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

Young Tradition Vermont’s Sugar in the Pan will perform at this year’s New World Festival at the Chandler Center for the Arts.

Attendees will also be able to visit an installation of the Instrument Petting Zoo, along with catching the festival’s other fabulous acts.

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.

With their sound firmly rooted in the musical traditions of New England, Appalachia, Scotland, and Ireland, Sap Line blends those traditions into a cohesive palette to work in harmony together.  Bringing an astonishing number of instruments to the stage, Sap Line adds a fresh and youthful flavor to everything they do, from energetic jigs and reels to lyrical three-part harmony singing, captivating sean-nós dancing, and foot-stomping Old Time favorites.

We love Pie! Join the Rokeby Museum to celebrate Summer and community with Rokeby’s annual Pie & Ice Cream Social. There will be games, raffle prizes throughout the afternoon, and music by Vermont Folklife’s Sugar in the Pan Trad Band!

Moira Smiley will perform songs from her recently released album of folk songs with string quartet, ‘The Rhizome Project’ along with special guests, including YTV participants.

The annual folk concert is organized by singer Deb Flanders in honor of her great-aunt Helen Hartness Flanders, an internationally recognized ballad collector and authority on folk music found in New England and in the British Isles. 

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.

Oliver Scanlon and Tristan Henderson bring a sonic landscape of fiddles in wild harmony, high-powered guitar, and pounding foot percussion with mandolin, jaw harp, and soaring vocal harmonies. The group taps into many traditions from the north to south and east to west, distilling a distinct sound that is completely their own. Their signature is variety: both multi-instrumentalists, they play a dynamic repertoire of folk-roots genres and tunes, both traditional and original.  

CANCELLED - Due to weather.
Vermont Folklife’s Sugar in the Pan plays traditional music from New England, Québec, Maritime Canada and beyond, featuring lively tunes that will have folks of all ages up & dancing!

Join the Young Tradition Touring Group at the Capital City Grange for the Montpelier Contra Dance!

Do you have an interview project in mind but don’t quite know where to begin or how to proceed? Vermont Folklife is partnering with the Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) to offer this workshop, Oral History: An Introduction, to help you move your project forward.

Join Vermont Folklife, the Manchester Historical Society, and the Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning as we hear about maple sugaring with horses, a fiddle tune at a Franco-American music jam, the strains of a Burmese lullaby, or the many generations of shopkeepers at the H.N. Williams store in Dorset.

Do you have an interview project in mind but don’t quite know where to begin or how to proceed? Vermont Folklife is partnering with the Thetford Historical Society to offer this workshop, Oral History: An Introduction, to help you move your project forward.

Come one and all to a family friendly jam session where all instruments and music are welcome. This group is aimed at providing a welcoming and supportive space to try out playing tunes and singing songs together.

Join Caller Luke Donforth and Pascal Gemme, Véronique Plasse and friends for a family contra dance.

Join Pascal Gemme & Véronique Plasse for this family-friendly jam session.

Vermont Folklife’s Young Tradition Touring Group will open for Genticorum for the Young Tradition Festival’s Saturday night concert.

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 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.

Featuring Genticorum, Shyam Nepali’s Himalayan Dreams, and the Young Tradition Touring Group.