Arts and music occasions in July 2022

July simply shouts summer season enjoyable. Not solely does the month include the easiest-to-remember celebration on the calendar (nobody ever asks, “What day is July Fourth this yr?”), it’s when residents of often-chilly Vermont assiduously keep away from sitting inside and ensure to get out to take pleasure in all of the sunshine and heat.

It’s additionally a good time to get out and benefit from the plentiful arts and leisure Vermont has to supply. Generally that may occur whereas having fun with sunshine and heat, particularly on the many out of doors concert events on the schedule for July.

Right here’s a summation of a few of these occasions that would have you ever basking within the glow of a terrific efficiency or exhibition this month.

St. Michael’s Playhouse returns

Via July 9, the primary manufacturing by St. Michael’s Playhouse since 2019, the comedic “Into the Breeches,” continues its run, McCarthy Arts Heart, St. Michael’s Faculty, Colchester. $36.50-$45.50. www.saintmichaelsplayhouse.org

Stephen Sondheim revue

Via July 10, the musical revue “Facet by Facet by Sondheim” celebrates the work of the theater legend who died in November, as offered by Northern Stage, Courtyard Theater, White River Junction. $19-$45. www.northernstage.org

Plastic-themed artwork exhibit

Via July 24, the exhibition “Bubbles and the Massive Head – a meditation on plastic” continues on the Susan Calza Gallery, Montpelier. Free. www.susancalza.com

Guantanamo Bay artwork

Via Aug. 21, an exhibition that opened June 22, “Artwork from Guantanamo Bay,” stays on show, Highlight Gallery, Vermont Arts Council, Montpelier. Free. www.vermontartscouncil.org

Retrospective exhibit in Burlington

Via Aug. 22, one other exhibition that opened June 22, the memorial retrospective “John Douglas: A Life Properly Lived,” offered by the Northern New England Museum of Artwork, continues on the Gallery at Karma Chicken Home, Burlington. Free. www.nnemoca.org

Leon Golub, Lois Dodd shows

Via Nov. 27, two exhibitions — one that includes the figurative work of Leon Golub and one other titled “Lois Dodd: Pure Order” — stay on show, Corridor Artwork Basis, Studying. $10-$15. www.hallartfoundation.org

Carillon concert events come calling

6 p.m. Friday, July 1, Middlebury Faculty launches its 37^th-anniversary carillon sequence (that includes the musical instrument that produces sound from cup-shaped bells), which runs via Aug. 19, with a efficiency by George Matthew Jr., carillonneur for the school and for Norwich College, Middlebury Chapel. Free. www.go.middlebury.edu/carillon

Brahms and extra at pageant

7:30 p.m. Friday, July 1, the Inexperienced Mountain Chamber Music Competition continues its lineup of Tuesday and Friday concert events (which run via July 22) with performances of works by Brahms and Kodaly, Elley-Lengthy Music Heart, Colchester. $35. www.gmcmf.org