2008
15th Anniversary Season Passes ON SALE NOW - $30 Adults/ $27 Senior/Student -
US Funds Only
Include all three mainstage productions - Dearly Beloved, The Mikado and Nunsense
Tickets available at the Hasekll Free Library, Derby Line,
Wider Than the Sky Bookstore, Newport, by calling the
QNEK Box Office 802-334-2216
or online at qnekproductions@yahoo.com
24th and 25th - 2008 Open Studio Weekend at the MAC Center for the Arts
167 Main Street, Newport
10-5 Each Day
Join MAC in celebrating for i'ts first time at this statewide event, now in it's 16th year. Local artists will exhibit the work and several artists "in action" will be on hand for visitors.
24th and 25th - Open Studio Weekend - Wooden Horse Arts Guild
Saturday, May 24, 2008 at 10:00 AM
to Sunday, May 25, 2008
Description: Open Studio Weekend is a statewide event held during Memorial Day weekend, during which Vermont craftspeople and artists open their studios to the public for the sale and demonstration of their work. The Wooden Horse Arts Guild welcomes all artists and craftspersons who wish to come together in a common place to show and sell their work and promote their communities. Sign up for Pastel Painting class. All artists and craftspersons will be on hand to visit with the public.
Date: May 24 and 25, 2008
Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: American Legion Post 28, Dominion Ave. North Troy
Website:: www.woodenhorsearts.com
Contact Name: Camilla
Contact Phone: (802) 988-4300
Contact Email: camilla@woodenhorsearts.com
5th - 110th anniversary celebration--Goodrich Memorial Library
12:30-2:30 PM The Birch Benders ( bluegrass band from New Hampshire)--playing in the Municipal Parking Lot Main Street, Downtown Newport.
Anniversary cake immediately following.
Free balloons for children.
11th & 12th -WAREBROOK CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL -
15th Season
Phone: 802/754-6335
Tickets: $10.00 per concert/ $7.00, students and seniors.
Pass to all events, $20.00. Composers Forum is free.
The Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival features modern chamber and vocal music, including 20th century masterworks and world premiere performances. Please check the web site at www.warebrook.org periodically for updated information and to complete our Community Survey.
FRIDAY, JULY 11
Irasburg, Town Hall, Irasburg, Vermont
7:30 PM – Concert
SATURDAY, JULY 12
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Second Street, Newport, Vermont
NOON – Composers Forum -
Resident Composers Discuss their Music
2:30 PM – Song Recital
Haskell Opera House, Derby Line, Vermont
7:30 PM - Concert
13th - Music for a Sunday Afternoon - 4th Annual Christmas in July With the Maple Leaf Seven Dixieland Jazz Band
Some real toe-tapping music including some Christmas favorites.
$10 suggested donation.
Traditional Christmas Ham Dinner following at 6.Tickets by reservation. $10, adult, $5. Students under 12.
For reservations, call 802-334-7365.
St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 44 Second Street, Newport www.musicforasundayafternoon.com
18th thru 27th - 10 Days of Arts and Fine Crafts
Description: The Wooden Horse Arts Guild members show and sell their works in a gallery setting. Sign up for Pastel and Watercolor Painting classes during the 10 day event. Benefit art raffle and more.
Hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Location: American Legion post 28, Dominion Ave. North Troy
Website:: www.woodenhorsearts.com
Contact Name: Camilla
Contact Phone: (802) 988-4300
Contact Email: camilla@woodenhorsearts.com
19th - Irasburg Church Fair
Description: A fun day for all who enjoy arts, crafts, food, parades and more. Wooden Horse Arts Guild will display art of artists of Northern Vermont for fun, prizes and sale. Enjoy baked goods, strawberry shortcake, hamburger stand, New Orleans gumbo and chicken BBQ.
Parade at 7 pm, music at 11 am, fireworks at 9 pm.
Hours: 10 a.m. til dusk
Location: On the green in Irasburg, Vt.
Website:: www.woodenhorsearts.com
Contact Name: for WHAG...Robert Pasho
Contact Phone: (802) 766-2747
Contact Email: pasho@woodenhorsearts.com
august 2008
8th and 9th - The Mikado - Gilbert and Sullivan for the 21st Century from Essgee Productions.
Get ready for an unforgettable musical experience as the Award winning QNEK Productions presents this outrageous and burlesque version of the uproarious funny operetta, The Mikado.
This production, like last seasons Pirates of Penzance, is the Australian version and Aussies know how to have fun! With delightfully infectious music and wonderful comic characters, the hilarious fantasy world of Nanki-Poo, Ko-Ko, Yum-Yum and the charming Japanese town of Titipu come to life. Directed and Choreographed by Lynn Leimer, Music Direction, Mark Violette and Anita Morin, this season features Guest Set Designer, Robert Wing and Guest Costumer, Carol Woodard. August 8, 9,15, 16 at 7:30 p.m. and August 10 at 2 p.m. Tickets available at the Wider Than the Sky Bookstore, Newport, Haskell Free Library, Derby Line VT/Stanstead, PQ or by Calling the QNEK Box Office NEW NUMBER 802-334-2216.
Haskell Opera House, Derby Line
QNEK.com
August 10th- The Gordon Stone Band
For over 30 years, on banjo and pedal steel guitar, Gordon Stone has been
writing his genre-crossing music, recording 5 studio albums of his own original
material. Gordon was named "Best Instrumentalist" two years in a row and won an
Emmy for Jay Craven's VPT series, "Windy Acres" soundtrack in 2005. He has
recorded and performed with some of the country's most influential musicians in
the bluegrass and jam world - Tony Trischka, Vassar Clemmens, Sam Bush, Peter
Rowan, Phish, Mike Gordon, moe., Strangefolk, Max Creek, to name only a few!
The music will lift you up.
St. mark's Episcopal Church, 44 Second Street, Newport
10th - The Mikado - The Mikado - Gilbert and Sullivan for the 21st Century from Essgee Productions Tickets available at the Wider Than the Sky Bookstore, Newport, Haskell Free Library, Derby Line VT/Stanstead, PQ or by Calling the QNEK Box Office NEW NUMBER 802-334-2216.
2:00 PM
Haskell Opera House, Derby Line
QNEK.com
15th and 16th- The Mikado - The Mikado - Gilbert and Sullivan for the 21st Century from Essgee Productions Tickets available at the Wider Than the Sky Bookstore, Newport, Haskell Free Library, Derby Line VT/Stanstead, PQ or by Calling the QNEK Box Office NEW NUMBER 802-334-2216.
7:300 PM
Haskell Opera House, Derby Line
QNEK.com
september 2008
September 14th - Local Composer Dr. Sara Doncaster
Dr. Sara Doncaster is the director of the Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival in Irasburg, Vermont. She is a recipient of a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Citation of Merit from the Vermont Arts Council for Distinguished Service to the Arts. A graduate of Brandeis University, Sara earned her Ph.D. and Master of Arts in Theory & Composition. She earned a dual Bachelor of Music degree from Boston University in Theory & Composition and Piano Performance.
Sara’s music has been commissioned and performed by the Hungarian Chamber Symphony Orchestra, Vermont Symphony Orchestra, Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble, the Lydian String Quartet, Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble, Susan Davenny Wyner (conductor), David Hoose (conductor), Jon Garrison (tenor), the Master Singers, the Auros Group for New Music, Village Harmony, St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral (Burlington, VT), Social Band, Village Harmony, and the Composers Conference at Wellesley College, among others. Her music has been broadcast over Vermont and Wisconsin Public Radio.
In addition to giving private lessons in piano and composition, Sara is a composer mentor for the Vermont MIDI Project and was 2007 Composer-in-Residence for the Green Mountain Suzuki Institute in Rochester, Vermont.
The piece's to be performed are her Song Cycle on Yeats' Poems
("Incarnations") and a rescored "Song of Nature" for single strings, originally premiered in Hungary.
Dr. Doncaster has been a lifelong member of St. Mark's.
18th, 19th and 20th - QNEK's Signature Show, NUNSENSE is back by popular demand. New Cast (from left to right) Anita Morin as Sister Robert Ann, introducing Shannon Harkey as Sister Mary Leo, Lynn Leimer as the irreverent Rev Mother, Sally Rivard as Sister Mary Amnesia and Susan-Lynn Johns as Sister Hubert. Join Reverend Mother and the Sisters Of Hoboken and Brother Mark Violette at the piano, as they sing and dance their way through the 6th fantastic incarnation of QNEK's signature. The fun and laughter are non-stop as the group presents a variety show to raise money to bury the last four of 52 sisters who died after eating tainted vichyssoise, concocted by the convent cook, Sister Julia, Child of God. New scenes and new production numbers give new life to the Resurrection of this crowd pleasing favorite show. NUNSENSE always sold out, so don't be disappointed; get your tickets early. September 18, 19, 20 at 7:30 (Thursday, Friday, Saturday) and September 21 at 2:00 p.m. (Sunday). Tickets are available at the Wider Than the Sky Bookstore, Newport; The Haskell Free Library, Derby Line, VT/Stanstead, PQ or by calling the QNEK Box Office NEW NUMBER 802-334-2216.
Haskell Opera House, Derby Line
QNEK.com
21st - QNEK's Signature Show, NUNSENSE is back by popular demand.
2 PM
Tickets are available at the Wider Than the Sky Bookstore, Newport; The Haskell Free Library, Derby Line, VT/Stanstead, PQ or by calling the QNEK Box Office NEW NUMBER 802-334-2216.
QNEK.com
28th
october 2008
10th thru 12th - Village Art Show - Wooden Horse Arts Guild
Description: This show displays the art, photography and sculpture of the WHAG members and juried guest artists. Visit Jay Peak Arts & Crafts and see the WHAG DVD.
Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: American Legion Post 28 Dominion Ave., North Troy
Website:: www.woodenhorsearts.com
Contact Name: Camilla
Contact Phone: (802) 988-4300
Contact Email: camilla@woodenhorsearts.com
19th - Music for a Sunday Afternoon Dance Ann Witing with Wagtail
TOGETHER THEY ARE AN INCREDIBLY DYNAMIC FORCE OF MUSIC AND DANCE!
With all their years of experience performing for audiences all over the country they just can't help but get you up and dancing and singing along. There will be fiddle tunes, dance, stories and songs from New England, Canada, and the British Isles. They are a folk festival unto themselves! The key word for these amazing performers is fun! And that's just what you will have when you see them.
ANN WHITING (CLOGGER) is a bright and energetic dancer with a love of dance and an infectious enthusiasm that attracts people of all ages.She has been clogging and stepdancing since 1979.
Ann studied with World Class Stepdancers, Lisa Beaudoin (French Canadian),Judy Waymouth (Ottawa Valley) & Mary Janet MacDonald (Cape Breton).
Ann is endlessly creative as a choreographer, teacher, and stylist, but it is as a soloist that she really shines; that is where her love of stepdance is so strikingly apparent. Her creations are so engaging and so much fun to watch that you might just forget to notice that they are also intricate and sophisticated works of performance art.
Following the concert, join us for our 3nd Annual traditional home-cooked
New England Boiled Dinner fund raiser for the series.
Fruit Cup Corned Beef, beets, potatoes, carrots, oinions, cabbage Pumpkim Pie
Tickets: 10.00 adult - 5.00 Students under 12
Reservations requested by calling th church at 802-334-7365. Take-out available by reservation.
november 2008
21st thru 23rd - Holiday Gift Show - Wooden Horse Arts Guild
Description: A FUN show with the Wooden Horse Arts Guild members who show and sell their art and crafts, and encourage the shoppers in early Holiday buying!
Hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Location: American Legion Post 28, Dominion Ave. North Troy
Website:: www.woodenhorsearts.com
Contact Name: Camilla
Contact Phone: (802) 988-4300
Contact Email: camilla@woodenhorsearts.com
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The North Country Board of Trustees of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra announces its annual benefit wine and cheese party at Spates the Florist, 20 Elm Street in Newport, on Saturday, May 17, from 5:15-7:15 p.m. “Uncorking Spring” is a chance to socialize with friends on a relaxing spring evening in a beautiful setting, while supporting the VSO’s programs in the North Country. Attendees can wander through the delightful greenhouses at Spates, enjoying enticing appetizers--including gourmet cheeses from local cheese-makers--and two complimentary glasses of fine wine. Spates the Florist will offer special “Uncorking Spring” discounts at the event, and there will be door prizes as well. Music will be provided by Chris Nicotera (Celtic harp and guitar) and Heather Webster (flute).
18th - Music for a Sunday Afternoon
24th and 25th - 2008 Open Studio Weekend
15th - Music for a Sunday Afternoon
5th - 110th anniversary celebration--Goodrich Memorial Library
Get ready for an unforgettable musical experience as the Award winning QNEK Productions presents this outrageous and burlesque version of the uproarious funny operetta, The Mikado.
August 10th- The Gordon Stone Band 
September 14th - Local Composer Dr. Sara Doncaster 
19th - Music for a Sunday Afternoon
Following the concert, join us for our 3nd Annual traditional home-cooked