Alaskan finger-style guitarist Kray Van Kirk will sing songs, tell stories, and summon heroes at Stage 33 Live in Bellows Falls, Vermont, on May 17, 2026 in a 3:00 matinee. John Fealy opens. Tickets are $15 in advance through stage33live.com, or $20 at the door as available. Advance tickets guarantee entry. Only 40 tickets will be sold. Read the press release.
• 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 $20. 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.
Kray Van Kirk with John Fealy at Stage 33 Live
BELLOWS FALLS — A fine fingerstyle guitarist with a precise baritone, Kray Van Kirk (who has a Ph.D. in fisheries population dynamics modeling from the University of Alaska) set science aside to write songs, tell stories, and summon heroes.
Van Kirk is not the average crying-in-your-coffee singer-songwriter… he’s charming, Quixotic, and decidedly eclectic. “We are driven by myth and the seasons of the heart,” he says, “and the stories are all true. There is a dark cave inside each of us, and monsters of all kinds lurk there, all the more lethal for being hidden. The quest is to journey inside, render the monsters powerless, find whatever it is that burns at the core of your soul and bring it back into the light. In a world divided it is critical to write songs and tell stories that show absolutely everyone they get to be the hero. Nobody is left behind.”
Thus his songs: Thunderbird resurrects the Phoenix in an empty desert diner in the American Southwest… The Queen of Elfland plucks Thomas the Rhymer from the English-Scottish border in 1250 and drops him and the Queen into a subway car… The Library Song has Superman moonlighting among the stacks… Rosa and Hector ride through Sherwood Forest on canes and a wheelchair… The Midnight Commander celebrates an insane old man leading the city of New York to take up arms (and underwear) against hatred.
“The Alaskan singer-songwriter, in his Edinburgh debut, was not the reason I arrived early, but was certainly why I stayed late.” — The Daily Fringe Review
John Fealy is a Vermont folk singer, and his acoustic music — made on finger-style steel string guitar, banjo, ukulele, and piano — is rooted deep in his heart and aims to share his love of humanity, nature, and the greater forces of life. He’s a father, husband, and a dedicated street outreach worker. And also the lead singer of the band Ox Child.
Kray Van Kirk with John Fealy at Stage 33 Live in Bellows Falls, Vermont, on May 17, 2026 in a 3:00 matinee. Tickets are $15 in advance through stage33live.com, or $20 at the door as available. Advance tickets guarantee entry. Only 40 tickets will be sold.
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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