BRATTLEBORO-For more than two decades, Sandy Rouse has unflinchingly led the Brattleboro Literary Festival, the annual October event she co-founded.
Rouse still - with a troupe of volunteers and supporters - researches writers, negotiates appearances, and pays the bills. She provides the perennial glue to sustain this mainstay among the town's many arts offerings, which returns Friday through Sunday, Oct.18 to 20, at sites throughout downtown.
PUTNEY-In connection with the exhibition "The In Between," which features artwork by Susan Brearey and Duane Slick, the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) presents Pumpkintown: Songs, Stories, and Magic Lantern Projections from an Imaginary New England Village, on Saturday, Oct. 12, at 7 p.m. at Next Stage Arts...
BRATTLEBORO-This October in Brattleboro, Epsilon Spires transforms its Victorian gothic church into what organizers call the "Haunted Home of Halloween," as throughout the month, they present a thrilling lineup of classic and cult scary movies with live music performances in a series called The Apocalypse Will Be Televised. Featured...
PUTNEY-Three of New England's top zydeco bands will perform at the Vermont Zydeco Party held at Next Stage Arts in Putney on Sunday, Oct. 13, from 3 to 8 p.m. This celebration of zydeco music, known for its energetic rhythms, will be held in the Community Room, where there's plenty of room for dancing. Those already familiar with, and passionate about, zydeco will have an opportunity for nonstop dancing. And, for anyone new to this dance, a free lesson is...
PUTNEY-Next Stage Arts and Twilight Music present an evening of contemporary and indie folk music from the U.S. and Canada by Massachusetts-based singer-songwriter Seth Glier and Montreal-based quintet Rosier on Friday, Oct. 11, at 7:30 p.m. at Next Stage. Five-time Independent Music Award winner and Grammy-nominated contemporary folk singer-songwriter Glier has worked as a cultural diplomat for the U.S. State Department and collaborated with musicians in Ukraine, Mongolia, China, and Mexico. Glier has shared the bill with a diverse list...
MARLBORO-Juno Orchestra presents "Bach!,"a program that includes one of the composer's best-known works, as well as selections from his son and other composers. Now in its second season as a BMC program, Juno, the region's hometown chamber orchestra, "charts new territory while amplifying long-time musical influences and bringing together some of the area's finest classical players," event organizers report in a news release. The concert is scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 13, at 2:30 p.m. at Persons Auditorium in Marlboro. The...
WILLIAMSVILLE-The Rock River Players (RRP) offer "A Night of Improv" Friday and Saturday, Oct. 11 and 12, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 13, at 2 p.m., at Williamsville Hall. Producer Peter Broussard invites audiences to "a night of laughter and spontaneity." Each show will be unlike any other, he promises, and he invites all to "experience the creative energy - and great unknowns- of unscripted acting." "I've been doing improv since I was born," Broussard, an actor with and...
BRATTLEBORO-The Windham Philharmonic will present two works by living composers on Monday, Oct. 14, at the Latchis Theatre at 7 p.m. On Indigenous People's Day, Hugh Keelan will conduct the orchestra in Ancestral Sounds. The concert begins with Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate's "Ghost of the White Deer," described as a "romantic and dramatic bassoon concerto" that tells the legend of two young Chickasaw people in love. The bassoon soloist is Diane Lipartito, a longtime orchestra member. The second work on the...