Featured Event
Skylark
Date and Time: Friday, July 24, 2026; 7 PM
Location: Island Arts Center, 1127 US Rt 2, North Hero, VT 05474
Tickets: $25 online – $30 at the door.
Tables: Reserve a table for seating at $15 for a 2-top, $25 for a 4-top, and BYOB.
SKYLARK is an innovative contemporary string ensemble based in northern Vermont. With decades of professional experience, Skylark’s sound and repertoire challenge the boundaries between classical, folk, and modern idioms, creating inspired original works for all audiences. Influenced by the Nordic, Celtic, and American regions, SKYLARK’s music is melody-driven with unique energy, irresistible flair, and undeniable beauty.
Featured Event
Sylvia Parker Plays the Classics
Date & Time: Sunday, July 26, 2026; 4 pm – 5:30 pm, no intermission.
Location: Island Arts Center (barn), 1127 U.S. Rte. 2, North Hero, VT 05474
Tickets: $25 online – $30 at the door
Tables: Reserve a table for seating at $15 for a 2-top, $25 for a 4-top, and BYOB.
Sylvia offers a solo piano recital of beloved shorter classical music (including some jazzy numbers) by composers that include Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Bartok, George Gershwin, and Scott Joplin.
Island Arts is delighted to showcase her musical talents for the first time in this concert.
Skylark is an innovative contemporary string ensemble. Influenced by the Nordic, Celtic, and American regions, Skylark challenges the boundaries between classical, folk, and modern idioms, creating music for all audiences. "Irresistible flair, and undeniable beauty".
Sylvia Parker offers a solo piano recital of beloved shorter classical music (including some jazzy numbers) by composers that include Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Bartok, George Gershwin, and Scott Joplin.
These six Vermont musicians focus on the sound and repertoire of Louis Armstrong’s All Stars of the 1950’s and 1960’s New Orleans classics and mid-century standards.
Join two friends as they share their heartfelt stories of addiction, recovery, and paths towards spiritual and personal transformation.
Enjoy an informal cabaret-style evening featuring a fine jazz quartet of clarinet, concert grand piano, double bass, and drums! Relax at your own table while the quartet performs all-time favorites from Gershwin, Ellington, Mercer, Porter, Rodgers & Hart, Bernstein, others.
Vermont’s premier big-band swing/dance group. Swingin’ for 50 years, with this event directed by Grand Isle's own Tony Pietricola! The program highlights selections from two albums that the Vermont Jazz Ensemble has published over the years.
NYC pianist Sohyun Ahn returns for the fifth year with a program featuring Bach and Schumann. “An absolute master” says NY Concert Review; an “amazing pianist” says Classical New Jersey Society. “... a crystalline clarity, insightful nuance, and dynamic breadth,” “Such a gifted virtuoso ... perfectly balanced elegance.” says Piano Music Magazine, Korea.
Prepare to be amazed! MetalWerx is a unique quartet consisting of two euphoniums—played by Jenna Schultz of Winooski and Cynsy Van Santen of Bristol, and two tubas—played by Tim Foley of Burlington and Yutaka Kono of Shelburne. Hear an eclectic mix of fantasies, suites, marches, jazz, and pop music, and a few favorite classical transcriptions sure to please the ear of every music lover.
The Sky is full of surprises, ready for you and your family to enjoy.
Vermont musician Colby Crehan, former vocalist and songwriter for the Bluegrass Gospel Project and Possum Haw, reunites with Possum Haw bandmates for the 5-piece acoustic project Marsh Lights. Folk-grass repertoire and vocals from a talented band.
All day artisan market at the Island Art. You will definitely find a little of everything whether you’re shopping for yourself or someone else!
