A VERMONT BED AND BREAKFAST IN THE JAY PEAK AREA OF THE NORTHEAST KINGDOM
THE RIVERBEND
Bed & Breakfast
6198 VT Rte 100 on the Missisquoi River in Troy, VT 05868
802-744-9991
2008QNEK - 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 QNEK Website january 2008
March 15th - THE ESSENCE of QUINTESSENCE - March 15th - 7 PM
Wine and Cheese and Serendipitous Music
PRICE: $9.99 The penny will be given to the charity of your choice if you give us $10)
(or for your benefit only -
Five Divas and A Dashing Dude)
Mark Violette
Lynn Leimer
Susan-Lynn Johns
Anita Morin
Ruth-Ann Fletcher
Sally Rivard
Perform stunning musical numbers the represent the ESSENCE of Performance ART for the Benefit of the MAC Arts Center
167 Main Street, Newport. Tickets available at center or by calling 744-9991. Limited to 50 seats.
29th - Clogging workshop with Ann Whiting
Time: 4 pm
Price: $10
Location: The Music Box, 147 Creek Rd, Craftsbury
Ann is a bright, energetic dancer with an infectious enthusiasm that attracts people of all ages. Clogging and step dancing since 1979, she has performed with the Green Mountain Cloggers and the Kitchen Sync Cloggers. She is an endlessly creative choreographer, teacher and stylist, and an inspiring solo performer. Come and spend a mud season afternoon with her! Get some exercise for your body & soul. Find out the difference between stepdancing and clogging. She will be teaching popular Appalachian clogging steps that are called the basic, lone ranger, Bertha, big kick, chug, Eddy. It works best if people wear leather soled shoes. Sneakers don't allow you to slide your feet across the floor very well. This workshop will last about 1 hour.
Email info@themusicbox.com Website http://www.themusicbox.com
29th -
Clogging Performance with Music from the Fiddleheads
Time: 7:30 pm
Price: $10
Location: The Music Box, 147 Creek Rd, Craftsbury
Ann will be clogging to the live music of Mark Sustic, Frank Heyburn and three of the Fiddleheads, Roland Clark, Hannah Crary, and Sash Ross-Becker. Mark ( who plays several string instruments and fiddle all his life) is the teacher and mentor of Fiddleheads, a group of young people interested in learning and performing traditional fiddle tunes. The tunes they play highlight the Yankee, French, Irish, Scottish and other cultures of Northern Vermont. They have recorded 2 CDs as a groupThis will be a high energy night brimming with talent. Check out Ann s website www.awclogger.com and the Fiddleheads at www.fiddleheads.org
Email info@themusicbox.com Website http://www.themusicbox.com
30th - Music for a Sunday Afternoon - Fourth Season Opening Concert Cody Michaels, Pianist
Michaels' style draws more from classical music than jazz although this could almost be improvisation. However, the chords are relatively uncomplicated, and if anything, this music sounds more like Keith Jarrett than Dave Brubeck.
Michaels shows a fine touch and a lyrical and melodic sense as well as harmonic sophistication.
In printed material, Michaels says, "the piano is a way to connect with the mystery of creation and every song is a prayer offered to the universe." This is as good an explanation of his music as anyone could make.
For a musician whose ancestors were Russian pianists dating back to the mid-19th century, who has played piano since age 4, beginning in 1964, he seems adept at giving his own special imprint to this seasonal theme.
The fact that Michaels is a former park ranger and mountaineer might just well explain his contemplative music, which one reviewer said "captures the essence of spirit and beauty of nature as few before."
$10 donation
25th - Award Winning QNEK Productions Celebrates Their 15th Anniversary Season with Gala Opening April 25th
Dearly Beloved - by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Westen and Directed by Susan-Lynn Johns. From the writers of Dearly Departed ( a QNEK Hit from the 2003 Season),comes another fast-paced comedy about love, marriage, sisterhood, gospel music and 300 pounds of Texas BBQ. The Opening Night of the season will be followed by a Vernissage in the Haskell Ready Room, Derby Line. Performances continue on April 26, May 2, and 3 at 7:30 p.m. and April 27 at 2 p.m. Tickets are available at 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
QNEK.com
26th - QNEK Productions - Dearly Beloved
Haskell Opera House, Derby Line
7:30 PM
Tickets are available at 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
QNEK.com
27th - QNEK Productions - Dearly Beloved
Haskell Opera House, Derby Line
2:00 PM
Tickets are available at 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
QNEK.com
12th - Paul Asbell, guitar wizard
Time: 8 pm
Price: $10
Location: The Music Box, 147 Creek Rd, Craftsbury
From his early years, playing blues on Chicago's South Side, to his present multi-faceted career based out of Northern Vermont, Paul has earned an underground reputation as a true "musician's musician." He has played and recorded with Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, Lightnin' Hopkins, Otis Rush, Magic Sam, Earl Hooker, Lightnin' Slim, Paul Butterfield and many others. In 1981 he joined with others to form the Big Joe Burrell and the Unknown Blues Band. This guy can play. How does he make his fingers go that fast and smooth? In SEVEN DAYS magazine gave him the Best Musician of 2004 Award. To find out more about him check out www.paulasbell.com
Email info@themusicbox.com Website http://www.themusicbox.com
18th - Music for a Sunday Afternoon Constitution Brass Quintet
The Constitution Brass Quintet was founded in 1983. Juried Artist in the Vermont Arts Council Arts Directory, the ensemble has appeared extensively throughout New England and has been a featured group at First Night Burlington since 1991. In July 1995, the group was honored to be selected to perform at the National Governors' Conference. The quintet's extensive repertoire spans over four centuries of music composition, from the 16th Century to the present, literally "Renaissance to ragtime and beyond." Audiences are presented a wide range of musical periods and styles. Added program features include historical and musical commentary, humorous anecdotes, and members of the quintet performing in the midst of the audience.
"The Constitution Brass Quintet are fine musicians who also understand the value of entertaining their audiences. Their concerts are well-crafted, well-played and, quite simply, a lot of fun!"
....Gwyneth Walker, Vermont composer
St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 44 Second Street, Newport
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.
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
october 2008
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
december 2008
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