GAZEBO CONCERTS Presented by Stowe Performing Arts and The Friends of Stowe Free Library FREE CONCERTS Tuesday evening - 6:30-7:30 Bring your picnic and most comfortable lawn chairs or blanket to these casual concerts on the lawn of the Helen Day Memorial Building. Rainsite: Stowe Community Church
	July 21 Stolen Moments - Jazz/Bossa Nova Stolen Moments is a group of friends from the Morrisville/Johnson area. For years, they’ve been coming together to play and sing the music they love: jazz, swing, bossa nova, samba, choro, and musette. An evening with Stolen Moments will take the listener on a trip through a musical catalogue that includes the music of Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Thelonius Monk, Richard Rogers, Hoagy Carmichael, and Antonio Carlos Jobim. The group also performs compositions by some of Vermont’s musical treasures such as Will Patton and Michele Choiniere. The core of Stolen Moments is a trio consisting of Corey Hathaway on bass, his wife Analou Hathaway on vocals and percussion, and Dono Schabner on guitar and vocals. Corey has been playing music most of his life, and he studied composition and classical guitar as a college student. Analou has a rich background in choral music that includes both classical and folk traditions, and she also brings her fine dancer’s sense of rhythm to the music she sings. Dono has traveled widely as a professional guitarist. In addition to Stolen Moments, he often performs with Vermont artists like Will Patton, Taryn Noelle, Michele Choiniere, Lewis Franco, and former members of the erstwhile New Gypsy Swing Quintet.
	July 28 The soulful and stirring music of the Jews of Eastern Europe and more recently, of New York's Lower East Side has found a home in Vermont. In the summer of 1981 a group of central Vermont musicians, entranced by the rhythms and spirit of klezmer music, formed the Nisht Geferlach Klezmer Band. "Nisht Geferlach" translated literally from the Yiddish means "not dangerous". More colloquially, it means "Relax, it won't kill you". The band plays songs from the golden age of New York's Yiddish Theater as well as freilachs, bulgars and other lively instrumentals that display the Dixieland influence on Jewish immigrant musicians. Click here to learn more about the performers in the Nisht Geferlach Klezmer Band. Since its beginnings in 1981 Nisht Geferlach has played all over northern New England, upstate New York and in the Montreal area, playing concerts and dances at festivals, performing arts centers, colleges, community events, weddings, on radio and TV, art museums, libraries, schools, Governor's inaugural balls and Knights of Columbus halls! The music can be jazzy, melancholy, thoughtful and ecstatic - sometimes in the same tune! Audiences of all ages – whether sitting and listening or dancing - will learn something and just have a really good time. Nisht Geferlach has released three audio cassette recordings of Klezmer music and traditional Yiddish songs which are available at select stores and the Gazebo concert. Click here to learn more about Nisht Geferlach
	August 4 Waterbury Community and Morrisville Military Bands Your friends and neighbors join forces each year to continue a New England Tradition – the town band concert. You’ll hear some toe-tapping Broadway tunes, military marches and music from a bygone era. And, of course, you’ll know the concert is over when the bands play our National Anthem! Harl Hoffman, conductor of the Waterbury Community Band, shares the podium with his colleague from the Morrisville Military Band, Sally Hendon.
	August 11 Prydein In 1994 a group of college friends at the University of Vermont found themselves at a musical dead end. Everywhere they went, everything they played had been done before and it was driving them crazy. Hoping to fend off the Vermont trend of becoming another Jam Band, they started a program at the University for like-minded folks called “the Experimental Music Program”. Yet even this provided lackluster results and strange arrangements of Dueling Banjos played on marimba by guys in overalls. Then one day, a bagpiper came into their midst. What strange, beastly creation was this? There was no place to plug in an amp...the piper tuned it with…electrical tape? Could this have been what they had been searching for all these years? It was! Band members Aron Garceau (guitar), Iain Mac Harg (bagpipes), Willa Davie (bagpipes), Andy Smith (Bass), and Caleb Bronz (drums) make up Prydein (pronounced pry’ den), Vermont’s only Celtic-rock, kilt-rock, bagpipe-rock, Scottish-rock – well, basically a rock band that just happens to use the Great Highland Bagpipes of Scotland instead of a Gibson “Les Paul” guitar. Don’t miss them! Click Here to learn more about Prydein.