Category Archives: Town Hall Theater

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The Grift 5/12/23

 

The Grift is a popular club, wedding, and event-band based in the Champlain Valley of Vermont. Their sound defies easy categorization, blending booty-shaking grooves and improvisation with radio-friendly hooks, witty lyrics, and tight vocal harmonies. Grift shows are energetic and original, with band members swapping instruments and occasionally playing two at a time. Their deep catalog of original music blends roots-rock and pop and jam.

The Grift was formed by two Middlebury College grads Clint Bierman and Jeff Vallone in 1999, and since then has performed 2,300+ shows in 25 states and four countries. The current lineup of The Grift have been together for almost 20 years with Peter joining in 2003. TheGrift.com

Producer: MCTV

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Neon Ramblers 5/11/23

 

Neon Ramblers (formerly Dojo) is a project from members of The Grift that takes classic (mostly 80’s) pop tunes and turns them into Bluegrass favorites. Who are Neon Ramblers you ask? Let me tell you: Clint Bierman (Banjo, vocals) Jeff Vallone (Bass, vocals) Peter Day (Guitar, vocals) Matt Schrag (Mandolin, vocals) Ben Lively (Fiddle) Josh Panda (Percussion, vocals)

Producer: MCTV

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Forty Poems for Forty Pounds (*To be read by the refrigerator light)

 

After battling food, weight, and self-esteem issues for years, Trish Dougherty, a poet, mother, and graduate student at the Bread Loaf School of English in Middlebury, Vermont, decided to employ her strengths of self-perception, humor, and the written word to wrestle her demons to the ground.

While touching upon the shame of diets, the pressure of media-shaped expectations, and self-love, Forty Poems for Forty Pounds also weaves the constant of weight as self-reflection into all aspects of life from looking at the stars to the shaping of “tall and slender” pottery. Forty Poems for Forty Pounds is an engaging collection of poignantly vulnerable, humorous, and insightful poems that will remind anyone who endures the similar daily whispers in their head that they are not alone and that self-love and acceptance is a choice for the “now” and not a reward to be earned “some day”. Presented by Town Hall Theater and Project Y, director Michole Biancosino brings this book of poetry to life on stage with 40 community members, each taking on a poem from Trish’s book.

Recorded at the Town Hall Theater in Middlebury, VT 3/12/23.
Producer: MCTV

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Town Hall Theater presents Memorial Day Magic with Tom Verner

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Addison County based magician Tom Verner’s Magicians Without Borders performs magic shows for children in refugee camps, orphanages and hospitals around the world – often in war torn places where love, laughter and magic are desperately needed. Since 2002, Magicians Without Borders has traveled to over thirty countries using magic to entertain, educate and empower.” Recorded 5/31/21. [/ezcol_2third_end][ezcol_1third] Producer: MCTV

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Town Hall Theater presents Saturday with Sarah King

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The Ripton-based singer-songwriter makes her first live appearance since the release of her album on the THT outdoor stage at Middlebury’s Historic Marble Works. Her music video, Nightstand, was filmed on the THT main stage during the theater’s closure. Recorded 5/29/21. [/ezcol_2third_end][ezcol_1third] Producer: MCTV