Upcoming Events (8/30-9/5/2010)

August 30th, 2010 |

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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Chandler’s 18^th annual New World Festival

Sunday September 5, 2010

noon to midnight.

Main Street in Randolph Vermont

For 18 years celebrating Northern New England’s Celtic and French Canadian heritage with traditional music and dance. Featured performers include Norouet, John Whelan Band, Cantrip, Prydein, the Press Gang, Paddy Keenan, Les Poules à Colin, Nightingale, Rapetipetam, Dent-de-Lion, callers Adina Gordon and Nils Fredland, the No Strings Marionette Company and many more! Six performance stages, all-weather tents, children’s activities, food and crafts.

www.NewWorldFestival.com

Adults $30 in advance, $35 at the gate

Students 13-18 $10, Children 2-12 $5

Adults after 6 PM $20

Advance discounted adult tickets available online through August 31. www.chandler-arts.org

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JUST ADDED

new or updated announcements….. see dates for more details….. event is a live concert/performance unless otherwise noted

9/1 Central Vermont Acoustic Showcase
9/2 Dan Haley Is Mr. Casual
9/3 Dan Haley Is Mr. Casual
9/3 Stockwell Brothers
9/3 International Folk Dancing (dance)
9/3 Notorious (Eden MacAdam-Somer, Larry Unger and Sam Bartlett)
9/4 The House Carpenters
9/4 Fiddleheads (rehearsal)
9/10 Chris Weiler with Nor’easter (dance)
9/10 Marketfest (through 9/12/10) (festival)
9/10 Fiddleheads
9/10 Contra Dance with Chris Weiler and Nor’Easter (Cedar Stanistreet, Max Newman and Julie Vallimont) (dance)
9/11 Contra Dance Calling Workshop (workshop)
9/11 Contra Dance with Chris Weiler and Nor’Easter (Cedar Stanistreet, Max Newman and Julie Vallimont) (dance)
9/12 Dan Haley Is Mr. Casual
9/14 Mark Sustic, Maria Naumann, Francois Clemmons and Stephanie Ashworth-Kraus (open house)
9/16 Dan Haley Is Mr. Casual
9/17 International Folk Dancing (dance)
9/17 Cantrip
9/18 Fiddleheads
9/18 Irish Dance Workout (through 12/11/10) (dance)
9/19 Fiddleheads
9/19 Christian Glines (workshop)
9/22 Dan Haley Is Mr. Casual and Town Wide Garage Sale
9/23 Nancy Turner and the Old Sam Peabody Band (dance)
9/25 Fun in the Field (festival)
10/2 Fiddleheads (rehearsal)
10/6 Open Mic
10/10 Pumpkin Festival (festival)
10/16 Singing World Music (through 10/17) (workshop)
10/21 The Stone River Boys
10/23 Mark Sustic and others (dance)
10/29 Corsican Singing Workshop (through 10/31) (workshop)
11/6 Fiddleheads (rehearsal)
11/6 Middlebury College Affiliate Artist Concert
11/9 The Infamous Stringdusters and Trampled by Turtles
12/2 Enter the Haggis
12/4 Fiddleheads (rehearsal)
2/25 Winter Weekend (through 2/27) (workshop)

8/30/10

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
‘World of Music’ with Cheryl Willoughby from 3pm to 5pm on the Radiator 105.9FM in Burlington. Every Monday. Contact www.theradiator.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. Contact http://Vtukes.webs.com
The Folk Show with Mike Alzo at 8pm on North Country Public Radio. Contact 877-388-6277, folkshow@ncpr.org or www.ncpr.org

8/31/10

Gordon Stone Band at 6pm in Johnson. Part of Tuesday Night Live. Contact cal_05656@yahoo.com
Nicole Carey at 7:30pm at Bee’s Knees in Morrisville. Contact 802-888-7889, www.thebeesknees-vt.com or www.myspace.com/thebeeskneescafe

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 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

9/1/10

Starline Rhythm Boys from 6pm to 9pm at Bayside Pavilion in St. Albans Bay. Every Wednesday from 6/30/10 through 9/1/10. Contact 802-524-0909.
Open Mic from 6pm to 8pm at Phoenix Books in the Essex Shoppes in Essex. First Wednesdays. Contact www.phoenixbooks.biz or 802- 872-7111.
Central Vermont Acoustic Showcase from 10 to 11 at Positive Pie II in Montpelier.

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.
Waltzing at Rices Mills Community Center in Thetford Center. Starting 3/24/10 through April. Practice sessions from 6:30pm to 8:30pm. Contact Gina Sonne 802-785-4220.
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. Contact http://www.wruv.org or couturelucy@gmail.com

9/2/10

Dan Haley Is Mr. Casual at 7:30pm at Claire’s in Hardwick. Contact mistercasualsings@gmail.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 or www.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
Waltzing at Rices Mills Community Center in Thetford Center. Starting 3/24/10 through April. Practice sessions from 6:30pm to 8:30pm. Contact Gina Sonne 802-785-4220.
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.

9/3/10

(9/3/10 through 9/5/10) 13^th Annual Rhythm and Roots Festival featuring Horace Trahan and the New Ossun Express, the Texas Tornados, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women (Cindy Cashdollar, Nina Gerber, Laurie Lewis, Sarah Brown, Christy McWilson and Lisa Pankrantz), Little Freddie King, Geoff Muldaur and the Texas Sheiks, Bonerama, the Danny Barnes Trio, Marcia Ball, Uncle Earl, Donna the Buffalo, Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, Johnny Nicholas and the Texas All-Stars, CJ Chenier and the Red Hot Louisiana Band, Red Stick Ramblers, Jeffery Broussard and the Creole Cowboys, Ed Poullard and Preston Frank, Magnolia, Planet Zydeco and Hot Tamale Brass Band, Occidental Gypsy Jazz Quartet at Ninigret Park in Charlestown, Rhode Island. Contact www.rhythmandroots.com
(9/3/10 through 9/5/10) North Branch Bluegrass Festival featuring Blackstone Valley Bluegrass, Mad Mountain Scramblers, Cardigan Mountain Tradition, Staber and Chasnoff, Big Spike Bluegrass, Boots ‘n Shorts, the Bagboys, Reunion Hill, Possum Haw and more in Bridgewater. Labor Day weekend every year. Contact www.bbluegrass.com or 802-672-3042.
Dan Haley Is Mr. Casual from 3pm to 6pm at the Hardwick Farmers’ Market. Contact mistercasualsings@gmail.com
The Stockwell Brothers at 6:30pm on the Putney Tavern lawn in Putney. Final event of the 8^th Annual Twilight on the Tavern Lawn series. Contact www.twilightmusic.org or 802-387-5772.
Notorious (Eden MacAdam-Somer, Larry Unger and Sam Bartlett) in Sharon. Contact 802-765-9904 or jeremiah@sover.net
International Folk Dancing with Ben Bergstein and Louise Brill from 8pm to 10pm. Contact ben@vpal-us.org
Katie Trautz and the Tall Boys at 9pm at the Langdon Street Café in Montpelier. Contact www.myspace.com/katietrautz

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
‘Cutaway’ with Jonathan Brown at 7pm on North Country Public Radio. Contact 877-388-6277 or http://www.ncpr.org
International Folk Dancing with Ben Bergstein and Louise Brill from 8pm to 10pm at North End Studio in Burlington. 1^st and 3^rd Fridays starting in April 2010. Contact ben@vpal-us.org or 802- 863-6713.
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

9/4/10

(9/3/10 through 9/5/10) 13^th Annual Rhythm and Roots Festival featuring Horace Trahan and the New Ossun Express, the Texas Tornados, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women (Cindy Cashdollar, Nina Gerber, Laurie Lewis, Sarah Brown, Christy McWilson and Lisa Pankrantz), Little Freddie King, Geoff Muldaur and the Texas Sheiks, Bonerama, the Danny Barnes Trio, Marcia Ball, Uncle Earl, Donna the Buffalo, Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, Johnny Nicholas and the Texas All-Stars, CJ Chenier and the Red Hot Louisiana Band, Red Stick Ramblers, Jeffery Broussard and the Creole Cowboys, Ed Poullard and Preston Frank, Magnolia, Planet Zydeco and Hot Tamale Brass Band, Occidental Gypsy Jazz Quartet at Ninigret Park in Charlestown, Rhode Island. Contact www.rhythmandroots.com
(9/3/10 through 9/5/10) North Branch Bluegrass Festival featuring Blackstone Valley Bluegrass, Mad Mountain Scramblers, Cardigan Mountain Tradition, Staber and Chasnoff, Big Spike Bluegrass, Boots ‘n Shorts, the Bagboys, Reunion Hill, Possum Haw and more in Bridgewater. Labor Day weekend every year. Contact www.bbluegrass.com or 802-672-3042.
(9/4/10 and 9/5/10) 1^st Annual Bennington Irish Music Festival with Maura O’Connell, Black 47, the Young Dubliners, McPeake, Seamus Connolly, Jerry O’Sullivan, the Laurel Martin Trio, Kieran Jordan, and the Highland Rovers from 11am to 9pm at Colgate Park in Bennington. Contact www.benningtonirishmusicfestival.com or Laura Moore 413-652-1369.
The House Carpenters from 10:30am to 12 noon at the Capitol City Farmers’ Market in Montpelier. Contact mistercasualsings@gmail.com
Fiddleheads rehearsal from 10:30am to 12 noon at the Burlington Violin Shop. Contact mrksustc@together.net
Hey Mama at the Plymouth Folk Festival in Plymouth. Contact heymama@heymamamusic.com
Devon Sproule at 7:30pm at the Ripton Community House in Ripton. Open mic followed by the featured performer. Contact 802-388-9782.
Woods Tea Company at the First Universalist Parish in Derby Line. Contact www.woodstea.net

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. Contact http://www.vpr.net
Shillelagh Safari radio show with Edward Burke from 8pm to 10pm on ‘the Radiator’ WOMM-LP 105.9. Contact www.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 Bridge’ with Joel Hurd at 9pm on North Country Public Radio. Contact 877-388-6277 or http://www.ncpr.org
The Mud Party from 10pm to 2am on WMUD 89.3. Every Saturday. Contact www.wmud.org

9/5/10

(9/3/10 through 9/5/10) 13^th Annual Rhythm and Roots Festival featuring Horace Trahan and the New Ossun Express, the Texas Tornados, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women (Cindy Cashdollar, Nina Gerber, Laurie Lewis, Sarah Brown, Christy McWilson and Lisa Pankrantz), Little Freddie King, Geoff Muldaur and the Texas Sheiks, Bonerama, the Danny Barnes Trio, Marcia Ball, Uncle Earl, Donna the Buffalo, Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, Johnny Nicholas and the Texas All-Stars, CJ Chenier and the Red Hot Louisiana Band, Red Stick Ramblers, Jeffery Broussard and the Creole Cowboys, Ed Poullard and Preston Frank, Magnolia, Planet Zydeco and Hot Tamale Brass Band, Occidental Gypsy Jazz Quartet at Ninigret Park in Charlestown, Rhode Island. Contact www.rhythmandroots.com
(9/3/10 through 9/5/10) North Branch Bluegrass Festival featuring Blackstone Valley Bluegrass, Mad Mountain Scramblers, Cardigan Mountain Tradition, Staber and Chasnoff, Big Spike Bluegrass, Boots ‘n Shorts, the Bagboys, Reunion Hill, Possum Haw and more in Bridgewater. Labor Day weekend every year. Contact www.bbluegrass.com or 802-672-3042.
(9/4/10 and 9/5/10) 1^st Annual Bennington Irish Music Festival with Maura O’Connell, Black 47, the Young Dubliners, McPeake, Seamus Connolly, Jerry O’Sullivan, the Laurel Martin Trio, Kieran Jordan, and the Highland Rovers from 11am to 9pm at Colgate Park in Bennington. Contact www.benningtonirishmusicfestival.com or Laura Moore 413-652-1369.
(9/5/10 through 9/25/10) Guitar Building Courses at Vermont Instruments School of Lutherie in Post Mills. Contact 802-727-4311, adam@vermontinstruments.com or www.vermontinstruments.com
18^th Annual New World Festival featuring Norouet, Long Time Courting, Jeremiah McLane, Cantrip, Rapetipetam, Dent-de-Lion, Adina Gordon, Nils Fredland, Prydein and others from 12 noon to 12 midnight in and near the Chandler Music Hall in Randolph. Contact www.newworldfestival.com
Banjo Dan and the Mid Nite Plowboys at 7pm on the green in Northfield. Contact www.banjodan.com
The Daughters and Sons Review featuring Sam Amidon, Red Heart the Ticker and the Devil Makes Three at 7:30pm at the Stone Church in Brattleboro. Proceeds benefit the Marlboro Meeting House School. Contact info@rhtt.net or www.rhtt.net

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 or http://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. Contact http://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. Contact www.redhenbaking.com
All the Traditions with Robert Resnik from 1pm to 4pm on Vermont Public Radio. Contact rresnik@vpr.net or http://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. Contact http://www.wamc.org/station.html
Irish Music Session from 2pm to 5pm at McKibbin’s in Montreal. Sunday afternoons. Contact 514-228-1580 or www.belfastandi.com
Irish Session hosted by Allen and Jamie from 3pm to 6pm at the Bee’s Knees in Morrisville, Last Sundays. Contact 802-888-5984.
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. Contact ripplescan@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