The latest Chaffee Art Center exhibit lived up to its name the night it opened, but despite the freezing temperature on Jan. 14, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” turned out a good crowd.

Update: Scrag Mountain Music has canceled both in-person concerts due to COVID concerns. However, Wednesday's open rehearsal on Zoom, and the live-streaming of the Jan. 29 concert will continue as planned. (See the website.)  

“Some party this is turning out to be,” says Professor Plum, as he and five other colorful guests stand in the study — the dead bodies of their host and the cook lying at their feet.

When he’s not playing music or recording albums Spencer Lewis is a stonemason. His masonry is masterful and he has garnered praise for it. It’s not surprising then that his latest album, number 29 in a long recording career, is called “Ruins and Foundations.”

Formed over 20 years ago, five-piece Michigan group Greensky Bluegrass brings a rock sensibility to its bluegrass-based sound.

Indie singer-songwriter Samia has been playing to sizable crowds on her first headlining tour — which brings her to the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge on Monday — even though her widely lauded 2020 debut album, “The Baby,” was released as the world was in quarantine.

Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640) is mostly known today by the adjective “Rubensesque,” a term coined in the late 1800s that describes the full-figured, voluptuous women present in his mythological and religious paintings. Still, he also excelled in portraiture, hunts and landscapes, an…

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The playwright describes “Food & Shelter” as “Hansel and Gretel” meets “Waiting for Godot,” a darkly moving fairy tale about love.

Fishermen with their morning catch, travelers on a tree-lined path beneath Mount Fuji, intrepid tea house proprietors beckoning business — an exhibit at Southern Vermont Arts Center this winter offers a time traveling jaunt to Japan in the early 1800s.

Editor's note: This show has been postponed to May 7 due to COVID-19 concerns.

“People ask how do you get material?” Bob Marley said by phone last year. “Stuff happens and I just start writing it down.” That method has worked for him for decades and every time he comes through town he has new material.

“They say it ain’t easy I know that’s the truth,” sings Lost Dog Street Band front man and songwriter Benjamin Tod on the chorus of “Until I Recoup (Glory 1),” the harrowing, autobiographical opening tune on the band’s new album “Glory.”

The Vermont Arts Council has honored its 2021 Arts Award recipients in the premiere of short video tributes about their work, as well as a video message from Gov. Phil Scott.

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Stunning details of individual leaves with their variations in shape and color, tendrils of Spanish moss, a thicket of vertical lines of slender trunks, the watery ground — Catherine Opie’s images in her “Swamp Series” draw you into their depths. The large format invites immersion into these…

The charismatic Peter Askim brought a decidedly new flavor to the December Vermont Symphony Opera Holiday Pops concerts, one that was applauded enthusiastically by audiences Dec. 10 at the Barre Opera House, Dec. 11 at The Flynn in Burlington, and Dec. 12 at Rutland’s Paramount Theatre.

Miranda, the daughter of paleontologists, grew up surrounded by dinosaurs on a remote island. But today she’s bringing them to a theater near you. The remarkably life-like dinosaurs in Dinosaur World Live! include every kid’s favorite like Tyrannosaurus rex and triceratops, built to life-lik…

For such a short month, February is seriously smokin’ with several hot music options to start planning for.

It might be hard to remember, with Omicron currently surging, but the performing arts made great inroads against COVID last year.

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Vermont will celebrate Robert De Cormier’s 100th birthday at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 7 at Grace Congregational Church, when eight Vermont choirs perform a program of De Cormier’s beloved arrangements.

On Saturday, Jan. 8, Cabot Arts will present its Cabot Village 12th Night Celebration, a day-long festival featuring an array of performing arts and activities for all ages, symbolic of the incoming new year and the death of the old year, and the coming of longer days.

Next weekend will see the introduction of a new Vermont-related trio, the Chien-Kim-Watkins Trio. Pianist Gloria Chien, violinist Soovin Kim and cellist Paul Watkins will perform two all-Beethoven programs at the newly renovated UVM Recital Hall.

We’ve been through our first tough winter of COVID-19 in 2020-21, and a considerable amount of music was produced by Vermonters who had lots of time on their hands and decided to use that time to record their music. In this, the 16th edition of the The Times Argus-Rutland Herald Tammie Award…

I won’t even pretend to make predictions for 2022, but I sincerely hope that live music can still be part of it. Here’s a look at five shows to look forward to this month.

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“Jack London’s Martin Eden,” Vermont filmmaker Jay Craven’s latest, retells London’s semi-autobiographical tale of an uneducated sailor who strives to become a sophisticated writer despite the human cost — to others, but mainly to himself.

The Local Legends Popup Chautauqua, which storyteller and musician Tim Jennings defines as “a collaboration with other unique and/or high-level local performance artists, in a variety show format,” will have a two-day run at the 4 Corners Schoolhouse in East Montpelier Monday and Tuesday.

Live music has long been a popular pick for ringing in the New Year, and this year’s offerings deliver a plethora of compelling events — a welcome return after last year’s lull in the action.

Following are excerpts of director Jay Craven’s extensive notes on making his new film “Martin Eden.”

Amid the plethora of best-album lists, we like to take a slightly different tack in looking back on the year in pop music. What follows is our highly biased list of noteworthy, most obsessed-over albums by artists who graced our fair little state with a live performance during 2021 — or will…

“Evolving Traditions,” a new exhibit at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC), showcases innovative work by 15 members of the Guild of Vermont Furniture Makers and six collaborating artists.

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Latex surgical gloves, cozy knit gloves, work gloves, a leather driving glove, a ski glove with metal clip dangling, a delicate dress glove, a pair of small cuffed gloves — dozens of gloves, like so many hands, touch each other, forming an arc that seems to float along an expanse of wall. Ea…

Last year Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater (THT) enlisted some of Vermont’s best musicians to make music videos, and packaged them together into the Holiday Jukebox.

William Metcalfe was one of Vermont’s most important musicians — and most beloved.

There was no shortage of noteworthy Vermont releases this year, perhaps due in part to the added “woodshedding” time during the past year-plus of the pandemic. Here’s a look at 12 albums by Green Mountain State artists that stood out in 2021, in order of release date.

Here’s a look at five EPs by Vermont-based artists that stood out in 2021, in order of release date.

When you’ve got a successful product you tend not to tamper with it. Such is the style of singer-songwriter Michele Fay from Ripton on her fifth album “Zucchini Days.” We find this release, as in her previous ones, contain songs that are easily translated to the Vermont lifestyle and a band …

A single venue was not enough. Jasper Johns needed two major American museums to host his 90th year birthday retrospective (91st to be precise, delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic).

StJ Art on the Street’s winter show features the work of several artists in storefront, sidewalk, and indoor galleries along Railroad Street and Eastern Avenue. The new show will run through Feb. 25.

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Note: COVID precautions have been added since the first printed version.

From the December day in 1843 when parsimonious Ebenezer Scrooge first growled “Bah Humbug!” to his nephew Fred’s cheery Christmas greeting, Charles Dickens’ tale of ghostly Christmas Eve visitations and the cranky miser’s change of heart has been a holiday favorite.