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The Young Tradition Touring Group produces a limited run CD each year as a fundraising project. We try to get it out in time for the gift-giving season and we use it to support the annual trip the group takes. The title is ‘Friends and Neighbors’, and includes contributed tracks from folks we have encountered […]
Young Tradition Vermont is asking for your support! When I was about 12 years old, I started getting involved in Fiddleheads. We went all over the state playing at fairs, dances and community events. Fiddleheads gave me a group of friends who loved the same music I loved. It gave me a chance to learn […]
On December 27 from 7:00 to 8:30PM, the Young Tradition Touring Group will present a performance at the Bishop Booth Conference Center at 20 Rock Point Circle in Burlington. This is the first public performance of the 2018-2019 Touring Group’s traditional music and dance repertoire, which the group has been working on since September. The […]
The December Baird 5 Pediatric Music Session will feature the Burlingtones, a student manageed/directed choral group from Burlington High School. Baird 5 sessions happen once a month at Vermont Children’s Hospital at UVM Medical Center. They are for Baird 5 patients, families and staff only and are not otherwise a public event.
It was a busy weekend for Young Tradition Vermont, with 7 events. Besides the Saturday Touring Group rehearsal and evening performance at FlynnSpace, on Friday we had the instrument petting zoo at the Vermont International Festival, Inner Fire District at Edmunds Elementary School, and Just for Kicks at Integrated Arts Academy. On Sunday it was […]
Thanks to Ben, April, Yasi, Oli, Suzanne, Kerry, Andy and Linda, the Instrument Petting Zoo will be at the 26th Annual Vermont International Festival on Friday November 30 between 9am and 3pm. This is Vermont’s major gathering of music, dance, song and crafts from all over the world, and great opportunity on Friday for Young […]
The Deborah Rawson Memorial Library in Jericho & Young Tradition Vermont team up for a concert by the Zeichner Trio on 12/2/18 starting at 2pm in the library’s reading room. Yasi, Oliver, and Louli Zeichner are three siblings who have grown up in the hills of central Vermont. Yasi is also a YTV board member, […]
Help us help our Trad Camp partners, the Lake Champlain Waldorf School! Holiday Fair at Lake Champlain Waldorf School
The Instrument Petting Zoo will be at the 26th Annual Vermont International Festival between 9am and 3pm at the Champlain Valley Exposition on 11/30/18, but to make it happen successfully we need some help! We need help picking it up at Integrated Arts Academy on 11/29/18, setting it up on 11/30/18, 2 to 3 hours […]
Hard to know how many Baird 5 music sessions we’ve done, but 11/19/18 was somewhere over 150, based on about once a month for 17 years. For this one it was Lexi and Mark playing tunes on fiddle and flute in the most recently located activity room (changes the past few months because of ongoing […]
Brian Perkins completed a 3-part fall/early winter residency on 11/17/18 at the Burlington Violin Shop, teaching and rehearsing tunes that will be performed at the annual Deck the Halls celebration at Shelburne Museum on 12/2/18. Fiddleheads will perform 2 1/2 hour sets, one starting at 11:30am, the 2nd starting at 12:30pm. Please arrive by 11am […]
Fiddleheads performed for the 16th year at the Children’s Memorial Service at Ira Allen Chapel on Sunday, November 11, joining Mayfly and the Essex Children’s Choir. Thanks to Marlene Maron and the planning committee for the invitation, Alan Homans for the introduction, Brian Perkins for the 2-part advance residency and material that was learned, rehearsed […]