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Springfield Community Band Holiday Concert with featured vocalists set for Dec. 7

Springfield Community Band Holiday Concert with featured vocalists set for Dec. 7

The Springfield Community Band announces that its Second Annual Holiday Concert will take place at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 7 in the Riverside Middle School auditorium, 13 Fairground Road in Springfield. The featured vocalists will be teachers Meredith Pelton (Springfield High School) and Kelly DeAngelis (Riverside Middle School), as well as the Riverside Middle […]

Weston's Winter Cabaret returns Dec. 6 & 7

Weston’s Winter Cabaret returns Dec. 6 & 7 Fundraiser to benefit Young Company's tours

Kick off the winter season with Weston Theater Company’s popular annual Winter Cabaret to be held at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 6 and Saturday, Dec. 7 at Walker Farm, 705 Main St. in Weston This fun, festive and tastefully irreverent tradition is sure to get you in the holiday spirit. Proceeds from this event […]

Springfield Players presents Neil Simon's 'Rumors'

Springfield Players presents Neil Simon’s ‘Rumors’

Springfield Community Players, 165 South St. in Springfield, is gearing up for its final production of the season, Rumors by Neil Simon. Travel back to 1989 in New York City and see what happens when four socialite couples are invited to their friends’ 10th anniversary party. Performances are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 16, […]

Children's Thanksgiving art workshop Nov. 16 in Weston

Children’s Thanksgiving art workshop Nov. 16 in Weston

Wilder Memorial Library, 24 Lawrence Hill Road in Weston, invites children of all ages to a Giving Thanks workshop with art teacher Casey Junker Bailey at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 16. Children will create fabric print banners and small thankful books with decorative papers. These will make charming additions to any Thanksgiving celebration. The […]

1993 Craven film screened Nov. 14 in Londonderry; part of the Vermont Film Festival

1993 Craven film screened Nov. 14 in Londonderry; part of the Vermont Film Festival

The Vermont Film Festival returns to the Depot on Route 100 in South Londonderry at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 14 with the showing of Where the Rivers Flow North. Set in 1927, Where the Rivers Flow North is the 1993 Jay Craven film that tells the story of an old Vermont logger (Rip Torn […]

VSO String Quartet to play at Chester’s Town Hall Theater Nov. 10

VSO String Quartet to play at Chester’s Town Hall Theater Nov. 10

The Vermont Symphony Orchestra’s String Quartet will be performing Elgar to Gershwin and Bach to the Beatles in the beautifully restored, fully accessible Chester Town Hall Theater, 556 Elm St. in Chester, at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 10. Violinists Jane Kittredge and Brooke Quiggins-Saulnier, violist Stefanie Taylor and cellist Perri Morris will present an […]

Musicians to hold Kate Lorenz tribute Oct. 19

Musicians to hold Kate Lorenz tribute Oct. 19

Musicians, friends, colleagues, music fans and family will gather at The Stone Church, 210 Main St. in Brattleboro, at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 19 for Sparkletown II: A Tribute to the Music & Spirit of Kate Lorenz. Doors open at 6 p.m. This concert will be a big night of Kate’s own songs and […]

Shrouded in mystery, Weston's 'Woman in Black' twists time and reality

Shrouded in mystery, Weston’s ‘Woman in Black’ twists time and reality

By Cara Philbin ©2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Weston Theater Company’s final theatrical offering of the season, The Woman in Black, has all the trappings of an old fashioned ghost story to get you in the mood for a spine-tingling Halloween. Set on the melancholy shores of Victorian England, a settling of matters compels a […]

Children's fall foliage art workshop Oct. 5 in Weston

Children’s fall foliage art workshop Oct. 5 in Weston

Wilder Memorial Library, 24 Lawrence Hill Road in Weston, invites children to join art teacher Casey Junker Bailey for a special art-making workshop at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 5. Attendees will listen to a story and then create watercolor trees and decorated leaves to celebrate the season. The program is free of charge and […]

Nordic Harmoni to perform at Peru Fair

Nordic Harmoni to perform at Peru Fair

Nordic Harmoni will be singing together again during the annual Peru Fair at noon on Saturday, Sept. 28 in the Peru Church, 252 Main St. Nordic Harmoni is the only Swedish-American chorus in southern Vermont; it enjoys sharing Scandinavian heritage and traditions. All interested singers are welcome to join Nordic Harmoni. Seventy percent of the […]

Kicking off the school year in style with music and circus

Kicking off the school year in style with music and circus

By Shawn Cunningham © 2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC On a picture perfect Thursday evening, the Two Rivers Supervisory Union kicked off the school year in style with the West Philadelphia Orchestra and the Cirque Kikasse troupe performing on the playing field of Chester-Andover Elementary School with everyone in the SU’s communities invited. Playing Fields is […]

 Bellows Falls concert features seven-piece Colombian band Sept. 15

 Bellows Falls concert features seven-piece Colombian band Sept. 15

The Bandwagon Summer Series continues at 5 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 15 on the lawn at 21 Island Street with a Colombian seven-piece band: La Sonora Mazurén. This family-friendly outdoor cultural performance series is hosted by Next Stage. La Sonora Mazuren is the latest band to emerge from the rich indie-tropical scene in Bogotá, Colombia. […]

Chester native's animated short tells of Romaine Tenney's 'Love of the Land'

Chester native’s animated short tells of Romaine Tenney’s ‘Love of the Land’ Film to be presented by Van Alstyne at Springfield Cinema

By Shawn Cunningham © 2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC Sixty years ago, just before 3 a.m. on Sept. 12, 1964, Weathersfield volunteer firefighters were called out to the Tenney farm, where a multi-building blaze glowed brightly in the late night summer sky. Romaine Tenney, a 64-year-old farmer whose lifelong home was to be taken by the […]

Springfield’s Dance Factory celebrates 40 years

Springfield’s Dance Factory celebrates 40 years

Springfield’s Dance Factory is celebrating 40 years of providing the greater region with inclusive, arts-focused dance training and accessible community performances. Located in Springfield’s historic downtown, and named for its original location in the former Fellows Gear Shaper factory building, the Dance Factory has grown from a handful of students to a network of multi-generational […]

'The Porch on Windy Hill:' Playing music to banish misunderstandings and prejudice

‘The Porch on Windy Hill:’ Playing music to banish misunderstandings and prejudice

  By Lorien Strange ©2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC As the pace picks up and the bow of the fiddle sways a little more violently, I can feel the vibrations of the players tapping to the tempo through the floor. Joy radiates from the stage as the cast spins through a tipsy do-si-do, accompanying themselves with […]

Local artist show and sale in Londonderry through Oct. 12

Local artist show and sale in Londonderry through Oct. 12

The Londonderry Art and Historical Society’s annual local artist show takes place in the Custer Sharp House, 2461 Middletown Road in Londonderry, through Saturday, Oct. 12. From watercolor to oil, prints to pastels and landscapes to line drawings, this exhibit showcases the talents of our area artists. All work is framed and available for purchase, with […]

Chester quilter Linda Diak wins People's Choice Award for 'Road Trip'

Chester quilter Linda Diak wins People’s Choice Award for ‘Road Trip’

Linda Diak, of Chester has won the People’s Choice Award at the 38th Annual Vermont Quilt Sampler Exhibition being held through Monday, Sept. 2 at the Historic Barn at Billings Farm & Museum, 69 Old River Road in Woodstock. Her entry, Road Trip, is among 56 quilts on display from 13 of the 14 counties […]

FOLA's Silent Movie Fest returns Aug. 24 with 'The Last Laugh'

FOLA’s Silent Movie Fest returns Aug. 24 with ‘The Last Laugh’ Come celebrate the 100th anniversary of this classic comedy

FOLA’s annual Classic Silent Movie Festival returns at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 24 in the Heald Auditorium on the second floor of Ludlow Town Hall, 37 South Depot St. The main feature will be the classic comedy The Last Laugh, which was filmed 100 years ago this year. This German film (with English subtitles) […]

Brass Connection returns to Weston Aug. 25

Brass Connection returns to Weston Aug. 25

The Sundays on the Hill Concert Series welcomes back Brass Connection at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 25. All concerts are held in the Old Parish Church, 100 Main St. in Weston. This brass quintet will take the audience on a musical odyssey. The eclectic pops-style program will draw from classical, ragtime, Dixieland, blues, patriotic […]

Rained out Soul Rockers concert rescheduled for Aug. 15

Rained out Soul Rockers concert rescheduled for Aug. 15

Soul Rockers, a group of talented local musicians, close out the Cavendish concert series at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 15 on the Svec Memorial Green, located at the intersection of Depot and Main streets in Proctorsville. Please note the earlier-than-usual start time and that this is a departure from the usual Wednesday evening. Soul […]