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Event listings for Saturday, January 14, 2012

Ideas and education

BELLOWS FALLS Talk on acupuncture: Licensed acupuncturist, Virginia Voronin will talk about Community Acupuncture: what it is, how it works and the ways it can bring relief to experiences of trauma and stress. 10:30 - noon. Free. Rockingham Free Public Library, 65 Westminster Street. Information: 802-463-4270; Click for more info on Web in new window.

Music

BRATTLEBORO Bob Chilcott 's Salisbury Vespers: Clark Anderson, organ, is joined by a sparkling brass ensemble, and of course, the radiant voices of the Brattleboro Concert Choir, led by Susan Dedell, in the New England premiere of this piece. January 14, 7:30 p.m. and January 15, 3 p.m. Through Sunday, January 15, 2012. $15, $10 students. First Baptist Church, 190 Main St. Information: 802-254-9566; Click for more info on Web in new window.

GRAFTON Live: John Specker: The mountain fiddler & singer will be performing in the Phelps Barn. 8 p.m. $10; or if guests have dinner at the inn’s restaurant or pub that evening, the concert is free. Grafton Inn, 92 Main St. Information: 802-843-2211; Click for more info on Web in new window.

BRATTLEBORO Live jazz: The Stryker/Slagle Band: Dave Stryker and alto saxophonist Steve Slagle together create music from directions and angles unique to them. Contributing on rhythm for The Stryker/Slagle Band are bassist Ed Howard, and drummer Clarence Penn. 8 p.m. $20, $15 for students. Vermont Jazz Center, 72 Cotton Mill Hill, #222. Information: 802-254-9088; Click for more info on Web in new window.

BELLOWS FALLS Music inspired by earth and sea: Cynthia Hughes, Celtic harp and John Crockett, cello and Celtic whistles, are musicians and naturalists who bring their love of the earth and sea into their music to celebrate the interconnectedness of all life. Together they perform as Coracle, creating programs of Celtic and original music inspired by the land and the sea and its creatures, especially the whales and seals. 7:30 p.m. Immanuel Episcopal Church, 20 Church St. Information: 802-463-3100; Click for more info on Web in new window.

PUTNEY Claire Lynch Band and The Stockwell Brothers: The Claire Lynch Band - Claire (guitar, vocals), Matt Wingate (guitar, mandolin, vocals), Mark Schatz (bass, clawhammer banjo, percussive dance) and Bryan McDowell (mandolin, fiddle, vocals), has the innate ability to perfectly interpret the beauty, subtlety and genre-defying sophistication of Claire’s music. Featuring 2005 Merlefest bluegrass banjo contest winner Bruce Stockwell, newgrass and contemporary folk trio The Stockwell Brothers have performed alongside artists from Bill Monroe to Mary-Chapin Carpenter. 7:30 p.m. $18, $16 students and seniors. Next Stage Arts Project, 15 Kimball Hill. Information: 802-387-8500; Click for more info on Web in new window.

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