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The coming week in Vermont arts and entertainment.

There was no shortage of noteworthy Vermont releases this year — everything from folk, rock and pop to hip-hop, blues and jazz.

Nick Charyk, frontman of White River Junction-based cosmic honky-tonk band Western Terrestrials, is the first to admit that he likes a good theme when creating an album.

Damon Leibert, a former Boston-area resident now living in Maine, has quite the resumé: a fiddler in Irish bands that performed at beloved local venues like Tir Na nOg and The Skellig; the driving force behind the rebirth of Somerville’s Davis Square Theater as The Rockwell; commercial recording studio co-owner/operator for 13 years; in recent years, technical director of an

Whenever I think of patriotism, I flash back to that scene in Rocky IV when Carl Weathers' Apollo Creed comes out to fight the Russian...

Summer is a sloppy season. In Shakespeare, that’s when characters stumble bewildered into the woods, get drunk, fall in love with the wrong people and generally make a mess of things.The arts kind of follow that pattern here in the formerly frozen...

I hope you're all ready to talk about the juxtaposition of wand lore in Harry Potter and the role of fate in choosing a guitar....

(Elbop Music, digital) Every Seven Days review of a Bow Thayer album has noted a particular quality: This is not an artist who stays on...

'The Ballad of Ethan Alien' Filmed during the pandemic and featuring songs from Vermont artists, this rollicking sci-fi adventure premieres alongside musical guests Bow Thayer and Western Terrestrials.