Laurel & Hardy Meet Santana

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Welcome to VermontMornings radio: Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin. You know it’s Gershwin, but his take is so original, so unexpected, so Brian Wilson, that you should listen and judge for yourself. It WORKS. Six albums from the ’80′s and ’90′s by Laurie Anderson.  She was one of the early adopters of computer technology when the [...]

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We joined lots of folks from all around North America at Parc Jean Drapeau in Montreal Saturday and Sunday for the Fifth Annual Osheaga Festival of Music & Arts.  Headliners included Arcade Fire, Weezer, Metric, Devo (!) and Keane, but we tended to look for something different…a new favorite singer or group to adopt.  Last [...]

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Music that’s been added to the mix this week: Sting‘s ‘Symphonicities.’ Sting hits, Police hits, your favorites, all backed by The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra. Some say the classical approach is a bit cloying, we say Sting’s too cool to ever be cloying. Eddie Harris‘ ‘That Is Why You’re Overweight.’ An early ’70′s album from [...]

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…and biggest ever Stars & Stripes Festival continues as of this posting (around 7:30 PM EDT Saturday) with the street dance.  Started by the Lyndon State College Foundation, the Lyndon Area Chamber of Commerce took over three years ago, and much like the chamber, the festival continues to grow and grow.  The parade began with [...]

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We found out about singer Brittany Williams from our old friend Anthony Rootham, International Man of Fun and former Food & Beverage Director up at Burke Mountain.  Brittany is from Denver, she sings and plays piano and she has a CD out called “Cursed With A Blessing.”  Anthony shipped us a copy of the album [...]

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The Vermont State Fiddle Championship shared space with the 40th annual Burklyn Arts & Crafts Fair at Bandstand Park in Lyndonville on Saturday, and with another day of nothing but sunshine and warm temperatures, it featured fiddlers from age seven to well over seventy.  They covered it all, but it really was all about the [...]

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Summer officially begins at 7:28 Monday morning EDT, but for the last couple of weeks, we’ve been enjoying The Long Days.  The dawn’s early bright suggests itself at about 3:45 AM and if you’re outside at 9:00 PM, you realize that the twilight has lasted longer and longer.  Look northward and the glow you see [...]

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Added in the past few weeks on VermontMornings.com: “New Amerykah Part 2″, the new album from Erykah Badu, the queen of Neo-Soul. “Love And It’s Opposite”, just released by Tracey Thorn.  Tracey was the voice of the huge English pop group Everything But The Girl, best known for their global 1994 hit ‘Missing.’  Her voice [...]

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