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This was the final performance for members of the 2018/2019 Young Tradition Touring Group that toured metro New York and New Jersey in April 2019. Members were great representatives of the full group, joining artist leaders Pete Sutherland, & Oliver Scanlon. More info about the Touring Group from mark.sustic@gmail.com
The Instrument Petting Zoo returned to the Peacham Acoustic Music Festival on Saturday August 17th with PJ Braine, Sarah King, Kevin and several others as zoo keepers. New and returning friends, young and mature hands occupied the space and 3 hours trying out fiddles, banjos, guitars, ukes, accordions and more, sowing the seeds and supporting […]
Fiddleheads with Yasi Zeichner will be at Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh on Sunday after 1pm, finishing by 4pm. This is the culmination of a 2-part residency where Yasi taught and rehearsed tunes in preparation for this performance. Fiddleheads will be playing two 20-30 minute sets (during the breaks for another band), with the first Fiddleheads set […]
Thanks to Stowe Performing Arts for showcasing The Two Tones in Stowe on 8/13/19. Alexander Allison and Sebastiaan West did a fantastic show on a peak summer evening in the Gazebo in front of the Stowe Free Library, inspiring and admiring some young enthusiasts attending with their parents, 2 night after performing with Realta for […]
Application and audition deadline for the 2019/2020 Young Tradition Touring Group is Thursday August 15th. Next step is everyone who is interested getting their materials in, and soon after August 15th we’ll let everyone know 1) if we have enough folks to call it a group and 2) if they are invited to join. Details […]
You can still participate in the Fiddlers on the Green project! The Northeast Fiddlers Association, Champlain Valley Fiddlers and Young Tradition Vermont are sponsoring this documentation of fiddlers playing in every Vermont town in the year 2019. Send one dated photo from each of the 251 towns in Vermont of a fiddler or fiddlers playing […]
Catch Alexander Allison and Sebastiaan West in Stowe on 8/13/19 at 6pm in the Gazebo at Helen Day Art Center/Stowe Free Library. Mainstays of the Touring Group the past several years, Alexander and Sebastiaan will soon be moving on to other geographies and pursuits. Catch them while you can! More info about the duo here. More info Stowe […]
27th Annual New World Festival
Carling Berkhout, Loula Zeichner and Uma Peters played for a full house at the Vermont Banjo Afternoon August 3rd at the Vermont Historical Museum in Montpelier, presented by the Vermont Historical Society and Young Tradition Vermont. In 2018, the Vermont Historical Society was gifted a rare early 1900s banjo made by the Bacon Banjo company of […]
Fiddleheads completed the 2nd of a 2-part residency with Yasi Zeichner on 8/3/19 (1st part was 7/13/19), working on material that will be played on 8/18/19 between 1pm and 4pm at Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh. More info about that here. Videos of 2 tunes taught on 7/13/19 were The Eagle’s Whistle and A Fig for […]
Application and audition deadline for the 2019/2020 Young Tradition Touring Group in August 15th. Next step is everyone who is interested getting their materials in, and sometime after August 15th we’ll let everyone know 1) if we have enough folks to call it a group and 2) if they are invited to join. Details and […]
Vermont Banjo Afternoon