Drive along I-89 from Burlington to Montpelier and find countless venues to enjoy art, live music, food, and fashion.
WCVB Boston • Updated: 8:20 PM EST Feb 20, 2024
BURLINGTON, Vt. —
Phoenix Art Gallery & Music Hall is a community-gathering spot and a unique blend of art gallery, live music venue, candy counter, and soda fountain. The soda fountain is one of the few places in Vermont where one can drink Rookie’s Root Beer, a state phenomenon brewed only in small batches by a Burlington couple.
Nectar’s Loungeis a live-music venue and eatery, famous for being the club where the legendary band Phish originated and gained popularity.
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Burlington Murals inVermont’s largest city boasts an uncommonly large number of murals painted on the sides of many buildings. They’ve been documented by the photographer Carolyn Bates, the author of two volumes documenting the murals.
April Cornell is the owner of her own brand of women’s clothing and fashion. Burlington is her home base, and the exterior of her business on Battery Street was painted, in colors and murals, by Cornell herself.