This year the Saturday evening concert at the Young Tradition Festival will feature a wide variety of young musicians and dancers performing with their mentors, teachers and/or parents, including a VFC Traditional Arts Showcase highlighting performers who have been involved with the VFC’s Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program (VTAAP) over the years. This special appearance is part of the VFC’s 30th anniversary celebration of VTAAP.

The Young Tradition Festival is a weeklong celebration of multi-generational relationships from diverse traditional music and dance communities. Children, youth and young adults are the major focus, as well as those who support them as teachers, mentors, friends and families. The Festival is an attempt to cultivate and feature intergenerational sharing. Participants share what inspires them, what they have learned, and their ability to perform, and to be inspired by and inspiring to others.

For a full listing of Festival events happening May 2-8, 2022 at Contois Auditorium in City Hall and other locations in/near downtown Burlington, Vermont click here!