The Third-Thursday series finale featuring Ben Mackin from Bennington is swooping right up. Short sets are looking to have fiction from K.E. Eastvold, poetry from Laura Ellzey, fun pocket trumpet improv from Kenn Ash, and if we're lucky some dirty Texas blues from Gillis Mills. If everybody makes it, the shorts will run a full hour starting at 6:00. We also put out word that we'd leave the door open for Gurf Morlix if he wanted to wander over and do a couple songs before his Windham Ballroom show, but we're not counting on that.Ben Mackin picked up the guitar in his teens and has been writing and playing ever since. Like an unusually high percentage of the musicians that grace our stage, he also works with kids in music and theater — in addition to recording studio work, teaching guitar, and running open mics over that way.Doors at 5, shorts at 6, Ben at 7. Suggested $5 donation at the door.More info at www.stage33live.com/2019/05/ben-mackin/
Then, on Sunday, Patty Carpenter and Verandah Porche will perform with special guest Jon Weeks on wind instruments and percussion, and Wheeler Laird sitting in on a song or two.
Doors open at 3:00 PM, show starts at 4:00.
Patty and Verandah have been lifelong friends and collaborators. They’ll be playing some of the new songs they’ve written since the Dysfunctional Family Jazz Band’s 2010 CD “Come Over”, which they also co-composed.
Patty studied with Archie Shepp and Max Roach, but she also wears influences ranging from Joan Baez to Billie Holiday on her sleeve. She plays in Patty and the Cakes, The Patty Carpenter Jazz Band, and other projects in addition to the Brooklyn-based Jazz/Americana/Soul/Folk collective Dysfunctional Family Jazz Band.
Verandah is a poet and an alt-lit creative collaborator. Her poetry volumes include
Sudden Eden
(Verdant Books),
The Body’s Symmetry
(Harper and Row), and
Glancing Off
(See Through Books). The Vermont Arts Council presented her with its Award of Merit; she received the first Ellen McCulloch-Lovell Award in Arts Education; and Marlboro College honored her with a Doctor of Humane Letters.
Multi-instrumentalist Jon Weeks will be joining on flute, sax, percussion, and perhaps some surprises. He studied at Berklee and is a longtime East Coast player with acts like Sol Y Canto, Orquesta Unidad, The Temptations, Cayenne, Viva Quetzal, Joe Velez & Creación, Northside Saxophone Quartet, and many more.
The enigmatic Wheeler will sit in a bit as well.
Patty and Verandah were featured in
Freedom and Unity: The Vermont Movie
.
Verandah writes about their work together: “In the late ’60s, we landed in the sticks a stone’s throw from each other. Dreams, troubles, changes, crops, communards, kids and lovers: music and language saw us through our duet of abundance and loss. We took a guitar, the kids, and a pencil with an eraser down to the river. We’ve carved these songs out of our long friendship.”
The listening event will be recorded and filmed. Your likeness or voice may be incidentally documented; your presence is your permission. 33 Bridge Street is an accessible space.
* Seating is limited to 40 *
Because there's some likelihood that we'll run out of chairs, we've set up prepaid entry donations that double as chair reservations — we only have 40 chairs, after that it’s standing room. The suggested minimum donation for this show is $10 (plus a few cents to cover the bank fee), more if you can… 100% of all door receipts go to the performers. There will also be day-of-show entry available at the door, but a chair isn’t guaranteed in that case. You can bring your own seating to be safe if you wish. No one will be turned away for lack of money.
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33 Bridge Street is a couple blocks toward the river from the only intersection in downtown Bellows Falls, which is the corner of Flat Iron Exchange coffeehouse and Popolo restaurant. And it’s a T so there’s no way to take a wrong turn. Stage 33 Live is in a brick building on the right after the post office and over the little bridge. The most reliable parking is in the free lot across the street, next to the canal.
Stage 33 Live invites the public to listening events that are recorded and filmed for radio, TV, and the internet. It’s a volunteer run nonprofit on a mission to help local and regional talented and knowledgeable people reach wider audiences on multiple platforms. The stage is also open to established performers and presenters, because their participation helps bring attention to others still getting their foot in the door. We aren’t a bar, club, restaurant, or venue with regular hours. We’re also not a plush theater or a state-of-the-art facility. We’re just good folks doing this fine thing — the homegrown love child of
Tiny Desk Concerts
,
TED Talks
,
Science Friday
,
Midnight Special
, and
The Little Rascals
. Stage 33 Live allows only original material.
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