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Vermont Jazz Center Presents: 2nd Annual Emerging Artist Festival featuring Harold López-Nussa Quartet

by vtjazz | Music

The Vermont Jazz Center is excited to present pianist Harold López-Nussa and his all-Cuban quartet on Saturday, November 2nd as part of the VJC’s Emerging Artist Festival. This event is being held in memory of the VJC’s dear friend and generous patron, Jonathan Flaccus, whose passion for Cuban music and classic bebop as well as his generosity in assisting those in need has had a great impact on the Jazz Center. This is a rare opportunity to hear the López-Nussa Quartet live, as they are based in Cuba and are coming to the VJC as part of a tour that will take them to seven venues on the East Coast as well as performances in France and the United Kingdom.

Thanks to an Arts Impact Award from the Vermont Arts Council, the Harold López-Nussa Quartet will also be presenting a free workshop on the basic building blocks of Cuban jazz performance and style at the Vermont Jazz Center at 2:00 PM on Saturday, November 2nd.  This workshop is free and open to the general public. The López-Nussa Quartet concert at 8:00 PM is a ticketed event (tickets available at vtjazz.org).

BCTV Schedules – Week of 10/28/19

by BCTVProg | Media

BCTV Channel 8 schedule for the week of 10/28/19

Monday, October 28, 2019

4:00 am North Branch Nature Center – Nocturnal Bird Migration
5:00 am Juno Orchestra – Juno Orchestra 9/8/19
5:45 am Doing Life – 170 – Spiritual Vision
6:30 am Vermont Council on World Affairs – Visiting Journalist Michal Musil
7:00 am New England Cooks – Jim Romanoff and Jessie Price

StompBox and Pumpkintown at Next Stage on Saturday, November 2

by stobro | Music

Next Stage Arts Project presents an evening Americana music and art with StompBox Trio and Pumpkintown at Next Stage on Saturday, November 2 at 7:30 pm.

StompBoxTrio is a Western Massachusetts-based band that features Evelyn Harris (vocals, percussion), John Cabán (“Dobro” steel guitar, stompbox) and David Rodriguez (wood bass, foot tambourine). The trio reaches deep into the wellspring of vintage American blues, funk and soul to bring folks a hip-shaking, foot-stomping great time.

World Polio Day is October 24

by Not Signed In | Education

The Rotary Clubs of Brattleboro mark historic progress toward a polio-free world while urging the community to help end the paralyzing disease 

Airing informative show on BCTV is among thousands to be held by Rotary clubs around the world on World Polio Day, Thursday, October 24, 2019

Rotary members in Brattleboro are taking action on World Polio Day to raise awareness, funds, and support to end polio, a vaccine-preventable disease that still threatens children in parts of the world today.

The End Of America + Oshima Brothers at Stage 33 Live in Bellows Falls, Saturday November 2

by Mark Piepkorn | Music

BELLOWS FALLS – The End Of America returns to Stage 33 Live on Saturday, November 2, co-headlining with Oshima Brothers. This is the first show of an Eastern US tour by the two bands.

The End Of America was voted Favorite New Artist at the Philadelphia Folk Festival, and won the Emerging Artist Showcase at Falcon Ridge, returning the next year as that festival’s Most Wanted band. Beck invited them to play his Song Reader album release show. David Crosby of Crosby, Stills & Nash tweeted, “they sound great.”

NEYT Fun and Funny Family Friendly Show!

by Not Signed In | Entertainment

Kick back with your popcorn and browse your favorite channels of clown television. New England Youth Theatre proudly presents, “Clown TV!” A play written and directed by NEYT alum Doran Hamm, aided by Amy Majer, Putnam Smith, and all of the young comedians, “Clown TV! “ is uproarious fun for the whole family. 

“My favorite part of the process is the collaboration with the kids. We had this concept of clown tv, which is a rich field to plant in,” says Hamm. “We compiled a bunch of different ideas, we all voted, and democratically chose the top nine options to create scene work in.”

BCTV Schedules – Week of 10/21/19

by BCTVProg | Media

BCTV Channel 8 schedule for the week of 10/21/19

Monday, October 21, 2019

4:55 am North Branch Nature Center – Saving the Bird in the Bush
5:59 am Osher Lifelong Learning Institute – Eyes and Ears with Sheila Reed
7:00 am Heartline Ministries – The Cost of Betrayal
8:00 am Democracy Now! – Democracy Now! Daily Broadcast

WSESD Committee Agendas

by Not Signed In | Education

NOTICE OF MEETING

The Windham Southeast School District Personnel Committee will meet at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 24 at the WSESU Central Office, 53 Green Street, Brattleboro

Ben Cosgrove and Mark Kroos at Next Stage on Friday, October 18

by stobro | Music

Next Stage Arts Project presents a double bill with pianist Ben Cosgrove and guitarist Mark Kroos at Next Stage on Friday, October 18 at 7:30 pm.

Ben Cosgrove is a traveling composer-performer whose music explores themes of landscape, place and environment in North America.  Ben has performed his “electric and exhilarating” instrumental music in every U.S. state except Delaware and Hawaii, and held artist residencies and fellowships with institutions including the National Park Service, the National Forest Service, Harvard University, Middlebury College, the Schmidt Ocean Institute and the Sitka Center for Art & Ecology.

BCTV Schedules – Week of 10/14/19

by BCTVProg | Media

BCTV Channel 8 schedule for the week of 10/14/19

Monday, October 14, 2019

4:15 am Osher Lifelong Learning Institute – Farming Vermont
5:30 am Poets Speak – Conversations with VT Poet Laureate Chard deNiord – Arlene Distler
6:05 am OSHER @ Dartmouth – An Update On Alzheimer’s Disease
7:30 am Rotary Cares – Ep 20 – Carla Lineback and Jim Verzino

Dance Party at the Brattleboro VFW

by Not Signed In | Entertainment

The Brattleboro VFW at 40 Black Mountain Road will be having a dance Saturday, Oct. 19th. Version 6 Band will be playing from 7pm-11pm. Doors open at 6 pm. $10 cover charge per person. Public is welcome to this event. Sponsored by Elwin Hamilton. Please have a designated driver if you are drinking.

Emma’s Revolution Concert Oct. 25 To Benefit CASP

by Not Signed In | Entertainment

They’re back! — Emma’s Revolution will return to All Souls Church on Friday, Oct. 25, at 7:30 p.m. with a concert to benefit the Community Asylum Seekers Project (CASP).

Pat Humphries and Sandy O, the duo that makes up Emma’s Revolution, were among the many musicians who performed for the sold-out Pete Seeger 100th celebration at the church back in May. They are returning to lend their enthusiastic support for CASP, whose mission is to provide basic needs and a supportive community for those in the process of seeking asylum in the United States.

BUHS Turf Field Discussion

by Not Signed In | Education

On Wednesday, October 16th at Dummerston School at 6:00 p.m., the Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) School Board is scheduled to discuss the resurfacing of Brattleboro Union High School’s (BUHS) Natowich Field. The focus of the field portion of the meeting will be on BUHS’s proposal to resurface the field using artificial turf.

Guilford Play Seems Eerily Familiar

by DonInGuilford | Arts

For its fall production, Guilford Center Stage will present a staged reading of”It Can’t Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis. There will be three performances October 18-20 at Broad Brook Community Center in Guilford.

Todd Mandell and Richard Wizansky will direct a cast of 11 community actors in this adaptation for the stage by Tony Taccone and Bennett S. Cohen.