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Very helpful if you can let us know you’re planning on joining us on 8/8/20 9:30am to 10:30am on Zoom (previously scheduled at the Burlington Violin Shop). If yes, please let us know at mark.sustic@gmail.com. If we have fewer than 4 or 5 confirmations, we’ll consider not doing it. This is the final part of […]
Pete Sutherland with Isabella Rottler did the Friday on Church Street Marketplace on 8/7/20. On 8/14/20 Yasi Zeichner with Fiddleheads members will play. Pete Sutherland with more students return on 8/21/20. 2 more sessions scheduled on 8/28/20 and 9/4/20. Young Tradition Vermont and the Burlington Violin Shop have teamed up for a series of live […]
Facebook Live on Tuesday August 11 starting at 7pm. Donation requested at PayPal.me/YTVermont. Info at mark.sustic@gmail.com. ‘Thoughtful and inspired…. the direction roots music is headed.’ – Bruce Molsky. Video sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA-D0mNTcuk Corner House concert
Today (July 31) is the 5th and final day of Trad Camp 2020. Hope you can join us. Mark and Yasi will continue to co-host the online sessions at 10am and 1pm. We continue to learn about doing the sessions on line. Hopefully our obvious lack of experience with the technology doesn’t distract from the […]
Trad Camp begins Monday July 27th and continues through Friday July 31st. This is the first time Trad Camp is being done on line, and we’ve had some challenges setting up what we had envisioned….. hope you can stick with us. Trad Camp will be on FaceBook Live on the Young Tradition Vermont Facebook page […]
Maeve Fairfax and Hadley Stockwell did the Friday on Church Street Marketplace on 7/24/20. Coming up on 7/31/20 is Pete Sutherland with Sam Doherty, Gus Barkyoumb and Isabella Rottler. Young Tradition Vermont and the Burlington Violin Shop have teamed up for a series of live lunch hour performances by young musicians – sometimes solo, sometimes […]
In-person Trad Camp may be cancelled, but we still have fun planned for the week of July 27th! Next week, YTV will release several workshop videos from each of the camp core instructors: Pete Sutherland, Oliver Scanlon, Annika Amstutz, Sam Bartlett, Ada Schenck, and Brian Perkins. Videos will teach some tunes, harmonies, techniques, fun tricks, […]
Young Tradition Vermont continues its Youth Commission program for a second year. The Youth Commision is a group of high school-aged musicians who play and sing in traditional styles. They start rehearsals in September, and will be scheduling performances starting in January and continuing into the summer of 2021, including the annual Young Tradition Festival […]
7/11/20 Young Tradition Youth Commission concert review written by Ava White The 2019/2020 Young Tradition Youth Commission was awarded Romy Munkres last summer. She assembled Ben Munkres, Hadley Stockwell, Fern Tamagini-O’Donnell, and Abigail Sandy (some of whom may be recognizable as performers in previous Young Tradition concerts and the Touring Group) to form a group […]
Brenda Castles is from County Meath in eastern Ireland, a place of rich musical tradition. She learned concertina from Rena Traynor and concertina maestro from Mícheál Ó’Raghallaigh. As both a solo and group competitor, she has earned several All Ireland Fleadh titles as well as having been a finalist in the Young Traditional Musician of […]
Thanks all who joined on Zoom for Fiddleheads on Saturday July 11th. Yasi taught ‘I Have a House with a Chimney on Top of It’ (Junior Crehan). Final session of the 3-part residency is scheduled for Saturday August 8th, anticipating performing on Church Street Marketplace, in front of the Burlington Violin Shop, on Friday August […]
YTV Trad School resumes for Fiddleheads with the part 2 of a 3 part residency with Yasi Zeichner, focusing on preparing fiddle tunes to be played at various events this summer and fall (e.g. Church Street Marketplace, Children’s Memorial Service). One residency session for everyone, starting at 9:30am, finishing by 10:30am. You don’t have to pay to participate, but we […]