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The 2021 Young Tradition Vermont Festival is ON (line) for 2 days – Saturday May 1 and Sunday May 2. It’s one of our most public and ambitious events every year – typically a week-long celebration of the multi-generational mentoring relationships in the diverse trad music and dance communities in Vermont and beyond. Young people […]
Want to be inspired? Take a look at the 2021 entries for the annual contest…. click on the link, then ‘contest submissions’, and under the poster you’ll see videos and bios for who has posted so far. Deadline was 4/15/21. Young Tradition Festival YTV board members and past contest winners will pick 10 finalists, and […]
The Touring Group launches its virtual world tour with social visits, shared music, and master classes on Sunday, starting in Sweden at 9am, and finishing on Thursday early evening in Quebec (Quebec City, Joliette and Montreal simultaneously). It’s been a long, complicated and complex journey to get here. Traveling together in person would have been […]
A current Touring Group member and a participant in the early days of Trad Camp and the annual showcase concerts during YTV Festival, Aidan Palmer does the Touring Group live interview slot on Friday (4/16/21 7pm) on YTV’s Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/YoungTraditionVermont. Over 20 interviews have happened since October 2020, all associated with pre-recorded performance videos […]
One of the many challenges of continuing to operate during the pandemic is that many of our ‘entry points’ have been blocked – Trad Camp, Fiddleheads, fiddle tune clubs, school assemblies, family dances, Instrument Petting Zoo installations at festivals, libraries, farmer’s markets, etc. – programs and activities that can open the doors to traditional music […]
Ada Schenck does the Touring Group live interview slot tonight (4/9/21 7pm on YTV’s Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/YoungTraditionVermont). Over 20 interviews have happened since October 2020, all associated with pre-recorded performance videos that are posted within the hour prior to the live interview. Aidan Palmer is on tap for 4/16/21. All interviews and performances remain on […]
Last call for sponsor banner contributions supporting the 2021 Young Tradition Touring Group. For $50 you can join with the others listed here and have your name, your family, your business, your organization included and shared on social media, the web site, in e-mails, at performances and during the virtual world tour April 18-22 for […]
Link to full Touring Group program presented by Town Hall Theater in Middlebury on 4/3/21. https://www.facebook.com/townhalltheatervt/videos/444484066632160
4/3/21 is the next and likely the final full concert by the 2020/2021 Touring Group before the virtual tour start April 18th Presented by the Town Hall Theater in Middlebury, Vermont. The Young Tradition Touring Group will perform a 45-60 minute online concert on Saturday, April 3, 2021 starting at 7pm for the […]
Touring Group concert presented by the Town Hall Theater in Middlebury on 4/3/21 starting at 7pm….. available on You Tube and Facebook https://youtu.be/bkc4tTE6nDg https://fb.me/e/2wV0ufzoU
McKinley James interview and performance video publishes today (3/26/21) at 7pm on Comm Arts https://commarts.org// This is the premier pilot episode for a series of interviews with and performances by young artists, hosted by Mark Sustic and presented by Young Tradition Vermont with CommArts. McKinley is a classical and traditional cellist getting her master’s degree from McGill […]
A Celtic Equinox continues today from Vermont and Ireland with several YTV representatives, including board member Ava White and Touring Group members Hilary Menegaz Weitzner and Owen Kennedy. https://commarts.org/ YTV/Comm Arts interview and performance collaboration pilot beginning soon. https://commarts.org/young-tradition-vermont/