
December occasions combine vacation traditions, NYE

December is such a good time to see arts and leisure occasions. There are many vacation occasions to select from, starting from suave lighting shows to performs to concert events all evoking one of the best of the winter season.
It’s additionally prime time to catch exhibits that aren’t particularly holiday-related. January and February are usually essentially the most fallow time of the 12 months within the leisure world, particularly amongst touring musicians who sometimes take a little bit of a break earlier than ramping up concert events as spring attracts nearer. Which means chances are you’ll not have this deep a roster of arts and leisure occasions to select from for some time.
So seize the day — or the complete month, for that matter — and see 2022 out on essentially the most entertaining word attainable.
‘Straight White Males’ at UVM
7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 1-Saturday, Dec. 3, 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 4, College of Vermont Theatre and Dance continues its run of Younger Jean Lee’s identity-and-Christmas-themed play “Straight White Males,” Royall Tyler Theatre, UVM, Burlington. $10-$22. https://www.uvm.edu/cas/theatreanddance
Shelburne exhibits mini-art
By Dec. 31, a present of small works by artists Anne Cady, Charlotte Dworshak, Maria Flores Gallindo, Edward Holland, Julia Jensen and Hannah Periods, introduced by Northern Daughters beginning Nov. 6, stays on show at Village Wine and Espresso, Shelburne. Free. www.northerndaughters.com/annex.
Winter Lights shine once more
Thursday, Dec. 1 by means of Sunday, Jan. 1, the second season of “Winter Lights” started the day after Thanksgiving and can maintain shining on buildings on the Shelburne Museum by means of New Yr’s Day. $10-$15; free for kids beneath 3; $70-$85 for “Ice Bar at Winter Lights” adults-only occasion from 5:30-10 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 8. www.shelburnemuseum.org
Northern Stage phases ‘The Railway Youngsters’
By Sunday, Jan. 1, the world-premiere stage adaptation of Edith Nesbit’s British kids’s novel “The Railway Youngsters” opened Nov. 22 and retains chugging into the brand new 12 months, Northern Stage, Byrne Theater, Barrette Middle for the Arts, White River Junction. $19-$69. www.northernstage.org
‘The Moors’ in Middlebury
7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 1-Saturday, Dec. 3, Middlebury Faculty Theatre presents the England-set Jen Silverman comedy “The Moors,” Wright Memorial Theatre, Middlebury Faculty. $5-$15. https://middlebury.universitytickets.com/
‘It’s a Great Life’ in Waitsfield
7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2, the Valley Gamers start a radio-style play model of the vacation traditional “It’s a Great Life” that runs by means of Dec. 11, Valley Gamers Theater, Waitsfield. $14-$18. www.valleyplayers.com
It’s a cabaret, previous chum
7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2-Saturday, Dec. 3, “A Weston Winter Cabaret” returns for its fifth vacation season with performances by former forged members of the Younger Firm at Weston Theater, Walker Farm, Weston. $25-$60. www.westontheater.org
Quartets instances two
7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2, the Jasper and Juniper String Quartets be a part of forces to grow to be an octet, Robison Corridor, Mahaney Arts Middle, Middlebury Faculty. $5-$25. www.middlebury.edu/arts
Native heroes Rubblebucket return residence
8:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2, funky indie-pop-rockers Rubblebucket, who hint their beginnings to Burlington and the College of Vermont, headline a present with Crooks & Nannies, Larger Floor Ballroom, South Burlington. $25 prematurely, $28 day of present. www.highergroundmusic.com
Dance, visible artwork unite
2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3, dance performers Hanna Satterlee, Nicole Dagesse and Jessie Owens draw inspiration from portrayals of gesture within the present exhibit of artwork by Rockwell Kent, Fleming Museum, College of Vermont, Burlington. free. www.uvm.edu/fleming
Choral group honors holidays
2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3, the Vermont Choral Union presents a program constructed across the celebrations of Chanukah and Introduction, Faculty Avenue Congregational Church, Burlington. (This system might be repeated at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 4, First Congregational Church, St. Albans.) $5-$20. www.vtchoralunion.org
‘River of Gentle’ in Waterbury
5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3, the 13th-annual “River of Gentle” lantern parade heads from Brookside Main College to Dac Rowe Area, Waterbury. Free. www.ariveroflightinwaterbury.org
Soule Monde celebrates new album
7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3, the instrumental duo Soule Monde, that includes Vermont music vets Russ Lawton and Ray Paczkowski, celebrates the discharge of its new album with musical visitors together with Rob Compa and Chuck Jones, The Double E, Essex Expertise. $20-$25. www.essexexperience.com
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Ladies’s refrain performs in Burlington
7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3, 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 4, the Bella Voce Ladies’s Refrain of Vermont, with visitor artists the College of Vermont String Ensemble, ship a program titled “Sing Noel” in two performances, Faculty Avenue Congregational Church, Burlington. $17-$20. www.bellavocevt.org
Multi-instrumentalist in Addison County
7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3, multi-instrumentalist and traditional-music-maker Bruce Molsky performs on this month’s Ripton Group Espresso Home live performance at Burnham Corridor, Lincoln. $15-$25. www.rcch.org
Stowe hosts gospel choir
7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3, the SUNY Plattsburgh Gospel Choir crosses Lake Champlain to carry out its “Soulful Christmas” live performance, Spruce Peak Performing Arts Middle, Stowe. $10-$35. www.sprucepeakarts.org
Bass star at Nectar’s
9 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3, fun-loving bass participant Karina Rykman hits the jam-rock haven of Nectar’s, Burlington. $15. www.liveatnectars.com
Candy sounds of Honey Dewdrops
4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 4, the month-to-month “P.M. Sundays” live performance sequence introduced by Valley Stage turns its consideration this month to harmonic acoustic duo the Honey Dewdrops, Richmond Congregational Church. $23 prematurely, $25 day of present; $15-$17.50 for seniors over 65 and kids beneath 16. www.valleystage.web
Comedy pageant debuts in Vermont
7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 4, the inaugural Vermont Comedy Pageant, which begins Thursday, Dec. 1 with occasions in Woodstock, Bridgewater, Killington and Pomfret, culminates with a present by stand-up performer Joe Record, Woodstock City Corridor Theatre. $44. www.vermontcomedyfestival.com
Nashville-born musician visits Lamp Store
7:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 5, Nashville-born, North Carolina-based musician Florence Dore — whose newest document, “Highways and Rocketships,” was produced with indie-rock pioneers Mitch Easter and Don Dixon — performs a present on the Gentle Membership Lamp Store subsequent to Radio Bean, Burlington. $10 prematurely, $15 day of present. www.radiobean.com
Vacation custom goes hip hop
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6, “The Hip Hop Nutcracker” takes the traditional vacation story from Germany to trendy New York Metropolis, the Flynn, Burlington. $35-$59. www.flynnvt.org
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Weakened Buddies play midweek present
8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 7, Maine-based indie-rockers Weakened Buddies be a part of Vermont acts Father Figuer and Lake Waves for a return go to to the Larger Floor Showcase Lounge, South Burlington. $12 prematurely, $15 day of present. www.highergroundmusic.com
A take a look at Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’
7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 8, the documentary “Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Tune” seems on the late Montreal musician’s best-known and most-covered tune as a part of the Middlebury New Filmmakers Pageant’s “MNFF Selects” month-to-month movie screening that runs by means of April, City Corridor Theater, Middlebury. $14 prematurely, $16 on the door, $90 season cross. www.middfilmfest.org
Martin Sexton exhibits up in Stowe
8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 8, singer-songwriter Martin Sexton has been doing his factor for 3 many years, and brings his music in a present introduced by Larger Floor to the Spruce Peak Performing Arts Middle, Stowe. $35-$55. www.highergroundmusic.com
Ballroom Thieves play close to Larger Floor Ballroom
8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 8, harmonic acoustic act The Ballroom Thieves performs not within the Larger Floor Ballroom however throughout the foyer with opening performer Griffin William Sherry of The Ghost of Paul Revere in Larger Floor’s Showcase Lounge, South Burlington. $18 prematurely, $20 day of present. www.highergroundmusic.com
Chad Hollister performs vineyard
7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9, Vermont favourite Chad Hollister performs a solo acoustic present within the loft at Shelburne Winery. $10 prematurely, $14 day of present. www.shelburnevineyard.com
Winter solstice celebration in Middlebury
7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9, rootsy trio Low Lily and bluegrass mandolin participant Matt Flinner current a winter-solstice present, City Corridor Theater, Middlebury. $20. www.townhalltheater.org
Vermont hip-hop stars hit Larger Floor
8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9, two Vermont hip-hop acts making a nationwide impression — North Ave Jax and 99 Neighbors — share a invoice that features Abizo, Actual Ricky, UVM Elites Dance Group, Hakimxoxo, Tyler Serrani, Nice Boys and Phat Hosea, Larger Floor Ballroom, South Burlington. Offered out. www.highergroundmusic.com
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‘Nutcracker’-inspired present in Stowe
5:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10-Sunday, Dec. 11, the Elan Ballet Theater presents the “Nutcracker”-inspired efficiency “Clara Goals!” on the Spruce Peak Performing Arts Middle, Stowe. $15-$20. www.sprucepeakarts.org
Vacation live performance for Ukraine
7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10, refugees from the battle in Ukraine who’ve settled within the Northeast Kingdom will be a part of with choirs from excessive faculties within the area for a efficiency titled “Collectively: A Vacation Live performance for Ukraine,” Highland Middle for the Arts, Greensboro. $10-$30. www.highlandartsvt.org
Flynn at Larger Floor
7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10, Flynn — aka The Myra Flynn Band, led by the Vermont-raised singer-songwriter — headlines the Larger Floor Showcase Lounge, South Burlington. $15 prematurely, $20 day of present. www.highergroundmusic.com
VSO does vacation live performance
7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, led by visitor conductor Anthony Parnther, performs its holiday-pops live performance on the Flynn, Burlington. $8.35-$54.23. www.flynnvt.org
Canadian singer-songwriter visits Vermont
8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10, Canadian singer-songwriter Patrick Watson follows Dana Gavanski to the stage, Larger Floor Ballroom, South Burlington. $30 prematurely, $35 day of present. www.highergroundmusic.com
Youth orchestra rings in holidays
4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 11, the Vermont Youth Orchestra presents its “OrchestraPalooza!” vacation live performance, the Flynn, Burlington. $15-$20. www.flynnvt.org
‘Messiah’ in Burlington
4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 11, the Montreal baroque group Ensemble L’ Harmonie des Saisons leads a efficiency of Handel’s “Messiah,” Faculty Avenue Congregational Church, Burlington. $30. www.harmoniedessaisons.org
Brattleboro band co-headlines Larger Floor
8 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 11, Brattleboro rockers Thus Love, whose debut album “Memorial” simply got here out on indie-label Captured Tracks, share a invoice with Present in a lineup that features Vermont rock band Robber Robber, Larger Floor Showcase Lounge, South Burlington. $13 prematurely, $15 day of present. www.highergroundmusic.com
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Soweto Gospel Choir performs Vermont
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 13, a live performance by the Soweto Gospel Choir, titled “It’s Been a Lengthy Time Coming,” commemorates South Africa’s freedom motion and the U.S. Civil Rights Motion, Paramount Theatre, Rutland. $30-$50. www.paramountvt.org
Thursday on a Tuesday
7:45 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 13, longtime punk-rockers Thursday observe Cursive and Anthony Inexperienced, Larger Floor Ballroom, South Burlington. $30 prematurely, $35 day of present. www.highergroundmusic.com
Hip-hop at Larger Floor
8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 13, it’s an evening of hip-hop with Oddisee & Good Firm plus Vermont performer Mister Burns, Larger Floor Showcase Lounge, South Burlington. $20 prematurely, $23 day of present. www.highergroundmusic.com
‘Winter Tales’ return to Burlington
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 14, Vermont Stage brings again “Winter Tales,” the 18th model of its vacation custom by means of Sunday, Dec. 18, with tales by Ethan Bowen, Paula Cope, Geoffrey Gevalt and Stephen Kiernan and songs written and carried out by Patti Casey and Susannah Blachly, Fundamental Avenue Touchdown Performing Arts Middle, Burlington. $31.05-$38.50. www.vermontstage.org
Profit live performance in St. Albans
5 p.m. Friday, Dec. 16, the tenth incarnation of the “Residence for the Holidays” profit live performance, which raises cash for Northwestern Counseling and Help Providers of St. Albans, options music from Troy Millette & the Hearth Beneath, Emma Prepare dinner & Questionable Firm, Chris & Erica, Jesse Agan, Citizen Naked and Christopher Gregory, 14th Star Brewing, St. Albans. Free; admission by donation. www.14thstarbrewing.com
Vacation present in Shelburne
6 p.m. Friday, Dec. 16, Vermont music stalwarts Samara Lark and Joe Adler stage the “Hair Down Vacation Present,” Shelburne Winery. Free. www.shelburnevineyard.com
Lengthy-time storyteller returns to Montpelier
7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 16, Yankee storyteller Willem Lange retains his vacation custom going with “A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story,” Misplaced Nation Theater, Montpelier Metropolis Corridor Arts Middle. $10-$20. www.lostnationtheater.org
‘Broadway Rocks’ in Colchester
7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 16, 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 18, Colchester native and Broadway performer Merritt David Janes presents a “Broadway Rocks” present that includes vacation classics and Broadway tunes introduced by Janes and Broadway colleagues Matt Cusack, Liz Shevener, Andy Peterson, Elysia Jordan and Cooper Grodin, Colchester Excessive College. $20-$35. https://broadway-rocks.ticketleap.com/homefortheholidays/dates
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Francesca Blanchard performs Winooski church
7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 16, Vermont singer-songwriter Francesca Blanchard performs a full band present with opener Louisa Stancioff, introduced by Waking Home windows, Winooski Methodist Church. $15. https://www.wakingwindows.com/
Twiddle toddles into Larger Floor
9 p.m. Friday, Dec. 16-Saturday, Dec. 17, the Vermont-born jam band Twiddle, which simply introduced it can go on “indefinite hiatus” after 2023, performs the Larger Floor Showcase Lounge, South Burlington. Offered out. www.highergroundmusic.com
Vermont Ballet Theater returns with ‘Nutcracker’
2 p.m. and seven p.m. Saturday, Dec. 17, 1 and 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 18, the Vermont Ballet Theater as soon as once more presents “Vermont’s Personal Nutcracker,” the Flynn, Burlington. $20.55-$45.25. www.flynnvt.org
Jazz ensemble celebrates new album
7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 17, Vermont jazz ensemble Saturn Individuals’s Sound Collective, which this summer time recorded its new album in entrance of stay audiences in Burlington, celebrates the discharge of that album in one other live performance that features SoundCheck, Haybarn Theatre, Goddard Faculty, Plainfield. $10. https://www.fb.com/TheSaturnPeoplesSoundCollective
Refrain commemorates late co-founder
7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 17, 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 18, a 12 months after the loss of life of co-founder Larry Gordon, the 60-voice Onion River Refrain performs two vacation concert events in his reminiscence with music from the 17th and 21st centuries, Universalist/First Church, Barre. $20; free for ages 18 and beneath. www.onionriverchorus.org
Organ trio is again at Nectar’s
9 pm. Saturday, Dec. 17, the Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio returns to play at Nectar’s, Burlington. $30. www.liveatnectars.com
Hinesburg Artist Sequence presents vacation live performance
2 and 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 18, the Hinesburg Artist Sequence once more presents a vacation live performance led by director Rufus Patrick and that includes the South County Refrain and HAS Orchestra, St. Jude Church, Hinesburg. Free; donations accepted. www.hinesburgartistseries.org
Westford Music Sequence hosts chamber group
4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 18, the Westford Music Sequence presents the woodwind chamber-music group Heliand Winds in a vacation efficiency, Westford Widespread Corridor. Free-will donations.
Anais Mitchell, Bonny Gentle Horseman play Vermont
8 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 18, Tony- and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Anais Mitchell performs a home-state present together with her people trio, Bonny Gentle Horseman, following opening act Cassandra Jenkins, Larger Floor Ballroom, South Burlington. $25 prematurely, $30 day of present. www.highergroundmusic.com
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Vacation occasion at Misplaced Nation Theater
7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 21, dramatic readings of tales and songs marking the arrival of winter are featured within the occasion “Tales for the Season,” Misplaced Nation Theater, Montpelier Metropolis Corridor Arts Middle. Free; donations welcome. www.lostnationtheater.org
Jazz Thursdays are again in Burlington
7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 22, following two years off, jazz night time returns with the Robert Gagnon Quartet, Foam Brewers, Burlington. Free. www.foambrewers.com
‘Jazz on the Peak’ in Stowe
5 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 28, “Jazz on the Peak” fills the hole between Christmas and New Yr’s Day with funky music from Aram Bedrosian, Jake Whitesell, Peter Schmeeckle and Kenny Dunbar, Spruce Peak Performing Arts Middle, Stowe. $25. www.sprucepeakarts.org
Nectar’s welcomes Grippo Funk Band
8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 30, long-running Vermont group Grippo Funk Band performs a present on the eve of New Yr’s Eve, Nectar’s, Burlington. $10. www.liveatnectars.com
Spotlight ushers in new 12 months
Midday, Saturday, Dec. 31, the day lengthy New Yr’s Eve celebration Spotlight returns with a lineup to be introduced Dec. 3, places all through Burlington. $12; free for ages 5 and beneath. https://spotlight.neighborhood/
Herald 2023 with ‘New Queers Eve’
9 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 31, drag performer Emoji Nightmare hosts the dance and drag-show occasion “New Queers Eve,” Larger Floor Showcase Lounge, South Burlington $25 prematurely, $30 day of present. www.highergroundmusic.com
Lifeless Set ends 2022
9 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 31, Vermont guitarist Zach Nugent and musicians together with Kat Wright and Bob Wagner recreate the Grateful Lifeless’s 1982 New Yr’s Eve present in Oakland, California, as a part of Nugent’s “Lifeless Set” performances, Larger Floor Ballroom, South Burlington. $25 prematurely, $35 day of present. www.highergroundmusic.com
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