2017 “Liveliest Library,” Yankee Magazine

Burlington has an incredible music and arts scene, ranging from basement jam bands to Dick Dale inspired trios, orchestras to street performers. Nationally recognized museums have as much clout in our city as artist collectives. There is no lack of creative juice and you’ll find it flowing in the streets of Burlington. Home to world-wide sensations like Phish and Grace Potter– it might just be worth planning a trip around what you’ll hear and see instead of what you’ll eat and drink. Put on your dancing shoes, grab a seat at a theatre or shimmy up next to a stranger in a crowd, here’s what going on in our neck of the woods.

BURLINGTON MUSIC SCENE

ArtsRiot • Radio Bean • Signal Kitchen • Foam Brewers • Skinny Pancake • Nectar’s • The Vermont Comedy Club • Discover Jazz Festival • Twiddle’s Tumble Down Festival • Grand Point North

BURLINGTON ART SPACES

Flynn Center for the Performing Arts • Burlington City Arts: Firehouse Gallery • Fleming Museum of Art • The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery and Studio Collective • The Box Art Studio • New City Galerie • Champlain College Art Gallery • Karma Bird House Gallery at Maglianero • South End Art Hop • Art that’s outside the box… Burlington’s street art • Havoc Gallery • Montstream Studio • AO Glassworks • Frog Hollow Vermont Craft

OUT OF TOWN MUSIC & ARTS

SHELBURNE  Vermont Symphony Orchestra • Shelburne Museum • Furchgott Sourdiffe • The Luxton-Jones Gallery • Ben & Jerry’s Concerts  MIDDLEBURY Middlebury College Museum of Art • Edgewater Gallery at Middlebury Falls • Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History VERGENNES Ross Sheehan • Northern Daughters  WINOOSKI Heritage Winooski Mill Museum • Wishbone Collective • Waking Windows • Monkey House  SOUTH BURLINGTON Higher Ground WATERBURY Tabbatha Henry STOWE Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery • West Branch Gallery and Sculpture Park • Stowe Craft & Design ROCHESTER  BigTown Gallery