USA, Rated R, 114 Minutes
Director: Sebastian Lelio
Cast: Raachel Weisz, Rachel McAdams, Allessandro Nivola

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

From Sebastián Lelio, the director of the Academy Award-winning A Fantastic Womn, the film follows a woman as she returns to the community that shunned her decades earlier for an attraction to a childhood friend. Once back, their passions reignite as they explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality. Written by Lelio and Rebecca Lenkiewicz and based on Naomi Alderman's book, the film stars Rachel Weisz, Rachel McAdams and Alessandro Nivola.

United Kingdom, Rated R, 121 Minutes
Director: Andrew Haigh
Cast: Charlie Plummer, Amy Seimetz, Travis Fimmel

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

Fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson arrives in Portland, Oregon with his single father Ray, both of them eager for a fresh start after a series of hard knocks. While Ray descends into personal turmoil, Charley finds acceptance and camaraderie at a local racetrack where he lands a job caring for an aging Quarter Horse named Lean On Pete. The horse's gruff owner Del Montgomery and his seasoned jockey Bonnie help Charley fill the void of his father's absence-until he discovers that Pete is bound for slaughter, prompting him to take extreme measures to spare his new friend's life.

Sunday, June 24, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

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

Credit: Louis Fried, Landscape, Courtesy of Kim and Nancy Fried.

Tuesday, June 12 at 7:00pm
Encore- Tuesday, June 26 at 7:00pm

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

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

Following its smash-hit live broadcast in 2012, the National Theatre production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time returns to cinemas.

Based on the acclaimed novel by Mark Haddon, adapted by Simon Stephens and directed by Marianne Elliott, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time has been hailed by The Times as ‘a phenomenal combination of storytelling and spectacle’. Winner of 7 Olivier Awards in 2013, including Best New Play.

Christopher, fifteen years old, has an extraordinary brain – exceptional at maths while ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. When he falls under suspicion of killing Mrs Shears' dog Wellington, he records each fact about the event in the book he is writing to solve the mystery of the murder. But his detective work, forbidden by his father, takes him on a frightening journey that upturns his world.

This is an on-screen event.

Wednesday, June 27, 7:00 pm

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

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

Transmitted live on October 3, 2015

Soprano Anna Netrebko’s dramatic and vocal skills are on full display in her next new role at the Met—Leonora, the Verdi heroine who sacrifices her own life for the love of the gypsy troubadour. Tenor Yonghoon Lee sings the ill-fated Manrico, baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky is his rival, and mezzo-soprano Dolora Zajick is the mysterious gypsy with the troubled past. Angela Meade sings Leonora in later performances. Marco Armiliato conducts Sir David McVicar’s Goya-inspired production.

US, Rated R, 106 minutes
Director: Lisa Cholodenko
Cast: Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo

Showtimes:
Thursday, June 28, 7:00 pm

Admission: Free

In LA, Nic and Jules are a couple with a daughter, Joni, on her way to college and a son, Laser, at 15 a good athlete but maybe hanging out with the wrong pal. Laser wants Joni, who's now 18, to find out who their biological father is - a sperm donor. Without initially telling their moms, they meet him. He's Paul, a cool guy with a motorcycle, a restaurant, and an organic garden. Although Nic doesn't like the idea, the five of them get together a few times and the kids spend time with Paul. He hires Jules, who's had many brief vocations, to landscape his back yard, and Nic, who's an OB/GYN, decides to be a good sport and get to know Paul better. Can a family add a new member?

USA, Rated R, 104 Minutes
Director: Chloe Zhao
Cast: Brady Jandreau, Tim Jandreau, Lilly Jandreau

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 - 5:30 ***No matinee today as Catamount is closed until 5 pm
Thursday - 5:30

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

Based on his a true story, The Rider stars breakout Brady Jandreau as a once rising star of the rodeo circuit warned that his competition days are over after a tragic riding accident. Back home, Brady finds himself wondering what he has to live for when he can no longer do what gives him a sense of purpose: to ride and compete. In an attempt to regain control of his fate, Brady undertakes a search for new identity and tries to redefine his idea of what it means to be a man in the heartland of America.

Levitt AMP St. Johnsbury Music Series at Dog Mountain

Sunday, July 1, 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

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

Admission: FREE!

Website: https://www.maraflynn.com

Burlington, Vt.,-based singer/songwriter Myra Flynn weaves danceable beats with emotionally nuanced lyrics that sooth the soul and draw audiences to the dancefloor like a magnet. With iridescent guitars and synths woven over undulating basslines and danceable rhythms, Flynn’s rich textured voice croons stories of self-discovery and love—both lost and found—in a sound that’s situated somewhere between Ani DiFranco and Rihanna. Flynn caught the performance bug during her childhood, singing and dancing on anything remotely resembling a stage, often in leopard print outfits and platform shoes. Her passion for music and performance inly grew with age, and today she treats audiences across the nation to vibrant performances that enchant listeners from all walks of life.

Opening Band: Kingdom All Stars

US, Rated PG, 124 minutes
Director: Harold Prince
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Rigg, Lesley-Anne Down

Showtimes:
Tuesday, July 3, 1:30 pm & 7:00 pm

In the movie, in the early 1900s, a group of friends bound together by complicated romantic entanglements, have come together for an elegant dinner at a country estate. The men present are the current, previous, or prospective lovers of the beautiful actress, Desiree (Elizabeth Taylor), and the other women are all united by their jealousy of her. Sadly, Desiree herself wants to simplify things and settle down -- she envies the wives. The adapted score later won an Oscar. The musical's well-known songs include Every Day a Little Death, A Weekend in the Country, and You Must Meet My Wife. The most famous song from the musical, Send in the Clowns, is sung here by Elizabeth Taylor.

UK, Rated PG-13, 104 minutes
Director: Charles Dance
Starring: Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Natascha McElhone

Showtime:
Wednesday, July 4, 7:00 pm

Admission: Free

Two aging spinster sisters have their peaceable Cornwall existence disrupted in 1936 when they take a young Polish violinist into their care. After a particularly violent storm, Ursula and Janet Widington awake to find young man Andrea half-drowned and badly injured on the beach. They slowly discover that he is a Polish Jew with a gift for music as an accomplished violinist, hoping to find his way to America. But the village isn't used to visitors and everyone, with the exception of the sisters, is full of suspicions, especially when Andrea develops a friendship with a beautiful Russian woman vacationing nearby. Eventually, the two must make a choice between trying to keep their new charge for themselves or setting him free in the world.

UK, Rated PG-13, 104 Minutes

Director: Nicholas Hytner

Cast: Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings, Jim Broadbent

Showtime:
Thursday, July 5, 7:00 pm

Tickets: Free

Nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actress

This film tells the true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who 'temporarily' parked her van in Bennett's London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years.

France, Not Rated, 94 Minutes
Director: Claire Denis
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Xavier Beauvois, Phillippe Katerine

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

Juliette Binoche delivers a luminous performance in the deliciously witty, sensuously romantic new film. Isabelle is a divorced Parisian painter searching for another shot at love, but refusing to settle for the parade of all-too-flawed men who drift in and out of her life. There's a caddish banker who, like many of her lovers, happens to be married; a handsome actor who's working through his own hang-ups; and a sensitive fellow artist who's skittish about commitment. What reads like a standard romantic comedy premise is transformed, in the hands of master filmmaker Denis, into something altogether deeper, more poignant, and perceptive about the profound mysteries of love.

In French with English subtitles.

USA, Rated R, 113 Minutes
Director: Paul Schrader
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried, Cedric the Entertainer

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

Reverend Ernst Toller is a solitary, middle-aged parish pastor at a small Dutch Reform church in upstate New York on the cusp of celebrating its 250th anniversary. Once a stop on the Underground Railroad, the church is now a tourist attraction catering to a dwindling congregation, eclipsed by its nearby parent church, Abundant Life, with its state-of-the-art facilities and 5,000-strong flock. When a pregnant parishioner asks Reverend Toller to counsel her husband, a radical environmentalist, the clergyman finds himself plunged into his own tormented past, and equally despairing future, until he finds redemption in an act of grandiose violence.

Sunday, July 8, 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

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

Admission: FREE!

Website: http://bellasbartok.com

Self-dubbed ‘circus punk’ rockers Bella’s Bartok enthrall concertgoers with a passionate kaleidoscope of sound that gets listeners of all ages and backgrounds moving their feet and clapping their hands. Fans and band members alike describe the band’s bold, genre-bending sound as ‘Siouxsie Sioux covering Frank Zappa playing trombone in Tom Waits’ basement during the French Revolution.’ Bella’s Bartok take audiences on a mesmerizing journey with their seamless fusion of eastern European klezmer, Americana, punk, and pop music. Built on a shared love for the roots and folk music of their immigrant grandparents, the six-piece powerhouse began nearly a decade ago in the streets of Great Barrington, Mass., and has since evolved into the colossal, brass-filled, accordion-based bohemian phenomenon it is today. Frontman Asher Putnam describes their theatrical live shows as “a mix of The Nightmare Before Christmas and the Rocky Horror Picture Show,” filled with lush sonic soundscapes and soulful fervor.

Opening Band: The Van Burens

USA, Rated G, 93 Minutes

Directors: Kief Davidson & Daniel Junge

Cast: Jason Bateman, Jamie Berard, Alice Finch.

Showtime:
Tuesday, July 10, 7:00 pmSince the birth of their trademark toy in 1958, The LEGOGroup has produced over 400 billion bricks. But more andmore, LEGO bricks aren’t just for kids, and some take themvery seriously. Adult Fans of LEGO around the globe are unashamedlydeclaring their love of the brick, brick artists arecreating stunning and surprising creations, and LEGO masterbuilders are building human scale and larger structures.LEGO bricks are being used educationally, therapeutically,and have provided a universal system for human creativityand our innate desire “to build.”

Wednesday, July 11, 10:00 am - 6:00 pm

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

Class fee: $70

Collaborative songwriting workshop- Learn how to unleash your inner fountain of songs by writing with others. In each session participants will co-write and record songs with each other under the guidance of Liv. We’ll discuss process and the trials and triumphs of being a writer of songs and you’ll walk away from the workshop with three brand new tunes in your pocket. FUN!

Olivia Hally (Liv) is an Australian-born musician, currently residing in NYC. She has a degree in Classical Guitar performance and has spent her adult life as writer and performer of internationally-touring pop project, Oh Pep!. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, on NPR’s Tiny Desk and in Rolling Stone and has seen her tour and collaborate with the likes of the Mountain Goats, Billy Bragg, Valerie June, Ron Sexsmith and Martha Wainwright. In 2017, Liv began a community driven project called FUN with Oh Pep!, facilitating collaborative songwriting opportunities for like-minded people. More recently, she began performing under the moniker Fully Human, a project that shares the stories of the audience through song. She is currently a writer for Sony ATV, speaking at universities, working on music for a play, reading a lot about addiction to technology, and falling in love.

WHO Are "Oh-Pep"?
Liv + Pep are co-collaborators and founders of pop group Oh Pep!. They met at the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School as classical musicians when Liv moved from Phillip Island to the city as a 16yo kid. Since then they have studied at the University of Melbourne (Liv as a classical guitarist, Pep as a jazz violinist) and taken on the world as a pop duo. They have also spent time learning Appalachian Mountain Music from the greats in Tennessee, North Carolina and West Virginia and perform this music as Fat Cousin Skinny. They've joined a pop punk group with Angie McMahon called Good Option and performed their original music all over the world as Oh Pep!. They’ve been on tour with the Mountain Goats, Billy Bragg, Valerie June, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Nightsweats, Lord Huron, Martha Wainwright, Lake Street Dive + some. They've written with Ron Sexsmith, Valerie June, Joel Quartermain (Eskimo Joe) + some more. Liv is currently writing music for a play in NYC and Pepi sessions for various groups. They’ve got a supportive team around them of booking agents, record labels, management and a worldwide publishing deal with Sony ATV. In 2016 they released their debut album, Stadium Cake, and highly regarded taste-makers like NPR, The New York Time and Rolling Stone, all said nice things about them. They have facilitated songwriting and music business workshops with Woodford Folk Festival, the National Folk Festival and state government initiative, FReeZA. Liv is currently secretary of Folk Alliance Australia and focuses her time on their national youth development program. They each teach individually and like learning new things themselves.

Wednesday, July 11, 7:00 pm

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

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

Transmitted live on February 24, 2007

Beloved American soprano Renée Fleming joins Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky for a performance of Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece of unrequited young love. The opera’s sweeping dramatic arc of this opera—youthful longing, rejection, regret, a desperate plea that comes too late—is perfectly mirrored in Tchaikovsky’s achingly beautiful music and in the gorgeous lighting of this strikingly minimal production.

USA, Rated PG, 105 minutes
Director: Gary Winick
Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Vanessa Redgrave, Chris Egan

Showtime:
Thursday, July 12, 7:00 pm

Admission: Free

When a young American travels to the city of Verona, home of the star-crossed lover Juliet Capulet of Romeo and Juliet fame, she joins a group of volunteers who respond to letters to Juliet seeking advice about love. When she answers one letter dated 1957, she inspires its author to travel to Italy in search of her long-lost love and sets off a chain of events that will bring a love into both their lives, unlike anything they ever imagined.

USA, Rated PG-13, 98 Minutes
Director: Michael Mayer
Cast: Elizabeth Moss, Saoirse Ronan, Annette Bening

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

One summer at a lakeside Russian estate, friends and family gather for a weekend in the countryside. While everyone is caught up in passionately loving someone who loves somebody else, a tragicomedy unfolds about art, fame, human folly, and the eternal desire to live a purposeful life. Adapted by Tony-winning playwright Stephen Karam from Anton Chekhov's classic play and directed by Tony-winner Michael Mayer, The Seagull explores, with comedy and melancholy, the obsessive nature of love, the tangled relationships between parents and children, and the transcendent value and psychic toll of art.

Friday, July 13, 8:00 pm

Location:
Kingdom Taproom
397 Railroad St.
St. Johnsbury, VT

Tickets: $15 all seats

One of Rolling Stone’s “10 New Artists You Need To Know” – “Modern-day Buddy Holly plus Dwight Yoakam divided by the Mavericks… Think-y, soulful lyrics paired with a beat you can dance to.” —ROLLING STONE

A mix of old school country, early rock ‘n’ roll, blues, and country rock. Inspiration is taken from Hank Williams, Johnny Cash and Johnny Horton classics. Girls Guns & Glory are electric and captivating with a high-energy stage presence that immediately gets people up on their feet and moving. With lyrics of heart-ache and cleverly hopeful perspective, backed by dynamic & impressive drums, bass and lead guitar, GGG become an outfit matched perfectly.

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.

Sunday, July 15, 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

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

Admission: FREE!

Website: http://monuments.umemusic.com/

Meshing the raw passion of punk and the melodic joy of pop with explosive rock ‘n’ roll sensibilities, Ume delivers high-octane performances that bring audiences to life and leave them spellbound. Pronounced “ooo-may,” the Austin, Texas-based indie band weaves together reverb-drenched guitar with explosive percussion under self-taught guitarist/frontwoman Lauren Larson’s soaring ethereal vocals to create a hypnotic tapestry of raw grit and unpretentious warmth. The three-piece band—made up of wife and husband Lauren and bassist Eric Larson and drummer Aaron Perez—got its start in the early 2000’s as part of the Austin, Texas DIY music scene. Ume took a brief hiatus while the Larsons started a family, but they are back and better than ever, treating concertgoers to their unique energizing rock/punk/pop hybrid once again.

Opening Band: Decorative Fire featuring Pam McCann

USA, Unrated, 115 minutes
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Katherine Hepburn, Joan Bennet, Fraces Dee

Showtimes:
Tuesday, July 17, 1:30 pm & 7:00 pm

Admission: Free

George Cukor directed this classic adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's sentimental novel with a shimmering lavishness that is a prime example of the classic Hollywood style at its best. The story concerns the lives of four New England sisters -- Jo (Katharine Hepburn), Amy (Joan Bennett), Meg (Frances Dee), and Beth (Jean Parker) -- during the time of the Civil War. Jo desires to leave home to become a writer, but decides to stay to help the family. But Meg announces her plans to get married, so Jo leaves for New York City. As she settles down to a writing career, she meets Professor Fritz Bhaer (Paul Lukas), who helps her with her work. While Jo is away, Amy falls in love and marries Jo's old flame Laurie Laurence (Douglass Montgomery). But Jo is forced to return to New England when she discovers Beth is dying.

Wednesday, July 18, 7:00 pm

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

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

Transmitted live on January 30, 2016

Nina Stemme, one of opera’s greatest dramatic sopranos, takes on the title role of the proud princess of legendary China. Tenor Marco Berti is Calàf, the brave prince who sings “Nessun dorma” and wins her hand. Franco Zeffirelli’s dazzling production is conducted by Paolo Carignani.

US, Rated R, 110 minutes
Director: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Cast: Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, Abigail Breslin

Showtimes:
Thursday, July 19, 7:00 pm

Admission: Free

When a pudgy, bespectacled seven-year-old, Olive (Abigail Breslin), voices her desire to take home the coveted Little Miss Sunshine crown at an upcoming beauty pageant, her wildly dysfunctional family sets out on an interstate road trip to ensure her a clear shot at realizing her dreams in former music video directorial team Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris' quirky feature debut, starring Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, and Toni Collette. Despite early career success as an outspoken motivational speaker, family patriarch Richard (Kinnear) continues to cling to his "Refuse to Lose" philosophy, much to the chagrin of his increasingly annoyed spouse, Sheryl (Collette). Add into the mix a Nietzsche-reading teenage son (Paul Dano) who has taken a vow of silence until he finds his fate as a fighter pilot; a horny, heroin-happy grandfather (Alan Arkin) with a penchant for creative profanity; and a suicidal genius (Carell) and Proust scholar still reeling about losing both his male lover and his MacArthur Foundation genius grant -- and the stage is set for a road trip in which sanity is sure to take the back seat.

Italy, Rated PG, 96 Minutes
Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Pope Francis, Joe Biden, Evo Morales

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

Wim Wenders' new documentary, Pope Francis – A Man of His Word is intended to be a personal journey with Pope Francis, rather than a biographical documentary about him. The pope's ideas and his message are central to this documentary, which sets out to present his work of reform and his answers to today's global questions. From his deep concern for the poor and wealth inequality, to his involvement in environmental issues and social justice, Pope Francis engages the audience face-to-face and calls for peace.

Partially in Italian with English subtitles.

Sunday, July 22, 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

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

Admission: FREE!

Website: http://www.albannachmusic.com

Glasgow, Scotland-based band Albannach takes a fresh new approach to pipes and drums music with charismatic reinventions of traditional tunes and original odes to their Scottish-Gaelic heritage in powerful live-performances and a sound that’s larger than life. A single brazen bagpipe cuts through the group’s bodhrán and bass-drum driven anthems, while fiery electric guitar licks, haunting lilting vocals and mystical round didgeridoo tones create a soundscape that feels both ancient and modern. Founded in 2005 by a group of musicians and historical reenactors, Albannach has taken the nation by storm with their energetic, exciting live shows and enchanting signature style of Scottish pipes and drums music.

Opening Band: Catamount Pipe Band

NZ, Rated PG-13, 165 minutes
Director: Peter Jackson
Cast: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellan, Viggo Mortensen

Showtime:
Tuesday, July 24, 7:00 pm

Admission: Free

Assisted by a Fellowship of heroes, Frodo Baggins plunges into a perilous trek to take the mystical One Ring to Mount Doom so that it and its magical powers can be destroyed and never possessed by evil Lord Sauron. The astonishing journey begins in the first film of director/co-writer Peter Jackson's epic trilogy that redefined fantasy filmmaking. This imaginative foray into J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth won 4 Academy Awards (R)* and earned 13 total nominations including Best Picture.

NZ, Rated PG-13, 180 minutes
Director: Peter Jackson
Cast: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellan, Viggo Mortensen

Showtime:
Wednesday, July 25, 7:00 pm

Admission: Free

Frodo and Samwise press on toward Mordor. Gollum insists on being the guide. Can anyone so corrupted by the ring be trusted? Can Frodo, increasingly under the sway of the ring, even trust himself? Meanwhile, Aragorn, drawing closer to his kingly destiny, rallies forces of good for the battles that must come. Director Peter Jackson delivers an amazing second movie that won 2 Academy Awards (R)* and earned 6 total nominations including Best Picture. The journey continues. So do the astonishing spectacle and splendor.

NZ, Rated PG-13, 201 minutes
Director: Peter Jackson
Cast: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellan, Viggo Mortensen

Showtime:
Thursday, July 26, 7:00 pm

Admission: Free

The final battle for Middle-earth begins. Frodo and Sam, led by Gollum, continue their dangerous mission toward the fires of Mount Doom in order to destroy the One Ring.

United Kingdom, Rated R, 110 Minutes
Director: Dominic Cooke
Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Emily Watson, Anne-Marie Duff

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

Adapted by Ian McEwan from his bestselling novel, the drama centers on a young couple of drastically different backgrounds in the summer of 1962. Following the pair through their idyllic courtship, the film explores sex and the societal pressure that can accompany physical intimacy, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.

Sunday, July 29, 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

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

Admission: FREE!

Website: https://www.adaawemusic.com

Genre-defying seven-piece powerhouse ADAAWE creates a vibrant global fusion of R&B and pop steeped in gospel harmonies over jazz, funk and African stylings and lively Latin and reggae that will lift your spirits and get you dancing. Comprised of seven female all-star musicians, the group’s exhilarating djembe drumming and uplifting lyrics celebrate strength and love while drawing audiences to the dance floor and closer together in the ‘Adaawe’ tradition of Ghana, West Africa—where women gather in the moonlight to create songs about life’s joys and sorrows. The Los Angeles-based band’s members hail from Kenya, Morocco, Israel, Panama and across the United States and have come together to celebrate diversity and strength through a shared love of music. ADAAWE’s captivating live shows get audiences of all ages and backgrounds dancing with their vibrant music and message of love and togetherness, crossing all boundaries of age and demographics.

Opening Band: A2VT

US, Rated R, 102 minutes
Director: Sofia Coppola
Cast: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi

Showtime:
Tuesday, July 31, 7:00 pm

Admission: Free

After making a striking directorial debut with her screen adaptation of The Virgin Suicides, Sofia Coppola offers a story of love and friendship blooming under unlikely circumstances in this comedy drama. Bob Harris (Bill Murray) is a well-known American actor whose career has gone into a tailspin; needing work, he takes a very large fee to appear in a commercial for Japanese whiskey to be shot in Tokyo. Feeling no small degree of culture shock in Japan, Bob spends most of his non-working hours at his hotel, where he meets Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) at the bar. Twentysomething Charlotte is married to John (Giovanni Ribisi), a successful photographer who is in Tokyo on an assignment, leaving her to while away her time while he works. Beyond their shared bemusement and confusion with the sights and sounds of contemporary Tokyo, Bob and Charlotte share a similar dissatisfaction with their lives; the spark has gone out of Bob's marriage, and he's become disillusioned with his career. Meanwhile, Charlotte is puzzled with how much John has changed in their two years of marriage, while she's been unable to launch a creative career of her own. Bob and Charlotte become fast friends, and as they explore Tokyo, they begin to wonder if their sudden friendship might be growing into something more.

Sunday, August 5, 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

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

Admission: FREE!

Website: http://mariachinyc.com

New York City’s first and only all-female mariachi­ group, GRAMMY Award-winning ensemble Flor de Toloache, is pushing genre boundaries and getting concertgoers dancing with their fresh, versatile take on traditional Mexican music. The group constructs its dynamic sonic framework with explosive vocal harmonies and searing solos rounded out by soaring violin, nimble vihuela, bright trumpets and propulsive guitarron in vibrant songs that honor the heritage of mariachi music while delivering their own unique sound. Boasting a wide and eclectic range of cultural backgrounds from across the globe—including the United States, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Korea, Italy, Colombia and Argentina—founding members Mireya Ramos (vocals/violin) and Shae Fiol (vocals/vihuela) are joined by newer members Julie Acosta on trumpet and Eunice Aparicio on guitarron. Since forming in 2008, Flor de Toloache has been gaining a reputation for passionate performances that connect concertgoers to one another and the tradition of mariachi.

Opening Band: Chickweed

Sunday, August 12, 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

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

Admission: FREE!

Website: http://whiskeyshivers.com

Fusing tranquil bluegrass with punk sensibilities, Whiskey Shivers is a sight to behold, bringing together a diverse group of masterful musicians in a genre-pushing sound that gets concertgoers of all ages and backgrounds dancing. Featuring frenetic banjo and guitar picking, lyrical fiddles, propulsive upright bass and a frenzied washboard, the group delivers soaring vocal harmonies in songs that explore themes of life in the country and raw emotional landscapes. The bands members hail from across the U.S. but came together in Austin, Texas where they released their debut album Monster Hawg in 2010. With contagious joy and break-neck speed string-playing, Whiskey Shivers funnels unbridled passion into high-energy live-shows that get audiences on their feet and coming back for more—including performances at permanent Levitt venues in Arlington, Texas (2014) and Los Angeles (2014, 2015). And before the summer comes to a close, these veteran Levitt performers will delight Levitt AMP audiences in St. Johnsbury, Va. As well as Sheboygan, Wis.!

Opening Band: The Barnyard Incident

August 13, 14, and 15 from 10:00 am-Noon
August 17 from 9:00am-Noon
(No class on Thursday, August 14)

Location:
Catamount Outback Artspace
107 Eastern Ave.
St. Johnsbury, VT
(Located behind the Catamount Arts Center)

Instructor: Heidi Lague

All of our projects this week will be vessels which can be used for a variety of purposes. Projects will include papiér mâche bowls, clay animal planters, plaster vases, and woven paper baskets.

Early Bird registration: $65 per student by July 9. Fee after July 9: $75. Creative Vessel-Making is limited to 10 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.

Heidi Lague has taught art for nearly 20 years in schools and community organizations. A mixed media painter and fiber artist, she currently teaches art at Peacham, Gilman, and Lunenburg Schools, and is the founder and producer of her own line of crocheted hats called Heidi’s Hats.

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.

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.

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

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 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

Fall 2018 - Spring 2019

Location: Various venues

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

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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)
• 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. (December 1 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 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)
• 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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Friday, September 21, 7:00 pm

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

Tickets: $48, $38, $28, $15

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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

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*)

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*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.

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.

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.

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

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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.

Thursday, November 15, 7:00 pm

Location:
Lyndon State College Alumni Gym
1001 College Road
Lyndonville, VT

Tickets: $36 general admission, students are free

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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.

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.

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.