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Shout Out Louds at Showcase Lounge on 11/05/2017 08:00 PM EST

Shout Out Louds

Showcase Lounge

11/05/2017 08:00 PM EST

$18 advance | $20 day of show

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Shout Out Louds

Formed in Stockholm by childhood friends Adam Olenius (vocals), Ted Malmros (bass), and Carl von Arbin (guitars), Shout Out Louds found an international audience during the early 2000s with their peppy Swedish pop. The lineup began taking shape in 2001, with drummer Eric Edman and keyboardist Bebban Stenborg climbing aboard shortly thereafter. Shout Out Louds wasted little time writing songs, the first three of which formed the basis of their first demo tape. The music caught the ear of Filip Wilén, owner of Sweden’s Bud Fox Recordings, and he quickly signed the group to his label. Shout Out Louds then spent the majority of 2002 writing more songs, and December found them recording their debut EP, 100°, which was released in 2003. The group’s high-energy, ultra-melodic sound was in place from the very beginning.

The band toured Sweden and Scandinavia in support of 100°, whose release was followed by two singles, “Hurry Up Let’s Go” and “Shut Your Eyes.” In October 2003, the group released its first album, Howl Howl Gaff Gaff, to great acclaim in Sweden. The band spent the following year touring, releasing additional material (“Please Please Please,” “Very Loud/Wish I Was Dead,” and the Oh, Sweetheart EP), and inking an American deal with Capitol Records. The U.S. version of Howl Howl Gaff Gaff was released in May 2005, featuring songs from the Swedish release plus some early singles and EP tracks. A tour of the U.S. with indie darlings the Dears helped boost the band’s profile, as did airplay on The OC. Despite such growing success, the band’s 2007 album — Our Ill Wills, produced by Björn Yttling — was a somber, melancholy affair, replete with icy synths and Cure-inspired vocals. Another round of tour dates kept the bandmates busy until mid-2008, at which point they decided to take a half-year hiatus. March 2009 found the musicians reconvening in Stockholm to write new material, and by August the band had decamped to Seattle to begin recording with producer Phil Ek. Their third album, Work, arrived in early 2010. After coming home from a tour to support the album, the bandmembers felt that a change in the way they worked was in order. Hoping to recapture the more relaxed spirit of earlier recordings, they spent time outside the studio composing the songs, with each bandmember responsible for coming up with their own parts. When they came back together, the band produced their next record themselves (with help from Johannes Berglund) in a small Stockholm studio. Optica was released by Merge in early 2013.

Venue Information

Showcase Lounge

1214 Williston Road

South Burlington, VT 05403

http://www.highergroundmusic.com/

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The Movement, New Kingston at Showcase Lounge on 11/11/2017 08:00 PM EST

The Movement, New Kingston

Showcase Lounge

11/11/2017 08:00 PM EST

$15 advance | $17 day of show

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Supporting Acts: tba

The Movement

The Movement’s new single “Siren” (feat. Stick Figure) was released June 30 on Rootfire Cooperative, and debuted at #1 on the iTunes reggae chart. This is the followup to 2016’s #1 Billboard reggae album, GOLDEN, and is the band’s first collaboration with producer Johnny Cosmic.

Formed in 2003 by a trio of Sublime and Pixies fans, Joshua Swain, Jordan Miller, and John Ruff, aka DJ Riggles, launched The Movement with their “alternative reggae” debut album, ON YOUR FEET. In 2008, the group met Chris DiBeneditto, a Philadelphia-based producer who had worked with like-minded acts such as Slightly Stoopid and G. Love & Special Sauce. Relocating to Philadelphia, they recorded SET SAIL at DiBeneditto’s Philadelphonic Studios. The Movement expanded with the addition of Jason “Smiles” Schmidt on bass and Gary Jackson on drums. In 2012, they released SIDE BY SIDE, debuting at #2 on the Billboard Reggae Chart. In 2014 The Movement released BENEATH THE PALMS, a surprise acoustic album as a free gift to their fans. Shortly thereafter they began working on what would become their finest album to date, GOLDEN, which hit #1 on iTunes and Billboard Reggae charts and was voted 2016 Album Of The Year by Surf Roots Radio. Keyboardist Ross Bogan joined the group in Spring of 2016.

New Kingston

New Kingston is best described as a Progressive Reggae group. Since 2006, the band of brothers – Tahir (keys), Courtney Jr. (drums), and Stephen (guitar) – have harnessed their dual identities, in order to craft an entirely unique sound that pays homage to their roots. This band of brothers, under the watchful eye of their father (and bassist) Courtney Panton Sr., dubbed themselves New Kingston, to appropriately reflect the combination of their Jamaican heritage and their present lives in New York City. It is the fusion of these two identities, both their cultural roots and their current home, that guides their musical and stylistic direction.

The band has grown considerably since their beginnings of covering Bob Marley, Dennis Brown and Earth, Wind & Fire in their Brooklyn basement. Their relentless drive and unwavering passion led to their placement on tours, supporting other major acts on the reggae scene. These tours allowed the band to develop an undeniable stage presence, while giving them the opportunity to expand their growing fan base and sharpen their own original material.

New Kingston self-released their first two full-length albums: In the Streets (2010) and Kingston University (2013) before signing with popular New York-based record label Easy Star Records. The band’s third studio album, Kingston City (2015), was met with praise from fans and critics alike, peaking at No. 1 on the Billboard Top Reggae Albums chart. Most recently, the band released their stellar Kingston Fyah EP on July 29, 2016, hitting the road with a national tour of the same name.

Venue Information

Showcase Lounge

1214 Williston Road

South Burlington, VT 05403

http://www.highergroundmusic.com/

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Carbon Leaf at Higher Ground Ballroom on 11/11/2017 08:00 PM EST

Carbon Leaf

Higher Ground Ballroom

11/11/2017 08:00 PM EST

$20 advance | $22 day of show

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Supporting Acts: tba

Carbon Leaf

With 16 albums and over 2,300 live shows spanning a 24-year career, Carbon Leaf’s independent music and spirit continue to resonate with its fans into 2017.

Blending folk, Celtic, bluegrass, Americana and rock traditions into what the group calls Ether-Electrified Porch Music, the Virginia quintet’s songs of love, life, heartbreak and landscape are independently written, recorded and produced from their home studio in Richmond.

After 5 years of heavy touring and recording, Carbon Leaf reduced it’s 2016 road schedule to focus on some alternative projects, including the release of Nothing Rhymes With Woman, the third and final re-recorded album originally released through their formal record label in 2009. Along with completing new versions of Indian Summer (2004) and Love Loss Hope Repeat (2006), the band’s goal of regaining 100% ownership of their music catalogue was achieved.

The band’s music incorporates acoustic & electric guitars, mandolin, fiddle, bass, drums, cello, banjo, penny whistle, pedal steel, accordion and vocal harmony.

2017 will be another intense year of writing and recording for Carbon Leaf, with a U.S. tour planned behind the collection of new songs.

Venue Information

Higher Ground Ballroom

1214 Williston Road

South Burlington, VT 05403

http://www.highergroundmusic.com/

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The Lone Bellow at Higher Ground Ballroom on 11/16/2017 07:30 PM EST

The Lone Bellow

Higher Ground Ballroom

11/16/2017 07:30 PM EST

$20 advance | $22 day of show | $79 VIP

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Supporting Acts: The Wild Reeds

The Lone Bellow

Then Came the Morning, the second album by the Southern-born, Brooklyn-based indie-folk trio the Lone Bellow, opens with a crest of churchly piano, a patter of drums, and a fanfare of voices harmonizing like a sunrise. It’s a powerful introduction, enormous and overwhelming, as Zach Williams, Brian Elmquist, and Kanene Pipkin testify mightily to life’s great struggles and joys, heralding the morning that dispels the dark night: “Then came the morning! It was bright, like the light that you kept from your smile!” Working with producer Aaron Dessner of the National, the Lone Bellow has created a sound that mixes folk sincerity, gospel fervor, even heavy metal thunder, but the heart of the band is harmony: three voices united in a lone bellow.

“These are true stories,” says Brian. “These aren’t things we made up. We tried to write some songs that had nothing to do with our personal stories, but we just didn’t respond to them. But we’re best buds, so we know each others’ personal stuff and trust each other to figure out what needs to be said and how to say it.” Case in point: Brian wrote “Call to War” about his own struggles during his twenties, but gave the song to Kanene to sing. “The content is painful and brutal,” she says, “but the imagery, the vocals, they build something delicate and ethereal. That kind of contrast illuminates the true beauty and power of a song.”

Says Brian, “We do this one thing together, and we carry each other. Hopefully that makes the listener want to be a part of it. It becomes a communal thing, which means that there’s never a sad song to sing. It’s more a celebration of the light and the dark.”

Venue Information

Higher Ground Ballroom

1214 Williston Road

South Burlington, VT 05403

http://www.highergroundmusic.com/

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Postmodern Jukebox at Flynn Theatre on 11/17/2017 08:00 PM EST

Postmodern Jukebox

Flynn Theatre

11/17/2017 08:00 PM EST

$58.75 | $48.25 | $34.75, plus $3 day of show

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Postmodern Jukebox

In 2015, the group’s sold-out tours of Australia and the United States prompted the Buffalo News to proclaim, “Postmodern Jukebox is literally a postmodern success, extending its reach from the virtual to the real world, touring and performing around the globe for an ever-growing fan base.”

Created by Bradlee, the rotating collective of Postmodern Jukebox has spent the past few years amassing more than 690 million YouTube views and 2.6 million subscribers, performed onc“Good Morning America,” topped iTunes and Billboard charts and played hundreds of shows to packed-house crowds around the world. As NPR put it, they’ve done this by “taking current Topc40 hits and re-imagining them as coming from older eras of popular music.” In one such remake, Bradlee and Postmodern Jukebox turned Miley Cyrus’ “We Can’t Stop” into a doo-wop ditty that’s garnered nearly 17 million views. Last year, they envisioned Radiohead’s alt-rock hit “Creep” as a torch-like ballad that’s racked up over 30 million views and was named one of the “9 Best Viral Cover Videos of 2015” by People magazine. Multi-Grammy winning artist Lorde praised Postmodern Jukebox’s vintage take on her hit single, “Royals,” which has been viewed over 18 million times, as her “favorite.” They recently performed a ‘30s jazz remake of Elle King’s “Ex’s & Oh’s” for MTV UK – click HERE to watch.

The group’s accomplishments has earned them praise from a plethora of media outlets, including Mashable, who wrote, “Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox are all about reimagining music and framing it in beautiful new ways.” Entertainment Weekly wrote, “Scott Bradlee’s group is known for retro-fying modern hit songs into viral success.” Yahoo! Music added, “if you’ve been on YouTube in the last couple of years, then you’re familiar with the everything new-is-old-again brilliance of the viral phenomenon known as Postmodern Jukebox.”

Venue Information

Flynn Theatre

153 Main Street

Burlington, VT 05401

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UVM Announces Winners of SPARK-VT Faculty Pitch Competition

Two University of Vermont-affiliated research teams have been awarded SPARK-VT grants by the university to help commercialize their work and move it a step closer to the marketplace.

UVM Ph.D. alumnus Ryan McDevitt; his doctoral advisor, Darren Hitt, a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences; and Patrick Lee, an assistant professor in the department, won for the cost-effective propulsion system for small satellites they have developed, which is poised to address the coming revolution in the miniaturized satellite market. A second team, led by Jason Botten, an assistant professor of medicine in UVM’s Larner College of Medicine, was recognized for its work to create the first therapeutic for preventing and treating a life-threatening disease caused by hantaviruses.

At UVM’s annual SPARK-VT competition, faculty pitch their commercialization ideas to a panel of experts who challenge them with questions, then deliberate in private before announcing the winning teams, who each receive a $50,000 award.  

“Congratulations to both teams for submitting high quality entries that have a great deal of promise,” said Richard Galbraith, UVM’s vice president for research. “This year, as in past years, the winning projects show a high degree of sophistication, both in their underlying science and in their grasp of the realities of the marketplace.”   

“The growth of SPARK-VT from one participating department in 2012 to 14 today is evidence that a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship is taking root at UVM,” said UVM provost David Rosowsky. “Each year, we see a growing number of faculty interested in commercialization of their work. By providing strong support mechanisms for translating their work into commercial application, we will continue to be able to attract outstanding faculty working in areas with the greatest potential for commercialization and societal impact. This year’s winners, and our previous SPARK-VT winners, demonstrate the power and the potential of this important element of our academic ecosystem.”

The project proposed by McDevitt, Hitt and Lee outlines their plan to develop a precision, cost-effective microthruster for small satellites that will enable them to make small adjustments to their position and orientation in orbit. The work complements a project the team received a SPARK-VT award for last year. That proposal was focused on a high-performance thruster for small satellites that would allow them to transfer into new orbits (or de-orbit at end-of-life). Both microthruster projects are being developed by a company co-founded by McDevitt called Benchmark Space Systems (formerly GreenScale Technologies). One of the largest technical challenges facing constellations of small satellites is the ability to maintain relative orientation, a $1 billion market opportunity within the emerging $6 billion small satellite market.

Botten, who has studied hantaviruses for more than 20 years, has assembled an international multidisciplinary team of virologists, clinicians, immunologists and industry partners to develop an effective therapeutic against cardiopulmonary syndrome caused by hantaviruses (HCPS), for which there are no FDA-approved treatment options or vaccines. Their therapy has the potential to be a first-line antiviral for the treatment or prevention of hantavirus disease in the Americas.  Climate change has brought rodent populations into closer contact with humans, increasing the risk of infection with hantavirus. HCPS is responsible for killing roughly 40 percent of afflicted patients.

SPARK-VT is designed to help bridge the divide between research and the marketplace by bringing promising researchers together with business innovators and biotech leaders. The program offers frequent workshops to faculty interested in commercializing their research on topics ranging from intellectual property to market analysis to the art of the pitch. A select group of faculty who’ve submitted SPARK proposals are invited to make presentations to a panel of 12 leaders from biotech, pharmaceutical, business, engineering, finance and legal fields. Panel members ask questions, challenge presenters on the details of their plans and offer suggestions. The $50,000 seed funding comes from UVM’s Office of the Vice President for Research and Office of the Provost.

Since its launch in 2012, SPARK-VT has funded 16 faculty proposals. It has spawned two start-up companies with three more in development and has been a factor in prompting faculty to submit 18 grant applications in the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs of the federal government. Half of the proposals were funded, a high rate of success. 

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Hudziak Wins $1.8 Million Grant from Conrad Hilton Foundation

The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation has awarded a three-year, $1.8 million grant to James J. Hudziak, a professor of child psychiatry and pediatrics at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine, to determine if the UVM Wellness Environment, or WE, in concert with a health promotion and disease prevention app he developed will promote wellness among college students, in the process reducing their use of alcohol and other drugs.

The grant will also be used to test the effectiveness of the S-BI-RT (for screening/brief intervention/referral to treatment) model designed to help students who are abusing alcohol and other drugs adopt healthier behaviors.    

“We’re grateful to the Hilton Foundation for supporting the University of Vermont’s deep commitment to promoting health and wellbeing in college students during a period in their lives when their developing brains put them at risk,” Hudziak said. “Our hope is that the research program will provide educators around the country with evidence they’ll find useful in promoting health and reducing alcohol and drug use on their own campuses.”

“We are pleased to partner with the University of Vermont Foundation to strengthen the evidence regarding the value of integrating SBIRT into a student wellness community,” said Alexa Eggleston, senior program officer at the Hilton Foundation. “We are confident that this work will help promote health and wellness and reduce youth substance use in the university environment.”

The UVM Wellness Environment is an incentivized health promotion, substance-free community located in two UVM residence halls that motivates students to engage in a range of healthy behaviors and requires them to take a neuroscience course taught by Larner College of Medicine faculty showing the impact of healthy and unhealthy behaviors on the brain. 

Hudziak launched the WE program two years ago. Its enrollment has grown from 120 in the fall of 2015 to over 1,200 today.

The WE app, initially developed for participants in the WE community, enables students to benefit from a series of health promotion activities in mindfulness, yoga, fitness, nutrition, hydration and sleep. It also includes a nightly survey that captures information about their daily habits – how much they slept, exercised, meditated; how healthy their food choices were; if they used alcohol, other drugs or cigarettes and in what quantity; and how much time they spent on the Internet, for example. The survey also asks students to note their dominant mood of the day. Students use their iPhones to take the survey.

The study will compare a sample of 1,000 students living in WE using the app with 1,000 UVM undergraduates using it who are not in the program.

The study has two goals, Hudziak said. For the first group, it will test the effectiveness of the WE program in concert with the app in promoting greater student engagement in health, potentially reducing their use of alcohol and other drugs as a result. For the non-WE students, it will gauge the effectiveness of the app alone in achieving those objectives.   

The results of both groups will also be compared with the overall UVM student population in areas like retention, alcohol and drug violations and grade point average. 

In addition to funding the sophisticated data analysis Hudziak plans, the Hilton Foundation grant will also help support upgrades to the app and help the WE program purchase apparel and other items that are used to incentivize healthy student choices in the program. 

Hudziak is the Thomas M. Achenbach chair of Developmental Psychopathology at UVM’s Larner College of Medicine and is the director of the Vermont Center for Children, Youth, and Families. Known internationally for his work in the psychiatric genetics and developmental neuroimaging of child and adolescent behavior, Hudziak has published over 180 peer-reviewed papers and is the creator of a health promotion and illness prevention treatment program called the Vermont Family Based Approach.

The Conrad Hilton Foundation was created in 1944 by international business pioneer Conrad N. Hilton, who founded Hilton Hotels and left his fortune to help the world’s disadvantaged and vulnerable people. The Foundation currently conducts strategic initiatives in six priority areas: providing safe water, ending chronic homelessness, preventing substance use, helping young children affected by HIV and AIDS, supporting transition-age youth in foster care, and extending Conrad Hilton’s support for the work of Catholic Sisters. In addition, following selection by an independent international jury, the Foundation annually awards the $2 million Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize to a nonprofit organization doing extraordinary work to alleviate human suffering. In 2016, the Humanitarian Prize was awarded to The Task Force for Global Health, an international, nonprofit organization that works to improve health of people most in need, primarily in developing countries. From its inception, the Foundation has awarded more than $1.5 billion in grants, distributing $109 million in the U.S. and around the world in 2016. The Foundation’s current assets are approximately $2.6 billion.

Source: UVM News

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Vermont Issued by the National Weather ServiceThere are no active watches, warnings or advisories

https://alerts.weather.gov/cap/vt.atom http://alerts.weather.gov/images/xml_logo.gif NWS CAP Server 2017-07-02T21:59:01+00:00 w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov https://alerts.weather.gov/cap/vt.atom 2017-07-02T21:59:01+00:00 w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov There are no active watches, warnings or advisories

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Flood Warning issued July 02 at 11:42AM EDT until July 03 at 2:18AM EDT by NWS

NOAA-NWS-ALERTS-VT12585B8969D8.FloodWarning.12585B974328VT.BTVFLSBTV.8773d4a7210e59d509778c1c5b823039 w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov 2017-07-02T11:42:00-04:00 Actual Alert Public Alert for Chittenden (Vermont) Issued by the National Weather Service Met Flood Warning Expected Moderate Likely SAME FLW 2017-07-02T11:42:00-04:00 2017-07-03T02:18:00-04:00 NWS Burlington (Northern Vermont and New York) Flood Warning issued July 02 at 11:42AM EDT until July 03 at 2:18AM EDT by NWS Burlington …The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in Vermont… Winooski River At Essex Junction The Flood Warning continues for The Winooski River At Essex Junction. * At 10:30 AM Sunday the stage was 12.6 feet. * Flood stage is 12.0 feet. * Minor flooding is occurring. * Forecast…The river will continue rising to near 13.0 feet by Sunday afternoon. The river will fall below flood stage Sunday evening. * Impact…At 13.0 feet…Water will cover North Williston Road in Essex and Pine Island Road in Colchester. Low lying farmland in the Burlington Intervale will flood. && Safety message… If you live or travel near streams and rivers seek higher ground immediately at first signs of rising water. Obey all road closure signs, they are there for your safety. Do not attempt to drive through flooded areas, most flood deaths occur in automobiles. Turn around, don`t drown! Stay tuned to developments by listening to noaa weather radio, or by visiting our web site at: weather.gov. WMOHEADER UGC VTC007 VTEC /O.EXT.KBTV.FL.W.0016.000000T0000Z-170703T0618Z/ /ESSV1.1.ER.170702T1112Z.170702T1800Z.170703T0018Z.NO/ TIME…MOT…LOC

Chittenden 44.57,-73.26 44.44,-72.91 44.36,-72.95 44.5,-73.31 44.57,-73.26 FIPS6 050007 UGC VTC007

Source: National Weather Service Alerts for Vermont