hill, some for Democrats, some for Republicans, and others for politicians who firmly straddle the fence. No matter who holds office, there’s never a shortage of material. Says Elaina Newport, “Typically, the Republicans goof up, and the Democrats party. Then the Democrats goof up and the Republicans party. That’s what we call a two-party system.”

Although the Capitol Steps are based in Washington, DC most of their shows are out-of-town or for out-of-town audiences. Whether it’s the National Welding Supply Association, a University audience, high schoolers, or State Legislators, people love to laugh at the foibles of Jerry Falwell (“Loonies of the Right”) or even Bill Clinton’s new office (“In the Ghetto”). In fact, the Capitol Steps have performed for the last five presidents (six if you include Hillary). The only complaints the Steps seem to get are from the politicians and personalities who are NOT included in the program!

Saturday, June 29, 7:30 pm (doors open at 7:00 pm)

Location:
The Barrage
1423 Stearns Brook Road
Holland, VT

Tickets: $10 all seats

Magic is afoot when these three beasts of bands make the journey north to unleash a torrent of fuzzy hard rolling rock sure to outdo the rushing waters outside The Barrage.

At the convergence of beauty and raw power, therein lies the sound of Zeus Springsteen. What by all rights should be a minimalist set-up of three musicians, instead serves as a sonic canvass, an engine that powers the band's vibrant and multi-textual compositions. From doomed love affairs to political intrigue to killer robots, Zeus Springsteen's songs are nothing if not mercurial - as is their sound.

Jessica Rabbit Syndrome Hailing from the backwoods of New England, JRS members Ali Evans and Amy Wild cross state lines to bring you freakiness that extends beyond a full moon Friday. The JRS sound is inclement weather, psychic renderings, and dark magic moments, wrapped up in a glittery blanket of attitude.

Hailing from Vermont and residing in Boston, heavy rock power trio Death Pesos are a bubbling sonic cauldron of massive percussive force; fat and powerful guitars that dance between chugging riffs and soaring solos; and distorted, haunting vocals which rise to the top of it all. Flaunting an overwhelming sense of tightness and togetherness, it seems like entire songs are tied to vocal melodies, nailing accents simultaneously and flawlessly; when they pick up their instruments, it’s almost as if the trio becomes one. (~Studio 52)

PRICES
Adults (13+): $22*
Youth (7-12): $18*
Children (2-6): $16*
Under 2 free on an adult's lap

*plus 6% VT sales tax

Purchases made online or via phone are subject to a surcharge of $3.00 per ticket.

Group rates available for groups 15 or more – please call 802-748-2600.

LOCATION
Green Mountain Mall
2000 Memorial Drive
St. Johnsbury, VT 05819
(Google Map)

Presented by Catamount Arts

CONCESSIONS & NOVELTIES!
The Smirkus Midway opens one hour before showtime and features splendiforous Smirkus Novelties and Food concessions that include, popcorn, cotton candy, hot dogs, ice cream and ice cold bottled beverages of water, lemonade and iced tea. We do not sell peanuts and our popcorn is popped in coconut oil.

DIRECTIONS
Take Exit 22 off of Interstate 91. Go East on Hospital Drive for .9 miles and then take a left on Route 5. Head North for 1.1 miles and the mall is on your right.

TICKETS ALSO AVAILABLE AT:
Catamount Arts
115 Eastern Ave.
St. Johnsbury, VT 05819
(802) 748-2600 ext. 2

Friday, July 5, 5:00 pm

Location:
Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation
39 Strawberry Hill St.
Bethlehem, NH

Tickets: $20 all seats

For season tickets contact Michel Adler (adlermf@verizon.net)

Program:

• Mendelssohn:Variations concertantes, Opus 17
• JS Bach: Sonata for Gamba and Keyboard in G Major, BWV 1027
• Beethoven: Sonata for Piano & Cello in A Major, Opus 5

Friday, July 5, 8 PM

Location:
Colonial Theatre
2050 Main St
Bethlehem, NH

Ticket: $24.00 (Reserved Front & Center), $20.00 (General Admission), $17.00 (Members General Admission)

The War and Treaty, The name itself represents the pull between trauma and tranquility, music inspired by darkness and despair that ultimately finds a higher spiritual purpose. A rising act in the Americana field, are a married duo comprised of Michael and Tanya Trotter, which have received comparisons to Ike and Tina Turner. Separately and together, they've tried on numerous stylistic identities and artistic approaches. Long before she met Michael, Tanya (nee Blount) dueted with Lauryn Hill in Sister Act 2 and recorded sultry, mid-'90s R&B slow jams in a Toni Braxton vein. Michael sang in church, and during a tour of duty in Iraq, was dealt the singular sacred duty of paying tribute to fallen comrades in song, before striking out as a smoothly seductive R&B singer-songwriter. After teaming up in life and music, the pair dabbled in sleek soul updates under their combined surnames. But they also drew inspiration from voices embraced as touchstones across generations and genres — Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Johnny Cash and Nina Simone among them — and ultimately settled into a rootsy aesthetic animated by the range of their musical experiences.

from the 2006-2007 season

Wednesday, July 10, 7:00 pm

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

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

Rossini’s madcap comedy receives a spirited production by Tony Award–winning director Bartlett Sher and stars mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, tenor Juan Diego Flórez, and baritone Peter Mattei. Maurizio Benini conducts.

presented by the Great North Woods Committee for the Arts

Sunday, July 14, 7:00 pm

Location:
Great North Woods Center for the Arts
1993 US Route 3
Columbia, NH

Tickets: $15 all seats

The Fretless is the Canadian fiddle foursome playing an essential part in the emerging movement mainstreaming traditional irish folk music.Starting with its debut album in 2012, the band has steadily pushed further into the public eye, winning Instrumental Album of the Year at the Western Canadian Music Awards and Instrumental Group of the Year at the Canadian Folk Music Awards. Its 2014 tune “Waving To Ryan” has topped a million Spotify plays, and in 2016, The Fretless took home a Juno™ award for Instrumental Album of The Year for its most recent full-length Bird’s Nest.

Through its deconstruction and transformation of the usual rhythmic, harmonic and structured arrangements of fiddle styles around the world, The Fretless is pushing traditional music to a new place, and has now issued itself an atypical challenge in the mission to find and convert fans unfamiliar with “progressive” traditional music.

from the 2018-2019 season

Wednesday, July 17, 7:00 pm

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

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

Soprano Anna Netrebko and mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili offer blazing performances in Verdi’s grand drama of ancient Egypt, seen in a stunning production by Sonja Frisell. Nicola Luisotti conducts.

Friday, July 19, 5:00 pm

Location:
Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation
39 Strawberry Hill St.
Bethlehem, NH

Tickets: $20 all seats

For season tickets contact Michel Adler (adlermf@verizon.net)

Program:

“Aaron Copeland’s America”

• Copeland’s Four Piano Blues
• Conversation at the Soda Fountain (from the film music for “Our Town”)
• El Salon Mexico
• Appalachian Spring

by Joe Landry

Friday, July 26, 7:00 pm
Saturday, July 27, 3:00 pm & 7:00 pm
Sunday, July 28, 2:00 pm

Location:
Great North Woods Center for the Arts
1993 US Route 3
Columbia, NH

Tickets: $20 all seats

This old-time radio show takes place in a 1940s-era radio station. All of the "characters" are "actors" from the 1940s, coming to the radio station to play characters on air. Three vintage Hitchcock shows will come to life with "The Lodger" (Act 1) "Sabotage" (Act 2) and "The 39 Steps" (Act 3). This is a triple feature--with vintage commercials--that recreates a train chase, a serial killer's ominous presence, and a devastating explosion--through the magic of live sound effects.

Peter H. Bloom, flute, Francis Grimes, viola, Mary Jane Rupert, piano

Friday, August 2, 5:00 pm

Location:
Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation
39 Strawberry Hill St.
Bethlehem, NH

Tickets: $20 all seats

For season tickets contact Michel Adler (adlermf@verizon.net)

Program:

• C.P.E Bach: “Quartet” for Keyboard, Flute and Viola Wq 94 (1788)
• Carl Maria von Weber: Trio Opus 63 (1819)
• Robert Russell Bennett: Postcards to Old Friends (1966)
• Karl Henning: Oxygen Footprint (2016) written for Ensemble Aubade by this American composer

Friday, August 9, 7:30 pm
Saturday, August 10, 7:30 pm
Sunday, August 11, 2:00 pm
Friday, August 16, 7:30 pm
Saturday, August 17, 7:30 pm
Sunday, August 18, 2:00 pm

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

Tickets: $15 adults, $12 students and seniors

A jukebox musical written by British playwright Catherine Johnson, based on the songs of ABBA composed by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus

Sophie dreams of a perfect wedding — one which includes her father giving her away. The problem? Sophie doesn’t know who he is! Her mother refuses to talk about the past, so Sophie secretly invites her three possible fathers to the wedding, convinced that she’ll know her father when she sees him. But when all three turn up, it may not be as clear as she thought!

Directed by Mary Hoadley
Music Direction by Mark Violette

Friday, Aug. 9, 8 PM

Location:
Colonial Theatre
2050 Main St
Bethlehem, NH

Ticket: $48.00 (Reserved Front & Center), $38.00 (General Admission), $32.00 (Members General Admission)

Fueled by the belief that classic jazz feeds the heart and soul, THE HOT SARDINES are on a mission to make old sounds new again and prove that joyful music can bring people together in a disconnected world.

In the last two years, the Hot Sardines have been featured at the Newport Jazz Festival and the Montreal Jazz Festival, have sold out NYC venues from Joe’s Pub to Bowery Ballroom, and earned a No. 1 slot on the iTunes Jazz chart in the U.S. and internationally.

These mischief-makers of hot jazz have been described as “potent and assured” (The New York Times) and “simply phenomenal” (The Times, London). “Everything in our DNA is about connecting with the audience. That’s where we feel most at home,” says Elizabeth, of playing live with the eight-piece band (including one wildly percussive tap dancer).

Daniel Weiser piano, Ralph Allen, violin Marcia Cassidy, viola, Iris Jortner, cello

Friday, August 16, 5:00 pm

Location:
Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation
39 Strawberry Hill St.
Bethlehem, NH

Tickets: $20 all seats

For season tickets contact Michel Adler (adlermf@verizon.net)

Program:

• Robert Schumann: Piano Quartet, Op. 47 in E flat Major
• Antonin Dvorak: Piano Quartet, Op. 87, no. 2 in E-flat Major

Monday-Friday, August 19-23, 9am-noon

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

Instructor: Meredith Holch

Students will learn how to use a video camera to make original stop-motion animated movies. Working in groups of 2 or 3, participants will create a story line. They will use a variety of art materials to make figures of their characters. They will design and paint their own sets for the figures to move through. In addition to the visual aspect, the youth will record original soundtracks using musical instruments, sound makers, and their own voices for sound effects and dialogue.

Class Fee: Early Bird registration: $85 per student by July 15. Camp fee after July 15: $95.

Stop-Motion Animation Camp is limited to 9 students.

Catamount Arts is committed to offering high quality arts programming for all students, regardless of ability to pay. Please call Anne Campbell at 802-748-2600 x109 for information on scholarships or payment plans.

After paying the class fee, please register HERE.

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.

A weekend of music and merriment

Friday, August 23 - Sunday, August 25

See schedule below

Location:
Whitehill Farm
East Ryegate, VT

Tickets: $125

After purchasing your ticket, please fill out the registration form found HERE.

A magical, musical retreat in the mountains of Vermont! Lynn and Will Rowan will lead a gentle weekend of singing with dancing, storytelling, drumming, and ritual in the beautiful hills of northern Vermont! No music reading skills required, just a willingness to open to music, community, and nature. The weekend will include music from harmony singing traditions around the world. We will also sing rounds, chants, and songs of solidarity to celebrate the earth, reinforce our interconnectedness, and heal our hearts in these challenging times. Friday and Saturday we will make a procession up the hill with bagpipes and drums to honor the sun in song, then light our evening fire for stories, music, and merriment. Please bring musical instruments if you have them! The weekend will culminate in a Sunday afternoon community concert by Lynn & Will and the Summersong Singers. Join kindred spirits, friends new and old, and music-lovers and celebrate summer’s end with us!

The weekend will be held at Whitehill Farm, located in the southern most point of the Northeast Kingdom. The Farm was a traditional dairy farm and we continue to pasture heifers to this day. The homestead continues to maintain 40 acres most of which are pasture, but there is a 3 acre parcel of cedars and five acres of sugar maples that are tapped each year. There are outstanding views from the top of this traditionally rugged property where you can take in the White Mountains and the Connecticut River.

Meals and accommodations

The traditional farmyard barn where we will be rehearsing has a common sleeping area upstairs. Participants may alternately bring tents to camp onsite. There are no onsite showers, but there is swimming nearby in a stream and pond. All participants will take part in the daily chores of the camp including cooking our communal meals, cleaning up after meals, and keeping our space tidy, helping build our community for the weekend.

Ages

10-Adult

Camp is not geared towards children under 10. Participants aged 10-11 should be accompanied by an adult or older sibling. People aged 12 and up can attend independently.

For more information, please contact Heather Alger: Heather.l.alger@gmail.com

Directors:

Lynn Rowan has dedicated her professional life to the study of vocal performance in its many and varied forms and has performed and taught workshops, lessons and lead choirs in singing for the past decade. These days she spends most of her time performing with her vocal band, Windborne, focusing on songs of social justice. Having grown up immersed in the folk communities of Vermont and discovering harmony singing traditions of many cultures through Village Harmony (which she now teaches for) her work is deeply rooted in and influenced by nature, history, and folklore of not only her own home, but also rich traditions from all over the world. Lynn’s teaching style is clear, warm, and encouraging.

Will Rowan was raised in a community where folk music and dance played an important role in bringing people together to celebrate. He fell in love with ensemble singing while touring with Village Harmony, learning from master singers and dancers at home and abroad. He studied music composition and ethnomusicology at Marlboro College, winning awards in choral composition and publishing several pieces. He also holds a Masters of Music in Choral Conducting from the Bard College Conservatory. Will is a multi-instrumentalist, playing banjo, piano, accordion, bagpipes, and percussion. With his sensitive style and years of cross-cultural teaching experience from international tours with Northern Harmony, Will is now a sought after song leader, teaching Village Harmony camps in the US and Lithuania.

Rough Schedule

Friday

• 4-5:00 – Arrivals
• 5:00 – Opening
• 6:00 – Dinner
• 6:30 – Dinner Cleanup
• 7:00 – Opening Circle/Singing down the Sun
• 8:00 – Evening Fire

Saturday

• 8:00 – Breakfast prep
• 8:30 – Breakfast
• 9:00 Breakfast cleanup
• 9:30 Morning Singing
• 12:00 – Lunch Prep
• 12:30 – Lunch
• 1:30 – Lunch cleanup
• 2:00 – Afternoon singing/dancing
• 4:30 – Dinner prep
• 6:00 – Dinner
• 6:30 – Dinner cleanup
• 7:00 – Singing down the Sun
• 8:00 – Evening Fire

Sunday

• 8:00 – Breakfast prep
• 8:30 – Breakfast
• 9:00 – Breakfast cleanup
• 9:30 – Morning Singing
• 11:30 – Lunch prep
• 12:15 – Lunch
• 12:45 – Lunch clean-up
• 1:15 – Concert prep
• 2:00 – Closing Circle
• 3-4 – Concert
• 4-5 – Final Clean-up / Departures

Friday, August 30, 5:00 pm

Location:
Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation
39 Strawberry Hill St.
Bethlehem, NH

Tickets: $20 all seats

• Bach Suite No. 4 in E-Flat Major
• Cassado Sonata in Old Spanish Style (1925)
• Strauss Cello Sonata in F Major

Saturday, Aug 31, 8 PM

Location:
Colonial Theatre
2050 Main St
Bethlehem, NH

Ticket: $85.00 (Reserved Front & Center), $69.00 (General Admission), $59.00 (Members General Admission)

Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn, “the king and queen of the banjo” (Paste Magazine), have a musical partnership like no other. Béla Fleck is a fifteen-time Grammy Award winner who has taken the instrument across multiple genres, and Abigail Washburn a singer-songwriter and clawhammer banjo player who re-radicalized it by combining it with Far East culture and sounds. The two met at a square dance, began collaborating musically and eventually fell in love. Over the years, they played together most visibly in the Sparrow Quartet alongside Ben Sollee and Casey Driessen and informally at a pickin’ party here, a benefit there, or occasionally popping up in each other’s solo shows. Fans of tradition-tweaking acoustic fare eagerly anticipated that Béla & Abigail would begin making music together as a duo.

Fleck has the virtuosic, jazz-to-classical ingenuity of an iconic instrumentalist and composer with bluegrass roots. His collaborations range from his ground-breaking standard-setting ensemble Béla Fleck and the Flecktones to a staggeringly broad array of musical experiments. From writing concertos for full symphony orchestra, exploring the banjo’s African roots, to jazz duos with Chick Corea, many tout that Béla Fleck is the world’s premier banjo player. Washburn has the earthy sophistication of a postmodern, old-time singer-songwriter who has drawn critical acclaim for her solo albums. She has done fascinating work in folk musical diplomacy in China, presented an original theatrical production, and has contributed to singular side groups Uncle Earl and The Wu-Force. In addition to being named a TED Fellow in 2012, Abigail was recently named the first US-China Fellow at Vanderbilt University, in addition to Carolina Performing Arts/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s DisTil Fellow for 2018-2020

With one eye on using the banjo to showcase America’s rich heritage and the other pulling the noble instrument from its most familiar arena into new and unique realms, Bela & Abigail meet in the mean, head-on, to present music that feels wildly innovative and familiar at the same time. Whether at home, on stage or on record, their deep bond, combined with the way their distinct musical personalities and banjo styles interact, makes theirs a picking partnership unlike any other on the planet.

Saturday, September 7, 8 PM

Location:
Colonial Theatre
2050 Main St
Bethlehem, NH

Ticket: GA: $19, Members GA $15

Bluegrass and Hip-Hop may sound like an odd combination, but don’t tell that to Producer Rench, who birthed the fusion in 2006, with Gangstagrass. “There are a lot more people out there with Jay-Z and Johnny Cash on their iPod playlists than you think.” says Rench, who had previously made a name for himself as an in-demand Brooklyn country and hip-hop producer and singer/songwriter. He should know – he’s toured the country with a band of bluegrass pickers and hip-hop emcees to the delight of standing room crowds everywhere.

When FX Network came to Rench looking for the Gangstagrass sound for the theme song to their new series Justified, he had bluegrass players lay down an original track with rapper T.O.N.E-z, the younger brother of early hip-hop legends Special K and T-LaRoc. The result was “Long Hard Times To Come,” the song that opened every episode of six seasons of the hit series. “Long Hard Times To Come” was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2010, contending for best theme song after critical praise and massive fan response.

Gangstagrass has toured internationally, blowing minds on main stages from SXSW to Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, with a live stage act taking full advantage of the improvisational aspects of both hip-hop and bluegrass. With two emcees R-Son and Dolio The Sleuth trading verses, Dan Whitener on Banjo, Landry McMeans on dobro, and Rench on guitar, and frequent 3 part harmonies, the Gangstagrass live show has garnered a reputation among fans for its dynamism and spontanaety. Currently touring across the US, Gangstagrass is using live performances to organically develop new material for an album that will further explode the boundaries between genres generally thought to be incompatible.

Wednesday, September 18, 7:00 pm
Encore- Wednesday, September 25, 7:00 pm

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

Tickets: $15 adult, $12 Catamount Arts member, $6 student

Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice fully immerses audiences in the life of the last great artist of the Italian Renaissance. With the enchanting narrative voice of twice Academy Award nominee Helena Bonham Carter, cinema audiences visit places that evoke and preserve the memory of the painter, including the State Archives, the Doge's Palace, St. Mark's Square, the Church of San Rocco, and more, all in celebration of the 500th anniversary of Tintoretto’s birth.

Saturday, October 5, 8:00 pm

Location:
Colonial Theatre
2050 Main St
Bethlehem, NH

Ticket: $35 Reserved front & center, $25 General admission, $22 Members general admission.

The youngest of fourteen children, born in Arkansas and raised in Southern California, Iris DeMent spent her childhood immersed in gospel and traditional country music. Beginning with her 1992 debut, ‘Infamous Angel,’ which was hailed as “an essential album of the 1990’s” by Rolling Stone, Iris DeMent released a series of stellar records that established her as “one of the finest singer-songwriters in America” according to The Guardian. The music earned her multiple Grammy nominations, as well as the respect of peers like John Prine, Steve Earle, and Emmylou Harris, who all invited her to collaborate. Merle Haggard dubbed her “the best singer I’ve ever heard” and asked her to join his touring band, and David Byrne and Natalie Merchant famously covered her “Let The Mystery Be” as a duet on MTV Unplugged. NPR called her “one of the great voices in contemporary popular music” and The Boston Globe to hail her work as “a work of rare, unvarnished grace and power.”

“Iris DeMent makes music that celebrates humanity’s efforts toward salvation, while acknowledging that most of our time on Earth is spent reconciling with the fact that we don’t feel so redeemed. Grounded in hymns, early country songs, gospel and folk, DeMent’s work is treasured by those who know it for its insight and unabashed beauty.” —NPR

Wednesday, October 16, 7:00 pm
Encore- Wednesday, October 23, 7:00 pm

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

Tickets: $15 adult, $12 Catamount Arts member, $6 student

GAUGUIN IN TAHITI: PARADISE LOST traces the legendary life story of Paul Gauguin who left France for Tahiti, feverishly in search of deep immersions into lush nature, for feelings, visions and colors, ever purer and brighter. Audiences join this journey from Tahiti to American museums including New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, National Gallery of Art in DC, and Boston's Museum of Fine Arts where Gauguin’s greatest masterpieces are now preserved.

Saturday, October 19, 8:00 pm

Location:
Colonial Theatre
2050 Main St
Bethlehem, NH

Ticket: $42 General admission, $35 Members general admission.

Get ready for some hot Latin jazz! Adonis Puentes’ rich, soulful voice is the perfect front for his all-acoustic orchestra, layering traditional Cuban rhythms with deep bass lines, jazzy horns, and his melodic guitar. A Grammy-nominated vocalist and composer from Cuba who weaves passionate, hypnotic Salsa and Cuban Son melodies through jazz arrangements, Puentes and the Orchestra create a worldly experience that is as emotive as it is danceable!

“Original compositions richly imbued with tradition; superb arrangements with an international flavor; a world class band that delivers with great precision; witty, intelligent lyrics inspired by everyday life and by the greatest power of all: Love.” —Latin Jazz Network

with special guest Meow Meow

Monday, October 21, 7:00 pm

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

Tickets: $62, $52, $39, $18
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Even the wildly diverse, euphoric crowds emerging from Pink Martini performances would be hard pressed to define the genre-busting band’s ecstatically fun music. Their mix of styles ranges from Latin jazz, Brazilian samba and Afro-Cuban rumba to Japanese film noir and sultry ’30s cabaret songs, creating an exhilarating sound that drapes a global perspective on romance. The 14-piece band performs on an array of orchestral instruments including violins, trumpets, trombone, cello, harp, congas – and features Thomas Lauderdale at the piano and China Forbes singing.

Pink Martini is a "little orchestra" from Portland, Oregon, formed in 1994 by pianist Lauderville, who was joined a year later by Forbes. The band draws inspiration from music from all over the world – crossing genres of classical, jazz and classic pop. Featuring a dozen or more regular musicians, Pink Martini performs its multilingual repertoire on concert stages and with symphony orchestras throughout Europe, Asia, Greece, Turkey, the Middle East, Northern Africa, Australia and New Zealand, South America and North America. The band made its European debut at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997 and its orchestral debut with the Oregon Symphony in 1998. Since then, the band has played with more than 25 orchestras around the world, including multiple engagements with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, the Boston Pops, the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center, the San Francisco Symphony and the BBC Concert Orchestra in London’s Royal Albert Hall.

Other appearances include three sold-out concerts at Carnegie Hall and the Governor's Ball at the 80th Annual Academy Awards in 2008. the opening of the 2008 Sydney Festival in Australia, and the grand opening of the Los Angeles Philharmonic's new Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall, with return sold-out engagements for New Year's events from 2004 through 2007. All five Pink Martini albums have gone gold in France, Canada, Greece and Turkey, and have sold well over 2 million copies worldwide.

"All of us in Pink Martini have studied different languages as well as different styles of music from different parts of the world," says bandleader Lauderdale. "So inevitably, our repertoire is wildly diverse. At one moment, you feel like you're in the middle of a samba parade in Rio de Janeiro, and in the next moment, you're in a French music hall of the 1930s or a palazzo in Napoli. It's a bit like an urban musical travelogue.”

"We're very much an American band (with a hint of Mad Men), but we spend a lot of time abroad and therefore have the incredible diplomatic opportunity to represent a broader, more inclusive America - the America which remains the most heterogeneously populated country in the world composed of people of every country, every language, every religion."

The band has collaborated and performed with numerous artists, such as Jimmy Scott, Carol Channing, Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright, Michael Feinstein, filmmaker Gus Van Sant, and the original cast of Sesame Street. Pink Martini has appeared on “Late Night with Conan O'Brien,“ “The Late Show with David Letterman,” “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” and NPR’s “Toast of the Nation.” They have been featured in films including “In the Cut,” “Shanghai Kiss,” and “Mr. and Mrs. Smith.” Also TV programs including “The West Wing” and “The Sopranos.”

“Swiftly intoxicating…elegantly chilled.” -- London Times

“Impeccably suave…combining class and kitsch, swooning nostalgia, and delirious romance.” - London Telegraph

Post-post-modern diva Meow Meow has hypnotised and inspired audiences globally with unique creations and sell-out seasons from New York’s Lincoln Center and Berlin’s Bar Jeder Vernunft to London’s West End and the Sydney Opera House.

Named One of the Top Performers of the Year by The New Yorker, the spectacular crowd-surfing tragi-comedienne has been called “Sensational” (TheTimes), “diva of the highest order” (New York Post), and “The Queen of Chanson” by the Berliner Zeitung. Her award-winning solo works have been curated by David Bowie, Pina Bausch, and Mikhail Baryshnikov and numerous international arts festivals.

She has just performed at the Berlin Philharmonic with Pink Martini, then conjured a bespoke creation for Liverpool Culture's "Sgt Pepper at Fifty" involving the city's brass bands. She appears in NY in July, joins PInk Martini in Madrid and Monte Carlo, then for the entirety of Edinburgh International Festival with her show "Meow Meow's Little Mermaid."

“There are not many women who can stun an audience into pin-drop silence with an exquisitely delivered torch song one moment and rock the rafters with laughter the next. Meow Meow... is that rare combination - devilish funny bones and heavenly vocal chords...no one now does it better than Meow” - EVENING STANDARD UK

"There is, in fact, nothing that this woman cannot do." - THE TELEGRAPH UK

Wednesday, November 13, 7:00 pm
Encore- Wednesday, November 20, 7:00 pm

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

Tickets: $15 adult, $12 Catamount Arts member, $6 student

THE PRADO MUSEUM: A COLLECTION OF WONDERS celebrates the 200th anniversary of the storied Prado Museum -- one of the most-visited museums in the world. Hosted by Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons, this cinematic journey offers viewers a spell-binding experience, telling the story of Spain and beyond, through the works of Vélazquez, Rubens, Titian, Mantegna, Bosch, Goya, El Greco, and more.