The enigmatic experimental improvisational collective Sunburned Hand of the Man, incorporating elements ranging from free jazz and rock to drone and punk, will play Stage 33 Live at 33 Bridge Street in Bellows Falls, Vermont, on Saturday, February 28, 2026 at 7:00 PM. Tickets are $20 in advance through stage33live.com or at the door as available. Advance tickets guarantee entry. Only 40 tickets will be sold. 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.)
Sunburned Hand of the Man at Stage 33 Live
BELLOWS FALLS — Sunburned Hand of the Man are an enigmatic experimental collective with a stunningly large discography and frequent personnel changes. Their improvisations incorporate elements of free jazz, space rock, psych-rock, hypno krautrock, drone, folk, funk, punk, and dirty synth. Their live shows are a surprise every time — even to them, usually — ranging from wild freak-outs to more coherently sculpted material careening from unsettling to hypnotic to mellow.
According to Sean Kitching, writing in The Quietus in 2016, “Sunburned at their best are capable of taking the listener on a shamanic, boogie-fueled trip outside of quotidian reality. Live shows blend monstrous tectonics of rhythm, caustic guitar, echoing phased vocals, insect electronics, and kitchen sink instrumentation that collide in an ecstatic racket.”
Throughout the mid-’90s they represented New England’s “free rock” contingency, and the “free folk” — sometimes misnomered “freak folk” — era described by David Keenan’s 2003 article ‘New Weird America’ in British music magazine The Wire.
There will be no opener for this show, it will be 100% Sunburned. It’s likely to be loud. Stage 33 Live has no idea what the lineup will be, or how long the show will go. This is in accordance with the strange purity of Sunburned Hand of the Man.
Daisy Frederick will provide old-school psychedelic interactive liquid light projections.
February 28, 2026, which is a Saturday, at 7:00 PM. Tickets are just $20 in advance through stage33live.com or at the door as available. Advance tickets guarantee entry. Only 40 tickets will be sold. The performances will be recorded and filmed. Stage 33 Live is located at 33 Bridge Street in Bellows Falls, Vermont.
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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