The Mad River Valley Village

Stark’s Pub After Dark
2024-08-24 20:30 - 23:30 (America/New_York)
AFTER DARK SUMMER MUSIC SERIES
The “After Dark” summer music series is a new late-night music series that will feature a different band each month over the summer.
The After Dark shows are free and open to anyone 21 years of age or older.
Thanks to our sponsor Forbin’s Finest for keeping the vibe high and the late night tunes elevated.

AFTER DARK MUSIC SCHEDULE:
06/28 Seth Yacovone Band
08/24 Bad Management
09/27 Nicholas Cassarino and Friends

Mad River Valley Summer Carnival
2024-08-25 11:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Mad River Green, 105 Mad River Green, Waitsfield, VT, 05673, United States
Come out to the Mad River Valley Summer Carnival for an afternoon of fabulous fun. Families will enjoy games, food, a bounce house, face painting, live animals and more! There’s even a dunk tank and raffle!!
Admission is FREE. All money raised from activity ticket sales goes to the Fayston, Moretown, Waitsfield, and Warren Elementary Parent Organizations.
Sunday, August 25th from 11am – 2pm at Mad River Green. Rain Date of September 1st.

Bluegrass Brunch
2024-08-25 12:00 - 14:30 (America/New_York) | Mad Bush Falls, 7575 Main Street, Waitsfield, VT, 05673, United States
Longtime local legends Brett Hughes (guitar), Pat Melvin (bass), Caleb Elder (fiddle) and Beau Stapleton (mandolin) pick bluegrass on the deck every Sunday. Named after Brett’s Old Home Place on Prickly Mountain Road, these old fellers have a heckuva time and you will too! Thanks to Frost Beer Works for supporting live music!

Bread and Puppet presents: The Whole Kit and Caboodle Show
2024-08-25 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Bread and Puppet Theater, 753 Heights Rd, Montreal, Vermont, Glover, United States
Bread & Puppet kicks off its 2024 Summer Season with a new performance, The Whole Kit and Caboodle Show, created by Peter Schumann and company along with a cohort of spring apprentices. The Whole Kit and Caboodle Show runs Sundays June 9th-July 7th at 3 p.m. in the Papier Maché Cathedral at the Bread and Puppet farm, 753 Heights Rd, Glover, VT.
About this show Peter Schumann says, “We, the Whole Kit & Caboodle bread bakers, peace and harmony terrorists and criminal trespassers of the fascist empire offer anti-hospital-bombing calisthenics in the face of the Freedom and Democracy Bullshitters, and precise funeral rites for the collapsing Western Civilization and make our divine paper maché weaponry, as retrieved from the cardboard industry’s available refuse to defeat the capitalist hegemony and celebrate a brand-new humanity with appropriate victory dances and demonstrate our birthright as children of the one and only Mother Dirt, who makes us and unmakes us and now requires our full undivided attention.”
Bread and Puppet’s Cheap Art – books, posters, postcards, pamphlets and banners from the Bread and Puppet Press – will be for sale in the Bread & Puppet Museum Store throughout the event.
Tickets for this and other summer shows are $10 each. We ask that you purchase tickets ahead of time. However, it’s central to our philosophy that our performances are as accessible as possible and no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Admission by cash donation for kids 6 and under. You can purchase tickets on our website at https://breadandpuppet.org/book-tickets-for-upcoming-shows
The Whole Kit and Caboodle Show plays Sunday afternoons June 9th through July 7th at 3 p.m.. The Principle of Hope Circus plays at 3 p.m. (sideshows at 2 p.m.) every Saturday and Sunday July 13th through August 31st. All shows at the Bread & Puppet Farm, 753 Heights Rd/Rt. 122 in Glover, VT.

Summer Sundays: Good Gravy
2024-08-25 15:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Lawson’s Finest Taproom, 155 Carroll Road, Waitsfield, Vermont, 05673
Good Gravy is a bluegrass trio out of Burlington, VT led by Joe Agnello. And they bring it.

Bread & Puppet Theater Presents: The Beginning After the End of Humanity Circus and Gaza Grey Lady Cantata
2024-08-25 15:00 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | Bread and Puppet Theater, 753 Heights Rd, Montreal, Vermont, Glover, United States
Bread & Puppet presents The Beginning After the End of Humanity Circus, a brand new show in the tradition of the iconic Bread & Puppet circuses that began at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont in 1970. As usual, the show will draw on traditional circus tropes and familiar Bread and Puppet iconography to draw attention to the urgent issues of the day. Stilt dancers, paper maché beasts of all sizes and a riotous brass band will make a raucous, colorful spectacle of protest and celebration.
This year The Beginning After the End of Humanity Circus will be performed in our outdoor amphitheater each Saturday and Sunday.
The Saturday circus will be followed by a performance of Gaza Gray Lady Cantata. Each Saturday, July 13th – August 31st at 3pm.
The Sunday circus will be followed by our traditional, large-scale outdoor pageant, a giant spectacle in the surrounding landscape. Each Sunday, July 14th through August 25th at 3pm.
*Please come early to allow time for parking and to enjoy side shows, beginning at 2pm.
All shows at The Bread & Puppet Theater, 753 Heights Rd. Glover, VT
Tickets for all summer shows are $10 each. Each ticket is for all performances on a given day. We ask that you purchase tickets ahead of time. However, it’s central to our philosophy that our performances are as accessible as possible and no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Admission by cash donation for kids 6 and under. You can purchase tickets on our website at: https://breadandpuppet.org/book-tickets-for-upcoming-shows
Cheap Art: On all performance days Bread and Puppet’s Cheap Art – books, posters, postcards, pamphlets and banners from the Bread and Puppet Press – will be for sale in the Bread & Puppet Museum Store and in the Circus Field.
A bit more about our shows: Bread & Puppet’s founder and director, Peter Schumann, describes The Beginning After The End of Humanity Circus: “After the appropriate death dances for the burial of the empire-of-horror and it’s horrified humanity and after the screaming-trees-choir teaches earthlings how to scream against the daily atrocities, the new underneath-all-of-this humanity emerges from under the rubble, whose voices must make the new language that the new humanity needs.”
In the late 60’s through the mid 1970’s, Peter Schumann created a series of shows in response to the Vietnam war called “The Gray Lady Cantatas”. The shows featured the iconic gray lady puppets moving through vignettes both dreamlike and brutal. This new version, Gaza Gray Lady Cantata, was created and co-directed this spring by father-daughter team Peter and Maria Schumann. It uses texts from Palestinians living through the war in Gaza, and, like the older versions of the show, is a meditation on grief, war, and resistance.
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Background Information about Bread and Puppet:
Bread & Puppet Theater is an internationally celebrated company that champions a visually rich, street-theater style of performance art filled with music, dance and slapstick. Its shows are political and spectacular, with huge puppets made of paper maché and cardboard. Founded in 1963 by Peter and Elka Schumann on New York City’s Lower East Side, the theater has been based in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont since the early 1970s.

Waitsfield Select Board 2
2024-08-26 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Waitsfield Town Offices, 4144 Main Street, Waitsfield, VT, 05673
The Select Board regularly meets on the second and fourth Monday of each month at 6:30 PM, with some exceptions. Upcoming meetings can be found in the calendar. Meetings are hybrid, held both in person at the Waitsfield Town Office (4144 Main Street) and remote via Zoom (Zoom link included on the meeting agenda).

Warren Planning Commission 2
2024-08-26 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Warren Municipal Building, 42 Cemetery Road, Warren, VT, 05674
The Warren Planning Commission meets every Second and Fourth Monday of the month

Trivia Night at Emily’s
2024-08-26 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Emily’s Bar & Bistro, 5081 Main Street, Waitsfield, VT, 056673
Test yourself against the brainiacs at Emily’s on the last Monday of every month.

Taco Tuesday at Emily’s
2024-08-27 16:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Emily’s Bar & Bistro, 5081 Main Street, Waitsfield, VT, 056673
Taco special every Tuesday at Emily’s Bar & Bistro

Tuesday Tunes: Zach Nugent
2024-08-27 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Lawson’s Finest Taproom, 155 Carroll Road, Waitsfield, Vermont, 05673
Vermont’s own Zach Nugent is bringing his nationally touring show to the Lawson’s Finest Taproom. You won’t want to miss this.

Tuesdays on the Big Deck
2024-08-27 17:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Mt Ellen, Mt Ellen
Join us Tuesdays on the Mt Ellen Big Deck from 5 to 9pm all summer long! Backyard BBQ, live music and weekly cornhole tournaments with prizes and more. We will have weekly drink specials along with lawn games for the whole family. This is a rain or shine event!

Fayston Select Board 2
2024-08-27 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Fayston Town Hall, 866 North Fayston Road, Fayston, VT, 05673
The Fayston Select Board meets the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month at 6:00 p.m. at the Fayston Town Hall

Warren Select Board 2
2024-08-27 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Warren Municipal Building, 42 Cemetery Road, Warren, VT, 05674
The Warren Select Board meets the Second and Fourth Tuesdays of the month at 6:30 p.m. at the Warren Municipal Building.

Waitsfield Development Review Board 2
2024-08-27 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Waitsfield Town Offices, 4144 Main Street, Waitsfield, VT, 05673
The DRB meets on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month, at 7:00 PM, at the Waitsfield Town Office.

Cabot Creamery Blood Drive
2024-08-28 10:00 - 14:30 (America/New_York) | cabot creamery, Mad River Park - 193 Home Way, Waitsfield, VT, 05673
Cabot Creamery is hosting another Blood Drive at Cabot headquarters (193 Home Farm Way) on August 28th from 10 am to 2:30 pm and would love to see you if you can give blood!
They’ll have cheese for those who donate, and the American Red Cross is offering a $20 Amazon Gift Card as a promo for this drive. They are facing an emergency blood shortage and are asking people to make an appointment to give now!
Please spread the word and sign up at: https://www.redcrossblood.org/give.html/drive-results?zipSponsor=cabot

Wine Down Wednesday
2024-08-28 16:00 - 19:00 (America/Halifax) | Lawson’s Finest Taproom, 155 Carroll Road, Waitsfield, Vermont, 05673
Join us this July as we focus on Argentinian wine and enjoy homemade empanadas. Every Wednesday!

Fayston Conservation Commission
2024-08-28 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Fayston Town Hall, 866 North Fayston Road, Fayston, VT, 05673
The Fayston Conservation Commission meets the Fourth Wednesday of the month as needed.

Stark’s Pub Live Summer Music
2024-08-28 17:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Stark’s Pub offers an unparalleled family dining atmosphere you can’t find anywhere else in the Mad River Valley. The Pub is open during the off-season from Memorial Day weekend through Green & Gold weekend. Dinner is served Wednesday through Saturday from 4:30 to 8:30 PM with brunch offered on Sundays from 10:00 AM until 2:00 PM. Thanks to our friends at Lawson’s Finest Liquids for supporting local artists & good vibes year-round in Stark’s Pub.

SUMMER MUSIC SCHEDULE:
05/26 Evan Jennison & Friends
06/02 Madigan Linnane
06/05 Brett Hughes
06/12 Fun Dip
06/16 Jim Goodwin
06/19 John Lackard Blues
06/26 Brett Hughes
06/28 Seth Yacovone Band
06/30 Music by Cooper
07/13 Nicholas Cassarino and Friends
07/14 Rob Pierce
07/17 Brett Hughes with Pappy
07/24 Ragged Company
07/31 Lowell Thompson & Brett Hughes
08/03 Madigan Linnane – canceled
08/07 Al’s Pals
08/11 Lowell Thompson
08/15 Honeywell
08/21 The Horse Traders
08/24 Bad Management
08/28 Sugar Shack
09/27 Nicholas Cassarino and Friends
09/28 Evan Jennison & Friends

soft rocks and movement collective
2024-08-28 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Edgcomb Barn, 970 Dump Rd, Warren, Vermont, Warren, United States
The art of improvisation shines when dancers Jessie Owens, Hanna Satterlee and Danielle Tekut team up with musicians Matt LaRocca, Jeremy Frederick, and Kyle Saulnier in an immersive place-based performance.

Closed – PRIVATE EVENT
2024-08-29 08:00 - 22:00 UTC | Mad River Barn
We will be closed this Thursday for a private wedding event.

Yestermorrow Walk-In Campus Tour
2024-08-29 16:00 - 16:45 (America/New_York) | Yestermorrow Design/Build School, 7865 Main Street, Waitsfield, 05673
If you are in the Mad River Valley and would like to tour the Yestermorrow campus, please come say hello. We are offering recurring walk-in tours, Thursdays at 4pm, throughout the summer. We will explore campus, do our best to answer your burning questions, and talk about all things Yestermorrow. We hope to see you there.

Fresh Catch Thursday
2024-08-29 16:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Lawson’s Finest Taproom, 155 Carroll Road, Waitsfield, Vermont, 05673
Join us every Thursday from 4:00 to 7:00pm as Nor’Easter Catering serves up fresh oysters on the half shell and other tasty sea treats! Pair it with a $5 pint of our Nitro Irish Stout!

Big Red Barn Arts Show
2024-08-29 16:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Big Red Barn at Lareau Farm, 48 Lareau Road, Waitsfield, 05673
The show originated in 1997 with 10 artists showing their work in the Warren Village Town Hall, now occupied by the Warren Library. Seeking more space to accommodate the growing number of participants, as well as to facilitate planning for the library, the show moved to the Red Barn Galleries in 2003, courtesy of owner George Schenk. The annual show now averages more than 30 participants with professional, amateur and “Sunday” artists and artisans participating.
The un-juried show, sponsored by the Valley Artists Guild, is open to any artist or artisan crafter over the age of 18 living in the towns of the Mad River watershed. Applications for displaying work in the 2024 Big Red Barn Art Show just closed, but artists wishing to be on the list for next year’s show are welcome to contact Dotty Kyle at 802-496-4789 or westhill@gmavt.net

von Trapp Open Garden Days
2024-08-30 10:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | vonTrapp Greenhouse, 208 Common Rd, Waitsfield, Vermont, 05673
We welcome you to visit our private garden on our Open Garden Days.
Come and enjoy the flowers, the view, and the frog fountain, and chat with Sally and Tobi about all things horticultural. Our Open Garden Days are organized in collaboration with the MRV Rotary as a fundraiser for local non-profits.
Entry fee: $10.00 / adult
Children under 18 free
Please leave your pets at home! They are not permitted on the property and there is no shade in our parking lot.
