Hero’s Welcome
Saturday 10
She crushed on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon”; now the Vermont expat headlines Tina Friml’s Big Apple Comedy, an unmissable night of laughs at Town Hall Theater in her hometown of Middlebury. Discover why the comedian — who includes jokes about having cerebral palsy in her sets — won the Seven Daysies award for best standup comic in 2025.
Talk the Walk
Sunday 11
Satisfy your New Year’s resolutions to be more creative and more active with a Poetry Hike hosted by the Vermont Land Trust at Brewster Uplands in Jeffersonville. Bring a winter-inspired verse — your own or someone else’s — to share along the three-mile trek, ending with snacks and warm beverages. When it’s time to rhyme / ice can be nice / but maybe still bring / a traction device!
Kellogg’s Brand
Friday 9
Rolling Stone describes veteran singer-songwriter Stephen Kellogg’s sound as “John Prine fronting the Heartbreakers.” If that piques your interest, head to Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center in Stowe, where the Grammy-nominated troubadour paints a metaphoric portrait of life with his preferred mediums of music, humor and storytelling.
Catch Some Ray
Friday 9
Hepcats, get hip to this timely tip: Jazz at the Junction is back! Northern Stage hosts the Ray Vega QuARTet for an evening of blistering-hot tunes at Barrette Center for the Arts in White River Junction. The swingin’ four-piece — captained by the eponymous Burlington musician — jump-starts 2026 with a program of timeless works by genre greats John Coltrane and Duke Ellington.
Triple Play
Saturday 10
The Hopkins Center for the Arts launches its Recital Series with back-to-back performances by the Horszowski Trio at the new Morris Recital Hall in Hanover, N.H. The boundary-pushing chamber music ensemble — “destined for great things” according to the New Yorker — stirs souls with works by preeminent American conductor Leonard Bernstein and pioneering Czech composer Bedřich Smetana.
Tapping In
Sunday 11
Acclaimed tap dance company Subject:Matter will have you shuffle ball changing in your seat with Fred Astaire-level gusto at Next Stage Arts in Putney. The inventive, energy-packed performance showcases brand-new material developed during the group’s on-site residency and acts as a bridge between its past, present and emerging work.
Jolly Ranchers
Ongoing
Vermont printmaker and instructor Ashley Stagner’s solo show “The Cowboy Series” at Artspace 106 at the Men’s Room in Burlington explores themes of identity and gender with sensitivity and nuance. The collection of monochromatic woodcut prints reimagines — and challenges — the archetypal image of the American cowboy through a contemporary and deeply personal lens.
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