A FREE, one-day professional learning workshop for educators about teaching with audio recordings from folklife collections and using oral history interviewing in the classroom, presented in partnership with Local Learning: The National Network for Folk Arts in Education and the Vermont Rural Education Collaborative.

The Bhutanese Nepali Kirat Rai & Limbu community cordially invites you to the Sansari Puja Celebration in Burlington! This springtime festival is an appeal to the gods of nature for blessings for a successful agricultural season and for individual health and wellbeing.

Join us for a joyous evening of music with the Pine Tree Flyers and the Young Tradition Touring Group! 

In this 90-minute workshop, the Flyers will introduce a favorite New England classic (Green Mountain Petronella, for the great state of Vermont!), teaching both chords and melody. After a short break, the second half of class will focus on how we arrange for the concert stage. With a combination of demonstrating, discussion, and full-group playing, we'll use Green Mountain Petronella to make some magic happen. 

Join us at the Burlington Farmers Market for a showcase performance of students performing music and dance from a wide range of traditions alongside their teachers and mentors.

Performances will include folk fiddling, Tibetan Dranyen, Jazz ukulele, Scottish harp, and Irish step dancing.

Join us to enjoy an evening of participatory dance and learn about the range of traditional arts practiced in Vermont today. This event is an opportunity for attendees of all ages and abilities to gather, move together to live music, and learn from dance leaders representing a diverse array of Vermont’s cultural communities. 

Join us for a potluck dinner to open the 2025 Young Tradition Festival! During the meal, Vermont Folklife’s Mary Wesley will host a round table with community-recognized dance experts and longtime VT Folklife partners, Migmar Tsering (Tibetan musician and dance leader), Mediha Jusufagic (Bosnian dance leader), Urmila Chhetri (Bhutanese Nepali and Bollywood Dance Instructor), and Aline Mukiza (Burundian singer and dance leader).

Join the Touring Group for a performance hosted by the Upper Valley Music Center at the First Congregational Church, Lebanon, New Hampshire, on Sunday, April 27th, at 2:00pm.

Join the Touring Group for a performance at Melrose Unitarian Universalist Church in Melrose, Massachusetts, Saturday, April 26th, at 7:00pm.

Join us for a joyous evening of music with the Pine Tree Flyers and the Young Tradition Touring Group at One Longfellow Square in Portland, Maine, on Friday, April 25th, at 8:00 pm.

Join us for a joyous evening of music with Springtide and the Young Tradition Touring Group at the at Unitarian Universalist Church of Belfast on Thursday, April 24th, at 7:00 pm.

Join the Touring Group for a performance at Trinity Church in Lewiston, Maine, Wednesday, April 23rd, at 6:45pm.

Join the Young Tradition Touring Group for a performance at the First Congregational Church of Cornwall.

Dance to the Young Tradition Touring Group at the Montpelier Contra Dance!

This class is for intermediate students who can play a few tunes, and can learn tunes by ear by repeating back a series of 5-10 notes.

Wednesday, 5-6pm, March 5- April 16

Join Laurel Swift for this Spring Fiddleheads Teen Ensemble for intermediate to advanced players of all instruments at the Brattleboro Music Center.

The focus is on exploring ensemble playing and developing creativity in folk music. Learn great tunes and how to accompany them, make harmonies and build a groove! We'll work in both small and large groups, and there are simpler and more complex lines accommodating a range of abilities.

Join the Young Tradition Touring Group for a performance at North Star Community Hall in Burlington.

Ice Shanties is an exhibition featuring the structures, people and culture of ice fishing seen through the lens of Vermont-based Colombian photographer Federico Pardo.

It will be on display at the Center for Arts and Learning in Montpelier, from February 8 to mid-March, 2025.

Join Touring Group alum Eliza Goodell for a series of beginner-friendly fiddle lessons this fall, in Burlington!

Sundays, 11-12, Feb 2 &16, March 2 &16, April 6, 13 & 27, May 4

In this online workshop, the Vermont Land Trust is partnering with Vermont Folklife to give attendees tools to seek out and record oral histories that document your relationship to important places in your life and community.

Join the 2024-25 Touring Group for a performance at the Montpelier Performing Arts Hub.

Save the date for Non-Fiction Comics Fest 2024. November 16, 2024 - 11am - 6pm - Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, VT - Free to attend!

The Instrument Petting Zoo includes a wide variety of traditional acoustic instruments: The majority are stringed instruments like fiddles, ukuleles, guitars, banjos, mandolins, cellos, basses, etc. with the express purpose of letting young people play them.

Join Fiddleheads Alum Maeve Fairfax for a series of beginner-friendly fiddle lessons this fall, in Burlington!

Sundays, Oct 6 & 20, Nov 3 & 17, Dec 1, 2024. 11am-12pm

Vermont Folklife's Sugar in the Pan Trad Band plays traditional music from New England, Québec, Maritime Canada and beyond, featuring lively tunes that will have folks of all ages up & dancing!  These fantastic teenage musicians with the Young Tradition Vermont Touring Group offer creative and engaging arrangements for audiences.  They have performed at the New World Festival in Randolph and the Young Tradition Festival in Burlington; toured Cape Breton in 2023 and Québec in 2024; and have entertained at various retirement communities and schools in Vermont. 

Local Learning joins Vermont Folklife and Washington State Parks to share resources from our Teaching with Primary Sources collaboration, “Teaching with Folk Sources.” This educational program will particularly focus upon using oral history materials in interpretation and museum education.

Join Laurel Swift for this Fiddleheads Teen Fall Ensemble for intermediate to advanced players of all instruments at the Brattleboro Music Center.

The focus is on exploring ensemble playing and developing creativity in folk music. Learn great tunes and how to accompany them, make harmonies and build a groove! We'll work in both small and large groups, and there are simpler and more complex lines accommodating a range of abilities.

This class is for intermediate students who can play a few tunes, and can learn tunes by ear by repeating back a series of 5-10 notes.

1-2pm on Saturdays, Sept. 7 to Nov. 2. No class Oct 12