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Friday,
May 9 at 5:30 pm
MAYDAY! MAYDAY!
Tickets: $5
Hanna
Hopkins of Jamaica, VT (with a little guidance from Tino Valpa)
presents a 8-band punk rock showcase featuring Weight of the
World, Bomb City Riot, O.F.C., Crooked Law, Hang Fire, The
Cryptics, Jonee Earthquake Band and Shamhearst. This will
be Shamhearst's CD release as well as their last show ever.
The
ideas behind this concert were to give a few local Vermont
bands, Weight of the World and Bomb City Riot (both of the
Rutland area), the chance to play at a respectable venue and
to get to play with some more notable bands from New Hampshire
and Massachussetts, and also to offer an all ages show for
the younger set and for the older set who doesn't enjoy having
to go to the bar every time they wish to see a decent band.
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Saturday,
May 10th
Fair Trade Brattleboro presents two films as part of the World
Fair Trade Day festival:
1:00 pm - BLACK COFFEE
7:00 pm - LIFE IN DEBT
Admission
to the films will be by donation. Fair Trade refreshments will
be served at each screening.
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Coffee" a film by Irene Angelico, is a remarkable three part
documentary that chronicles coffee's origins in Ethiopia and its
triumphant spread over five continents, sparking revolution, controversy,
creativity, business and slavery all along the way.
"Life
in Debt" will be shown at 7:00 PM. Life & Debt, by Jamaica
Kincaid, is a woven tapestry of sequences focusing on the stories
of individual Jamaicans whose strategies for survival and parameters
of day-to-day existence are determined by the U.S. and other foreign
economic agendas. By combining traditional documentary telling
with a stylized narrative framework, the complexity of international
lending, structural adjustment policies and free trade will be
understood in the context of the day-to-day realities of the people
whose lives they impact.
This
event is part of a festival marking the second annual World Fair
Trade Day celebrated in Brattleboro. Brattleboro is the second
Fair Trade Town in the United States in June of 2007. For more
information on Fair Trade Brattleboro and other festival events,
visit the Fair
Trade Brattleboro website.
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Friday,
May 16 at 8:00 pm
DAN HOUGHTON AND FRIENDS
Tickets: $14 General / $12 Students and Seniors
Ticket reservations and info: 802-254-9276
Twilight
Music presents an evening of Scottish and Irish tunes and songs
by Dan Houghton and Friends. Separated temporarily from his Edinburgh-based
group, Cantrip, Dan promises an evening of powerful traditional
music with his New England friends.
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Houghton (highland and border bagpipes, flute, whistles, voice)
grew up surrounded by Scottish traditional music and started his
musical career playing the whistles and viola at age seven. He has
been fingering the pipes and flute for the last seventeen years,
and has played and taught throughout Europe, Asia, the US and the
Antipodes.
Houghton's
high energy, twin fiddle/bagpipe band, Cantrip, wowed audiences
with their virtuoso musicianship at the New World Festival in
Randolph, VT, the Celtic Classic Festival in Bethlehem, PA and
at Hooker-Dunham Theater & Gallery, as part of their 2007
US tour. While firmly rooted in the Scottish tradition, Cantrip's
music takes influences from, and excursions into, music from the
Scandinavian, Balkan, Basque, Breton and Québécoise
traditions. Dan has also played with the New Zealand Irish band,
Blackthorn, and more recently he has been half of several musical
duos in Europe, including Musion, ASBO Duo and The Boussens Which
Project.
Besides
playing for concerts, Dan is a successful dance piper, and has
performed for both Scottish Highland and Country dancing throughout
Scotland and Europe. When not on the road or in the air, Dan divides
his time between Scotland and Marshfield, VT, where he teaches
Bagpipes at Vermont Institute of Celtic Arts.
For
more information, visit www.pipingtool.co.uk
and www.cantrip-music.co.uk.
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Saturday,
May 17 at 8:00 pm
ROSIE RED BURLY-Q
Tickets: $14 General / $12 Students and Seniors
Ticket reservations and info: 802-254-9276
(not suitable for children)
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Twilight
Music presents Rosie Red Burly-Q, a Groove MaMa Ink production in
which classic burlesque meets modern melodrama. Villains, Damsels,
Bags O' Loot and Heroines with pasties! Put on your finest western
duds, swing open those saloon doors and be entertained by the lovely
Burlesque dancers at the finest joint in town - Rosie Red's Good
Time Emporium And Saloon! - Hosted
by the notorious Madam May Aye with our burlesque starlets: Rosie
151, Bonnie Voy'Age, Cinnamon Cimarron, and special guests: Sheriff
Sin Gin and Prisoner Ellie 135.
Groove
MaMa Ink is a company of hard working, rabble rousing women. Their
mission is to create, produce, pioneer and perform new and innovative
work in the fields of literature, dance, theater, education and
music. Kara M.Tyler, Kim Braun, Gillian Chadsey, Mariah Freda,
Sarah Rose Grillo and Bricken Sparacino are dedicated to building
a community where provocative ideas, diverse art forms, artists
and audiences can intersect one another. They aim to create a
home where off-off-Broadway may thrive.
Rosie
Red Burly-Q is not suitable for children.
For
more information, visit
www.groovemamaink.com.
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Tony
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Saturday,
May 24th at 8:00 pm
TONY
MOSCHETTO
with
MIKE DEL LANO
Tickets:
$12
For
information and reservations call
802-254-9276
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Mike
Del Lano
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Twilight
Music is pleased to continue its monthly comedy series by presenting
a couple of real stand-up guys:
Tony Moschetto, with Mike Del Lano.
Tony
Moschetto is one of the most uniquely hilarious comedians in the
United States. Standup comedy has literally taken him around the
world, as he's performed not only in Boston and New England, but
in New York City, Los Angeles, London and Beijing, China. He's
been featured on Comedy Central, and his quirky manner and unique
point of view one of the most unique comedians in the country.
He's also an award-winning filmmakers, with a short featured at
the AngelCiti Film Festival in Los Angeles, and another that won
the audience choice award at the 2004 Boston Comedy Festival.
Opening
the evening will be Mike Del Lano. Mike was born and raised on
the grumpy streets of Lowell, Massachusetts. He began doing comedy
in 2002, squeezing in open-mic nights around bartending shifts.
Since then he has played clubs and theaters all over New England,
always returning to his adopted town of Boston and occasionally
to Lowell. Over the years he has crafted his unique brand of stand-up.
His act combines true stories from his life with observations
on politics, culture, tomorrow's forecast and some nonsense he
dreamed about last night.
After
a long hard week you need a good laugh. Find it on the 24th at
HDT&G.
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TUNED...
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