Calendar of Folk, Traditional and Roots Music and Dance Events in (or close to) Northern Vermont

Almost weekly event information and updates featuring folk, traditional, world and other roots oriented music and dance for about 4,000 recipients.

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Eleven Pipers Piping (Take 2)

February 7, 4pm, College Street Congregational Church, Burlington

An ‘Events for Tom’ benefit concert featuring eleven Vermont/Québec-based pipers playing a variety of pipes and music.  Performers will be Scottish-style pipers Elias Alexander, Dan Houghton, Peter Kent, Jackie Lewis, Ben Miller, Matt Buckley, Tim Cummings, and Iain MacHarg (doubling on French/Flemish pipes); also Rik Palieri (Polish pipes), Anthony Santoro (uilleann pipes), and Richard Shuttleworth (Northumbrian pipes).  Suggested $15 donation.  CDs, books, etc. will be available following the program.

Sponsored by Tom Sustic Fund, The Pipers’ Gathering, The Northeast Heritage Music Camp, The New World Festival, Nate Banton/Elbow Music, Beithe Publishing, Scotland by the Yard, Leunig’s Bistro & Old World Café, and the Vermont Bellowspipe School.

**NOTE: The Super Bowl kick-off isn’t until 6.30pm, so come on out!**

Contact Tim Cummings for more details:  802-453-4721 or tim@beithepublishing.com

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2/1/10

• Vermont Fiddle Orchestra rehearsal for the Spring Session at St. Augustine’s Church in Montpelier.  Jam sessions start at 6pm,, rehearsals start at 7pm.  Mondays from 1/25/10 through 4/1/10.  Contact 877-343-3531, info@vtfiddlecorchestra.org or www.vtfiddleorchestra.org

Mondays (every week except where noted otherwise)…..

• Music for a Monday Afternoon with Jackie Sauter from 3pm to 5pm on North Country Public Radio.  Contact 877-388-6277 or http://www.ncpr.org
• ‘Those Monday Blues’ with John ‘Onechord’ Conners from 5pm to 8pm on WWPV 88.7 FM ‘The Mike’ at St. Michael’s College in Colchester.  Every Monday.  Contact www.wwpv.org

2/2/10

• Contra Dance Band Class with Jeremiah McLane from 6:30pm to 8:30pm in Montpelier.  1/26/10 through 4/6/10.  Contact 802-765-9904, 802-272-5482 or jeremiah@sover.net
• English Country Dance Class with Judy Chaves from 7:30pm to 9:30pm at the Richmond Free Library in Richmond.  Contact (before 1/20/10) 802-899-2378 or valandtom@myfairpoint.net or (after 1/20/10) 802-425-3620 or chaves@gmavt.net
• Guagua (Geoff Kim, John Thompson-Figueroa, Shane Hardiman, Keith Levenson, Gail Hagenbach, Twa Mercer, Scott Dean and Carla Kevorkian) from 6:30pm to 8pm at the Radio Bean in Burlington.  Every other Tuesday from 2/2/10 through 3/30/10.  Contact www.guaguavt.com orwww.radiobean.com

Tuesdays (every week except where noted otherwise)…..

• The Blue Note with Ellen Rocco from 3pm to 5pm on North Country Public Radio.  Every Tuesday.  Contact 877-388-6277 or http://www.ncpr.org
• The Floating Head of Zsa Zsa with Laima from 4pm to 6pm on WRUV FM.  World, classical, blues, rock, bluegrass. Contact 656-4399 or www.uvm.edu/~wruv/
• Shape Note Sing from 6:30pm to 8:30pm in Ira Allen Chapel (usually) at the University of Vermont in Burlington. Hosted by the UVM Old Time Music Club.  Check for occasional changes in time, date and location.  Contact uvm.shape.note@gmail.com
• Bread and Puppet Theatre Shape Note sing at 6:30pm in Glover.  Every Tuesday in the summer.  Contact Linda Wells 586-0698 or craftsbury@hotmail.com or www.breadandpuppet.org
• Mostly Waltzing from 6:30pm to 8pm at Barrett Hall in South Strafford.  Every Tuesday.  Contact Gina Sonne 802-785-4220 or waltzlover@gmail.com
• Acoustic Coalition from 7pm to 11pm at Murphy Farm on Lake Pinneo in Quechee.  Every Tuesday.  Contact Kerry Rosenthal 203-856-0297 or kerryrose9@yahoo.com
• Songwriter’s Notebook with Rik Palieri at 10pm on Lake Champlain Access Television’s Channel 15.  Tuesdays. Contact www.banjo.net

2/3/10

• Open Mic Night from 6pm to 8pm at Phoenix Books and Café at Essex Shoppes and Cinema in Essex.  First Wednesdays.  Contact 872-7111, michael@phoenixbooks.biz or www.phoenixbooks.biz

Wednesdays (every week except where noted otherwise)…..

• Farmers and Artisans Market from 3pm to 7pm at the River Arts Center in Morrisville.  Every Wednesday. Contact www.riverartsvt.org.
• NIPs-West Open Potluck and Songs/Dance Tunes Session at Moshe’s house in Essex.  First and third Wednesdays.  Contact Moshe 879-0876 or www.groups.yahoo.com/NIPS-West.
• Irish Music Session hosted by Roger Kahle with guests from 6:30pm to 9:30pm at J.D. McCliments Pub in Putney.  Every Wednesday.  Contact Roger Kahle rjamesk@vermontel.net
• Old Time Session at Dan Wetmore’s home in Montpelier.  Every Wednesday.  Contact dwetmore@sover.net
• Old Time Music Session from about 7:30pm to 10pm at On the Rise Bakery in Richmond.  3^rd Wednesdays.  Contact www.ontherisebakery.net
• Irish Session at 9pm at the Radio Bean in Burlington.  Contact 660-9346 or www.radiobean.com

2/4/10

• (1/14/10 through 2/25/10) English Country Danc Class with David Millstone from 7pm to about 9:30pm in the Parish Hall at St. Barnabas Church in Norwich.  Please bring with you a pair of clean shoes that will not scuff the floor.  Contact millstone@valley.net
• Patrick Fitzsimmons In the Round at On the Rise Bakery in Richmond.

Thursdays (every week except where noted otherwise)…..

• Folk Directions with Gerry Goodfriend from 9am to 11am on CKUT 91.3 (from McGill University in Montreal).  Contact www.ckutfolk.com
• String Fever with Barb Heller from 3pm to 5pm on North Country Public Radio.  Contact 877-388-6277 orwww.ncpr.org
• Songwriter’s Notebook with Rik Palieri from 4pm to 4:30pm on Lake Champlain Access Television.  Thursdays. Contact www.banjo.net
• ‘The Folk Show’ with John Sheehey from 5pm to 8pm on WWPV 88.7 FM ‘The Mike’ at St. Michael’s College in Colchester.  Every Thursday.  Contact www.wwpv.org
• The Studio Sessions (one-hour music show on Channel 15 in Montpelier). Thursdays at 7pm, Fridays at 12am and 1pm, Saturdays at 11:30am. Produced by Kenric Kite at ORCA Media in Montpelier. www.orcamedia.net or 224-9901.
• Songwriter’s Notebook with Rik Palieri at 8pm on Lake Champlain Access Television’s Channel 15.  Thursdays. Contact www.banjo.net
• The Radioflyer Bluegrass and Beyond Show with John Civitello from 8pm to 10pm on WJSC 90.7 (Johnson State College).  Contact 635-1414.
• Francophondamental with Lucy Couture from 10pm to 12 midnight on WRUV 90.1 FM.  Contacthttp://www.wruv.org or couturelucy@gmail.com

2/5/10

• Old Time Music Jams starting at 5:30pm in the Billings North Lounge at the University of Vermont in Burlington.  1^st Fridays.  Sponsored by the UVM Old Time Music Club.  Contact kiemma@uvm.edu
• Tim Eriksen at 7:30pm at the Music Recital Hall at the University of Vermont in Burlington.   Presented by the UVM Lane Series.  Contact www.uvm.edu
• George Wilson, David Kaynor and members of the Beaudoin Family at North End Studio in Burlington.  Contact 802-233-3144 or ben@vpal-us.org
• English Country Dance with Carol Compton, Wayne Hankin and Margaret Smith from 7:30pm to 9:30pm at the Elley Long Music Center in Colchester.  Early session for dancers with some experience from 7pm to 7:30pm.  Contact mdkent@comcast.net or 802-879-7618 or www.burlingtoncountrydancers.org
• Scott Forrest at 8pm at the Art House in Middlebury.  Contact Mary Swanson mary@arthousevt.com, 802-458-0464 or www.arthousevt.com
• Jeremiah McLane and David Surette at 8pm at the Meetinghouse Café of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Bennington.  Contact www.uubennington.org, info@uubennington.org or 802-440-9816.
• Patrick Fitzsimmons at 8pm at Church Street Concert Series at the Gertrude Scott Hall in the Lennoxville United Church in Lennoxville (Quebec).  Part of first Friday series from October through May.  Contactblackcat@netrevolution.com
• Annalivia at 8pm at the Nelson Town Hall in Nelson, New Hampshire.  Presented by the Monadnock Folklore Society.  Contact www.monadnockfolk.org
• Gordon Stone Band at On the Rise Bakery in Richmond.  Contact www.gordonstone.com or 658-4771.

Fridays (every week except where noted otherwise)…..

• The Studio Sessions (one-hour music show on Channel 15 in Montpelier). Thursdays at 7pm, Fridays at 12am and 1pm, Saturdays at 11:30am. Produced by Kenric Kite at ORCA Media in Montpelier. www.orcamedia.net or 224-9901.
• Songwriter’s Notebook with Rik Palieri at 3pm on Lake Champlain Access Television’s Channel 15.  Fridays. Contact www.banjo.net
• The Beat Authority with David Sommerstein from 3pm to 5pm on North Country Public Radio.  Contact 877-388-6277 or www.ncpr.org
• Shillelagh Safari Radio Show with Edward Burke from 5pm to 8pm on WWPV 88.7 FM ‘The Mike’ at St. Michael’s College in Colchester.  Celtic, folk, world and variety.  Contact www.wwpv.org
• Old Time Music Jams starting at 5:30pm in the Billings North Lounge at the University of Vermont in Burlington.  1^st Fridays.  Sponsored by the UVM Old Time Music Club.  Contact kiemma@uvm.edu
• The Folk Show with Mike Alzo from 7pm to 8pm on North Country Public Radio.  Contact 877-388-6277,folkshow@ncpr.org or www.ncpr.org
• Square Dance (traditional singing squares, waltzes, polkas, fox trots and two-steps) with Lester Bradley (caller) and Musical Chairs (musicians) (sit-ins always welcome) from 8pm to 10:30pm at the Town Hall in Wentworth (New Hampshire).  1^st Fridays.  Contact Sue Hunt suehunt@cyberportal.net
• Songwriter’s Notebook with Rik Palieri at 9pm on Lake Champlain Access Television’s Channel 15.  Fridays. Contact www.banjo.net
• The Mud Party from 10pm to 2am on WMUD 89.3.  Every Friday.  Contact www.wmud.org

2/6/10

• Georgian Singing Workshop with Carl Linich and Brendan Taaffe at the Vermont Jazz Center in Brattleboro.  Presented by Turtle Dove.  Contact www.turtledoveharmony.org
• Workshops with George Wilson, David Kaynor and members of the Beaudoin Family at North End Studio in Burlington.  Contact 802-233-3144 or ben@vpal-us.org
• Benefit Contra Dance for the Fairfield Food Shelf with Mark Sustic (caller) and Fiddleheads at 7pm at Fairfield Center School
• Adam Boyce presents ‘Sprightly Steps:  Vermont’s Contra and Square Dancing Tradition’ at 7pm at the Gilbert Davis Library in Reading.  Part of the Speakers’ Bureau of the Vermont Humanities Council.  Contactadamrboyce@juno.com or 802-484-7719.
• Chris Dorman and Friends at 7pm Music Box in Craftsbury.  Contact 802-586-7533 orwww.themusicboxvt.org
• Krishna Avatar (Stories of Krishna through Music and Dance) at 7pm in the Music Recital Hall at the University of Vermont in Burlington.  Presented by Friends of Indian Music and Dance.  Contact 802-860-9556, 802-656-1096 or fimd@uvm.edu
• Mid-Winter Ceilidh featuring O’hAnleigh, the St. Andrews Highland Dancers of Vermont, the Green Mt. Celts (Terry and Joanne Ranney), Doug Riley, Jonathan Leonard and Harold Kaplan 7pm at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Jericho.
• Hot Club of San Francisco at 7:30pm at the Town Hall Theater in Woodstock.  Presented by the Pentangle Arts Council.  Contact 457-3981 or www.pentanglearts.org
• Blue Moose and the Unbuttoned Zippers at 7:30pm at the Ripton Community Coffee House at the Ripton Elementary School.  Open mic followed by the featured performer.  Contact 802-388-9782 orwww.myspace.com/riptoncommunitycoffeehouse
• As Yet Quintet (Anna Patton, Miamon Miller, Eugene Uman, Todd Roach and Julian Gerstin) CD Release Party at 8pm at the Vermont Jazz Center in Brattleboro.  Contact 802-387-8505,julian@zabapmusic.com or www.asyetquintet.com
• The Michele Fay Band at the Skinny Pancake in Burlington.  Contact 802-540-0188.
• Gordon Stone Band from 10pm to 2am at Ri Ra’s in Burlington.  Contact www.gordonstone.com.
• Esperanza Spalding and Madeleine Peyroux at 10pm on Austin City Lmits on Vermont Public Television.  Contact www.vpt.org
• Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin and Buddy Miller at 11pm Soundstage on Vermont Public Television.  Contact www.vpt.org

Saturdays (every week except where noted otherwise)…..

• Songwriter’s Notebook with Rik Palieri at 6am on Lake Champlain Access Television’s Channel 15.  Saturdays. Contact www.banjo.net
• Songwriter’s Notebook with Rik Palieri at 9am on Lake Champlain Access Television’s Channel 15.  Saturdays. Contact www.banjo.net
• The Radio Rangers at 10:30am on WDEV AM 550 or WDEV FM 96.1 (Waterbury). Contact Mark Struhsacker or Dave Rowell 800-299-9436 or www.wdevradiorangers.com
• The Studio Sessions (one-hour music show on Channel 15 in Montpelier). Thursdays at 7pm, Fridays at 12am and 1pm, Saturdays at 11:30am. Produced by Kenric Kite at ORCA Media in Montpelier. www.orcamedia.net or 224-9901.
• Songwriter’s Notebook with Rik Palieri at 1pm on Lake Champlain Access Television’s Channel 15.  Saturdays. Contact www.banjo.net
• Songwriter’s Notebook hosted by Rik Palieri from 4pm to 5pm on VCAM-TV.  Contact www.banjo.net
• Acoustic Harmony with Mark Michaelis on WGDR (91.1 FM) from 4:30pm to 7:30pm.  Alternating Saturdays.  Contact 454-7762, www.wgdr.org or www.acoustic-harmony.com
• A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor from 6pm to 8pm on Vermont Public Radio.  Contacthttp://www.vpr.net
• Shillelagh Safari radio show with Edward Burke from 8pm to 10pm on ‘the Radiator’ WOMM-LP 105.9.  Contactwww.theradiator.org
• Eastern Style Square Dance with Adam Boyce (fiddler/caller) at 8pm at the Community Hall on Tyler Farm Road in West Newbury.  4^th Saturdays.  Includes traditional singing squares, waltzes, polkas, foxtrots, two-steps, Virginia Reel, Portland Fancy, Paul Jones and others.  Contact 429-2316, 484-7719 or adamrboyce@juno.com
• The Mud Party from 10pm to 2am on WMUD 89.3.  Every Saturday. Contact www.wmud.org

2/7/10

• Swedish Tunes Workshop with David Kaynor from 12 noon to 2pm at TBA in Montpelier.  Contact 802-229-1403 or hendrixfiddle@gmail.com
• Northeast Fiddlers Association Fiddle Meet (jam starts at 12 noon) at the VFW in Morrisville.  Usually 1^stSundays, with exceptions.  Contact www.nefiddlers.org
• Flute Extravaganza featuring students of Berta Frank at 2pm in the Main Reading Room at the Deborah Rawson Memorial Library in Jericho.  Contact 802-899-4962.
• Upper Valley Community Chorus led by Mary Cay Brass from 4pm to 6pm at St. Barnabas Church in Norwich.  Part of 6-week session from 1/10/10 through 3/7/10.  Contact mcbrass@vermontel.net or 802-869-2438.
• Eleven Pipers Piping with Elias Alexander, Matt Buckley, Tim Cummings, Dan Houghton, Peter Kent, Jackie Lewis, Iain MacHarg, Ben Miller, Rik Palieri, Anthony Santoro and Richard Shuttleworth with Pete Sutherland (emcee) at 4pm at the College Street Congregational Church in Burlington.  Benefits the Tom Sustic Fund.  Contact 453-4721.
• Contra Dance with the Mad Robin Callers Collective (callers) and Streak O Lean (Jim Burns, Brianna Farver, Andrew Hathaway, Julia Wayne and Mark Sustic) from 6:30pm to 10pm at the Ukrainian National Federation Hall in Montreal. Contact nfo@contramontreal.org

Sundays (every week except where noted otherwise)…..

• Crossroads with Tim Downey and Todd Tyson (alternating hosts) on the Point (WNCS) at 104.7 FM (Burlington/Montpelier), 103.1 and 107.7 (Lebanon, White River Junction/Hanover) and 95.7 FM (St. Johnsbury/Danville) from 6am to 10am.  Contact crossroads@pointfm.com
• Sunday Morning Cafe from 6am to 10am on WMUD 89.3.  Every Sunday.  Contact www.wmud.org
• L.J.’S Dream with L.J. Palrady (WRUV 90.1 FM) from 9am to 12.  Contact lpalardy@uvm.edu orhttp://wruv.com/
• The Back Porch with Jim Olson from 9am to 12 noon on WRSI 101.5 FM (Brattleboro).
• A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor from 11am to 1pm on Vermont Public Radio.  Contacthttp://www.vpr.net
• Sacred Harp Sing from 1pm to 4:30pm at Carol’s Hungry Mind Café in Middlebury.  Second Sundays.  Contact Deb Moody 388-5410 or moody.debby@gmail.com
• Old Time Session at 1pm at the Radio Bean in Burlington.  Contact 660-9346 or www.radiobean.com.
• Summit Singer’s Reunion from 1pm to 3pm at the Red Hen Bakery in Middlesex.  2^nd Sundays.
• All the Traditions with Robert Resnik from 1pm to 4pm on Vermont Public Radio.  Contact rresnik@vpr.net orhttp://www.vpr.net
• Bluegrass Time with Nick Barr from 2pm to 3pm on WAMC/Northeast Public Radio.  Contacthttp://www.wamc.org/station.html
• Irish Music Session from 2pm to 5pm at McKibbin’s in Montreal.  Sunday afternoons.  Contact 514-228-1580 orwww.belfastandi.com
• Traditional Irish Sessions from 3pm to 6pm at the Irish Embassy in Montreal.  Contact 514-875-8777.
• ‘Blue Mountain Greengrass’ with Duncan Fletcher from 6pm to 8pm on WRUV 90.1.  Contactripplescan@globalnetisp.net
• Into the Blue with Tony Herd from 6pm to 7pm on WLVB 93.9 FM (Morrisville).  Contact 888-4294 or 800-299-9436.
• The Folk Show with Kate McNally (evenings) on New Hampshire Public Radio.
• Shape Note Sing from 6:30pm to 9pm at the Community Center in Plainfield.  Winter months only.  Contact Pat Mayhew 426-3849.
• Bluegrass Ramblings with Ross Harvey at 7pm on CKUT 91.3 (from McGill University in Montreal).
• Mike Lynch at 7:30pm at PK’s Pub in Bellows Falls.  Contact www.flyingunderradar.com
• Songwriter’s Notebook with Rik Palieri from 8:30pm to 9pm on Lake Champlain Access Television.  Sundays.  Contact www.banjo.net

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