![]() 80 /burlingtonĬhurch Street Marketplace Church St., 80 You can’t think of a single reason not to stop. And you know what? On your way back up the hill, you’re going to walk right past Ben & Jerry’s. You walk out of the Flynn feeling giddy with your luck. The elements have converged in your favor. Sometimes it happens just like this: You take a stroll downtown on a sweet afternoon, you sit at a window that reveals the essence of American culture, and you hear the right musician in the exact space that connects you to her genius. For two full minutes, your life is pure music. Near the end of the second set, when she and her two bandmates play “Sidewinders in Paradise,” you float right out of your seat. The lady is brilliant in opposing ways: basic as the blues, intricate and subtle as a Shostakovich string quartet. She’s rail-thin, platinum- and pixie-haired, idiosyncratic in her speech, her compositions, and her performance. ![]() Now it’s time to cross the street to the 75-year-old Flynn Center, a vaudeville house and movie theater resurrected into “full Art Deco splendor.” The show tonight is Carla Bley, a 72-year-old jazz composer, pianist, and bandleader. ![]() Just past Main is Nectar’s Restaurant–the place where Phish rose up from the sea and, more recently, the explosively exuberant Grace Potter first began testing her blues and rocker pipes. At the foot of the mall is a notably democratic intersection: Crisscrossing Main and Church are punks, country kids, preppies, buttoned-down bankers, panhandlers, construction workers, the fashionable ladies of our fair city, buffed-up guys with tattoos and backwards baseball caps, high schoolers, and senior citizens.
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