Awesome Sauce
Friday 14
Pioneering hip-hop and blues rockers G. Love & Special Sauce dole out a groovy mix of laid-back beats to listeners at the Double E’s outdoor stage in Essex. Front man Garrett Dutton’s signature rap-style vocals fuse with funky acoustic guitar and harmonica riffs to deliver cult-classic ’90s hits including “Cold Beverages” and “Baby’s Got Sauce.”
American Pickers
Saturday 15 & Sunday 16
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Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country bring their roadhouse twang to Jay Peak Resort’s Stateside Amphitheater and New Hampshire’s Lebanon Opera House. Far-out jam-band exploration à la the Grateful Dead collides with the outlaw-country traditions of Willie Nelson as the eponymous front man proves why Rolling Stone crowned him “Nashville’s newest guitar hero.”
Running the Show
Thursday 13
At Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro, decorated Vermont director Jay Craven — known for Where the Rivers Flow North and A Stranger in the Kingdom — spills the tea on five decades’ worth of place-based filmmaking. From wrestling budget challenges to wrangling A-list talent, the hometown hero takes listeners behind the scenes of immortalizing regional history on the silver screen.
Candid Pics
Thursday 13
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Brattleboro Museum & Art Center hosts an insightful panel discussion in conjunction with its ongoing “Into Light Project” exhibit, honoring individuals lost to drug addiction through photorealistic portraiture. The candid convo invites folks in recovery to share their lived experiences and answer audience members’ questions, reducing stigma and fostering understanding.
All That Jazz
Friday 14-Sunday 16
No tickets, no cover charges … How many music fests can say that? The 10th edition of the Stowe Jazz Festival descends upon the quintessential mountain town, bringing free concerts and jam sessions for all. Expect syncopated sounds by local and global genre stalwarts, as well as performances running the subgenre gamut from bebop and swing to jazz manouche and Afro-Cuban.
Saturday 15 & Sunday 16
Sunshine and Rainbows
From forest foraging and gravel bike rides to a kaleidoscopic parade and a vendor market, Websterville’s Queer Arts Festival has it all. On Saturday, more than 90 LGBTQ+ makers set up shop at the Lodge at Millstone Hill to showcase their unique crafts and wares. The good vibrations continue on Sunday with workshops, a community sing, collaborative quilt making and a zine library.
Flower Power
Tuesday 18
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In case you missed it: Grammy-winning alt-rockers the Wallflowers graced the Green Mountains with a sold-out performance in Stowe last summer. For those who couldn’t nab a ticket, now’s your chance to see the Jakob Dylan-led outfit — this time, at Paramount Theatre in Rutland — perform its multiplatinum 1996 breakthrough album Bringing Down the Horse in its entirety.
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