TOWNSHEND — In the story of the the death of jazz musician Dave Shapiro [The Commons, March 2], the accompanying photo showed Shapiro, a renowned bassist, playing the bass. The caption on the photo listed the wrong instrument.
A memorial and celebratory jam session for Shapiro will take place at the Vermont Jazz Center in Brattleboro on Sunday, March 20, from 2-6 p.m.
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Tim Mayo and Jeff Friedman will read from their work at an online event sponsored by Brooks Memorial Library. The poems of Mayo, of Brattleboro, have appeared in numerous publications and have been contenders for a number of awards. Two books of his poems - The Kingdom of Possibilities and Thesaurus of Separation - have been published, as well as a chapbook, Notes to the Mental Hospital Timekeeper. Friedman's newest book, The Marksman, was published in 2020. The West Lebanon,
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