Windscape

USA, Not Rated, 88 Minutes

Director: Alexandra Dean

Cast: Nino Amareno, Charles Amirkhanian, Jeanie Basinger

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

When Nazi U-Boats torpedoed a ship carrying 83 school children during World War II, Hollywood movie star, Hedy Lamarr, decided to exact revenge. At night, after shooting her scenes on set, she worked on a secret radio system that would allow the Allies to torpedo Nazi U-Boats with deadly accuracy.. The secret communication system she created was groundbreaking and eventually changed the course of history. It would make a terrific fictional film, but this story happens to be true. Hedy Lamarr, the screen siren who was called "the most beautiful woman in the world,” invented a wireless form of communication called "frequency hopping" that revolutionized mobile communications all over the world.

United Kingdom, Rated R, 105 Minutes

Director: Paul McGuigan

Cast: Annette Bening, Stephan Graham, Jamie Bell

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

Based on Peter Turner's memoir, the film follows the playful but passionate relationship between Turner and the eccentric Academy Award (R)-winning actress Gloria Grahame in 1978 Liverpool. What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme fatale and her young lover quickly grows into a deeper relationship, with Turner being the person Gloria turns to for comfort. Their passion and lust for life is tested to the limits by events beyond their control.

Sunday, April 22, 2:00 pm

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

Admission: Free

Pre-K through grade 2 and families.

St. Johnsbury Academy's Class of 2021 is putting on a kid-friendly, fun-filled Earth Day celebration as part of their Freshman Capstone project. Make your own musical instruments and crafts from recycled materials, enjoy live music, and have fun! Our FREE event is being held to spread environmental awareness within our communities. We believe saving the planet and being aware of our communities' value is important.

• 2:00-3:30 Making musical instruments and art - Catamount Outback Artspace (gray octagon behind Catamount Arts Center)
• 3:30-4:30 Concert by Kingdom All Stars with junk instruments - Mason's Hall (3rd floor of Catamount Art Center)

Sunday, April 22, 4:00 pm

Location:
Plainfield Town Hall Opera House
18 High Street
Plainfield, VT 05667

Tickets: Adults - $15, Seniors - $10, Students - $5

Buy tickets for all 5 of our events and save 33% off the adult price

Can you imagine an all Mozart program played on a Mozart era fortepiano, modeled after a Viennese instrument from 1795, interspersed with readings of letters from Mozart and his father by acclaimed author and Calais resident, M.T. Anderson? Sylvia Berry is one of North America’s leading exponents of the fortepiano as well as other historical keyboard instruments. This is the kind of concert you usually have to travel to Boston or Montreal to hear. Instead just come on over to Plainfield! A rare treat to be sure.

Presented by the Great North Woods Committee for the Arts

Tuesday, April 24, 7:00 pm

Location:
Rialto Theatre
80 Main St.
Lancaster, NH

Tickets: $15

Made up of Dan Haynes and Pete Richards, The Bookends have toured extensively to sold out shows at the 2014, 2015 & 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festivals and have appeared at prestigious venues such as The Lowry and the Minack Theatre in Penzance. Making their USA tour for only the second time , the duo will be singing the classics of Simon & Garfunkel with such memorable songs as "Bridge Over Troubled Water", "The Sounds of Silence", "The Boxer" and much more. The GNWCA was the first to bring this phenomenal duu to the states in 2017. This second performance will also include a backdrop of iconic imagery.

BBC Radio states: " Closing your eyes; that could really be Simon & Garfunkel". Their sound is on point and amazingly like the classic duo we all remember. For more information on this and other GNWCA shows, find the Great North Woods Committee for the Arts on Facebook, visit www.gnwca.org or you can call 237-9302 or 246-8998.

USA, Rated R, 98 Minutes

Director: Matt Spicer

Cast: Aubrey Plaza, Elizabeth Olsen, O’Shea Jackson, Jr.

Showtimes:
Tuesday, April 24, 7:00 pm

Tickets: Free

Ingrid Thorburn is an unhinged social media stalker with a history of confusing "likes" for meaningful relationships. Taylor Sloane is an Instagram-famous "influencer" whose perfectly curated, boho-chic lifestyle becomes Ingrid's latest obsession. When Ingrid moves to LA and manages to insinuate herself into the social media star's life, their relationship quickly goes from #BFF to #WTF. Built around a brilliantly disarming performance from Aubrey Plaza, Ingrid Goes West is a savagely hilarious dark comedy that satirizes the modern world of social media and proves that being #perfect isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Thursdays, April 26, May 3, and May 10, 6:00-8:00PM

Location: Catamount Arts Center Classroom

Instructor: Sharon Kenney Biddle

Participants will spend the first session creating cover paper with free form painting. During the second and third sessions, participants will learn the interesting and fun process of making a book using the Crossed Structure Binding, invented by the accomplished Mexican bookbinder, Carmencho Arragui. This binding is designed to weave together without glue. The sewing shows on the outside of the book, adding a distinctive design element. This class will be taught by Sharon Kenney Biddle, who has been teaching bookbinding and making books for over twenty years.

Class fee: $65 (10% discount for Catamount Arts members and high school students), plus an $8 materials fee payable to the instructor

Parents/guardians of students under age 18 must complete an enrollment form found HERE.

United Kingdom, Not Rated, 108 Minutes

Director: Randall Wright

Cast: Non-Professionals

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

Like countless others Philippe, Michel, Andre and Patrick were labeled 'idiots', locked away and forgotten in violent asylums, until the 1960s, when the young philosopher Jean Vanier took a stand and secured their release--the first time in history that anyone had beaten the system. Together they created L'Arche, a commune at the edge of a beautiful forest near Paris. A quiet revolution was born. Now in his 80s, and still at L'Arche, Vanier has discovered something that most of us have forgotten--what it is to be human, to be foolish, and to be happy. Summer In The Forest invites us to abandon the rat race and forge new friendships.

Chile, Rated R, 100 Minutes

Director: Sebastian Lelio

Cast: Daniela Vega, Francisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco

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

Marina and Orlando are in love and planning for the future. Marina is a young waitress and aspiring singer. Orlando is 20 years older than her, and owns a printing company. After celebrating Marina's birthday one evening, Orlando falls seriously ill. Marina rushes him to the emergency room, but he passes away just after arriving at the hospital. Instead of being able to mourn her lover, suddenly Marina is treated with suspicion. Marina is a trans woman and for most of Orlando's family, her sexual identity is an aberration, a perversion. So Marina struggles for the right to be herself.

In Spanish with English Subtitles.

Saturday, April 28, 10:00-11:30am

Location: Burke Mountain Hotel

Instructor: Robin Kristoff

Catamount Arts and the School of Creative & Performing Arts (SOCAPA) invite young storytellers ages 5-7 to create a group film! This free workshop, to run alongside the 48-Hour Film Slam competition for older students, will introduce children to visual storytelling. Each child will help create a story, think of how to tell their story in pictures, and illustrate one section of the story they tell. The narrations and illustrations will be converted into one group film, which will be screened Sunday evening, April 29, at St. Johnsbury Academy’s Fuller Hall during the Tap Into Film: 48-Hour Student Film Slam premiere.

FREE. Class is limited to 6 students. Please complete your registration by filling out the enrollment form HERE.

Robin Kristoff grew up in Barnet, VT and returned to her hometown after completing her M.A. at Emerson College. She is an Assistant Director of the School of Creative & Performing Arts (SOCAPA), and recently published her first novel for young adults, Star Thief.

Saturday, April 28, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Location:
Court Street Arts at Alumni Hall
Haverhill, NH

Tickets:$60 CSA members, $65 adults

Emily Dickinson once wrote, “I know it is poetry when it feels as if the top of my head has lifted off.” But how does the art of poetry harness the power of words to move us in such profound ways? What is it about your favorite poem that makes it speak to you? This April, celebrate National Poetry Month by joining poet Hannah Fries for a joyful exploration of what makes a poem leap off the page and into our hearts. We’ll spend part of the day looking at our own favorite poems and other examples, and part of the day using loose, fun exercises to jumpstart our own writing. Finally, we’ll conclude by sharing and workshopping our poems in a supportive and encouraging atmosphere. Bring a favorite poem, curiosity, and a love for words.

Instructor: Hannah Fries is the author of the poetry collection Little Terrarium (Hedgerow 2016) and the forthcoming Forest-Bathing Retreat (Storey 2018). She grew up in Bow, New Hampshire, went to Dartmouth College, and later got an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College. From 2005 to 2014, she worked as an editor—including poetry editor—at Orion magazine. From 2014 to 2017, she worked as a project editor for Storey Publishing. Her poetry and prose have appeared in such places as American Poetry Review, Massachusetts Review, and Drunken Boat. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and she was awarded a scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. She is currently a freelance editor.

Saturday, April 28, 12:55 pm
Encore - Saturday, May 5, 12:55 pm

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

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

For the first time ever, Massenet’s sumptuous take on the Cinderella story comes to the Met. Joyce DiDonato stars in the title role, with mezzo-soprano Alice Coote in the trouser role of Prince Charming, Kathleen Kim as the Fairy Godmother, and Stephanie Blythe as the imperious Madame de la Haltière. Bertrand de Billy conducts Laurent Pelly’s imaginative storybook production.

This is an on-screen event.

Saturday, April 28, 7:00 pm

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

Tickets: $12.00 all seats

Boston’s Classic Repertory Company will be live at the Arts Center at St. Kieran’s on Saturday, April 28th starting at 7:00 pm. Tickets for the show, $12.00 for all seats, are available on line (www.stkieranarts.org) for a small additional fee, at the arts center office and at the door on the evening of the show.

Classic Repertory Company takes on this famous tale of race, love, jealousy, and revenge. Featuring live music, and seven young actors taking on multiple roles, this bold adaptation breathes new life into one of Shakespeare’s most well-loved tragedies. (Suitable for grades 6 and up)

Classic Repertory Company (CRC) is New Rep’s flagship educational outreach program, bringing theatrical experiences to schools, senior centers, universities, summer camps, and presenting organizations throughout New England. CRC produces streamlined, inventive, original 90-minute adaptations of Shakespeare and classic novels. They seek not only to entertain, but to create a space for critical thinking, risk-taking, conversation, and shared experience. Every performance is accompanied by comprehensive study guides, a pre-show introduction, and a post-show discussion with the actors.

USA, Rated R, 100 Minutes

Director: Pablo Larrain

Cast: Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig

Showtimes:
Monday, May 1, 1:30 pm & 7:00 pm

Admission: Free

Jackie is a searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. Jackie places us in her world during the days immediately following her husband's assassination. Known for her extraordinary dignity and poise, here we see a psychological portrait of the First Lady as she struggles to maintain her husband's legacy and the world of "Camelot" that they created and loved so well.

USA, Not Rated, 110 Minutes

Director: Steven Lewis Simpson

Cast: David Bald Eagle, Christopher Sweeney, Richard Ray Whitman

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

A white author is summoned by a Lakota Elder who asks him to write a book about his perspective. After a blundering false start, he is all but kidnapped and sucked into a road trip through the heart of the contemporary Native American landscape. By the end of the trip, the author comes to realize much more about his assignment and his life.

May 4, 5, 11, & 12 at 7:30 pm
May 13, 2:00 pm

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

Tickets: $10 adults, $7 students and seniors

Outrageous comedy and snappy dancing will take the stage during the first two weekends in May when the St. Johnsbury Players present the musical, Nunsense. This delightful production written by Dan Goggin centers on a group of nuns, The Little Sisters of Hoboken, who are “puttin’ on a show”. The fundraiser is necessary because most of the sisters in the convent have been wiped out by a bad batch of vichyssoise soup, the worst of Chef Sister Julia’s many culinary disasters. All the dead sisters have been properly buried except for the four in the walk-in freezer. The hope is to raise enough money to bury the sisters before the New Jersey Board of Health makes a kitchen inspection.Susan-Lynn Johns plays the Reverend Mother, Mary Regina, who is in charge of the convent. It was the Rev’s impetuous decision to buy a 4K TV which has led to the need for this fund-raiser. Her second-in-command, Sister Hubert, played by Lora Dean, aspires to the Reverend Mother’s job and doesn’t hesitate to point out Mary Regina’s lack of judgment with the television purchase. Sister Mary Amnesia played by Sandi Breen is a sweet nun who is constantly confused. She can’t remember who she was before a crucifix fell on her head years ago. Sister Robert Anne, played by LTS music teacher Johanna Schillemat, is a tough cookie who grew up on the streets of Brooklyn and is sure this benefit performance could be her road to stardom. Sister Leo, the novice, portrayed by Heather Bowser, desperately yearns to be the world’s first premiere ballerina nun. Rounding out the cast is Adam Lumbra who plays Father Adam, Stage Manager for the Benefit. The show is directed and choreographed by J. Michele Laberge and Patricia Webster. Musicians are William Brancaccio, band leader and keyboards; Johanna Kennedy, pianist; Barry Hayes, lead guitar; Sean Breen, bass guitar. Sound will be run by Zach Brown. Sue Montague is the prop mistress. Lighting will be provided by Josh Duncan and set design by Jan Clausing. Nunsense will be performed at the St. Johnsbury School auditorium on May 4th, 5th, 11th, and 12th at 7:30. A 2:00 pm matinee will be held on May 13th. Tickets will be available at Catamount and at the door.

Saturday, May 5, 9:30 am-12:00 pm

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

Admission: Free

Are you a teaching artist who is interested in deepening your practice and connecting with others in the arts community? The Northeast Region training series of professional development workshops taught by VSA Vermont teaching artist Alexandra Turner is designed to provide introductory information on inclusive teaching methods focusing on accessible practices, social and emotional learning, arts integration, and universal design for learning (UDL). All workshops will include hands-on arts exploration as well as time to connect with other teaching artists, community arts leaders, and the instructor. Each 2-hour workshop will be preceded by a half hour of light refreshments and networking. The workshops can be taken independently or as the full series of four trainings.

This series is a partnership between VSA Vermont, Catamount Arts, River Arts, WonderArts, and the Vermont Arts Council. Thanks to Vermont Arts Council support, there is no fee to participate in the workshops. Space is limited, and registration is required.

To register, click on “Buy Tickets” for each workshop. All are free.

For more information about workshop content, call VSA Vermont at 802-871-5002.

In this workshop, teaching artists will explore concepts, benefits, and technique of arts integration. Teaching artists will come away with increased understanding of how to create an arts-integrated lesson or unit plan. This workshop will present information in multiple formats and include hands-on arts exploration of concepts presented. Join us at 9:30 for light refreshments and networking. Workshop begins at 10:00 am.

Saturday, May 5, 4:00 pm

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

Tickets: $40.00 all seats

In addition to the performance, Joe will be offering a guitar workshop earlier in the day, which goes from 4:00 – 5:30. The workshop can be attended separately from the show, but if you attend both, you’ll save $5 and have the option to select and reserve your seat at the show.

Topics covered at the workshop include, but aren’t limited to:

• Left Hand Dexterity Building
• Right Hand Pick Techniques
• Arranging
• Bass & Melody Independence, and
• The Scales You Need to Know

"A splendid time IS guaranteed for all ..”

Saturday, May 5, 7:00 pm

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

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

Beatles For Sale is an award-winning, New England-based Beatles tribute band that is committed to recreating the sounds of the Beatles live in concert. They have been entertaining audiences since 2007 with a repertoire that consists of over 150 SONGS from the Beatle catalog. The band’s members were drawn together by their love of Beatles music and the desire to keep the music alive. They are enthusiastic about bringing it to a whole new generation of Beatles fans. Expect to hear some of your favorites, but don't expect to see Beatle wigs or Sgt. Pepper suits. They feel that the most important thing about the show is the music. What you will see is a fun and energetic performance complete with original instrumentation and vocal harmonies that are as accurate as possible to the original Beatles recordings. There are no "sampling" or "midi tricks" - everything you hear is performed completely live.

Sponsor: Mount Washington Auto Road Company

Saturday, May 5, 7:30 pm

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

Admission: $25 all seats

Twenty-six-year-old Australian Joe Robinson is considered uniquely gifted as a virtuoso guitarist and singer/songwriter. He walks a tightrope between the instrumental music that has put him in the spotlight and a unique fusion of vocally based rock, blues, jazz, and R&B that is entirely his own.

“It’s not hard to imagine him rivaling the popularity of, say, John Mayer in coming years.” – The Washington Post

Saturday, May 5, 7:30 pm - Bradford Congregational Church, Bradford, VT
Sunday, May 6, 3:00 pm - South Church, St. Johnsbury, VT

Tickets: Adults - $13, Students - $5 ($16 and $5 at the door)

In collaboration with St. Johnsbury Academy's Hilltones, NCC will perform W.A. Mozart's Requiem. Fans of the award-winning film Amadeus will recognize many of its themes in this work. Orchestral accompaniment will be provided by organ, strings and winds. The entire ensemble will be under the direction of Alan Rowe. The Hilltones also will perform several pieces on their own. In their debut public appearance, the recently formed North Country Youth Chorus, led by Kaitlyn Bryant, will offer several selections.

Seating will be guaranteed at the venue shown on your ticket. If you attend a different venue, your ticket will be honored as space allows.

Tuesdays, May 8 through 22, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Location:
Court Street Arts at Alumni Hall
Haverhill, NH

Tickets:$30 CSA members, $32 adults per class

From artists to entrepreneurs this foundational class will help to advance your work. The class will address basic to more advanced elements from the Adobe Photoshop toolkit including layers, blending modes, image sizing, photo editing, color correction, selection methods, effects and more. Workshops will be tailored to fit the needs of participants through customized lessons. If you’ve been struggling with an application, wanting to explore more advanced tools or simply get a feel for the software this is the class for you! Sessions can be taken individually or as a series.

Instructor: Shaun Machia has been using Photoshop for so long that he remembers it taking a whole day to apply a single filter. Shaun has over two decades of graphic design experience complemented by a film degree from the Art Institute of Philadelphia, focusing on post production and visual effects. He currently operates his company, “SM Creative Services,” in Newbury, VT. He offers a wide range of graphic and technical skills for hire including Web design, Photography, Logo Design, Motion Design, 2D and 3D animation, Illustration and he also produces art and film for Rock Farmer Records.

Wednesday, May 9, 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Location:
Court Street Arts at Alumni Hall
Haverhill, NH

Tickets:$10 all seats

Celebrate the return of warmth with a WMSI workshop! In this engaging and inventive workshop participants will learn what it takes to design their own stop motion movies! Topics will include whiteboard animations, LEGO animations, and laser cut animations. Participants will be able to explore their passions, designing movies about Springtime, planets, squirrels, racing, Minecraft, and much more!

Thursday, May 10 at 7:00pm
Encore- Thursday, May 17 at 7:00pm

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

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

By William Shakespeare

Directed by Rufus Norris

The ruined aftermath of a bloody civil war. Ruthlessly fighting to survive, the Macbeths are propelled towards the crown by forces of elemental darkness.

Shakespeare’s most intense and terrifying tragedy, directed by Rufus Norris (The Threepenny Opera, London Road), will see Rory Kinnear (Young Marx, Othello) and Anne-Marie Duff (Oil, Suffragette) return to the National Theatre to play Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.

Photograph (Anne-Marie Duff and Rory Kinnear) by Jack Davison

This is an on-screen event.

United Kingdom, Rated PG, 93 Minutes

Director: Thomas Riedelsheimer

Cast: Andy Goldsworthy, Holly Goldsworthy

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

Leaning Into The Wind is a vibrant journey through the diverse layers of Andy Goldsworthy's world. From urban Edinburgh and London to the South of France and New England, each environment he encounters becomes a fresh kaleidoscopic canvas for his art. A lushly-visualized travelogue, Goldsworthy's work and Thomas Riedelsheimer's exquisite cinematography redefine landscape and inextricably tie human life to the natural world.

United Kingdom, Rated R, 107 Minutes

Director: Armando Iannucci

Cast: Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Jeffrey Tambor

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

The one-liners fly as fast as political fortunes fall in this uproarious, wickedly irreverent satire from Armando Iannucci. Moscow, 1953: when tyrannical dictator Joseph Stalin drops dead, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to be the next Soviet leader. Among the contenders are the dweeby Georgy Malenkov, the wily Nikita Khrushchev, and the sadistic secret police chief Lavrentiy Beria. But as they bumble, brawl, and backstab their way to the top, just who is running the government? Combining palace intrigue with rapid-fire farce, this audacious comedy is a bitingly funny takedown of bureaucratic dysfunction.

Friday, May 11, 7:00 pm

Recreating the sound of this famous pair!

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

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

Saturday, May 12
Dinner begins at 5:00 pm
Gallery cocktail hour at 6:00 pm
Concert at 7:30 pm followed by Artists' Reception

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

Admission: By donation, but be sure to reserve your seat!

Satisfy your senses at this enchanting evening out! Dine at the Cafe with a prix fixe menu inspired by composers featured in the program: Vivaldi, Debussy, and Sousa. Wander the Gallery with a pre-show cocktail, and hear from CCP Music Director Fran Rowell about the upcoming 2018 Summer Concert Series. Indulge in the sounds of the Chamber Players on the Main Stage, and meet friends old and new at the post-concert artists' reception. Donations welcome - proceeds to benefit the Craftsbury Chamber Players

Presented by the Great North Woods Committee for the Arts

Saturday, May 12, 7:00 pm

Location:
Colebrook Country Club
15 Abenaki Lane
Colebrook, NH

Tickets: $15

Rock On features Jules Rancourt on guitar, Katie Rancourt on drums, Bernie Walling on guitar and Thomas Jordan on bass. Jules has been a veteran of the music scene for decades, starting off with rock music of the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, exploring country music in the ’90s, and returning to vintage rock with the creation of Rock On. Jules is joined by longtime collaborator Bernie Walling of Bloomfield, Vt., who brings his surf guitar licks out in full force. Thomas Jordan, a member of multiple area bands, holds down the basslines, and the real fire in the group comes from the drumming of Jules’ daughter, Katie. Her aggressive performance of “Wipe Out” is always a crowd-pleaser wherever the band goes.

The band is frequently seen at Island Pond’s Friday Night Live concerts, where people have danced to their songs long into the night. Popular demand has prompted the rebooking of Rock On. Their GNWCA show at the Country Club last January was one of the hits of the season, bringing a crowd to the dance floor by bringing with them the music we all grew up rockin’ to! Bring your boogie shoes and Jules and the gang will rev it up!

Visit the GNWCA at www.gnwca.org and on Facebook.

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

Saturday, May 12, 7:00 pm

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

Admission: Free (Donations accepted)

As always, Catamount Arts Bluegrass Night will be hosted by Vermont's favorite bluegrass band, Bob Amos & Catamount Crossing. This month's special guests will be The Grass Fed Boys.

The GrassFed Boys, based in Lyman NH, have been playing bluegrass since 2008. You may have seen the boys perform at gazebo concerts, the Lyndonville Street Festival, or at your local watering hole.

On the five string banjo and lead vocals is Jeff Simano from Lyman NH. Jeff has played in several local bands over the years and has been with the GrassFed Boys since the beginning. In fact the band started in Jeff’s kitchen and it hasn’t stopped since. Jeff notes that it is hard to describe what goes on at a GrassFed Boys practice, but there is rarely a dull moment.

Nick Mike, on guitar, started playing Bluegrass in the 1970’s in Ohio and West Virginia. Nick has been playing locally in the Franconia area for the past 28 years. Starting with the early formation of Gopher Broke, Nick has learned and grown from the talented pickers in the North Country.

Perry Williams, on bass, grew up in the Keene NH area and played trumpet in various concert and marching bands during his school years. After working in the hi-tech business during the 1980’s, he “retired” to Lyman and did surveying, carpentry and produced maple syrup. Perry picked up the guitar in 2001 and frequented the Back Shed jam in Monroe and the Barn Jam in Bethlehem where he met up with many other North Country musicians, eventually forming the GrassFed Boys in 2008. Perry now lives in Waterford VT where he plays bass with the GrassFed Boys and the Barnyard Incident. Perry is a co-founder of the Summertime Marching Band.

David Choate first became fascinated with Bluegrass music as a young boy watching the Dillards, aka the Darlings, on the Andy Griffith Show. David has played mandolin with the GrassFed Boys since they first came together in Jeff’s kitchen. He also handles mandolin duties for the Back Shed String Band and the Brock Hill Band out of Bridgewater NH. David is a founding member of the Friday night Bluegrass jam session at the Shed in Monroe NH, now in its 20th year.

Sunday, May 13, 4:00 pm

Location:
Plainfield Town Hall Opera House
18 High Street
Plainfield, VT 05667

Tickets: Adults - $15, Seniors - $10, Students - $5

Buy tickets for all 5 of our events and save 33% off the adult price.

Plainfield’s own Court-style Javanese Gamelan returns to the OH for a concert of traditional Indonesian music as well as contemporary compositions written for the ensemble. Javanese Gamelan is a group - or orchestra - of about 30 instruments ranging from huge gongs to tiny flutes with lots of xylophone and kettle type instruments in between. Gamelan has a long history in central Vermont, going back to the late 1960’s when Dennis Murphy built the first gamelan anywhere in the world outside of Java at Goddard College. Gamelan Sulukala (named in honor of a Murphy composition) was purchased anonymously for Goddard in the 90’s. Made in Java, it is a full complement of instruments fashioned from bronze and iron. The current ensemble consists of 16 members who range in age from their teens to 70’s with every decade in-between represented.

Tuesday, May 15, 7:00 pm
Encore: Tuesday, May 29, 7:00 pm

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

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

Returning home from battle, the victorious Macbeth meets three witches on the heath. Driven by their disturbing prophecies, he sets out on the path to murder. Our contemporary production of Shakespeare’s darkest psychological thriller marks both Christopher Eccleston’s RSC debut and the return of Niamh Cusack to the Company.

This is an on-screen event.

Location: Catamount Outback Artspace

Admission: Free

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

USA, Rated PG, 97 Minutes

Directors: Julie Cohen & Betsy West

Cast: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Gloria Steinheim, Nina Totenberg

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

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

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

Book by James Lapine

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

Tickets: $14 advance sale, $16 at the door.
Group Rate: $12 for groups of 10 or more (tickets must be purchased in a single transaction). Contact Upstage Players at GetUpstageTickets@gmail.com for information on school rates.

Season Tickets now available! Get a discounted price on premium seats. A limited number of season tickets are available for each show and each performance. Buying tickets for all three season shows at the door would cost $40. For only $30, get your tickets early and in a prime location only available to season ticket holders. Call the Catamount Arts Box Office at 802-748-2600 to purchase and select season tickets. See our whole season and support local arts.

Into The Woods is directed by the Upstage Artistic Director, Andrew Lidestri with music direction by Victoria Cole and choreography by Lidestri & Madalyn Sheehy

Into the Woods is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. The musical intertwines the plots of several Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault fairy tales, exploring the consequences of the characters' wishes and quests. The main characters are taken from "Little Red Riding Hood", "Jack and the Beanstalk", "Rapunzel", and "Cinderella", as well as several others. The musical is tied together by a story involving a childless baker and his wife and their quest to begin a family, their interaction with a witch who has placed a curse on them, and their interaction with other storybook characters during their journey. Everything seems as though are heroes are going to live happily ever after … but are they? Careful what you wish for!!

Saturday, May 19 7:30pm
Cafe Opens, 6pm

Location:
Court Street Arts at Alumni Hall
Haverhill, NH

Tickets: $20 Court Street Arts members, $22 non-members

Juston is back with an all new show!

Juston McKinney grew up on the border of Maine and New Hampshire. After earning an associates degree from the very prestigious Southern Maine Community College, he was hired as a York County sheriff’s deputy patrolling the same border in which he grew up. But in 1997 Juston turned in his gun and badge and left the dangerous streets of rural Maine and moved to New York. While living in NYC he worked his way into the weekend line-up at Comic Strip Live, Stand-up New York, Dangerfield’s, Gotham, and Caroline’s on Broadway. McKinney has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Conan O’Brien and has two Comedy Central specials and was chosen to be part of the Blue Collar Comedy Next Generation Tour. In 2000 the New York Times called him “destined for stardom”.

Dinner options (order with your show tickets):

Bacon Mac & Cheese - A rich mac & cheese made even more scrumptious with bacon, mixed greens salad with cucumber, gorgonzola, roasted pumpkin seeds & dried cranberries - $12

Chicken Caesar Salad - The crispness of fresh greens paired with the richness of a classic caesar dressing and roasted chicken served with a chipotle cheddar biscuit - $11

Vegetarian Chili - A vegetarian chili with a delightful pairing of veggies and beans, mixed greens salad with cucumber, gorgonzola, roasted pumpkin seeds & dried cranberries and a chipotle cheddar biscuit - $10 (GF, Dairy free)

Salads can be ordered dairy free.

SATURDAY, MAY 19, 8 PM

Location:
Colonial Theatre
2050 Main St
Bethlehem, NH

Ticket: $25 Reserved front & center, $20 General admission, $17 Members general admission.

There are two ways of handling a dangerous, raging river: you can surrender and let it carry you away, or you can swim against the flow. For The Secret Sisters, there was a point after the release of their last record when they could have chosen to do neither – instead, sinking to the bottom as the weight of the world washed away their dreams. They went from touring with Bob Dylan to losing their label, purging their team, filing bankruptcy and almost permanently trading harmonies for housecleaning. But there’s a mythical pull to music that kept sisters Laura and Lydia Rogers moving forward, and they came out with a biting and beautiful third LP, produced by Brandi Carlile, You Don’t Own Me Anymore. Their first as New West signees, it’s a document of hardship and redemption, of pushing forward when it would be so much easier to drown in grief. And it’s a story about how passion and pure artistry can be the strongest sort of salvation – how art is left, like perfect grains of sand, when everything else has washed away.

USA, Rated R, 83 Minutes

Director: Laurie Collyer

Cast: Melissa Leo, Tessa Thompson, Anna Paquin

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

The latest comedy by Laurie Collyer, takes a spin on the road movie. When a rowdy inmate Melissa gets one weekend out of prison to visit her ailing mother, the rookie corrections officer assigned to keep an eye on her struggles to keep her in line during their emergency furlough. With Whoopi Goldberg, Edgar Ramirez, and La La Anthony.

Italy, Rated R, 112 Minutes

Director: Paolo Virzi

Cast: Helen Mirren, Donald Sutherland, Christopher McKay

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

The film stars Academy Award-winner (R) Helen Mirren and two-time Golden Globe-winner (R) Donald Sutherland as a runaway couple going on an unforgettable journey in the faithful old RV they call The Leisure Seeker, travelling from Boston to The Ernest Hemingway Home in Key West. They recapture their passion for life and their love for each other on a road trip that provides revelation and surprise right up to the very end.

In English.

FRIDAY, MAY 25, 6:30 PM

Location:
Colonial Theatre
2050 Main St
Bethlehem, NH

Ticket: $23 Reserved front & center, $19 General admission, $12 Members general admission.

The internationally acclaimed Cashore Marionettes redefine the art of puppetry. The moving and humorous performances have astounded audiences in Europe, the Far East and across North America including stops at the Kennedy Center, Annenberg Center, Kravis Center, and many others.

The program, Simple Gifts, is a series of touching portrayals and poignant scenes from everyday life set to stunning music by such composers as Vivaldi, Strauss, Beethoven and Copland. Through a combination of virtuoso manipulation, beautiful music, theatrical illusion, and artistic insight, the original vignettes presented in Simple Gifts provide an entertaining and sensitive vision of what it is to be human. The performance explores a range of emotions with characters and actions that are amazingly convincing. The marionettes are engineering marvels and the quality of movement is extraordinary.

Joseph Cashore has received numerous awards for his artistry including a Pew Fellowship for Performance Art, based upon his artistic accomplishment; a Henson Foundation Grant, an award intended to help promote puppetry to adult audiences; and a Citation of Excellence from the UNIMA-USA, the highest honor an American puppeteer can receive. The Cashore Marionettes are so well conceived and projected, the movement so convincing, the illusion so powerful, that the result is a compelling and unforgettable theatrical experience.

This program is good for ages 8 years old and up.

Saturday, June 2, 7pm

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

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

The Goyettes of Berlin, New Hampshire are known for two things: large families and musical talent. On Saturday, June 2nd starting at 7:00 pm, all 13 siblings of the Goyette family will come together St. Kieran Community Center for the Arts to celebrate more than 100 years of Goyettes making music in their hometown. Tickets for the show, $12.00 for adults and $8.00 for those under 18, are available on line (www.stkieranarts.org) for a small additional fee, at the arts center office and at the door on the evening of the show.

The first in this long line of musicians, Louis Goyette (pianist) first came to Berlin in 1917 to play for the booming mill town. He passed his talent on to many of his 10 children including his youngest, Clarence. Clarence and his wife Jeanette, a singer, filled their home with music. Their kids all sang before they could talk and played with musical instruments as much as with toys. From French folk songs and jazz standards to the Beatles and some original tunes, music was as much their language as French or English.

June 2, 2018 will mark the first time that the entire family gathers for a public performance, presenting a once-in-a-lifetime concert. Together, they will pay homage to their parents and grandparents by sharing songs of yesterday and today with love in the community where they got their start.

Sponsor: The Town & Country Inn and Resort

SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 8 PM

Location:
Colonial Theatre
2050 Main St
Bethlehem, NH

Ticket: $22 Reserved front & center, $17 General admission, $14 Members general admission.

Session Americana is a rock band in a tea cup, or possibly a folk band in a whiskey bottle. This band/collective of talented musicians craft an musical experience unlike any other. On stage is a collapsible bar table wired with microphones, a vintage suitcase recast as a kick drum, an old Estey field organ, a pre-war parlor guitar, a mandocello and all of its smaller siblings, a harmonica case fire damaged when Jack’s bar went up in flames and graffitied by Depeche Mode roadies, and an assortment of other instruments that get passed around in this freewheeling modern hootenanny. The anything-could-happen feel of a Session show depends on craft that’s not accidental or easily won; they bring a kind of ease and genuineness to this timeless music, sometimes presenting the latest batch of original songs, sometimes reaching back into depths of the American “song bag”.

Drawing - Friday, June 8, 2018

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.)

1. 2018 Polaris Ranger 570 - Full size 3-passenger with top and windshield (MSRP $11,500)

2. $10,000 Cash!

3. 2018 Harley Davidson XL1200 Sportster Custom (MSRP $11,000)

The winning ticket will be drawn on Friday, June 8th during the Bob Amos & Catamount Crossing Bluegrass concert at United Community Church - North. 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.

Saturday, June 9, 7:30 pm
Cafe opens at 6:00 pm

Location:
Court Street Arts at Alumni Hall
Haverhill, NH

Tickets: $28 Court Street Arts members, $30 non-members

Dinner options(order along with your show ticket):
Summer Salad with Lemon Chicken - Orzo & rosemary salad with pine nuts, feta, and olives paired with a lightly seasoned chicken, served with a mixed greens salad with cucumber, gorgonzola, roasted pumpkin seeds & dried cranberries, homemade roll - $13
Quiche - A delightful vegetarian quiche served with a mixed greens salad with cucumber, gorgonzola, roasted pumpkin seeds & dried cranberries, homemade roll - $10
Stuffed Peppers - A roasted pepper filled with a blend of flavored rice and savory sausage served with a mixed greens salad with cucumber, gorgonzola, roasted pumpkin seeds & dried cranberries, homemade roll - $12 (GF, option of dairy free)(Salads can be ordered dairy free).

Iris DeMent exemplifies what it means to forge your own path in the music industry. Her independently released 1992 debut Infamous Angel garnered such palpable buzz that it landed her a deal with Warner Bros. and was hailed as an essential album of the 1990s by Rolling Stone Magazine.

Since that incredible start, DeMent has released a series of stellar recordings that have earned her multiple Grammy Award nominations, critical acclaim, as well as the respect and admiration of fans around the world including a few famous ones like; Steve Earle, John Prine, and Emmylou Harris.

Respected for her trail-blazing spirit, DeMent has never shied away from using her ethereal voice and songwriting craft to showcase introspection as well as to addressing a variety of topics ranging from religion to politics.

Saturday, June 9, 7:30 pm

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

Admission: $35, $25, $20, $15

“Perhaps the most creative improviser in Gypsy jazz today, Mr. Wrembel plays the guitar with a rich and colorful lyricism.” – New York Times, Jan 19 2018

David Frick at Rolling Stone Magazine called him “a revelation.” He has headlined Lincoln Center, played major festivals, recorded with mandolin legend David Grisman, toured with master violinist Mark O’Connor and shared stages with everyone from Elvis Costello to Patti Smith to The Roots. The Gitane guitar company has even named a model after him.

We’re very excited to host Stephane Wrembel and his band on the Main Stage.

Sunday, June 10, 12:55 pm
Encore: Wedensday, June 13, 7:00 pm

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

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

Running time: 2:45

Music Léo Delibes
Choreography Sergei Vikharev after Marius Petipa and Enrico Cecchetti
Cast The Bolshoi Principals, Soloists and Corps de Ballet

Swanhilda notices her fianceé Franz is infatuated with the beautiful Coppélia who sits reading on her balcony each day. Nearly breaking up the two sweethearts, Coppélia is not what she seems and Swanhilda decides to teach Franz a lesson…

The Bolshoi’s unique version of Coppélia exhibits a fascinating reconstruction of the original 19th century choreography of this ebullient comedy involving a feisty heroine, a boyish fianceé with a wandering eye, and an old dollmaker. The company’s stunning corps de ballet shines in the divertissements and famous “dance of the hours,” and its principals abound in youthful energy and irresistible humor in this effervescent production.

This is an on-screen event.

SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 8 PM

Location:
Colonial Theatre
2050 Main St
Bethlehem, NH

Ticket: $18 General admission, $15 Members general admission.

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.

Grammy winner and MacArthur Fellow

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

Tickets: $54, $44, $34, $24

Rhiannon Giddens is a 2017 MacArthur “genius” award and the co-founder of the GRAMMY award-winning string band Carolina Chocolate Drops, in which she also plays banjo and fiddle. She began gaining recognition as a solo artist when she stole the show at the T Bone Burnett– produced Another Day, Another Time concert at New York City’s Town Hall in 2013. Her elegant bearing, prodigious voice, and fierce spirit that brought the audience to its feet that night is also abundantly evident on Giddens’ critically acclaimed solo debut, the Grammy nominated album, Tomorrow Is My Turn, which masterfully blends American musical genres like gospel, jazz, blues, and country, showcasing her extraordinary emotional range and dazzling vocal prowess.

Giddens’ second solo album, Freedom Highway was released in February, 2017. It includes 9 original songs Giddens wrote or co-wrote along with a traditional song and two civil rights-era songs, “Birmingham Sunday,” and Staple Singers’ well-known “Freedom Highway,” from which the album takes its name.

Giddens’ recent televised performances include The Late Show, Austin City Limits, Later…with Jools Holland,and both CBS Saturday and Sunday Morning, among numerous other notable media appearances. She performed for President Obama and the First Lady on a White House Tribute to Gospel, along with Aretha Franklin and Emmylou Harris; the program was televised on PBS.

Giddens sings a duet with country superstar Eric Church on his powerful song, “Kill a Word,” which is currently top 15 on country radio; the two have performed the song on The Tonight Show and the CMA Awards, among other programs. Giddens received the BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for Singer of the Year and has won the Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Bluegrass and Banjo in 2016.Giddens, who studied opera at Oberlin, makes her acting debut with a recurring role on the television drama Nashville, playing the role of Hanna Lee “Hallie” Jordan, a young social worker with “the voice of an angel.

The Rhiannon Giddens concert is being presented as part of a special tribute to Paul Bengtson

Friday, July 6, 8 PM

Location:
Colonial Theatre
2050 Main St
Bethlehem, NH

Ticket: $18 General admission, $15 Members general admission.

“…an exciting emerging R&B musician. He and the band mine a sticky groove, and Gilfillian dashes off a funky guitar solo.” —NPR’s World Cafe

Devon Gilfillian fires twin barrels of gospel-blues and southern soul. Fueled by groove, guitar, and the powerful punch of Gilfillian’s voice with his four-piece band, his songs shine a light on a young songwriter who grew up outside of Philadelphia, absorbing everything from the R&B swagger of Al Green and Ray Charles to the rock & roll heroics of Jimi Hendrix.

Raised by a musical family, Gilfillian grew up singing. He took up the electric guitar at 14 years old, kickstarting a fascination with classic rock and other sounds from an older generation. By the time college rolled around, Gilfillian was playing three-hour shows in a local cover band, performing songs by the Meters one minute and the Beatles the next. The gigs allowed him to explore the full range of his influences, but Gilfillian wanted to play his own music, too. With that in mind, he moved to Nashville, eager to chase down his own muse.

Released in May 2016, the self-titled Devon Gilfillian finds him stepping into the spotlight as a solo artist. Equal parts swampy, funky, and enthralling, the record finds Gilfillian planting one foot in the classic sound of his influences, with the other foot pointing somewhere new and uncharted. After all, he’s no revivalist. No nostalgia act. No retro wannabe. Instead, Gilfillian is a classic artist for the modern age, discovering new life in soulful sounds that have been making people dance for decades.

Saturday, July 28, 8 PM

Location:
Colonial Theatre
2050 Main St
Bethlehem, NH

Ticket: $24 Reserved front & center, $20 General admission, $17 Members general admission.

“…high-octane, bluegrass-meets-soul, New Orleans-meets-Memphis, brass-meets-fiddle” —NPR’s World Cafe

Over the past few years, The Dustbowl Revival has been making a name for itself with a vibrant mix of vintage Americana sounds. Critics have proclaimed that this eclectic eight-piece band featuring guitar, ukulele, mandolin, fiddle, trumpet, trombone, bass, and drums, “would have sounded utterly at home within the hallowed confines of Preservation Hall in New Orleans’ French Quarter” (Los Angeles Times) and their “upbeat, old-school, All-American sonic safaris exemplify everything shows should be: hot, spontaneous, engaging and, best of all, a pleasure to hear” (L.A. Weekly). Rob Sheffield, in Rolling Stone, hailed them as a great band “whose Americana swing was so fun I went back to see them again the next day.”

THURSDAY, AUG. 9, 8 PM

Location:
Colonial Theatre
2050 Main St
Bethlehem, NH

Ticket: $68 Reserved front & center, $52 General admission, $44 Members general admission.

5 TIME GRAMMY AWARD WINNERS

South Africa’s Ladysmith Black Mambazo was assembled in the early 1960s by Joseph Shabalala, then a young farmboy turned factory worker. Joseph took the name Ladysmith from his hometown, which lies in the province of kwaZulu Natal, halfway between the city of Durban (where members of the group live today) and Johannesburg. The word Black being a reference to the oxen, the strongest of all farm animals, Joseph’s way of honoring his early life on his family’s farm. Mambazo is the Zulu word for chopping axe, a symbol of the group’s vocal strength, clearing the way for their music and eventual success.

A radio broadcast in 1970 opened the door to their first record contract – the beginning of an ambitious discography that currently includes more than sixty albums. Their philosophy in the studio was and continues to be just as much about preservation of musical heritage as it is about entertainment. The group borrows heavily from a traditional music called isicathamiya (is-cot-a-ME-Ya), which developed in the mines of South Africa, where black workers were taken by rail to work far away from their homes and their families. Poorly housed and paid worse, the mine workers would entertain themselves after a six-day week by singing songs into the wee hours on Sunday morning. When the miners returned to the homelands, this musical tradition returned with them.

During the 1970’s and early 1980’s Ladysmith Black Mambazo established themselves as the most successful singing group in South Africa. In the mid-1980s, the American singer/songwriter Paul Simon famously visited South Africa and incorporated the group’s rich tenor/alto/bass harmonies into his famous “Graceland” album – a landmark recording that was considered seminal in introducing world music to mainstream audiences. A year later, Paul Simon produced Ladysmith Black Mambazo’s first worldwide release, Shaka Zulu, which garnered the group their first GRAMMY Award, in 1988, for Best Folk Recording. Since then the group has been awarded three more GRAMMY Awards; Raise Your Spirit Higher (2004), Ilembe (2009) and Singing For Peace Around The World (2013) as well as nineteen GRAMMY Award nominations, more than any other World Music group in the history of the Awards. Currently the group has two new albums nominated; Shaka Zulu Revisited for Best World Music Album and Songs Of PEACE & LOVE For Kids & Parents Around The World for Best Children’s Album.

In addition to their work with Paul Simon, Ladysmith Black Mambazo has recorded with numerous artists including Stevie Wonder, Dolly Parton, Sarah McLachlan, Josh Groban, Emmylou Harris, Melissa Etheridge and many many others. Their singing voices can be heard in several films including Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker video and Spike Lee’s Do It A Cappella. They’ve provided soundtrack material for Disney’s The Lion King, Part II, Eddie Murphy’s Coming To America, Marlon Brando’s A Dry White Season, Sean Connery’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, James Earl Jones’ Cry The Beloved Country and Clint Eastwood’s Invictus. A documentary film called On Tip Toe: Gentle Steps to Freedom, The Story Of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, was nominated for an Academy Award. They have appeared on Broadway, have been nominated for Tony Awards and have won a Drama Desk Award.

A favorite of the late great Nelson Mandela, Ladysmith Black Mambazo traveled with the future South African president, when he went to Oslo to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. One year later they were singing at the inauguration of the newly elected President. After many more special appearances with the South African icon, Mandela proclaimed the group South Africa’s Cultural Ambassadors to the World. The group sings of peace, of love and for people to live in harmony.

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.

Friday, September 21, 7:00 pm

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 (plus $1 per ticket fee for Peer Solutions*)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

About Thao:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

FRIDAY, OCT. 12, 8 PM

Location:
Colonial Theatre
2050 Main St
Bethlehem, NH

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

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

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

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.

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/