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Thanks to Collin & John for doing the Baird 5 Pediatric Music Session at the UVM Children’s Hospital on 2/18/19. This is part of a series of monthly sessions for Baird 5 patients, families and staff that has been sponsored by Young Tradition Vermont with the Child Life Department since 2003. As always there’s listening, singing, dancing, […]
Come celebrate Mardi Gras with live music from Yankee Chank, Big Night, & Ponyhustle! Mardi Gras, French for ‘Fat Tuesday,’ is celebrated around the world as the last night of dancing, feasting, and partying before Lenten fasting begins on Ash Wednesday. This Burlington-based Mardi Gras celebration takes place March 5 from 7:00pm – 10:00pm at […]
On March 9 from 7:00 to 9:30PM, the Young Tradition Touring Group will perform at the Seven Stars Arts Center at 5126 VT Rt 14 in Sharon. The performance will feature sets by artist leaders Pete Sutherland, Jeremiah McLane, Oliver Scanlon, and Addison White, and the Touring Group’s full traditional music and dance repertoire. This […]
Young Tradition Vermont hosted three private showcases at the Folk Alliance International Conference in Montreal the second week of February. From 10:30PM to 3:00AM performers with linkages to Vermont were featured—current and prior residents, frequent visitors, and collaborators with our programs and activities. Registration for 11 young performers were supported by an anonymous donor, and […]
While Young Tradition Vermont hosted showcase presentations at the Folk Alliance International Conference in Montreal, and thanks to organization by Oliver Scanlon, the Young Tradition Touring Group was represented by group members Alexander Allison, Ben Munkres, Romy Munkres, Oliver Scanlon, Sebastian West, Hillary Menegaz Weitzner, and Fern Tamagini-O’Donnell at the 2019 Flurry in Saratoga Spring, […]
One of our most important fundraising projects for the Young Tradition Festival in late April and early May is a sponsor banner. For $100 you can have your name on a banner that will be displayed at all of the Festival’s activities in Burlington: concerts, festival club, contest, workshop, showcase, school and hospital programs, tribute […]
In late April and early May 2019, Young Tradition Vermont brings together young people involved in traditional music and dance, and those who support and are interested in what they do, in an effort to share with the community young trad singers, players and dancers and what they bring to the world. At the Young […]
YTV did an installation of its Instrument Petting Zoo at the Kinderworks child care center in Essex on 1/28/19. Everyone got to try out a variety of stringed instruments, including ukes, guitars, mandolins, harps, Tibetan guitars, fiddles, banjos, dulcimers and more, and to play along on Leadbelly’s ‘Wasn’t That a Band!’ It was great! It […]
Sarah King finished a 2-part Fiddleheads residency with over 20 young musicians on 2/2/19 at the Burlington Violin Shop, preparing tunes for the 3/17/19 (1pm) performance at the Burlington Irish Heritage Festival Ceili at City Hall in Burlington, reviewing previously taught tunes (the Rolling Waves and the Silver Spear) and teaching the Maid Behind the […]
Join us from July 22-26 at the Lake Champlain Waldorf High School campus for a week of traditional music and dance, taught by core staff Pete Sutherland, Oliver Scanlon, Jane Oxnard, Brian Perkins, Sarah Hotchkiss, Jeremiah McLane, and Anna Butcher, and guests including Village Harmony, Joanne Garton, and more! The age range for Trad Camp […]
If you want a Touring Group shirt, send your name and size (xs, s, m, l, xl) to mark.sustic@gmail.com. If you would like to order any in addition to one for yourself, please send who its for and what their size is. Cost will be approx $30 per shirt, to be paid when the shirt […]
On Saturday February 2nd from 9:30 am to 12:00 noon at the Burlington Violin Shop, Sarah King leads Fiddleheads as part of a winter residency, teaching and rehearsing tunes that Fiddleheads will perform during the Burlington Irish Heritage Festival Ceili on 3/17/19 at City Hall in Burlington. The primary goal of Fiddleheads is the enjoyment of traditional […]