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Friday February 5, 5:30–7:30 pm

Shirma won't leave home without it .... her camera, that is. Shirma's whimsical perspective is revealed, along with her awe of mother nature, as she snaps pictures throughout Windham County and beyond. If you've ever had the pleasure to be a passenger in her cab, you've likely been privy to her unique perspective of the world that she so sensitively captures in her photographs. Perhaps, instead, you've walked with Shirma in the woods and turned around to find her dropped to her knees photographing a particularly eloquent lichen who has spoken to Shirma in a way that only she can intuitively perceive. Her photography tells the tales.

Shirma invites you to come and partake in the Sacred encounters of her journey.

Beckett initially wrote Waiting for Godot in French, and it opened at the small Left Bank Theatre de Babylone in Paris in 1953. Combining both tragic and comic elements, the play’s poetic dreamscapes push doubt and ambiguity to question our existence. Beckett’s characters hysterically exchange nonsensical banter as they pratfall across a bleak landscape on a country road. Director Charles Monette has added further controversy by casting two women in the traditionally male lead roles of Vladimir and Estragon.

The cast for this VTC production includes Bridget McBride (Estragon), Patricia Hartland (Vladimir), Samuel Murphy (Lucky), John Moore (Pozzo) and Alec Silver (Boy).

Jeffrey Foucault's musical career was seeded at 17, when he began playing John Prine tunes on his father's beat up mail-order guitar, and spent long evenings in his bedroom, spinning piles of old records on a hand-me-down turntable. When he was 18, he stole a copy of Townes Van Zandt: Live and Obscure from a friend, and a few years later, having quit school to work as a farm-hand and a house carpenter, Foucault turned to writing songs.

Since the 2001 release of his critically-acclaimed debut CD, Miles from the Lightning, Foucault, a native of Wisconsin and recent transplant to western Massachusetts, has built an independent career touring extensively in the United States, Canada and the UK. Along the way, he has played with artists and icons such as Guy Clark, Greg Brown, Chris Smither, Kelly Joe Phelps, Gillian Welch, Richard Buckner, John Hammond and Roseanne Cash. He also collaborated with Peter Mulvey and Kris Delmhorst to create the 2003 album of mostly cover songs, Redbird. In 2004, Foucault released his long-awaited sophomore solo follow-up, Stripping Cane.

In 2006, Foucault teamed with legendary blues guitar player and producer, Bo Ramsey, to create Ghost Repeater, a country and blues album at the crossroads of love and lament, exploring the hopefulness of new love and the seasickness of contemporary American living. Ghost Repeater hews close to the line of Foucault's previous albums, with darkly intimate songs and rich language, and like them, it delivers the honesty of country, the rawboned desperation of blues, and the simplicity of folk to achieve a document that's timeless and poignant.

Foucault’s latest CD, Shoot the Moon Right Between the Eyes: Jeffrey Foucault Sings the Songs of John Prine, offers compelling new interpretations of thirteen John Prine originals. In solo and duet arrangements with friends and touring companions including Eric Heywood, Mark Erelli, David Goodrich, Peter Mulvey, Kris Delmhorst, Annelies Howell and Zak Trojano, Foucault conjures a terrain both spare and atmospheric.

“Jeffrey Foucault is a young man with an old soul… contemporary and timeless.” – The New York Times

“Jeffrey Foucault is the bard of small-town anywhere… his poetry rich with details … his worn-in voice like an old down jacket… delivery so raw and real it fairly throbs." – No Depression

Highly regarded in the indie world for years with his band, Varnaline, the rock group, Space Needle, and a project called Gob Iron with Jay Farrar (Son Volt, Uncle Tupelo), Anders Parker has recorded three solo albums (Skyscaper Crow, Tell It to the Dust and a self-titled disc), all filled with melancholy, minor-key masterpieces.

For additional information, visit www.jeffreyfoucault.com, www.andersparker.com, and www.twilightmusic.org.

Fuzz, Carrie, Ben and Brian converge from vastly different backgrounds in folk, pop, classical, jazz and rock. Fuzz, who has spent the past thirteen years touring the world with funk and dance groups such as Tom Tom Club and Deep Banana Blackout, teamed up with Carrie in 2004 to create an acoustic duo and a full band, Rolla. In early 2008, they recruited Brian, who had toured previously in his experimental jazz trio, Raisin Hill, as well as Ben, who had studied jazz and classical violin since an early age.

Within their first year together, Caravan of Thieves performed in premiere venues around the country with world renowned artists such as Dan Hicks, Tony Trischka, Tom Tom Club, Menudo, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Trout Fishing in America and Ryan Montbleau Band. Caravan successfully connected with audiences on each of these diverse bills, proving their music to be a hit with folk, pop, rock and jazz appreciators alike as well as all age groups. Some notable Caravan of Thieves appearances include the Philly Folk Festival, Clearwater Festival, Gathering of the Vibes Festival, CMJ Music Marathon NYC, Club Passim, Joe’s Pub and World Café Live.

Also in that first year and in a fit of creativity, the group wrote, recorded and released their debut full length album, Bouquet, featuring 12 original compositions. To accompany this collection of dramatic and comical short stories, they built an Interactive stage set of percussive junk which delivers audiences directly into the wild, imaginative minds of Fuzz and Carrie and the Caravan of Thieves.

"Caravan of Thieves is too charming, too wry, and just too damn good to fly under anyone’s radar” - Metro Spirit

For additional information, visit www.caravanofthieves.com, and www.twilightmusic.org.

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