Please note, Cafe Provence is now closed on Mondays until Spring. Our new hours: Tuesday-Saturday: 11:30am-9pm

Sunday: 9am-9pm

MAPLE VIEW FARM ALPACAS TO HOST HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE

Nov 24 & 25

Maple View Farm Alpacas hosts its eleventh annual holiday open house on November 24 and November 25 from 11:00 am until 4:00 pm. where you can learn about these gentle, intelligent fiber animals.  

Owners Ed and Debbie Bratton said "We are very excited to be participating in the Holiday Farm Open House again this year. We have some folks who look forward to the open house and return each year while also meeting many new people. It's fun!".

The Brattons recently opened a newly built fiber mill and studio on the farm so visitors will also be able to tour the mill and learn how fiber is turned into yarn and other products. The mill processes fiber into high quality batts, roving, yarn and felt.

Maple View Farm Alpacas, located at 185 Adams Rd, one mile off Route 7 north of Brandon, VT, is home to a growing herd of 32 alpacas, including 7 "crias" or baby alpacas born this year. The alpaca is a member of the South American Camelid family which also includes llamas, guanacos and vicunas.All of the alpacas at Maple View Farm are Huacaya, a "teddy bear-like" alpaca with dense, crimpy fiber.

Alpaca fiber has remarkable softness, fineness, warmth and strength. It comes in an extraordinary variety of 22 natural colors, ranging from pure white to fawns, browns, grey and true jet black. The alpaca has developed more thermal capacity in its fiber than almost any other animal, making it a natural insulator and without lanolin found in many other fibers, it is also naturally hypoallergenic. Many people who are sensitive to wool find that they can wear alpaca without the itching or irritation they feel from wool because alpaca fiber is smooth.

For more information, visit the website at www.mapleviewfarmalpacas.com or Facebook at Maple View Farm Alpacas and Vermont Fiber Mill & Studio. The farm is located at 185 Adams Rd, Brandon, VT. Contact mvfalpacas@earthlink.net or 802.247.5412 for more information.

Brandon Baptist Church

 Presents 

Live Nativity Event &

Carol Sing

 Sunday, December 16, 2012 at 6 p.m.

Food and refreshments will be served immediately following the program.

 Brandon Baptist Church is located at the corner of

Route 7 and Champlain Street (route 73W).

For more information or to arrange for transportation,

please call the church office at 247-3339.

Brandon Baptist Church is
handicapped accessible

Brandon Music Presents Jazz Vocalist Andrea Wolper, November 15

Brandon Music, located at 62 Country Club Road in Brandon, Vermont, will present vocalist Andrea Wolper on November 15 at 7:30pm. General Admission is $15. Venue is BYOB. Brandon Music Café offers a concert and dinner package which includes dinner and a ticket to the show for $30 plus tax per person.

For Information & Reservations (802) 465-4071 / info@brandon-music.net

Andrea Wolper has been described as "a giant singer" (In Tune International) with "an inventive, thrilling, appealing musical vision" (Blogcritics) who "brings songs to life, whatever their source, working in a milieu that begins with jazz and reaches out to embrace an expressive area that is uniquely her own" (International Review of Music). Mixing genres, crossing boundaries, as accomplished and at home with the Great American Songbook as she is with spontaneous improvisation, Wolper approaches all her music with an adventurous, open spirit. Her original songs, as well as her unusual arrangements of standards and music from a variety of genres and sources, reveal a dynamic, singular musical sensibility that reaches audiences beyond category.

Wolper appears in clubs, festivals and concert halls in the U.S. and internationally. New York performance credits include Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola (Jazz at Lincoln Center), JVC New York Jazz Festival, Kitano, Sweet Rhythm, 55 Bar, Cornelia Street Café, Zinc Bar, Makor, The Stone, Iridium, and more; she appeared by special invitation in "A Singers Celebration" at the Blue Note in New York, joining an impressive roster of jazz vocalists. Appearances across the U.S. and abroad include yearly tours in Germany, Donne in Musica Festival (Italy), Centro Cultural de Belem (Portugal), Jazz at the Cape (South Africa), Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz, Jazz on the Plazz (CA), Dizzy's (San Diego), and performances on numerous other concert and festival stages.

"Parallel Lives," Wolper's newest recording (Jazzed Media) features her working group with guitarist Michael Howell, pianist Kris Davis, bassist Ken Filiano, and drummer Michael T.A. Thompson. Her 2005 CD, "The Small Hours" (VarisOne.Jazz), built around her trio with guitarist Ron Affif and bassist Ken Filiano, was produced by Todd Barkan, and features drummers Victor Lewis and Jamey Haddad, and guest artists Lou Marini (flute) and Frank London (trumpet and flugelhorn). One of her original songs from that album, Not Sleeping in Your Arms, is the 3rd-most downloaded track of all time at AllAboutJazz.com. Andrea's 1998 self-titled debut CD was also praised in music industry journals and has been the subject of radio feature presentations.

Sponsored by the Brandon Inn, David Salzberg, Patrick's Pub, Margate Resort, and the Radisson Nashua.

MEMORY TREE BULBS

Donations are now being accepted for Memory Tree bulbs in the memory of loved ones. The cost of the bulbs is $1.00 each.
                       
In Memory Of:

______________________________________

______________________________________

______________________________________

Your Name & Phone Number:

Name: _______________________________

Phone: _______________________________

Send checks and forms to:
Brandon Area Chamber of Commerce (BACC)

PO Box 267, Brandon VT 05733.
Please do not send cash in the mail.

Names with cash or check may also be dropped off at Carr's Florist & Gifts or The Inside Scoop.

Deadline is Friday, Nov. 23, 2012. Tree lighting with singing will take place on Sun., Nov. 25 at 3:30 pm in Central Park

BRANDON TRANSFER STATION NEWS 

DON'T FORGET:

The Brandon Transfer Station has Food Shelf Donation boxes. When bringing in your trash and recycling, please bring a couple of boxes or cans of food to help out our neighbors.   

BRANDON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

PO BOX 267

BRANDON, VT 05733

802-247-6401

e: info@brandon.org

www.brandon.org