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AJ Lee & Blue Summit and The Stockwell Brothers at Next Stage

by hahrenholz | Music

Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present an evening of contemporary bluegrass and Americana music from far and near by California-based AJ Lee & Blue Summit and Vermont-based The Stockwell Brothers on Saturday, November 5 at 7:30 pm at Next Stage.

Although falling loosely under the bluegrass label, AJ Lee & Blue Summit generally plays without a banjo, with Sullivan Tuttle and Scott Gates on acoustic guitars, AJ on mandolin, Jan Purat on fiddle, and Chad Bowen on acoustic bass. Drawing from influences such as country, soul, swing, rock, and jam music, the band uses the lens of bluegrass as a vessel through which to express and explore the thread that binds and unifies all great music. Since their first concert in 2015, the quintet has performed around the world, released two CDs, and garnered numerous awards including Northern California Bluegrass Society’s Best Female Vocalist, Best Bluegrass Band, Best Mandolin Player, and Best Guitar Player, as well as International Bluegrass Music Association’s Momentum Vocalist Award and Freshgrass Band Contest winner.

BCTV Schedules – Week of October 10, 2022

by BCTVProg | Media

Monday, October 10, 2022

4:52 am Stuck in Vermont – Robert Volk Jr.
5:00 am Hooker Dunham Presents – William Shakespeare’s the Winter’s Tale 8/14/22
7:40 am Northgate TV – Guided Meditation – Relaxing and Remaining Calm 7/21/22
8:00 am Democracy Now! – Democracy Now! Daily Broadcast
9:00 am Stories by Tego – Gilfeather Turnip: Rooted in Wardsboro

Melany Kahn on “Here We Are”

by Wendy O'Connell | Creative

Melany Kahn’s passion for foraging led her to write “Mason Goes Mushrooming,” a new book for children, with illustrations by Ellen Korbonski, and it’s just been published by our local publisher Green Writers Press.

Tune in to hear some great stories of Melany’s early years horseback riding overland in West Bratt, being a family mediator in town…….and wild foraging in the woods!

Shoot The Moon Theater Company Presents “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” at Hooker-Dunham

by ChrisLenois | Arts

Shoot the Moon Theater Company returns to live, in-person theater performances with a production of “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” for its 2022 Annual Halloween Spectacular.

Shows take place Fridays and Saturdays, October 21-22 and October 28-29 at 7:30 p.m. in the Hooker-Dunham Theater & Gallery. General Admission is $13.00. Tickets can be purchased at the door or reserved in advance by calling 802-451-0523.

“Jekyll and Hyde” will be the company’s first production in front of a live audience since January 2020, according to Shoot the Moon’s Artistic Director Joshua Moyse. “We stayed in contact through COVID-19, did some online readings, and did a digital Halloween show in 2020,” he says. “We’ve mostly been waiting until the time was right to rev back up, and now is that time.”

Hill Journey: October 12 Event on Poet William Mundell

by DonInGuilford | Arts

I’m pleased to invite you to this free program at Brooks Memorial Library next Wednesday evening. This is a wrap-up of the Words Project, which has focused on Lucy Terry Prince, Royall and Mary Tyler, and Mary Wilkins Freeman, authors from the past, who lived in Guilford and/or Brattleboro. The Wednesday program serves as a prelude to this year’s Brattleboro Literary Festival, which runs from Thursday through Sunday.

Now we turn to a more recent author, poet William Mundell (1912-1997), lifelong resident of South Newfane. Both his life and his work are of interest. At 6 pm we’ll have our traditional roundtable discussion with his nephews and with Andy Burrows, who worked with the poet on publication of his first book, Hill Journey, by the Stephen Greene Press. We’ll tell you about Mundell’s life as not only a fine poet, but a painter, photographer, town official, ski area developer, State Highway Foreman, stone mason, house builder …. There will also be a small exhibit at the library of Mundell items.

WSESD Board Meeting Agenda and Minutes

by Not Signed In | Education

AGENDA
I. CALL TO ORDER—6:00 p.m. — Michelle Luetjen-Green, Board Chair
II. ADMINISTRATIVE UPDATE
III. New Business
A. Board Development Workshops Update/Scheduling
B. Superintendent Evaluation Rubric
• Review and Steps Forward with Sue Ceglowski, Executive Director of VSBA
C. Code of Ethics Discussion

WSESD Board Meeting Agenda and Minutes

by Not Signed In | Education

“III. Parliamentarian
• Motion: Shall the WSESD Board employ Deborah Lee Luskin to serve as Parliamentarian to help the WSESD Board learn Robert’s Rules of Order?

IV. PRESENTATION: Trauma Informed Practices / Social Emotional Learning”

Pierre Bensusan and Tim Sparks Acoustic Guitar Summit at Next Stage

by hahrenholz | Music

Next Stage Arts and Twilight Music present an Acoustic Guitar Summit with guitar virtuosos Pierre Bensusan and Tim Sparks at Next Stage on Wednesday, October 26 at 7:00 pm. 

If World Music means the fusion of traditional, contemporary, jazz, classical, and pop music, then French-Algerian acoustic guitar legend, vocalist, and composer Pierre Bensusan is one of the most eloquent World Music musicians of our time.  Winner of the Independent Music Award for his triple live album “Encore,” voted Best World Music Guitarist by Guitar Player Magazine reader’s Poll, and winner of the Rose d’Or at the Montreux Festival for his debut album, Pierre is recognized as one of the greatest guitar players of the 21st century.  Since his first performances in 1974 in France, the “The Prince of DADGAD” has sold half a million albums and given thousands of concerts around the globe, both solo and through numerous collaborations.  “Pierre can only justly be compared to someone of the stature of Keith Jarrett; so total is his mastery of the solo instrument, his dazzling harmony, his many innovations, and his deft command of counterpoint, the jazz idiom, folk expression, and all genres between and beyond.” (Guitar Player Magazine)

An Election 2022 Special Event! How To Be An Informed Voter: Cutting through the Spin and Disinformation

by KateOC | Media

The public is invited to attend an Election 2022 workshop sponsored by the Media Mentoring Project. The workshop will take place on Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 7pm via Zoom.

The program, How to be an Informed Voter: Cutting through the spin and disinformation, will explore the impact disinformation has on elections, how citizens can cut through the noise to find accurate and credible information about the candidates and the election process, and the role state officials and the media can play in protecting election integrity.

BCTV Schedules – Week of October 3, 2022

by BCTVProg | Media

ATTENTION: BCTV channel 1075 is moving to channel 1079. Channel 1075 will no longer be BCTV as of October 27, 2022. 

BCTV Channel 1075 (1078) schedule for the week of 10/3/22

Monday, October 3, 2022

4:30 am Windham County Genealogy Interest Group – Military Records–Revolutionary Pension and Fold3 Database
6:30 am BCTV Annual Meeting – BCTV Members Meeting 2022
7:05 am Vote for Vermont – Manufactured Homes 3/31/22
8:00 am Democracy Now! – Democracy Now! Daily Broadcast
9:00 am Brattleboro Literary Festival – Ancestor Trouble with Maud Newton and Rebecca Donner 9/9/22

BCTV Schedules – Week of September 26, 2022

by BCTVProg | Media

BCTV Channel 1075 schedule for the week of 9/26/22

Monday, September 26, 2022

5:30 am Mr. Scammer – Fraud Scams – Coming to a Computer Near You – Part 1
6:00 am Vote for Vermont – Associated General Contractors 4/18/22
7:00 am Hooker Dunham Presents – Thorn in my Side – OUTER SPACE! – February 24th, 2022
8:00 am Democracy Now! – Democracy Now! Daily Broadcast
9:00 am Around Town with Maria – Tree Dedication and Memorial for Victims of COVID in our Community 9/2/22

WSESD Board Meeting Agenda and Minutes

by Not Signed In | Education

I. CALL TO ORDER

Chair KY called the meeting to order at 6:05pm.

KY turned over the leadership of this meeting to DSC, who is Vice-Chair.

DSC announced amendments to the agenda, as follows:
• Agenda item II is not an executive session, but a presentation on executive sessions.

“Here We Are” with Jerry Carbone

by Wendy O'Connell | Entertainment

Jerry’s spent a lot of time around books! He talks about the old days at Brooks Library, the beginning days of our Literary Festival and the Words Project – and how he’s now helping folks find their roots as a genealogist. Tune in for some great stories and insights about delving into the past – in our town and in our families.

WSESD Board Meeting Agenda

by Not Signed In | Education

AGENDA
I. CALL TO ORDER – 6:00 p.m. – Kelly Young, Board Chair
II. EXECUTIVE SESSION – 1 V.S.A. §313(a)(1)(F) Confidential Attorney-Client Communications made for the purpose of providing professional legal services to the body

Next Stage Arts Project Presents Tony Trischka & Robot Plane plus Hot Mustard

by hahrenholz | Music

Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present an afternoon of banjo and bluegrass with Tony Trischka & Robot Plane and Hot Mustard, as part of the 2022 Next Stage “Bandwagon Summer Series,” on Sunday, October 9 at 3:00 pm at West River Park in Brattleboro, VT. A mix of the new and the old, the concert features banjo legend Tony Trischka’s brand new quartet, while twin banjo band Hot Mustard reunites after an eight-year hiatus to open the show.

Steeped in Bluegrass, while stretching out into Celtic, Americana, and Progressive music, Tony Trischka & Robot Plane includes acoustic music all-stars Jacob Joliff (mandolin), Jared Engel (acoustic bass), and Hannah Read (fiddle). These extraordinarily versatile and talented musicians are alumni of bands such as Country Cooking, Breakfast Special, Joy Kills Sorrow, Yonder Mountain String Band, and Bela Fleck’s My Bluegrass Heart.

BCTV Schedules – Week of September 19, 2022

by BCTVProg | Media

BCTV Channel 1075 schedule for the week of 9/19/22

Monday, September 19, 2022

5:00 am The News Project – In Studio – UCS Leaders Discuss Mental Health
5:48 am The News Project – Springfield on the Move
6:00 am Brooks Memorial Library Events – Public Forum on Brooks Memorial Services 8/24/22
7:05 am Vote for Vermont – Manufactured Homes 3/31/22
8:00 am Democracy Now! – Democracy Now! Daily Broadcast