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• Marlboro College presents The Clean House: Marlboro
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A colorful scarf made by local spinner and weaver Carolyn Partridge of Windham is one of the items available at the annual Rockingham Arts and Museum Project Art Raffle on Saturday, Nov. 13, starting at 3 p.m. at Boccelli’s, 46 Canal Street, across from the train station in downtown Bellows Falls. Tickets are $25 each or 5 for $100. You need not be present to win and tickets will be available for purchase online at www.ramp-vt.org. For wheelchair accessibility to Project Space 9 and Boccelli’s call ahead for an appointment. For information, call 802-463-3252 or e-mail ramp@sover.net.
Robin Goodfellow, played by Allegra mix of acoustic instrumentation and Maskell, plies his trade. their solid live show performances. • The Met at the Latchis: In the past few months, Jatoba has The Met: Live in HD series contin- gone from a key local act to regional ues its fifth season with Donizetti’s touring force and has recently shared comedy Don Pasquale, starring Anna the stage with nationally touring Netrebko, Matthew Polenzani, acts such as Keller Williams, David Mariusz Kwiecien and John Del Grisman Quintet, Lettuce, KRSCarlo, transmitted live on Saturday, 1, Soulive and Rusted Root, just to Nov. 13 at 1 p.m. at the Latchis name a few. Theatre in Brattleboro, with an en• Stone Church Arts prescore rebroadcast on Sunday, Nov. e n t s Á i n e M i n o g u e : O n 14, at 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 13, at 7:30 p.m., Tickets are $24 on Saturday Áine Minogue will perform exquiand $22 on Sunday. Contact site Celtic harp and gorgeous voice Brattleborotix.com, Brattleboro at Immanuel Episcopal Church, 20 Arts Initiative, 802-254-1109; Church St., Bellows Falls. Brattleboro Music Center, As traditional Irish music and 802-257-4523. dance continue to enjoy phenomeMet Music Director James nal success both here and in Ireland, Levine, conducting his first-ever Minogue is an artist who has long performances of the opera, leads explored its themes and who capthe cast in Otto Schenk’s acclaimed tures its very essence. Her voice re2006 production. Don Pasquale is a flects the lyricism and richness to witty commentary on marriage in be found in Irish music, mythology which an old bachelor, Pasquale and poetry with a voice undeniably (John Del Carlo), plans to marry and her own and a diverse group of inproduce an heir to disinherit his re- struments that add to the traditional bellious nephew, Ernesto (Matthew flavor of her work. Polenzani). Pasquale’s doctor, Born in Borrisokane, County Malatesta (Mariusz Kwiecien), has Tipperary, Minogue large musical arranged a sham marriage in a plot to family encouraged her to pursue a restore Ernesto’s inheritance, aided number of different instruments durby the wily Norina (sung by Anna ing her youth (which explains her obNetrebko, in one of her signature vious skill at arranging). They played roles), who hopes to win Ernesto together as a family and attended for herself. fleadhs (traditional music festivals). But it was at the age of 12 while at boarding school in County Galway that Minogue discovered her true Music • Jatoba at Flat Street Brew love — the harp — which she dePub: Brattleboro’s Groovegrass cided to pursue in lieu of the others. Her harp has entertained presitrio, Jatoba, will be performing at Flat Street Brew Pub on Friday, dents and prime ministers. She is Nov. 12, starting at 9 p.m. Tickets a regular performer at folk festivals and concerts throughout the world. for the over-21 show are $5. Jatoba is Jason Scaggs, John Her recordings include The Mysts 119 Main St., Brattleboro Jamison and Jeff Richardson and the of Time, Between the Worlds, Circle 802-258-2211 trio is quickly becoming a Northeast of the Sun, Celtic Meditation Music, www.mysteryonmain.com touring favorite with their eclectic Celtic Lamentations, Celtic Pilgrimage (2008) and most recently a collaboration with filmmaker Michael Yip entitled Winter, A Meditation Support BBBS...learn more at rivercu.com (DVD, 2009) Admission is $17 for adults ($13 for seniors and children under 12) Look into in advance years of age and $20 at the door. Tickets are availBig Brothers/Big Sisters ($15) able at Village Square Booksellers of Windham County (Bellows Falls), Toadstool Bookshop (Keene, NH), Brattleboro Books, Misty Valley Books (Chester), and at www.brattleborotix.com or available at the door. • Shakespeare at BFUHS:
The Bellows Falls Union High School Fall Drama club will present William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream on Nov. 12 and 13 at 7 p.m. The main plot of Midsummer is a complex contraption that involves two sets of couples, Hermia and Lysander, played by sophomore Ashley Palmisano, freshmen Hayden Noyes and Helena and Demetrius played by junior Rachel Greenberg and freshmen Sam Empy, whose romantic cross-purposes are complicated further by their entrance into the play’s fairyland woods where the King and Queen of the Fairies, Oberon and Titania, played by junior James Morton and senior Courtney Perry, preside and the impish folk character of Puck or
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The play, set in New York in 1850, seems at first glance a straightforward tale of a jilted woman’s revenge on her fortune hunting suitor. But the complex relationships between the characters raise the question of how the shy young woman at the beginning of the play became the embittered spinster at the end. Ideally, the audience should be looking for a villain and unable to determine who it is. College presents Sarah Ruhl’s comedy, “The Clean House,” directed by Anna Bean, on Nov. 12-13 at 8 p.m. in the Whittemore Theater. Visiting professor Anna Bean has worked with a cast and crew of Marlboro students to stage this version of Ruhl’s 2004 play about a Brazilian maid who would rather practice jokes in her native Portuguese than clean the home of her employer, a suburban Connecticut physician who is in love with one of his patients. “The Clean House” won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. A Ph.D. graduate of New York University’s Department of Performance Studies, Bean is also teaching a directing class, Femininity on Stage, during her semester at Marlboro College. She lives in Bennington with her two children Elsa and Tobias, her partner Nick, and one very spoiled cat.
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• Barrand and Murphy perform Atwood Family Songs at Marlboro: Tony Barrand and
Keith Murphy will perform music from their new CD, On the Banks of the Coldbrook: Atwood Family Songs in Marlboro College’s Ragle Hall on Sunday, Nov. 14, at 3 p.m. This event is free and open to the public. Barrand first learned of the collection of songs written by Dover resident James K. Atwood when he was a professor at Marlboro. The legendary folk musician and archivist Margaret MacArthur shared with him a volume of the songs originally published in 1919 and field recordings she made of Atwood’s son, Fred, singing them. Barrand
in Dublin, N.H., the headquarters of Yankee Publishing Inc. That, plus decades of traveling around New England in the service of Yankee and the Old Farmers’ Almanac, gives this book a special ring of authenticity mixed with affection. Each state, Hale writes, has its own personality. “Furthermore,” he continues, “each feels superior to the other five.” In Vermont’s case, Hale singles out its common sense, which he feels it provides more of than the other five states. But possessing an abundance of common sense, he writes, is just one of the six “responsibilities” each Vermonter must bear. The other five? A Vermonter is expected “to display a certain amount of dry humor,” “must have integrity,” “to speak in a simple, direct no-nonsense manner,” “[to have] the responsibility to be a free and independent thinker” and “to be willing to put in a hard day’s work for a meager day’s pay.”
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“Yes, being a Vermonter carries with it some heavy responsibilities,” Hale concludes. “The role requires common sense, a dry sense of humor, impeccable honesty, a direct manner of speaking, a healthy obsession with freedom, and for those who are poor, a lot of hidden suffering. Most Vermonters, I think, feel its a duty and a privilege to play that role — at least, all but the last part of it, and that, as they say, ‘just goes with the territory.’” Or consider the many meanings of that quintessential old Yankee word, “ayuh.” As Hale writes, depending on subtle shifts in pronunciation, it can mean “I heard what you said,” “I hear you, but I really do not agree with you,” “I really sympathize with you,” “You are wasting your time and my time because you’re telling me something I already know,” or “I am making fun of those amusing old characters you find in New England.” Even though Inside New
England is almost three decades old, Hale said he found it held up well. “I only had to make a few revisions,” he said. “I found most of it is still relevant today, and it’s still mostly about poking a bit of fun at the states and what they contribute to New England. ” Hale’s uncle, Robb Sagendorph, founded Yankee in 1935. Hale took over as editor of the magazine after his uncle’s death in 1970. “Uncle Robb hoped the magazine would serve as an expression of New England culture and as a way to preserve it,” said Hale. “Pearl Buck once said that in order to survive, a region must treasure the image of itself. As New Englanders, we have come to treasure the imagined view of ourselves.”
Hale will talk about the book on Thursday, Nov. 18, at 6 p.m., at The Book Cellar in Brattleboro.
WOOL-FM hosts third annual Silent Auction at Third Friday Art Walk BELLOWS FALLS—Are you looking to support community radio and drive away with an ornate 1891 black walnut Estey organ in the process? Or maybe protect your treasured electric guitar with a travel case approved for U.S. airlines? How about an original piece of artwork, a relaxing massage, some new designer clothes (in your size), a rare signed snowboard or a loaded hot dog? Top these treasures off with a sack of organic potatoes? Anything is possible when WOOL-FM, an FCC-licensed community radio station serving the mid-river valley, will hold its third annual silent auction fund-fest on Friday, November 19, from 5 to 8 p.m. in the common room of 33 Bridge Street, right outside WOOL’s broadcast studio.
The event will be run in conjunction with the pre-holiday Third Friday Art Walk. Just in time to plan your early holiday buying, a wide range of goods and services are already lined up, with more donations arriving every day. Offerings range from concert tickets and gourmet items to gift certificates and exquisite meals prepared by area chefs. The sale includes many rare and collector items – painting, etchings, signed graphic novels and other books, blown glass gift items, one-of-a-kind musical memorabilia and more. Many area individuals and businesses have donated goods and services to support the station. Funds raised will be used to purchase new equipment so that WOOL-FM can
expand its broadcast range to more than 100,000 people throughout Windham, Windsor, Cheshire, and Sullivan counties. In September, the station was among very few recipients around the country awarded a full power educational broadcast license by the FCC. Items will be posted on the radio station’s website, www.wool. fm as they are donated, and the offering list will be updated on a regular basis. WOOL volunteers will continue to acquire goods and services for this auction right up to the day of the sale. If you support community radio and have something you wish to donate to the silent auction, please contact Bob Ross at 802-376-7166, Dorothy Read at 802-463-9333, or e-mail the station at info@wool.fm.
revisited the songs for Dover’s bicentennial celebration this past October, and went into the studio with Murphy to record the songs. An accomplished vocalist, Tony Barrand has recorded several albums of traditional folk music with John Roberts, and both are also part of the four person group, Nowell Sing We Clear, which performs an annual yuletide concert series. Newfoundland-born Keith Murphy is proficient multi-instrumentalist and is a sought-after sideman on guitar, mandolin and foot percussion.
and in Canada and Europe. The United Church is located at 15 Kimball Hill in downtown Putney. Tickets for the show are $20 general admission/$18 students and seniors. For ticket reservations and information, call 802-254-9276. For more information, visit www.sierrahull.com, www.stockwellbrothers. com and www.twilightmusic.org.
Washington Post. The Museum’s exhibits and gift shop are open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., except Tuesday and Wednesday. Regular admission is $6 for adults, $4 for seniors, and $3 for students. Members and children 5 and under are admitted free of charge. For more information call 802-2570124 or visit www.brattleboromuseum.org.
• Sier ra Hull & Highway 111 in Putney: Twilight Music
presents an evening of bluegrass and newgrass with Sierra Hull & Highway 111 and The Stockwell Brothers at The United Church of Putney on Thursday, Nov. 18, at 7:30 p.m. Nineteen-year-old mandolin prodigy Sierra Hull is a leading light in the new generation of bluegrass musicians. Her national debut CD Secrets on Rounder Records is coproduced by Allison Krauss and features bluegrass superstars Jerry Douglas, Ron Block (who joins Highway 111 on banjo and vocals for this concert), Dan Tyminski, Stuart Duncan and Tony Rice. Sierra and bandmates Cory Walker (banjo/ dobro/vocals), Clay Hess (guitar/ vocals), Christian Ward (fiddle/ vocals) and Jacob Eller (bass) are 2010 International Bluegrass Music Association “Emerging Artist of the Year” nominees. Sierra is also nominated for “Mandolin Player of the Year.” Featuring 2005 Merlefest bluegrass banjo contest winner Bruce Stockwell, newgrass and contemporary folk trio The Stockwell Brothers have performed alongside artists from Bill Monroe to Mary-Chapin Carpenter to Asleep At The Wheel, recorded with Mike Auldridge and Phil Rosenthal of the bluegrass supergroup The Seldom Scene and toured throughout the United States
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• D.B. Johnson lectures at BMAC: Award-winning children’s-
book author and illustrator D.B. Johnson, whose work is currently on display at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, will give a presentation at the museum on Saturday, Nov. 13, at 1 p.m. Johnson will read from his newest book, Palazzo Inverso, discuss the evolution of the book’s M.C. Escher-inspired ideas, and do a sample drawing. He will also sign copies of Palazzo Inverso, which is available for purchase at the museum’s gift shop. With the publication of his first illustrated children’s book, Henry Hikes to Fitchburg, Johnson made a distinct mark in the world of children’s literature. In addition to the praise he has earned for his original picture-book stories, Johnson has also contributed his art to stories by authors such as Linda Michelin (Zuzu’s Wishing Cake) and Daniel Pinkwater (Bear’s Picture, 2008). While book illustration is a relatively recent undertaking for Johnson, publication is not: he is a nationally recognized freelance illustrator whose work has appeared in the pages of such well-known publications as the New York Times Book Review, Newsday, and The
J. Gladstone, the author of A Bitter Cup of Coffee; How MLB & The Players Association Threw 874 Retirees A Curve, will read excerpts from his book at Village Square Booksellers on Sunday, Nov. 14, beginning at 1 p.m. Gladstone will also take questions from the audience and sign copies of the book for all those individuals who purchase it that afternoon. With a foreword written by the Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist, Dave Marash, A Bitter Cup of Coffee tells the true story of a group of former big-league ballplayers denied pensions as a result of the failure of both the league and the union to retroactively amend the vesting requirement change that granted instant pension eligibility to ballplayers in 1980. Prior to that year, ballplayers had to have four years service credit to earn an annuity and medical benefits. Since 1980, however, all you have needed is one day of service credit to qualify for health insurance and 43 days of service credit for a pension. Village Square Booksellers is located at 32 The Square in Bellows Falls. For book and event reservations, contact the bookstore at 802-463-9404 or visit www.villagesquarebooks.com.
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