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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 […]
Thanks Annabel Moynihan for doing the Church Street Marketplace 12-1 shift Friday July 3 in front of the Burlington Violin Shop. Great to see our music pals Holly and Brooke and Mom Meg from Nicholville, New York, playing in front of Home Port at the same time. As always thanks to Kathy and the crew […]
Thanks all who participated in the Tony Demarco master class (4 Mondays starting 6/8/20, ending 6/29/20). We did our best with the Zoom format. Though not as wonderful as being close physically, the information and insights about Irish fiddle styles, masters of the past and session tunes that are unique to NY City came through […]
Andrew Caden is a recent high school graduate from Bethesda, Maryland. Primarily an Irish fiddler, Andrew has won numerous All-Ireland medals for slow airs on the fiddle as well as being the 2017 All-Ireland fiddle champion (15-18). He plays in the old Sligo-style, characterized by more ornamentation and rapid playing in comparison to other traditional […]
Presented by Young Tradition Vermont. Suggested donation. Info at mark.sustic@gmail.com. Facebook Live on Young Tradition Vermont’s Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/YoungTraditionVermont/ You don’t have to pay to watch, but we’re assuming you don’t mind being asked for a contribution. $10-$20 suggested at https://paypal.me/YTVermont. The concert will remain on the Facebook page, and donations can be made anytime […]
Young Tradition Vermont and the Burlington Violin Shop team up for a series of live lunch hour performances by young musicians with their teachers, mentors, parents, friends – in front of the shop on the Church Street Marketplace in Burlington on Fridays during the lunch hour in July and August. ‘Physically distant and but socially […]
The LAST time the 2019/2020 Touring Group will be together, at least in a rehearsal or ‘happy hour’ format, happened on 6/20/20 via Zoom. There will be a final concert in early August before the project actually ends, and we’ve still got the New World Festival on 9/6/20 on the calendar. Emily couldn’t be with […]
The 2020 Young Tradition Contest Winners Concert is scheduled for Tuesday evening at 7pm on Facebook Live at the YTV Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/YoungTraditionVermont/ The concert is presented by Young Tradition Vermont, our annual feature of winners at the contest in early May. You don’t have to pay to watch, but we’re assuming you don’t mind […]
A concert on June 11th commemorating fifteen years together and counting, from mentor/student to colleagues, Pete Sutherland and Oliver Scanlon celebrate their deep relationship built on a love of music. Both are heavily involved and wonderful examples of Young Tradition Vermont, an organization that promotes, “Young people playing old music,” as said by Oliver Scanlon. […]
The Touring Group is one of about 30 programs operated at any one time by Young Tradition Vermont www.youngtraditionvermont.org. Applications and auditions happen July through mid-August. If interested, complete the application, then take care of the audition details after you’ve done the application (application and audition explanation links below). Our plans for the Touring Group […]
Mark Sustic intends to transition from YTV Executive Director not later than February 2022. Seems like a long runway, but time flies and there’s lots of other things to attend to constantly. The Board of Directors has started a planning process for a replacement and would appreciate any and all perspective(s). Here are some related […]
The 2019/2020 Young Tradition Youth Commission was awarded to Romy Munkres. She assembled a small group of young musicians who focused on learning about the histories of different traditional musics and about the historical links between styles. Since they already knew a lot about styles of trad music common in Vermont – including Irish, Cape […]