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Spice up your Vermont fall with these 30 arts and entertainment events in September

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August 31, 2025

Spice up your Vermont fall with these 30 arts and entertainment events in September

So many people decry the end of summer, but if you think about it, we love celebrating everything a Vermont fall has to offer.

The air is crisp, and the leaves start to turn all sorts of shades. Soups soothe the soul. Scads of shoppers make a beeline for any place offering pumpkin spice-flavored coffee or scones or ceiling tiles or whatever product you can or can’t imagine.

The cusp of fall is also a great time for the arts. Theater companies kick off new seasons. Concerts happen indoors and outdoors. (You’ll find some of the latter at the tail end of our summer concert preview.) Comedians welcome the darkening days with lightening humor.

OK, September actually begins with three weeks of summer; that’s a fair point. But the month heralds a busy season that gets fans of arts and entertainment especially excited. Here are 30 events that don’t need pumpkin spice to spice up your days and nights.

Denzel Washington, Spike Lee on film

4 and 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 3, the Vermont International Film Festival screens the new Spike Lee film “Highest 2 Lowest,” starring fellow Oscar winner Denzel Washington, Main Street Landing Film House, Burlington. $6-$12. www.vtiff.org

New design gallery in Burlington

4-8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 4, the new design space Gallery Nurture by Nature, founded by Kate Swanson, will present exhibitions and collectible works starting with a reception celebrating the debut exhibition “Unknown Friends,” on display through Oct. 30, 47 Maple St., Burlington. Free. www.n-by-n.com

Art Hop bounds into South End

5-10 p.m. Friday, Sept. 5, the street party and self-guided gallery tour that is the South End Art Hop returns for its 33^rd year in Burlington, with a three-day run ending at 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 7, throughout the city’s South End. Events are free except for the STRUT! Fashion Show at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 5, at the former ArtsRiot space on Pine Street ($20-$30). www.seaba.com/arthop

A weekend for Pride

8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 5, a weekend of Pride events includes a Pride Ball with the circus-themed “Freak Show” featuring DJs and drag performers, Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington. $25. www.highergroundmusic.com. The weekend culminates from noon-5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 7, with a Pride parade and festival, downtown and at Waterfront Park, Burlington. Free. www.pridecentervt.org

‘Crazy People’ in Middlebury

2 p.m. Saturday Sept. 6, the Gail Freedman documentary “No One Cares About Crazy People,” inspired by the book by Vermont author Ron Powers with narration by Bob Odenkirk and music from Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, explores the crisis of severe mental illness in America and will be screened before a discussion that includes Freedman and Powers, Town Hall Theater, Middlebury. $5-$17. www.townhalltheater.org

Jeffersonville showcases new art exhibit

5-7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 6, the exhibition “Across the Spectrum,” which runs through Nov. 2 and features the work of Vermont artist Cynthia Rosen, includes this meet-the-artist event, Bryan Fine Art Gallery, Jeffersonville. Free. www.bryangallery.org

Steph Pappas plays Charlotte

1 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 7, Burlington music veteran Steph Pappas performs at a fundraiser for the Charlotte Memorial Museum. Free; donations welcome. www.charlottevthistory.org

Montreal musician at Radio Bean

7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 10, Montreal singer-songwriter Ada Lee follows Burlington performer Audrey Pearl, Radio Bean, Burlington. $15. www.radiobean.com

Indie-pop from Nashville

7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 10, Nashville indie-pop musician Maya Manuela joins opener Frankie White, Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington. $12. www.highergroundmusic.com

Grace Potter returns with Grand Point North

4:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 12, Vermont rocker Grace Potter is back with her Grand Point North concert series, starting with her performance with the Vermont Symphony Orchestra as well as sets by Britney Spencer, The Wet Ones!, Burly Girlies and Grace Palmer; followed at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 13, with a performance by Potter after sets by Melt, ISTA, Slob Drop, Heady Betty and Dutch Experts; and at 7 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 14, with a concert by jam-rock favorites Goose, Waterfront Park, Burlington. $54 per show Friday-Saturday, $94 for a two-day pass; Goose is sold out. www.highergroundmusic.com

‘A Taste of Ireland’ in Vermont

7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 12, the Celtic music-and-dance performance “A Taste of Ireland” begins a trio of Vermont shows at the Flynn, Burlington. $42-$73. www.flynnvt.org. Other performances (both at 7:30 p.m.) are Saturday, Sept. 13, Dibden Center for the Arts, Vermont State University, Johnson ($42-$62, www.catamontarts.org), and Sunday, Sept. 18, Paramount Theatre, Rutland ($42.80-$74.90, www.paramountvt.org).

Bob Mould visits Higher Ground

8 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 14, the leader of ‘80s alt-rockers Husker Du, Bob Mould, plays a show following opener J. Robbins, Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington. $35. www.highergroundmusic.com

Night Moves on a Monday night

7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 15, the Minneapolis foursome Night Moves — they describe their sound as “cosmic twang rock disco” — join Raybody in the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington. $18. www.highergroundmusic.com

A whole lot of Jim Gaffigan

7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18, comedian and actor Jim Gaffigan begins a five-show, four-day stay that includes performances at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 19; 5 and 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20; and 7 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 21, the Flynn, Burlington. $48-$165.25. www.flynnvt.org

Burlington goes baroque

7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18, the second-annual Burlington Baroque Festival, under the direction of Eric Milnes, begins a four-day run of concerts that also take place at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 19, and Saturday, Sept. 20, as well as 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 21, College Street Congregational Church, Burlington. $10-$80; $140-$285 for festival passes; free for children. www.burlingtonbaroque.org

Comedy from Kondabolu

7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18, comedian Hari Kondabolu is back for sets that also happen at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 19, and Saturday, Sept. 20, Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington. $25. www.vermontcomedyclub.com

‘Parent on Board’ drives for laughs

7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18, the Middlebury Acting Company and Interact Creative join to present “Parent on Board,” a sketch-and-music performance that also runs at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 19, and 4 and 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, Town Hall Theater, Middlebury. $17-$55. www.townhalltheater.org. The troupe is also scheduled to perform at 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 26, and 6:30 and 9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27, Off Center for the Dramatic Arts, Burlington. Ticket prices to be announced. www.offcentervt.com

Fiddlehead features fall festival

6:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 19, Shelburne’s Fiddlehead Brewing begins its FallFest featuring music from Burlington favorite Kat Wright and continues at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, with the University of Vermont-born indie band Rubblebucket, Smugglers’ Notch Resort, Jeffersonville. $22.50-$86.02. www.smuggs.com

UVM’s Lane Series returns

7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 19, the University of Vermont Lane Series celebrates 70 years of performances with its opening concert this season by pianist Evren Ozel, UVM Recital Hall, Burlington. $7.50-$38.50. www.uvm.edu/laneseries

TURNmusic concerts in Waterbury, Burlington

7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, TURNmusic celebrates the 75^th birthday of Vermont composer Erik Nielsen with the TURNmusic string quartet (Mary Rowell, Brooke Quiggins, Elizabeth Reid and John Dunlop) and clarinet player Dan Liptak, The Phoenix Art Gallery and Music Hall, Waterbury. That’s followed at 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 21, with a concert at the Main Street Landing Film House, Burlington. $30-$50. www.turnmusic.org

Capital City Concerts begins 26th year

7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, the 26^th season of Capital City Concerts commences with pianist Robert McDonald, Unitarian Church, Montpelier. $10-$50. www.capitalcityconcerts.org

African diaspora music at Clemmons Family Farm

4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 21, soprano Brenda Marie Turner, kora player John Hughes and pianist Kyle Walker perform classical music of the African diaspora, Clemmons Family Farm, Charlotte. Free; advance reservations required. www.clemmonsfamilyfarm.org/african-diaspora-classical-music

‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ turned into musical

7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 23, through Wednesday, Sept. 24, the film-turned-musical “Mrs. Doubtfire” hits the stage for two performances at the Flynn, Burlington. $71-$100. www.flynnvt.org

‘Come From Away’ comes to Northern Stage

7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 24, the musical “Come From Away” begins the season at Northern Stage and runs through Oct. 26, Byrne Theatre, Barrette Center for the Arts, White River Junction. $40-$100. www.northernstage.org

Vermont Stage turns 31

7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 25, the 31^st season of Vermont Stage starts with the humor-filled Lindsay Joelle play “The Garbologists,” Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington. $34-$59. www.vermontstage.org

Mary Chapin Carpenter, Brandy Clark in concert

7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 26, singer-songwriters Mary Chapin Carpenter and Brandy Clark share a bill at the Paramount Theatre, Rutland. $69-$129. www.paramountvt.org

‘The Other Mozart’ appears in Middlebury

7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 26, the Middlebury Performing Arts Series, in its 106^th year, continues its new season with the play “The Other Mozart” written and performed by Sylvia Milo, Wright Theatre, Middlebury College. $5-$30. www.middlebury.edu/college/arts/performing-arts-series

VSO starts Flynn season

7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 26, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra begins its 2025-26 season with “East Meets West,” a concert led by conductor Andrew Crust and featuring tabla player Sandeep Das and sitarist Rajib Karmakar, the Flynn, Burlington. $8.35-$62. www.vso.org or www.flynnvt.org

Honey & Soul ends its roll

Saturday, Sept. 27, the Burlington folk-soul musical group Honey & Soul marks the end of its eight-year run with one final concert, Radio Bean, Burlington. Time and ticket prices to be announced. www.facebook.com/honeyandsoulmusic

‘Cosmic Country’ hits Higher Ground

8 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 28, rock band Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country settles into the Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington. $25. www.highergroundmusic.com

Contact Brent Hallenbeck at bhallenbeck@freepressmedia.com.

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VT Lottery Mega Millions, Gimme 5 results for Nov. 14, 2025

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November 15, 2025

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Powerball, Mega Millions jackpots: What to know in case you win

Here’s what to know in case you win the Powerball or Mega Millions jackpot.

Just the FAQs, USA TODAY

The Vermont Lottery offers several draw games for those willing to make a bet to win big.

Those who want to play can enter the MegaBucks and Lucky for Life games as well as the national Powerball and Mega Millions games. Vermont also partners with New Hampshire and Maine for the Tri-State Lottery, which includes the Mega Bucks, Gimme 5 as well as the Pick 3 and Pick 4.

Drawings are held at regular days and times, check the end of this story to see the schedule. Here’s a look at Nov. 14, 2025, results for each game:

Winning Vermont Mega Millions numbers from Nov. 14 drawing

01-08-11-12-57, Mega Ball: 07

Check Vermont Mega Millions payouts and previous drawings here.

Winning Gimme 5 numbers from Nov. 14 drawing

03-13-16-34-35

Check Gimme 5 payouts and previous drawings here.

Winning Lucky For Life VT numbers from Nov. 14 drawing

14-19-34-42-43, Lucky Ball: 13

Check Lucky For Life VT payouts and previous drawings here.

Winning Pick 3 numbers from Nov. 14 drawing

Day: 6-8-6

Evening: 9-9-9

Check Pick 3 payouts and previous drawings here.

Winning Pick 4 numbers from Nov. 14 drawing

Day: 6-5-0-7

Evening: 8-4-8-0

Check Pick 4 payouts and previous drawings here.

Feeling lucky? Explore the latest lottery news & results

Are you a winner? Here’s how to claim your lottery prize

For Vermont Lottery prizes up to $499, winners can claim their prize at any authorized Vermont Lottery retailer or at the Vermont Lottery Headquarters by presenting the signed winning ticket for validation. Prizes between $500 and $5,000 can be claimed at any M&T Bank location in Vermont during the Vermont Lottery Office’s business hours, which are 8a.m.-4p.m. Monday through Friday, except state holidays.

For prizes over $5,000, claims must be made in person at the Vermont Lottery headquarters. In addition to signing your ticket, you will need to bring a government-issued photo ID, and a completed claim form.

All prize claims must be submitted within one year of the drawing date. For more information on prize claims or to download a Vermont Lottery Claim Form, visit the Vermont Lottery’s FAQ page or contact their customer service line at (802) 479-5686.

Vermont Lottery Headquarters

1311 US Route 302, Suite 100

Barre, VT

05641

When are the Vermont Lottery drawings held?

Powerball: 10:59 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday.
Mega Millions: 11 p.m. Tuesday and Friday.
Gimme 5: 6:55 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Lucky for Life: 10:38 p.m. daily.
Pick 3 Day: 1:10 p.m. daily.
Pick 4 Day: 1:10 p.m. daily.
Pick 3 Evening: 6:55 p.m. daily.
Pick 4 Evening: 6:55 p.m. daily.
Megabucks: 7:59 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.

What is Vermont Lottery Second Chance?

Vermont’s 2nd Chance lottery lets players enter eligible non-winning instant scratch tickets into a drawing to win cash and/or other prizes. Players must register through the state’s official Lottery website or app. The drawings are held quarterly or are part of an additional promotion, and are done at Pollard Banknote Limited in Winnipeg, MB, Canada.

This results page was generated automatically using information from TinBu and a template written and reviewed by a Vermont editor. You can send feedback using this form.

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Guster’s singer volunteers for ‘most magical thing on earth’ with 12-hour dance in Lincoln

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November 14, 2025

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Guster’s singer volunteers for ‘most magical thing on earth’ with 12-hour dance in Lincoln

Ryan Miller learned of Zeno Mountain Farm a half-dozen years ago from his Guster bandmate Luke Reynolds, who had recently moved to Lincoln in Addison County.

It was a camp in town, Reynolds told Miller, geared toward helping people with disabilities. Year-round, folks with and without disabilities worked on an even plane to put on shows, all for free. Miller went to one of Zeno Mountain Farm’s annual plays, the musical “Best Summer Ever,” and discovered a “gateway drug” that has kept him in the world of Zeno Mountain ever since.

“When I walked in there and saw the play and saw this place and saw this community, I was like, ‘Well, this is the most magical thing on earth,’” said Miller, who lives in Williston. “It feels like science fiction.”

Miller corralled many of Vermont’s highest-profile musicians to perform Nov. 16 in a 12-hour dance marathon at Zeno Mountain. The fundraiser was expected to raise about $100,000, said Peter Halby, who founded the nonprofit camp with his family. That totals roughly a sixth of the organization’s annual budget.

“We take care of each other together,” Halby said in describing Zeno Mountain’s mission. “We really want to push the definition of inclusion.”

A sense of community in Lincoln, Vermont

As the org says online, Zeno Mountain Farm aims to support “people with disabilities, cancer and traumatic brain injuries, along with veterans, people in recovery and ever-expanding kindred groups.”

The group had roots in California before moving to Lincoln in 2008. The next summer came Zeno Mountain’s first monthlong summer camp, and over time, the team “realized the Zeno model worked to create a society without margins for everyone.”

Of the hundreds of people involved in Zeno Mountain Farm, only four staff members are paid regularly. No one pays to attend. There are no distinctions between counselors and campers. Everyone works together to put on plays and concerts and travel “to all of the sweet spots of Vermont,” Halby said.

Zeno Mountain strives to avoid defining those with disabilities as “almost less-than,” Halby said.

“It’s just like one element of who they are,” he said.

Zeno Mountain Farm offers about 15 residential camp sessions a year totaling nearly 100 days, Halby said, with 50 to 100 people in attendance per session. He said the goal is to invite the same people every year, building a sense of community for those who often bounce around between homes and otherwise miss the thread of togetherness.

“People go back every year,” Miller said. “It really becomes this family, like a real family.”

Zeno Mountain Farm exists “on this incredible network of volunteers,” Halby said. “It’s hundreds of people, hundreds of Vermonters.”

Miller is one of those Vermonters.

“He has taken this on,” Halby said of Miller and his work on the upcoming dance marathon. “He’s so into it. He gets Zeno. He’s such a light and so great at this, and he pours his heart into it.”

Guster singer gets to work

When he saw his first play at Zeno Mountain, Miller was struck by how there was no delineation between actors with or without disabilities. If an actor had trouble speaking a line, they were given the space to speak it. A performer with trouble walking would have someone walking with them. It seemed to Miller to be a place with no race, no age, no particular ability or disability, no hierarchy.

“It’s so hard to be cynical within the walls of the place,” he said.

Miller has been coordinating performers for the half-day dance marathon. Vermont musicians including Brett Hughes, Lowell Thompson, Troy Millette, Matt LaRocca, Mark Daly (Madaila), Eric Maier (formerly of Madaila), Sadie Brightman and James Kolchalka are scheduled for this year’s event.

Miller — who seems to know everyone connected to Vermont’s music scene and many not — is so into Zeno Mountain that the man, who spends months every year on the road with his rock band, has agreed to serve as a board member for the organization.

“I’m not a fundraiser kind of guy,” Miller said. “I don’t want to come in as, like, Daddy Warbucks. What I can do is come in and try to connect people.”

Miller said he aims to be optimistic about life. Zeno Mountain Farm, he said, helps him feel good about humans.

“I think you take that outside of Zeno,” Miller said. “It serves as ballast in my moral maneuverings.”

If you go

WHAT: Zeno Mountain Farm annual dance marathon fundraising event

WHEN: 1 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 15-1 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 16

WHERE: Zeno Mountain Farm, 950 Zeno Road, Lincoln

INFORMATION: To donate, sponsor a dancer or take part in the dance marathon, visit zenomountainfarm.org or fundraise.givesmart.com/e/aahyTg?vid=1muq04

Contact Brent Hallenbeck at bhallenbeck@freepressmedia.com.

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VTDigger joins forces with FRONTLINE to investigate the aftermath of Vermont’s severe flooding – VTDigger

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November 13, 2025

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VTDigger joins forces with FRONTLINE to investigate the aftermath of Vermont’s severe flooding – VTDigger

A crew from Colchester Technical Rescue takes a boat down flooded Main Street in Montpelier on July 11, 2023. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger

FRONTLINE, PBS’s investigative documentary series produced at GBH in Boston, has selected VTDigger for a yearlong reporting partnership to examine the aftermath of Vermont’s severe flooding and the federal government’s shifting response to natural disasters.

Emma Cotton, who has served as VTDigger’s environmental reporter before becoming a senior editor, will lead the project’s reporting. Her work, as part of FRONTLINE’s Local Journalism Initiative, will investigate how this extreme weather has affected our residents, housing situation, farms, businesses and landscape.

“Our goal will be to investigate why some Vermont communities are struggling to recover from the floods and how they could be better supported in getting back on their feet,” said Geeta Anand, VTDigger’s editor-in-chief. “We will do this in conversation with people in these communities so that our reporting is deeply informed by those most affected by the floods.”

VTDigger is one of seven newsrooms selected for FRONTLINE’s Journalism Initiative. Digger will team up with Blue Ridge Public Radio and The Texas Newsroom (the collaboration among NPR stations in the state), providing in-depth coverage of the impact and recovery efforts as we grapple with worsening weather and increased destruction.

“I’m so grateful to have FRONTLINE’s support, which enables us to dedicate a new level of resources to one of the most important stories in the state,” Cotton said. “I look forward to giving this story my complete attention over the next year, and I’m eager to connect with Vermonters across the state to understand how flooding has affected them and their communities.”

Vermont, long cast as a climate haven, is struggling to recover from back-to-back major flooding events, never mind prepare for the next ones. For each of the past three years, extreme flooding has taken place on the same day, July 10.

Small, rural towns, like those in southern Vermont and the Northeast Kingdom, have tiny, sometimes volunteer governments with limited capacity to plan for floods. Some of these towns are currently grappling with millions of dollars in debt — doubling their annual budgets in some instances.

“So many of us were personally affected by these floods — my road washed out two years in a row, and my former Montpelier business was destroyed in 2023,” said Sky Barsch, VTDigger’s CEO. “I know firsthand how vital it is to have deep, sustained reporting on what recovery entails. Under Geeta Anand’s leadership and with Emma Cotton’s excellent reporting, VTDigger is proud to partner with FRONTLINE to bring these stories to light.”