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Did you know that making and enjoying music can stimulate your brain, trigger memories and emotions, connect you with other people and enrich your life, according to a report from AARP’s Global Council on Brain Health (GCBH).

Music engages multiple parts of the brain — including those involved in memory, thinking skills, movement, attention, language and emotion — and helps them work together, according to the report, which is based on a review of scientific literature by independent experts.

To read more about music and brain health, check out these links:
The Magic of Music and the Brain
The Extraordinary World of Music and the Mind
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Get to know AARP Vermont at events and concerts around the state with discounted admission, sponsored by AARP. Discover new possibilities in your community and get to know us and what we're doing in Vermont. We look forward to seeing you!

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GRAHAM NASH

OCTOBER 10 - BURLINGTON
Flynn Theater Main Stage - Tickets at flynnvt.org
AARP Members & Guests Get 15% Off - Use promo code GN50PLUS

Legendary artist Graham Nash, as a founding member of both the Hollies and Crosby, Stills and Nash, is a two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee. He has seen rock history unfold at some of its seminal moments, from the launch of the British Invasion to the birth of the Laurel Canyon movement a year later. An extraordinary Grammy Award-winning renaissance artist, and self-described “simple man,” Nash was inducted twice into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, for his work with CSN and his work as a solo artist. Towering above virtually everything that Graham Nash has accomplished in his long and multi-faceted career, stands the litany of songs that he has written and introduced to the soundtrack of our lives for nearly six decades. His latest effort, Now, was released worldwide in May 2023. For this show, Graham is joined on stage by Todd Caldwell (keyboards and vocals), Adam Minkoff (bass, drums, guitars, and vocals), and Zach Djanikian (guitars, mandolin, drums, and vocals), performing favorites from across his sixty-year career.

VT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

OCTOBER 18-27 - BURLINGTON
Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center - Tickets at vtiff.org
AARP Members & Guests Get $2 Off - Use promo code 50Plus

VTIFF hosts a ten-day panorama of independent films from around the world with screenings followed by filmmaker Q&As and daily receptions.

CLUB D'ELF

NOVEMBER 23 - PUTNEY
Next Stage Arts - Tickets at nextstagearts.org

AARP Members & Guests Get 15% Off - Use Promo Code 50Plus

To the naked eye, Club d’Elf looks exactly like a world-class instrumental band: five or six fierce players laying down heavy grooves and exploratory solos on distinctive original material, as audience members dance or listen in rapt attention. To its fans, however, and its large and colorful cast of musicians, D’Elf is all that and much, much more.

The paradox and the power of the unusually named Club d’Elf become increasingly clear through repeated encounters. Unlike almost any other band, D’Elf’s personnel changes radically from show to show. Fans have their favorite configurations and players, but unlike groups where musicians’ tenures are finite, D’Elf-ians revolve in and out, reappearing in endless combinations. Beyond the cavalcade of characters, the music itself is in constant flux. Individual songs can vary dramatically from performance to performance as new alignments of players make every moment fresh. No two sets are alike. Yet the feeling and philosophy that animate D’Elf remain consistent, the product of the vision and dedication of leader Mike Rivard (aka Micro Vard) and the ongoing contributions of his talented collaborators. Devoted fans have been setting their clocks by the group’s bimonthly appearances at their home base, the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for twenty years now, and the message has traveled around the world.

HOLIDAY POPS WITH THE VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

DECEMBER 6-8 – BARRE, BURLINGTON, RUTLAND
Tickets at www.vso.org/events
AARP Members & Guests Discount 15% Off with code JINGLE15

This year’s Holiday Pops concerts include the VSO’s 80-voice chorus, led by José Daniel Flores-Caraballo, leading three sing-a-longs and performing much-loved music by John Rutter, LeRoy Anderson, and Georg Frederic Handel. A new-to-VSO composition by Quinn Mason, Spanish-influenced holiday music, and traditional carols round out this traditional family-favorite event.

December 6th, 2024, Holiday Pops in Barre – 7:30p at the Barre Opera House

December 7th, 2024, Holiday Pops in Burlington – 7:30p at the Flynn Theater in Burlington

December 8th, 2024, H<hr></hr>oliday Pops in Rutland – 3:00p at the Paramount Theatre in Rutland

KING JAMES

JANUARY 29 - FEBRUARY 16, 2025 - WHITE RIVER JUNCTION
Northern Stage - Tickets at northernstage.org
AARP Members & Guests Get 15% Off Tickets. Use Discount Code VTSAVE15

King James by Rajiv Joseph
LeBron James’ extraordinary tenure with the Cleveland Cavaliers brought hope to a city that had lost its sense of promise. In this new play, spanning the 12 years from LeBron’s rookie season to an NBA Championship, two men navigate a turbulent friendship through their shared love of basketball in a timely reminder of the power of sports to connect, inspire, and unite us in good times and bad.

Located in White River Junction, VT, Northern Stage is a professional theater company with a mission to change lives, one story at a time. Northern Stage presents world-class theatrical productions, offers extensive educational and outreach programs, and develops new works, reaching more than 50,000 community members each year.

PAGLIACCI - A COLLIERIAN PRODUCTION

FEBRUARY 21 & 22, 2025 - GREENSBORO
Opera Vermont at the Highland Center for the Arts - Tickets at highlandartsvt.org
AARP Members & Guests Get 10% Off - Use Promo Code 50Plus

This opera is an amalgam of the productions of I Pagliacci and Cavalleria Rusticana, with professional circus artists joining professional opera singers to provide a thrilling evening of music, theatre, and circus arts exploring the concept of the way that the lives of artists on stage bleed into reality, and blur what is true and what is fabricated performance.