Upcoming Events
June, 2022
Top Gun: Maverick (PG-13)
After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. When he finds himself training a detachment of Top Gun graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen, Maverick encounters Lt. Bradley Bradshaw (Miles Teller), call sign: “Rooster,” the son of Maverick’s late friend and Radar Intercept Officer Lt. Nick Bradshaw, aka “Goose”. Facing an uncertain future and confronting the ghosts of his past, Maverick is drawn into a confrontation with his own deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who will be chosen to fly it.
Find out more »The Babushkas of Chernobyl
30 years after the Chernobyl disaster, some 100 women fiercely cling to their ancestral homeland inside the radioactive “Exclusion Zone.” While most of their neighbors have long since fled and their husbands have gradually died off, this stubborn sisterhood is hanging on — even, oddly, thriving — while trying to cultivate an existence on toxic earth.
Find out more »July, 2022
Jurassic World: Dominion (PG-13)
This summer, experience the epic conclusion to the Jurassic era as two generations unite for the first time. Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard are joined by Oscar®-winner Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum and Sam Neill in Jurassic World Dominion, a bold, timely and breathtaking new adventure that spans the globe. From Jurassic World architect and director Colin Trevorrow, Dominion takes place four years after Isla Nublar has been destroyed. Dinosaurs now live--and hunt--alongside humans all over the world. This fragile balance will reshape the future and determine, once and for all, whether human beings are to remain the apex predators on a planet they now share with history's most fearsome creatures.
Find out more »Astral Projections Presents: They Live
Nada (Roddy Piper), a wanderer without meaning in his life, discovers a pair of sunglasses capable of showing the world the way it truly is. As he walks the streets of Los Angeles, Nada notices that both the media and the government are comprised of subliminal messages meant to keep the population subdued, and that most of the social elite are skull-faced aliens bent on world domination. With this shocking discovery, Nada fights to free humanity from the mind-controlling aliens.
Find out more »Albino Mbie – Music by the River
Albino Mbie is an award winning Musician, Guitarist, Singer, Composer, Sound and mixing engineer born in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, a country in southern Africa known for its rich musical and cultural heritage. Fueled by the resourcefulness and determination that have always characterized Mozambicans, he built his first guitar at 16 from a 5-liter can of oil, scrap wood, and strings made out of electrical cords.
Find out more »Talking Dreads – Music by the River
On “Life During Wartime,” the first single from Talking Heads’ 1979 album Fear of Music, David Byrne famously sang the immortal lyrics, “This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco…no time for dancing…” Yet all those anti-fun declarations go gleefully out the window when Mystic Bowie, aka the “Head Dread,” takes the stage, re-imagining and infusing fresh life into TH’s classic catalog with his high octane mix of roots reggae, ska and lover’s rock (aka “romantic reggae”)
Find out more »Ray Vega Band – Music by the River
A native of the South Bronx, Ray Vega is a veteran of the bands of Tito Puente, Ray Barretto, Mongo Santamaria, Mario Bauza, Luis "Perico" Ortiz, Hector LaVoe, Johnny Pacheco, Larry Harlow, Pete "El Conde" Rodriguez and Louie Ramirez to name a few.
Find out more »Mukana – Music by the River
Mukana (meaning “opportunity” in the Shona language of Zimbawe) is an eclectic gathering of world-class musicians hailing from Chile, Haiti, Zimbabwe, Brazil and USA. Fusing traditional songs and rhythms with jazz and sublime arrangements, Mukana creates music that compels you to your feet in a joyful celebration of our global community.
Find out more »August, 2022
Ali McGuirk – Music by the River
Ali McGuirk has made a career of captivating audiences with her powerful, buttery voice and heartfelt songwriting. Her earliest years as a performer were spent earning residencies across 4 continents, from Santorini to Hong Kong.
Find out more »Prydein – Music by the River
In an effort to take music in new directions, a group of college friends at the University of Vermont started "The Experimental Music Program." They had some fun, but the group produced lack-luster results until one day a bagpiper came into their midst. What strange beastly creation was this? There was no place to plug in an amp. The piper tuned it with... electrical tape? Could this have been what they were searching for? It was.
Find out more »Astral Projections Presents: Bonnie Prince Billy (with special guests Footings and Empath)
Astral Projections (Abracadabra and Beer Mountain presents Bonnie Prince Billy, with special guests Footings and Empath.
Join us for a unique collaboration featuring talented musicians, wonderful food, beverages and a special summer vibe. The event begins with an afternoon outdoor Beer Garden with DJ, featuring bevs from Upper Pass and food by Pizza Lupo.
Find out more »Central Vermont Chamber Encore Performance
Music for strings by Fanny Mendelssohn, Sibelius and Beethoven.
Find out more »Jay Nash – Music by the River
Jay Nash, East Coast native and rock troubadour, has been blessed with the kind of excruciatingly rustic voice so rarely heard on record. Coupled with that is his unnervingly candid approach to song-writing - the man is a burgeoning talent set for realisation with his latest studio release ‘The Things You Think You Need’. From the resplendent urgency of ‘Hard Lesson’ to the elegiac ‘Barcelona’, ‘The Things You Think You Need’ has the potential to surpass anything that’s gone before. The writing/recording process for this, his fourth studio album, saw Nash’s creative spark ignite like wild-fire as he wrestled with the concept of producing an album laden with variety and character.
Find out more »The Freese Brothers Big Band With Sabrina Brown – Music by the River
The men and women of the Freese Brothers Big Band are volunteers who live and work throughout Central and Southern New Hampshire. Band members come from diverse professional and musical backgrounds and include talented local high school students. They blend their years of experience to produce the distinctive sound of the Freese Brothers Big Band.
Find out more »September, 2022
Jack and John Snyder and The Slim Chickens Band – Music by the River
The band is fronted by Jack and John Snyder, of Snyder Donegan Real Estate Group. They have been playing music in the Woodstock area for more than 15 years and have played at the Zach’s Place Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving morning every year for the last 10 years. They both play guitar and sing in the band. Jack is a singer and multi-instrumentalist who grew up in the Woodstock area, attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, and completed his bachelor's degree in music from the University of Vermont. Jack also writes, records and performs music using the artist name, Leyeux. They are joined by Rory Laughran, who sings, plays drums and guitar. Rory met the Snyders when he was Jack's drum teacher in 2005. Leo Roy - from South Royalton - is the band’s lead guitarist who has played in bands with John for over 15 years. Jeffrey Stedman is the band’s bass player. He moved to Vermont from California several years ago and immediately immersed himself in the local live music scene.
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