Alaskan fiddler poet Ken Waldman will play a 3:00 matinee on Sunday, January 24 at Stage 33 Live in Bellows Falls, Vermont. Folk musician and harpist Cyd Hughes shares the bill. Tickets are $15 in advance through stage33live.com, or at the door as available. Only 40 tickets will be sold. Advance tickets guarantee entry. All ticket proceeds go to the performers. Read the press release.
• Seating is limited to 40. Advance ticket sales will automatically close once 40 tickets are sold — or at midnight the day before the show if it hasn’t sold out.
• An advance ticket guarantees that you’ll get in if it sells out.
• You can order up to six tickets per transaction. NO RESELLERS.
• A Paypal account is not required.
• The transaction fee is included in the ticket price so that the performers receive the full amount. All ticket money goes to the performers. We work with them to set the ticket price — all workers deserve fair pay, and artists are skilled workers.
• That said, we’re all volunteers, even the people doing pro-level work. There are options to support Stage 33 Live with an additional $2 or $5 per ticket to help us pay the bills and maintain the gear, and from time to time even fund improvements. These options are optional… there’s no shame in not selecting one.
• After completing a ticket purchase, a “success” page should pop up and you should get an email from Paypal. (Why do we use evil Paypal? Because their nonprofit processing fee is the lowest we can find to keep ticket prices as affordable for everybody as possible.) You should also get a confirmation email from us, but that one may take a day or two.
• If you don’t have a credit or debit card or don’t do online transactions, that’s cool. Drop us a line at stage33@stage33live.com and we’ll work it out.
• There are no brick-and-mortar outlets to get tickets.
• The name you give will be on a list at the door. All you have to do is show up. There are no physical tickets.
• We won’t sell your info. We won’t even add you to our email newsletter because man is it ever annoying when places do that without consent. Our newsletter is opt-in or by request.
• All chairs are first-come first-served for everybody. There’s really no bad seats, but up close is cooler. Come a little early to lock in your choice.
• Tickets at the door AS AVAILABLE. We can’t process plastic at the door, cash is best.
• Questions? Drop us a line at stage33@stage33live.com or text/voicemail 802-289-0148. (Email is best, and text is better than voicemail. Protip: We don’t have actual staff to answer the phone.)
Ken Waldman and Cyd Hughes at Stage 33 Live
BELLOWS FALLS — Ken Waldman draws on his 41 years as an Alaska resident to create poems, stories, and fiddle tunes that combine into a performance uniquely his. He’s released 12 CDs of Appalachian-style string-band music — both traditional tunes and his own compositions, along with original poetry… and also 25 books including 17 full-length poetry collections, 3 children’s poetry volumes, 2 memoirs, a creative writing manual, a short story collection, and a novel. He’s been touring full-time since 1995, performing at festivals, concert series, arts centers, colleges, and clubs, including the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, Dodge Poetry Festival, and Woodford Folk Festival in Queensland, Australia.
“Like a Ken Burns movie… always recommended.” — Austin Chronicle
“Renegade Americana.” — Denver Post
Folk musician and harpist Cyd Hughes will join Ken with music bridging the British Isles and Appalachia with traditional ballads and original music. Cyd, a former school librarian and longtime student of the story song, has performed locally with the world music group Kestrel, and with her partner John Crockett in the contemplative duo Coracle.
Ken Waldman and Cyd Hughes play a 3:00 matinee on Sunday, January 24 at Stage 33 Live in Bellows Falls, Vermont. Tickets are $15 in advance through stage33live.com, or at the door as available. Only 40 tickets will be sold. Advance tickets guarantee entry. All ticket proceeds go to the performers. More information at the stage33live.com website.
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 weird snacks available by donation. More information about the nonprofit, all-volunteer project, and this and other upcoming events, online at stage33live.com
Stage 33 Live gratefully acknowledges the help of so many individuals without whom none of this would be able to happen, and institutional support this season from The Island Corporation, WOOL-FM, Guilford Sound, and the Rockingham Arts & Museum Project to help fund improvements and maintenance, and generally smooth out a lot of the rough edges. Stage 33 Live is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, and all donations are deductible to the fullest extent. Volunteers run the thing from stem to stern.
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