​If you caught our Monday Minute last week, you know McKee Botanical Garden just threw quite the party to launch its centennial . Now, beginning this Saturday, January 17 through May 24 , they're landing another monumental event: think Chihuly-scale spectacle, but instead of molten glass, it’s the ancient art of paper folding translated into metal. Florigami in the Garden brings Jennifer and Kevin Box’s large-scale outdoor sculptures to Florida for the first time, and McKe

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center arrives at Trinity Episcopal Church next Wednesday, January 21 at 7:30 PM with an all-Beethoven program that's been making its way from California to Texas to Sarasota before landing here. Cellist David Finckel leads the evening alongside violinist Kristin Lee , pianist Juho Pohjonen , and violinist/violist Arnaud Sussmann . David Finckel, Cellist Kristin Lee, Violinist The program centers on Beethoven's Trio in D major, Op. 9,

The 18th season of the Atlantic Classical Orchestra's residency at VBMA kicks off this Sunday January 18 at 3:00 PM , and if you know, you know: arrive early, wander the galleries (admission included), then settle into the Leonhardt Auditorium. This Sunday's program, "Music and Nation," features Joseph Haydn's string quartets — of which he wrote dozens and essentially defined the form — alongside Dvořák's G Major Quintet. The Leonhardt's intimate setting puts ACO musician

Riverside Theatre’s new preview audiences have weighed in: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder is a smash hit in the making.

Executive Producer/CEO Jon R. Moses speaks to guests at a pre-show fine dining experience for Little Shop of Horrors If you haven't already heard, Chef Sue Torres is causing quite the stir at Riverside Theatre , both literally and figuratively. Formerly of New York's legendary "21" Club and La Grenouille —and, most recently, The Tides here in Vero—Torres is crafting pre-show fine dining experiences that rival the ultimate Broadway dinner-and-a-show experience. These exclusi

It started with a wild idea. New York and Vero-based architect Scott Johnson (now part of the Clearpath development team for Three Corners) is friends with cellist David Finckel and his wife, pianist Wu Han , co-directors of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center . "Come see our old power plant in Vero Beach and help us a design a future place there for CMS," Johnson said. So they did — and gave an impromptu concert. Soon after that, CMS began organizing three concerts

In the world of theatre, preview nights are the industry's best-kept secret. They are the high-stakes final stage of production where the director and crew finally have a chance to test the show on a live audience before it is "frozen" for the official run. The countdown is on for A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder at Riverside Theatre , but the true insiders aren't waiting for Opening Night. They’re eyeing the dates just before: January 9-11. The paint is metaphoricall

Most of us drive past McKee Botanical Garden on US-1 without realizing we're passing one of the greatest orchid stories ever told.

Cast members on the first day of rehearsal (December15). In the center is Ava Gurley , a presenting sponsor with her husband Bill Gurley , alongside Paul and Joanne Bourdeau. These remarkable actors go from first meeting to opening night in just three and a half weeks! The whole cast and two incredibly talented actors are turning Riverside Theatre's stage into a hilarious, perfectly-timed "crime scene" beginning January 9. In A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder , one ch

Edward Redfield (1869-1965). Birches and Harbor, Maine , circa 1920. Oil on canvas. Courtesy of the Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen PhD Foundation. January at the Vero Beach Museum of Art is shaping up to be spectacular! Three exhibitions that collectively ask: what does it mean to be American, to build boldly, and to dream about the future? The main feature, "American Made: Paintings and Sculpture from the DeMell Jacobsen Collection" (January 31 – June 7, 2026) , trac

Cast members arrive Vero Beach Airport on Sunday, December 14 Yesterday, ten of the 15 New York actors starring in Riverside Theatre’s A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder stepped off a JetBlue flight from JFK straight into Vero Beach Regional Airport. A sight to behold! They traded winter gray for Treasure Coast sunshine, bringing a full dose of Broadway voltage with them. Cast members arrive Vero via Jet Blue's "Devil with a Blue Dress On" Today, they’re shut away in re

Ballet is not usually at the top of my weekend wish list. So when a friend suggested Nutcracker on the Indian River at Riverside Theatre, I said yes, but with that kind of inner voice telling me I'd already seen The Nutcracker more than enough times to get the idea. Then the curtain rose, and within minutes, I realized just how wrong I’d been—in the best possible way. It was another reminder of how easy it is to be wonder-blind to what’s right in our own backyard, assuming th

Vero Beach is flexing its intellectual muscles this season, with two powerhouse lecture series on Riverside Park Drive cementing 32963 as the Treasure Coast’s smartest zip code. Together, Riverside Theatre’s Distinguished Lecturer Series and the Vero Beach Museum of Art’s International Lecture Series offer a brisk world tour of politics, media, food, travel, and American art—all before sunset.​ Riverside’s power players 2026 In 2026, Riverside Theatre’s Distinguished Lectur

Vero is stepping into 2025–26 with a classical music calendar resembling a mini-Salzburg, with world‑class orchestras, star soloists, and marquee opera and chamber music anchoring an increasingly dense classical calendar. From January through late spring, you could live on nothing but symphonies, string quartets, and high‑drama arias right here in your backyard. Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in Vero /as if an annex of Alice Tully Hall, The Chamber Music Society of L

The Vero Beach Museum of Art is hosting the 36th Annual Vero Beach Art Club Members’ Invitational, on view starting this Friday, December 5 through January 18 in the Patten Community Gallery, located in the education wing. A Members’ Reception on January 16 from 4–6 PM offers visitors a chance to meet the artists and hear about their work firsthand. The show brings together paintings, sculpture, and mixed media from both emerging and established local artists. VBMA is k

If you’ve ever wondered what the future of the arts in Vero looks like, it was on full display for three glorious, candlelit nights (November 18-20) at Indian River Charter High School’s Visual and Performing Arts Charter Dome, made possible by The Horn Family . The Enlightened Treasure —with its play authored by student playwright Johan Akiel Fontanilla —unfolded in a supper‑club setting of linen‑draped tables and flickering candles while live orchestra and jazz, ballet an

Following the groundbreaking of their 90,000-square-foot expansion on November 7 , the Vero Beach Museum of Art recently announced it will be opening Museum in the Garden: Envisioning the New VBMA on January 9 in the Stark Gallery. The exhibition, on display through February 7 , 2027 will feature early sketches, drawings, and renderings tracing the evolution of the design from its inception to the project now currently underway. Visitors will have a unique opportunity to

Rody Johnson has been hard at work telling Vero Beach's story for as long as he can remember, and he's never been more passionate about it. The acclaimed local author has spent decades chronicling the fascinating threads of our community's past, and his latest work, Forever Vero: A History 1880-2020 , is his most ambitious yet. He will be hosting a special book signing and author presentation at Vero Beach Book Center on Thursday, December 4 at 5:00 PM , where he’ll present

At nine years old in rural Maine, Xaque Gruber popped a videocassette of "Anna" the 1987 Oscar nominated, Golden Globe-winning film starring Sally Kirkland into his VCR. Young Gruber was transfixed.

It began with a single wall. Thirteen years ago, Neli Santamarina , owner of Raw Space , commissioned local artists Sick Fisher and photographer Jared Thomas to paint one of Vero's first large-scale murals. This leap of faith set everything else in motion. Vice Mayor and owner of Kilted Mermaid Linda Moore was watching. For the next 13 year she championed the idea of public art. This past May, when the Downtown Mural Project partnered with Main Street Vero Beach and sent o