Contributions should be sent to jim.lowe@rutlandherald.com or jim.
lowe@timesargus.com at least two weeks in advance. CABOT — The Cabot Arts Free Summer Music Series presents Footworks 6 to 7:15 p.
m. Tuesday, Aug. 20, on the Cabot Village Common.
Bring a lawn chair and/or blanket. Inspired by the high-energy Gaelic music of Cape Breton Island, Footworks is a Vermont-based instrumental band. With Jacob Brillhart on fiddle, Jon Brillhart on whistle, and Tory Heft on guitar, the dynamic band brings audiences the powerful rhythm and beautiful melodies of Celtic music.
For information, go to www.cabotarts.org online.
LUDLOW — “The Last Laugh” (1924), a German silent film drama about a hotel doorman demoted to washroom attendant, will be screened with live music at 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug.
24 in Heald Auditorium in Ludlow Town Hall, 37 Depot St. Presented by the Friends of Ludlow Auditorium, the screening will feature accompaniment by Jeff Rapsis, a New Hampshire-based composer who specializes in creating live music for silent film presentations. In “The Last Laugh,” regarded as one of German director F.
W. Murnau’s best pictures, the story is told entirely in visual terms, without the use of title cards. The film, a character study that chronicles the mental breakdown of an aging man who loses his position of authority, is also noted for its revolutionary use of camera movement.
Playing the lead role is Swiss-German actor Emil Jannings, widely recognized as one of the mos.