Guitar Hero
Saturday 30
Grammy-nominated rocker Amythyst Kiah returns to the Northeast Kingdom, six-string in hand, for a show at Vermont State University-Johnson’s Dibden Center for the Arts. Her vibrant, immersive brand of roots music weaves together authentic emotion and blistering blues riffs for an unparalleled Americana experience.
Cheese All That
Saturday 30
The first annual Cabot Cheese and Culture Festival brings cheesemakers and fermenters from across the state to one of Vermont’s most famous dairy towns. This day of demonstrations, discussions and delicious bites features paired tastings at Headwaters Restaurant & Pub and the Den at Harry’s Hardware, as well as expert panels to teach attendees everything they never thought to ask about kimchi, kraut and Camembert.
The Glass Unicorn
Opens Friday 29
The final Valley Players production of the year, The Glass Menagerie, opens at Waitsfield’s Valley Players Theater this weekend. Legendary playwright Tennessee Williams’ breakthrough play follows a single mother in Depression-era St. Louis whose overbearing interference only ends up pushing away her adult children.
Hello, Governor
Sunday 1
Vermont’s first (and, so far, only) female governor, Madeleine May Kunin, is enjoying her semiretirement. That much is clear in her second poetry collection, Walk With Me, launching at Taso on Center in Rutland. Its poems brim with the joys of aging, loving, mothering and living, as well as Kunin’s hard-earned perspectives as a feminist, immigrant and politician.
Take the Power Back
Tuesday 3
Putney’s Next Stage Arts Project screens the 2022 documentary Four Winters, a groundbreaking deep dive into the stories of the last surviving Jewish partisan rebels of World War II. These soldiers, many of them teenagers at the time, escaped into the forests of eastern Europe and mounted a fierce resistance that few know about. A Q&A with director Julia Mintz follows.
Here Comes the Sun
Wednesday 4
A special benefit concert on the village green at Stowe’s Spruce Peak features Michael Franti & Friends, with 100 percent of ticket proceeds going to the Vermont Flood Response and Recovery Fund. Franti, whose illustrious career has spanned several genres, including hip-hop, funk and ska, brings a high-energy vibe and hopeful hits to this exuberant, autumnal outdoor extravaganza.
Grandmasters of Flash
Ongoing
The Green Mountain Photo Show packs Waitsfield’s Red Barn Galleries at Lareau Farm for the 33rd year running. This is a true who’s who and what’s what of the photography scene, featuring portraits, landscapes and abstract works from artists both professional and amateur, local and national.
This article appears in Sep 27 – Oct 3, 2023.
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