Brattleboro Folk Festival slated for July 23 24 25
The Brattleboro Folk Festival returns for a second year with major folk names including Norman Kennedy Hazel Dickens Margaret MacArthur Sparky Rucker Scott Alarik and groups Bottle Hill Joe Val and the New England Bluegrass Boys Delaware Water Gap Jay and Lyn Ungar and Tony and Irene Saletan. Events span July 23 8 p.m. West Village Meeting House workshops July 24 1 p.m. Chelsea House Folklore Center and 8 p.m. West Village concert. July 25 2 p.m. children's concert. Admission varies by event from 1 to 8 dollars.
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Norman Kennedy
Hazel Dickens
Margaret MacArthur
Marlboro
Sparky Rucker
Scott Alarik
Bottle Hill
Joe Val
The
New England
West Village Meeting House
Delaware Water Gap
Jay
Lyn Ungar
New England Bluegrass Boys
Tony
Irene Saletan
Chelsea House Folklore Center
Bennington Battle March Concert Tonight at Park-McCullough House
A bicentennial piano program of American pieces performed by Summer Sonatina students at 7:30 p.m. tonight. The concert benefits the mansion’s cultural activities with tickets $2 adults $1 students and an $10 all-access festival pass. Reservations via Chelsea House Folklore Center Rt 9 West Brattleboro or 257-1482.
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Chelsea House Folklore Center
Rt. 9
West Brattleboro
Park-McCullough
North Bennington
Louis Calabro
Ernest Murray
Bennington
Willard Roosevelt
Lionel Nowak
Bennington College
Creston, Copland
Gershwin
Hovhaness
Sousa
New exhibits open at SVAC in Manchester this Saturday
Southern Vermont Art Center unveils new exhibits with a July 17 reception from 3 to 5 p.m. The show includes a National League of American Pen Women Vermont branch group exhibit featuring paintings sculpture prints drawings manuscripts and music scores. The exhibit also highlights a Bennington County bicentennial photo display from over 500 images curated with works by Tyla Resch and Robert L Weichert. Three solo shows feature silhouette artist Ann Mead Geer with upcoming scissor-cut demonstrations July 24 and 31 Cathy Stock Wojcik serigraphs and drawings and John Miller photography from the Shelburne Museum.
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Manchester
Southern Vermont Art Center
National League of American Pen Women
Vermont
Washington, D.C
Green Mountain
Bennington County
Shires of Bennington
Tyla Resch
Bennnington Banner
Bennington Museum
Robert L . Weichert
Bennington
SVA
Ann Mead Geer
America
New Orleans
Carew Rice
Souther Carolina
South Carolina
Northeast
Cathy Stock Wojcik
Castleton State College
New Haven (Conn
Wesleyan Potters
Wesleyan
Shelburne Museum
Ballet and music gala at SVAC in Manchester
A gala evening of ballet and music at the Southern Vermont Art Center in Manchester features the SVA Festival Orchestra conducted by James Higdon. Chopiniana opens the program with seven Chopin works, plus Liszt and Gliere pieces, Pas de Deux performances from Swan Lake and Le Corsaire, and guest pianists and dancers. Tickets at 362-1405 or at the box office.
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Manchester
SVA
Arkell Pavilion
Southern Vermont Art Center
Eugene List
Carroll Glenn
Francis Tursi
James Higdon
Folklorist singer Reagon to perform at Skidmore
Bernice Reagon, Smithsonian folklorist and noted folksinger, will present a concert titled Black American History Through Music at Filene Recital Hall Skidmore College on July 20 at 7 p.m. The program substitutes for a lecture as the fifth of six weekly sessions funded by an NEH grant through the American Studies Institute. She has helped establish black studies and folk music programs in southern schools and has traveled internationally for study and outreach.
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Saratoga Springs
N.Y
Bernice Reagon
Filene
Skidmore College
New
Reagan
Howard University
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