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Ainsworth
Public Library
Williamstown
Look for us on Facebook: Ainsworth Public Library 802-
433-5887
library@williamstownvt.org
www.ainsworthpubliclibrary.org
2338 VT RTE 14 Williamstown, VT
Curbside: M: 10-5:30pm, TH 10-4pm
Appointments: M: 10-5:30pm, TH 10-4pm
Open Days: T: 2-7pm, W: 11-6, FR: 2-7pm SA: 10-2
Phase 4.5 of Library Opening
Please check our website for details regarding what we are
offering for services. www.Ainsworthpubliclibrary.org We
are offering a variety of services M 10-5:30pm & W 11-6pm,
TH 10-4pm appointment and curbside. Appointments are
Jeudevine
Memorial Library
Hardwick
Chromebooks Now Available to
Check Out!
The Jeudevine Library got a VT Community Foundation
Connectivity Grant and is happy to announce that we now
have five Chromebooks available for you to check out for 2
week periods! These Chromebooks are best suited for online
environments from streaming your favorite shows, to writing
limited to six people in the building at one time. You can sign
up ahead of time by email, phone or FB messenger. Open days
no appointment necessary: T 2-7pm, F 2-7pm, SA 10-2pm.
Mask required.
Storytime Break
We will be taking a break from Storytime in August and
will start up again in September.
Youth Giveaway
August 16-21 we are having a youth art kit giveaway.
Check our website for details.
Bookgroup
We will be meeting on Thursday, August 19 at 4pm in person
and online to discuss the book Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia
Woolf. Call the library for more details.
New Storywalk
Thanks to the Vermont Dept. of Libraries, there is a new
storywalk on our ramp. Come and see what it is! It starts from
the top of the ramp and winds down to the bottom.
a paper for school on Google Docs. If you don’t have the
internet at home but would like access to things like word
processing or spreadsheets, we’d be happy to help you set up
your Google Drive account to continue your work offline. You
can also check with your cellphone service provider about
turning your phone into a Wi-Fi Hotspot, or use any public
Wi-Fi connection – the Jeudevine Library’s is available 24/7!
To check out a Chromebook, you’ll need to be 18 years old,
have a library account in good standing and have a stateissued
ID to show us (such as a driver’s license or non-driver
ID). Everything needed to hit the ground running is included,
but please don’t hesitate to ask us for help!
For more information: Call us at 472-5948, email us at
jeudevinelibrary@hardwickvt.org, or swing by in person!
Mad River Chorale Summer Fund-Raising Event
On Thursday August 26, the summer fund-raising concert
for the benefit of the Mad iver horale ill take place at
the Waterbury Congregational Church/White Meeting House
at 7:00 p.m.
Mary Jane Austin, the chorale’s conductor and former pianist,
will accompany singers in a program of excerpts from
operas such as Mozart’s Figaro and Verdi’s Rigoletto, among
others. All singers are now or have been associated with Mad
River Chorale: basses Erik Kroncke and José Schmidt and
tenor Andy Ross; sopranos Lillian Broderick and Shannon
Seymour-Michl, and alto Nessa Rabin.
To protect everyone, audience members must wear masks.
Performers will not be masked but all will be vaccinated and
will have had a negative COVID test within 24 hours of the
concert.
Everyone is invited to attend the performance. Mad River
horale, like all arts organiations, has had a difficult financial
situation during the pandemic, and understands that individuals
have had the same problem. No tickets will be sold, but all
donations will be gratefully accepted at the door.
If the COVID position or CDC guidelines change, plans for
this event might also change. Please visit madriverchorale.net
for the latest information.
A New Voice For Families from the Hills of Vermont
“His music beguiles. He creates spaces into which one falls
fully and gratefully. Raphael creates musical worlds that one
longs to visit.” – Will Ackerman, GRAMMY-winning guitarist,
producer, and founder of Windham Hill Records
Happily Ever Now, the first album for children and families
from Vermont’s critically acclaimed musician and composer
Raphael Groten (a.k.a “G’Raph”), is dedicated to the cultivation
of kindness, joy, love, living in the present moment, and
the art of having fun NOW! Happily Ever Now will be released
on October 1, 2021.
At the root of Raphael Groten’s longstanding vision and
two decades of work as a music educator echoes the question,
“Why wait for the ultimate line of the story, ‘happily ever after,’
to get happy?” The time to come alive is now. Happily
Ever Now is a musical anthology of the moment, with songs
of health, humility, and adventure, along with a grand dose of
downright silliness.
Embracing styles that range from folk, blues, soul, and rock,
to funk, reggae/ska, country, and world, Happily Ever Now
takes the listener on an excursion with a delight around every
bend in the road. A highlight is the title track, which celebrates
the most important teaching of the album, to be fully present
in each moment. In the universal mode of the folk-tale tradition,
the lyrics journey from G’Raph’s youth to adulthood and
reconstruct the central epiphany of his life – the value of living
“Happily Ever Now.”
Some performers use everything but the “kitchen sink,”
some even include the kitchen sink, but G’Raph goes even further
in his “smooth groove” soul-funk album opener, “Hands
in the Water,” when he adds the bathroom sink to the mix.
G’Raph’s upside-down, inside-out way of looking at life is
captured in “I Can Eat a Rainbow,” which bops along with
quixotic alacrity and introduces a brave new world of gustatory
distinction. In the world of G’Raph, a song like this requires
a sonic panorama that includes his plates, silverware,
and toaster, along with steel string guitar, cavaquinho, kalimba,
bass, djembe, cowbell, shaker, cajón, bells, gong, triangle,
zinger toy, and vocal hi-hat.
The gentle lullaby “I Love You Baby,” written for G’Raph’s
first son, is also a tip of the aph hat to his love of old-time
jazz. Here, he not only retains his childlike sense of wonder,
but also uses his childhood wood blocks and baby rattle. “I’m
Not pErfect” honors G’Raph’s folk/country music roots and
follows the idea of Mozart’s “Musical Joke,” using imperfections
like wrong chords and cracked vocal tones that will have
listeners of all ages rolling in the aisles while kids learn essential
life-lessons about imperfection and humility.
About Raphael Groten
Raphael Groten was born in 1973 into a true music-loving
environment. From happy times singing with the family on
long car trips, to his father’s harpsichord study, to the ubiquitous
presence of multiple guitars during holiday gatherings,
there always seemed to be something musical going on. Raphael
picked up alto sax when he joined the school band in
the 4th grade and tenor sax for grades 7 through 10. He added
guitar at age , learning basic chords and finger-picking from
his mother and sister. While still in high school, he became immersed
in folk music, composing over 100 songs by the end of
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his freshman year in college, often collaborating with friends
on lyrics. Raphael progressed to formal studies at the University
of Vermont, where he majored in philosophy and minored
in music. After graduation, he launched a ten-piece Latin/jazz/
funk ensemble, Saudade. The group performed extensively
during the late ’90s in Burlington, Vermont, and released two
albums of Raphael’s own compositions.
Even as Raphael was experiencing success with his band,
something began to stir inside him that summoned him to see
what he could do to effect a positive change in the world. In
, hile taking a holistic health class, he met his first shamanic
teacher. She re-entered his life as a healer and teacher in
2002 after his four-month-old son was involved in a near fatal
accident. Raphael became increasingly aware of the healing
poer of sound as he played guitar for his son during his first
night in intensive care and the following day, when a therapeutic
harpist played for his family. It was in these moments that
Raphael was propelled to compose, perform, and eventually
record intentional healing music.
Alongside his work with sound healing, Raphael began sharing
his love of music. This started as a private guitar teacher
and soon included class lessons. For the past two decades he
has worked in schools and libraries with children ranging from
infants to 8th graders. Inspired by observing the growth of his
own boys and by his training in the work of Maria Montessori,
Raphael began, in 2004, to compose music for children and
families. his first family music release, Happily Ever Now, is
a testament to his dedication to consciousness and fun.
Raphael Groten’s previous albums for adults include the
highly praised Star Lullaby (2019) and Journey Home (2015),
both in the New Age acoustic genre. He will release Potential,
an album in the World Groove genre, in September 2021.
Happily Ever Now will be available at www.raphaelgroten.
com, iTunes, Amazon, Apple Music, and wherever music is
sold online.