Dwight Ritcher & Nicole Nelson Credit: Courtesy of Dwight & Nicole

Just in time for their opening appearance at next weekend’s Grand Point North festival — that gig a result of winning the Seven Days Grand Point North Band Contest earlier this year, BTW — local roots-soul duo Dwight & Nicole have released a nifty new video for “Smile,” a track from their excellent 2014 album, Shine On.

Set to a cheery rocksteady beat, the video features Dwight & Nicole as scientists trying to coax a sourpuss robot into turning his frown upside down. The duo perform all manner of mood-altering experiments on the bot, who kinda looks like an extra from a 1950s sci-fi flick, including playing practical jokes in the lab, juggling and dancing — the last including busting out the Running Man and, duh, the Robot.

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Dan Bolles is a culture coeditor at Seven Days. He joined the paper in 2007 as its music editor, covering Vermont's robust music, comedy and nightlife scenes for a decade before deciding he was too old to be going to the Monkey House on weeknights to see rock shows for a living. He became assistant arts editor in 2017 and culture coeditor in 2021. Bolles has received numerous local and national awards for his writing on Vermont arts, sports and the occasional celebrity canine murder mystery. He loves...

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