Community Calendar

The Friends of the Middlebury Public Library will be holding their first Bingo Fundraiser on November 9th, 2024 in the library's community room. Cost to enter the event is $20 which includes five rounds of bingo with prize baskets, raffle items, and food. Funds raised will be used to support free programing and special events that the library plans for the families in the community. Tickets can be purchased the day of the event at the door. For additional information contact the Middlebury Public Library or checkout the Friends of Middlebury Public Library Facebook page.

This is a performance of Jason Wilber in Concert and in a live-taping of the popular Wild Rose Moon Radio Hour--a theatrical performance with interviews, songs, and an audience participation game show.

These are notes from Jason regarding his long-time friendship with John Prine:

I spent the last 24 years standing on many a darkened stage with John Prine, as his guitar player, and more recently his musical director. Watching, listening, and playing along while John spun tales of love and life and humanity. Staring out at the faces of an attentive, appreciative audience. Often I reminded myself to be present and appreciate the special moment we were all sharing. I knew it would end someday, but that hasn’t made it any easier. John Prine and his songs have been a big part of my life.

In his songs, John beautifully illustrates the dualities of life. Humor and sadness, joy and sorrow, innocence and experience. Gently he points out the absurdity that fills much of our days. Somehow he does it without judgment or rancor. He laughs, cries, and shakes his head right along with the rest of us. You can tell: he’s puzzled by it all, too.

The Zen Studies Society describes Zen as “the direct experience of what we might call ultimate reality, or the absolute, yet it is not separate from the ordinary, the relative.” That’s also a pretty good description of John Prine’s songwriting. Within the ordinary, he found something much deeper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Wilber

Jason Wilber is an American singer, guitar player, songwriter, and recording artist. In addition to his work as a solo recording artist, he is also known as the long-time lead guitar player for singer-songwriter John Prine. Other artists Jason has accompanied live or in the studio include Iris Dement, Greg Brown, Tom Russell, Sheryl Crow, Mary Gauthier, Todd Snider, Simrit, Hal Ketchum, Tim Grimm, Krista Detor, Greg Trooper, Carrie Newcomer, Kim Fox, Bill Wilson, and Over the Rhine.

Jason Wilber’s solo albums include Lost In Your Hometown (1998), Behind the Midway (2000), King For A Day (2004), Lazy Afternoon (2006), Live and Otherwise Volume 1 (2006), Ghost of Summers Past (2009), Live and Otherwise Volume 2 (2009), Secret Window (2014), Echoes (2016) and Reaction Time (2017).

Jason Wilber’s work with John Prine includes the Grammy Award-winning CD Fair & Square and the Grammy-nominated CDs Live On Tour, In Spite of Ourselves (which spent 32 weeks on the Billboard Country Charts), and Prine’s final album Tree of Forgiveness. In addition to playing guitar on John Prine’s 2017 album For Better or Worse, Jason also served as a Co-Executive Producer. Jason has accompanied John Prine on duet recordings with Iris Dement, Allison Krauss, Susan Tedeschi, Emmylou Harris, Miranda Lambert, Kathy Mattea, Amanda Shires, Fiona Prine, Lucinda Williams, Josh Ritter, Patty Loveless, Lee Ann Womack, Connie Smith, Melba Montgomery, Morgane Stapleton, Kacey Musgraves, and Sara Watkins.

From 2006 to 2016, Jason Wilber hosted the syndicated radio series In Search of a Song, which featured long-form interviews with singers, songwriters, musicians, and producers.

Jason Wilber served as C0-Executive Producer on the compilation CD Coal Country Music featuring Willie Nelson, Gillian Welch, Ralph Stanley, Jason and the Scorchers, Kathy Mattea, Justin Townes Earle, Natalie Merchant, Diana Jones, Tom T. Hall, Bonnie Raitt, John Prine, Jean Ritchie, and other artists, who all contributed their talents to benefit the Alliance for Appalachia’s work to stop Mountain Top Removal in rural Appalachia.

Jason Wilber’s past TV and radio appearances include The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, The Colbert Report, Sessions At West 54th Street, The Grand Ole Opry, Live with Regis and Kathy Lee, CNN Entertainment Week, The Road, Mountain Stage, E-Town, Austin City Limits, and The Late Show with David Letterman.

Take a trip back in time to learn about Hudson Lake's heyday. Hudson Lake was a popular summer resort and attracted thousands of people each year. Many came to dance to the jazz bands of the 1920s. The exhibit features photos, postcards, and items from Hotel Hudson and Casino including old guest book registers. The exhibit runs through mid-November. Museum hours are Tuesday - Friday 10 - 4 EST and Saturdays 10 - 2 EST. Museum is free and open to the public.

Take a trip back in time to learn about Hudson Lake's heyday. Hudson Lake was a popular summer resort and attracted thousands of people each year. Many came to dance to the jazz bands of the 1920s. The exhibit features photos, postcards, and items from Hotel Hudson and Casino including old guest book registers. The exhibit runs through mid-November. Museum hours are Tuesday - Friday 10 - 4 EST and Saturdays 10 - 2 EST. Museum is free and open to the public.

Take a trip back in time to learn about Hudson Lake's heyday. Hudson Lake was a popular summer resort and attracted thousands of people each year. Many came to dance to the jazz bands of the 1920s. The exhibit features photos, postcards, and items from Hotel Hudson and Casino including old guest book registers. The exhibit runs through mid-November. Museum hours are Tuesday - Friday 10 - 4 EST and Saturdays 10 - 2 EST. Museum is free and open to the public.

​Hosted by the Merrimans

Featuring The Merrimans' Play-House Players

It's open to the public. Listen. Play. Woodshed. Discuss. Based on Jazz Standards. It's a Learning Environment. Bring your Instrument, your Ears, your Friends.
Egos stay at the door.
Every Tuesday 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm (doors open at 7:00)
$5 suggested donation

Take a trip back in time to learn about Hudson Lake's heyday. Hudson Lake was a popular summer resort and attracted thousands of people each year. Many came to dance to the jazz bands of the 1920s. The exhibit features photos, postcards, and items from Hotel Hudson and Casino including old guest book registers. The exhibit runs through mid-November. Museum hours are Tuesday - Friday 10 - 4 EST and Saturdays 10 - 2 EST. Museum is free and open to the public.

Kyle Hufford | Nov. 13, 20 | 2-4 p.m.

Documentaries have seen a huge resurgence in the last ten years with the growth of streaming platforms
and access to documentaries has never been easier. However, not all documentaries are created for the same purpose. The Film Production program at Goshen College has been producing documentaries with the purpose to inspire and to influence social change. Come and see two of their most recent films and hear from the faculty and students who worked on them. The first week will be “Goshen’s Golden Cage”, a documentary about the immigrant experience in our local area, and the second week will screen “Foodlife— Farming for a Sustainable Future”, a film about how one organization in Japan which is trying to train leaders from rural areas in developing nations in order to help solve the problem of food insecurity. Kyle Hufford is Associate Professor of Communication, Goshen College.

Take a trip back in time to learn about Hudson Lake's heyday. Hudson Lake was a popular summer resort and attracted thousands of people each year. Many came to dance to the jazz bands of the 1920s. The exhibit features photos, postcards, and items from Hotel Hudson and Casino including old guest book registers. The exhibit runs through mid-November. Museum hours are Tuesday - Friday 10 - 4 EST and Saturdays 10 - 2 EST. Museum is free and open to the public.