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(Self-released, digital) Recording an album of original jazz compositions is a praiseworthy achievement for any musician, let alone one still in their twenties. But Connor...

Singer and composer Moira Smiley has a new album on the way called The Rhizome Project. The Vermont-based folk artist will give fans an early...

The coming week in Vermont arts and entertainment.

The Jewish Community of Greater Stowe, in conjunction with the Vermont Holocaust Memorial, are planning their annual Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance Day with a tribute to the spirit of resistance

Children of the Holocaust features deeply personal interviews with 19 of Southern Arizona’s Holocaust survivors. This multi-platform, living-history project serves to document this dark yet important period in human existence before the stories are lost forever.

On Wednesday, Aug. 4, violinist Jane Kittredge joins Laura Markowitz, also on violin, and Russell Wilson, viola, and John Dunlop, cello, at Vermont Symphony Orchestra’s Music at the Beach series at Charlotte waterfront park. It’s the final of three concerts offered by the classical quartet this summer, and are free with a season’s parking pass, although donations will be accepted. The final concert is a tribute to reopening, reconvening and remembering, with another set of classi...

Vermont Symphony Orchestra concert tent On a Wednesday in mid-May, I entered the Stowe Community Church to see the first live performance of classical music I had experienced in more than a year: Middlebury pianist Diana Fanning playing works by Maurice Ravel, Fédéric Chopin and Franz Schubert. The formidable entrance requirements included emailing an image of my COVID-19 vaccination card to Stowe Performing Arts, which hosted the concert. Audie...