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Folksinger and finger-style guitarist Pat Daddona celebrates her new crowd-funded album “Roads” with help from Jay Osborn, Melissa D. Moorhouse, Suzanne Waldren, and Johnny O at Stage 33 Live, 33 Bridge Street in Bellows Falls VT on Sunday, June 18, 2023, at 3:00 PM. Tickets are $15. Limited seating; the event will be recorded and filmed. Read the press release.

ADVANCE TICKETS DOUBLE AS CHAIR RESERVATIONS. ONLY 20 TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC FOR THIS SHOW! The rest are reserved for project backers.

Entry + Chair $15.70 USDPlus a tip $20.75 USD

•   Tickets for this performance are $15 in advance or at the door. All proceeds go to the performers.
•   An advance ticket guarantees that you’ll get in if it sells out, and reserves you a chair. The transaction fee is rolled into the ticket price so the performer gets the full amount.
•   You can change the number of tickets after you click through to the next page.
•   A Paypal account is not required. There will be a link to proceed without one, but they make it small and tricksy.
•   Tickets at the door for this show will be $15. Any chairs still available on show day are first-come first-served for walk-ups.
•   If our 40 chairs all get reserved, advance ticket sales will automatically close.
•   Advance ticket sales will shut down at midnight the day before the show if it hasn’t sold out. Any remaining chairs are first come first served.
•   After completing, a “success” page should pop up and you should get an email from Paypal.
•   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.
•   Questions? Drop us a line at stage33@stage33live.com or text/voicemail 802-289-0148. (Text is better.)

Pat Daddona Album Release Concert with Jay Osborn, Melissa D. Moorhouse, Suzanne Waldren, and Johnny O at Stage 33 Live

BELLOWS FALLS — Folksinger and finger-style guitarist Pat Daddona is promoting her new crowd-funded digital album “Roads” with a special matinee show at Stage 33 Live in Bellows Falls, Vermont, on June 18 at 3:00. The album releases on BandCamp and all streaming platforms June 4.

Pat, a social worker by day and late-blooming songwriter the rest of the time, writes songs that celebrate human connection, confront loss, and energize the heart and mind. Her influences include Janis Ian, Cat Stevens, Gordon Lightfoot, and Tracy Chapman. “Roads” was crowdfunded on Kickstarter by her fans, and a dynamic team of New England-based musicians and sound engineers performed on and produced it.

Pat will be accompanied for this performance by drummer Jay Osborn, and backing vocalists Melissa D. Moorhouse and Suzanne Waldren, who performed on the album. The concert will have opening sets from Johnny O and Melissa D. Also featured on the album are Luke Selden of Massachusetts on banjo, and Dana Takaki of Connecticut on violin. It was primarily recorded at John Sawyer’s Vermont Recording Studios in Chester, with additional recording by Hugh Birdsall in Connecticut and Brownsville, Vermont’s Josh Hall, who also mixed and mastered the album.

According to Stage 33 Live, “It’s such an honor to be asked to host an album release show. This June 18 concert also happens to be Father’s Day, so people can bring their dads! And the always-fun Bellows Falls Alumni Parade rolls through town after lunch — people can bring their dads to a parade before the show! Plus this concert is part of the month-long Bellows Falls Pride 2023 celebration.”

On Sunday, June 18, 2023, at 3:00 PM, at Stage 33 Live, 33 Bridge Street in Bellows Falls VT, Pat Daddona will perform accompanied by Jay Osborn, Melissa D. Moorhouse, and Suzanne Waldren, with opening sets from Johnny O and Melissa D. Tickets for this special show are $15 in advance or at the door — advance tickets double as chair reservations. Much of the seating is reserved for backers of the album project, so there are only 20 tickets available to the general public. June 18 is also Father’s Day, and traffic through downtown Bellows Falls will be closed from sometime after noon until sometime around 2:00 for the Alumni Day parade. Limited seating; the event will be recorded and filmed. All proceeds benefit the musicians.

The COVID-19 protocol will be the guidelines in effect in the community on show day; currently the guidance is that masks are optional, which may change without notice. Please don’t attend if you’re not well. A pair of high-capacity air purifiers will be running.

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 a variety of snacks are 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, the Vermont Arts Council, the Bellows Falls Opera House, the Rockingham Arts & Museum Project, and WOOL-FM 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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Lou Antonucci will perform one of the first public run-throughs of his newly developed authorized tribute to the story-songs of Harry Chapin on Sunday, August 6, 2023 in a 3:00 PM matinee at Stage 33 Live, 33 Bridge Street in Bellows Falls VT. Tickets are $5 in advance through stage33live.com, or $10 at the door — or free with a minimum donation of either five non-perishable food items, three personal-care items, or $10 cash donation for Our Place Drop-In Center. Limited seating; the event will be recorded and filmed. Read the press release.

TICKETS WILL BE ON SALE SOON

Lou Antonucci — You, Me, and Harry (a tribute to Harry Chapin) at Stage 33 Live

BELLOWS FALLS — A significant departure from Stage 33 Live’s strict “No Covers” rule, Lou Antonucci will perform You, Me, and Harry, his newly developed tribute to the story-songs of Harry Chapin — Cat’s in the Cradle, Taxi, Story of a Life, W.O.L.D., A Better Place to Be, and many more — on Sunday, August 6, 2023 in a 3:00 PM matinee at Stage 33 Live, 33 Bridge Street in Bellows Falls VT. There will be limited seating for this show, and the event will be recorded and filmed.

Lou created the program with the authorization of Harry Chapin Music, and he personally acquired the performance rights licensing. This will be one of the first public run-throughs, and may be the only opportunity to be so intimately up-close for it. Advance-sale tickets are a steeply discounted $5 through stage33live.com. Tickets will be $10 at the door.

Alternately, admission will be free by donating five non-perishable food items, or three personal-care items, or $10 cash for Our Place Drop-In Center at the door on show day. Harry Chapin held a fundamental belief that access to nutritious food is a human right and that hunger is a solvable problem in a world of abundance. To that end, he co-founded the global nonprofit WhyHunger in 1975 to support social movements and grassroots innovations to change the systems, policies, and institutions that perpetuate hunger and poverty in the world.

Lou loves Harry’s music and spirit. In response to his original song A Message From Harry, Vincent J. Kelly — staff writer at Stallman Records, songwriter & author (Northern Oz, Beyond the Yellow Brick Road) — said, “I wrote with Harry Chapin the last two years of his life and you did an excellent, and I mean superb, job of making Harry proud. Harry would have loved sitting and talking lyrics with you back in those days now so many years ago. I most of all loved how you weaved the lyrics and the music so that it had that feel of a Harry Chapin song. Good job my friend, good job.”

Masks continue to be optional but welcome at Stage 33 Live events. If community guidelines change, so will the venue’s protocol. A pair of high-capacity air purifiers will be running during shows. The common courtesy of not going out and being a vector if you’re not well has always been a good idea, even before Covid-19.

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 a variety of snacks are 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, the Vermont Arts Council, the Bellows Falls Opera House, the Rockingham Arts & Museum Project, and WOOL-FM 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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Multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Olivia Nied and musician-poet-performer Doctora Xingona Diana Alvarez will co-headline Stage 33 Live, 33 Bridge Street in Bellows Falls VT on Sunday, August 27, 2023, at 3:00 PM. Tickets are $10 in advance or $15 at the door. Limited seating; the event will be recorded and filmed. Read the press release.

Diana Alvarez and Olivia Nied to Co-Headline Stage 33 Live

BELLOWS FALLS — Multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Olivia Nied has been performing since she was nine years old as a soloist, ensemble leader, and side person in styles ranging from edgy pop to jazz fusion to hip hop and straight up rock and roll. Her solo performances often utilize looping and multiple instruments. As a Transgender/Queer musician, Olivia often incorporates LGBTQ+ lyrical themes in her work and believes in creating safe spaces at her shows for gender diverse individuals. She was awarded a merit scholarship to Berklee College of Music’s Summer Jazz Program, where she received honors. She has also studied at the Vermont Jazz Center, and studied music and film at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA, graduating with a BA in 2020. While at Hampshire College, Olivia studied music at Goldsmiths University in London and filmmaking in Paris.

Doctora Xingona Diana Alvarez‘s ancestors bloom in her/their voice, roaring an otherworldly fire against oppression, exalting queer love and liberation, and creating a gripping atmosphere for healing in poetic songs that live in-between, where borders are a myth. An expansive multimedia artist and educator, Doctora Xingona’s music, poetry, performances, films, and gatherings center transcendence, kinship, and the co-liberation and nourishment of queer and trans artists of color. Doctora Xingona is the composer and filmmaker behind the award-winning Quiero Volver: A Xicanx Ritual Opera, a multimedia performance altar for queer and trans BIPOC artists to convene and manifest futures, described in the press as an “acoustically stunning performance.” Doctora Xingona’s new album, Ser Artista, is a roaring, genderqueer, extraterrestrial, Xicanx collection. Dr. Alvarez earned her PhD in Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, mentored by groundbreaking composer Pauline Oliveros, and is an invited performer, guest lecturer, workshop facilitator, and keynote speaker at venues and schools across the US and worldwide.

Diana Alvarez and Olivia Nied will co-headline Stage 33 Live, 33 Bridge Street in Bellows Falls VT on Sunday, August 27, 2023, in a 3:00 PM matinee. Tickets for this special co-bill are $10 in advance through stage33live.com or $15 at the door. Limited seating; the event will be recorded and filmed.

The COVID-19 protocol will be the guidelines in effect in the community on show day; currently the guidance is that masks are optional, which may change without notice. Please do not attend if experiencing any respiratory virus symptoms. A pair of high-capacity air purifiers will be running.

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 a variety of snacks are 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, the Vermont Arts Council, the Bellows Falls Opera House, the Rockingham Arts & Museum Project, and WOOL-FM 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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www.olivianied.com
www.diana-alvarez.com

Robert Kuhn was born in Houston, Texas, then bounced around from New York to Pennsylvania, Australia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua for a dozen years before coming back home and settling in Galveston. In his life he’s been everything from an Academic All-American Line Backer to a vagabond fisherman farmer writing critically acclaimed songs. Broken hearts, broken backs, failed marriages, violence, riches, drugs, labor, poverty, music, poetry, dirt, and salt.

Back in Houston, Robert formed a band with like-minded surf rock n’ rollers, reggae ragamuffins, and extraterrestrial ancient bluesman Little Joe Washington and recorded the album “Everybody Knows” – it was Little Joe’s last studio work, and recognized by the press as one of Houston’s Top Releases of 2014.

His latest album, PERSEVERE, is psychedelic folk rock n’roll produced after his last tour was cut short by a nearly fatal van wreck in Colorado.

Jaded Ravins members Kelly Ravin and Halle Jade began performing together in 2017 after Halle joined Kelly in the recording of his fifth highly acclaimed album, “Engine”.

Ravin, former lead singer and guitarist of Waylon Speed, now performs soulful americana and country rock originals with Halle Jade. Halle’s tasty harmonies and Kelly’s powerful voice along with their engaging stage presence make them a dynamic and expressive duo.

Kelly and Halle, who have been called a modern day Johnny and June, perform in large and small venues from New England to Nashville. Whether they’re playing at home in backcountry bars, or in big city clubs, Jaded Ravins always pour their hearts out.

www.robertkuhnmusic.com
www.jadedravinsmusic.com

John Elliott is a singer/songcyclist equally inspired by Bruce Springsteen and Eminem, Bob Dylan and Guns N’ Roses, Tom Petty and Queen. Born and raised in the suburban plains of Minnesota, he started guitar lessons at the mall when he was seven and wrote his first song when he was fifteen – music lifted directly from Aerosmith’s “Dream On” with original lyrics about nuclear war. John’s lyrics have always had a social conscience and a dark aspect.

He moved to New York after school for real world graduate school. Brooklyn was eye-opening but he decided his path was elsewhere and landed in Los Angeles in a basement room beneath the Hollywood sign with a water heater that flooded twice a year.

Anaïs Mitchell invited him to play the role of Hades in the California tour of Hadestown. He moved to The Bay Area. He bought a $150 used bicycle on Craig’s List and became a singer/songcyclist. He has performed in every state in the union except for Hawaii. John had big plans for 2020… instead, he played shows in the corner of his apartment in front of his computer.

John has performed as John August, John Dease, John Arthur, John Flynn, John Wyatt, and more, finally settling on John Elliott because his dementia-suffering grandmother saw E.T. with him when he was a boy and got him confused with the kid from the movie. Two Ls and two Ts.

He’s been around long enough to have music industry people tell him that what mattered most was MySpace plays. Then it was getting 3,000 likes on your Facebook music page. Then it was Spotify plays. He’s been likened to artists from Paul Simon to Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard, and called “the Andy Kaufman of folk music.” His songs have been prominently heard on Grey’s Anatomy, One Tree Hill, and Californication. He’s been featured in PASTE Magazine and NPR.

And now he’s playing Stage 33 Live.

Futhermore, he’s playing with Dylan Patrick Ward, folk misfit for our absurd times – equal parts compassionate and irreverent, his songs use catchy melodies and blunt, storytelling lyricism to weave tales of outcasts, loveable losers, and people on the brink. His empathy and candor have drawn comparisons to the Mountain Goats, John Prine, and Randy Newman. A songwriter’s songwriter, he’s shared the stage with acts like Peter Mulvey, The End of America, Jeffery Lewis, and Cloudbelly.

www.thehereafterishere.com
www.dylanpatrickward.com

Friction Farm and Eric Phelps will co-headline Stage 33 Live, 33 Bridge Street in Bellows Falls VT on Sunday, October 29 7, 2023, at 3:00 PM. With help from the Vermont Arts Council, tickets are discounted to $10 in advance through stage33live.com or $15 at the door. Limited seating; the event will be recorded and filmed. Read the press release.

ADVANCE TICKETS DOUBLE AS CHAIR RESERVATIONS.

Entry + Chair $10.70 USDPlus a Tip $15.80 USD

•   Tickets for this performance are $10 each in advance, or $15 at the door. All proceeds go to the performer.
•   An advance ticket guarantees that you’ll get in if it sells out, and reserves you a chair. The transaction fee is rolled into the ticket price so the performer gets the full amount.
•   You can change the number of tickets after you click through to the next page.
•   A Paypal account is not required. There will be a link to proceed without one, but they make it small and tricksy.
•   Tickets at the door for this show will be $15. Chairs up front are saved (but not assigned) for advance ticket holders; any chairs still available on show day are first-come first-served for walk-ups.
•   If our 40 chairs all get reserved, advance ticket sales will automatically close.
•   Advance ticket sales will shut down at midnight the day before the show if it hasn’t sold out. Any remaining chairs are first come first served.
•   After completing, a “success” page should pop up and you should get an email from Paypal.
•   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.
•   Questions? Drop us a line at stage33@stage33live.com or text/voicemail 802-289-0148. (Text is better.)

Friction Farm and Eric Phelps co-headline Stage 33 Live

BELLOWS FALLS — Eric Phelps is a singer-songwriter from Western Massachusetts who has been making music for more than 35 years, playing throughout the USA, and with performances in the UK and Mexico. His most recent album, “Let It Rain,” features Joe Fitzpatrick (Gaslight Tinkers), Paul Kochanski (Lori McKenna, Stompbox Trio), Seth Glier, and longtime Signature Sounds artist Rani Arbo, and more.

Modern-folk duo Friction Farm is a husband and wife team of internationally traveling troubadours based in South Carolina. Aidan Quinn and Christine Stay combine storytelling, social commentary, and humor to create songs of everyday life, local heroes, and quirky observations filled with harmony and hope. Their lyrically rich, harmony-driven songs have earned them spots as Kerrville New Folk Finalists and Falcon Ridge Emerging Artists. They’re winners of the South Florida Folk Festival songwriter competition, and have performed as official showcase artists at Regional Folk Alliance Conferences. He’s originally from Berkeley CA, and she came from Woodstock NY. Once upon a time they had the sort of careers their parents could brag about.

With help from the Vermont Arts Council, tickets are discounted to $10 in advance through stage33live.com or $15 at the door. Stage 33 Live, 33 Bridge Street in Bellows Falls VT on Sunday, October 29, 2023, at 3:00 PM. Limited seating; the event will be recorded and filmed.

The COVID-19 protocol will be the guidelines in effect in the community on show day; currently the guidance is that masks are optional, which may change without notice. Please do not attend if experiencing respiratory virus symptoms. A pair of high-capacity air purifiers will be running.

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, the Vermont Arts Council, the Bellows Falls Opera House, the Rockingham Arts & Museum Project, and WOOL-FM 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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Castlebay weaves the history, legend, and experience of New England and the Celtic lands in story and song in a 3:00 PM matinee on December 3. Tickets are $10 in advance through stage33live.com or $12 at the door. Read the press release.

Castlebay at Stage 33 Live

BELLOWS FALLS — Castlebay weaves the heritage of New England and the Celtic lands in story and song, blending history, legend, and experience into engaging performances featuring Celtic harp, 12-string guitar, fiddle, tin whistle, strings, and woodwinds. The duo of Julia Lane and Fred Gosbee play poignant ballads interspersed with joyous dance tunes, Lane’s ethereal soprano and Gosbee’s rich baritone giving life to the evocative imagery, beautiful melodies, and salty humor of the history and characters of life close to the elemental beauty of the sea and shore.

Castlebay has released over three dozen albums and has toured the United States, Ireland, England, and Scotland, including five appearances at International Festivals of the Sea in the UK. Julia Lane is a past winner of the International Folk Harp Competition. Fred Gosbee is a musical instrument maker whose family worked as lumbermen in the forests of New Brunswick and Maine. They have loved, researched, and performed traditional music for most of their lives, and their original compositions — being heralded, sung, and recorded by other artists — will surely become part of that canon.

This is a 3:00 PM matinee on December 3 at Stage 33 Live, 33 Bridge Street in Bellows Falls, Vermont. Tickets are $10 in advance through stage33live.com or $12 at the door. Seating is limited. All performances are recorded and filmed.

The COVID-19 protocol will be the guidelines in effect in the community on show day. Currently the guidance is that masks are optional, which may change without notice. Please do not attend if you are experiencing any respiratory virus symptoms.

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, the Vermont Arts Council, the Bellows Falls Opera House, the Rockingham Arts & Museum Project, and WOOL-FM 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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