Archive: Category: NEXT

Clever popster performing songwriters Justin Levinson and Marty Royle split the bill in a 3:00 matinee on August 30. Justin is bringing singer-songwriter / pianist Josh Glass with him. 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.

Justin Levinson & Josh Glass and Marty Royle at Stage 33 Live

BELLOWS FALLS — Justin Levinson is an award-winning, multi-talented singer, songwriter and musician with a penchant for lyrical whimsy, earworm melodies, British Invasion-loving songwriting, and erudite power-pop. His catalog of songs covers territory from power-pop to country to “feel-good heartbreak”, earning steady praise from audiences and critics.

His ode to small-town life, City With Two Streetlights on his debut record 1175 BOYLSTON, spent eight weeks on the top 25 CMJ charts. He’s won the Billboard Song Contest, the International Acoustic Music Awards Best New Male Artist, as well as a nomination for Sirius Song Writer Discovery of the Year.

Influenced by the greats of the ’60s, Justin draws elements from his favorite artists of that era — the Beatles, The Zombies, The Beach Boys. He’s drawn comparisons to Ben Folds.

He’ll be bringing singer-songwriter/pianist Josh Glass with him as a sideman… a formidable duo.

Marty Royle is perhaps best known as the lead singer of the popular longtime DC indie-rock stalwarts Washington Social Club, which made fun, witty power pop for more than two decades. MTV ran a feature on them back when MTV was a music channel, and Marty once somehow made Robert Smith of The Cure laugh. This will be a solo performance.

Clever popster performing songwriters Justin Levinson and Marty Royle split the bill in a 3:00 matinee on August 30. Singer-songwriter / pianist Josh Glass will perform with Justin. 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. More information 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.

# # #

Michael Hahn Trio and James Graham split the bill in a 3:00 matinee on September 13, 2026. Tickets are a generously discounted $10 in advance through stage33live.com, or $15 at the door as available. Advance tickets guarantee entry. Only 40 tickets will be sold. Read the press release.

Michael Hahn Trio and James Graham at Stage 33 Live

BELLOWS FALLS — Michael Hahn Trio and James Graham split the bill in a 3:00 matinee on September 13, 2026. Tickets are a generously discounted $10 in advance through stage33live.com, or $15 at the door as available. Advance tickets guarantee entry. Only 40 tickets will be sold.

Michael Hahn started playing in bars for money during the Summer of Love, 1967, at the age of 14. Over the decades he’s performed with acclaimed dance bands including Hornbeam, Don’t Call Betty, Hoochie Lombardo, Whetstone, and Ten Mile Shuffle Band.

Having hit 70 years old, he still performs every couple weeks with either his trio or his five-piece band. He’s bringing the trio for this show. Along with Michael, there’s Sid Gulick on guitar and vocal, and John Pheiffer on cello.

James Graham got started in the “anti-folk” scene that sprang up in the East Village of NYC around 1990 as a response to the West Village folk scene that no longer seemed relevant in a world ravaged by the politics of Reagan and Thatcher, and seemingly given up on racial justice.

In 2004 he moved to Lyme, New Hampshire, and resisted the pull of bluegrass and old-timey Americana that pervades the local music scene — staying true to his influences: rock, soul, reggae, and punk, music seeking to make sense out of the complicated human condition while creating sounds that move the spirit.

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.

# # #

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.

September 23: Inside Llewyn Davis (1h 45m). Highly acclaimed black comedy drama by Joel and Ethan Coen. Set in 1961, the film follows a week in the life of a folk singer struggling to achieve musical success while keeping his life in order. The story was partly inspired by Dave Van Ronk’s autobiography. Cast includes Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund, F. Murray Abraham, Justin Timberlake, and Adam Driver. Most of the folk songs performed in the film were recorded live. T Bone Burnett was the executive music producer.

The film premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prix. It was subsequently nominated for darn near everything.

“A brilliant magpie’s nest of surrealism, period detail, and pop-culture scholarship.” – The New York 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.

Alex Radus and Stu Fuchs split the bill in a 3:00 matinee on September 27, 2026. 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.

Alex Radus and Stu Fuchs at Stage 33 Live

BELLOWS FALLS — Although known as a versatile crooner and master guitarist, Alex Radus puts songwriting at center stage, pairing whimsical and poignant storytelling and soulful vocals across an eclectic, toe-tapping mix of Americana, folk, swing, and blues, leapfrogging genres and blurring the lines between them.

Hailing from Pennsylvania’s artistically rich Lehigh and Delaware river valley, where he has established himself as one of the area’s premiere original music artists with his thoughtfully crafted lyrics and storytelling that sticks. He is a frequent performer at the region’s best festivals and venues, including Musikfest, Zoellner Arts Center, Godfrey Daniels, Steelstacks, Hopewell Theater, World Cafe Live, and more.

During his early career, Alex was awarded a scholarship to the Augusta Heritage Center, where he was exposed to and learned from some of the nation’s best finger-pickers, who helped influence his unique finger style and respect for traditional music.

Radus has been direct support for John Gorka, Richie Havens, Jeffrey Gaines, Tim Reynolds, Darrell Scott, Chris Barron (Spin Doctors). He was a staple of NYC’s early aughts Anti-Folk scene at the Sidewalk Café, performing alongside Regina Spektor, Nellie McKay, the Moldy Peaches. More recently, he was selected as a 2024 Falcon Ridge Folk Fest Emerging Artist and voted a “Most Wanted” artist to return to the Main Stage in 2025.

“A a remarkable artist… excellent guitarist, songwriter and singer… moves across multiple genres with effortless virtuosity… worth going out of your way to hear.” — John Gorka

Stu Fuchs is an award winning musician and a teaching artist who empowers people of all backgrounds to express themselves creatively. A classically trained, improvisational multi-instrumentalist, Stu blends mindfulness and music, from bright and playful to relaxed and meditative. His concerts are like a combination of a summertime lawn bowling party, a mystical poetry reading in a Bedouin tent, a smoky jazz club, a nuanced recital hall concert, and heart-opening meditation class.

Stuart has performed his genre-bending ukulele instrumentals and soulful songs at concert halls and festivals across the USA and internationally. He founded and played lead guitar in the award winning quartet Babik, in which he arranged and performed the gypsy jazz music of Django Reinhardt with symphony orchestras. He was awarded a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts for his work bringing healing music to cancer patients; he was a professional artist in residence for eight years at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo NY.

In addition to being a ukulele minstrel, Stu has toured to three continents performing gypsy jazz guitar and meditative guitar styles with renowned sacred chant artist Snatam Kaur to audiences of 5,000 people. He recorded on her Grammy-nominated 2018 release Beloved.

“Respectfully pushes the Ukulele to brave new heights, while keeping one foot rooted in a number of time honored traditions.” — Lil’ Rev, Author of the Hal Leonard Ukulele Method, Entertainer & Music Historian

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.

# # #

An evening of exceptional performing songwriters, Rupert Wates with The Early Risers opening. 7:00 PM on Sunday, October 18, 2026 at Stage 33 Live, 33 Bridge Street in Bellows Falls, Vermont. Tickets are $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. Read the press release.

Rupert Wates plus The Early Risers at Stage 33 Live

BELLOWS FALLS — Stage 33 Live welcomes the return of Rupert Wates on Sunday, October 18, 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. The Early Risers will open.

Though British by birth, Wates has been hailed as “a prime figure in American music.” Since 2006, the London-born, Oxford-educated, award-winning songwriter has made his home between New York City and Colorado, performing throughout North America and Europe. He has released 12 acclaimed solo albums earning international airplay, and has received more than 50 songwriting awards. Dozens of recording artists have covered his songs on their albums.

While the doors to large venues and big festivals are open to him, he has a great fondness for intimate listening rooms where the focus is on connection and storytelling. He captivates audiences with his haunting, eclectic blend of acoustic, melodic art/folk infused with elements of jazz and cabaret.

The recognition that regular people are what make the world extraordinary is reflected in his vivid, sophisticated songwriting that by turns is vulnerable and bold, featuring intricate lyrics and memorable melodies, exceptional guitar skills, and his smooth, expressive voice.

Ashley Storrow and Putnam Smith joined forces as The Early Risers in 2015 and have since toured across the country, from Maine to Texas to California to Vancouver, BC at notable venues such as Club Passim, Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, and the High Plains Public Radio concert series. Rootsy and lyric-driven, The Early Risers feature close vocal harmonies and arrangements on an array of instruments. Their debut album Making Life Sweet went to #1 on the national Folk DJ Charts.

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.

# # #

Decatur Creek and Patty Keough split the bill in a 3:00 matinee on November 8, 2026. Tickets are a discounted $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.

Decatur Creek and Patty Keough at Stage 33 Live

BELLOWS FALLS — Decatur Creek and Patty Keough split the bill in a 3:00 matinee on November 8, 2026. Tickets are a discounted $15 in advance through stage33live.com, or $20 at the door as available. Advance tickets guarantee entry. Only 40 tickets will be sold.

Doug Farrell, Jack Henry, and Beth Eldridge — each a talented singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist — banded together to form Decatur Creek, blending their solo styles to create an original acoustic sound. Influences run from traditional and roots Americana to country and folk, with well-crafted songs, warm vocals with tight harmonies, and crisp musicianship that flows with rhythm, soul, and wit.

Patty Keough, after doing time in the corporate mines, tripped onto the stage and never looked back. She writes songs that get people crying… tears of laughter, or shared sorrow. She lives off-grid in Vermont with farmer friends, plenty of wine, and a whole lot of cats. She does animal rescue — mostly cats, as they’re 75% of the stray population — and she uses all her performance income, tips, and donations in her rescue activities.

“Patty shines in the lights. Check her out.” — Mary Gauthier

“Not only is Patty a talented songwriter and moving performer, she is also an organizer and community builder.” — WUMB Boston

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.

# # #

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.

December 30: A Mighty Wind (1h 32m). A mockumentary comedy broadly parodying the American folk music revival of the early 1960s… the Spinal Tap of folk music. Three folk bands reunite for a television performance for the first time in decades. Starring Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy alongside many of their frequent collaborators including Bob Balaban, John Michael Higgins, Jane Lynch, Michael McKean, Catherine O’Hara, Parker Posey, Ed Begley Jr., Jennifer Coolidge, Harry Shearer, and Fred Willard.

“Gently caricatures the folk music scene with dozens of delicate brush strokes, creating a picture that’s increasingly, gloriously funny.” – San Francisco Chronicle

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.