Folksinger and finger-style guitarist Pat Daddona celebrates her new crowd-funded album Roads with help from Jay Osborn, Melissa D. Moorhouse, Suzanne Waldren, and Johnny O on Sunday, June 18, 2023, at 3:00 PM. Tickets are $15. Limited seating; the event will be recorded and filmed. 

BELLOWS FALLS — Folksinger and finger-style guitarist Pat Daddona is promoting her new crowd-funded digital album Roads with a special matinee show at Stage 33 Live in Bellows Falls, Vermont, on June 18 at 3:00. The album releases on BandCamp and all streaming platforms June 4.Pat, a social worker by day and late-blooming songwriter the rest of the time, writes songs that celebrate human connection, confront loss, and energize the heart and mind. Her influences include Janis Ian, Cat Stevens, Gordon Lightfoot, and Tracy Chapman. Roads was crowdfunded by her fans, and a dynamic team of New England-based musicians and sound engineers performed on and produced it.Pat will be accompanied for this performance by drummer Jay Osborn, and backing vocalists Melissa D. Moorhouse and Suzanne Waldren, who all performed on the album. The concert will have opening sets from Johnny O and Melissa D. Also featured on the album are Luke Selden of Massachusetts on banjo, and Dana Takaki of Connecticut on violin. It was primarily recorded at John Sawyer’s Vermont Recording Studios in Chester, with additional recording by Hugh Birdsall in Connecticut and Brownsville, Vermont’s Josh Hall, who also mixed and mastered the album.According to Stage 33 Live, “It’s such an honor to be asked to host an album release show. This June 18 concert also happens to be Father’s Day, so people can bring their dads! And the always-fun Bellows Falls Alumni Parade rolls through town after lunch — people can bring their dads to a parade before the show! Plus this concert is part of the month-long Bellows Falls Pride 2023 celebration.”Tickets for this special show are $15 in advance or at the door — advance tickets double as chair reservations. Much of the seating is reserved for backers of the album project, so there are only 20 tickets available to the general public. June 18 is also Father’s Day, and traffic through downtown Bellows Falls will be closed from sometime after noon until sometime around 2:00 for the Alumni Day parade. Limited seating; the event will be recorded and filmed. All proceeds benefit the musicians.* * * 

There's a not-for-sure-yet Pride Month possibility for a listening premiere of the final installment of an ambitious six-part podcast about the history of the Andrews Inn by local hero Gail Golec. It depends on whether or not it's ready — the project is a huge undertaking, and surprisingly, Gail's actually human like the rest of us. Whether or not a listening premiere is able to happen, we'll let you know how you can listen to the series when it drops. 

Here's an end-of-summer one-off show so fresh that we haven't worked up any promo or set up ticketing yet: 

This is a departure from our strict No Covers rule. Lou created the program with the permission of Harry Chapin Music (the catalog's publisher) and is managing the performance rights licensing directly. This will be one of the first public run-throughs of the tribute, and we're going to give it a deeply discounted ticket. It may be the only chance to be in an audience this intimately up-close for this show at such a low cost.

To honor

Harry Chapin’s fundamental belief that access to nutritious food is a human right and that hunger is a solvable problem in a world of abundance

— and his career-long work to that end — we will be collecting donations at the door of non-perishable food, personal-care items, and money for Our Place Drop-In Center, which is about a block from our front door. Our Place doesn't know this yet. We're going to do it because we can and should.

In response to Lou’s original song A Message From Harry, Vincent J. Kelly — staff writer at Stallman Records, songwriter & author (Northern Oz, Beyond the Yellow Brick Road) — said:“I wrote with Harry Chapin the last two years of his life and you my friend just did an excellent, and I mean superb, job of making Harry proud. I am that one man in the crowd who knows that song was from the heart and Harry would have loved sitting and talking lyrics with you back in those days now so many years ago. I loved every minute of that song… I most of all loved how you weaved the lyrics and the music so that it had that feel of a Harry Chapin song. Good job my friend, good job.”

The final performer of the final show of our recently concluded season was Erin Ash Sullivan, and what a treat. See and hear for yourself:

Here's what's on tap for the rest of 2023 once our regular season starts:

We've gotten the green light from the building owners and tenants for our 2024 calendar, and will begin populating it from the waiting list soon. There are more performers on the wait list than we have dates, which is heartbreaking. We book first-come first-served because the biggest barrier that emerging performers face is the gatekeepers... so we gatekeep as little as possible. Everyone gets the same chance. Everyone jumps through the same hoops. This abnormal practice probably should have sunk us long ago, but it's worked incredibly well — we get consistently outstanding talent on our stage. So much about us is backward yet beautiful.

One thing that looks for certain is that in addition to our regular schedule, there will be a winter double-shot of Synthfest on January 13 and February 10. Meet-and-mingle gear Q&A from 6 to 7 for all you nerds (there will be a “don't touch the stuff” rule but you can eyeball it all real good), followed by five performers each doing a 20-minute set from 7 to 9. Audience in the round, performers clumped in the middle of the room. Sounds like there's gonna be projection art happening too. Joseph, Evan, Johnny, and Trevor are taking the lead on running these shows.

Masks will continue to be optional but welcome. If the community guidelines change, so will our protocol. A pair of high-capacity air purifiers will be running during shows. The common courtesy of not going out and being a vector if you're not well has always been a good idea, even before Covid-19.

Stage 33 Live is a casual and intimate industrial-rustic listening room in a former factory hosting local, regional, and national performances and presentations of original material. No bar or kitchen, the stage is the mission; coffee / soda / juice / water and a variety of snacks are available by donation. More info about the nonprofit, all-volunteer project, and this and other upcoming events, online at

stage33live.com

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