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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3/9/10

A Concert for St. Patrick featuring Fiddleheads, the Highland Weavers, the Sleepless Knights (Sarah James, Ben Miller, Declan McCabe and Richard Kujawa), the Celtic Knights and the McFadden Academy of Irish Dance from 7pm to 8:30pm in the McCarthy Arts Center at St. Michael’s College in Colchester.  Proceeds benefit the Tom Sustic Fund.  Co-sponsored by the Edmundite Campus Ministry and the Celtic Knights.  Contact 802-654-2536.

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3/1/10

• 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
• Vermont Ukulele Society from 6:30pm to 9pm at Howden Hall in Bristol.  2^nd and 4^th Mondays.  Contacthttp://Vtukes.webs.com

3/2/10

• 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
• Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy at 7:30pm at the Chandler Music Hall in Randolph.  Contactwww.chandler-arts.org
• 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
• Paul Masson at 7:30pm at the Bee’s Knees in Morrisville. Contact www.thebeesknees-vt.com
• Doug Perkins and Jamie Masefield from 8pm to 10pm at Radio Bean in Burlington.
• 2^nd Annual Concert Pour Changer des Destins featuring Hadouk Trio, Sanseverino, Emily Loizeau, Spleen, Las Ondas Marteles, Pierre Barouh Family, Ivan Akimov, Bielka et les Enfants Rom at 8pm at Salle des fêtes de la Mairie de Montreuil in Montreal.  Supports l’Association Jeunes Musiciens du Monde en France.  Contact jmmfrance@jeunesmusiciensdumonde.org, www.jeunesmusiciensdumonde.org,info@jeunesmusiciensdumonde.org or 418-525-5400.

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

3/3/10

• The Bosnian Lilies at 12 noon at the International Women’s Day in the Davis Student Center at the University of Vermont in Burlington.
• 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
• Auditions for Pentangle’s 13^th Annual Community Showcase: A Green Mountain Home Companion from 6pm to 8pm at the Town Hall Theatre in Woodstock.  Contact 802-457-3891.
• Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy at 7:30pm at the Chandler Music Hall in Randolph.  Contactwww.chandler-arts.org
• Fred Brauer at 7:30pm at the Bee’s Knees in Morrisville. Contact www.thebeesknees-vt.com

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
• Irish Session at 9pm at the Radio Bean in Burlington.  Contact 660-9346 or www.radiobean.com
• Francophondamental with Lucy Couture from 10pm to 12 midnight on WRUV 90.1 FM.  Contacthttp://www.wruv.org or couturelucy@gmail.com

3/4/10

• Patrick Fitzsimmons at On the Rise in Richmond.
• Christopher Dorman at 8pm at Parima Thai in Burlington.  Part of Burgandy Thursdays.  Contactlaughinglight@gmail.com
• Andrew Parker Renga at 7:30pm at the Bee’s Knees in Morrisville. Contact www.thebeesknees-vt.com
• Le Trio Cithel (Martin Racine, Éva Guillorel and Robert Bouthillier) at 8pm at Café-resto Babylone in Montreal, Quebec.
• Hey Momma at Middlebury College.  Contact www.heymamamusic.com, www.facebook.com/heymamamusicor www.myspace.com/heymamamusic
• Tommy Emmanuel: Center Stage at 9pm on Vermont Public Television.  Contact www.vpt.org
• Phineas Gage at the Skinny Pancake in Burlington.  Contact www.skinnypancake.com

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.

3/5/10

• (3/5/10 through 3/7/10) 8^th Annual March Mandolin Festival featuring Mike Compton, Will Patton, Glen Loper, and David Surette with Susie Burke at the Concord Community Music School in Concord, New Hampshire (Friday night concert at the Stone Church in Newmarket, New Hampshire).  Includes group lessons, workshops, jam sessions and evening concerts.  Contact 207-384-8151, 603-228-1196 orsoozendave@surfglobal.net
• Iris Dement at 7pm at the Town Hall Theater in Middlebury.  Presented by After Dark Music Series.  Contactwww.afterdarkmusicseries.com
• Danú at 7:30pm at the Town Hall Theater in Woodstock.  Presented by the Pentangle Arts Council.  Contact 802-457-3981 or www.pentanglearts.org
• English Country Dance with the Turning Stile (Joanne Garton and Aaron Marcus) 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
• Greg Greenway house concert at 7:30pm in Plainfield.  Supports the Rachel Bissex White Light Fund for Vermont Musicians.  Contact concerts@bissex.net
• The Eames Brothers at 7:30pm at the Bee’s Knees in Morrisville. Contact www.thebeesknees-vt.com
• Woods Tea Company at 8pm at the Meetinghouse Café of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Bennington.  Contact www.uubennington.org, info@uubennington.org or  802-440-9816.
• Wooden Dinosaur (Katie Trautz, Michael and Frank Roberts) and Hudost (Moksha Sommer and Jemal Wade Hines) at 8pm at the Hooker-Dunham Theater and Gallery in Brattleboro.  Presented by Twilight Music.  Contact 802-254-9276.
• Chantal Paradis with Swamp Donkey 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.  Contact blackcat@netrevolution.com
• Hey Momma at Langdon Street Café in Montpelier.  Contact www.heymamamusic.com,www.facebook.com/heymamamusic or www.myspace.com/heymamamusic
• Jim Seem and Melissa Hyman at the Skinny Pancake in Burlington.  Contact www.skinnypancake.com
• Holy Ghost Tent Revival at 9:30pm at the Black Door Bar and Bistro in Montpelier.  Contactwww.blackdoorvt.com/shows

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.
• 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

3/6/10

• (3/5/10 through 3/7/10) 8^th Annual March Mandolin Festival featuring Mike Compton, Will Patton, Glen Loper, and David Surette with Susie Burke at the Concord Community Music School in Concord, New Hampshire (Friday night concert at the Stone Church in Newmarket, New Hampshire).  Includes group lessons, workshops, jam sessions and evening concerts.  Contact 207-384-8151, 603-228-1196 orsoozendave@surfglobal.net
• Auditions for Pentangle’s 13^th Annual Community Showcase: A Green Mountain Home Companion from 9:30am to 12 noon at the Town Hall Theatre in Woodstock.  Contact 802-457-3891.
• A Celtic Mass for Peace with Reina Guarnaccia, Jane Beaumont Snyder, Chelsie Henderson, Will Burhans, Vin Pelletier, Shirley Smith, Ellen Bosworth, David Gusakov, Ana Reusink, John Dunlop, Timothy Cummings, Patricia Julien, Laurel Maurer, Sam Guarnaccia and Carl Recchia at St. Mary’s Chapel in Burlington.  Presented by the Institute of Spiritual Development.  Contact 802-863-5966 or 802-862-2202.
• Fiddleheads at the 4^th Annual Chocolate by the Pound benefit for the Franklin County Humane Society at the Historical Museum in St. Albans (early afternoon).
• Celtic Thunder: It’s Entertainment! at 5:30pm on Vermont Public Television.  Contact www.vpt.org
• Pete Sutherland with Karen Sutherland, Liz Thompson, Bill Drislane and Oliver Scanlon at 7pm at the WalkOver in Bristol.  Contact 802-453-3188.
• Michael Smith at 7:30pm at the Ripton Community Coffee House in Ripton.  Open mic followed by featured performer.  Contact 802-388-9782.
• Brooks Williams at 7:30pm at Boccelli’s on the Canal in Bellows Falls.  Contact www.vermontfestivalsllc.comor www.rootsontheriver.com
• Patrick Fitzsimmons at 7:30pm at the Bee’s Knees in Morrisville. Contact www.thebeesknees-vt.com
• Housetop (Peter Siegel, Erica Morse, Naomi Morse and Anna Patton) at 7:30pm at the West Lebanon Congregational Church in West Lebanon, New Hampshire.  Benefits the Upper Valley Music Center.  Contact 802-785-4247.
• Sprinkler Fundraiser Party with Panton Flats (Andy Smith, Bob Levinson, Chris Myers, Chris Wyckoff and Josh Brooks) at 8pm at the Vergennes Opera House. Presented by the Friends of the Vergennes Opera House. Contact 802-877-6737 or www.vergennesoperahouse.org
• Piecework: When We Were French with Abby Paige at 8pm at the Town Hall Theater in Middlebury.  Contact 802-388-9222.
• Dave Keller Band at 8pm at the Alexander Twilight Theater at Lyndon State College in Lyndonville.  Contactwww.davekeller.com
• Holy Ghost Tent Revival at the Skinny Pancake in Burlington.  Contact www.skinnypancake.com
• Sara Grace and Friends at 9:30pm at the Black Door Bar and Bistro in Montpelier.  Contactwww.blackdoorvt.com/shows

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

3/7/10

• (3/5/10 through 3/7/10) 8^th Annual March Mandolin Festival featuring Mike Compton, Will Patton, Glen Loper, and David Surette with Susie Burke at the Concord Community Music School in Concord, New Hampshire (Friday night concert at the Stone Church in Newmarket, New Hampshire).  Includes group lessons, workshops, jam sessions and evening concerts.  Contact 207-384-8151, 603-228-1196 orsoozendave@surfglobal.net
• Doug Perkins at 10am at Lace in Barre.
• Pìobaireachd Workshop with Donald Lindsay and Iain MacHarg at Iain’s house in Marshfield.  Contactiain@fairpoint.net
• Northeast Fiddlers Association Fiddle Meet (jam starts at 12 noon) at the Knights of Columbus in Barre.  Usually 1^st Sundays, with exceptions.  Contact www.nefiddlers.org
• Evergreen Erb with Susan Reit and Joan Bowker at 2pm in the Main Reading Room at the Deborah Rawson Memorial Library in Jericho.  Part of the 11^th Annual Sunday Afternoon Music Series.  Contact 802-899-4962.
• Welsh Tunes workshop with Sarah Hotchkiss and John Mowad from 2pm to 5pm in Robin’s Attic in Montpelier.  Potluck and jam to follow.  Contact 802-229-1403.
• Champlain Valley Scottish Fiddle Club from 2pm to 5pm at 13 South Street in Middlebury.  Contactwww.CVSFC.org, 802-759-2268 or 802-388-2142.
• When Irish Eyes Are Smiling featuring the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, the Dubliners, Judy Collins and many others at 3pm on Vermont Public Television.  Contact www.vpt.org
• 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.
• Contra Dance with Ric Goodman (caller) and Andre Brunet and Matine Billette from 6:30pm to 10pm at the Ukrainian National Federation Hall in Montreal. Contact nfo@contramontreal.org
• Small Axe (Andy Plante) at 7:30pm at the Bee’s Knees in Morrisville. Contact www.thebeesknees-vt.com

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
• Champlain Valley Scottish Fiddle Club meeting from 2pm to 5pm at 13 South Street in Middlebury.  First Sundays.  Contact Jeannie Van Order 802-388-2142 or jeansvan@gmail.com or www.CVSFC.org
• 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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