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A two-for-one 3:00 matinee with Carl Goulet and Sandiland & Vincent on Sunday, January 25, 2026. Tickets are just $10 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.

Carl Goulet and Sandiland & Vincent at Stage 33 Live

BELLOWS FALLS — Like many rural musicians, Carl Goulet is a hidden gem who flies a little under the radar… an honest and heart-forward performing songwriter with the chops and fluency of artists who get a lot more attention. Passionate, sometimes political, sometimes humorous, always thoughtful. The Daily UV said that his album Gazebo “charms the listener with gentle melodies yet packs a punch with the depth of wisdom and love.” The clarity and purity of his writing and performing is seldom matched.

Similarly, Sandiland & Vincent have carefully honed their craft over years, producing songs with beautiful arrangements and tight, rich harmonies. Vincent has been playing guitar and bass for over 50 years, and Sandi has been in bands and duos since she was 19.

This is going to be a sweet yet weighty two-for-one 3:00 matinee on Sunday, January 25, 2026. Tickets are just $10 in advance through stage33live.com or at the door as available; advance tickets guarantee entry. Only 40 tickets will be sold. All the ticket money goes to the performers. The performances will be recorded and filmed.

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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On Thursdays in February at 6:00 PM at 33 Bridge Street in Bellows Falls, Stage 33 Live and WOOL.fm will screen a series of films from 1930 newly entered into the public domain. $5 suggested donation at the door, but nobody will be turned away for lack of money.

February 5 at 6:00 PM, runtime 1 hour 57 minutes (includes brief intermission)
A pair of cartoons starring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, precursor to Mickey Mouse – then King of Jazz, a lavish series of musical numbers, comedy sketches, and visual set pieces showcasing the possibilities of sound cinema and color filmmaking at the dawn of the 1930s. The film revels in Art Deco-inspired design and the use of two-color Technicolor, and celebrates popular music of the era. Highlights include performances by Paul Whiteman and his orchestra, appearances by the Rhythm Boys (including a young Bing Crosby), and a striking “Rhapsody in Blue” sequence.

The Synthfests at Stage 33 Live celebrate synthesizer performance, circuit-bending, and sound manipulation on Saturday, January 10 and Saturday, February 7 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.

Synthfests at Stage 33 Live

BELLOWS FALLS — There will be two electronic music performance concerts celebrating synthesizers, circuit-bending, and sound manipulation on 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 will 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.

 

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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On Thursdays in February at 6:00 PM at 33 Bridge Street in Bellows Falls, Stage 33 Live and WOOL.fm will screen a series of films from 1930 newly entered into the public domain. $5 suggested donation at the door, but nobody will be turned away for lack of money.

February 12 at 6:00 PM, runtime 2 hours 14 minutes (includes brief intermission)
A German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror. Considered a realistic and harrowing account of warfare in World War I, the film opened to wide acclaim in the United States. In 1990, it was selected and preserved by the United States Library of Congress’ National Film Registry, being deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”. The film was the first to win the Academy Awards for both Outstanding Production and Best Director, and it is the first Best Picture-winner based on a finished novel.

On Thursdays in February at 6:00 PM at 33 Bridge Street in Bellows Falls, Stage 33 Live and WOOL.fm will screen a series of films from 1930 newly entered into the public domain. $5 suggested donation at the door, but nobody will be turned away for lack of money.

February 19 at 6:00 PM, runtime 2 hours 13 minutes (includes brief intermission)
A feat of adventure filmmaking and a testament to the audacious, spare-no-expense vision of Howard Hughes, this landmark aviation epic remains exhilarating. With the onset of World War I, two British brothers recruited into the Royal Flying Corps find their bond tested by their differing attitudes toward the war and their love for the same woman (Jean Harlow in her bombshell breakthrough). The product of a notoriously long and dangerous production that resulted in the deaths of multiple crew members, Hell’s Angels broke new technical ground, making use of early sound and color technologies, and capturing some of the most thrilling dogfight scenes ever filmed.

On Thursdays in February at 6:00 PM at 33 Bridge Street in Bellows Falls, Stage 33 Live and WOOL.fm will screen a series of films from 1930 newly entered into the public domain. $5 suggested donation at the door, but nobody will be turned away for lack of money.

February 26 at 6:00 PM, runtime 2 hours 50 minutes (includes brief intermission)
· Based on the Marx Brothers’ 1928 stage musical, Animal Crackers is set at a Long Island society party honoring eccentric African explorer Captain Jeffrey T. Spaulding (Groucho), the film serves as a vehicle for the Marx Brothers’ comedy and absurdist routines, with a minimal plot loosely structured around the theft of a valuable painting. The film’s humor and surrealist elements influenced comedy filmmaking and earned recognition from avant-garde critics and filmmakers.
· In Soup to Nuts, Mr. Schmidt’s costume store is bankrupt because he spends his time on Rube Goldberg-style inventions. The creditors send a young manager who falls for Schmidt’s niece Louise, but she’ll have none of him. Schmidt’s friends and some goofy firemen try to help out, and things come to a slapstick head when Louise needs rescuing from a fire. It was the film debut of the original four members who would later go on to become known as The Three Stooges.

The enigmatic experimental collective Sunburned Hand of the Man will play Stage 33 Live 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.

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. Incorporating 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 improvisatory 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 New Weird America.

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.

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. More info 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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An opportunity for fingerstyle players of all levels of ability and accomplishment: an informal, intimate, hour-plus class with one of the finest fingerstyle players in the world. Fingerstyle techniques, chords and theory, tone and rhythm, scales, thumb placement, tunings, improvisation, practice routines, and more presented with kindness, patience, and easy laughter. Questions will be warmly received. Limited to ten participants. Bring your instrument. Class is at 11:00 AM on March 15, 2026, at Stage 33 Live, 33 Bridge Street in Bellows Falls, Vermont, in advance of the 2:00 concert. The cost is just $30. A discounted class-plus-concert bundle is $40. More details and registration at the stage33live.com website. Read the press release.

Fingerstyle Guitar Class with Hiroya Tsukamoto

BELLOWS FALLS — Internationally acclaimed fingerstyle guitarist Hiroya Tsukamoto will lead an intimate, informal masterclass for players of all levels of ability and accomplishment at 11:00 AM on March 15, 2026, at Stage 33 Live, 33 Bridge Street in Bellows Falls, Vermont, in advance of his 2:00 concert. This workshop is strictly limited to ten participants; advance registration through the stage33live.com website is strongly recommended. Walk-ups will only be accepted if there’s still room.

Hiroya will demonstrate fingerstyle techniques, including chords and basic theory, breaking down elements such as tone and rhythm, explaining how to apply them to a practice routine. Wisdom on scales, thumb placement, tunings, improvisation, and more to help players improve and expand their talents will be presented with kindness and patience and easy laughter by one of the best fingerstyle players in the world. Questions will be warmly received.

The workshop starts at 11:00 AM on Sunday, March 15, and the cost is $30. A discounted class-plus-concert bundle is $40. This workshop is strictly limited to ten participants, so advance registration through the stage33live.com website is strongly recommended. Walk-ups will only be accepted if there’s still room. Bring your instrument.

Feel free to bring a lunch to eat after the class, or to pop out to a local restaurant before the concert.

Born and raised in Kyoto, Japan, Hiroya Tsukamoto received a scholarship to Berklee College of Music and came to the US. Since then he has been performing internationally including at the United Nations, the Blue Note in New York, and on Japanese National Television. He is a dizzyingly agile fingerpicker who chooses beauty over bombast. His concert performances are an eclectic, immersive, and mesmerizing impressionistic journey filled with earthy, organic soundscapes rich in subtle detail.

For more information about the concert, see stage33live.com/2026/03/hiroya-tsukamoto-2026/

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 info 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 happening, 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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Internationally acclaimed fingerstyle guitarist Hiroya Tsukamoto will perform in a 2:00 matinee on March 15, 2026. Tickets are $20 in advance through stage33live.com, or at the door as available. Only 40 tickets will be sold. Advance tickets guarantee admission. The performance will be recorded and filmed. Hiroya will also provide an opportunity of special interest to fingerstyle players of all levels of ability and accomplishment: an informal masterclass beginning at 11:00 AM, preceding his matinee concert. Read the press release.

Hiroya Tsukamoto at Stage 33 Live

BELLOWS FALLS — Internationally acclaimed fingerstyle guitarist Hiroya Tsukamoto will perform in a 2:00 matinee on March 15, 2026. Tickets are $20 in advance through stage33live.com, or at the door as available. Only 40 tickets will be sold.

Hiroya is a one-of-a-kind musician and composer — an eclectic, immersive, and mesmerizing guitarist who takes audiences on an innovative, impressionistic journey filled with earthy, organic soundscapes rich in subtle detail. A dizzyingly agile fingerpicker who always chooses beauty over bombast, his transcendent performances combine instrumental guitar work with lyrical performance and spoken stories.

Born and raised in Kyoto, Japan, he received a scholarship to Berklee College of Music and came to the US. Since then he has been performing internationally including at the United Nations, the Blue Note in New York, and on Japanese National Television.

“Delicate, fluid, and beautifully detailed.” — Acoustic Guitar Magazine

Hiroya will be pleased to meet and greet with the audience after the performance. Stage 33 Live is located at 33 Bridge Street in Bellows Falls, Vermont. Only 40 tickets will be sold. Advance tickets guarantee admission. The performance will be recorded and filmed.

Hiroya will also provide an opportunity of special interest to fingerstyle players of all levels of ability and accomplishment — an informal masterclass beginning at 11:00 AM, preceding his matinee concert. See stage33live.com/2026/03/fingerstyle-class-with-hiroya/ for more information and registration.

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 info 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 happening, and institutional support this season from The Island Corporation, WOOL-FM, Guilford Sound, and the Rockingham Arts & Museum Project that helped 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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We’re sponsoring four classic movies at the Bellows Falls Opera House in 2026.

The dates that have been given to us are April 8, July 1, September 23, and December 30 — not sure which movies will play on which days, and the Opera House hasn’t made licensing inquiries yet so we’re not entirely certain which movies. But the top four picks are Searching for Sugar Man, A Mighty Wind, Inside Llewyn Davis, and The History of Future Folk. Alternates include The Devil and Daniel Johnston, Once, Bound for Glory, Coal Miner’s Daughter, and Music and Lyrics.

Co-conspirators with us so far include Dave & Sharon Pelland, Rick Holloway, Chrisman Kearn, Andrew Dey, Circuits in the Woods, WOOL-FM, angels who wanted anonymity, and Rockingham Entertainment Development.

There’s still time and space to join the gang making this happen — if you’d like to be a co-underwriter, donate $25 or more at stage33live.com/donate/ and note that it’s for the Classic Movie Sponsorship. All of it gets funneled to the town-owned Opera House to support their excellent mission of presenting first-run and classic films on a low low six-dollar ticket, plus top-notch live music and theater, and more. Each $25 gets you a comp ticket and a pat on the back… unless anonymity is requested, we’ll credit everyone who pitched in to make it happen here on the socials, on our website, in our newsletter, and in the theater before the showings.