The Second-Saturday Synthfests at Stage 33 Live celebrate synthesizer performance, circuit-bending, and sound manipulation on Saturday, January 11 and Saturday, February 8 at 33 Bridge Street in Bellows Falls, Vermont. Gear Q&A at 6:00, performances at 7:00. $10 suggested donation for the performers. Admission is limited to 40. The performances will be recorded and filmed.
Second-Saturday Synthfests at Stage 33 Live
BELLOWS FALLS — There will be two electronic music performance concerts celebrating synthesizers, circuit-bending, and sound manipulation on the second Saturdays of the first two months of 2026 — January 10 and February 7 — at Stage 33 Live, 33 Bridge Street in Bellows Falls, Vermont.
Each session will open with a meet-and-greet at 6:00 PM. Get up close to the gear (look but don’t touch), talk with the performers, settle into the space. Five 20-minute performances will follow, starting at 7:00.
Players will be in the center of the room, with the audience in the round and encouraged to roam throughout the show. The performances are expected to range from cinematic and lush to computeresque and urgent to tuneful and poppy. It will get loud.
This year’s Synthfest was curated by Trevor Robinson, and features performers that have never played the room before.
Session 1 will primarily feature composed songs, often with voice, sometimes with additional instruments.
On the schedule for Session 1:
· Deep Seize
· Dutch Experts
· Holly Brewer
· Snowglobe Almanac
· The Y Lie
Session 2 will feature more freeform improvisations and compositions across a range of styles and moods.
On the schedule for Session 2:
· Belltonesuicide
· Bob Familiar with Glenn Dickson
· Bosey Joe
· Dave Seidel
· Denny Kemps
Suggested $10 donation in advance or at the door per event, all proceeds benefit the performers. No one will be turned away for lack of money. Advance donations through stage33live.com guarantee entry if the session sells out. Admission is limited to 40.
All performances will be recorded and filmed.
• Advance ticket sales will automatically close once 40 tickets are sold.
• Advance ticket sales will shut down 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.
• 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.
• You can order up to six tickets per transaction. NO RESELLERS.
• The transaction fee is rolled into the ticket price.
• A Paypal account is not required.
• Performers get all the ticket money. That’s the only income we have. We’re all volunteers. 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 “success” page should pop up and you should get an email from Paypal. You should also get a confirmation email from us, but that one may take a day or two.
• 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 to anybody. We won’t even add you to our secret email newsletter coterie unless you ask.
• There are no brick-and-mortar outlets to get tickets. 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.
• Tickets at the door AS AVAILABLE will be $10. 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. Protip: We don’t have actual staff to answer the phone.
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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