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- Breanna Elaine
Vermont singer-songwriter Breanna Elaine recently lost a close friend to a drug overdose. Elaine did what any good songwriter would do and channeled her pain and sorrow into a new song. It's called "Where the Snakes Live" and hits streaming services this Saturday, August 17.
Elaine has gone a step beyond just releasing music in honor of her late friend. The Brandon musician has teamed up with the Turning Point Center of Rutland, a nonprofit substance-use recovery center, to stage an all-ages benefit concert on Saturday at Merchants Hall in the Marble City. Half of all profits will be donated to recovery efforts. The event features a headlining set from Breanna & the Boys, Elaine's full-band folk-rock outfit, with special guest Emma Jeanne Hoops, a flow arts performer from Brandon.
Head over to breannaelaine.com for more information and to purchase tickets.
Eye on the Scene
Last week's live music highlights from photographer Luke Awtry
- Luke Awtry
- Augrah at the Cellar, Burlington
Augrah at the Cellar, Burlington, Sunday, August 11: A dreary Sunday evening is good for one thing: doing nothing. Yet this weekend I found myself walking to the Cellar, below the Burlington bar called Drink, for a hardcore/metal show featuring Vermont's Lungbuster and Augrah. A light fog blanketed everything in glistening tranquility, leaving the streets quiet and calm. After a long day lacking in both, I had my moment of Zen. And not a moment more. As I passed Trattoria Delia, a hint of the chaos to come became audible, growing to an indiscernible wall of noise by the Main Street intersection. The post-storm quietude had fully succumbed to Augrah's frantic mincecore/powerviolence blast beats. I left my newly acquired serenity at the door, and the energy inside brought back the hardcore band days of my past, when I learned what it really meant to be part of a scene. And this little scene felt good, too. I stuck around for Lungbuster's set, was home by 10 p.m. and still had plenty of time to do nothing.
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