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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 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 improvisational collective Sunburned Hand of the Man, incorporating elements ranging from free jazz and rock to drone and punk, will play Stage 33 Live at 33 Bridge Street in Bellows Falls, Vermont, 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. Their improvisations incorporate 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 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 article ‘New Weird America’ in British music magazine The Wire.

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.

Daisy Frederick will provide old-school psychedelic interactive liquid light projections.

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. Stage 33 Live is located at 33 Bridge Street in Bellows Falls, Vermont.

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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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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