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Mar
20
Wed
NXT Curator Series: Historical Grooves: Archiving the Sounds of the Jewish-Muslim Relationship
Mar 20 @ 7:00 pm
NXT Curator Series: Historical Grooves: Archiving the Sounds of the Jewish-Muslim Relationship @ Next Stage Arts | Putney | Vermont | United States

What if listening for the past could change our understanding of history? In this interactive musical conversation, Professor Christopher Silver will detail his efforts to amplify a set of twentieth century North African Jewish and Muslim voices which for too long have remained silent in the historical record. Through selections from his first-of-its-kind archive of early twentieth century shellac records from Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, he will draw our attention to the sublime sounds of the artists whose music shaped and spoke to an era of profound change and remarkable resilience.

Christopher Silver is the Segal Family Assistant Professor in Jewish History and Culture in the Department of Jewish Studies at McGill University. His first book Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music Across Twentieth Century North Africa was published in 2022 with Stanford University Press and was the winner of the 2023 L. Carl Brown AIMS Book Prize in North African Studies. He is also the founder and curator of the website Gharamophone.com, a digital archive of North African records from the first half of the twentieth century.

The NXT Curator Series is sponsored in part by the Putney Public Library.

Mar
22
Fri
The Gaslight Tinkers
Mar 22 @ 7:30 pm
The Gaslight Tinkers @ Next Stage Arts | Putney | Vermont | United States

Next Stage Arts and Twilight Music present roots and world music quintet The Gaslight Tinkers. Blending African, Caribbean, Funk, Reggae, and Latin grooves with traditional fiddle music, the quintet creates the genre-bending future of the music of the past.

The Gaslight Tinkers’ mix of global rhythms creates a joyous world beat sound around a core of traditional New England old time and Celtic fiddle music, merging boundless positive energy with melody and song. Drawing from their extensive musical backgrounds in traditional folk, Caribbean, old time, Celtic, and rock, I-Shea, Clara, Garrett, Elie, and Peter craft a sound that brings world traditions together.

Since its formation in 2012, the band has lit up the nation coast to coast as well as the Caribbean, headlining clubs, dances, and major festivals. The Gaslight Tinkers have performed at Green River Festival, The Iron Horse Music Hall, The Parlor Room, Old Songs Festival, Caffe Lena, Strange Creek, Rock and Roll Resort, Old Songs, Falcon Ridge Folk Festivals, and Wormtown festival.

Mar
29
Fri
Espirales Project
Mar 29 @ 7:30 pm
Espirales Project @ Next Stage Arts | Putney | Vermont | United States

Newly emerging on the Cuban music scene in 2023, the Espirales Project brings together five top graduates of Cuba’s Instituto Superior de Arte performing across several genres—Cuban, jazz, world, and chamber music. Tania Haase, Olivia Rodríguez, Alejandro Aguiar, Jesús Estrada and Rodrigo García have led or contributed nationally and internationally to projects across all these styles, performing at Cuba’s International Jazz Plaza Festival and the Habana Clásica concert music festival. They are also teachers who have designed a development program on Cuban music and culture.

The group is led by pianist Rodrigo Garcia Ameneiro. Although his career is still in its early stages, his achievements include the award for best composition at the Stanford Jazz Workshop 2016; first place in the international Vivo competition (2018) at Carnegie Hall in New York; and special prize in the international Grand Prize Virtuoso Amsterdam (2019), together with his wife and Espirales violinist Tania Haase; and the Grand Prize at the Rocky Mountain Music Competition (2021).

Co-presented with Vermont Jazz Center

Mar
30
Sat
Maple Dinner
Mar 30 @ 4:30 pm

Ham, baked beans, potato salad, deviled eggs, coleslaw, pickles, donuts and sugar on snow.

4:30 pm and 6 pm seatings

Reservations: 802-254-1138

$15 adults, $7 kids

Evening Star Grange

1008 East West Road, E. Dummerston VT

Apr
3
Wed
Johnny Gandelsman: This Is America: Part III
Apr 3 @ 7:00 pm
Johnny Gandelsman: This Is America: Part III @ Next Stage Arts | Putney | Vermont | United States

This is America comes as a response to the turbulent year of 2020 and celebrates America’s rich cultural tapestry as seen through the perspectives of contemporary composers.

Over the course of a year-long residency at the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth, violinist and former member of Silkroad Ensemble Johnny Gandelsman performs the entire anthology for the first time and expands the project with four new Hop-commissioned pieces. Part III of the series will include a new work by Gabriel Kahane, performed by Gandelsman as part of his compelling anthology. Kahane will be in residence to shed light on his new work.

Apr
6
Sat
Rob Flax’s Boom Chick Trio
Apr 6 @ 7:30 pm
Rob Flax's Boom Chick Trio @ Next Stage Arts | Putney | Vermont | United States

Rob Flax possesses a rare combination of skills: he is an award-winning virtuoso violinist, classically trained but known for his jazz and improvisational pyrotechnics and irresistible grooves; he is also a powerhouse vocalist, capable of silky crooning a la Nat King Cole or visceral Chicago blues shouts.

For many years Rob performed mostly solo—it takes a special kind of musician to keep pace with Rob’s stylistic breadth and depth!—but after much searching he’s finally found a band that can keep up: Rob Flax’s Boom Chick Trio is a new “supergroup” that features Slava Tolstoy on guitar and Max Ridley on bass. Max and Slava both are incredible instrumentalists who have chops for days, but know how to balance their prowess in service of the song.

Together, the three string-wielding maestros have forged a powerful group dynamic, developed over years of gigging and concerts, and the result is an interplay that will bring a smile to your face!

Funded in part by the New England States Touring program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program and the six New England state arts agencies.

Apr
7
Sun
Carolann Solebello and Marc Douglas Berardo co-headline Stage 33 Live
Apr 7 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Carolann Solebello and Marc Douglas Berardo co-headline Stage 33 Live @ Stage 33 Live | Town of Rockingham | Vermont | United States

BELLOWS FALLS — Carolann Solebello is a performing songwriter from New York City, best known as a founding member of Americana trio Red Molly. She now tours as a solo troubadour and with modern folk foursome No Fuss and Feathers. Her smooth, pitch-perfect voice, compelling lyrics, and warm yet accomplished acoustic guitar work nod to rural folk traditions while an urban sense of rhythm and sophisticated phrasing plant her firmly in the present. She’s won a pile of songwriting awards, and is currently working on her sixth solo album. Carolann has a history with Bellows Falls, having been a three-time performer at the Roots On The River festival plus appearances at fabled local venues Oona’s and Boccelli’s.

Marc Douglas Berardo composes song-length fictions that mine deep feelings and real-life lessons and situations, and delivers them with an engaging onstage presence and deft storytelling. His sharply drawn, award winning song-portraits cast a net on the unusual and beguiling — circus retirees, ex-pats in Florida rum bars, union ironworkers, old poets, aimless New York City debutantes, near-death car crashes, hard-nosed fishermen, and the changes that experience brings to everyone. He has shared bills with heavyweights like The Doobie Brothers, NRBQ, Guy Clark, Vassar Clements, Ralph Stanley, Buffalo Springfield, Martin Sexton, Steve Forbert, Justin Townes Earle, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Cheryl Wheeler, Lucy Kaplansky, Livingston Taylor, David Olney, Jimmy LaFave, 10,000 Maniacs, and John Hiatt.

Carolann Solebello and Marc Douglas Berardo co-headline Stage 33 Live, 33 Bridge Street in Bellows Falls, Vermont, on Sunday, April 7, 2024, at 7:00 PM. Tickets are $20 in advance through stage33live.com or at the door. Advance tickets guarantee entry. All ticket proceeds go to the performers. Only 40 tickets will be sold. The event will be recorded and filmed.

Stage 33 Live is a casual and intimate industrial-rustic listening room in a former factory hosting local, regional, and national performances and presentations of original material. No bar or kitchen, the stage is the mission; coffee / soda / juice / water and weird snacks available by donation. More info about the nonprofit, all-volunteer project, and this and other upcoming events, online at stage33live.com

Stage 33 Live gratefully acknowledges the help of so many individuals without whom none of this would be able to happen, and institutional support this season from The Island Corporation, the Vermont Arts Council, Guilford Sound, WOOL-FM, the Rockingham Arts & Museum Project, and Chroma Technologies to help fund improvements and maintenance, and generally smooth out a lot of the rough edges. Stage 33 Live is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, and all donations are deductible to the fullest extent. Volunteers run the thing from stem to stern.

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NXT Curator Series: Art Deco: Commercializing the Avant-Garde
Apr 7 @ 7:00 pm
NXT Curator Series: Art Deco: Commercializing the Avant-Garde @ Next Stage Arts | Putney | Vermont | United States

Join Angelina Lippert, the Chief Curator of Poster House (the country’s first museum dedicated to the art and history of posters) for an evening discussing the fascinating history of Art Deco advertising. From the Paris Exhibition of 1925 up through the 1939 New York World’s Fair, this talk covers everything from the Great Depression up through the Great Gatsby. Discover the true meaning behind the definition of Deco and how it became the first global art movement.

Lippert is the author of The Art Deco Poster and has lectured at the School of Visual Arts, The Cooper Union, New York University, the Pratt Institute, The New York Times, Columbia University, and The Sotheby’s Institute of Art. She has written for Muse by Clio and is currently a reviewer at the New York Journal of Books. She holds an M.A. in the art of the Russian avant-garde from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London and a B.A. in theology and art history from Smith College.

The NXT Curator Series is sponsored in part by the Putney Public Library.

Apr
10
Wed
NXT Rockumentary Film Series: Fela Kuti: Music Is the Weapon (1982)
Apr 10 @ 7:00 pm
NXT Rockumentary Film Series: Fela Kuti: Music Is the Weapon (1982) @ Next Stage Arts | Putney | Vermont | United States

Fela Kuti is to African music what Bob Marley is to reggae: its prophet. All contemporary forms of black music, from funk to electronic, owe something to the irresistible groove of the Afrobeat sound that he created. Shot in Lagos at the peak of his career in 1982, this documentary contains interviews with Fela detailing his thoughts on politics, Pan-Africanism, music and religion, alongside unpublished versions of songs like ITT, Army Arrangement and Power Show.

Co-presented with Next Chapter Records.

Apr
12
Fri
Ordinary Elephant and Early Risers
Apr 12 @ 7:30 pm
Ordinary Elephant and Early Risers @ Next Stage Arts | Putney | Vermont | United States

Mesmerizing folk duo Ordinary Elephant has spent the better part of the last decade on a never-ending tour that’s earned Crystal and Pete Damore widespread critical acclaim and made fans of luminaries like Tom Paxton and Mary Gauthier. In 2017, the couple took home the International Folk Music Award for Artist of the Year on the strength of their breakout album “Before I Go,” and two years later, they returned with the similarly lauded “Honest,” which the Associated Press hailed as “one of the best Americana albums of the year.”

The duo’s new stripped-down, self-titled CD is the purest distillation of their sound yet, showcasing the arresting power of the couple’s gorgeous harmonies and intricate fretwork. The songs are timeless, rooted in rich, character-driven storytelling, and the performances are similarly transportive, fueled by delicately intertwined banjo, guitar, and octave mandolin. It’s the sound of sincerity and commitment, of patience and gratitude, of learning to let go of expectation and revel in the simple beauty of the moment.

Early Risers are the Vermont-based folk duo of Ashley Storrow and Putnam Smith. Both rootsy and lyric-driven, their original songs feature close vocal harmonies and arrangements on a wide array of instruments: banjo, guitar, mandolin, piano, and shruti-box. After pursuing separate solo singer/songwriter careers, they joined forces in 2015 and have since toured across the country, from Maine to Texas to California to Vancouver, BC. Their debut album, “Making Life Sweet” went to #1 on the national Folk DJ Charts in November, 2019.

Apr
13
Sat
A Celebration of Earth: An Evening with Bill McKibben, Douglas Brinkley, and Ben Cosgrove
Apr 13 @ 7:30 pm
A Celebration of Earth: An Evening with Bill McKibben, Douglas Brinkley, and Ben Cosgrove @ Next Stage Arts | Putney | Vermont | United States

Join Next Stage for an evening of discussion and music inspired by the climate crisis and environmental activism. New York Times bestselling author and historian Douglas Brinkley and environmentalist and author Bill McKibben will talk about their writings on climate action and environmental history, in a discussion moderated by Vanessa Vadim. The evening will open with music from traveling composer-performer Ben Cosgrove, whose music explores themes of landscape, place, and environment.

Apr
20
Sat
Grammy nominee Reed Foehl and Jeff Berlin with Tommy Crawford at Stage 33 Live
Apr 20 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Grammy nominee Reed Foehl and Jeff Berlin with Tommy Crawford at Stage 33 Live @ Stage 33 Live | Town of Rockingham | Vermont | United States

BELLOWS FALLS — This show was rescheduled from January due to weather. Second chance!

Grammy-nominated songwriter Reed Foehl will perform at Stage 33 Live in Bellows Falls, Vermont, on Saturday, April 20, 2024 at 7:00 PM, with highly regarded session drummer Jeff Berlin. Singer-songwriter Tommy Crawford opens. Tickets are $20 in advance through stage33live.com or at the door. Advance tickets guarantee entry. Only 40 tickets will be sold. The event will be recorded and filmed.

Reed Foehl writes stories of the human condition with lyrics and voice that push boundaries while paying homage to tradition… dusty, patient, genuine folk americana. His sixth studio album, “Wild Wild Love” (2022) was recorded with The Band of Heathens in Austin, TX. He now resides in the Green Mountains of Vermont and continues to tour across the globe.

Foehl first hit radars as the lead singer of the relentlessly touring Boulder, Colorado, band Acoustic Junction (Mercury/Capricorn). His songs have appeared in TV and film productions including the feature Just Friends (New Line Cinema), Joan of Arcadia (CBS), Laguna Beach (MTV), The Biggest Loser (NBC), Dawson’s Creek (WB), and Party of Five (FOX).

He was nominated for a Grammy Award for the song “Fly”, co-written with southern artist Brent Cobb, which country legend Lee Ann Womack recorded.

“Reed’s songs hit you in the heart, and everything else falls away.” — Anais Mitchell

Foehl will be joined by drummer Jeff Berlin, veteran of the Boston scene who has recorded and performed with — in addition to Reed — Jeffrey Foucault, Bow Thayer, Boris McCutcheon, and many more. He’s played on over 100 albums.

Tommy Crawford, multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter, will open. A talented solo musician, Crawford is better known for his work in live theater and independent film as an actor, composer and lyricist, arranger, and music director. He is a founding member and director of NYC-based band / songwriting / theater collective The Lobbyists, which often explores the intersection between musical performance and theatrical storytelling. Tommy is a lifetime artist member of Ensemble Studio Theater and a graduate of Yale University in Theater Studies. His most recent studio album, “Athena and the Moon”, was released in 2022.

“An engaging songwriter and a talented multi-instrumentalist.” — Chris Farnsworth, Seven Days VT

Stage 33 Live is a casual and intimate industrial-rustic listening room in a former factory hosting local, regional, and national performances and presentations of original material. No bar or kitchen, the stage is the mission; coffee / soda / juice / water and weird snacks available by donation. More info about the nonprofit, all-volunteer project, and this and other upcoming events, online at stage33live.com

Stage 33 Live gratefully acknowledges the help of so many individuals without whom none of this would be able to happen, and institutional support this season from The Island Corporation, the Vermont Arts Council, Guilford Sound, WOOL-FM, the Rockingham Arts & Museum Project, and Chroma Technologies to help fund improvements and maintenance, and generally smooth out a lot of the rough edges. Stage 33 Live is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, and all donations are deductible to the fullest extent. Volunteers run the thing from stem to stern.

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Apr
24
Wed
What is the meaning of the term “Artificial Intelligence” and why is this important?
Apr 24 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
What is the meaning of the term "Artificial Intelligence" and why is this important? @ Landmark College, Brooks M. O’Brien Auditorium, Lewis Academic Building

Students, teachers and many other people from all walks of life are talking about AI or Artificial Intelligence right now. Unfortunately the meaning of the term AI is not clear to most people who are using it, and this is already causing numerous problems for our societies. This talk will cover the many possible meanings of the term AI, the best ways to think about various AI technologies, and the medium and long term implications of these technologies for the human race.

Cyrus Shaoul, Ph.D, is an entrepreneur, software expert and cognitive scientist whose is experienced in both basic scientific research and commercialization of AI technologies.

Jul
14
Sun
Sandglass Theater’s Summer Intensive Puppetry Training
Jul 14 all-day
Sandglass Theater's Summer Intensive Puppetry Training @ Sandglass Theater

Sandglass teaches a method of puppet performance that has been developed over 30 years of workshops around the world. This year’s Summer Intensive training will pilot a new training model allowing for participants to choose a focused track of Puppet Construction (with Ines Zeller Bass), Puppetry Performance (with Shoshana Bass) or Directing for Puppet Theater (with Eric Bass). Classes are scheduled five and a half days per week. Participants will have evening access to work spaces. Applicants must select a first choice and second choice for the afternoon track. We will do our best to accommodate your first choice.

This year Sandglass is able to offer three scholarships for US-based BIPOC participants (inclusive of tuition, housing and community dinners). Scholarships are distributed on a first-come-first-serve basis.

Applications open March 1, 2024. Final application is due in our office on Wednesday, May 1st, 2024. (If sending via USPS, please allow at least 7 working days for the mail to arrive in our office on time). Applications accepted via email as well. Please visit sandglasstheater.org for more information.