Kate McGarrigle       1946 – 2010
I first heard Montreal’s The McGarrigle Sisters thirty-five years ago on Jonathan Schwartz’s show on WNEW-FM.  (And also on the Sunday Show on WNEW-AM.)  They entered the American mainstream when Garrison Keillor started featuring them regularly on Prairie Home Companion.  From there it was on to Letterman and SNL and when [...]

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Rusty DeWees is a mass of contradictions.  His main character (he has plenty) is The Logger and in addition to a bunch of TV shows and movie appearances, writing a book, doing a weekly radio gig in Burlington and talking to high school kids about lifestyle choices, he spends a lot of time traveling Vermont [...]

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Jennifer Hartswick left Sheffield, her hometown, eleven years ago.  She graduated from Lyndon Institute, headed to New York City, spent a couple of years at the Hartt School of Music at the University of Hartford and lives now in Chicago.
She plays trumpet, she sings, she mixes jazz, funk, soul and other genres and brings her [...]

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The Dark Clown Jingo just completed a one-night stand at Catamount Arts  in St. Johnsbury as part of the Belly Dance Circus. The crowd was standing room, the show was wicked, the After Party is still going on.  He sent us this note…
 I’m looking for a new rickshaw driver. Young Kyle is no longer in [...]

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Editor’s Note:  Jingo The Dark Clown skipped today’s rehearsal for the much anticipated premiere of the Belly Dance Circus on Sept 26 at Catamount Arts in St. Johnsbury.  Sources say he became enraged after watching Kanye West disrupt Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech at last night’s MTV Video Music Awards. We called him for a comment. [...]

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Pictures At A Festival:
(All pictures by Staff Photographer Alyssa Nichols)

It still shocks me how few people in the NEK show up to support good, live music.  The Third Annual Burke Mountain Music drew a few hundred people, each of whom spent a mere $20 to see FOUR bands.  Where was everyone else?  I have no [...]

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Go see this guy Saturday night at the  Caledonia County Fair.
Trust me on this one.  Really.
–Steve

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That’s what Osheaga means, and the first weekend of August, Montreal hosted the 4th Annual Osheaga Festival Musique Et Arts at Parc Jean-Drapeau.
We headed up Saturday, by far the nicest day of the summer so far, had lunch at Maison Kam Fung and then parked near the Metro station in Longueil, hoping to avoid the [...]

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Chris Johansen is one of those people that gets things done, and due in great part to his efforts, Aquafest in Newport is revitalized and BIG.  There are a ton of events, live music, Civil War re-enactments, great food and of course, the famous Bed Race on Sunday morning on Main Street in Downtown Newport.
Chris [...]

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The Vermont Children’s Theatre has offered a practical introduction to theatre to children in the Northeast Kingdom for decades.
This weekend and next, kids from around the area will present ‘The Wiz.’  On Thursday morning, director Sara Romero stopped by the studio with five budding actors.
Vermont Children\’s Theatre \”The Wiz\”
Performances are this Thursday thru [...]

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