The Phoenix

24/12/2023

Merry Christmas Eve and thank you to everyone who came in to buy art, see a concert, rent our space, practice yoga, buy root beer and candy and in general be present to celebrate with us in this first six months of business on Stowe Street! We’re pleased as punch to be breaking even and look forward to more growth in 2024. We love you and we’ll be closed starting today while we prep and install our next three month gallery show, WARP & WEFT, opening Friday, January 5th with the Cleary/Gagnon/Saulnier jazz trio performing. Free to the public, see you in the New Year!

18/12/2023

TONIGHT!

Friend of The Phoenix, 19 year old Huntington, Vt poet Rowan Riggs will be in conversation with Chris Martin, author of “May Tomorrow Be Awake: On Poetry, Autism and Our Neurodivergent Future,” and soon to be publisher of Rowan’s debut poetry collection. Follow the link in bio to register for a zoom link to listen in on this compelling dialogue between poet and publisher, hosted by the wonderful folks at Vermont Studio Center! This event is free and will send lightning bolts through your Monday evening, we promise.

Rowan is non-speaking (but very verbal) autistic and has been writing poetry from an astonishingly early age. His poetry and friendship, together with his parents, Mariah and Josh Riggs, has buoyed and inspired The Phoenix’s owners, Joseph Pensak and Anna Black, through peaks and valleys of our lives and we are so excited to see this collaboration happen. Rowan, through his typepad, was a guest vocalist on Joseph’s last album, called Hallowell (“Do Not Pass Me By,” on Hallowell’s self titled record—find it on all the streaming services).

EVENT DETAILS:

Virtual VSC: Writer to Writer: Chris Martin & Rowan Riggs

Monday, December 18, 2023
7:00 PM-8:00 PM
Virtual VSC: Writer to Writer: Conversations on Craft & Featured Readings series pairs writers together to read from their work and to discuss all aspects of being a working writer. These live virtual events are a window into a writer’s life and also provide access to, and a platform for, diverse voices and writing talent across genres. Conversations may touch on craft, literary friendship, publishing, sustaining a writing practice, and more.

14/12/2023

THE PHOENIX presents

WARP & WEFT
January 5th-March 29th, 2024

Jasmine Parsia
Emma Warren
Hannah Morris
Elise Whittemore
Karen Cygnarowicz
Carleen Zimbalatti
Rachel Laundon

Opening reception Friday, January 5th, 5-9pm

CLEARY/GAGNON/SAULNIER Jazz trio will perform 6-7pm

FREE TO THE PUBLIC

13/12/2023

/////////// December Yoga at The Phoenix //////////

Follow the link in the bio to buy your class now, they are filling up fast—this past Monday evening’s class was completely full.

We also are thrilled to welcome Holidae to Phoenix Yoga! You will LOVE her energy and she and Emilia are now able to offer you more times for classes. See her bio and class description below.

Here are our December offerings:

YOGA WITH EMILIA

Thursday, December 14th, 6:15pm

Friday, December 15th, 8am

Saturday, December 16th, 9:30am

Thursday, December 21st, 6:15pm

Friday, December 22nd, 8am

YOGA WITH HOLIDAE

Monday, December 11th, 6pm

Monday, December 18th, 6pm

Saturday, December 23rd, 9:30am

Bio:
Holidae has been practicing yoga for over 15 years and has been teaching yoga for over a year. She completed her 200 hour RYT through Sangha Studio, in Burlington Vermont, in 2020. Her goal for class is for you to connect movement with breath and feel good in your body. Her Vinyasa style flow class will provide opportunities for you to build strength and stability, listen to your body, and calm your mind. Holidae believes yoga is also a tool for creating community & hopes class is not only a time for you to move and connect with your own body and mind, but find and build connection within our community. When Holidae is not in the studio, you can find her playing in her garden or biking and skiing up mountains with her husband and toddler.

12/12/2023

JAZZ AT THE PHOENIX

This Friday
CLEARY GAGNON SAULNIER
7pm doors, 7:30pm music
BYOB
$15-30 sliding scale admission

Advance tix available at thephoenixvt.com

20/11/2023

The Phoenix presents
“Everything’s Under $300 Buy It Off The Wall Holiday Art Sale”
Tuesday, November 21st-Sunday, December 31st

Featuring new work by

Tonsenia Yonn
Jeremy Ayers
Axel Stohlberg
Karen Cygnarowicz
Virginia Monte
Ginger Lambert
Meg Reinhold
Barrie Fisher
Katy Sudol

Free wrapping in our gorgeous pink butcher paper with many color choices for your write on paper tape

17/11/2023

“See ya later alligator” (Trystan’s piece shown here)! Friday is the last day to catch Trystan Bates’ solo exhibit at The Phoenix. And to toast Trystan we thought it would be pretty rad to have a killer band play. Come experience EDNA, Michael Chorney’s new band with Kyle Saulnier and Jeremy Frederick, live amongst the art. 7pm doors, tickets are going fast so check our events calendar on our website and grab yours before it sells out. We’re limiting this one to 50 seats.

15/11/2023

Heads up, spots in Yoga with Emilia’s welcome classes are selling out fast (only 10 spots per class) so follow the link in bio to scoop yours! The Thursday night class is almost sold out. Reminder to all participants to bring your own mat, water bottle and any helps you use in your own practice—we don’t have extra mats on hand at The Phoenix.

01/11/2023

The Phoenix Gallery & Music Hall presents

MONDAYS ARE SCARY!
Standup Comedy in the Village
Hosted by Maddie Cross

Monday, November 13th

Featuring




7pm, $10 at door, 5 Stowe Street, Waterbury Village, Vermont

29/10/2023

Wait what….hang on I need a closer look….AHHHHHHHHHH!!!

WOWZERS Waterbury, what a party! Over 100 costumed revelers and Ping Pong competitors filled our space with Halloween joy. Thanks for making our 1st annual party such a rollicking good time.

28/10/2023

And the winners of the Best Costume Contest, “Two Empanadas”!!!!!!

28/10/2023

With the winner of the Ping Pong Tourney!!!!

28/10/2023

Stereotypical Barbie meets Weird Barbie!

27/10/2023

Weird Barbie has arrived.

27/10/2023

TONIGHT!!! 6pm-1am!

6-7:30pm
PING PONG Free Play and Registration for bracketed tournament
7:30pm Tourney Begins!
8:45ish Winner Crowned
8:45ish to 1am: Costume Dance Party
Six Vermont beers to choose from and a whole lot of wine choices including lots of Cava and Prosecco
Start a tab and we’ll take care of you!

17/10/2023

The Phoenix Gallery & Music Hall presents

EDNA
Friday, November 17th
7pm doors, 7:30pm music

$15-$30 sliding scale admission at door

Edna is an improvised instrumental music group comprised of Michael Chorney, Kyle Saulnier and Jeremy Frederick.

The trio creates highly melodic songs through the use of space and deconstruction.

5 Stowe Street, Waterbury Village, Vermont

17/10/2023

The Phoenix Gallery & Music Hall presents

JUNIPER SAGE Vintage Sale
Sunday, November 5th, 11-6pm

GUCCI • MOSCHINO • JEAN PAUL GAULTIER • DOLCE & GABANNA • CHRISTIAN DIOR • LEATHERS • KNITS • BOOTS• $20 BIN

Our favorite vintage clothes seller in Vermont comes to The Phoenix! Impeccably curated selection at reasonable prices. We’ll be spinning records and selling you Rookies Root Beer, Maple Lemonade and candy whilst you shop in our warm gallery space.

12/10/2023

The Phoenix Gallery & Music Hall presents

Our 1st annual

HALLOWEEN COSTUME PARTY
+ PING PONG TOURNAMENT

Friday, October 27th
$10 cover
6pm-1am

Our new to us JBL Club PA system will be bumpin tunes curated by DJ Felt of UVM’s WRUV 90.1 until 1am.

Not one but TWO mirror balls will be liberally distributing round-robin-radness in the form of LIGHT.

Beer + wine for purchase from Vermont Craft.
Your bartenders will be Phoenix owners Joseph Pensak and Anna Black, who we’ll go ahead and tell you will be coming as Ken and Weird Barbie. Owners are excluded from winning costume contest, we’re just giving you assurance that costumes WILL be happening (you CAN come without a costume and we’ll still party with you).

$2 of every cover will go in the pot for the winner of the Costume Contest (announced at 11pm) and the Ping Pong Tournament

Register in person (from 6-7:30) or at the link in bio for the Ping Pong Tournament. Bracket will be seeded based on skill level (you’ll fill out a google sheet and tell us if you’re Beginner, Intermediate, Pretty Damn Good, Baller or Jedi) and all games will be to 11 points until the final, which will be the traditional 21 pts.

Parents: your kids are welcome to party with us from 6-8:45pm, must be 13 years old to enter tournament.

Winners of Best Costume judged by an esteemed panel of fashion mavens who know their stuff. The winner of the Ping Pong Tournament will earn their own VICTORY.

Please love yourself by making a plan to get home (walking is ideal if you live in the village) or make sure you have a designated driver. Be courteous to your fellow party goers/Ping Pong players—throwing paddles, abusive language, etc will not be tolerated and will result in your prompt ejection from The Phoenix. Ultimately what matters is not who wins but that Taylor Swift’s ERAS tour is now viewable on local movie screens (we got our tix to Stowe Cinema for this weekend). So let’s keep our tournament in perspective.

28/09/2023

The Phoenix Gallery & Music Hall presents

THE STARLING SYMPHONY CAPSULE COLLECTION

Designed by Trystan Bates

LAUNCH PARTY will be Friday, October 20th with a performance of an original five movement composition by the electronic musician SAINT SILVA responding to the five movements of Trystan Bates’ exhibit, The Starling Symphony

$18 admission at door
7pm doors
7:30pm music
Custom limited T-shirts available for purchase at event and at the link in bio starting October 20th.

Beginning the week of the launch party, Trystan will release one new T-shirt design per week until the show ends Nov 17th, so watch for new design drops on Mondays starting October 23rd.
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28/09/2023

The Phoenix Gallery & Music Hall presents

MONDAYS ARE SCARY!
A new monthly stand up comedy show
Hosted by Maddie Cross

featuring

Donny Andronaco
Alex St. Louis
Rob Hale

7pm, Monday, October 16th
$10 at door, BYOB, $5 for Ping Pong after

Generously sponsored by BRAVE coffee & tea

5 Stowe Street, Waterbury Village, Vermont

FACE YOUR FEARS AND END YOUR MONDAY LAUGHING!

25/09/2023

Art magic at The Kent. This show is a MUST see. If you’re interested in joining “Phoenix in the Field” (my just now named impromptu Monday art field trips) in the future, dm me! So lovely sharing this one with

24/09/2023

“Every Day Is Like Sunday”…..well maybe not but it’s a LOVERly day for an art stroll through The Phoenix! Come see Trystan Bates’ gorgeous work and T.R. Risk’s masterful furniture and paintings in our tucked away Green Room Gallery in the back.

21/09/2023

I’ve showed a lot of restraint in waiting to post this, one of my fav online things I’ve found (lmk if you know the source or artist so I can credit them). It’s just TOO GOOD. Have a great fall ya’ll. And come to one of our events this weekend!

Tomorrow night, Friday the 22nd is the next in our PHOENIX TALKS series with author Ray Padgett, whose book “Pledging My Time: Conversations with Bob Dylan Bandmembers” has received rave reviews from luminaries like Greil Marcus and others. I’ll be interviewing Ray, we’ll have an audience Q & A time and then a 45 minute set of Dylan tunes by Sean Hood of Eastern Mountain Time. 7pm, $10 for the music and talk, $35 for everything plus a signed copy of the book!

And then Saturday the 23rd TURNmusic and Greg Davis are hosting a jazz show by Ras Moshe Trio and Toussaint St. Negritude. 7pm doors, 7:30pm music, $10 sugg donation.

Sunday we’ll be open 12-6pm for a lovely art stroll through TRYSTAN BATES: THE STARLING SYMPHONY which you should totally make a regular thang! There is sooooo much to see in this exhibit and if you haven’t experienced it yet, well ya gotta!!!

13/09/2023

Thanks 7days and for this bang up write up! Tix available now online, see the link in bio.

The Phoenix Gallery & Music Hall is proud to present a moderated interview/Q&A with Ray Padgett, author of Pledging My Time: Conversations with Bob Dylan Band Members, followed by a 45 min set of Dylan songs played live by Eastern Mountain Time.

$10 admission for the talk and music

$35 for the talk, music and a signed copy of “Pledging My Time”

REVIEWS AND MORE INFO ABOUT THE BOOK

"More fine stories than you can count" — Greil Marcus

Collecting over 40 original, in-depth interviews, Pledging My Time: Conversations with Bob Dylan Band Members is the first look at Bob Dylan’s career entirely from the perspective of the musicians standing a few feet away from him on stage – from his earliest days in the ‘60s all the way through the 21st century Never Ending Tour. With a few exceptions, these artists are not household names, but they have in many cases spent years making music with one of the most revered and mysterious artists in the world.

The world of Dylan’s bands and his road life has seemed fairly impenetrable for decades now. Many people in this book have never spoken before about their time with Dylan, or certainly not in as much depth. Interviewees span every era of Dylan’s career, from Ramblin’ Jack Elliott and Martin Carthy talking about the early folk scene up through Benmont Tench and Alan Pasqua talking about recording Rough and Rowdy Ways. This guest list guiding the backstage tour also includes one-off sit-ins, behind- the-scenes touring personnel, and even a notable Grammy Awards stage-crasher.

If Dylan is, as he famously put it back in 1965, a “song and dance man,” these are the people who have sung and danced alongside him.

PRAISE FOR PLEDGING MY TIME:

Ray Padgett is the ideal interviewer—he really knows his stuff, so he can draw the best out of every musician he talks to. This is a tremendous collection of acute, revealing, often funny stories from those who’ve played on stage with Bob Dylan.

— Michael Gray, author of Song and Dance Man: The Art of Bob Dylan

08/09/2023

TONIGHT. 5-9pm

07/09/2023

ONE MORE DAY.

What’s yer fav modern/mystery hieroglyph?

TRYSTAN BATES:
THE STARLING SYMPHONY

Opens Friday, 5-9pm
5 Stowe Street
Waterbury, Vt

06/09/2023

06/09/2023

Music, play, mystery and movement—Trystan Bates: The Starling Symphony will be on exhibit from September 8th-November 17th.

06/09/2023

These pieces can be enjoyed even without the decoding of the symphonic movements—they are filled with humor so make sure to read the titles!

06/09/2023

Huge “hieroglyph” pieces explode out the Blueprint series into vibrant dancing color.

06/09/2023

Layered etchings bring the “Rosetta Stone” blueprint into 3D space.

06/09/2023

Painted woodcut collages will flesh out and extend the paper cut pieces.

06/09/2023

Four symphonic movements will be arranged to unfold the Starling’s song.

06/09/2023

Translucent pieces will create a virtual wall piece!

06/09/2023

Over 30 new pieces from the internationally celebrated artist

06/09/2023

Unframed, numbered Blueprint series monoprints available for $125!

06/09/2023

Winner of Flood Relief Raffle announced at 7pm

Two more days to buy a $10 min donation ticket (5 for $40 to up your chances)! Stop in and pick up your Trystan Bates numbered mini-piece which serves as your ticket.

06/09/2023

TRYSTAN BATES
THE STARLING SYMPHONY

Opens this Friday, Sept 8th
5-9pm
5 Stowe Street
Waterbury, Vt

01/09/2023

The Phoenix Music Hall presents

A moderated interview/Q&A with Ray Padgett, author of Pledging My Time: Conversations with Bob Dylan Band Members, followed by a 45 min set of Dylan songs played live by Eastern Mountain Time.

Friday, September 22nd
7pm

5 Stowe Street
Waterbury, Vt

$10 admission for the talk and music

$35 for the talk, music and a signed copy of “Pledging My Time”

Link to purchase advance tickets in bio.

REVIEWS AND MORE INFO ABOUT THE BOOK

Collecting over 40 original, in-depth interviews, Pledging My Time: Conversations with Bob Dylan Band Members is the first look at Bob Dylan’s career entirely from the perspective of the musicians standing a few feet away from him on stage – from his earliest days in the ‘60s all the way through the 21st century Never Ending Tour. With a few exceptions, these artists are not household names, but they have in many cases spent years making music with one of the most revered and mysterious artists in the world.

The world of Dylan’s bands and his road life has seemed fairly impenetrable for decades now. Many people in this book have never spoken before about their time with Dylan, or certainly not in as much depth. Interviewees span every era of Dylan’s career, from Ramblin’ Jack Elliott and Martin Carthy talking about the early folk scene up through Benmont Tench and Alan Pasqua talking about recording Rough and Rowdy Ways. This guest list guiding the backstage tour also includes one-off sit-ins, behind- the-scenes touring personnel, and even a notable Grammy Awards stage-crasher.

If Dylan is, as he famously put it back in 1965, a “song and dance man,” these are the people who have sung and danced alongside him.

PRAISE FOR PLEDGING MY TIME:

These talks open up like running streams. There seems to be no guile, no self-promotion, no agendas: maybe because Ray Padgett doesn’t either. There’s less I Was There than ‘and then I wasn’t’—and more fine stories than you can count. I love Louis Kemp on negotiating with Walter Yetnikoff—even if he does have a 13-year-old Bob Dylan singing Jerry Lee Lewis and Chubby Checker in 1954.

— Greil Marcus, author of Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs

27/08/2023

THE PHOENIX MUSIC HALL presents

Matthew Delligatti and Saint Silva .silva.music co-headlining.

$10 at the door

7pm doors 7:30pm music

Listen online silva.music


5 Stowe Street
Waterbury, Vt

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