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Tracy Grammer & Jim Henry will perform together with Carling Berkhout opening on Saturday, April 11, 2026, in a 3:00 matinee show at Stage 33 Live in Bellows Falls, Vermont. Tickets are a discounted $20 in advance through stage33live.com, or $25 at the door (cash or check, no cards) as available. Only 40 tickets will be sold. 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. Advance tickets guarantee entry. Read the press release.

Tracy Grammer & Jim Henry with Carling Berkhout at Stage 33 Live

BELLOWS FALLS — Tracy Grammer & Jim Henry are an exquisite pairing. Impeccable musicianship, perfect harmonies, and all the chemistry and banter you’d expect from musicians who have been touring and playing around the world together for over 20 years.

They will perform on Saturday, April 11, 2026, in a 3:00 matinee show at Stage 33 Live in Bellows Falls, Vermont. Carling Berkhout will open. Tickets are a discounted $20 in advance through stage33live.com, or $25 at the door (cash or check, no cards) as available. Only 40 tickets will be sold. 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. Advance tickets guarantee entry.

Tracy Grammer, called “one of the finest pure musicians in folkdom” by the Boston Globe, is among contemporary folk music’s most beloved artists, renowned for her pure voice, deft guitar and violin work, and incantatory storytelling. She has recorded and performed with Joan Baez, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Eliza Gilkyson, and many more; headlined top festivals including Philadelphia Folk and Falcon Ridge, where she holds the record for the most consecutive appearances; and has been one of folk radio’s top-played artists for years, both solo and with the late Dave Carter, with whom she performed and recorded from 1996 until his fatal heart attack mid-tour in 2002.

Henry is an accomplished singer, songwriter, producer, and one of folk and Americana’s go-to multi-instrumentalists. He was recently on the road for three years with Grammy-winner Mary Chapin Carpenter. His arsenal includes acoustic and electric guitars, Dobro, and mandolin, and his trademark ambient textures and sparkling solos can be heard on literally hundreds of songwriter albums.

Carling Berkhout will open. Her dad has roots as a folkie songster, and her mom as a symphonic cellist. When she was a child, she played Beatles songs backward in her friend’s rabbit-themed bedroom that the two believed was haunted. She continues to both unravel and glue together her life’s complicated musical threads in a sonic world that exists somewhere between bedroom rock and the dynamic balance of a David Rawlings & Gillian Welch record.

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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Los Lorcas celebrates the release of their new album, and Austin-based Irish growler Pat Byrne shares the bill at Stage 33 Live in Bellows Falls, Vermont, on April 26, 2026 in a 3:00 matinee. Tickets are $20 in advance through stage33live.com, or at the door (cash or check, no cards) as available. Advance tickets guarantee entry. Only 40 tickets will be sold. Read the press release.

Los Lorcas and Pat Byrne at Stage 33 Live

BELLOWS FALLS — Los Lorcas and Pat Byrne share the bill at Stage 33 Live in Bellows Falls, Vermont, on April 26, 2026 in a 3:00 matinee. Tickets are $20 in advance through stage33live.com, or at the door (cash or check, no cards) as available. Advance tickets guarantee entry. Only 40 tickets will be sold. Advance sales will close at midnight the day before the show, or when 40 tickets are sold.

Los Lorcas celebrates the release of their new album, Wild Island, with a concert blurring the boundaries between spoken word and song, weaving poetry with Andalusian ballads, blues, rock, folk, reggae, hip hop, Americana, and jazz in pursuit of the cante jondo (“deep song”). Their timely and soulful compositions weave themes of love, loss, homelessness, empathy, activism, and gratitude through a filter of the American dream.

In the spirit of Federico Garcia Lorca — gifted musician, legendary poet/playwright, and ebullient performer — poets Partridge Boswell and Peter Money, along with guitarist Nat Williams, fuse poetry and music in a passionate and surprising mash-up.

Troubadouring widely in the US, Ireland, Canada, and Slovenia, Los Lorcas have performed everywhere from farmhouse kitchens to pubs, coffeehouses, schools, theaters, and festival crowds.

“An Orphic voice… absolutely gorgeous.” — Chard deNiord, Vermont Poet Laureate

“Inspiring the quietest observer to reach for each word as if they were Federico Lorca himself, meditating on song and poetry mid-stage, arms outstretched.” — Bianca Viñas

Pat Byrne shares the bill. He migrated from County Carlow to Austin, Texas to take the US by storm, with breakout performances at the 30A Festival, SXSW, Kerrville Folk Festival, and the Americana Festival. Immersed and highly respected in the Texas music scene, he melds two musical cultures known for introspective lyricism and raw, from-the-heart emotion with a voice that ranges from seductive whisper to full-bodied rock ‘n’ roll growl.

“Irish Americana, by turns rollicking and resonating, driven by his gruff growl of a voice — he’s one to keep an eye on.” — The Boston Globe

“Byrne traffics in the kind of earnest roots rock championed by artists like Shakey Graves.” — Tom Thornton, Riff Magazine

“The raspy melodic soul of Byrne’s voice recalls the emotional spells the late Austin troubadour Jimmy LaFave used to cast, though Byrne’s songwriting bears a distinctive Irish stamp. He’s more contemporary than strict traditionalists, putting him more in the league of Glen Hansard or Luka Bloom.” — Peter Blackstock, The Austin American Statesman

“When you combine the transcendent poetry of Bob Dylan with the gritty, real-world rock-n-roll storytelling Bruce Springsteen made so famous, and add a dash of the political activism embodied by Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, you’ll have Irish singer-songwriter Pat Byrne.” — Folk Alley at 30A Songwriters Festival

 
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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Stage 33 Live, along with Dave & Sharon Pelland, Rick Holloway, Chrisman Kearn, Andrew Dey, Circuits in the Woods, WOOL-FM, anonymous angels, and Rockingham Entertainment Development are sponsoring four classic movies at the Bellows Falls Opera House this year. Tickets are $6 in advance through bellowsfallsoperahouse.com or at the Opera House box office on show day.

April 29: Searching for Sugar Man (1h 26m). A captivating, critically acclaimed rockumentary. Decades after Detroit singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez disappeared following the commercial failure of his albums in the early ’70s, two obsessed Cape Town fans try to track down their idol. Though he faded into obscurity in the U.S., Rodriguez had become a huge hit in South Africa.

Searching for Sugar Man won the Special Jury Prize and the Audience Award for best international documentary at the Sundance Film Festival. It subsequently won the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary at the British Academy Film Awards, and the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The International Documentary Association awarded it Best Feature and Best Music. The Directors Guild of America, Writers Guild of America, Producers Guild of America, American Cinema Editors, National Board of Review, and Critics’ Choice all awarded it awarded it Best Documentary.

The Bellows Falls Opera House presents a classic film every Wednesday at 7:00 PM, with sponsorship help from area individuals and businesses. Tickets are $6 in advance from bellowsfallsoperahouse.com or at the door.

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.

Kray Van Kirk with John Fealy at Stage 33 Live

BELLOWS FALLS — A fine fingerstyle guitarist with a precise baritone roaming from Alaska, Kray Van Kirk set his Ph.D. in fisheries population dynamics modeling aside to write songs, tell stories, and summon heroes. Van Kirk is not the average crying-in-your-coffee singer-songwriter… he’s a charming, Quixotic, and decidedly eclectic character.

“We are driven by myth and the seasons of the heart,” he says, “and the stories are all true. The quest is to journey inside, find what burns at the core of your soul, and bring it back into the light. Everyone gets to be the hero. Nobody is left behind.”

His song 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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We’re running a short series of add-on shows this summer where we turn over the room to local heroes and let them do what they will.

This show is Ezra Holloway’s, born and bred just around the corner in Saxtons River, Vermont.

We’ll let you know what he’s chosen when he lets us know.

A two-for-one 3:00 matinee with Carl Goulet and Sandiland & Vincent on Sunday, June 28, 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. This show was rescheduled from its original January date, which was postponed due to a blizzard. 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, June 28, 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. This show was rescheduled from its original January date, which was postponed due to a blizzard.

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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Stage 33 Live, along with Dave & Sharon Pelland, Rick Holloway, Chrisman Kearn, Andrew Dey, Circuits in the Woods, WOOL-FM, anonymous angels, and Rockingham Entertainment Development are sponsoring four classic movies at the Bellows Falls Opera House this year. Tickets are $6 in advance through bellowsfallsoperahouse.com or at the Opera House box office on show day.

July 1: The History of Future Folk (1h 28m). A comet threatens to destroy their planet, so the citizens of Hondo enlist their most decorated soldier to search for a new home. Landing near Brooklyn, he wanders into a megastore to unleash terror and is enchanted by a human invention called “music.” He abandons his mission, assumes the name Bill, and launches a bluegrass act. The Hondonians send an assassin to get the mission back on track. Subduing Kevin is no challenge for the great General Trius… they join forces to save Hondo, prevent an intergalactic takeover of Earth, and hopefully get some bigger gigs for the universe’s first Hondonian bluegrass duo.

“A delightful sci-fi adventure that simultaneously strips the genre down to its low-tech basics and infuses it with audacious new verve.” – Washington Post

“Ultra-low-budget sci-fi comedy delivers intergalactic laughs with down-to-earth warmth.” – Los Angeles Times

The Bellows Falls Opera House presents a classic film every Wednesday at 7:00 PM, with sponsorship help from area individuals and businesses. Tickets are $6 in advance from bellowsfallsoperahouse.com or at the door.

We’re running a short series of add-on shows this summer where we turn over the room to local heroes and let them do what they will.

This show is Jan and Mike Sheehy’s, better known by many as The Milkhouse Heaters, who live and breathe right here in Rockingham.

They’ve asked Phil Henry to join them on the bill.

We’ll let you know more when we do.

We’re running a short series of add-on shows this summer where we turn over the room to local heroes and let them do what they will.

This show is Olivia Nied’s, born and bred right in Chester, Vermont.

We’ll let you know what she’s chosen when she lets us know.