WILLIAMSVILLE-For better or for worse, I have some 90 shows under my belt - if...
BRATTLEBORO-We set out on a fierce act of protest. This month in Brattleboro, beginning on...
MARLBORO-Marlboro Music's 2025 summer season concludes this weekend with the traditional Beethoven Choral Fantasy among...
PUTNEY-Next Stage Arts continues its Bandwagon Summer Series Saturday, Aug. 16, at the Putney Inn...
BRATTLEBORO-MaryJane Renaud Giroux remembers the day in 1961 when her father, Hyacinth Renaud, came home from work with some news. "I bought the Estey buildings," he told her mother, Louise. "With what?" she replied. Giroux recalls the story, laughing at it as her father would have. More than 60 years after that conversation, vestiges of the Estey Organ Company are front and center in her home, which is decorated with several framed blueprints of the instruments, including a sketch of...
The importance of civic responsibility is paramount to the success of a democracy. By engaging in civic responsibility, we, the citizens of the United States, ensure and uphold the democratic values written in our Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Those values or duties include justice, freedom, equality, diversity, authority, privacy, due process, property, participation, truth, patriotism, human rights, rule of law, tolerance, mutual assistance, self-restraint, and self-respect. The goal of the Constitution is to encourage citizens to act responsibly...
The Steel Wheels are an electrifying American band, taking the traditional, reinventing it, and making it new. The group's debut show in Vermont, in Bellows Falls one year ago, was a standing-room-only affair, and the anticipation for their return on Sunday, Nov. 6, at Main Street Arts is already building. The Steel Wheels are rooted in the territory between blues and bluegrass, old-time sing-alongs, and foot-stomping fiddle melodies. They are subtle innovators who respect the past but whistle their own...
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