June arts scene sizzles as summer arrives

Summer is here, or at least the month that welcomes summer is here. You’ll have to wait three weeks from the start of June for summer to begin officially, but let’s ignore all that official folderol and welcome that glorious season and its arrival in Vermont.

Summer’s start means summer arts. Music and plays head outdoors, and indoor events provide a cool refuge for those fairly infrequent Vermont days when the hot seasonal air becomes too much to bear.

Bear witness to some of these events that help Vermonters celebrate what it means to be alive and in Vermont at this darned-close-to-perfect time of year.

Lost Nation Theater premieres Vermont play

Through June 11, the world premiere production of Vermont playwright/actor/director Erin Galligan Baldwin’s play “My Mother’s Three Mothers,” which involves a woman’s search for her birth mother, continues its run that began May 25 by Lost Nation Theater, Montpelier City Hall Arts Center. $10-$30. www.lostnationtheater.org