Highland Center for the Arts

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Highland Center for the Arts
Greensboro, VT
highlandartsvt.org 

THE DAVE KELLER BAND 
Saturday, APR 27 | 7PM; (Buffet Dinner Option, 5 - 7PM)

Dave Keller is an award-winning, triple-threat: an outstanding singer, an intense guitarist, and a talented songwriter. Fueled by his love of deep Southern soul and blues music, his performances ring out with passion, integrity, and an ability to break down the barriers between performer and audience. Dave will be backed by his road-tested band: Ira Friedman on keys, Jay Gleason on drums, and Alex Budney on bass.

PRYDEIN & THE CATAMOUNT PIPE BAND
Saturday, MAY 11 | 7PM; (Buffet Dinner Option, 5 - 7PM)

A line-up of two of Vermont's finest Celtic ensembles. The Catamount Pipe Band is Vermont's premier Scottish bagpipe band, an intergenerational organization dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Celtic music, tradition, and culture.  They have eight New England, and seven Northeastern Championships to their credit, and are four time finalists in the World Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow, Scotland. Whether you call it Celtic-rock, kilt-rock, bagpipe rock, Scottish-rock or even Sham-rock, Prydein delivers a high-energy performance loved by young and old. 

CARSIE BLANTON
Sunday, MAY 12 | 7PM (Buffet Dinner Option, 5 - 7PM)

Carsie Blanton is a songwriter with hooks, chutzpah, and revolutionary optimism. With her unique mix of humor, soul, and political wit, and fifteen-plus years on the road, Blanton has amassed a dedicated fan base and a small menagerie of viral hits. Her forthcoming album After the Revolution, produced by Grammy-winner Tyler Chester was released in March of 2024

TAKE A WORKSHOP WITH CARSIE!
The Politics and Economics of Making Music
Saturday, May 12 | 2PM

After fifteen+ years working as a performing songwriter, Carsie will share some practical advice for a career in music. We'll discuss:

How the music industry used to work, and how it works now.
What it means to be a working class artist in the age of the internet.
How to find your audience without a corporation pouring money on you.
How to develop your authentic artistic voice, and exploit the evil algorithms to amplify it.

THE VERMONT HIGHLAND GAMES
Saturday, June 15 | 10AM - 5PM

The Vermont Institute of Celtic Arts (VICA) is proud to present the Vermont Highland Games at the Highland Center for the Arts. Superb musical performances, Celtic cultural demonstrations and seminars will take place throughout the day. Come and see wonderful vendors selling Celtic goods, explore your heritage in the Clan tent village and learn the Gaelic language. We'll have bagpipes, Highland dancing, and much more

JOEP BEVING
Saturday, June 29 | 7PM
KCP Presents Performing Arts Series and Highland Center for the Arts are pleased to collaborate in the presentation of Dutch composer and pianist, Joep Beving, as part of his eight-city U.S. tour at the Highland Center for the Arts. Beving's U.S. tour consists of a special appearance at the Montreal Jazz Festival – and only six additional dates – in Chicago, Boston, Washington, Minneapolis, Toronto – and Greensboro.

Did you know that gravity bends light? Sleight of hand, optical illusion, music, mystery...will show you how.

In anticipation of the solar eclipse, When Light Bends pushes us to question our place in the universe and how that place may be in flux.

A play with music that riffs on the science of relativity with interludes of magic and illusion, When Light Bends tells the story of Albert Einstein's struggle to complete his General Theory of Relativity and Arthur Eddington's fight to confirm that theory by observing the positions of the stars during the 1919 solar eclipse. This collaboration between two scientists on opposite sides of World War I is paired with a celestial fable of two lovers searching for a closer connection to each other, as they rush to reach the path of totality during 2024's eclipse before it's too late. In both tales, our protagonists are forced to update their beliefs, and uncover hidden truths, in the face of the complex, the simple, and the sublime.

Created and commissioned by Media Art Xploration (MAX), the work will be developed in collaboration with Highland Center for the Arts and is supported by the Simons Foundation as part of its 'In the Path of Totality' initiative with additional support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Vermont Arts Council.

Join us Friday March 22 at 7 pm, Saturday March 23 at 7 pm, or Sunday March 24 at 2 pm. Tickets are $20 General Admission, $10 Students, $5 EBT. Please reserve your seat online at highlandartsvt.org

Meals will not be provided before the show but the bar will be open and will serve Snacks, Maple-Apple Crisp, beer, wine, cocktails, and non-alcoholic drinks.