New music podcast alert! The folks over at Stage 33 Live, a 40-seat nonprofit listening room in Bellows Falls, have launched a podcast. The hourlong episodes air on the third Thursday of every month in both audio and video formats, available on YouTube and most major streaming services.
The series — titled, fittingly enough, “Stage 33 Live Podcast” — is centered on live clips of artists playing at the venue. Each episode gathers multiple performances from local, regional and nationally touring musicians around a loose theme. The first episode is titled “Food” and features singer-songwriter Ian Galipeau’s “Cotton Candy,” Toussaint St. Negritude’s “Just One Bowl of Love” and Ninja Monkey’s “Juice.”
It’s a great window into the world of Stage 33 Live, a unique venue in a former industrial factory on an island in the Connecticut River. Check it out at stage33live.com.
The Monkey House in Winooski is hosting a benefit for Migrant Justice on Saturday, September 27. Featuring Burlington indie-rockers Peg Tassey & the Loud Flowers, Boston singer-songwriter Stace Brandt, and new local act Emo Girls Kissing, the show puts all proceeds directly toward the nonprofit advocacy organization for migrant workers.
The org was formed after 2009 when a young immigrant worker named José Obeth Santiz Cruz was killed working on a Vermont dairy farm. The tragic incident exposed the number of farmworkers in Vermont toiling without the protections of labor laws or workers’ rights. Lately the organization has been focused on supporting Vermont’s migrant community as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement carries out President Donald Trump’s anti-immigration policies. For more information, visit migrantjustice.net.
Tassey has been a fixture of the Burlington scene since the ’90s. She and her new band the Loud Flowers are set to record their debut LP with producer Benny Yurco at his Little Jamaica studio. Following that, they’ll kick off a Beautiful Old Halls Tour, performing at town halls across the state, starting with the Wolcott Town Hall next spring.
The sixth annual Indigenous Peoples’ Day Rocks! celebration takes place on Saturday, October 4, at the Shelburne Farms Coach Barn. The one-day fest is organized by Abenaki Helping Abenaki, a nonprofit that addresses health disparity among Vermont’s Native people.
The show is headlined by Baton Rouge, La.’s Kenny Neal, a Grammy-nominated bluesman. He’s joined by Washington, D.C., blues singer Carly Harvey and Vermont’s own Dave Keller Band. Visit ipdrocks.com for more information.
This article appears in Sept 24-30 2025.
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