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Lots of information, including photos, for Trad Camp at the Trad Camp Facebook page : https://www.facebook.com/TradCamp/
The Instrument Petting Zoo returned to the Charlotte Public Library on Friday July 19th with Suzanne Pellerin, her grandson and Mark Sustic as zoo keepers. On the hottest day of the year (so far – 96 at last check), about 55 young folks filled the space and time with parents, grandparents, librarians and caregivers trying […]
Thanks for all who attended the YTV Board meeting on Sunday July 14th at the picnic tables under the gazebo at Bread and Butter Farm in Shelburne (and thanks to Corrie Pierce and Chris Dorman for welcoming us)…… on Bastille Day and Woody Guthrie’s birthday. Alyssa and Mark filled in as facilitators, while Sarah continues […]
Fiddleheads completed the 1st of a 2-part residency with Yasi Zeichner on 7/13/19 (2nd part is 8/3/19). learning tunes that will be performed on 8/18/19 between 1pm and 4pm at Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh. 2 tunes taught this week were: The Eagle’s Whistle https://drive.google.com/file/d/19Kgx4bKl-gLgb_2tTloXovCNsZp_oN0K/view?usp=sharing A Fig for A Kiss https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BeBCXHofRFL8fkvF4jUkh9v74sXws3Dv/view?usp=sharing More information at […]
YTV Trad Camp starts on July 22nd! Its going to be an exciting week. There are still a few open spaces, so if anyone is interested, send them to the registration at this link: https://youngtraditionvermont.org/2017/02/trad-camp/ In addition to the schedule of classes and workshops, from fiddle to ukelele, crankie songs and blues guitar, banjo and […]
Next Fiddleheads rehearsal is Saturday 8/3/19 9:30 am – 12:00 pm at the Burlington Violin Shop. Yasi Zeichner leads this 2nd of a 2-part residency teaching and rehearsing tunes that Fiddleheads will perform on 8/18/19 between 1pm and 4pm at Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh. More information at the website below. Please e-mail mark.sustic@gmail.com if you […]
YTV Trad Camp starts 7/22/19, and we still have just a few spaces open! Please help us spread the word. Trad Camp is a great opportunity for youth age 8-16 to immerse themselves in traditional music and dance, with amazing instructors and guest performers, including Pete Sutherland, Oliver Scanlon, Jane Oxnard, Sarah Hotchkiss, Anna Butcher, […]
Saline Fiddlers Philharmonic from Michigan visited Burlington on 7/3/19, playing on the Church Street Marketplace in front of the Burlington Violin Shop, after an unexpected delay at the Canadian/US border, finally getting under way at about 3:30pm. Thanks for the group and their artistic director Ashley Grebe for making it happen, to Kathy Reilly at […]
Application and audition information for the 2019/2020 Touring Group was distributed on June 30th to last year’s members and those had completed an interest survey in early June. If you or someone you know is interested, we can send it to you with a request to mark.sustic@gmail.com. Those who are interested need to complete the […]
Young Tradition Touring Group on April 25, 2019 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, including appearances by Dr. Junius Williams, Regina Carter, Mark Gross and Jazz for Teens. Touring Group segment starts at about 51:14. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qjAxYJcdScQPNZPGCFn7z5H7708AeB4t/view Another video from the April 2019 tour in metro New York/New Jersey…… this one from the International […]
Graduations and transitions abound at this time of year, for everyone, including current and alumni Touring Group members. Sebastiaan’s parents organized a surprise graduation contra dance for him on 6/17/19 at the Jericho Community Center, with lots of snacks and food, Mary Wesley calling the dance, and a chance re-convene for those who came. Congrats […]
The Northeast Fiddlers Association, Champlain Valley Fiddlers and Young Tradition Vermont are sponsoring the Festival of Fiddlers on the Green: documenting a fiddler or fiddlers playing in every Vermont town in the year 2019. The help of every Vermont fiddler is essential to meet this challenge! We need at least one dated photo from each […]