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By ALEX HANSON

At first look, “The Fierce Females Project,” a sharp, concentrated installation of portraits by the Sharon artist Finnie Trimpi that went on view Tuesday at Artistree Gallery in South Pomfret, reads like its exterior, a grid of small square frames painted a metallic gold.

By MARION UMPLEBY

At last Friday’s rehearsal, director Lanni Luce West asked her teenage cast to circle up on the Lebanon Opera House stage and share one thing that made them each unique.

By ALEX HANSON

John Masko has been involved in orchestral conducting in a variety of forms since graduating from San Francisco Conservatory in 2018.

By ALEX HANSON

Jackie Rocha’s longest job was a 14-year stint at the history center of The Statue of Liberty — Ellis Island Foundation.

By ALEX HANSON

Revels North, an arts nonprofit that celebrates and performs traditional music from around the world, has had a tough go since the coronavirus pandemic.

By ALEX HANSON

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — For the past couple of years, it seemed like the Main Street Museum had something going on several nights a week.Movie clubs screen offbeat films on weeknights. A slate of bands, both local and from around the region, might fill...

By ALEX HANSON

After building a music career in Portland, Ore., Hunter Paye moved back to the Upper Valley in 2018. His mother, Tish Paye, who had raised him on her own, needed his help.Paye had made regular trips back here to play shows. “I told her one time, ‘You...

By ALEX HANSON

Halloween is upon us, and in the Upper Valley that means that all eyes that aren’t watching over children in search of candy are on White River Junction.And for good reason. As Halloween enthusiasts have come to expect, this year’s Gory Daze events,...

By ALEX HANSON

Two years ago, Lisa Piccirillo was at an intermediate stage in a musical journey.She’d written a suite of songs during the pandemic, a process that had helped her work through some dark days and find a ray of light. She was ready to make a record and...

By ALEX HANSON

Thanksgiving has always seemed to me the greatest of our holidays. The idea of a harvest festival, where families or tribes gather to celebrate their agricultural labors with a generous feast, might be outdated in the era of factory farming, but the...

By ALEX HANSON

This space has already taken note of Lebanon Opera House’s 100th birthday, in part because it’s kind of a rolling celebration.The dedication of the building took place on Oct. 29, 1924, so it seems fitting that the opera house’s fall season is perhaps...

By ALEX HANSON

Sometimes there’s an obvious subject for this column, such as the three music festivals I wrote about last week.But sometimes there isn’t. Instead there are a bunch of art opportunities that run counter to the big event, which this weekend is the...

By ALEX HANSON

The music festival is a feature of the automobile age. Even before Woodstock, the massive 1969 concert in Upstate New York, the Newport (R.I.) Folk Festival dates only to a decade earlier and the Newport Jazz Festival to 1954. Cheap gas brings people...

By ALEX HANSON

When this summer’s Bookstock literary festival was canceled, organizers were already looking ahead to next year.So it comes as no surprise that the Upper Valley’s biggest literary event is back on the calendar for 2025. The festival is scheduled for...

By ALEX HANSON

Will Sheff had a cozy upbringing in Meriden. His parents were both teachers at Kimball Union Academy, the prep school at the heart of the village, and Sheff had the run of the campus, then was a student there.When he moved away, though, he struggled....

By ALEX HANSON

For its first three years, Lebanon Opera House’s Nexus Music and Arts Festival has specialized in bringing less-heralded acts to an Upper Valley audience.The thinking, as opera house Executive Director Joe Clifford has explained it in years past, is...

By ALEX HANSON

Five years ago this summer, Olivia Zerphy had just graduated from a theater school in Paris and was on her way back to her native Vermont, where she’d secured a residency for the Voloz Collective, the small theater company she and some fellow students...

By ALEX HANSON

As an eight-year resident of Corinth, and a frequent visitor to his wife’s family there prior to relocating, Brian Carroll knew of the photographer Suzanne Opton, a fellow resident.But it wasn’t until a mutual friend, Kerry DeWolfe, expressed an...

By ALEX HANSON

WOODSTOCK — Lela Jaacks’ interest in visual art dates to her years at Woodstock Union High School.After she graduated, in 1995, and before she headed off to Rhode Island School of Design, she helped Charlet Davenport with the myriad details involved...

By ALEX HANSON

For a long time, the primary venue for dance in these parts was Dartmouth College’s Hopkins Center.The college incubated Pilobolus, the celebrated, New England-based modern dance company, which itself produced spinoff companies that make regular stops...

By ALEX HANSON

A little over a year ago, Seth Kelly and Arlo Hastings, who were then sophomores at Lebanon High School, had written a play they were hoping to produce.Because it was a Christmas play and their plan was to produce it in June, and because they thought...