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Dispensation of the Ordinary is the new album from Michael Chorney and Dollar General. There is a delicate finesse to the music which is heightened by the prominent lap steel and gentle vocal delivery that sets this album adrift.

By Michael Block The big question is do we need another theatrical retelling of Orpheus and Eurydice? The answer is only if it's good. Hadestown falls right in the middle of that spectrum. It's stunning to listen to. It's pleasing to the eye. But do...

By Jordan Cohen In 2010, Anaïs Mitchell, who has been called the “queen of modern folk music,” gained critical acclaim for the release of Hadestown, a folk opera concept album based on the Orpheus and Eurydice myth. Six years later, Ms. Mitchell, in...

They grow up so fast, don't they? It seems like only yesterday that beloved Burlington hipster haunt Radio Bean was but a fledgling, funky hole-in-the-wall on North Winooski Avenue. In some ways, I suppose the little-coffee-shop-that-could is still exactly...

Kat Wright & the Indomitable Soul Band perform during the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival on June 7.(Photo: FREE PRESS FILE) The Fourth of July is almost here. For those of us living in the Northern Hemisphere, that means summer is in full swing...