Ten counties, two Paramount nights, and one Hitchcock corpse. Stick season is no excuse to stay home, so get out there.

by FYIVT

The leaves are down, the snow isn’t here yet, and somehow this is the weekend the stages light up. Rutland gets a two-night stand of serious music, the Northeast Kingdom gets world-class tap, and Hitchcock’s Vermont corpse is back on the big screen. Stick season, it turns out, has range.

Friday, November 6

Dorrance Dance takes the stage at 7 p.m. at the Lyndon Institute Auditorium in Lyndon Center, presented by Catamount Arts. Under MacArthur Fellow Michelle Dorrance, the company turns tap into contemporary art — dancers as musicians and storytellers, with live music and a lot of athleticism. Tickets run $65, $54, $43, and $18, and students get in free. Catamount Arts

Get the Led Out plays the Paramount Theatre in Rutland at 7:30 p.m. (doors at 6:30). Six Philadelphia musicians recreate Led Zeppelin’s recorded music, overdubs included, which Zeppelin never bothered to do live, plus deep cuts and an acoustic set. They’ve headlined Red Rocks eleven years running, so this isn’t a bar-band tribute. Tickets are $45 and $55 plus tax and fees. Paramount Theatre

6th Annual Holiday Artisan Gift Show opens at the Chaffee Art Center, 16 South Main Street in Rutland, from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday and runs again 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Handmade paintings, fused glass ornaments, jewelry, scarves, and children’s books, a beverage bar, and a free make-and-take station for the kids. Admission is free. Get the holiday shopping done before anyone else starts. Chaffee Art Center

Green Mountain Showdown bills itself as Vermont’s bike culture film fest and variety show, and it lands at the Spruce Peak Arts Center in Stowe. Doors at 7, show at 8, tickets $28.54 to $31.75. The trails are muddy anyway. Go watch other people ride them. Spruce Peak Arts

Katarina String Quartet makes its Vermont debut at 7:30 p.m. in the Robison Concert Hall at Middlebury’s Mahaney Arts Center, fresh off a Juilliard residency. It’s the annual free quartet concert from the Sunderman Family Concert Fund. Award-winning chamber music for exactly zero dollars is a good deal. Addison County

Once Upon a Mattress opens Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Barnard Town Hall, with BarnArts staging the musical comedy in the round. A prince who can’t marry without his mother’s say-so, a swamp princess who swims the moat, and director Linda Treash keeping it high comedy. It runs again Saturday at 7:30 and Sunday at 2 p.m. Adults $25, students $18. Woodstock Vermont

Saturday, November 7

Mountainfilm on Tour brings short films from Telluride’s Mountainfilm festival to the Big Picture Theater in Waitsfield, with showings at 1, 4, and 7 p.m. Neck of the Woods Childcare and Early Education Center is hosting, and proceeds go to its Building Futures NOW expansion campaign, with a silent auction and raffle on the side. It’s $20 general, $15 for kids 12 and under, and free under 5. Mad River Valley

Manchester Wine Festival pours from 2 to 6 p.m. at the Manchester Community Library. That’s 25 tables of wine, local food, and small producers, plus optional blind tastings and a hidden “Secret Speakeasy Pour.” Ticket sales support the library, and wine-sale profits go to a local charity that attendees pick. It’s $20 in advance or $35 at the door if any are left, and you need to be 21 with ID. Manchester Vermont

Vermont Crafters Expo debuts at the Champlain Valley Exposition in Essex Junction, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. It isn’t a craft fair, though: it sells the tools, machines, and materials, with demos and workshops across fiber arts, pottery, woodworking, leatherworking, 3D printing, and homebrewing. Shelburne Craft School and Generator Makerspace are on board. One day is $20, both days $30, and kids under 12 get in free. Vermont Gatherings

Wellness in Community Open House runs 1 to 4 p.m. at The Nest, a community wellness studio on the third floor of the Montgomery Ward Building at 194 Main Street in Newport. The space is open to teachers of any wellness practice for classes and events, and this is your chance to look around. There’s an elevator if the stairs aren’t your thing. Discover Newport

Sunday, November 8

Punch Brothers play the Paramount Theatre in Rutland at 7 p.m. (lobby at 6, seating at 6:30). Chris Thile’s Grammy-winning quintet has spent two decades pushing bluegrass somewhere new. Their upcoming seventh album is all instrumental and the first with violinist Brittany Haas. Tickets are $59 and $69 plus tax and fees. Rutland’s getting Zeppelin and Thile in the same weekend, so don’t let anyone tell you nothing happens there. Paramount Theatre

Hollywood, VT: The Trouble with Harry screens at 2 p.m. at the Latchis Theatre in Brattleboro. It’s Hitchcock’s 1955 dark comedy, filmed in Vermont, about a corpse on a hillside and a town that can’t agree what to do with him. Afterward, filmmaker Bess O’Brien moderates a conversation with filmmaker Jeanine B. Frost and Hitchcock scholar Steven DeRosa. Latchis Theatre

Vermont Vets Town Hall gathers at 1 p.m. at the Catamount Arts Center, 115 Eastern Avenue in St. Johnsbury, a few days before Veterans Day. Each veteran gets up to 10 minutes to talk about their service, and both pre-registered and floor speakers are welcome. Non-veterans come to listen, and political debate stays outside. Free and open to all. Catamount Arts

Sunday Sessions: Bob Recupero plays 3 to 5 p.m. at Lawson’s Finest Taproom in Waitsfield: one man, one guitar, and, in the taproom’s words, “a library of songs that are ready to soothe your soul.” A pint, a stool, and a slow Sunday is a fine way to end the weekend. Lawson’s Finest Liquids